Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-02-01, 06:16

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by dj_pirtu

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ESS SOLO-1 drivers tend to alter autoexec.bat every boot to Windows. So, make autoexec.bat read-only, problem solved. 😀

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Re: VIAFSB - DOS FSB utility for VIA chipsets

Posted on 2024-10-24, 05:59

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by dj_pirtu

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Works fluently with Asus A7V133-VM! ICS94215.

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Re: Asus A7V133-VM is one epic overclocker

Posted on 2024-10-21, 12:22

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Swapped CPU to a better one. Everest is @170FSB because 172FSB is just too tight, crashes on boot sometimes after restart. BIOS freaks out.

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Re: Asus A7V133-VM is one epic overclocker

Posted on 2024-10-21, 06:16

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by dj_pirtu

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I'm struggling to find Sandra that works in Windows XP, 2008, 2010 and 2011 won't work. But I run 2001 in Windows 98SE. EDIT: Now I'm finding the highest FSB where memtest gets one pass without errors. 172FSB running at the moment and looking good... AGP and especially PCI clock are getting quite …

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Re: Asus A7V133-VM is one epic overclocker

Posted on 2024-10-20, 19:22

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just Prime95 for few hours and seems stable but memtest is on the way too.

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Asus A7V133-VM is one epic overclocker

Posted on 2024-10-20, 16:30

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by dj_pirtu

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Found an Asus A7V133-VM from my stash and got an idea to build a smaller mATX system for retrolanparties. Specs: -Asus A7V133-VM (BIOS 1008) -Athlon XP 2500+ (Barton, modded to mobile-variant) -2x256MB Kingston PC133 -Radeon X800Pro 256MB -ESS SOLO-1 -Intel Ethernet Pro/100+ -64GB MicroSD-card as a …

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Re: VIA C3 Nehemiah vs. Coppermine(-128) and Tualatin

Posted on 2024-10-20, 16:12

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by dj_pirtu

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I just can't remember... And all the stuff are in storage. But what I do remember is that slotket played important part here: if I used slotket for coppermine CPUs, VIA C3 don't work. If I use the most simple slotket what is made for S370 Celerons, VIA C3 works. Strange. Can't remember did setmul …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+

Posted on 2024-10-16, 10:38

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by dj_pirtu

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With motherboard that uses SDR memory it's more than important to push FSB as high as possible, CPU is badly bottlenecked by the memory bandwith. But, I did the L5 trick with pencil, second last bridge counting from the left so L5 is at upper left corner of the CPU. Now setmul works between x3 and …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+

Posted on 2024-10-15, 12:40

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by dj_pirtu

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Great! Need to take my KT7A-system from storage and start testing it again after a long time. I'm actually playing with Asus A7V133-VM at the moment, it has KM133A chipset with integrated ProSavage. I was shocked when I got it working @166FSB with 3-2-3 memory settings. Sticks are Micron PC133 CL3 …

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Re: Mod Master XT 1.0 Released : Play .MOD, .XM and .VGM on a 8088 4MHz

Posted on 2024-09-22, 13:19

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'm testing this with Toshiba T3200, 286/12 EGA. Only problem is that I can't get it to play stereo on SB PRO, I don't know how to do it and user interface is quite hard to read on plasma. No monochrome display support switch? Edit: got it, mouse is the only way to get on those settings.

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-08-16, 13:33

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ Sound

Just bought myself an Asus EEE PC 900, hope to get SBEMU up and running with Death Rally and Cubic Player 😁

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Re: Top AGP GPU for 98se PIII Tualatin 1.4

Posted on 2024-07-22, 20:30

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been using Geforce FX 5900XT. Tualatin runs even NFS Underground, Doom3, Flatout2... Those are unplayable with GF4. Radeons are not bad but don't use too new drivers, those kill performance badly.

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Re: Advice - Asus TX97-XE Repair - Keyboard/Mouse Connectivity Issues

Posted on 2024-07-20, 21:54

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Check the components near the port, I had once a cracked component.

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Re: Need BIOS file for any 386 motherboard with TACT83000 chipset

Posted on 2024-07-20, 10:53

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by dj_pirtu

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I think this little SBC isn't bad at all... Pimped it a little: -Ti486SXL2-40 @50MHz -20Mb RAM -4Gb CF-card -Ethernet card with XTIDEBIOS -CL-GD5426 ISA -Gravis Ultrasound MAX -Windows 95D Lite It runs FastDoom fluently, Windows is little on the slow side but usable, Mod4Win works, and networking is …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2024-07-17, 07:36

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ Sound

I have already green Orpheus II, red would be... I don't need one, I don't need one...

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-07-17, 07:31

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by dj_pirtu

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Yesterday I upgraded my PicoGUS with new firmware and it works like a dream in my Toshiba T5200. SB-emulation now works in Future Crew's Panic demo, I think it didn't work before. And please, don't complain about some features missing but give some respect that somebody is doing this kind of great …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2024-07-17, 07:24

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've noticed in my T5200 that those SIMM slots are too loose. The pins don't have enough pressure to sticks and that causes memory errors. I gently bent every pin a little and now the memory errors are gone.

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Re: MSI 694T Pro/MS-6309v5 HDD issues

Posted on 2024-07-17, 07:19

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I have this mobo but can't remember what BIOS there is. I have only used WinXP on it with no problems. Voisin yrittää joku päivä keretä saamaan sen sähköihin niin näkis sen BIOSin.

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Re: K6-2/3+ Success on Asus P5A 1.06 - simple mod

Posted on 2024-07-17, 07:01

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by dj_pirtu

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I haven't done that cap replacement yet :) By the way, the super strange problem with my P5A was surprise-reboots when idling on desktop. And instant reboot if you are playing midi file. Try to play canyon.mid and see what happens? Hello, @dj_pirtu , do you never replaced the caps? I'm experiencing …

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Re: Need BIOS file for any 386 motherboard with TACT83000 chipset

Posted on 2024-07-16, 15:56

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by dj_pirtu

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Found this thread by googling, I have the same SBC, MikroMikko 4 m346. Original BIOS says it's v2.06. Found MR BIOS from https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1162370#p1162370. Chipset is TACT83000. It worked somehow but -the 32Kb cache stayed disabled, cachechk didn't see it at all (and yes, the …

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