Re: Looking/searching for s3d (S3 Virge specific) games

Posted on 2010-11-24, 17:48

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leileilol wrote: One of their 1995 video cards had a "♫ When i'm sixty-four ♫" message on their BIOS startup too. Forgot which though Hehe. The BIOS POST screen on this Virge card I am testing says: 9FX Reality 332 ... is all you need

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Re: How do I test a 486 SX 20 CPU?

Posted on 2010-11-24, 17:39

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Thanks a lot for everyone's replies. I decided to set the jumpers on a 486 mobo for a 25MHz CPU, and the (overclocked) 20MHz CPU POSTed OK. The CPU is OK. I may have an ASUS SP3 mobo in my collection. I can't remember. :lol: If I find it, I'll see if I can figure out the 20MHz system jumpers! :happy …

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-24, 14:52

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If there is any chance, I would be very interested to buy some of your DB stereo reversers, please. 😁

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How do I test a 486 SX 20 CPU?

Posted on 2010-11-24, 14:48

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I would like to test a 486 SX 20 MHz CPU. Yes it's slow, but I'm interested to see just how slow it is. I grabbed 4 random 486 boards I have, and checked the PCB for system clock options. They all start at 25, and go up to either 40, or in one case 50. There appeared to be no option printed on the …

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-24, 13:20

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gerwin wrote: Of course, I have a list somewhere... 🤣 🤣 ! I really like your lists. They are brilliant. 😀

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-24, 12:50

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I had a look in Audacity, and I can't see a way of switching the L and R channels. Perhaps it's there, but I haven't seen it yet. Unfortunately, I do not know what that jumper does. I have tried using the card with it on, and with it removed, and I haven't detected any difference yet.

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-24, 12:40

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Well spotted! I wonder why that happened? I wonder if that jumper near the wavetable reverses the stereo? (Although that's an unlikely idea.) Hmmm...not sure about that one! 😕

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-24, 10:57

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I have made 4 more recordings. Two use the ESS card, and the other two use the SBPro2 card. All 4 recordings are FM music. Two recordings use OPL2, and the other two recordings use OPL3. All four music tracks use the game Descent. http://www.multiupload.com/C40HBUIUU6 (ESS, OPL2) http://www. …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2010-11-24, 09:57

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Exciting new project! 😁 Please can you a) Show an image of the VGA to S-Video / Composite box. b) Explain your objective for capturing VGA output from a retro machine. Thanks.

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-24, 08:23

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I have done 1 minute of Doom, using the Liteon ESS 1688F sound card. The recording was made using the onboard wavetable ROM. It wasn't used with any DB attachment, because it has been physically removed from the sound card. So, no mistake! :wink: http://www.multiupload.com/0J1U199BW7 I set essvol. …

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-24, 07:25

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Yes, quite a few people on Vogons have the NEC Yamaha clone DB. I have one too. Recommended! 😀

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-24, 00:19

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After a couple of hours of testing, and ringing in my ears, I'm confident that I can switch between daughterboard wavetable and onboard wavetable, inside pure DOS. I'll do some recordings of the onboard wavetable ROM music ASAP. I'd say it's on par with a typical 1 meg DB.

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-23, 22:48

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Before I make the onboard wavetable ROM recordings, I really want to compare this music with the Yamaha daughterboard attached to this sound card. The problem is, I don't know which is which. I think that every music test I have run so far, I have been hearing the onboard wavetable music, and not …

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-23, 22:30

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Gerwin's info is excellent about this kind of stuff. This card has built in wavetable ROM. I was using it in pure DOS. 😀

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-23, 22:17

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No way! I removed the Yamaha daughterboard, and reran Doom.exe (choosing General Midi for music), and the music quality doesn't suck! In fact, it sounds just like using a fairly typical "regular/standard" daughterboard! The chips on this thing read: ES981P, ES689F, ES968F. I'll make some recordings …

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-23, 22:00

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Re: Gerwin's reply - thanks a lot for the info! I will test the onboard wavetable ROM. Maybe that "mini jumper" disables the DB attached to the wavetable header? Yes, that may have been me who bought that odd looking ES card with the power? connector. Seems to work without one, which is good. As …

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-23, 21:44

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Thanks very much for everyone's help. I got it working! :happy: I used the "older" esscfg.exe. Please note that the card I was testing was ES1688F based. It's really easy to get these cards muddled up. That's 16..., not 18... BTW, to get esscfg working (because I really wanted to change the card's …

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-23, 20:41

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Referring to my photo on the previous page, the card on the bottom left. In DOS, when I run esscfg.exe, it says: "ESSCFG Version V5.2 Unable to find AudioDrive ES1868-based chip!". If I run the older esscfg.exe version, it says: "Unable to find ES688, ES1688, or ES1788". Looking at the chip on this …

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Re: Looking/searching for s3d (S3 Virge specific) games

Posted on 2010-11-23, 19:33

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🤣 😁

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2010-11-23, 19:07

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Apologies. I searched for ESS Audiodrive on Vogons, and found this thread - ESS AudioDrive ES1868F - drivers - and how do you disable the gameport / midi port? Vogons user tikbalang has kindly posted a file called ESSISA.zip, which contains ESS ISA utils. Thank you.

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