Re: What were the best ISA audio card options for an audio professional in 1996?

Posted on 2021-03-16, 06:10

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About the only thing I can think of is the Midiman Dman ISA card. There's a chance Digidesign may have had one, I almost want to think maybe the Audiomedia or Samplecell from that era may have been ISA.

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

Posted on 2021-02-12, 11:16

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Replaced the battery on the DS-330. Received the PSU for it and fired it up and it appears to be working just fine. Now if only I could find some screws for it... Filename 20210211_113301.jpg File size 1.19 MiB Views 359 views

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

Posted on 2021-02-08, 03:13

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imi wrote on 2021-02-08, 02:30: that definitely looks like glue, if it were a leaked capacitor it would be corroded around that area. That's what I'm hoping. I don't particularly mind replacing a cap if it's necessary but I'm hoping that it's not. I'll find out for sure when the PSU arrives later …

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

Posted on 2021-02-08, 02:15

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I'm reeeeeeally hoping this isn't what I think it is... It's no good when it looks like a cap is leaking. Thankfully, I'm handy with a soldering iron and there are plenty of places I can order caps from. I'm hoping I don't have to replace it. Filename 20210207_153557.jpg File size 1.36 MiB Views …

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

Posted on 2021-02-08, 01:32

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So I got the DS-330 apart and they weren't kidding... The battery's gone. So are a lot of the screws. This thing's been opened a few times over the years. 20210207_153710.jpg Ordered a bunch of CR2032's from Amazon. It claims they'll be here tomorrow. I also ordered a replacement for the Boss BRA- …

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

Posted on 2021-02-07, 17:05

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After 24 years, I bought another Boss DS-330. And I lucked up and got the 2nd revision like the one I used to have (GM and GS instruments plus the GS logo on the screen next to the GM logo). The problem, the seller said the battery was shot and it won't power on. I was all but asleep when I hit the …

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Re: Matrox Millennium II 16MB - exists? If so, why?

Posted on 2020-04-06, 16:53

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More RAM has many advantages even in 2D modes. Off-screen rendering, double- and triple-buffering etc. But it's a 3D card supporting texture mapping, so 16 MB isn't that special. At the time of its release, 16MB was a lot of memory, so that was very special. High end cards like my old Fire GL 2000 …

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Re: Matrox Millennium II 16MB - exists? If so, why?

Posted on 2020-04-06, 05:48

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I have a very vague memory of magazine ads in some of the 3D CGI magazines around 98-ish or so where the entry level NT4 3D workstation's video option was a machine with a Millenium II with 32MB of RAM on it. I thought it was a bit odd, but it also made a lot of sense because the Millenium II under …

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Re: S3D GLQuake - any real value in it?

Posted on 2020-01-08, 08:15

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Think of it as a slower Matrox Mystique. For earlier Directx 5 and earlier games, and 1994/5 games. I remember early tests of the Virge, Mystique, Voodoo, and other early attempts at 3D and the one thing that the Virge always had going for it was that the 3D actually looked good. In fact, I …

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Re: About that DB-26 port on Matrox Millennium/Mystique video adapters..

Posted on 2020-01-07, 16:15

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I also have a Mystique with a Rainbow Runner daughterboard, but lack that breakout cable. Is there a pinout for that? Not that I'm aware of. You'd think that after all this time maybe Matrox would have published it 'cause they're definitely not going to profit from anything related to the Mystique …

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Re: About that DB-26 port on Matrox Millennium/Mystique video adapters..

Posted on 2020-01-06, 01:01

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As the two before me have said, it's for the VIVO breakout cable used by the Rainbow Runner daughterboard. Below is a pic of my Mystique 220 W/Rainbow Runner card and the breakout cable in question. Filename 100_3413.JPG File size 973.01 KiB Views 638 views And the Rainbow Runner detached from the …

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Re: Advice about retro speakers

Posted on 2019-09-26, 02:49

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I've been using the same pair of Bose Roommates since I bought them in 1994. My ex and I had them strapped to our Packard Bell Legend 2000 Multimedia 486, then I ran the PC through my DJ mixer with a Yamaha MU-5 which I used for music composition as well as a GM soundsource for Doom, Tempest 2000, …

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Re: Matrox Mistique - Win98 = NO GO

Posted on 2019-09-26, 02:36

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Its a software issue.. to BE more exact, is a driver issue. I installed a virge graphic card, ati Rage II+ , ati Rage vt4, even a S3 trio64.. no issues of every kind.. I put the mistique , the Windows detects correctly the card, tries to install the drivers. Asks me for the win98 install CD. Its …

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Re: Best hardware for Matrox m3D (PowerVR 2)?

Posted on 2019-07-28, 03:51

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I always wondered how far these things would scale. I remember either an Anandtech or Tom's Hardware article about it that showed that the PCX2 ran faster with faster processors. I also remember an article on the M3D, specifically, that showed ever so slightly better framerates when paired with a …

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Re: Help identifying this AGP card?

Posted on 2019-07-08, 04:16

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Iris030380 wrote: How about this one? 48a.jpg 48b.jpg Looks a lot like my PNY Geforce 6200, but with 128MB instead of 256MB

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Re: Microwave oven interferes with CRT?!

Posted on 2019-04-19, 15:31

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Many, many years ago I worked in a car audio shop and my manager brought in a PC running DOS and Blaubox for us to use when designing custom subwoofer enclosures. I had completed inputting the Thiel-Small parameters for every single sub we sold when he brought in an old microwave for us to use at …

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Re: 90’s graphics cards

Posted on 2019-04-15, 00:06

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From what I understand Win98 can’t support two different GPU simultaneously. Best case scenario, you will be disabling one in Device Manager and rebooting to switch active GPUs. I can imagine headaches with driver issues and the bios needing to a identifying primary GPU (are both cards PCI?). …

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Re: Poor 3D performance with PCI graphics cards on i815 Compaq Deskpro

Posted on 2019-04-06, 18:10

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I have a Compaq Deskpro EN-SFF (i815, P3-1000, 384MB PC133 RAM) that I am messing around with It has no AGP slots (the AGP is used by onboard TNT2 Pro on some boards, mine lacks it) so I was upgrading it via PCI graphics cards. First I installed a Matrox G450 PCI, and thought it would handle Quake …

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Re: Best "modern" GFX card and driver for K6 system

Posted on 2019-03-25, 14:28

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rasz_pl wrote: maybe you have opengl driver requiring SSE installed I second this. I ran into this as a problem with my Thunderbird machine and an AGP Geforce 6200. Thunderbird Athlons don't support SSE instructions. Switched to Morgan core Duron (which, oddly, does have SSE support) and the …

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Re: Recommend best OpenGL for Pentium 4-era PC?

Posted on 2019-03-10, 21:46

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I have a 512MB Geforce 8400GS PCI card that I was using in an old Gateway P4 (e4000 IIRC) that had nothing but PCI slots and a 2GHz processor. The only change I made was to bump up the PSU to a 400W unit because the OEM 235W PSU simply couldn't cut it. I used the same card with a 2.8GHz Northwood P4 …

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