I don't even like social media so decentralizing it like this is not likely going to make me want to participate in the concept any better. I hear you! I'm dipping a toe or two myself in it, and I do like the idea of owning my data. Was just looking for interesting VOGON-ers to follow 😀 Nice Blog …

Hi there, A lot of interesting retro pc/gamer stuff can also be found on Reddit (retrogaming, vintagecomputing) or of course Twitter. It's always inspiring to read what others are up to. I noticed that not everyone takes the trouble to create a forum topic at VOGONS to show off their stuff or ask a …

Run the Audigy uninstaller, then reboot into safe mode. Device manager will list any installed driver even if the hardware isn't present. Delete any Creative sounds devices for the Audigy or SB128. Next run regedit and delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Creative Good idea, after an hour of …

Hi guys, After hours of fiddling with config settings, searching through VOGONS, following various guides such as this one , and the other guy who's struggling , and I think I need some help. So, I upgraded from a pci128 to an Audigy. First problem: old driver uninstaller crashed, so possible …

mothergoose729 wrote on 2020-11-06, 19:30: I didn't think Secret of Monkey Island was all that funny. unforgivable? (I put a HDMI-out PCI-E card on a 2006 WinXP build. Ooh.)

One issue I ran into with a Live and Audigy 1 in Win98se is that the MPU401 always output to the card's MIDI synth. You can change the Soundfont, but you can't redirect to an external MIDI device. I have a Diamond MX300 in the same machine and that card's control panel has the option to set the " …

As someone who has used the SB128 PCI (CT4810) during the early 2000s, I can't recommend it in good faith.The software emulated EAX never sounded quite right to me. Sometimes, it would even bug out and get all scratchy. That never happened with my Live and Audigy2 ZS cards and their hardware EAX …

Hi guys, I bought an old PC case that had nostalgic values for me (AOpen HQ45) and it came with a motherboard and some cheap cards I threw out in favour for an Athlon-based board. I built a Win98SE PC like so many of you, but it turned out that the only PCI sound card I own is one that came with the …

Yep, setting the base I/O address to 220 will definitely help. Further analysis showed that even though the code parses the BLASTER string and sets the base address variables accordingly, there are still a couple of instances in the code that are hard-coded for base address 220 and prevent the …

It's NOT missing, it's there, and yes the games shows the settings correctly, like I said in my first post. Otherwise, the sound would not have been played at all. Strangely enough. digger, I'll try that and get back to you - I was hoping not to open the case for the nth time but oh well.

Hi VOGONS fellows, On my 486 with a SB16, all other games working and sounding perfectly, Mystic Towers somehow stops its sound propagation to the SB card after 10 seconds or so. It's really strange, when I go into settings and choose HIGH Q. music again (even if it's "enabled" since the floating …

Try jumpering the turbo switch (JP14) Holy shit. Can I really be that stupid? It was jumpered but the button wasn't pressed. SUPERSCAPE reports 20+FPS and topbench jumps to 136. Wow, I feel like a complete idiot :-) Thanks a lot! I guess I'll try updating the mobo anyway, but now it's off the …

Thanks chinny22, I already have Phils' dosbench tools installed. In fact, running the DOOM timelapse on LOW details (the tiny tiny resolution) even gives hickups and very bad frame rates when shooting. It looks like I'm running a 386 instead of a 486... I tried fiddling with other memory managers, …

Could you post what's going on in the advanced cmos & advanced chipset screens in your bios configuration. What "advanced" screen? :-D It's an old CMOS BIOS (214X2002) Sees memory ok. CPU internal cache enabled, external cache enabled, typematic rate setting left untouched (disabled). Gate A20 " …

Hi guys, I kind of rolled in building a 486 thanks to an old PC that was about to be chucked out. Phil and LGR helped me out and after buying a sound blaster I'm having a "blast" myself. I realise I will never be able to run Duke3D - but I do am concerned with the performance. I'd like to run rise …

Thanks for this, I bought DN1+2 and they worked fine by copying game contents. Blake Stone: Planet Strike boots fine, but as soon as loading is done it crashes. I'll try a few more things before adding it as a RED one to the document. Has anyone else tried any Blake Stone games?

Responding to an old message here, but: -They change the partition type of the drive to prevent any other machines from accessing the contents of the drive. This used to not be a problem in the Windows 9x days as you could kick start a machine with an EZDrive or Ontrack equipped floppy, but its not …