Re: Making a midi device tower

Posted on 2020-07-17, 23:10

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by darry

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The Yamaha mu50 and the mu80 have differences regarding the AD input signal. What exactly is that? The AD input is used to run an external audio source through the MU unit's effects processor . Unless you plan to run your sound card's audio through the MU unit, you can probably ignore this …

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Re: Cd rom driver

Posted on 2020-07-17, 22:59

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Assuming that NEC CDR-1400B is an ATAPI (IDE) drive, you could try VIDE-CDD.SYS, which is a favourite around these parts . You can find it in the Vogons Driver Library http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1456&menustate=0 or from an archive of its original source on the Benq web site https:// …

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Re: Sound Blaster CT-1770 SCSI ID ?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 22:48

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by darry

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oh, I thought the sound blaster installation software would prefer a certain ID #. So what is a typical SCSI ID setting for a CDROM drive ? SCSI devices on a given SCSI bus must each have a unique ID between 0 and 7 . 7 is usually reserved for the controller, so 0 to 6 are available for peripherals …

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Re: mt32d cannot load libmt32emu.so.2 - no such file or directory?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 22:33

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by darry

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worked. mt32d starts up successfully--says it's running on midi port 128:0. However, "amidi -l" does not list it. Is this normal? I am not an expert at MIDI under Linux, but I would guess that is normal for software defined MIDI ports. The "aconnect -i -o" command should list the Munt MIDI port …

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Re: Sound Blaster CT-1770 SCSI ID ?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 22:19

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What SCSI ID would the Sound Blaster CT-1770 use For the SCSI CDROM drive ? That would be the SCSI ID that the CDROM drive is configured to, usually via jumpers or DIP switches on the drive . In other words, the user gets to set the SCSI CDROM's SCSI ID . The same is true for other SCSI peripherals …

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Re: Is the Adaptec AHA-2940UW a good choice for DOS/Win9x SCSI?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 20:06

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For slot1 and later definitely, and likely for socket 7/super socket 7 aswell, using a bus-mastering PCI SATA controller or even a decent IDE one with an IDE to SATA adapter makes the most sense, IMHO (like a Promise or Silicon Image SIL3114) : a) drive size issue are gone with LBA48 support b) …

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Re: mt32d cannot load libmt32emu.so.2 - no such file or directory?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 19:47

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by darry

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I'm not very knowledgeable in this area, so I'm sure this is a silly question. I just compiled libmt32emu and the alsa driver. However, when I attempt to launch mt32d, I get: kp@blah1:~$ sudo mt32d -h mt32d: error while loading shared libraries: libmt32emu.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No …

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Re: AthlonXP + GeForce4 build

Posted on 2020-07-17, 18:31

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by darry

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in Marvin \ System Specs

wirerogue wrote on 2020-07-17, 18:07: does the headphone jack work on the audigy drive with soundblaster live? i thought i tried that and it didn't work. Panels for Audigy 1 and SB Live are interchangeable, AFAIK . Panels for Audigy 2 and legacy PCI X-FI are interchangeable (have been doing that …

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Re: Running Dosbox on a CRT

Posted on 2020-07-17, 11:29

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by darry

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Windows' claim as to the native resolution of the monitor is likely based on its interpretation of your HDMI to VGA converter . CRTs do not have a native resolution . [OffTopic] Isn't there some upper limit which is caused by the number of red/green/blue zones on the CRT mask? At least in non- …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-07-17, 06:41

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My opinion is that the notes, manual and last BIOS would be good. I do not think there is a need for all those BIOS revisions, only the last BIOS is of any value to most but feel free to upload them. AFAIK, Intel boards are a special case where newer BIOSes sometimes locked out certain CPU models. …

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Re: Any thoughts on a CL 5430 card?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 06:27

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I appreciate the info so far guys. Another question, I've been looking up about what RAMDAC is, since Anonymous Coward mentioned it. Do you guys have a preference for an integrated vs. external RAMDAC? I don't have a monitor yet, but eventually I would like a legit CRT to use. That being said, I'll …

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Re: Will these power supplies work?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 04:40

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The DTK should be the better of the two, but ypu should pop them open and take pics then dump them on the big PSU thread to get some feedback. "A Tale of Two PSU's" iirc. That is a good idea, but even if you don't go that far, you should at least check visually for bad/leaky/bulging capacitors and …

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Re: Windows XP Broken EDID/Scaling, Forcing Resolutions?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 04:27

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by darry

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in Marvin \ Video

One way around driver EDID issues is using an EDID emulator with a custom EDID . That's the solution I amusing for my retro machine. If I don't use a custom EDID on my Acer VW257 1920x1200 monitor, I don't even get a picture when running an FX 5900 under Windows 98 SE . All the custom EDID does in …

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Re: Help with flashing a S3 Virge GX PCI card BIOS

Posted on 2020-07-17, 04:17

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by darry

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in Marvin \ Video

Programming an EEPROM or Flash chip is easy nowadays. All you need is a TL866 or similar cheap programmer (G540 etc), a blank EPROM / One Time Programmable ROM (EPROM without window) / Flash Chip. If you are unsure, get a cheap UV eraser box from China and use traditional UV erasable EPROMs (27c512 …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-07-17, 04:09

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by darry

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PCI version would be good too not much out there these days especially daughter board support. A PCI version would need to be based on a completely different design and different controller chip. For DOS compatibility, which is one this project's design goals, PCI is sub-optimal . For waveblaster …

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Re: Windows XP Broken EDID/Scaling, Forcing Resolutions?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 03:55

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by darry

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in Marvin \ Video

One way around driver EDID issues is using an EDID emulator with a custom EDID . That's the solution I amusing for my retro machine. If I don't use a custom EDID on my Acer VW257 1920x1200 monitor, I don't even get a picture when running an FX 5900 under Windows 98 SE . All the custom EDID does in …

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Re: Is the Adaptec AHA-2940UW a good choice for DOS/Win9x SCSI?

Posted on 2020-07-17, 02:59

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For slot1 and later definitely, and likely for socket 7/super socket 7 aswell, using a bus-mastering PCI SATA controller or even a decent IDE one with an IDE to SATA adapter makes the most sense, IMHO (like a Promise or Silicon Image SIL3114) : a) drive size issue are gone with LBA48 support b) …

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Re: CT6960 DVI Port not working

Posted on 2020-07-16, 22:14

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by darry

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in Marvin \ Video

According to this ftp://ftp.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/unix/asus-v … ia/BkNVBIOS.pdf BIOS versions prior to 2.10.04.02.00 do not initialize the DVI TMDS at boot . "Add code during bootup to initialize SI 154/164 via I2C port when booting to DFP."

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Re: CT6960 DVI Port not working

Posted on 2020-07-16, 21:45

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by darry

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Isn't there an Nvidia video BIOS options that controls whether video is mirrored on both ports on boot ?

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Re: Help with flashing a S3 Virge GX PCI card BIOS

Posted on 2020-07-16, 21:41

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by darry

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Programming an EEPROM or Flash chip is easy nowadays. All you need is a TL866 or similar cheap programmer (G540 etc), a blank EPROM / One Time Programmable ROM (EPROM without window) / Flash Chip. If you are unsure, get a cheap UV eraser box from China and use traditional UV erasable EPROMs (27c512 …

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