Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-28, 00:34

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by Ozzuneoj

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What do you guys think... does it look like anything? I know the WD MFM controller can be a good thing to have (even if it doesn't work it might be useful to repair another one that I have that doesn't work), but that big board has so much stuff on it... if its worthless I could still probably …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-27, 21:25

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by Ozzuneoj

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Woohoo... I've had some great purchases lately. Just stumbled upon this one 5 minutes ago on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/281980446107?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Immediately noticed an old soundblaster, turns out its a CT1600 Sound Blaster Pro 2, there's a Voodoo 3 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-27, 21:04

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by Ozzuneoj

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Woohoo... I've had some great purchases lately. Just stumbled upon this one 5 minutes ago on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/281980446107?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Immediately noticed an old soundblaster, turns out its a CT1600 Sound Blaster Pro 2, there's a Voodoo 3 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-26, 20:12

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by Ozzuneoj

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I believe the SYXG50 was a software XG midi synthesizer. It was included with Final Fantasy 7 for PC and was actually pretty sweet... Aha! I just realized that the driver CDs for both motherboards I got actually come with this software, which would explain why the COA from Yamaha can be found in …

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra CT2940 (with OPL3) compatible with CT1922?

Posted on 2016-03-26, 03:03

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by Ozzuneoj

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Woohoo! I got it working! My totally uneducated guess would be that the MBPro header does something "strange" with the Line In left and right signals, or is expecting something different than what the Goldfinch header is sending out. When I connect from the Goldfinch to the CD-IN connector (the …

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra CT2940 (with OPL3) compatible with CT1922?

Posted on 2016-03-26, 01:20

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by Ozzuneoj

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Okay, I found the driver on that page... somehow overlooked it because it was a CD image. Anyway, I got my cards... and they are definitely brand new! They are marked CT1920 (not CT1922), and are basically identical to all the pictures online. I created a cable to connect the MBPro header on my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-25, 22:06

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by Ozzuneoj

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I just picked up a pile of old hardware on eBay. I only knew some of what was included, and it was worth the money ($20+$12 shipping)... here is what ended up being in the lot: Three motherboard boxes: One: A nearly-new Asus A7V motherboard (Socket A, Via KT133, PC-133, ATX), that looks like it was …

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Re: 10 Reasons for a Pentium 4 Windows 98 DOS Retro Gaming PC :)

Posted on 2016-03-25, 21:58

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by Ozzuneoj

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I've been planning to resurrect an old board I was given in a junk machine years ago. Its a micro ATX Socket 423 board with an original first-run 1.7Ghz Pentium 4. I know these aren't super rare, but it is the only Socket 423 system I've ever come across personally. It supports ECC SDRAM in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-25, 17:42

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by Ozzuneoj

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I just picked up a pile of old hardware on eBay. I only knew some of what was included, and it was worth the money ($20+$12 shipping)... here is what ended up being in the lot: Three motherboard boxes: One: A nearly-new Asus A7V motherboard (Socket A, Via KT133, PC-133, ATX), that looks like it was …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2016-03-24, 22:29

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by Ozzuneoj

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Is there a way to choose which PCI video card will be used when I boot my system? I've never honestly bothered running multiple video cards in the same interface before, and certainly never in DOS. I have an STB Velocity 3D (Virge VX) installed for best DOS game compatibility, but it'd be nice to …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2016-03-24, 18:16

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by Ozzuneoj

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Is the MIllennium II backward compatible? I have both. I think my Millennium (1) has a memory expansion installed as well. No, it's not. Okay, good to know. I just tossed in my Millenium with the 4MB expansion memory, installed the CDROM version of Nascar Racing, loaded it up with the Matrox …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2016-03-24, 17:29

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I apologize if this was mentioned somewhere already, but which Matrox cards are capable of 3D acceleration in Nascar Racing? I have a few older ones, and I just bought a (brand new, sealed!) copy of the game on eBay. I'd loooove to get my hands on an NV1 of course, but that isn't likely to happen …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2016-03-24, 13:18

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I apologize if this was mentioned somewhere already, but which Matrox cards are capable of 3D acceleration in Nascar Racing? I have a few older ones, and I just bought a (brand new, sealed!) copy of the game on eBay. I'd loooove to get my hands on an NV1 of course, but that isn't likely to happen... …

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra CT2940 (with OPL3) compatible with CT1922?

Posted on 2016-03-23, 20:56

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by Ozzuneoj

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I've looked in the Vogons Drivers and the only files I can find for the Goldfinch are the Windows 3.1 and 95 drivers in this collection: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=13 Also, what mixer would you recommend? This is totally new territory for me...

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Re: Worst video card ever, again

Posted on 2016-03-23, 19:13

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by Ozzuneoj

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While probably not the worst ever, the Geforce FX 5600 was pretty bad. When my eVGA Geforce 4 Ti 4400 128MB died, I sent it in for RMA and they sent me the FX 5600 256MB as a replacement. This card was awful. Everything was slower... EVERYTHING. I can't remember how it compared to the 4400 in price …

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra CT2940 (with OPL3) compatible with CT1922?

Posted on 2016-03-23, 16:43

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by Ozzuneoj

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Woo hoo, managed to get two of these, brand new from eBay for $22 shipped. No cables sadly, but it looks like I'll be cobbling something together one way or another anyway. Is there any reason that the MBPro to Goldfinch idea I posted above wouldn't work? Also, what kind of software do I need to get …

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra CT2940 (with OPL3) compatible with CT1922?

Posted on 2016-03-22, 21:47

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by Ozzuneoj

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Thanks for that! I found an extremely useful page with what looks like the pinouts for almost any Creative sound card under the sun: http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?sid=3026 Also, since things tend to go "missing" online (like all of the references I keep finding to "Quest Studios" …

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra CT2940 (with OPL3) compatible with CT1922?

Posted on 2016-03-22, 18:52

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by Ozzuneoj

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Would one of the aux inputs work? Also, where can I find a pinout for the ct1922's various connectors? Thanks so much for the help!

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra CT2940 (with OPL3) compatible with CT1922?

Posted on 2016-03-22, 13:39

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by Ozzuneoj

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So... Which is it? :) Seems like a picture of the goldfinch connector on the 2940 or on another card would settle this. I don't have a goldfinch card and I can't find much online about them so I don't know to look for. This is similar to my card (except mine has the IDE connector and the row of five …

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Sound Blaster Vibra CT2940 (with OPL3) compatible with CT1922?

Posted on 2016-03-22, 01:29

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by Ozzuneoj

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I have a couple of CT2940 cards and one has the Yamaha OPL3 chip. I was really amazed to find out recently that this is a pretty awesome card to have and is considered by some to be one of the best options out there for a good all-around ISA sound card for DOS games. It is currently being used in my …

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