Socket 7 cpu with passive cooling

Posted on 2016-10-02, 19:24

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by Rawit

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Is it possible? I'm thinking about doing a new build but I want it to be fanless. Is there such an option? Pentium p5 75Mhz perhaps? I prefer not to underclock, running it stock. I don't need a speed demon either.

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Re: Project: Turning ICS WaveFront sound cards into MIDI Powerhouses for DOS games

Posted on 2016-10-01, 07:07

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by Rawit

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In the case of Awave writing the WFB incorrectly, perhaps you can try to open it in Wavefront Studio? I think that is the Turtle Beach tool to create WFB files.

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Re: Project: Turning ICS WaveFront sound cards into MIDI Powerhouses for DOS games

Posted on 2016-09-30, 17:09

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Perhaps I've an idea where the "too many samples" issue comes from. Back in the dinosaur age when I was converting patches for the Gravis Ultrasound, I noticed that an SF2 instrument can have layers with multiple waveforms. These waveforms aren't exclusive to the instrument. This means 002 Piano can …

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Re: Project: Turning ICS WaveFront sound cards into MIDI Powerhouses for DOS games

Posted on 2016-09-30, 14:55

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by Rawit

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The Roland and Yamaha soundfonts from Deemster, posted earlier on this forum, are both < 512 waveforms according to Awave 11 Demo version. Could these be candidates for an conversion?

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Re: Project: Turning ICS WaveFront sound cards into MIDI Powerhouses for DOS games

Posted on 2016-09-30, 14:45

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Does it struggle with the total amount of samples or with the amount of samples per instrument? Because lots of soundfonts that I've encountered, including small ones, are General Midi + extra, like GS or XG. It could be very well that WFB only supports GM level 1/2 instruments and nothing more. …

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Re: Project: Turning ICS WaveFront sound cards into MIDI Powerhouses for DOS games

Posted on 2016-09-30, 07:07

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by Rawit

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I did try the soundbank on my MAUI. It starts loading the bank but reports an error at SAMPLE #452 (of 511 total samples, IIRC). If I try to playback a midi file it sound terrible off with missing instruments. Maybe the file is broken? It's 6.300.000 bytes big, don't know if that is supposed to be …

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Re: Turtle Beach Maui Sound Card

Posted on 2016-09-28, 06:51

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by Rawit

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Ahhh man... Too big for my system 🙁 . Anyways, thanks for the info!

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Re: Turtle Beach Maui Sound Card

Posted on 2016-09-27, 07:42

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by Rawit

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Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but could anybody tell me how long the Turtle Beach Maui card is in MM?

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Re: Replacing Geforce 6800 Fan(Not the Entire Cooler)

Posted on 2016-08-05, 08:41

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by Rawit

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Perhaps a "Delta BFB04512HHA Graphics Card Fan 12V 0.21A nVidia GeForce" is what you are looking for?

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Re: Please help identify this VLB mobo

Posted on 2016-08-05, 08:19

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by Rawit

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tikoellner wrote: - GUS Classic 3.74 - Yamaha SW60XG - Turtle Beach Tropez You, sir, have an excellent taste in soundcards!

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Re: 386 & 486 laptops with proper sound cards?

Posted on 2016-08-05, 07:21

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by Rawit

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There are a lot of 486 laptops with integrated sound chips from IBM, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Compaq to name a few brands. Alot? They seem quite scarce from my experience. I have (as mentioned above) a Compaq Laptop but that doesn't have one. Can you name specific ones or a series? By the sounds of it, …

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Re: What is this 486 mb?

Posted on 2016-08-02, 07:09

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by Rawit

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Probably useless info, but that mainboard looks exactly like a Micro Star International (MSI) board I used to have. But it's been so long ago, I could easily be mistaken.

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Re: 386 cpu and Doom

Posted on 2016-07-08, 07:15

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by Rawit

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SNES Doom isn't using the Doom engine. It uses an engine written by Randy Linden, creator of Bleem! I'm not sure of the GameBoy version uses the same engine as the SNES one.

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Re: Wolf 3D black screen no sound D:

Posted on 2016-07-04, 11:04

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by Rawit

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Cyrix express GRAPHICS, cyrix express AUDIO, Cyrix media gxm 200MHz, 96mb sdram. Wolfenstein 3D doesn't run on my Cyrix MediaGXm either. As I'm in the middle of building a new system around the Cyrix I can't try anything right now. You could try a videocard, the integrated Cyrix XpressGRAPHICS has …

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Re: Cassiopeia Fiva netbook, good to get it?

Posted on 2016-05-02, 12:37

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by Rawit

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MediaGX supports SB16 under real DOS, OPL3 sounds a bit off to me, but I'm no OPL connaisseur. Videowise... Mode X/Mode Y isn't great on MediaGX... Doom will have some slowdown, Lost Vikings will have some scrolling issues.

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Re: Opti 82c941 daughterboard - should I get it?

Posted on 2016-04-18, 12:33

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by Rawit

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Here some more info, I think: http://wavetable.web.fc2.com/opti.htm

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-18, 06:45

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by Rawit

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mr_bigmouth_502 wrote: Is it true that less than a million A1200s were sold? They sold NOS Amiga 1200's for a long time, until a few years ago, so the production/sales balance was pretty off at least.

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Re: Any idea what this is?

Posted on 2016-04-12, 08:26

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by Rawit

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It's for sale on eBay where it's stated in the description that it's a "combined ISA video/serial card" but I have my doubts. The card does seem to feature D-sub connectors used for VGA/Serial but also a pot and some sort of audiojack socket.

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Re: GUS Max Stereo?

Posted on 2016-04-09, 18:43

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by Rawit

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You can also look games that have Gravis Ultrasound and Gravis Ultrasound MAX options. The MAX option uses the WSS compatible codec on the board. If that gives you stereo sound we can narrow it down.

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Re: 3DFX Voodoo 1 BSOD

Posted on 2016-04-09, 18:33

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by Rawit

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Isn't this the error you get when the Voodoo and the graphics card are using the same memory space? In the device manager you can choose what memory range it uses... If you can get there.

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