Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-14, 06:43

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow... I don't get it. I guess some people must just be obsessed with the sound of the flip clocks or something. I think there is is a flip clock/radio at my Grandmother's old house... my parents might have one as well.... actually almost 100$ sure there is one in my Dad's workshop.

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Re: Need installation CD for Turtle beach Monte Carlo.

Posted on 2020-08-14, 04:50

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does it even need a special driver? Wouldn't it just work fine with the standard Opti driver set? I don't see anything special about either of them from the specs.

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Re: What is your Favorite CPU and Why ?

Posted on 2020-08-14, 01:48

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by cyclone3d

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The Athlon 64 was my favorite CPU when it was released. Why? Because of the on-die memory controller. Completely changed the game. Intel didn't have on-die memory controllers until the first gen Core-I CPUs came out.

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Re: Asus PCI-AXP201 sound card

Posted on 2020-08-12, 20:58

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hehe, couldn't resist? ;-) It's quite an exotic card which have caught my attention now after I've had it for over 10 years in storage. Saw the info about the SRAM here https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-collectible-ASUS-3DexPlorer-PCI-AXP201-Maestro-1-ES1948F-PCI-Sound-Card-/283417074283 Thanks for …

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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2020-08-12, 18:02

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Can someone please help me identify this Aztech model I have and what the daughterboard does, thanks https://nextcloud.jjserver.net/s/FR5CTBmxiqin5C6 What is the model number of the card? Probably hidden by the daughterboard. Looks like a Waverider 32+ to me - I38-MMSN826 Can we get pics of the …

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Re: Asus PCI-AXP201 sound card

Posted on 2020-08-12, 16:58

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

Weird... I like oddities like this. You made me go find and buy one. Already has the DRAM upgrade. Looked at the manual and it doesn't specify what the SRAM is for but I plan on adding it at some point. Where did you see that the SRAM is for 3d audio buffering? Edit: Found the driver pack for this …

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Re: Is anyone knowledgeable on Crossfire

Posted on 2020-08-12, 14:32

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Video

Almoststew1990 wrote on 2020-08-12, 10:54: Does anyone know whether I will get improved performance if I use two xfire bridges between the two cards? Nope.

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Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2020-08-12, 05:36

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah.. that doesn't help as there is only one real file inside which is a g-zipped .tar file.

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Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2020-08-12, 05:21

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Name of the zip file is: f2b3cdd4-6e9c-435e-8768-f30272b5ad2e.zip There is a text file inside named: extracting passwords_devdownload.com;premuim passwords_visible after login Doing a search for that brings up a few pages of people asking about the password but nothing works. Who knows if this is …

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Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2020-08-12, 04:21

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Name of the zip file is: f2b3cdd4-6e9c-435e-8768-f30272b5ad2e.zip There is a text file inside named: extracting passwords_devdownload.com;premuim passwords_visible after login Doing a search for that brings up a few pages of people asking about the password but nothing works. Who knows if this is …

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Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2020-08-12, 01:39

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I found a zip password cracker that can use nVidia CUDA to accelerate the password cracking. Currently running on a XEON 1680 v2 @ 4.5Ghz with an EVGA RTX 2080 XC ULTRA @ 2025/7000. Getting around 1.65B password checks per second. Even with these numbers, I kinda doubt that the password will ever be …

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Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2020-08-12, 00:26

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Correct. DOS version numbers do not correlate with Windows version numbers. I highly doubt v7.5 for DOS will read v1.x and v2.x ROMs. I am pretty sure that either Feipoa or myself tried at some point. I'll report back anyway. What versions does you or feipoa have? I'm going through a bunch of …

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Re: Any recommendations for a midi Selector, switch?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 21:01

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

You could always use a couple manual switch boxes. They are normally DIN-5 or PS/2 and vga. Use one for switching between computers and the other for switching in between the MIDI devices. There is also the Motu Micro Express USB which will do what you want in one box as well though I don't think …

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

Posted on 2020-08-11, 20:25

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Working on getting a file server set up for home use and for a public vintage/retro FTP. It will be running on a Dell DL2300 server with 12x 3TB drives in RAID 6. The OS will be running on a different drive. A pair of E5-2630 v2 CPUs arrived today to replace the bottom of the barrel 2.4Ghz quad …

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Re: Pandemic Builds

Posted on 2020-08-11, 20:18

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Cool systems. What other video and sound cards do you have available? Why did you decide to not use the AWE64 Gold ?

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Re: Is anyone knowledgeable on Crossfire

Posted on 2020-08-11, 20:08

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Video

I thought that my primary card (1GB 4890) would downclock to 4830 performance but keep the 1GB of VRAM in use. I guess I'll find out if performance collapses when I go over 512MB of video memory, I think a 7970 xfire set up would be surprisingly usable today (other than, you know, the heat and …

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Re: Any recommendations for a midi Selector, switch?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 19:47

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

I think the Edirol 550 would be a better choice than the splitter and the UM-ONE mk2. Reason I say this is because the splitter is going to output to all outputs all the time. With the 550, you can switch which inputs and outputs are active. You could also leave both systems hooked up at the same …

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Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 19:04

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anonymous Coward wrote on 2020-08-11, 12:03: I heard the ami checksum calculation is more convoluted than others. I have the source code, but I can’t figure it out. Which source code? If it is different then the AMIBCP94 code, then I would love to take a look at it.

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Re: Is anyone knowledgeable on Crossfire

Posted on 2020-08-11, 19:03

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Video

I had a 4870x2 back in the day... I actually bought 2 of them but one was DOA and Visiontek replaced both of them under warranty with a pair of 6870 cards. I still have the 6870 cards. After that I went to a 7970 and then a pair of 7970s. Once AMD fixed the frame timing issue they were even better …

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Re: overwhelmed by motherboard and CPU selection for 486 build

Posted on 2020-08-11, 18:20

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would not recommend playing SimCity 2000 on any 486. Once the city gets to be a decent size, the game will be an absolute frustration to try and do anything. The faster the system the better on pretty much any of the SimCity games. 386 25Mhz as the requirement... HA. Sure it will run it, but …

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