Re: How do I rescue these vintage cards from my school's grasp?

Posted on 2016-10-21, 02:40

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by keenmaster486

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Awesome haul, man! You should put the V3 3000 in the robot and program a fractal neural network on it, allowing the robot to gain sentience and win every match purely autonomously.

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Re: can someone please give me more info about this sound card

Posted on 2016-10-21, 02:35

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by keenmaster486

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It's based on CS4231 so yes, it'll work in DOS and Windows 9x.

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Re: i just bought a ISA motherboard

Posted on 2016-10-21, 01:11

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by keenmaster486

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I thought all 32's had hanging note bug. I kind of remember someone somewere in some tread stated that all 32's have it, and you need an 64 in order to avoid it. Am I misinformed on that matter? Ah, no, I was wrong on that. I stand corrected :) Yes, AWE32's have the hanging note bug according to …

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Re: i just bought a ISA motherboard

Posted on 2016-10-21, 00:35

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by keenmaster486

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No hanging note bug there. But really, an AWE64 will get you the same thing and be much, much cheaper.

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Re: I made a useful chart

Posted on 2016-10-20, 23:57

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by keenmaster486

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leilei: 🤣

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Re: i just bought a ISA motherboard

Posted on 2016-10-20, 23:56

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by keenmaster486

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Gravis Ultrasound is an excellent card, but it doesn't get you OPL3 sound, it has its own systems. Duke3D and DOOM (and most other games from that era) have special options for the card, which gives you its own unique sound. If you're willing to shell out two hundred bucks for it then go ahead.

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Re: Well, should I ask this girl to coffee or not?

Posted on 2016-10-20, 23:54

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OK, OK, OK. I asked her. She seemed great with it. She was not at all ambivalent, but she didn't go crazy either. We're both gone over the weekend so she said we'd figure out a time next week. So I'm following up on Monday. Fingers crossed... :blush: At the very least I hope we'll be friends. She is …

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Re: i just bought a ISA motherboard

Posted on 2016-10-20, 20:20

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by keenmaster486

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Yeah, that works but it's a little expensive. Here are some more ideas: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-Labs-Sound-Blaster-CT2960-ISA-Sound-Card-with-amplifier-/131945265872?hash=item1eb88cfad0:g:45gAAOSwAuZX4Q8y (Sound Blaster Vibra 16. This model has CQM) http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-Labs- …

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Corrupt a Wish

Posted on 2016-10-20, 20:07

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by keenmaster486

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The rules are simple: Person X makes a wish. Person Y responds by granting the wish, but corrupting it to the point that it's no longer desirable. Person Y makes a new wish. Example: I wish for spaghetti. Granted. You are force-fed spaghetti until you die. I wish I had a haircut. etc... I'll start: …

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Re: i just bought a ISA motherboard

Posted on 2016-10-20, 19:33

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by keenmaster486

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For DOS games, an ISA card is usually a much better solution than PCI, especially if you're in pure DOS (Windows 98 can play nicer, but you'll still have problems with the vast majority of PCI sound cards). If you don't care about "perfect, authentic" OPL3 sound, you can just stick an AWE64 (which …

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Re: Can't install 16 bit games

Posted on 2016-10-20, 17:52

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by keenmaster486

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Jorpho wrote: There is a promising new development by the name of "Win3mu", but it has yet to be seen if it will bear fruit. Is there actually any place to download this, or is it not released yet? It looks so cool and I really want to try it out, but I can't find a download link anywhere 🙁

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I made a useful chart

Posted on 2016-10-20, 06:28

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by keenmaster486

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I'm exaggerating of course. This was fun to make.

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Re: Anything special about an IBM Thinkpad 365x?

Posted on 2016-10-20, 05:45

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by keenmaster486

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150?? You are joking right? Why are they so expensive. I mean. Not really expandable as a desktop/tower machine. Oh, they're not worth nearly that much. They're probably worth ~$30-40 at the very max. Stupid eBay sellers, however, don't know that. They notice that it's old, and they think they can …

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Re: how can i transfer from a bad fat drive?

Posted on 2016-10-20, 04:10

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by keenmaster486

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Sammy wrote: maybe you can add another HDD as slave and then copy the files from the C: to the slave drive in Dos-Prompt This is what I would do. And fast. If you can only access the hard drive from DOS, then use what you've got to back it up.

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Re: Anything special about an IBM Thinkpad 365x?

Posted on 2016-10-19, 22:28

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by keenmaster486

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He payed NOTHING for it?? 😳 😳 I spent months trying to find one for less than $150 (+$50 shipping) on eBay. Tell him he's a lucky, lucky man.

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Re: Anything special about an IBM Thinkpad 365x?

Posted on 2016-10-19, 21:24

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by keenmaster486

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Well, if he paid a lot for it, it had better have a TFT screen, since I think that model could have either passive or active matrix screens. It makes a great DOS/Win9x machine, but it's nothing particularly special. It doesn't have a CD drive unless you upgrade it with one in the floppy drive bay.

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Re: Trouble running Star Trek 25th Anniversery

Posted on 2016-10-19, 06:42

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by keenmaster486

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Use the switch -t cdrom when mounting your Star Trek folder as a CD drive. EDIT: An example would be mount d c:\Users\JohnDoe\Games\STTK25 -t cdrom would mount the Star Trek folder as a CD-ROM drive at letter D: DOPEFISH EDIT: Duh. You already tried that. But unless you're using an actual CD with …

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Re: Midi playback, how to ?

Posted on 2016-10-19, 04:23

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by keenmaster486

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You have a Yamaha OPL3-SA3 sound card, which incorporates the following: Sound Blaster Pro compatibility Windows Sound System compatibility for higher quality digitized sound OPL3 for FM synthesis Some kind of built-in MIDI chip separate from the OPL3. If you're in Windows 9x and you have the …

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Re: Midi playback, how to ?

Posted on 2016-10-19, 03:37

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by keenmaster486

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What sound card do you have? Note what I said above: But another thing: OPL3 never comes on its own; it's always tacked on to some other sound card. So your card is not an OPL3 but something else. Probably some kind of SB16 clone or variant. Knowing what sound card you have will help us because we …

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Re: Midi playback, how to ?

Posted on 2016-10-19, 03:01

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by keenmaster486

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Well, trying to play MIDI files out of an OPL3 is, more often than not, akin to trying to play a Beethoven symphony with a harmonica. It does, of course, depend on the player; some are much better than others. But since the OPL3 is not an actual MIDI device, but, instead an FM synthesis chip, you're …

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