Re: How to get the FM or OPL3 effect sound in the sound card?

Posted on 2018-07-14, 10:38

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by Jo22

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My sound card is Cobra AW744, how to get the FM or called OPL3 sound effect from the sound card when I play the Windows Media sample like the Canyon.mid? You need to have an FM Synthesizer driver to be installed. The OPL3 is a sound chip, it has no idea what MIDI is. Something like Creative Music …

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Re: Formatting Playstation 2 fat hard drive for use in a 486 build?

Posted on 2018-07-14, 07:44

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@The Serpent Rider Thanks for the information must have been 8Gb drives then. It's been a while since I had the original model. I got it second hand, along with the remote control and some VGA/RGB cabling. IMHO it was a good media center / DVD player with a Matrix-inspired GUI, at least. Windows XP …

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Re: Formatting Playstation 2 fat hard drive for use in a 486 build?

Posted on 2018-07-14, 03:49

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Not quite the same, but I heard that old XBoxes (first gen) were ripped-apart for their 20GB HDDs. If memory serves, this was said to had happen in Brasilia in the mid-late 2000s or so. Apparently, there was a market for 20GB drives for PC usage (that's enough for PCs running for XP or 98SE). Anyway …

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Re: Recommend me a reasonably priced sound card for my 386

Posted on 2018-07-13, 09:09

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For games up to 1992, something Sound Blaster II /AdLib (OPL2) compatible should be good enough. Personally, I would install a ThunderBoard, ALS100, ALS120, CT1350B (SB 2.0), ES688 AudioDrive or a no-name SB 2 clone. Anything in essence. If you also like obscoure games, a SpeechThing compatible card …

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Re: RTC as a sound chip / tone generator ?

Posted on 2018-07-12, 21:26

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No ideas ? Come on, don't be shy! 😉

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Re: "Childhood Embers" - 286 AT with Hercules graphics build

Posted on 2018-07-12, 20:43

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Well put. Nostalgia is a factor, granted, but there is elegance in high-resolution monochrome graphics. I will add some screenshot(s) later in this thread. Cool, thanks. I'm looking forward to it. Both CGA and Hercules remind me of the Gameboy, by the way: Firstly in terms of Nostalgia (both are …

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Re: ISA RAM card, my easter project

Posted on 2018-07-12, 05:21

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Hello everyone, I apologize for letting you wait for so long. Project status : Pawsed *mew*. http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff208/khaza1wolfgurl/shinymewcute.gif This project isn't dead, but other things have caught my attention. I have to take care for my father for a while. He can't leave bed …

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Re: Old Hardware in Movies

Posted on 2018-07-11, 17:23

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Quite common also for Apple to build transparent prototypes - https://vintagezen66.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/201393transparent-apple-prototypes/ Thanks for the link! Reminds me of the Loewe Me-16 TV set from the 1980s. Back then, such transparent Plexiglas (perspex) models were called "educational" …

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Re: S3 Scenic/MX2 not detected in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2018-07-11, 11:07

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appiah4 wrote: Open to all suggestions.. Um, try Win95, too ? If seen quite a lot of weird things in the past. Could be that the Scenic driver isn't Win98 compatible. I know, sounds unlikely. But I've seen quite a few similar things. One of the old ZIP drivers didn't support Win98, for example.

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Re: Old Hardware in Movies

Posted on 2018-07-11, 10:59

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I always wanted the clear Apple laptop from Hackers (Powerbook Duo?) ^_^ Same here! ^^ I still don't get it how some people can say that acrylic designs are looking old, btw. Back in the 90s, it was considered very modern and stylish. In Science Fiction, it still is the most modern kind of design. …

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Re: Detecting UMBs

Posted on 2018-07-11, 06:05

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Hi, yes. You can manually explore which regions are free for UMB usage. Programs like CheckIt! and MSD can display the memory spots between 640K and 1MB. However, it is up to you to figure out if these are really free.. Some network cards and video adapters need free spaces at some locations. …

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Re: "Childhood Embers" - 286 AT with Hercules graphics build

Posted on 2018-07-11, 02:55

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I think I owe everyone involved in this thread a bit of an update. In short - I am going to hijack my own thread. [ Hah, that's cool. :D I'll have to remember to do this more often, too. ;) Anyway, that 286 looks interesting to me. Reminde me a bit of the "Ergo" PC, an 8088-PC that was built into a …

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Re: Software for testing math-co (8087) ?

Posted on 2018-07-10, 02:08

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CheckIt! (any version) or some CAD programme like AutoSketch. Sketch is fine for thestin x87 on XTs, by the way. You can see the x87 in action. In addition, you can find some videos related to 8087 in my channel, if you like. Edit: Typo fixed.

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Re: Unknown Quadram VGA+TTL monitor, is there any info about TTL mode?

Posted on 2018-07-09, 10:59

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Cool! Thanks for video! :D 7264258.jpg] The picture size is normal only in CGA and VGA modes (VGA - without any adapter, with direct connection to a modern video card). Maybe that's also because of this: VGA uses 720x400. CGA uses 320x200 or 640x200, but gets doubled on VGA cards to 320x400 and …

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Re: Win98se essentials for gaming ?

Posted on 2018-07-09, 03:21

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vbrun100.dll vbrun200.dll vbrun300.dll vbdb300.dll vb40016a.exe vb40032a.exe mci32,ocx msvbvm50.exe vb6 community edition bwcc.dll dao351.exe DataAcc.exe VB3 VBX (grid.vbx, linedraw.ttf,mscomm.vbx, threed.vbx) gdiplus.dll KernelEx-4.5.2.exe vcredist.exe (Visual C++ Runtime 2005 SP1 (x86)) WinG SDK …

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Re: What to do with an old computer ?

Posted on 2018-07-08, 12:45

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A year later I have a cupboard full of old computers stored. huh. Haha, I do the same. It's not complete useless, though. Keep in mind that we're no business people. We love our stuff and take good care of it. This comes in handy if developers of emulators need our help, for example. Our hobby …

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Re: Win3mu Soon OpenSource

Posted on 2018-07-08, 12:25

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NJRoadfan wrote: otvdm.exe --app-name your.exe Ok, just tried again. It works now. I used drag&drop this time (dragged calc.exe onto otvdm binary). 😀

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Re: BBC releases old computer-based TV shows to stream

Posted on 2018-07-08, 02:16

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Thanks for your reply! I agree on what you said about the Pi. When I was little, there were no such things on the market (ok, 805x, maybe. But programmers were insanely expensive). Best we've had were some construction kits with 4-Bit teaching computers (Busch Microtronic 2090; very crude) or …

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Re: Win3mu Soon OpenSource

Posted on 2018-07-08, 01:55

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Thanks for the feedback, guys! Say, please, how did you make it run ? I'm curious! :D I did extract otvdm-v0.2.zip, changend to that folder and ran "CMD" in the address bar which gave a command line window. Then, I ran otvdm.exe together with a Win16 program : otvdm calc.exe After that, the command …

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Re: Coding for DOS with an eye to multiplatform options

Posted on 2018-07-07, 07:16

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Well, DOS software isn't completely dead yet. There's for sure some notable amount of old Clipper programs around. A few year ago, I noticed PC stores had database-related DOS programs running on their PCs behind the counter. That was quite a funny contrast to the brand new Windows 7/8 hot-rod …

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