Re: Covox Sound Master Reverse Engineering / Replica

Posted on 2014-08-29, 22:58

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'm going to order some stuff from Taobao. I dont mind ordering one of the AY8930 I linked to earlier and send it to someone who needs it. Its so little amount of money that its not the biggest loss if it turns out to be something different Could you order five? I could use backups in case …

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Re: Expendable (by Rage) bump mapping issue

Posted on 2014-08-29, 22:56

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by vetz

in Windows

in Windows

Try to set AGP aparture size to 128 or 256 in the BIOS.

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Re: Best Soundcard for DOS games

Posted on 2014-08-29, 19:56

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by vetz

in DOS

in DOS

You could try an ESS-solo PCI soundcard. It uses TDMA emulation when needed so it has high compatibility with mobos. It has really good fm synthesis. There's the Vortex 2 which is pretty good too from the sounds of it. I personally never got one working in real-mode DOS but it's supposedly very …

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Re: MPU-IMC on the MT-32 (issues with certain games)

Posted on 2014-08-29, 13:42

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by vetz

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in MT-32 General

It's an interesting setup indeed. No IDE ports, all integrated Adaptec SCSI and a 1MB Cirrus Logic VGA chip. With only 2 PCI slots I'm limited to what I can install. Since its so hard/expensive to find a MCA soundcard I need to go PCI. So that leaves just one PCI slot left to a better video card, …

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Re: Covox Sound Master Reverse Engineering / Replica

Posted on 2014-08-29, 13:18

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by vetz

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'm going to order some stuff from Taobao. I dont mind ordering one of the AY8930 I linked to earlier and send it to someone who needs it. Its so little amount of money that its not the biggest loss if it turns out to be something different

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Re: Covox Sound Master Reverse Engineering / Replica

Posted on 2014-08-28, 19:46

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by vetz

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As you guys already discussed however, getting those AY-3-8930 ICs won't be easy. As anyone checked on eBay recently? I found this on Taobao: http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.29.YnqW6q&id=36738748506&ns=1#detail Just above 1 dollar for each chip and he claims he has 540 in stock. You …

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Re: How I fried my Canopus Pure3D II Voodoo2 card. A warning

Posted on 2014-08-28, 19:25

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Vetz i can already see damaged burned components through the pixels of the low res image. Cant you make a hires macro photo and attach it? I might imagine there was a short out between some direct voltage and ground signals. Possibly some traces burned or resistors or small caps. Not even my …

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Re: How I fried my Canopus Pure3D II Voodoo2 card. A warning

Posted on 2014-08-28, 18:39

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can't visual see any damages, so no idea what burned out. Internal connector makes you able to send the video signal directly to the main video card. This enables you to have not having to use an external VGA cable. Also you get no image degradation when using the primary video card as the VGA …

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How I fried my Canopus Pure3D II Voodoo2 card. A warning

Posted on 2014-08-28, 10:42

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, as the title says I fried my only Canopus Pure3D II Voodoo2 card yesterday. Not the first time I've fried something, but its the first time it was something special. The Pure3D II cards have an internal connector for outputting the VGA image directly to another Canopus card. From what I could …

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Re: What was the last commercial game released that supported Windows 98 SE?

Posted on 2014-08-27, 08:37

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

World of Warcraft? Releaaed 2004. Offically supported untill patch 1.12 in aug 2006. Unofficial support untill 2.2.3 released late 2007

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-08-26, 15:18

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by vetz

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Very nice Aptiva! This brings back memories! I remember the machine my uncle had was the same design. First PC I surfed the web on in 1995. I went to MacGuyver's Unofficial HomePage, listened to the theme in MIDI form and wrote in his Guestbook.

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Re: I really like this version of Monkey Island theme.

Posted on 2014-08-26, 14:48

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by vetz

in Milliways

in Milliways

I prefer this version from PRESS PLAY ON TAPE. Recorded LIVE at The Gathering in 2003 :) I know this since I have the original MP3 release, but here is a Youtube upload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drEhiNVewFw It starts with the regular theme, moves on to Le Chuck's theme, then rocks it up and …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2014-08-26, 14:36

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by vetz

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

carlostex wrote: The more of us interested the cheaper these boards will be right? That's right. Currently I have "pre-orders" for 8 boards. Maybe Keropi as moderator over at Amibay could see if there is any interest over there?

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Re: ASUS PCI/I-P54SP4 complete manual

Posted on 2014-08-25, 22:08

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll make them available on vogonsdrivers.com 😀 Could you specify what model you got of that ASUS 486 board? ASUS 386 and 486 stuff are severely lacking you see 😀

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Re: Gravis UltraSound Files Archive

Posted on 2014-08-25, 20:31

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

awgamer wrote: It'd be nice to include the special GUS version games that came bundled, like Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. Hunt down someone who still has their copy because those versions are not around online. Maybe Artex has this OEM version between his boxed cards?

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Re: MPU-IMC on the MT-32 (issues with certain games)

Posted on 2014-08-25, 20:28

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I won this auction: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Roland-MPU-IMC-MIDI-Processing-Unit-with-DKDMPU-IMC-Card-/251620634499?nma=true&si=DinQL0XSRG5lO2erIpTCXrQ%252BYbk%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 I'm planning on installing it into my IBM Server 320 with PCI & MCA and Dual Pentium CPUs. …

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Re: ASUS PCI/I-P54SP4 complete manual

Posted on 2014-08-25, 18:08

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looking great, nice board also with 40mhz capable. But why did everyone made holes in their manuals back then?? seems popular. Heh, I've noticed this myself lol This board is my favorite Socket 5 board. It has a wide array of BIOS options and you can downclock it to 25mhz! Fastest CPU is a Pentium …

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Re: Gravis UltraSound Files Archive

Posted on 2014-08-25, 16:27

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by vetz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice work 😀 Would be great if you could make some sort of index file as well to describe what's the content of each file.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-08-25, 15:31

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

This abomination is my 3DO Blaster system. (Shown here running Starblade) 1 x Cooler Master Lab chassis 1 x Creative Labs 3DO Blaster 1 x Creative Labs Sound Blaster 1 x Creative Labs CDROM CR-563-b 1 x SuperMicro P6SBA Motherboard 1 x 256Mb RAM 1 x 500Gb HDD cut into teeny-weeny little partitions …

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

Posted on 2014-08-25, 11:11

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by vetz

in Milliways

in Milliways

2fort5r wrote: Are Dell still using non-standard ATX power cables in their computers? No, they stopped doing that over 10 years ago.

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