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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2023-07-26, 15:21

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Is it that 3D virtual thing, which creates the noise? I just plugged it in again and gave it another spin. I didn't bother to put a wavetable on. I just don't like the sound of it. It isn't background noise, it is the actual sound output. I stuck the CT3980 back in. It isn't perfect, but I like it …

Does this Forum have a trade section?

Posted on 2023-07-26, 15:00

in Milliways

in Milliways

As per title. Is there a trade section here? Sorry if it is obvious and I just missed it....

Re: Pentium 3 1 GHz Tualatin or P3 1 GHZ Coppermine for Voodoo 3 200 agp card

Posted on 2023-07-26, 09:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My main era of interest is the whole late Win 98se era. From late 97 to 2001. I myself approach this purely from the practical point of view: Sort out XP compatible stuff... Much left? Why does it need Win98se? DX version, hardware specific stuff, audio, OS, ...? I also still have a 4200 ti in a …

Re: Pentium 3 1 GHz Tualatin or P3 1 GHZ Coppermine for Voodoo 3 200 agp card

Posted on 2023-07-26, 08:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As I am not aware of the intention of this build, I find it hard to make a suggestion. I can just add a somewhat perplexing observation that I made many years ago when I tried to pick a base for a Voodoo 5500 AGP. As a base for comparison, I used the game "European Air War". I moved the card from P3 …

Re: Best Sound card choice for Yamaha DB50XG or use with 2 card?

Posted on 2023-07-26, 06:19

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

To be honest, I am not sure if it seems worth the trouble. At the moment, I am using a SB32AWE CT2760 with an XR385( yamaha DB clone). This basically runs my stuff "out of the box". BUT... The card is rather noisy (1701-T), it has the hanging notes bug, it is not truely SBpro compatible, Dos drivers …

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2023-07-26, 05:45

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

So you made a new card with less noise? Or is there a trick to make the old one run more quiet?

Re: Best Sound card choice for Yamaha DB50XG or use with 2 card?

Posted on 2023-07-25, 22:15

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I am currently facing a similar problem. I would like to find a solution to include a standard yamaha clone board. A one-card solution for me would likely have an ES1868 as base. But I would also like to use a SB 16/32 combatible card like the AWE 64 Gold. I am wondering if I could manage to run …

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2023-07-25, 22:06

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Kind of funny, I am on page 2 of this thread, from 13 years ago. Ist there still an interest in that CMI 8330 card? I still don't like it.

Re: Plans for benchmarking 400 MHz

Posted on 2012-05-06, 11:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

is 500mhz early? I couldn't run One Must Fall on that one. No, they were the among the latest. They had already relabled the lower multipliers for high values. I have a K6-2 300 AFR, which was one of the fastest K6-2 CPUs which would still clock at lower speeds. I can't drag myself to try if it …

Re: Plans for benchmarking 400 MHz

Posted on 2012-05-05, 19:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sure you see the difference in loop times. Just look at my post again: "Depending on what you do..." And when it comes to loop counting, the p2 wins. So where am I wrong?

Re: Plans for benchmarking 400 MHz

Posted on 2012-05-05, 08:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Indeed. Depending on what you do, a P2-266 can beat a K6-2 500. Run a turbo Pascal game eith RT200 error. The p2 is fast enough to cause the error, the K6-2 is not.

Re: Voodoo 5500 cooling

Posted on 2012-05-02, 16:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a "dead one" too, but that one is far more cooperative. It even enters 3D on non-cloackspread systems but shows a broken mouse cursor in some games. I may bake it too. But the other is still doing fine.

Re: Voodoo 5500 cooling

Posted on 2012-05-01, 20:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What did it do to say "I am dead"?

Re: Help me to identify an old 486 motherboard

Posted on 2012-05-01, 14:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That Dallas Clock chip spells trouble.

Re: Voodoo 5500 cooling

Posted on 2012-05-01, 11:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It certainly would have been nice if 3dfx had used slightly beefier heatsinks. There's not much surface area there. But my 80x15mm fan on 5v has worked fine. I set this up years ago. http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/3906/voodoo580mm.th.jpg I cool mine the same way. Just that I have a much larger …

Re: Voodoo 2 SLI on AMD K6-2+ Dos / Win9x Gaming

Posted on 2012-04-29, 10:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting table. It confirms my own conclusion, that P1 and 486 remain much more responsive when you start to peel away the cache. With a P2 or P3 you basically drop back to a fast 286 once you turn off L1. And nothing else really matters there. Still, there is some good software to do to the …

Re: AWE32 CT3980 vs CT3990

Posted on 2012-04-28, 20:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When it comes to PnP vs fiddling around with settings until you get it right, then I'll go with PnP That is funny, because I'd see it exactly the opposite way. With pre-pnp YOU choose IRQ and DMA and are not at the mercy of your PC bios. I don't go out of my way to collect every single part number …

Re: AWE32 CT3980 vs CT3990

Posted on 2012-04-28, 17:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

While we are at it: If you have a choice between CT3980 and CT2760, which one would you choose? Both have "opl inside" chips, both have a midi daughter board connector, and neither has the hexen plague. The CT2760 is configurable by software and has to have IRQ and DMA reserved in Bios, the other is …

Re: Voodoo 5500 cooling

Posted on 2012-04-28, 12:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, 3dfx chips are hot by default. I did this: I removed the two small fans (too loud) and replaced them with one 12 or 14 inch fan. I used a large cable binder to fix the fan on the card, running the binder round the long side of the card. Then I used hot glue to fix the fan to the cable binder. …

Re: can himem and emm386 manage 256MB of ram?

Posted on 2012-04-28, 11:48

in DOS

in DOS

Privateer develops audio problems with 16 MB EMS. Limit EMS to 12 MB and it works.

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