Re: S3 Trio64V+ and MPEG Decoder Daughter Board

Posted on 2021-11-02, 10:00

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I have a Miro Media View TV card with an S3 Scenic / MX2 processor. The card comes with a DOSMPEG driver, which allows to run games compatible with RealMagic cards. [/summary][/details] This is nice. I'm curious, whether these MPEG drivers will work with other Scenic/MX2 boards. The VideoLogic …

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Re: Diamond Stealth 64 Video 2001 (S3 Trio64V+) - Cable for "LPB" Connector?

Posted on 2021-11-01, 23:32

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Here's an eBay picture from a boxed DTV-1100. The cable looks like a "plain" 34 pin cable.

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Re: S3 Trio64V+ and MPEG Decoder Daughter Board

Posted on 2021-11-01, 22:58

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by GL1zdA

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It could be useful in a 486 or slow Pentium for watching Video CDs. On a fast Pentium (tested with a 200 MHz Pentium) a software MPEG decoder like XingMPEG Player or a DirectShow filter (like the one that come with Windows Media Player 6.x) will be enough. As rasz has written, it uses an MCI driver, …

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Re: Siemens-Nixdorf (Fujitsu) Multimedia eXtension Board (aka MXB) drivers

Posted on 2021-10-28, 07:03

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Thank you! I've skipped all the Linux discussions, thinking there will be nothing relevant there. It's especially good to see the 32-bit Sound Arena drivers, which is the part of the MXB I want to have some fun with. And thanks for the documentation. It seems SNI never released any modules other …

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Re: NETPOWER ULTRAfx

Posted on 2021-10-25, 13:26

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No, unfortunately. I still hope I'll find the driver someday. Did you manage to extract the drivers from the HDD you mentioned? I've tried searching for anything on their archived website, but unfortunately the drivers were on their FTP server, which was not mirrored by archive.org. I also can't …

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Siemens-Nixdorf (Fujitsu) Multimedia eXtension Board (aka MXB) drivers

Posted on 2021-10-25, 12:42

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Is there anybody who has drivers and/or manuals for the Siemens-Nixdorf (Fujitsu) Multimedia eXtension Board? This boards support various inputs and operations, but also have the daughtercard that can do sound effects (Reverb, chorus, etc) on any source. I dug through several Siemens/Fujitsu pages ( …

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Re: NETPOWER ULTRAfx

Posted on 2021-10-25, 07:24

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@PC Hoarder Patrol thanks for that document! I wasn't able to find it. I will give the generic drivers a shot, even though the chances of them working are close to 0. In the meantime I was able to find a SCSI cable, and sadly, there are no drivers on those disks. Have you ever got this card running …

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Re: Sam and Max Hanging Notes SC-55

Posted on 2021-10-12, 08:18

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by GL1zdA

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I haven't made extensive tests, only few minutes of gameplay, but in Dark Forces, on my configuration the problems were gone after I've changed the Pentium 133 to a Pentium 200. So it looks like a timing issue triggered only at a specific frequency.

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Re: X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty and Titanium HD connector pin-outs

Posted on 2021-10-09, 20:51

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by GL1zdA

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I'm not sure about the Titanium HD, but other X-Fi's share the same connector as the Audigy 2. Just like the SB Live and Audigy 1 share the same connector and the Live Drives are interchangeable. Here's the mapping for the X-Fi and Audigy 2. https://pinouts.ru/Audio-Video-Hardware/sb_audigy2_ad_ext …

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X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty and Titanium HD connector pin-outs

Posted on 2021-10-08, 20:09

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by GL1zdA

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Does anyone know the pin-out of the proprietary connector's on Titanium Fatal1ty (SB0880/SB0886) and Titanium HD (SB1270)? On the Titanium Fatal1ty it is used for the external bay, but there's nothing that can be used for the Titanium HD. Someone tried to find the pin-out for the Titanium HD, but …

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Re: Selling the stuff you don't need - what are your favorite ways?

Posted on 2021-09-23, 18:36

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I can recommend the CPU-World forums for trading of CPUs and related items: https://www.cpu-world.com/forum/

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Re: Selling the stuff you don't need - what are your favorite ways?

Posted on 2021-09-23, 11:33

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What are Facebook "eBay trade groups"? I've listed some things on Facebook marketplace, but they were either ignored or the buyer never showed up. For buying I'm still using Allegro, eBay and OLX. Years ago I've received some damaged goods, now I usually add a message to the seller how I expect him …

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Re: Descent music on Audiotrix Pro sound sometimes odd

Posted on 2021-09-22, 05:50

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by GL1zdA

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It's this dump, according to the metadata these were dumped with HMP2MID.EXE. The utility itself can be found here , I'm also attaching it to this post. There is another utility called HMI2MID.EXE , but I haven't tried it. Someone even made a Rust Library . I'm pretty sure these are the same files …

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Re: Descent music on Audiotrix Pro sound sometimes odd

Posted on 2021-09-16, 10:26

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It's this dump, according to the metadata these were dumped with HMP2MID.EXE. The utility itself can be found here , I'm also attaching it to this post. There is another utility called HMI2MID.EXE , but I haven't tried it. Someone even made a Rust Library . I'm pretty sure these are the same files …

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Re: Descent music on Audiotrix Pro sound sometimes odd

Posted on 2021-09-16, 06:38

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Maybe the game sets up some customizations for those specific songs. Is there a way to check it? I'm not a MIDI expert, but can you somehow "dump" MIDI messages on another PC? Not, that it would help much, because I don't have the Audiotrix MIDI cable, which apparently is custom and not compatible …

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Descent music on Audiotrix Pro sound sometimes odd

Posted on 2021-09-15, 22:00

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I'm trying to understand why Descent MIDIs sound different on an Audiotrix Pro, depending on how they are played. For testing, I've chosen 4 popular songs from Descent: title screen music, briefing music, level 1 and level 12 music. They sound different depending on how I play them: 1) In game music …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2021-09-02, 06:43

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Some quick and dirty benchmarks if you are still interested. Unfortunately the FX series card I had was only a 5600, not the Ultra as I had originally thought. Thanks for these benchmarks. They made me look at the theoretical performance of these chips and it confirms the benchmarks. The core …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-08-02, 12:00

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by GL1zdA

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I don't think it was mentioned here: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/archive/octek/ … DCA2/index.html - MR BIOS for the Octek DCA2 motherboard.

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Re: Windows 95 "Single DOS Application Mode" adds always SET BLASTER

Posted on 2021-06-28, 21:18

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These options in the registry are what appears in the box when you click "Configuration" in the "Advanced Program Settings". As for my original post, I found out, that Windows will update the PIF files with environmental variables when you leave the single application mode. That was the reason the …

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AudioTrix Pro on Windows 98 resources conflicts

Posted on 2021-06-23, 06:51

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by GL1zdA

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I've recently installed a AudioTrix Pro board into a Windows 98 SE PC and I'm experiencing weird issues related to resource conflicts. The PC is nothing atypical: ASUS P2B motherboard (440BX) Pentium II 266 MHz 128 MB SD-RAM STB Velocity 100 3COM 3C905C-TX-M PCI network card After installing the …

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