Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-08, 11:29

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When you'll install them the motherboard does the first checks - if it recognizes the cache size. Then you have cachechk and speedsys programs to check if cache is working. Nice... So if cachecheck crashes, then the cache will be dead? Or does cachecheck and speedsys report bad cache as a kind of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-08, 10:26

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When you'll install them the motherboard does the first checks - if it recognizes the cache size. Then you have cachechk and speedsys programs to check if cache is working. Nice... So if cachecheck crashes, then the cache will be dead? Or does cachecheck and speedsys report bad cache as a kind of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-08, 10:12

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Recieved some cache chips... Packing speaks for it self. 🙁 Is there any MS Dos based tool to check if working? Filename Cache-chips-BAD-Packing.jpg File size 86.36 KiB Views 2567 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-07, 18:21

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Nice! However i wouldnt let my xg-dls go for anything less than a kings ransom. Is $365 a king's ransom? That's what a XG-DLS is listed on ebay for. :) 365! Scratching my head and thinking why that high? That's like the moon's ransom. Seriously... 365? It's the same stupid pricing as GUS cards. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-06, 10:29

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SiliconClassics wrote: Not hardware, but yesterday I found this set of unopened IBM PS/1 system restore diskettes at a thrift store on Long Island. They include OS/2 2.0. 20161105_205747.jpg Hey.... Floppy disks are hardware. 😁

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Re: [SOLVED] Small question about Mozart ISA soundcard.

Posted on 2016-11-05, 22:53

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Nice to meet you here :-) Although I spent some holidays in Denmark (København, Fanø, Møn..) I don't speak the language. I only understand it a bit. Yeah... You never know who you are running into here on Vogons. Those places are nice. Though I much more prefer the southern part of fuen. In the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-04, 20:50

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Tetrium wrote: mrau wrote: luckybob wrote: My fans are near silent 90%..... you... kill your fans?? is that it? Wouldn't want to be in his fanclub 🙁 Makes my head spin 😵 I think it is Fan'tastic. That I don't know what I am part of here. 😳

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

Posted on 2016-11-03, 21:52

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Okay, so I found out that enabling the OC Control Panel in the FastVoodoo2 4.6 drivers is easy. Then I figured out that it looked like the speeds was set to 95MHz? So I moved the slider around a bit, set it to 90MHz (that's default stock speed right?) and no crashes anymore! Does anyone know if the …

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Re: [SOLVED] Small question about Mozart ISA soundcard.

Posted on 2016-11-03, 21:28

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Aaahh.. so you are the Tango man :) Well I would be indeed interested in different than the usual suspects recordings of the litte Tango Dream and its 512K sample ROM. Natürlich bin ich "der tango-mann"..... :-) EDIT: It was so nice to get original floppy with drivers and the original manual. …

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Re: [SOLVED] Small question about Mozart ISA soundcard.

Posted on 2016-11-03, 20:31

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Ahhh..... That explains. Thanks. :-) Hmmmm.... Should I do a recording of the different cards that I have? If so, it will not be the usual suspects (Doom, Duke3d, Raptor) It will be some other games, that I think is a bit picky on cards. I do have a couple of different cards now. - Tango 100. (Dream …

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Re: Small question about Mozart ISA soundcard.

Posted on 2016-11-03, 19:55

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It's not necessarily the P2 - it's most likely the motherboard.The non-opl4 Mozart I sent you runs perfectly on my Abit BE6-II (440bx) with a 333Mhz P2 overclocked to 500MHz. Glad you figured it out. That mozart card is awsome. It has the Yamaha OPL4 wavetable synth witch not only sounds incredible …

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Re: Small question about Mozart ISA soundcard.

Posted on 2016-11-03, 19:06

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SOLVED!!! Oh my freakin..... 😳 I just purchased two cards that will not function propperly in a P-II-350 system. What gives? I swapped the machine out for my 486 system, and behold, it works. Running the Mozart Wavetable on a P-II-350 (Asus P2B-S), is just too fast a machine.

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Re: Small question about Mozart ISA soundcard.

Posted on 2016-11-03, 18:26

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Looking at this, it seems like my card has jumpers the right place. http://www.amoretro.de/2012/04/mozart-wave-ta … etable-2mb.html I think the drivers might be an issue. Do anyone know a place to source the right ones for me to try them?

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Re: Small question about Mozart ISA soundcard.

Posted on 2016-11-03, 18:11

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Should be the right drivers. I found the drivers on an ftp server, in a folder that stated this to be the right ones. There are problems with the right one missing, using both speaker and line out. It has missing jumpers - it should have a jumper that sends midi to both channels if I'm not mistaking …

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[SOLVED] Small question about Mozart ISA soundcard.

Posted on 2016-11-03, 16:43

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Tested this today and I can not understand why there is no FM (Adlib/OPL) playback on the right channel. Anyone here that can confirm if this is right or wrong? Filename Lydkort-02.jpg File size 145.18 KiB Views 987 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-03, 16:41

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Hmmm.... Seems as if the cards I recieved has some wierd issues. The ALS100 card will not work with DMA8 and sometimes the software can not find the chip. And the Mozart card works, though it can not output FM on the right channel. Dang..... :-( EDIT.... Seems as if the ALS100/dreamchip card (yes, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-03, 15:13

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Tetrium wrote: brostenen wrote: luckybob wrote: My fans are near silent 90%..... Not much mail. ay?? 😁 😉 Maybe he simply doesn't have any decent stuff anyone wants from him for cheaps 😢 😜 Naa.... It was only a wordplay. Nothing else. You know... Fans like in fan of someone when you spoke of cooling …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-03, 11:53

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luckybob wrote: My fans are near silent 90%..... Not much mail. ay?? 😁 😉

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-03, 11:47

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These two just arrived..... Looking forward to test them out. Eighter tonight or I will have to wait until monday. One of them looks like a wavetable card and the other looks like OPL4-wavetable. I sold a pack with various hardware a while ago (helped one get into this hobby) and I bought them for …

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Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2016-11-03, 10:04

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I have an FIC PA-2013 2.1 with 2MB Cache and I can vouch for it being a great board. I can't even remember where I got it but it has been the foundation of several of my ultimate Windows 98 \ DOS builds since maybe 2005. Never had a problem with it, and I'm very glad that it is a 2.1 version …

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