Re: Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI

Posted on 2016-03-28, 14:07

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ Sound

Now i have running the ASOUND Gold ISA soundcard (nearly equvivalent to Avance Logic ALS100 Plus+ PnP) in my K6-2 system (see also picture at the last page). I've installed several games and have tested them. Adlib compatibility, soundblaster compatibility, soundblaster Pro compatibility, …

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Re: Max Cacheable Ram

Posted on 2016-03-21, 19:55

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's a really curious board your have! Very fast chipset, but no cache or same fake's soldered onboard... But with fast chipset + all three slot types onboard... really bad that a COAST won't work with it. Yes, i think it's hard to find the right cache.

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Re: Problem with Promise PCI IDE controller

Posted on 2016-03-19, 10:29

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for this zip-file, but it is not working. Your drivers are the Ultra33, Ultra66 and Ultra100 PCI controllers from Promise. See here at the end of the setup-ini file: [strings] Promise="Promise Technology" PCI\VEN_105A&DEV_4D30&SUBSYS_4D33105A.DeviceDesc="Win95-98 Promise Ultra100 (tm) IDE …

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Re: Problem with Promise PCI IDE controller

Posted on 2016-03-18, 10:28

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here several screenshot of the problem and the drivers i've tried to install:

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Problem with Promise PCI IDE controller

Posted on 2016-03-18, 10:26

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've bought two of these IDE PCI controller. It is a Promise Fasttrak 66 PCI controller with two IDE ports. Normally i want to install this card in my AMD K6-2 Retro PC, to have the ability to install more IDE drives. The mainboard has the standard two of them, and because i have a lot of IDE ribbon …

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Re: Aztech cards

Posted on 2016-03-16, 20:45

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, then the Galaxy 16 Pro Extra has no AZT1605? When i have a look on the txt.File (ISA SOUNDCARD OVERVIEW, downloaded here on vogons), the Pro16 II (1st gen) has the AZT1605 and the Pro16 II (2st gen) has the AZT2316R. I'm wanna know more about the properties of this card... at driver's readme …

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Re: Aztech cards

Posted on 2016-03-16, 20:09

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Found this card on ebay. Anybody who know's about this Aztech? I cannot see any sign on the chip that it is a AZT1605, AZT2316 or AZT2320.

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Re: Whats the best Video card for a Pentium 3 500 System

Posted on 2016-03-13, 21:39

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can also have a look on Geforce 2 MX series. The speed is at Geforce256 level. I don't know how many are available at your place, but during the last weeks i was also searching a graphic card for my K6-2 500 CPU. Nowadays the Voodoo graphic cards are really expensive. So i've decided to go with …

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Re: Possibly PS/2 port defect?

Posted on 2016-03-08, 16:30

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Many USB mice, especially more modern mice, omit the circuitry to use USB to PS/2 adapters. You're absolutely right. I've tested now the USB mouse with the adapter at the PS/2 port of my 'modern' Asus mainbord (P67-chipset). It doesn't work, so it's worse... Anyway, the PS/2 port of the Socket 7 …

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Re: Possibly PS/2 port defect?

Posted on 2016-03-07, 22:24

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually i don't have a PS/2 mouse at home, only 3 with USB and one old one with a ball inside and serial port. So, i can't test it at once. Yes, the adapter works. I've tested my keybord with the two adapters, without any issues. Edit: Works on my modern Core-I5 and at the bottom PS/2 port of my …

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Possibly PS/2 port defect?

Posted on 2016-03-07, 21:54

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've already started to bulid my AMD K6-2 DOS/Win95 time machine PC (super-socket 7 board) last weekend and i'll show also some photos later in another post. But i had also an incident/ problem which i wasn't able to solve, even after the install of different drivers and several re-install of …

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Re: Which CPU for the 694T Pro motherboard?

Posted on 2016-03-05, 22:26

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That is true. It's no so easy, to emulate a 386/486 with a "modern" retro cpu (core coppermine or tualatin). I have also made some test with these three CPU's: Pentium (P54CS), AMD K6-2 (Chomper Extended) and a PIII (coppermine). My experience was, with a Pentium you can get 486DX-25 and 386DX-40 …

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Re: 500MHz P II v.s. 500MHz P III v.s. 550MHz K6-III+ benchmarks!

Posted on 2016-03-04, 20:31

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mainboard: Aopen AX59PRO VIA MVP3 2MB cache, ATX format -> http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/motherboards_d/AOpen/AX59%2BPro/ Do you really have 2Mb onbord on your Aopen? Well, when i download the original manual of the Aopen AX59PRO, this is written at specifications: 512KB or 1MB. Do you have a …

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Re: Roland MT-32, CM-32L + General MIDI for $50 Building a MIDI box

Posted on 2016-03-03, 21:27

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by melbar

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Pi 2 has a stock clock of 900MHz. The core architecture is Cortex-A7 with 1.9 DMIPS/MHz per core The Pi 3 has a stock clock of 1200MHz. The core architecture is Cortex-A53 with 2.3 DMIPS/MHz per core So the Pi3 is ~21% faster @ the same clock speed. This should be enough for MUNT, or not?

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Re: Super Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2016-02-26, 15:13

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I dont seem to have that write-back or write-through option on my Mitac MVP4, advance chipset features in the BIOS has the following memory cache related setings: DRAM Read pipeline - Enabled Sustained 3T Write - Enabled Cache R/CPU W Pipeline - Enabled Cache Timing - Fastest Based on the Anandtech …

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Re: Super Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2016-02-25, 18:43

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@SuperHanSolo I don't know if you have this already considered: The super-socket platform with for example the VIA or ALI chipsets are limited with cacheable RAM compared to the absolute max. size specified from the manufacturer. The VIA MVP3 or MVP4 chipset has less cacheable RAM compared to the …

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Re: Aztech cards

Posted on 2016-02-24, 20:20

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have one question: Does really every Aztech card with the AZT2320 chip have full MPU-401 (UART) interface support via the gameport? I'd like to connect a MIDI USB cable and use MUNT on a second system. For example what do you prefer, when you would like to play (General-)MIDI sounds, and maybe …

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Re: Geforce 4 MX 460 info

Posted on 2016-02-22, 18:55

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here you have a quite good overview of the Geforce 4MX series against the GF3 Ti200, the Radeon 8500LE, the Radeon 7500 and finally the GF2 Ti which is between the GF2 GTS and the GF2 Ultra. You have a lot of synthetic benchmarks but also game benches with 'Q3' and 'return to castle wolfenstein'. …

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Re: Geforce 4 MX 460 info

Posted on 2016-02-22, 16:39

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The GF4 MX series have twice less the following units compared to the GF2 series: Pixel shaders, Texture mapping units and Render output units.

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Re: Geforce 4 MX 460 info

Posted on 2016-02-22, 16:34

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by melbar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When you look at the data specifications on wiki, the GF4 MX460 has less MOperations/s, MPixels/s and MTextels/s than the GF2 GTS. But you have to consider that the memory bandwidth of the MX460 (with 8.8 Gb/s) is 65% higher than the GTS (5.3 Gb/s).

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