Re: got my ps/2 backplate... still no mouse working?

Posted on 2015-11-05, 09:32

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There's a PS/2 mouse enable/disable jumper "JP7" above the top VLB slot and by the keyboard controller near the front, bottom pins of a three jumper block. 1-2 enable, 2-3 disable.

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound Class Rev 3.74 Missing IC

Posted on 2015-11-05, 05:55

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Wow, lucky! You're a boss, keropi. 😀

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Re: Windows 3.11 build?

Posted on 2015-11-04, 21:38

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by firage

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I'm with candle_86's recommendation. The most demanding 3.11 game I've ever installed is probably Civ II.

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Re: soundblaster 16 backwards compatibility

Posted on 2015-11-04, 07:27

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You will quickly find that this list is very small It's a good place to list them. At least some most popular. You can find a list of games that support Stereo FM through the SB Pro 1.0 or PAS here : http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2012/04/unique-pc-hardware-game-support.html As far as a list …

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Re: Original ISA card to connect MT-32

Posted on 2015-11-04, 05:04

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by firage

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Roland MPU-401 in various guises: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPU-401

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Re: serial port not working when touching ground

Posted on 2015-11-03, 20:14

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by firage

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The headers were never standardized. Strange luck that it would work as well as it did.

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Re: serial port not working when touching ground

Posted on 2015-11-03, 00:45

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Weird. Maybe there's a short circuit somewhere in there.

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Re: soundblaster 16 backwards compatibility

Posted on 2015-11-02, 07:35

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by firage

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Going the other direction, I don't think there were too many DOS games that ever actually used 16-bit sample depth. The SB16's advantage was basically arbitrary - some games would force a lower sample rate with the SBPro for no good reason.

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound Class Rev 3.74 Missing IC

Posted on 2015-11-01, 21:51

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by firage

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Why take a GAL and leave the memory and GF1 chip? Definitely worth testing.

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Re: Help on finding heasink glue, please!

Posted on 2015-10-29, 22:50

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by firage

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Well, there is, but who knows if it's any good. It's called "FD604" on eBay and elsewhere. I'd rather use a decent thermal paste and superglue.

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Re: Heat conductive glue for adding heatsink to old card?

Posted on 2015-10-28, 19:32

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by firage

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I have Arctic Alumina Thermal Adhesive, as well. It keeps longer refrigerated, but I think we're only talking about a year or so before it goes bad. Not sure how long the bond keeps after application; it's meant to be permanent but many people have complaints. There is some room for user error in …

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Re: Do you leave empty slots between cards?

Posted on 2015-10-18, 23:51

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There's several considerations in the expansion slot roulette and they usually preclude any thought to symmetry or air flow. There's the IRQ sharing; you get a handful of interrupts, maybe only 4 between your PCI slots and integrated PCI devices like ATA/RAID, USB, sound, and LAN controllers; and …

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Re: ISA Sound Cards with Internal Sound Banks

Posted on 2015-10-18, 21:59

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The Roland LAPC-I, SCC-1/SCC-1A and RAP-10 are the obvious ones. Apparently Turtle Beach Pinnacle cards had GM compatible synths. I guess there's indeed a bunch of such production cards that people never really considered for gaming use.

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-10-15, 14:30

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Recently, I've been bummed out by the SWBF beta. The controls feel bad and I'm not having any fun. But clearly my biggest disappointment was 2007's Hellgate: London, which was supposed to be an innovative quasi-MMO action-RPG with guns from the makers of Diablo II. Turned out pretty badly and the …

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Re: Big(ish) Test of AGP Cards

Posted on 2015-10-14, 20:55

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by firage

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I want to see this. Sounds like a valuable effort. One little bit of data I'd like to know about those cards is their stability with an overclocked AGP bus. Motherboards lacking proper dividers can run out of spec, in particular the 440BX chipset at 133MHz system bus runs AGP 2X at 89MHz.

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Re: VLB VESA card recommendations (with links to many)

Posted on 2015-10-12, 23:37

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by firage

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Supposedly interleaving only works with full 2 megs of memory installed in the case of the ET4000/W32i and W32p, which would show as a general performance increase.

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2015-10-12, 21:46

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Wow! Awesome work there!

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Re: What PC for these games?

Posted on 2015-10-11, 11:39

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x800xt has win98 drivers too. so does de x1800/1900 series. Those are fine cards. From my experience at the time, Radeon up to the X1950 Pro actually had better early D3D compatibility than the GeForce 3, 4, FX, because of texel alignment issues and such. I guess I didn't come across the stuff …

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Re: What PC for these games?

Posted on 2015-10-10, 20:10

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One of the top cards you can get 98SE drivers for, GeForce 5900 to 6800 Ultra or Radeon 9700 to 9800 XT, with like an Athlon XP based system, and an Audigy (2) for proprietary EAX support.

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Re: What PC for these games?

Posted on 2015-10-10, 18:42

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The first three are DirectX 8 games and the rest are older, so a top-of-the-high-end Win98SE would work. 2K and XP could be options, unless there's a particular incompatibility with one of those titles.

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