Re: Roland RA-50, RA-90 and RA-95 doubts about purchase or not

Posted on 2020-06-20, 23:05

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by darry

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According to the Roland RA-50 manual, appendix 6, there is an internal battery. I suggest everybody consider removing/replacing theirs before it leaks (hopefully the hardware still works without it). http://cdn.roland.com/assets/media/pdf/RA-50_OM.pdf

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Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support

Posted on 2020-06-20, 22:50

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by darry

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Voodoo works, but it's SLOWWWW...against Matrox in Win3x. Are there any Windows 3.1 applications/games that both require graphical speed and cannot be run properly under Windows 9x ? I do not currently have a Windows 3.1 setup and I wonder if I am missing out on something . EDIT: I hardly used …

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Re: ATi Rage 128 Pro Ultra (32 MB) AGP performance issues

Posted on 2020-06-20, 22:38

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Hey, I put a Rage 128 Pro Ultra card into a Pentium 3 500 MHz system and am getting performance different than I'd expect. The Rage 128 Pro Ultra is basically just a late OEM version of the 128 Pro as far as I know, so I forced the "Rage 128 Pro 4XL" drivers on to it. In retail Half-Life 1 (OpenGL, …

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Re: CS4281-CM DOS driver required

Posted on 2020-06-20, 22:33

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by darry

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I tried that just now, in my bios in this format: IRQ X used by ISA : YES/NO (can be set to either YES or NO) where X is: 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15 I tried some combinations with no luck: * leaving only 5 as YES * leaving only 3-7 as YES * all YES * all NO * leaving only 15 as YES * leaving …

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Re: CS4281-CM DOS driver required

Posted on 2020-06-20, 21:57

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by darry

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Hello darry, On one of my pentium machines it works good, but: On my other pentium machine it sets irq to 15, port and dma are correct. * Found PCI BIOS * Initializing the VCPI interface * Found a CS4281 Revision C * Initializing CS4281 * Blaster using Port: 220 Irq: 15 Dma: 1 * Uninitializing the …

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Re: Cirrus Logic cl-gd5401 graphic card on 386Sx and XT motherboard - will it work?

Posted on 2020-06-20, 21:52

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by darry

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stopi wrote on 2020-06-20, 21:48: Is Herkules Proton PT6121T faster and better card? I can buy it too. That is not a VGA card . It will not work with VGA software . It will require a monitor compatible with Hercules monochrome graphics standard . If memory serves, an MDA compatible monitor will …

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Re: Mouse Serial VS Mouse PS/2

Posted on 2020-06-20, 19:29

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by darry

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One thing many may be missing - IRQs, PS/2 mouse need IRQ 12, which can be used for some PCI devices such as USB/Ethernet/SCSI/etc. Serial mice need IRQ too, but idk about bad consequences of enabling COM1 interface for using with mice. COM ports take IRQs too . On a at least one Pentium 1 board I …

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Re: A DVI-VGA conflict in Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-06-20, 18:52

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by darry

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I am curious . Is there a particular reason why you want 2 or even 3 screens at once under Windows 9x ? One is intended for Feature Connector output (The set of vertical pins, or in rare cases an extra edge connector, on 1990s VGA cards) for my VR helmet. The other one is intended for DirectX 3D …

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Re: CS4281-CM DOS driver required

Posted on 2020-06-20, 17:37

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by darry

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Hello darry, On one of my pentium machines it works good, but: On my other pentium machine it sets irq to 15, port and dma are correct. * Found PCI BIOS * Initializing the VCPI interface * Found a CS4281 Revision C * Initializing CS4281 * Blaster using Port: 220 Irq: 15 Dma: 1 * Uninitializing the …

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Re: A DVI-VGA conflict in Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-06-20, 17:34

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by darry

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I am curious . Is there a particular reason why you want 2 or even 3 screens at once under Windows 9x ? Whatever the answer to that may be, you would probably avoid issues by using a single card for 2 monitors (VGA and DVI, DVI and DVI or VGA and VGA, whatever fits you monitor situation) or, if you …

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Re: Need help with my NVIDA GeForce 8400GS - I can't make HDMI work.

Posted on 2020-06-20, 17:26

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by darry

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Happy that it worked at least partially . Maybe even older drivers would work to fix the remaining issue . I am no too sure how to find some, other than googling random release numbers and checking whether Geforce 8 family is supported (or simply trying to install them ).

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2020-06-20, 09:06

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by darry

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In my oppinion, these drivers are dongle-protected software, where the dongle is the original Creative Labs card. The difference to typical dongle-protected software is that Creative Labs never made the dongle function of the Sound Blaster cards known - they just enjoyed their drivers crashing on " …

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2020-06-20, 05:19

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by darry

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An Am5x86-160 shouldn't have any problem playing mp3s w/Winamp 2.05. It will help if you use wavout instead of directsound out, also disable the scrolling filename and spectrum analyser. I started a thread on benchmarking 486 chips with Winamp, but it never really caught on: https://www.vogons.org/ …

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

Posted on 2020-06-20, 05:00

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Long shot : Try toggling PCI/VGA Palette Snoop in BIOS .

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Re: Looking for TNT2 Bios editor

Posted on 2020-06-20, 04:52

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by darry

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I picked up a TNT2 Pro that easily clocks from 125/150 to 160/170 and I wanted to set that as the default in the Bios so I don't have to mess with coolbits. I'm looking for known working editors, I have RVB and was able to capture/open the bios, but it does not have a simple entry for clock speeds. …

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Re: Need help with my NVIDA GeForce 8400GS - I can't make HDMI work.

Posted on 2020-06-20, 04:12

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by darry

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I would try older drivers . I can't recommend a specific version, but I would start with whatever is the oldest easily available for Windows 7 x64 for that card through https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx (R331 when I checked) . Newer drivers won't give you much considering the card was under- …

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Re: Looking for TNT2 Bios editor

Posted on 2020-06-20, 03:17

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by darry

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I picked up a TNT2 Pro that easily clocks from 125/150 to 160/170 and I wanted to set that as the default in the Bios so I don't have to mess with coolbits. I'm looking for known working editors, I have RVB and was able to capture/open the bios, but it does not have a simple entry for clock speeds. …

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Re: A DVI-VGA conflict in Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-06-20, 03:09

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by darry

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I have observed cards that do not work well together in Windows 98 SE multi-monitor, but that was before DVI was a common thing . I would be hard pressed to remember any models though, except maybe that a RIVA 128 was one of them .

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Re: A DVI-VGA conflict in Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-06-20, 03:05

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by darry

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Sorry about that. It's been a long day, and I have other projects I've been wanting to move on to. 1. I seem to have a conflict with cards that use DVI and VGA separately. I've seen this in the past. 2. Multiple VGA cards seem to work fine, because it's just one standard. 3. The conflict issue also …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D 1.3d locks up with ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo PCI card in DOS

Posted on 2020-06-20, 02:49

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by darry

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At 320x200 or even 640x480, that Pentium 120 should be plenty enough, if memory serves . plenty to not pose a bottleneck? easy to prove that wrong with a quick look at dukebencTim.txt, on a matrox millennium going from p120 to p166 nets an extra 20 fps in 320x200, and an extra 6.5 fps in 640x480. …

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