Re: Flying Dutchmen, White Whales, the ghost HW that eludes you, lost & found.
Posted on 2021-05-21, 07:07
You need to get filing cabinets.
Re: Safe to use 100v AC adapter on 110/120v AC power?
Posted on 2021-05-21, 00:15
Well... one of the adapters that was sent is a 100-230v wall wart and it puts out almost exactly the rated 12v. I also tested one of my 120v Roland 9v adapters and not under load it was putting out a bit over 12v. I don't mind using the variac for now as this is the first thing I have actually used …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-05-20, 23:39
I never get tired of looking at that big beauty. Oh, you will after you see what shipping costs are to send that monster your way. lol HAHAHAHA. Not as much as having a large box full of different sound modules sent from Japan.... Paid way more for shipping than I did for the modules themselves... …
Re: Sound Blaster 16 with modifications?
Posted on 2021-05-20, 19:22
Those aren't modifications. That is straight up physical damage. The silver thing with the legs broken off is a 24Mhz crystal and C2 is a capacitor.
Safe to use 100v AC adapter on 110/120v AC power?
Posted on 2021-05-20, 18:58
So I just received a package that includes some 100v 50/60Hz equipment. Some of the equipment uses wall warts that are rated at 100V 50/60Hz AC. I did a quick test on a couple of them plugged straight into the 110/120v outlet and then plugged into a variac set at 100v, confimed with my multimeter. …
Re: Help configuring (and dumping) wavetable ROM - Cardinal DSP16 / MPC700plus
Posted on 2021-05-20, 14:28
Soundwave 32 Pro (comes with QSound ld file (3DFM.LD) ) while the other cards you needed to buy it as an addon. I just happen to have the install files for the Soundwave 32 Pro so I will be testing this out. I have the Orchid Soundwave 32 Pro here with me. Unfortunately not the drivers. @cyclone3d …
Re: Help configuring (and dumping) wavetable ROM - Cardinal DSP16 / MPC700plus
Posted on 2021-05-20, 14:08
I have acquired two 512KB ROM chips in order for me to try out the Invision ROM images. Hmm this has my interest. Just went digging for some sound samples. Orchid standard: http://kawai.spb.ru/files/sound/cards/orchid_sw32_std.html Orchid w/ Invision: http://kawai.spb.ru/files/sound/cards/orchid_ …
Re: Help configuring (and dumping) wavetable ROM - Cardinal DSP16 / MPC700plus
Posted on 2021-05-20, 06:53
Ok, so a few more things I have found out while looking through documentation. Different Orchid cards: Gamewave 32 Gamewave 32 Plus - what exactly is this? This ships with the InVision ROMs ( Manual shows instead of just speaker and line out and a volume control, the volume control is replaced by …
Re: Help configuring (and dumping) wavetable ROM - Cardinal DSP16 / MPC700plus
Posted on 2021-05-20, 06:41
Shit op-amp on the speaker out? Could be, or maybe the caps are bad. There is a ton of noise when the volume is turned up high. Worst I have heard so far with this setup. I can't imagine the card being like this when it was new. That being said, I am testing the orchid drivers and will post and …
Re: Need help! trying to figure out why this motherboard detect intel 486dx as a cyrix cx486slc
Posted on 2021-05-20, 05:07
Try enabling Fast A20 Gate Option in the BIOS. As for the HDD not formatting properly, try using a Windows 98se boot disk to partition and format th drive. Remember to set the partition active in fdisk or else it won't boot from it.
Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC with 7900GT + 4GHz Xeon + 4GB DDR3
Posted on 2021-05-20, 05:02
You are almost for sure not limited by the video card yet. A Geforce FX5950U at default clocks is CPU limited in 98SE until around 3.2-3.3Ghz on an Intel x6800... at least in 3dmark. I would say see what you get at 4.6Ghz and then go from there. The 7900GTX is the fastest nVidia card that will work …
Re: Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?
Posted on 2021-05-20, 04:50
They are $28 new on Amazon. Just search for pico ATX.
Re: Need help! trying to figure out why this motherboard detect intel 486dx as a cyrix cx486slc
Posted on 2021-05-19, 23:30
You could enable shadow RAM as well... Might help a bit for programs that are normally accessing the ROMs directly. You will lose UMBs that way though. Just depends on how much stuff you need to loadhigh in config.sys and autoexec.bat and how much free RAM you need below 640k. I haven't done that …
Re: Need help! trying to figure out why this motherboard detect intel 486dx as a cyrix cx486slc
Posted on 2021-05-19, 22:59
You need to enable the internal and external cache settings. Edit: with the fsb as 33mhz, the AT clock should be on a 1/4 divider for standard ~8Mhz AT clock. You could probably even go up to 1/3 as everything should work just fine at 11Mhz for the AT clock.
Re: Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?
Posted on 2021-05-19, 17:18
Ok, so it is a Socket 3 CPU. AMD 5x86-133. Probably is soldered in. The archived pages actually mention an AMD 5x86 model - Zero-Footprint-PC: 5x86 Model(KPS1001) http://web.archive.org/web/19990220043926/http://www.cybernetman.com/index.htm (NIC driver in bottom left hand corner but the download …
Re: Help configuring (and dumping) wavetable ROM - Cardinal DSP16 / MPC700plus
Posted on 2021-05-19, 15:43
Well, if you look at the archived pages from Orchid, the driver packages are clearly specific that they won't work with the other cards: http://web.archive.org/web/19961018060314/http://www.orchid.com/support/audio/drv-gw32.html http://web.archive.org/web/19961018060328/http://www.orchid.com/support …
Re: Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?
Posted on 2021-05-19, 06:20
Impossible to verify with the PSU not working and the computer basically does not exist. Does the PSU circuit board not list the voltages? You may also try contacting Cybernet. I don't see anything quite that old listed in their downloads but they may still have info kicking around if you are lucky …
Re: Need help! trying to figure out why this motherboard detect intel 486dx as a cyrix cx486slc
Posted on 2021-05-19, 05:24
Well, the board model matches that page so it should be the correct one.
Re: Need help! trying to figure out why this motherboard detect intel 486dx as a cyrix cx486slc
Posted on 2021-05-19, 03:49
There should be a jumper to enable/disable turbo. Usually hooks to a switch on the case. If it is not enabled, you either have the system running at a super low speed or it has disabled the L1 and probably L2 caches. What does the jumper information next to the CPU socket say? Do you have the …
Re: Help configuring (and dumping) wavetable ROM - Cardinal DSP16 / MPC700plus
Posted on 2021-05-19, 03:16
One little request - could either of you try Civilization (I) with the Roland MT-32 MIDI (sound option 5 at startup)? On my card the instrument used in the whole intro sounded like a nasty square wave, I sort of assume due to massive clipping. That might just be different on a different Echo card …
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