Re: Gravis Gamepad

Posted on 2020-01-18, 18:13

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by cyclone3d

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I grew up with both PCs and consoles... Always older stuff because my parents certainly were not going to spend any money to upgrade the computer or buy consoles or the games for consoles for me. For those of you who don't like the Gravis gamepads do you have overly large hands? @dr_st . It sounds …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-18, 15:45

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by cyclone3d

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I want to use it with x-wing https://imgur.com/IXT9PpN How to have a browser view of the above image??? Download the picture, attach it to your post, and inline it. I wasn't able to get it to show up. Something with imgur is funny.. Apparently the link to the image doesn't actually work if you try …

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Re: Gravis Gamepad

Posted on 2020-01-18, 08:19

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by cyclone3d

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My choice for DOS for such things as side-scrollers like Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, etc. is a gamepad. I really dislike using a keyboard for side-scrollers and other games that do not need or support analogue controllers. Doesn't matter what keyboard it is. Gimme a gamepad for playing those types …

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Re: Gravis Gamepad

Posted on 2020-01-18, 02:34

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by cyclone3d

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Sounds to me like somebody sent you one that they bent the pins over and then bent them back before selling it. That is the ONLY reason that the pins would have broken off. The Gravis gamepad and Gamepad Pro are good controllers. They do have to be taken apart to have the button contacts cleaned out …

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Futuremark has released all their old benchmarks for free

Posted on 2020-01-18, 02:24

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by cyclone3d

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Just a heads up that all the old PCMark and 3DMark benchmarks suites are now free. PCMark 2002 through PCMark7 3DMark 99 through 2011 See their legacy page for the downloads and registration info: https://benchmarks.ul.com/legacy-benchmarks

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Re: Dead PCI Slots or Dead Audigy Sound card?

Posted on 2020-01-17, 23:36

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by cyclone3d

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Chances are the Audigy is the problem. And no, your video card is not capable of melting the solder on a card even 1 slot away. If it was, then you would have much bigger problems.. such as fire or components falling off of your video card.. and the video card would definitely no longer be alive.

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-17, 22:31

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by cyclone3d

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I always wanted to ask. How do you know your PC supports SSE? What about virtual machines like VMWare, how do we know? By what CPU you have in your computer. You can use CPU-Z in Windows as an easy check. For VMWare, if the host CPU has SSE, then so should the VM. You have to go really far back to …

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Re: Yamaha SW1000XG

Posted on 2020-01-17, 04:00

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by cyclone3d

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There are some games that support XG synthesis. They should sound a lot better than with regular old General Midi though I haven't specifically tested that yet. Final Fantasy VII is one PC game that supports XG.

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Re: Which laptop for retro use would you get based on specs?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 18:07

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by cyclone3d

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Sounds almost as if you have an Asus L8400 series system. They had those sound/videocard combo's. Can't say what system is best, mine is just repaired and is waiting for a cheap Pata SSD to reinstall 98se on it. So perhaps in 2 weeks that I can help you more ;) Why bother with a PATA SSD? Just use …

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Re: Which laptop for retro use would you get based on specs?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 17:16

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by cyclone3d

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@MAZter - I already have some Sony Vaio laptops which have the Yamaha YMF744 chip and are hardwired to PC/PCI for the best DOS support possible - with the Yamaha chips anyway. The video chips on them are nothing to be exited about though.

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2020-01-16, 16:07

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by cyclone3d

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Sheesh. I should use my big scanner to take high-res pics of the cards I have. No reflections or out of focus areas, just sweet, sweet, high resolution pics from the scanner. Only thing is it takes forever to do a single scan.

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Which laptop for retro use would you get based on specs?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 02:04

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by cyclone3d

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Sooo.. doing a bit of research and came across a couple different laptops that I find interesting. The laptop would be used for DOS/Win98SE I will not mention the brand or model yet.. just a couple of specs as the laptops are pretty similar other than that. Laptop 1: Video - ATI Mobility-P 8MB 2x …

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Re: RAM speed for 386 machine

Posted on 2020-01-15, 20:42

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by cyclone3d

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What are the RAM timing settings in the BIOS of the different boards? Do the motherboards have the same chipset?

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Re: ISA MIDI-only wavetable cards?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 15:34

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by cyclone3d

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bristlehog wrote on 2020-01-15, 15:21: Here's CrystaLake Series 2000 with 8-pin connector. It is a 8-bit ISA card by itself. Do you actually have that card? I tried to buy one a year or so ago and the seller never shipped it.

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Re: Aureal Vortex vs Vortex 2

Posted on 2020-01-15, 14:59

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by cyclone3d

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What chipset does your motherboard have? What is the brand and model of the motherboard?

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Re: SB AWE32 - Digital sound garbled or not working; FM/AWE output OK

Posted on 2020-01-15, 02:48

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by cyclone3d

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Try cleaning the edge connector. I use soft pencil eraser, but some people on here seem to think that doing that is of the devil even though I have been using that same method for over 20 years with no ill effects. Same thing goes for the ISA slots themselves. They very likely are oxidized and may …

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Re: Do i have bad CPUs?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 23:50

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by cyclone3d

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-01-14, 22:50: Copper spacers are not required. Just use strips of paper around the core or thin silicon pads. Never had any problems with proper coolers though, i.e. not typical GlacialTech and Thermaltake garbage. Of course they are not required.. but they can …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-14, 23:33

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by cyclone3d

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Pretty sure that is just the controller card for that drive. I have one of those cards and tried to do some research on it a while ago. If I remember correctly, that card is for decoding CD audio because the drive that goes with it didn't have the needed circuitry to do so. It should just work with …

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Re: Do i have bad CPUs?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 22:44

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by cyclone3d

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Oh yeah.. forgot to mention. The copper spacers that used to be sold for these CPUs is a lifesaver... literally. But you have to watch out because there were different versions for different CPUs. The bridges changed places so the spacers can short out the bridges if the cutout is not correct. The …

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Re: Style problems/bugs

Posted on 2020-01-14, 22:40

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by cyclone3d

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ah, ok 😈 Got it.

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