Re: Repairing old video cards, source parts

Posted on 2011-04-28, 19:45

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by copados33

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Yes, A friend of mine have an one of those factory soldering machines, I don't know how those are called, "robotic soldering machines"?? He uses it to repair all kind of electronics, Motherboards, Video cards and even cell phones, the hard task is to find parts for refactions.

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Repairing old video cards, source parts

Posted on 2011-04-28, 17:55

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by copados33

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Anybody knows where can I get spare Ram modules for vdeo cards??, I've selvaged some chips from other cards with broken GPU's and managed to repair some of my old cards icluding a Voodoo 5, a geforce 4 Ti 4600, Hercules prophet II and some Kyro/Kyro II cards. It's a bit sad to have the means and …

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Re: Aztech cards

Posted on 2011-04-25, 02:34

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by copados33

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There's nothing wrong if use the AWE64 alone, it's the MT-32, Sc-55 and other external midi modules that suffer from this when you connect them to the Mpu-401 on the SB card.

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Re: Aztech cards

Posted on 2011-04-25, 02:06

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by copados33

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Anybody knows if Thexder 2 is on the list of games that suffer from hanging notes using the AWE64 Gold MPu-401?? I'm thinking into ditch the AWE64 gold and use this Aztech card instead, but I don't know if these have full MPU-401 support.

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Re: Socket 7 - FSB scaling results with L1 Cache disabled

Posted on 2011-04-24, 15:40

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by copados33

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Sorry for the noob question but should't the ammount of cache memory present on the motherboard affect the final result? some motherboards like the "Soyo Sy-5ehm" have 1mb cache, most socket 7 boards have only 512kb.

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Re: Aztech cards

Posted on 2011-04-24, 15:24

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by copados33

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Do you know if this model is compatible with Covox and Disney Sound System? I ask because I don't have my "retro boxes" with me right now in order to run testings.

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Re: Aztech cards

Posted on 2011-04-24, 12:50

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What do you guys think about this card here?, I'm thinking into replacing my SB Awe 64 Gold with this one since I'm tired of the hanging notes issues with the MT-32 music on Thexder 2 Sorry for the pcture quality, as you can see on the big chip to the left, it reads "Aztech" http://i880.photobucket. …

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Re: What is the best General MIDI synth for DOS games?

Posted on 2010-12-13, 10:33

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by copados33

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Interesting, it was because of that particular thread;..I was trying to play the midi file you posted there when I noticed this: Yamaha DB50-XG low volume on windows 98

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Re: What is the best General MIDI synth for DOS games?

Posted on 2010-12-13, 03:59

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by copados33

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WBman wrote: .............. I've tried Sam & Max on my Yamaha DB50XG and it sounds similar to the Waveblaster; the SC-55 sounds ok for my standards, but you are right, it seems that the waveblaster instruments are better suited for those kind of melody..

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-28, 15:33

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by copados33

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It's not like the drums goes off forever, it fixes soon as a new track starts to play, and sometimes when I'm playing the music sounds ok on the 1st round, but it fails to start the drums at the next round or when the music speeds up, the fight ends then you go to a new stage and the music is ok, …

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-28, 15:23

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by copados33

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I doesn't show anything, just keeps playing on the oither channles.

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-28, 14:59

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by copados33

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You can just cycle through the music tracks on options menu, soon or later you'll see that some tracks have missing drums.

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-28, 13:51

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by copados33

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No, the game plays just fine with the DB50, the Roland SCC-1 sounds fine too, it doesn't have the missing drums like in the SC-55. I recorded these using an SCC-1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5halRLMCcDs

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-28, 13:37

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by copados33

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Yes, I select Sound Canvas for the Midi music too, the reset fixed the problem but its only a temporary fix, the music gets messed up again after switching a few songs throughout the game, so I guess I'll have to ditch that old SC-55 and stick to the NEC DB50-XG for my GM midi music. I believe that …

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-28, 13:06

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by copados33

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So basically what I need to do is to keep restarting the SC-55 everytime the music starts to play without drums? I guess there's no permanent fix for this then.

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-28, 03:51

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by copados33

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Well, it seems that you have the same issues as I do with the drums; 1: at the gametek logo: no drums. 2: at 2:03 whne you play the intro music: no drums 3: at 3:03 title screen music: again no drums 4: 4:20 again the background music at the gametek/eurocom logo plays without drums. This happens to …

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-28, 01:02

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by copados33

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Have you tried other links that I sent to you?

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-27, 20:19

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by copados33

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How often do you play this game?, the diference is very subtle, you have to know very well the music of the game as I do, try to play the Zangief stage track in the options menu, or maybe I might need to make some recordings for you people to compare.. EDIT: I just checked again and the problem …

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Re: SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-27, 16:55

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by copados33

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Check your PM box.

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SSF2 Turbo SC-55 missing instruments??

Posted on 2010-11-19, 22:59

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by copados33

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I've noticed while playing SSF2 turbo (floppy disk version) with the sc-55 in general midi that sometimes the music loses some instruments , as if suddenly some audio channels remained muted until the song is restarted on the next round, do this happened to anybody else? The sc-55 is connected to a …

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