Re: Questions about Sound Blaster "noise" and the DSP
Posted on 2013-11-12, 21:09
Things that may affect noise level are the DAC (signal-to-noise ratio), resistors (thermal noise, ESR from bad capacitors also counts), and PCB layout (EMI pickup).
Re: Monkey Island 1 CD door closing sound
Posted on 2013-11-12, 21:06
If the last sample is DC (non-zero), then yes, that would produce a "thump" sound, depending on the size of the DC blocking capacitors on the sound card. Makes one wonder if this was used as intentional effect, to shave a few bytes off the sound file...
Re: jwt27's Retro Laptops
Posted on 2013-11-12, 13:41
It does? I thought the whole point of HT was to improve performance in multi-threaded programs...
Re: jwt27's Retro Laptops
Posted on 2013-11-11, 18:51
Shit... I need a Prescott.
Re: Caps on motherboards and other parts
Posted on 2013-11-11, 18:21
A member on overclockers australia has written up this fantastic guide! http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=1102189 Some remarks about that tutorial: - He's using a soldering gun. These things have no temperature control, and can easily fry heat sensitive components (like... …
Re: MIDI Commander
Posted on 2013-11-11, 01:49
Little update here, I made a Google Code project for this. A bit overkill for such a simple program, maybe, but I hope this will make it easier to find and keep track of updates. I see the version in this thread has been downloaded 115 times already... It has one serious bug and I would recommend …
Re: Impressive videogame AI
Posted on 2013-11-09, 11:23
To give a very good practical example: How often in Skyrim have you just power-attacked someone, arrowed them in the face, or blasted them to death with a fireball because they were idiotically rushing straight towards you? Or another Skyrim example: You rush someone with a power attack who's …
Re: Impressive videogame AI
Posted on 2013-11-09, 01:39
I think Dungeon Keeper is a good example. Not the opponents, they're not very bright really (though I read somewhere, they will send you faxes if you just happen to have a fax connected...), but the minion's AI. Each type of creature has its own personallity, for example flies are very curious and …
Re: DB60XG / XR385 repair
Posted on 2013-11-09, 00:35
Check the voltage between pin 8 of the AK4510 and ground. It should be 0V exactly. There's a via (hole) right in front of the chip where it's easy to measure. Here's a picture to explain: http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/6272/6qce.jpg Another way to check if it still does something, is to touch the …
Re: Caps on motherboards and other parts
Posted on 2013-11-08, 18:18
when replacing capacitors be sure that you get: * the same capacitance value * the same or greated voltage tolerance value (meaning you can replace a 10μF/6.3v with a 10μF/16v one) * the same or greater temperature tolerance value (there is really no point in using 85 degrees caps, stick to 105 …
Re: DB60XG / XR385 repair
Posted on 2013-11-08, 17:57
DACs are coming my way, can take a week or two though. Now that I'm back into experimenting with these cards, I noticed something VERY unusual.... The XR385 I've always been using had a weird problem with Duke3D: near the end of the title song, you could hear one spurious/hanging guitar note, and …
Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change
Posted on 2013-11-07, 19:14
And often, changing the quality setting doesn't actually do anything. I found that you need to pause the video first, THEN change the quality, and wait for the gear icon to stop spinning before resuming playback. The YouTube player is now designed to be able to process multiple streams at once. …
Re: YouTube's Seriously Awful New Change
Posted on 2013-11-07, 18:27
Great work Google! You won't be getting any comments from me anymore. I don't want to use your antisocial networking service, and you have no reason to plaster my full name all over your websites. On some of my uploaded videos some qualities like 480p to 1080p can be chosen but don't work. So if it …
Re: "Demanding" MS-DOS games for a 1.4 GHz Pentium 3
Posted on 2013-11-07, 18:23
3DBENCH2: Weird result of 467,8 with FASTVID and 511 without. The benchmark itself is running at 2x the speed with FASTVID compared to without, so I guess the speed broke the score. I don't think 3DBench2 is very accurate anymore at these speeds. Even the latest version (1.0c) was designed with 486 …
Re: SIMMCONN is still available for those who want to do a memory upgrade on their AWE 64
Posted on 2013-11-07, 17:47
I don't get the warning anymore, note that last post was on 2013-04-26. Probably a temporary ad or something. It might have been a false positive, I've seen that before with Avast (good old 4.7 free version), though VBS scripts on a website do sound suspicious to me. Adblock shouldn't make a …
Re: "Demanding" MS-DOS games for a 1.4 GHz Pentium 3
Posted on 2013-11-07, 15:57
Mau1wurf1977 wrote: I get good scores for VGA: 3DBENCH2: 665.7 That sounds pretty slow to me, for a 1400. I've just been trying out some graphics cards on the Katmai system in my sig (at stock speed, 550MHz). I got 783.0 on a TNT2 AGP. (the Voodoo3 does 797.3)
Re: Top wavetable/general midi ISA sound cards?
Posted on 2013-11-07, 14:23
I didn't know until recently that the YMF-715 (and up) chipsets could mix at 44KHz in Sound Blaster Pro. Being listening to some .MOD files on it and it sounds great. That's new to me. I'm pretty sure the SBPro2 interface is limited to 22kHz stereo, and 44k in mono. How did you test this? But my …
Re: Web site with sound card SNR stats?
Posted on 2013-11-06, 19:18
I was just able to see that I need to get a LynxTwo. Then this happened: The Internet Archive's sites are offline for scheduled maintenance and upgrades. Please check our twitter feed @internetarchive for updates. Sorry for the inconvenience. Anyway, I tried this RMAA program a while ago on a few …
Re: Web site with sound card SNR stats?
Posted on 2013-11-06, 18:46
Re: When will laptop batteries get better?
Posted on 2013-11-06, 18:43
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