Re: Help getting a sound card to work in DOS

Posted on 2013-08-17, 15:58

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by chinny22

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Are you sure what resources the card is set at? and what they are supposed to be? From memory mine was wrong even though I just ran the liveware 3 setup and had to modify CTSYN.INI to the correct settings. I think I got dos sound working in Win9x, then checked what the legacy settings were in device …

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Re: Another 486 being built

Posted on 2013-08-16, 23:09

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Which USB floppy drive emulator are you using? I just got whichever was the cheapest at the time. Once you open them up they all seem to come from the same manufacture "Gotek" or at the very least EXACT same manufacturing process right down to the red LED needing to be bent round. I did chose one …

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Re: Help getting a sound card to work in DOS

Posted on 2013-08-16, 22:37

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by chinny22

in DOS

in DOS

Getting a SBLive working in dos rarely works without a bit of fine tuning. You can get the drivers complete with a bit of a guide from the vogons driver site here. http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=52 A lot of people don't like it as it emulates a SB16 and takes up a memory, but I …

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Re: Vintage hardware lovers - do you really love vintage hardware or simply pragmatism?

Posted on 2013-08-15, 12:31

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by chinny22

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I’d say I’m hardware but not period correct. I started when I couldn’t get NFS4 working in XP but it has since become more about owning PCs I have a soft spot for which are 486’s, Slot 1/BX, Dos, Win98SE and XP. And like the idea of taking them as far as they can go. My P3 is end of DOS machine (due …

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Re: Another 486 being built

Posted on 2013-08-13, 23:55

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

sunaiac wrote: What are those brackets you use that have the compact flash port in them ? 2 of these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CF-IDE-3-5-Male-Ada … =item43a6998325

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-08-13, 16:38

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Talk about timing! just this weekend I got the Logitech Z5500 speakers for £100.00 just waiting on the leads to run them to the PC. They work real nice with my original xbox which is main reason I got these particular ones but my flat mates have been home so haven't really tested them out. They are …

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Re: Another 486 being built

Posted on 2013-08-12, 23:02

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Have made a few changes to the 486, gave the inside a bit of a tidy and I think I’m just about happy with it now. CPU: 486 Dx4 120 (A80486DX4-120SV8B, C9539CPH) M/B: Abit AB-PB4 Rev 1.3 RAM: x2 32MB 60NS EDO (LG GMM7328110CS6 32MB EDO 60nS 72-PIN SIMM TIN) Video: Diamond Stealth 2000 3D v1.04 Virge …

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Re: Best CF Cards for DOS?

Posted on 2013-08-12, 19:57

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got the card from work, ended up being an 8GB Transcend CF160 Industrial, 486 still did the same thing as before but disk manager in XP picked it up as a fixed disk not removable as before... hmm lets have another go. Chucked it back in the 486 and rather than letting post auto detect each time, I …

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Re: Best CF Cards for DOS?

Posted on 2013-08-08, 14:19

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tried a USB stick with Mac OS 10.6.8 and it could see all 3 partitions. Not that I care, still don't like Apple, sorry. I've managed to get a Fixed disk CF card through work supplier for a bit extra then a standard card (If anyone asks my 486 is a POS terminal) Sadly its a 1 off discount as is for …

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Re: Favorite old OS

Posted on 2013-08-08, 14:08

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Retro: Win98SE, I may have said dos but Dos 7.1 is counts as a dos in my books. Work: WinXP Pro, simple unlike Vista and above, and just the right amount of features to make it useful out of the box but not bloated full of useless crap (apart from movie maker)

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Re: Best CF Cards for DOS?

Posted on 2013-08-06, 14:50

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PCI SATA card is not an option due to the 1st 3 letters PCI, VLB or SCSI is an option but I'm back to using old drives again. Besides I like working to the motherboard limits, for better or worse. After the CPU its what defines the PC who she is. Bestemor, yes tried dos fdisk, in fact I still my …

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Best CF Cards for DOS?

Posted on 2013-08-05, 01:17

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got a question about Fixed disk CF cards if anyone can help After my games HDD in the 486 died awhile back I thought I would give CF cards a try. I went and got my self a fancy Sandisk Extreme 60MB/s like below as they were on special. http://img.ebyrcdn.net/438427-451799-290.jpg After messing …

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Re: New 486 - Wading Into New Waters...

Posted on 2013-07-10, 12:07

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ahh the VW's another one of my loves. Mum has had one since new (74) that's even longer then she's known my father! Been all round Oz, taught 2 sons to drive and still going strong. (but that's for another forum) I've just ordered 2 backplate mounted CF card readers. Got a 800MB HDD for the system. …

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Re: There are tons of genres in music, how do I identity each of them?

Posted on 2013-07-10, 11:50

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by chinny22

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EASY! good, bad, ok, and ok when drunk

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Re: New 486 - Wading Into New Waters...

Posted on 2013-07-09, 16:23

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The dX2 66 was a legendary machine, for years it was listed in the system requirements... ok maybe in the minimum requirements which is the wrong side of the scale but it was also the family’s first and only PC till 98 so It will always be special. It’s still sitting in the garage at home and have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-07-08, 22:05

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got this for £20 by mistake Thought it was a 4MB Stealth 3d Pro, so got a bit over excited. Still, having fun with Terminal Velocity in S3d, long term it'll replace the TGUI9440-1 in the 486

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Re: Fun with windows 3.1

Posted on 2013-04-12, 12:40

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by chinny22

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I found a copy of office 4.3 (last version natively supported in 3.x) while clearing out the server room, that was enough reason to install it. Only load windows to copy files across the Lan, and even this can be done in dos really but I needed an excuse to keep it on.

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Re: Quality Gameport Racing Wheels?

Posted on 2013-03-26, 12:17

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not sure how/if it would work with Dos games (maybe disable the force feedback 1st) but the original Logitech Formula Force used a gameport. although I've only used the Gameport to USB adaptor that shipped with it. The build quality was really good, much better then the Formula Force GP and Momo …

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Re: When is hardware "retro"? Your personal rules

Posted on 2013-03-08, 13:27

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think the key thing is difference between old and retro. I’m building a Socket 478 XP based PC for old games a lot of the parts from redundant hardware from business’s, the fact that they are still chucking the last of this era stuff out means it can’t be retro, just old. It needs a few more years …

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Re: Modern PC cases

Posted on 2013-03-04, 15:37

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by chinny22

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Holding out buying decent cases till I stop moving round, but your Lian-Li case is on my very short list. Something elegant not flashy although for me the Fractal is a bit boring. Never went in for the LED’s, Windows, etc although now I’d quite like a case with both just a bit of back lighting to …

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