Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-25, 03:42

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by kithylin

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Duke3d atomic edition 1.4? No. Retail non-atomic edition 1.3D I don't legally own a copy of Duke3D atomic edition yet, not officially.. I think I have the GoG version but I've had trouble getting that working under real mode MS-DOS. It keeps asking for the CD (Which I don't have) and I'm not using …

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-25, 03:34

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by kithylin

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Okay doing some testing for you. I grabbed Descent I demo for DOS and loaded it in. I can confirm Descent I (in setup) -DOES- have reversed stereo! It's playing in the wrong speakers. Duke3D however does -NOT- and plays -CORRECTLY-. I'll continue testing further. And yes I'm sure my speakers are …

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-25, 02:48

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by kithylin

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Okay! Well finally I got my "fastest" 486 hooked up. Fired it up and connected it up with the CT1330A in it, and verified quickly in Duke3D setup sound tests that it indeed is playing both speakers correctly with the stereo -correct- and is not reversed. I can try your program up above you posted …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-25, 00:07

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by kithylin

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rkrenicki wrote: The heat sinks unscrew. You need to remove the memory module and give it a couple of turns. You can also slide it over the northbridge. So they do.. that would of been nice to figure out earlier. Oh well.. I got em off anyway.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-24, 23:01

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by kithylin

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I always thought the engraved AMD DX5-133V16BGC chips had newer datecodes than the ones with the printed white lettering, that is, until I saw this photo. I wonder why they produced these two differences at the same time... I can't remember having seen these with such early date codes, perhaps …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-24, 22:51

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by kithylin

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My SBCs with AMD P75s will be arriving soon. How did you pop off the heatsink/fan? Freezer or brute force? Very slim ended screw driver pushed in between the top of the cpu and the heatsink, did not "pry" by twisting it, just gently pushed it in there and tap-tap-tap-tap with another screw driver …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-24, 18:43

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by kithylin

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$19 total shipped off ebay.

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-24, 17:18

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by kithylin

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I actually do have a CT1330A Revision 6.. I just have to get out my 486 and play with it.. got a lot going on today to get to it. maybe later tonight. And don't know if mine is broken or not.

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-23, 20:48

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by kithylin

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Model CT1330, announced in May 1991, was the first significant redesign of the card's core features, and complied with the Microsoft MPC standard.[7]. The Sound Blaster Pro supported faster digital input and output sampling rates (up to 22.05 kHz stereo or 44.1 kHz mono), added a "mixer" to provide …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-10-23, 19:08

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by kithylin

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In accordance with my wife's decree to declutter... I took my last two built systems and gutted them from their cases. The cases are going to the bulk trash. I've been meaning to replace them with matching ATX cases for the sake of compactness, etc anyway so no big loss. Going to evaluate what I …

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-23, 19:06

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by kithylin

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Actually, I'm talking about PCM/Digital sounds specifically, not Dual OPL2 vs OPL3, and many games support stereo sound with the SBPro. Reversed Stereo Chart.jpg Duke3D, Setup Sound Test, Reverse Switch Off (unticked). Tie Fighter, ship flyby sound Left to Right, reverse unticked. I'm telling you I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-23, 19:03

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by kithylin

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EVGA NVIDIA GeForce 9800GTX+ 512MB PCI-E (Paid 8.50 + 6.50 shipping). This will most likely go in place of the 8800GTX (I also plan to benchmark the 2 agianst each other) I know it's not a 9800 GTX+, but here: http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GeForce-9800-GTX-vs-Nvidia-GeForce-8800-GTX/ …

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-23, 18:33

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by kithylin

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I want to solve the "Reversed Stereo" controversy once and for all, but for that I need the help of a person whom actually own the original Sound Blaster Pro CT1330A card which is thought to have a reversed stereo... or is it the SBPro2 that is actually reversed? :confused: I tested a small number …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-18, 20:17

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by kithylin

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Today a Voodoo3 PCI came in the mail!! ...... It was 7.10€ posted, it works! I only tested it and updated its bios to latest (and surely last) version. I'll save it to the moment I get a decent 430TX board to recreate my first pc (I hope I had this one back then when I had to use a miserable S3 …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-10-18, 18:56

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by kithylin

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..... So I tried booting from floppy, worked flawlessly, tried booting HDD with DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11, also perfect. But after ten minutes of testing, quite big passive heatsink got very hot, at the fact so much it was barely possible to keep a hand on it. So it needs fan, but since that board …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-18, 18:24

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by kithylin

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FWIW if anyone else is interested in NIB 3Dlabs Wildcat II 5000 cards, it looks like the seller I bought from yesterday has listed a new batch of them for a slightly higher price (still below $7 including free shipping). http://www.ebay.com/itm/3Dlabs-Wildcat-80MB-II-5000-4x-AGP-DVI-VGA-Video-Card- …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-10-16, 10:34

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by kithylin

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ISA Ethernet? I have a 3Com 3C509 and it works great. That could work. My main goal is finding a card that's A) common and cheap as possible (no more than $20) and B) has good driver support in DOS and WFW3.11. There seems to have been a lot of Ethernet cards from tons of different manufacturers, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-15, 07:23

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by kithylin

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James-F wrote: badmojo wrote: I already have a P166MMX but couldn't let this system go by for $50 locally. Can't get enough Pentiums, that's for sure. 😎 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-12, 23:52

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by kithylin

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Shure there are raid setup's that do not work in Win98se, mine however is working flawless in vanilla Win98se. As I wrote. Both Raid-0 and 1 are working. There are a seperate jumper for enabling the Raid BIOS and if I connect drives to the non-raid controller, they will net be used when the jumper …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-12, 23:19

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by kithylin

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So exactly how does this thing combine two sata hard drives in to one IDE interface? Does it have some sort of onboard RAID-0 setup? If so.. you won't be able to install Win9x on it. Win9x won't work with any sort of raid anything even basic raid-0. It just won't, there's no way around it. The …

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