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

Posted on 2017-04-07, 00:18

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by bjwil1991

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keropi wrote: ^ yes, both working at the same time and ofcourse there will be at least a 3.5" stereo jack that will output the daughterboard's audio. Now that'll be an amazing card to place in my Packard Bell 486. I have the clone card that I bought back in October of 2016, and I love it.

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

Posted on 2017-04-06, 18:38

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by bjwil1991

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Wait... WaveTable and MPU401 combined on one card? That's amazing! Would the card have an output connector to hook up to speakers or a sound card? I'm planning on buying the card in the future, and purchase a WaveTable daughter board.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-04-06, 18:32

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by bjwil1991

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A couple daya ago I worked on trying to get Audio working in Win98SE on my Toshiba P25-S509 laptop. Stupid thing gives a unable to load driver error in Device Manager with both onboard and with an Audigy 2 ZS laptop pcmcia adapter. Only thing I could find is maybe a corrupt Windows install or …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-04-05, 01:51

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by bjwil1991

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I put together a video about my iMac G3. It's working out pretty well with the replacement drive I installed. Time to upgrade the RAM to 1GB, install an external DVD Writer (FireWire), and get a copy of Mac OS X Tiger for PPC, and maybe get an SSD for the system for faster boot up times (still …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-04-03, 21:23

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I successfully replaced the HDD in my iMac G3 since the old 40GB had I/O errors with a 30GB Western Digital from a Dell Dimension 4550. Going to install Mac OS 9.2, then 10.0.4, and 10.3 afterwards. Either that or Mint PPC. Edit: Installed Mac OS 9.2.1 successfully, I might just zero the HDD and …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-04-02, 00:47

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by bjwil1991

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I upgraded my Packard Bell's processor from the SX2-50 to the Intel i486DX2-66, applied thermal paste to the processor, installed the heatsink with the fan, changed only 1 jumper, and it works out of the blue. Even the games I have installed for both MS-DOS and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 run faster …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-03-30, 00:36

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by bjwil1991

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Worked yesterday on performance tuning on my newly overclocked "5 Ghz Windows 98 Beast" based on a 100% vanilla win98 install with pci-express and 5 Ghz P4. Struggled yesterday with getting sound working in windows 98.. going to try all day today and struggle with it again.. probably have a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-03-29, 20:42

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by bjwil1991

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I purchased an Intel i486DX2-66 and a heatsink fan combo on eBay for my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus in place of the SX2-50 as an upgrade, and it has 24MB RAM installed (4MB on-board, 20MB SIMM-72). I can't wait until I get the processor and heatsink fan combo in the mail.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-03-12, 04:17

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by bjwil1991

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Got myself a fully functional Dot Matrix Printer for my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus, got some QBasic files, and installed Windows for Workgroups 3.11 onto the hard drive (CF to IDE). I made already couple of videos about the printer aND the QBasic program and text editor that I ran (BAS file): …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-03-07, 20:25

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by bjwil1991

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I upgraded the 428MB HDD in my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus to a 1GB CF Card (CF to IDE) on a plastic HDD caddy cover from a busted laptop, and it's faster than it was, however, I still have the HDD in case the CF card gives out. Here's a proper demo of the Lo-Tech Tandy Compatible Sound Card

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-02-27, 01:13

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by bjwil1991

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I have made a video about the Lo-Tech Tandy Compatible Sound Card (I'm too lazy to crank the volume on my speakers) Lo-Tech Tandy Compatible Sound Card Demo The noise in the foreground is the hard drive (old Seagate 428.1MB HDD). I'm planning on upgrading the HDD to an SSD (IDE version), aka, the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-02-24, 04:56

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***NOTE:*** Don't comment about the mess in the background. I have scored a Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus, as well as the keyboard and mouse for $17USD a couple of weeks ago, and I did some upgrades, installations, and repairs along the way: Memory was upgraded to SIMM-72 (disabled internal RAM), …

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Re: Packard Bell Pack Mate CPU upgrade?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 05:24

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by bjwil1991

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The TAG RAM uses the following: Copy code to clipboard 1 64k x 1 (15ns) 2 32k x 8 (15ns)

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Re: Packard Bell Pack Mate CPU upgrade?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 05:13

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by bjwil1991

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Yup. That's the board. I did find some SRAM cache chips (128K x 😎 on eBay, but I have no idea if it uses 20ns for those chips.

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Re: Packard Bell Pack Mate CPU upgrade?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 04:49

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by bjwil1991

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gdjacobs wrote: Does it have SRAM sockets or VRAM sockets? Looks like the video memory is VRAM, and the L2 cache would be SRAM, but I could be mistaken.

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Re: Packard Bell Pack Mate CPU upgrade?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 04:13

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Here are the pics of the Packard Bell (see attachments). I looked on that site, and couldn't find any info, but I do know this: on the BIOS, it shows PB450M+ And I did find the info about it online and found out it's upgradeable up to a DX4-100, but sadly, no L2 Cache is installed or a 2MB Video …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2017-02-08, 05:47

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I came across an issue when running the program on my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 plus and when trying to play Frederik Pohl's Gateway and Gateway ][ Homeworld: the system locks up. I have an Intel i486SX2-50 installed (stock) and it's not good at all. However, the games do run without it, but output …

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Packard Bell Pack Mate CPU upgrade?

Posted on 2017-02-05, 01:30

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Hello everyone: Earlier today, I went to a thrift store that I never went into until today, and I found a Packard Bell Pack Mate desktop computer, as well as the mouse and keyboard, so I decided to purchase those three items for $18.02 after tax ($17 + 6% tax in MI) and the items are in the trunk of …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2016-12-30, 05:15

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As of now, I have a Music Quest MPU401 clone card installed in my old Win98SE/DOS gaming rig, and unfortunately, when using SoftMPU to prevent buffer overflow messages showing up on my MT-32 (Old) since some games require between a 286 and 486 CPU while using a slowdown program such as Moslo, it …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2016-11-02, 04:46

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I've been thinking about this lately and I'm a bit puzzled. I own a Midiman MM-401, and have been using it to output to my MT-32 (old) and GM modules. In my particular situation, using an MT-32 (OLD) on a newer system (K6-2 500), it seems likely that I will run into speed related issues with my …

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