Re: My first 5x86 build (also motherboard component level repair)

Posted on 2012-06-28, 08:47

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133MHz, congratulations on the great transplantation job! I know myself how hard this is and how frustrating it can be if something goes wrong.. The ZIDA 4DPS is one of my all times favourite Socket 3 boards. It is small, neat and has these nice features like the PS/2 Mouse header. I own quite a few …

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Re: The OKSORI WS32 - a great 4MB programmable Wavetable Sound Card

Posted on 2012-06-21, 16:04

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ok, that is interesting. but pretty useless if the citizens ID is not checked versus a central database or something. and i really don't understand why this should be nescessary on a website for device drivers.. really strange..

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Re: I need your help with a korean? Wavetable Sound Card

Posted on 2012-06-16, 13:08

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SquallStrife, thank you so much for your effort. If I had two of the WS32 cards I would give you one for sure! The disk contains a lot of tools (all in English language), including a super easy and straight forward configuration tool for a resource-management (hex adresses, irq, interface control, …

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Re: I need your help with a korean? Wavetable Sound Card

Posted on 2012-06-15, 05:37

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Thank you all very much for your help. I really appreciate it. My main goal, to find the DOS driver, still remains... Hater Depot , do you know why these websites require the "citizens ID"? Is there some thing like internet tracking of every citizen in Korea? Looks kinda strange to me. Even stranger …

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Re: I need your help with a korean? Wavetable Sound Card

Posted on 2012-06-14, 19:43

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thank you for your advice. I've seen this driver website beforce but the problem is that the google translator just refuses to translate the registration / signup progress. so i just don't know where to fill in my data. these signs are unreadable to me 😕

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The OKSORI WS32 - a great 4MB programmable Wavetable Sound Card

Posted on 2012-06-14, 15:12

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//UPDATE: Scroll down for a first hands-on review of this card! Original Post: Well I just purchased a bundle of old Soundcards. One of them is an WS32 Soundcard from Oksori, bundled with an attached 4MB daughterboard (dream 9233/8905, 4MB ROM). http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/oksori_ws32 …

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Re: Games with dual OPL2 support for stereo FM?

Posted on 2012-06-09, 17:55

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thank you both very much! i try hard to keep the website growing but it is plenty of work. btw. try the google translator, i think it does a good job, at least it's understandable: http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=www.amoretro.de cheers, …

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Re: Games with dual OPL2 support for stereo FM?

Posted on 2012-06-09, 13:57

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I have one of these very rare PAS cards in my collection and I must say that it is a very silent card (very little noisy) for its time. It has a way! better signal to noise ratio than the SoundBlaster cards of this period of time. And although Maulwurf is right that MT-32 soundtracks are always …

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Re: IBM 5x86 rebound

Posted on 2012-04-14, 10:33

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Nice 2x 66MHz build, but the PCI-Performance is pretty low for an UMC based system. So the graphics performance may be the bottleneck in your system. You should have a PCI memory performance from 18 - 22 MB/s with a common S3 card but not 11 MB/s.

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Re: My Socket 4 Motherboard. The ultimate 486 replacement?

Posted on 2012-04-11, 12:58

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@gerwin: Thanks for your comment and for your compliment regarding my website. please don't take the different bus-speeds as representatitve for other socket 4 boards. I think this is just a unique (still unwanted by the manufacturer) feature of the ECS board. @dirkmirk: Yes, you are right, there …

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Re: Need Help With A Terratec EWS64XL

Posted on 2012-04-02, 15:36

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it would be very useful to know what program produces the wrong notes. is it under a dos game, windows media player, a sequencer software? there a many possibilities to cause a card to play wrong notes.

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My Socket 4 Motherboard. The ultimate 486 replacement?

Posted on 2012-03-30, 14:12

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http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/si5pi_aio_rev_1.1_socket_4_motherboard-600x396.jpg I recently got my hands on a really nice Socket 4 motherboard from 1994, by far the nicest which has come along my way. I totally fell in love with it. Let me tell you why... It's the Elitegroup SI5PI AIO …

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Re: 78Hz on S3 Vision864 in DOS is too much for TFT

Posted on 2012-03-29, 09:24

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A program called "S3VBE" helps. It does help for VGA-mode, too. I tested it with my Mirage V7 VLB.

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Re: Problems with Chaintech 5AGM2 and P166MMX 2.8V

Posted on 2012-03-28, 18:42

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That would be a very capable couple. the 5agm2 supports the k6plus-series of cpu's, so you could use a k6-2+ or 3+. the main advantage is the per-boot changeable multiplier if you require low speeds for old games. that can be very effective in addition of different possible cache settings. you can …

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Re: Problems with Chaintech 5AGM2 and P166MMX 2.8V

Posted on 2012-03-28, 15:07

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hehe, i did the same years ago on a pc-chips m577 mobo.. i jumpered just the complete opposite of the correct settings. well that may happen when you are concentrating at more than one thing at a time.. great that it works now.. do you want to put a voodoo card in it? sounds like a solid retro …

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Re: Problems with Chaintech 5AGM2 and P166MMX 2.8V

Posted on 2012-03-28, 10:30

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there should be a jumpersetting for dual voltage operation. try setting it from p54c to p55 and the mmx-cpu should work. good luck! //edit: i just took a look at the board - i doesn't seem to have this jumper..

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Re: Showing off some hardware I picked up recently

Posted on 2012-03-28, 05:22

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That's a nice find. These cache controllers were very expensive back in the days. You can even do mirroring if you like. And you will crush the 504MB boundary as the cache controller has its own BIOS. @shspvr http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tekram_dc-680c_vesa_local_ide_cache_ …

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Re: S3 Trio64V+ memory?

Posted on 2012-03-27, 17:20

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The Trio64V+ is basically an exellent choice for old dos games. But you can also go for a ViRGE, it features exactly the same 2D-core. Where are you from? I would give you a 2MB card for free (just for the shipping costs). Please take a look at my website AmoRetro.de (link in signature) , you can …

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Re: Hercules dynamite VL Pro VLB VGA card - jumper info required please

Posted on 2011-06-23, 09:06

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oh no, sorry, this was not for you. but if it was: never mind, everything is fine. many people just not know how much traffic is caused by hotlinking large pictures. that's why i made this post public instead of sending a private message.

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Re: Hercules dynamite VL Pro VLB VGA card - jumper info required please

Posted on 2011-06-14, 22:48

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please, be so kind and don't hotlink the 1xxx pixel pictures from my website. this causes a lot of traffic. if you find a useful picutre, just use a smaller size with a link to the original size. thank you.

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