Re: What do you call this music style?

Posted on 2018-04-18, 15:52

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Yea, I think I'd also go for jazz fusion, drawing from Japanese influences such as Casiopea perhaps. The sound is somewhat different because guitars had to be replaced with synthesizers/samples due to the limitations of the hardware, making the sound closer to doskpop/spacesynth, but with more …

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Re: What is the longest peripheral card in your possession?

Posted on 2018-04-08, 18:39

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Ah, classic.

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Re: DB60XG / XR385 repair and modification

Posted on 2018-04-08, 17:57

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Tested my DB50XG today with some MIDIs only to find out it won't output audio anymore. Does that mean the DB's DAC is roasted?

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Re: Retro Hardware Prices... are NUTS!

Posted on 2018-04-08, 06:12

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The price of Voodoo 5500s have gone completely mental in the past couple of years, I always felt $100-150 was a good price but those days are long gone, could be the popularity of youtubers like Phil's computer lab that are helping to drive up the cost of these parts. I was lucky enough to pick up …

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Re: GeForce 2 GTS: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Voodoo 3 3000

Posted on 2018-03-30, 22:02

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swaaye wrote: The signal quality varies among NV cards. Some are terrible, some are as good as can be. Definitely. The Canopus Spectra series of TNT/Geforce cards with the interchangeable daughterboards have a fantastic video output which is worth seeing for yourself

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Re: GeForce 2 GTS: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Voodoo 3 3000

Posted on 2018-03-27, 16:09

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If you don't ever play above 1024x768 nor games released after late 1999-early 2000 then there's little need to change that 3000 of yours. :) Really, it was just when Quake 3 Arena was released that games started benefiting from the Geforce. 512x512 textures, 32bpp, trilinear filtering, higher …

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Re: What Nvidia drivers for DX7?

Posted on 2018-03-27, 15:08

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What version of nvidia drivers do you all use with DX7/7a and DX8? I figured some of you out there have this down to a "science" by now, I sure don't! Detonator 6.32 if you got a Geforce2 are the way to go. Yeah GF2 is what I'm going to install but all the different numbering protocols for the …

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Re: GeForce 2 GTS: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Voodoo 3 3000

Posted on 2018-03-27, 14:12

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If you don't ever play above 1024x768 nor games released after late 1999-early 2000 then there's little need to change that 3000 of yours. :) Really, it was just when Quake 3 Arena was released that games started benefiting from the Geforce. 512x512 textures, 32bpp, trilinear filtering, higher …

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Re: What Nvidia drivers for DX7?

Posted on 2018-03-27, 08:23

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buckeye wrote: What version of nvidia drivers do you all use with DX7/7a and DX8? I figured some of you out there have this down to a "science" by now, I sure don't! Detonator 6.32 if you got a Geforce2 are the way to go.

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2018-03-27, 07:56

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leileilol wrote: fine PuyoPuyo 2 Tsu!

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Re: Do you prefer to use the same OS on multiple rigs or a different OS for each rig?

Posted on 2018-03-27, 07:36

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For most of my systems, I'd rather shoot for an OS that gives me the most advantages possible, whilst sacrificing "period accuracy" to avoid unnecessary redundancy. For example, why would I install 95C and DOS over 98SE on a Pentium MMX/2/3/4/Athlon XP system when I can just have better out-of-the- …

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Re: Opinions in regards to changes in software over time!

Posted on 2018-03-16, 02:23

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I dislike the overall user interface/web design move towards flat design. Everything everywhere looks the same. Having less visual hints gets to a point where it starts becoming counterproductive, and the excessive use of white on white (alas Windows 10 Appx/Explorer) is exhausting for people like …

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Re: Humour thread: retro gear description & image do not match

Posted on 2018-02-25, 08:20

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leileilol wrote: i've always liked ebay auctions full of sample.jpg from winme IT_equipment_xpress?

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Re: 3d accelerators on other platforms not PC

Posted on 2018-02-25, 08:08

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ARCADE - 3Dfx Voodoo (used in Atari's San Francisco Rush and almost a majority of arcade games released by Midway from 1997 to 2001, also used in Konami's Hornet and Viper arcade hardware, as well as on Taito's Wolf System, which is almost based on PC architecture) - Proprietary IBM OpenGL 3D …

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Re: 3d accelerators on other platforms not PC

Posted on 2018-02-25, 07:32

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leileilol wrote: PC9821 has PCX1/2 (NEC PC3DEngine branded PowerVR accelerators) Definitely. The PCX1 I had in my hands was one of these.

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Re: Super rare Quantum3D Obsidian 2 200SBi?

Posted on 2018-02-25, 07:24

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3Dfx is interesting, as the SLI voodoo 2 cards, or this type of brick, or the Voodoo 5 with x2 and x4 chips.. But in the end is really retarded and funny when you realise that 3Dfx was fighting with nVIDIA and GEforce 256 that have only one GPU with modded Avenger chips 2 and 4 of them, and still …

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Re: Daemon or burn in ISO?

Posted on 2018-02-23, 12:09

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I only burn games on cd-r that have CDDA audio tracks and refuse to play under Daemon 3.47/w9x

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2018-02-22, 22:26

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As someone that likes buying retro software, I like this idea for a topic. :) These weren't bought today, but arrived here within the last week or so: http://i.imgur.com/1QqxpEom.jpg I seem to have grown into collecting retro development tools for whatever reason, heh. Turbo Pascal and Watcom both …

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Re: Old computers for daily tasks?

Posted on 2018-02-22, 06:06

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I use the Pmmx 166 next to my main system for playing the keyboard with the AWE's onboard sampler and OPL3 synth(using FM801), sometimes an SC8850 as well. Also, I like listening to music on it as well as light·internet browsing and using Photoshop4

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Re: 1997/98 20 years anniversary build

Posted on 2018-02-21, 08:30

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Man, you have to be quite quiet addict :lol: Yep, I`m silence maniac=) Too bad there is no easy way to measure Pentium MMX cpu temperature, may be I could go fanless. If you don't plan to overclock, maybe you could. And if possible even undervolt the processor > for a temperature decrease. I have …

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