Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-10, 13:12

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by darry

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it's a filter in the search results, "Sold Items" I'm having a difficult case atm... I bought something off ebay, and when I checked their other listings, they had the same thing listed twice (yeah yeah I should have checked before), it wasn't something you can just have two of, it was a very …

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Re: Is there any reason to keep a Win9X machine around for gaming except for fun or nostalgia?

Posted on 2020-07-10, 04:04

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by darry

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MHO, XP in itself had too long a lifespan to easily cover in a single build . XP had gaming lifespan of 5-6 years. It can be easily covered with Core 2 Duo, which also can be used for Win9x. Good point, I keep thinking about XP's lifespan as being longer because of the Vista fiasco . In that …

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Re: Is there any reason to keep a Win9X machine around for gaming except for fun or nostalgia?

Posted on 2020-07-10, 03:17

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by darry

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A Windows 9x system (with ISA slots) that can also run DOS games is quite useful, IMHO . With a bit of care, you can cover 1990ish to 2001ish on a single machine with a Tualatin P3/Celeron using only SETMUL (when required) . If you can play with FSB speed too, you can probably cover the late 80s …

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Re: What are the best retro ISA and PCI slot network cards?

Posted on 2020-07-10, 03:15

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by darry

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There are also packet driver shims that will interface with ODI drivers Isn't that pretty much what I said ? :) sure is, I stopped reading when you posted the first link lol oops No problem . Incidentally I have not used an ODI drivers since the 90s . Last time was in 1998, in a college dorm room. …

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Re: What are the best retro ISA and PCI slot network cards?

Posted on 2020-07-10, 02:10

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by darry

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-07-10, 02:00: There are also packet driver shims that will interface with ODI drivers Isn't that pretty much what I said ? 😀

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Re: Retro builds with modern conveniences

Posted on 2020-07-10, 02:08

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by darry

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I try to keep my experience as period-correct as possible, but you can pry my CF cards from my cold dead hands. You know what though, I'd like a little sound device that makes HDD seek noises. Default sound would be an original model Bigfoot? Problem would be to get a sample of what an old hard …

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Re: What are the best retro ISA and PCI slot network cards?

Posted on 2020-07-10, 01:41

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by darry

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So there's no DOS packet driver for this card, damn... What a shame i really like it, its really small and slim, goes really well with the AWE Upgrade card on the shared PCI/ISA slot. I mainly use mTCP for networking in DOS, really disappointed i cannot use it. I tried the Intel EtherExpress 100 …

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Re: Retro builds with modern conveniences

Posted on 2020-07-10, 01:07

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by darry

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For me, it's not necessarily about having the most "authentic" retro experience . It's more about having an "augmented" retro experience where the added newer components enhance the experience . SSDs, high quality speakers and headphones, scalers and LCD monitors (subjective, I know), high quality …

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Re: what power rail does AGP slot and molex connector -> GPU use?

Posted on 2020-07-10, 00:07

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by darry

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The closest info that I found, when searching for similar data on the FX 5900, is here --> Question about Geforce FX 5900 current draw per rail

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Re: Minimalist SC-55 setup - Naive dreams about reverse engineering the SC-55

Posted on 2020-07-09, 23:58

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by darry

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@cyclone3d: I've got a SCB-55 but will sell it for reasons I stated just above your comment : ) @darry: I explained in my first post why Sound Canvas VA isn't on the table : ) Pushing further my search on this topic I stumbled upon this gem of a project (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aCy3ccLZzo) …

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Re: Minimalist SC-55 setup - Naive dreams about reverse engineering the SC-55

Posted on 2020-07-09, 20:54

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by darry

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There's also the Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin! Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin! . Both fully legal and quite authentic sounding, if comments are to be trusted .

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Re: ESS Audiodrive ES1868F and MIDI

Posted on 2020-07-09, 18:02

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by darry

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Quick update. My new MIDI break out board arrived as did the YMF card. Everything now works as expected. Both cards are chucking out MIDI to my SC-55 on demand. Happy days. I went with SETYMF for the new card and stuck with the standard ESS driver and tools for that card. Both working well side by …

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Re: Minimalist SC-55 setup - Naive dreams about reverse engineering the SC-55

Posted on 2020-07-09, 13:56

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by darry

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You are talking about 2 things here. a) Reverse engineering and replicating the SC-55 (likely in software). b) Converting the sound banks of the SC-55 to something an X2 could use . Option a) is likely possible but probably quite difficult. The ROMs are almost certainly unambiguously copyrighted ( …

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus P3B-F 1.03 with PowerLeap IP3/T and 1.4GHz 512K Tualatin very unstable/intermittent POST .

Posted on 2020-07-09, 08:07

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by darry

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Ever the undecided experimenter, I interrupted the Prime95 run before bed and decided to loop 3DMARK2001SE. Unfortunately, sometime in the last few hours, it crashed out of the loop complaining about not being able to init 3D hardware . Windows did not crash and I was able reboot cleanly and set …

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus P3B-F 1.03 with PowerLeap IP3/T and 1.4GHz 512K Tualatin very unstable/intermittent POST .

Posted on 2020-07-09, 04:56

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by darry

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VRM on my Asus P/B-F 1.03 is a HIP6020ACB . Anybody ever try running of those with a modded slotket while using the board's VRM to output 1.5V ? Mine works with a LinLin and a normal Coppermine Slotket, and with an upgradeware Slot-T. But the two mosfets behind the Slot get very hot, so I put …

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Re: Yamaha Audician32 Plus on EBay

Posted on 2020-07-09, 04:35

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by darry

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I don't know, from what I've seen, the Audician/Labway/Addonics card is one of the better ones out there. The build quality of some of the others is kind of crap (low quality PCB material, bad layout, missing components/poor filtering). I can only think of one YMF-71x better than it actually. Which …

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Re: Is there any reason to keep a Win9X machine around for gaming except for fun or nostalgia?

Posted on 2020-07-09, 02:46

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A Windows 9x system (with ISA slots) that can also run DOS games is quite useful, IMHO . With a bit of care, you can cover 1990ish to 2001ish on a single machine with a Tualatin P3/Celeron using only SETMUL (when required) . If you can play with FSB speed too, you can probably cover the late 80s too …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-09, 02:08

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by darry

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wiretap wrote on 2020-07-09, 01:50: imi wrote on 2020-07-09, 01:00: wiretap wrote on 2020-07-08, 23:36: PBT dye-sub Pepsi Keycaps just.... why x3 Precisely. I personally enjoy Diet Pepsi, but I'm of the opinion that soft drinks and keyboards should not mix . 😉

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Re: Yamaha Audician32 Plus on EBay

Posted on 2020-07-09, 02:04

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by darry

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The Audician is a decent card Audician is literally identical to a bunch of other OEM Yamaha cards. Difference only in stickers. Some have additional oscillator. Any card that conforms more or less to Yamaha's reference design is probably decent . If I gave the impression that I believed the …

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Re: Yamaha Audician32 Plus on EBay

Posted on 2020-07-09, 01:44

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by darry

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Agreed. The Audician is a decent card, or so I've heard, but it is not the ultimate ISA sound card by any stretch . Any well designed YMF71x based card would be as good a choice .

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