Re: A little help for my first Packard Bell "Executive Multi-Media"

Posted on 2021-06-05, 15:31

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Thank you so much. I have yet another retro-pc, a Pentium II MMX 400 mhz with a 3DFx Banshee and a Sound Blaster AWE64, so I'll probably leave this Packard Bell with the P75 processor for older DOS games. But I have a "spare" ESS1868F sound card and a S3 Trio 64V+ GPU , maybe it's worth to add these …

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Re: A little help for my first Packard Bell "Executive Multi-Media"

Posted on 2021-06-03, 12:05

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Wow! Thank you very much, it all sounds great to me. As for the battery: is it therefore a common CR2032? The price (50 euros) was all in all right I think.

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A little help for my first Packard Bell "Executive Multi-Media"

Posted on 2021-06-03, 07:27

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Hi! Since I have always wanted a "pizza-box", driven by instinct and impulse I bought this Packard Bell "Executive Multi-Media". I paid about 50 euros and I have yet to receive it, so the photos you'll see are from the seller. Doing a bit of research I could not find information regarding this model …

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Re: VIASBCFG - VIA SBPro configuration tool for VIA VT8231 & VT82C686/A/B chipsets (v0.12d)

Posted on 2021-05-22, 06:30

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Hi, try this: go in the BIOS and disable parallel port, serial ports and the ethernet. Ciao! 😉

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Re: Specs advice for my new retro-pc

Posted on 2021-05-07, 12:37

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Thank you so much for all your feedback. Unfortunately with my chipset SetMul allows to only disable L1 and L2 cache (as the options in the bios) and the "jump" in terms of performances is too extreme. I've also tested Throttle but unfortunately I don't have all the options that I get on my HP T5710 …

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Re: Specs advice for my new retro-pc

Posted on 2021-05-05, 09:58

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Thank you very much for your kind feedback. In the end these are the final specs of my retro-PC: - ASUS P2B-F - Intel Pentium II 400 Mhz - 512 Mb RAM - Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 (ISA, CT4520) - Creative 3D Blaster Banshee (AGP, CT6750) - CD-ROM and floppy 3.5'' Not bad for a total cost of 25 euro …

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Re: Strange problem with AWE 64 in DOS-mode

Posted on 2021-05-04, 07:44

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Thank you, I'll try to find it on the Value CD.

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Re: Strange problem with AWE 64 in DOS-mode

Posted on 2021-05-04, 07:01

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Thank you so much for your kind feedback, but the problem it seems gone now. I don't know what I changed, but I tried last night and everything seems to be working fine! Another question: excluding bloatware, what's the "essential" software to set-up the card under windows? May I use mixerset (DOS …

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Strange problem with AWE 64 in DOS-mode

Posted on 2021-05-03, 16:00

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Hi, I have a Sound Blaster AWE 64 (not Gold) CT4520 on my Pentium II retro-pc (mainboard ASUS P2B-F) that is perfectly working in WINDOWS 98 SE. For DOS-MODE I followed this great tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiSM5pUGab4 ...but I get serious issues with music (hanging notes, freezes) …

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Re: Specs advice for my new retro-pc

Posted on 2021-05-01, 08:36

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Thank you very much for your kind feedback. I'm actually using the Creative 3D Blaster Banshee (CT6750 - AGP) and the Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 (CT4520 - ISA, not Gold) and I'm very happy of the results! But I suspect that the AWE64 is one of the "partial-fake" cards, since it works perfectly in …

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Specs advice for my new retro-pc

Posted on 2021-04-29, 12:58

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Hi everyone, I'd like some advice on the choice of components for my new retro-pc. The goal is to mainly play DOS games like Crystal Caves, Monster Bash, Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3-D, Hexen etc. up to, at most, a few CD titles from the first Windows era (The Curse of Monkey Island would be the …

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2021-04-18, 19:59

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RichB93 wrote on 2020-10-17, 01:53: I have one of these; works well with UNISOUND to get DOS compatible audio from the onboard soundcard. Hello, are you sure that you are using UNISOUND with this thinclient model (T5710)? thanks

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2021-03-25, 17:41

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Thank you for your kind feedback. Indeed I have yet music and SFX in MBF DOS via Sound Blaster emulation (VIASBCFG and VIAFMTSR) but I'd like to improve the music quality using MT32-PI in SC55 mode. But vanilla DOOM doesn't support SOFTMPU, so I was asking for MBF.

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2021-03-25, 16:49

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OK so I've done some tests and actually it seems that MBF doesn't work with SoftMPU and MT32-pi. My setup: - HP T5710 with MS-DOS 7 - SoftMPU running on port 330 and outputting on COM1 - MT32-Pi connected to COM1 via serial adapter (works *perfectly* in Monkey Island, Elvira, Lands of Lore and other …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2021-03-21, 15:13

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Hello gerwin, thank you very much for your kind feedback (and I really hope you are fine during these strange days). Before writing the post I tried indeed, but MBF couldn't find any MIDI device even though SOFTMPU was running on port 330. But I just did a quick test, I'll try again this night. …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2021-03-21, 08:15

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Hello, may I ask if MBF could work with SOFTMPU? I have a MT32-PI connected on the serial port of my thin client (HP T5710) that I use with SOFTMPU to enjoy many Roland MT-32 soundtracks in games. The new release of MT32-PI allows also to switch to Fluidsynth mode and enjoy different Soundfonts. …

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Re: Keen 4-5-6 choppy scrolling on EGA card

Posted on 2020-12-25, 15:57

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by Scandy

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Well, the patch works GREAT on my HP T5710. Thank you very much sir (and Merry Christmas!)

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2020-12-14, 19:46

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Can you show me how to connect the mt32-pi to the HP T5710? I wasn’t sure about buying one of these but if I can play mt32 games on it I will definitely do. Everything in pure DOS? Thank you. Hi, sure! 😉 You can play MT-32 games (and now also different soundfonts) in pure DOS. Hardware: you will …

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2020-12-12, 22:49

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Yes Sound Blaster emulation works pretty well. And you can also get a MT-32 bare metal emulation with a MT32-PI via serial port.

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2020-12-10, 16:46

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Digidreamer wrote on 2020-12-10, 16:30: Don't see the context of the message?? The HP 5710 beeper is very loud. 😉

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