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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2016-02-28, 00:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

Say what? So if we played it on release and have the nostalgia thing going on, are we allowed an opinion? Or are we unable to be objective? And if I played it later, out of order, but promise to be objective, can we submit our thoughts here? Or are those thoughts simply not valuable enough? What if, …

Re: The MIDI General

Posted on 2016-02-27, 21:38

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Most excellent. Could I humbly request that you describe that musical keyboard you're using? It's occured to me a few times that I should be doing more with my collection of MIDI hardware than playing games, but I don't really know where to start.

Re: Best SB Pro compatible 16-bit cards?

Posted on 2016-02-22, 21:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

An ESS Audiodrive with the ES1688 chipset is the way to go - they can usually fit a full sized DB and have easy to use software, unlike those dry sounding OPLSAx things, whose default levels are all over the shop.

Re: Best VGA Card for 386

Posted on 2016-02-21, 23:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I seem to recall a member here performing benchmarks and the 8900D coming out very near the top which is surprising from a card from Trident. the D revision has something to do with the memory where its quite a fast DOS card. Yes the 8900D can be a very useful card - decent speed, great image …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2016-02-19, 03:43

in Milliways

in Milliways

I’ve been moonlighting for a previous employer recently so my precious 1.5 hours of daily free time has suffered terribly. The moonlighting is coming to an end however so I’m celebrating by launching into possibly my greatest free-time-consuming game of all time – Gothic 3. On release (2006) it was …

Re: Best pci audio card for Win 9x/Me

Posted on 2016-02-19, 02:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

gdjacobs wrote: You could install two cards and flip between them. Just a thought. Sounds like a recipe for disaster with Win9x involved 😵

Re: Best pci audio card for Win 9x/Me

Posted on 2016-02-17, 23:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah go with a Vortex 2 if only for something a bit different. Aureal was giving creative a real run for their money but unfortunately didn't have the financial war chest required to withstand Creative's legal onslaught - it really was a great product. The 3D stuff with headphones is quite an …

Re: Sound card mixer labels in Windows 98 – can they be changed?

Posted on 2016-02-17, 10:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

JayCeeBee64 wrote: Mixer labels are defined in au30mmed.inf and entered in the Win9x registry. I went directly to the registry and edited the values there - they were easy to find with a quick search. Worked like a charm, my mixer is now awesomely awesome. Thanks again.

Re: Soundfonts that mimic old hardware (SC-55, DX50XG, AWE64 Gold)

Posted on 2016-02-17, 03:52

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

can anyone make me these sound fonts for me IMMEDIATELY: pc speaker pc peizo speaker instrument names TTS (names of instruments spoken by microsoft sam) speak & spell floppy drive epson printer :lol: +1 Also a Netcomm dialup modem circa 1995 and YES, I want it ASAP, and NO, I'm not going to say …

Re: Sound card mixer labels in Windows 98 – can they be changed?

Posted on 2016-02-17, 01:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great info, thanks JayCeeBee. I'll have a poke around. While the wavetable header is a great feature for we nostalgic nerds, it understandably wasn't a focus when it came to writing drivers or the manual. It probably seemed like a selling point when they started designing the chipset, but by the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-16, 22:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Both the ESS and the Matrox are great options IMHO. ESS cards generally sounds great - including their OPL3 clone - and are easy set up. And the Mystique 220 is fast and produces a beautiful image.

Sound card mixer labels in Windows 98 – can they be changed?

Posted on 2016-02-16, 22:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’ve been mucking around with my Vortex2 SuperQuad in my Windows 98 machine and decided to try out the wavetable header from within Windows. Initially I couldn’t get any sound out of the MPU-401 and of course it was a mixer issue, but it took a while to track down because for whatever reason, the …

Re: Soundfonts that mimic old hardware (SC-55, DX50XG, AWE64 Gold)

Posted on 2016-02-16, 05:12

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

autoexecdotbat wrote: could someone make a soundfont.... Does spamming the internets with requests for people to do stuff actually work? Coz I got a whole list of stuff here that needs doing. Nice work OP! I'm in a sound font frenzy at the moment so am looking forward to trying these out.

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2016-02-14, 21:56

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

That monitor is like a magical portal into the past 😎

Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?

Posted on 2016-02-11, 05:07

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

PeterLI wrote: Good thing I check a SC-55 I got in yesterday. Oi mate I thought you were 'retiring from the hobby'? 🤣

Re: My Future Super Turbo XT build

Posted on 2016-02-09, 21:59

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Great thread. I've had a couple of those cases and they're great to work with, but yes the way the mounting hardware protrudes sharply through the bottom can cause damage to whatever it's sitting on - up to and including my Commodore 128DCR :blah: That OAK display mode utility looks nicely …

Re: Top 5 hardest retro builds

Posted on 2016-02-08, 23:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great Hierophant wrote: I should have said treat VLB like AGP, one slot for graphics only, overclock (>33MHz) at your peril. I've heard that populating > 2 VLB slots is a bad idea, but what's the disadvantage of using a VLB IO card + VGA card?

Re: Top 5 hardest retro builds

Posted on 2016-02-08, 22:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My vote goes to 486 VLB era systems. Numerous jumpers aren’t a big deal if you can find the relevant documentation, which is usually possible, but there’s always at least one head scratching gotcha before the thing is up and running. Of all my systems, the 486 has given me the most to think about …

Re: New Retrorig advice

Posted on 2016-02-07, 21:59

in Milliways

in Milliways

If pragmatism is a driver then I'd simply grab yourself a PIII with at least one ISA slot. They're still easy to find, cheap (often free), and can run even the most demanding SVGA DOS games. They might be too fast for some games but any machine that can run '95 era DOS stuff will be in the same …

Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2016-02-07, 03:35

in Milliways

in Milliways

So the argument is the game got stage fright from recording it and playing it will change the game play? I don't see how giving the input will change the game vs having watched someone else do it. It's looks like a game where everyone gets a gold star for participation and a winner. It's an RPG …

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