Re: Orchid Soundwave 32 1mb Recordings?

Posted on 2020-12-09, 11:36

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by jesolo

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The original ROMs were called the Prosonus ROMs and then later Invision also released some ROMs for the Orchid cards (2x 512 KB). As I recall, the 1 MB ROM was referref to as the AWS ROM? Would be nice if someone could dump that ROM content with an EEPROM reader. Although the Invision ROMs do sound …

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EPROM's and their equivalent EEPROM chips

Posted on 2020-12-04, 17:45

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by jesolo

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After a recent topic around EPROM programming, I was wondering if someone has a list somewhere of the most common EEPROM chips that one can use on older motherboards as replacements for their older EPROM counterparts. Wikipedia has a nice list of the various EPROM sizes and the types, but I'm …

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2020-12-04, 17:43

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by jesolo

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The intention of this exercise was to keep (as far as possible) all the other components the same, apart from swopping out the CPU's - this was to obviously to ensure that there were no other variables in the testing that was performed. Granted, there were some CPU's that were tested on other …

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Re: Programming a 27C010

Posted on 2020-12-04, 15:45

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by jesolo

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Some options: Do a "blank check" on the EPROM (the "FF Blank" button between the "Read" and "Verify" buttons at the top) after you've erased it. Make sure your BIOS image file is actually 128 KB in size. Buy an equivalent EEPROM chip.

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Re: Using AWE control panel to load soundfonts for DOS games in Windows 3.11

Posted on 2020-11-28, 09:25

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by jesolo

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On what hardware are you running this? If it is a 486 or faster, then just go with a minimal Windows 95 installation (without the Active Desktop Update).

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Re: Roland MPU-401 Midi Processing Unit external

Posted on 2020-11-24, 18:56

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by jesolo

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Perhaps send a picture of your MPU-401 breakout box first so that we know which unit you have. Another alternative (until you find all the components) is to use SoftMPU.

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Re: Windows 98 and DOS Question

Posted on 2020-11-24, 15:15

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by jesolo

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As Azarien has stated, you can just create a boot menu configuration under Windows 98, which will then allow you to either boot straight into MS-DOS 7.1 (with different configurations) or into Windows. Refer this topic for more detail on how to achieve that: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t= …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-23, 11:36

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by jesolo

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How do you say "old computer user" in other languages? In English this is an ambiguous phrase. It can mean both "old user of computers" and "user of old computers". You have to decide which meaning is correct from the context (on this forum both are probably appropriate...) In my native language, …

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2020-11-21, 12:19

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by jesolo

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I have not checked the full thread of this on 12 pages, but what I saw is very interesting, but I can't see which benchmark tools are you using for this. Has anybody put the Cyrix/TI 486SLC in coparison? I know, it is a "486" CPU for 386 systems, and a quick benchmark in Checkit 3.0 says, that it …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-20, 16:14

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by jesolo

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THE language that sounds most similar to Dutch is unmistakingly Afrikaans. True, Afrikaans is 90 % related to 17th century Dutch. Although, these days, Afrikaans is probably much closer to Flemish than to Dutch. For us native Afrikaans speakers, it's sometimes difficult to follow a person speaking …

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Re: QEMM error the Need for Speed: Special Edition

Posted on 2020-10-20, 21:57

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by jesolo

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Certain games do not like certain memory managers. Some games will not work with any expanded memory manager loaded, even EMM386.EXE (Comanche: Maximum Overkill , for example) . It's for this reason that I would recommend setting up a boot menu configuration so that you can boot with a different …

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Re: Any street rod 2 experts here?

Posted on 2020-10-20, 08:51

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by jesolo

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I played Street Rod 1 though and it enjoyed it very much, but never managed to finish Streed Rod 2. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it probably depends on how the game was coded - in real life that might have been the case, but the game developers might not have implement all of …

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Re: 386 with VLB, suggestions?

Posted on 2020-10-20, 08:47

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by jesolo

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Over the years, I've only managed to acquire 3/486 VLB hybrid motherboards utilising the OPTI 495XLC chipset. One was my original Jetway J-402B motherboard and the other one was a Dataexpert EXP3406. Unfortunately, I've never managed to get any VLB graphics card to work on those motherboards with …

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Re: Dual boot DOS and Windows?

Posted on 2020-10-19, 09:00

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by jesolo

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If you still want to boot into an older DOS version (which I don't see the need for), then you need a boot manager. Win9x can boot one instance of "Previous version of MS-DOS". More than that (or more than one Win9x) and then you need a boot manager. That is correct, but then you have to deal with …

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Re: Dual boot DOS and Windows?

Posted on 2020-10-19, 07:49

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by jesolo

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What kind of software to dual boot it? If you just want to be able to boot straight into MS-DOS that comes with Windows 98 (MS-DOS 7.1) then you can set up a boot menu configuration as per this post: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=47863 If you still want to boot into an older DOS …

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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2020-10-18, 19:05

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by jesolo

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What happens when you turn the volume wheel at the back of the card? That's irrelevant. The point is: there's no software volume control in SB 2.0. There may be software volume control in that Sound Galaxy card, but only via some Sound Galaxy specific utility, not by any utility for SB 2.0. …

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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2020-10-18, 19:00

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by jesolo

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I have the drivers for SB 2.0, but can't see any mixer utility - quite contrary, I've found this in README.TXT: "Please note that there is no Mixer control for Sound Blaster 2.0. Hence, the features available for controlling the volume will not be supported for SBSIM.COM." What happens when you …

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Re: Aztech Waverider 32+ Problem

Posted on 2020-10-18, 18:56

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by jesolo

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Sadly... yes! Just ran this test... I can hear some corrupted sound which is very very quiet :/ If the problem persists under both the FM and digital voice tests, then it's not something wrong with the FM chip or DAC itself, but some other component (perhaps an amplifier chip). Unfortunately, I'm …

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Re: Aztech Waverider 32+ Problem

Posted on 2020-10-18, 18:12

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by jesolo

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Here are the specs: - Mainboard FREETECH P5F93 (SSocket7 1*AGP, 2*ISA, 3*PCI, 2*SIMM 2*DIMM, UIDEx2, USB) - CPU AMD k6-2-400mhz (Intel Pentium 75MHz as reserve) - Memory Micron 392 512 MB RAM DIMM 100MHz - GPU Riva TNT2 32MB ATI Rage PRO Turbo AGP 8MB + 2* VooDoo 2 12 MB - HDD WD 80GB IDE UDMA66 - …

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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2020-10-18, 18:07

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by jesolo

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I have the drivers for SB 2.0, but can't see any mixer utility - quite contrary, I've found this in README.TXT: "Please note that there is no Mixer control for Sound Blaster 2.0. Hence, the features available for controlling the volume will not be supported for SBSIM.COM." What happens when you …

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