Re: Replacing Formosa SC1630 with?

Posted on 2016-09-26, 12:59

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If you really want OPL music and Covox support in one card you have to get an Aztech SoundGalaxy card. One based on the 0592 chipset. All these cards support SB Pro, SoundBlaster (+Pro), Yamaha OPL3 and Covox / Disney.

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Re: Turtle Beach Maui Sound Card

Posted on 2016-09-25, 23:19

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The MT32.WFB is not really a sound bank. It is a rearrangement for the existent instruments to meet the MT32 compatibility, equivalent to the MT32.SBK to load with the AWEUTIL on the AWE sound cards. So the capability of loading the MT32.WFB doesn't imply one can load any other WFB-banks, especially …

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 ("Seattle") & IRQ 9

Posted on 2016-09-25, 20:25

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by FGB

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Great! I'm happy you got it working! Now you can use the Maui with your beloved Intel Seattle board 😀

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 ("Seattle") & IRQ 9

Posted on 2016-09-25, 17:30

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by FGB

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No, the card won't remember the setting. The SETUPSND program sets the IRQ directly before initializing the card. To set it up with IRQ 5 instead of IRQ 9 type "setupsnd /i5 osmaui.mot"

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 ("Seattle") & IRQ 9

Posted on 2016-09-25, 15:55

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Yea it would be good to know if the interface is intelligent mode compatible. The interface is UART. Maybe the card can't be used with anything more than a 386/486 - it's not uncommon. The Yamaha SW-20PC also has severe issues with anything above 486, *if* one is really really lucky maybe he can …

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Re: Where has this sound card been all my life? I think I'm tearing up.

Posted on 2016-09-24, 13:33

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Hi squareguy, I don't know if it was you who bought the card in my eBay shop or if you are just using the picture from my listing. But I'm happy you like the card. To me, the ESFM synth does a great job, especially in the OPL3 / 4OP mode. But in games with the "Miles" sound drivers library one can …

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Re: Looking for good 486 board model names and brands.

Posted on 2016-09-23, 22:45

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by FGB

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There are more very good boards that meet most of your requirements: - Abit PB4 - loverly tiny PCI board, CR2032 battery, wide range CPU support, onboard controller - ASUS PVI-486SP3 - real quality board, great layout allows long cards, has PCI / VLB / ISA slots, CR2032 battery, wide rage CPU …

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Re: ISA Sound Cards with Internal Wavetable

Posted on 2016-09-21, 21:05

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I have Turtle Beach Tropez which is the same card with SB compatibility. And yes, to get it work you need to run a TSR at the beginning. As far as I understand, it loads patches to card's RAM memory (like in GUS, the patches are not kept in the ROM). It's not actually a driver - as the hardware MPU …

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Re: I've never seen a AWE64 CT4520 that's neutered

Posted on 2016-09-20, 22:16

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Thats an OEM card. An AWE card without the AWE 😁 = A SB16 card. I don't know if it was Dell or Packard Bell who built them into their entry lines.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-19, 13:53

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Great looking boxed ET6000! The ET6000 is a fast card but it needs a CPU to scale with.On a 486 you are limited by the CPU. But in a Pentium the ET6000 will outscore the Trio64s card with ease. It also is a capable GUI accelerator. Quite a good card, but not the most compatible with certain DOS …

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Re: DOOM realtics

Posted on 2016-09-18, 21:19

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I'm not a native english speaker and don't know what "cheney" means. I know a lot about "Dick Cheney" but don't see anything related to him here... :happy: Well, let's turn it around: What is the positive reason to use a different screen size which makes comparability to all the results on old …

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Re: DOOM realtics

Posted on 2016-09-18, 21:06

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Simply one point: If there are hundereds of results available, using the method with the HUD enabled, whats the point to promote a different method that is not comparable to all the existing work of all the folks? Also the Doom benchmark is not only for comparison with other systems but to see how …

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Re: DOOM realtics

Posted on 2016-09-18, 20:30

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I wouldn't recommend to bench the way "PhilsComputerLab" is suggesting, using and constantly promoting. Almost everyone plays Doom with the HUD enabled. So the realistic size is fullscreen -1. In more than 20 years, I never met anyone who played Doom without the HUD. So one has to bench Doom with …

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Re: Turtle Beach Pinnacle Serial Number?

Posted on 2016-09-17, 22:46

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by FGB

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The same applies to the Turtle Beach Malibu 64 sound card. Can't install without the serial.. What a crap 😵

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Re: Barton 3200+ vs P4 3.0 with modern os?

Posted on 2016-09-14, 23:27

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by FGB

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Looks like I'm not the only soul out here with some sympathies for VIA 😀

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Re: Barton 3200+ vs P4 3.0 with modern os?

Posted on 2016-09-14, 18:56

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I don't doubt your experience, swaaye. But the link you put in before you were editing your posting shows a really abysmal permormance of the VIA based computer. Looks like a real bug or driver flaw, definately not normal. If I had the hardware I would like to setup two systems for comparison. I …

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Re: Barton 3200+ vs P4 3.0 with modern os?

Posted on 2016-09-13, 22:14

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Sorry, I can't stand the VIA "bashing", although I always respect personal experience with certain hardware.. VIA had very capable solutions back in the day. The KT800 was both fast and reliable at a price well below other highend offers from nVidia. I had one Athlon XP rig and it was very stable. …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2016-09-01, 23:03

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Were these ASRock boards really a hunk of junk? I am using an ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 as my main computer now. The gaming performance benchmarks from Anandtech were pretty good. Anandtech reviews seemed pretty decent too. It uses the ULi chipset and also has AGP + PCI-E. It has this funny AGP-like AM2 …

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Re: ISA Sound Cards with Internal Wavetable

Posted on 2016-08-28, 01:15

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Like the Tropez Classic, the Turtle Beach TBS-2000 uses a 2MB stripped down version of the VoiceCrystal soundset which is 4MB. Only the Tropez Plus (and the RIO daughterboard) uses the full 4MB soundset. Apart from that, the sample quality is above average. The GM synth performs really well despite …

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Re: How fast is the nec v20 compared to a 286?

Posted on 2016-08-27, 17:26

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You, Scali, hit the nail!

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