Re: Which ISA sound card is better?

Posted on 2009-08-12, 08:28

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by Kiwi

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Ok i decided to buy the ESS 1868F based card with the Dream wavetable (Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D ISA) :happyhappy: It only cost me £2.99 on ebay which i think is a nice little bargain :happyhappy: I wanted a card with good midi, SB Pro compatibilty and OPL3 support... as far as i know this card has …

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Re: Windows 98 CD useless?

Posted on 2009-08-12, 02:13

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by Kiwi

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You may have trouble with Windows Update, which is bad because Win9x will get infected with all sorts of crap if you plug it into the Internet and don't get it fully patched ASAP. I've just recently installed Win98se on a P-II breadboarded rig, using an Intel SE440BX. I have the 2004 all-Windows …

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Re: Vintage Win9X OS vs. practical audio choices

Posted on 2009-08-11, 21:51

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by Kiwi

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I just barely include any 16-bit Windows in the definition, although I did use Win3.0, Win3.1, and WfWG3.11, before January or February of 1996, when I got around to putting my copy of Win95 on my number one machine, probably being a 486DX/2-66. I kept a particular 386-40 an extra long time, though, …

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Re: Vintage Win9X OS vs. practical audio choices

Posted on 2009-08-11, 20:25

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by Kiwi

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I looked up the two Roland models numbers on the 'Bay, and I don't think I have spent as much, total, the past two months of collecting parts for two of these ancient beasts (of course, I already have stuff like RAM, old CD drives, hard drives too small for new systems, cables, screws, speakers, etc …

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Re: Vintage Win9X OS vs. practical audio choices

Posted on 2009-08-11, 00:20

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by Kiwi

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in Windows

If you use DOSBox to play games in Windows then all you really need is good MIDI device. MS GS soft synth is lousy and even SB MIDI devices are bad. I use Yamaha soft synth SYXG100 under Windows ME and my MIDI sounds fantastic even compared to Sound Canvas SCD-10 daughterboard I had in my old PC …

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Re: Vintage Win9X OS vs. practical audio choices

Posted on 2009-08-10, 08:06

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by Kiwi

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in Windows

I am in my spare room (shop) at this unearthly hour. Woke up and just couldn't get back to sleep! I've used an Aureal previously, although not a Vortex 2 / 8830. Right now, the PC I'm connected to the 'Net with to be here now is that Intel SE440BX motherboard and Slot1 CPU, just loosely breadboarded …

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Re: Vintage Win9X OS vs. practical audio choices

Posted on 2009-08-09, 23:29

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by Kiwi

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I'm not sure right now (I don't spend this part of the day in my "shop" -- spare bedroom) which AWE64s I have here already, that sounded so staticky & fuzzy. They did work for me in both Win98se and Win2000, the latter using WinNT 4.0 drivers, but the sound quality was too poor. There are two …

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Re: VooDoo passthrough

Posted on 2009-08-09, 23:15

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm waiting on one of those diagnostic cards that reports POST errors to see if the AN430TX motherboard is broken, or the jumpers are wrong, or what else is keeping it from running, else I'd already need that cable right now.

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VooDoo passthrough

Posted on 2009-08-09, 20:37

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How difficult is it going to be to find those short VGA cable passthrough patch cords? None of the VooDoos on eBay ever seem to have them.

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Re: CPU fan control problem!

Posted on 2009-08-09, 19:47

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The 266 CPU came with an unusual fan that clipped onto the heat sink around the top and bottom sides. The fan housing and a shroud to enclose much of the top and bottom sides were integral, all one piece. The power cable to/from the fan on mine is missing, and it's not something that can be …

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Re: CPU fan control problem!

Posted on 2009-08-09, 14:25

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

... Also, consider getting a passive P3 CPU. ebay's a good bet. I think I've seen them as fast as 733mhz for passive CPUs. The best solution is to tie on a fan to these passive CPUs, as some of them can still get very toasty. I've got my first 440BX in many years running again (old MB, new to me …

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Re: Vintage Win9X OS vs. practical audio choices

Posted on 2009-08-08, 18:23

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by Kiwi

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in Windows

Are you asking for a sound card for win 9x + 2k if so sb-live If you don't plan to play DOS games, this is the way to go. Live!'s DOS compatibility is just awful. I have at least three entirely different SB Live! examples, none of which were usable in either of two Asus P5A (ALi Aladdin5) …

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Vintage Win9X OS vs. practical audio choices

Posted on 2009-08-08, 08:55

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by Kiwi

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in Windows

Discussion of pre-DirectX audio shows up widely across the various forums here among devotees of old PC hardware, and yet I've just scrolled through 7 pages of topics going back 14 moinths in this (Windows) forum without any similar threads here. When the Win9Xes were in full sway, my own leisure …

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Re: PIII, Athlon mobo w ISA slot remommendation

Posted on 2009-08-07, 03:20

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What would it be then? The next best thing with ISA slot is an old P2 BX chipset... That would be my recommendation. I just hated that VIA chipset combo. Brings back bad memories. It might be the worst ever made (along with some early nForce offerings). I've had both, and have both once again, and …

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Re: Got another Tualatin board

Posted on 2009-08-06, 09:24

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ummm? I give up. "Bikini Team"? Sorry. I never was much of a beer commercial watcher! (That's what the remote has that MUTE button on it for). http://www.thelocal.se/7014/20070416/

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Re: 1990: What hardware were you using?

Posted on 2009-08-05, 03:29

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The first time I moved past a single MB, all the way to 5 MBs, the RAM was still in single DIP chips, and there was an entire full-length 32-bit memory slot card that was covered with those. All by itself, that card (and all of the many chips it was covered with) cost $600 in about 1991, or 1992. ( …

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Re: voodoo3

Posted on 2009-08-02, 23:34

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by Kiwi

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Take a look at what this old Creative Video card is listed for at eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Creative-Labs-CT-6330-Graphics-Blaster-PCI-Video-Card_W0QQitemZ400009926004QQcategoryZ3762QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m226QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DSICDD%26its%3DI%252BC%252BS%252BIA%26itu%3DSI%252BUS-WHR%252BUCI% …

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Re: How to identify an MB component "Q86"

Posted on 2009-08-02, 20:19

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks! My Googling failed me -- never led back to Badcaps. There's a close-up photo in that thread, and upon putting on close-range glasses (I hate my bifocals and seldom wear them), I can see the exact same component with the exact same damage (black bubble on top, in the exact same place) on my …

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Re: How to identify an MB component "Q86"

Posted on 2009-08-02, 03:35

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by Kiwi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

MSI's site is operated out of Taiwan, and is having problems. There is supposed to be a User Forum, but it won't accept a Log on, so I wasted my time there.

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Re: How to identify an MB component "Q86"

Posted on 2009-08-02, 03:03

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by Kiwi

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DosFreak wrote: Bad transistor on the motherboard mabye? If so, I would need a far larger scale diagram of the board than the usual, with tons more identification data on it! Whatever it was the seller referred to, it's not an obvious visible fault, like the leaking caps on a couple of ePoX MBs I …

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