Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-06-08, 17:33

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by gmaverick2k

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Found my GA-5AX rev 4.1 + K6-2+ 500. Might take it out for a spin later if I have the time, and maybe order a K6-3+ down the line. Exactly what I've been doing. Messing around with setmul. Got the k6-2+ 500 down to 133MHz using th jumpers and switches on the motherboard. Saved a drive copy of a DOS …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-06-08, 07:00

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I've been having a bit of a dry spell, both for retro playtime and also for finding anything on my regular jaunts to regular haunts. Was out yard saling today tho and holy heck there was a bit of a weird stuff. Got a plastic toolbox, quite a sturdy one, stuffed full of odds and ends, it was 80% …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-06-08, 06:52

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I've been having a bit of a dry spell, both for retro playtime and also for finding anything on my regular jaunts to regular haunts. Was out yard saling today tho and holy heck there was a bit of a weird stuff. Got a plastic toolbox, quite a sturdy one, stuffed full of odds and ends, it was 80% …

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Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2025-06-06, 15:25

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The Vortex 2's drivers add an option that lets you choose the MIDI output device for DOS windows. So you can choose the MPU401 on a SB Live to get external MIDI support. I've used it to drive a MIDI module off a Live Drive for a DOS game under Windows. So no you can't do it from pure DOS mode, but …

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Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2025-06-06, 14:20

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oh, thanks for the heads up. i'll have to dig out my aureal vortex 2 in that case. dont know how it will be like to compare it to the CDDAudio feature of the PCI128 The Vortex 2's drivers add an option that lets you choose the MIDI output device for DOS windows. So you can choose the MPU401 on a SB …

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Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2025-06-06, 12:47

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I am having issues with sending signal to sc55 in pure dos mode. My card is a soundblaster PCI128 (5507 - ES1370 ensoniq soundscape) In windows I can play midi files and sc55 picks up on it. Unfortunately, Audio PCI cards can't do that in pure DOS. It's the same for SBLive and Audigy cards. As far …

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Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2025-06-05, 18:54

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I am having issues with sending signal to sc55 in pure dos mode. My card is a soundblaster PCI128 (5507 - ES1370 ensoniq soundscape) In windows I can play midi files and sc55 picks up on it. Unfortunately, Audio PCI cards can't do that in pure DOS. It's the same for SBLive and Audigy cards. As far …

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Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2025-06-05, 17:34

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I am having issues with sending signal to sc55 in pure dos mode. My card is a soundblaster PCI128 (5507 - ES1370 ensoniq soundscape) In windows I can play midi files and sc55 picks up on it. In doom in the pure DOS expanded ram environment even thought I've setup port 330 for genereal midi or even …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2025-06-04, 08:10

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Shadow warrior screamer 2 Getting into the hang of editing and successfully initialising the soundcard in dos environment on my kt266 (k7t266 Pro-R rev 1.0) + voodoo 3 3000 agp + athlon xp 2000+ build. swapped out the ymf744 as I dont know how to change the cd audio volume which is really low, also …

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Re: ESS 1938 under DOS

Posted on 2025-06-01, 09:23

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by gmaverick2k

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Reverted back to YMF744. Shadow warrior not playing cd music in win98 and error setting up sound was annoying me. PIII + picogus + x2gs plays shadow warrior in daemon cd music really well with picogus populating the ISA slot. K7T266 pro + solo-1 or ymf744 no such luck playing the music. YMF744 DOS …

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Re: ESS 1938 under DOS

Posted on 2025-05-31, 20:18

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by gmaverick2k

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This card needs to be burnt in a dumpster fire. Absolute s*** show of a card

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Re: High-end Pentium 4 and Athlon mobos with (provable) Universal AGP support (3.3v + 1.5v) and best for 3dfx Voodoo

Posted on 2025-05-31, 18:26

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by gmaverick2k

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k7t266 pro v2.0 green PCB From what we know MS-6380 v2 doesn’t have P4 power connector. Curious about the model you got. Do you see a match? https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/?page=1&itemsPerPage=24&name=K7t266 Apologies, its a version 1.0 with the promise ide 3 & 4 also populated looks like the …

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Re: ESS 1938 under DOS

Posted on 2025-05-31, 06:08

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by gmaverick2k

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Sorry to wake up an old thread, but after getting an ESS Solo-1 from eBay and installing it, initially I couldn't manage to get it to work under DOS and Windows 98 SE using the drivers provided on Phil's computer lab website: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ess-es1938s-solo-1.html , on a K8M890- …

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Re: High-end Pentium 4 and Athlon mobos with (provable) Universal AGP support (3.3v + 1.5v) and best for 3dfx Voodoo

Posted on 2025-05-30, 21:31

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by gmaverick2k

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k7t266 pro v2.0 green PCB populated with an Athlon 2000+. Also requires 4 pin atx PSU connector so not much strain on psu compared to other socket 462 motherboard I've used in the past. Haven't benchmarked yet but no issues with voodoo 3 3000 agp so far

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-05-30, 20:40

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by gmaverick2k

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Linear modded my dell at 102w Bigfoots, both beige and black version. Took a while to get into the flow of taking out the leaf from each Alps black switch. Key presses are now beautifully smooth, linear and "chonky". Was scratchy before due to age. Much much prefer the linear feel and chonky noise …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-05-30, 20:36

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myne wrote on 2025-05-29, 08:59: Pretty sure you can slow a drive down. Either with software, or simply putting it into a pio mode. Not 100% sure the last would work, but it doesn't make sense to run at full spin speed when the data rate is so low. I use cdslow 5.2 in win98

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2025-05-30, 20:06

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Mech warrior 3 with Microsoft sidewinder precision pro. It really needs regreasing

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-05-30, 19:38

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Had an itch to give more legroom to my voodoo 3 3000 agp. was on 440bx Pentium iii 700mhz with picogus and audigy 2zs. Some games like mechwarrior 3 and heavy gear 2 were flaky. Moved onto a K7T266 Pro and messed around with solo-1 PCI and ymf744. Got the ymf744 to behave a little, solo-1 was a …

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2024-11-28, 15:06

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by gmaverick2k

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crazytiti wrote on 2024-11-28, 07:00: I can post to uk from france, do you want one or two cpu ? already have one coming in the post, thanks. This time won't mod the chip so that I can complete my GA-5AX rev. 4.1 DOS/98 build

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2024-11-27, 21:52

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Hello did you see this guys selling modded K6-2+ 570 on ebay ? 114$ for one already modded and tested ! https://www.ebay.fr/itm/166591461971?_trksid=p4375194.c101782.m155878 Why not buy 3 x K6-2+ 570 for $60 and mod them yourself? :-) PS: The seller accepts $60 offers for a pack of 3. Weirdly, they …

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