Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-09-23, 21:50

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by Bancho

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Dropped my EWS64s with a 32mb simm into my 200mmx machine. 3 cards in total now, EWS64s, SW60XG and a Combo OPL3/4 card. The EWS offers the flexibility with the loadable soundfonts in DOS Testing out some soundfonts with midi's 😊

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Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter

Posted on 2017-09-20, 17:35

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I would like to reserve one if at all possible!

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-26, 19:42

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by Bancho

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Woah, that's a really nice card to be using for MB testing. Always good to have a couple M64s to sacrifice if necessary. It was just a card that I had to hand at that moment. Didn't fancy going through my box of cards. Thinking about it, your right - i should of used one of the spare MX's or Rages …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-26, 19:28

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Decided to test out My Abit VP6 board today. I've had it for months but never got round to testing it. Turned out to live up to its reputation regarding the caps :lol: It has 2 1Ghz Coppermine CPUs installed, 512mb ram and Elsa Gladiac 920 (GF3). Set the board up and powered it on. http://i.imgur. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-09, 21:08

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by Bancho

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These arrived today. Voodoo 3 2000 16mb PCI, Creative Labs GeForce 256 Annihilator Pro 32mb DDR, Creative Labs 3D Annihilator 2 GeForce 2 GTS 32mb and a Pioneer 105S. I now have both the DDR and SDR variants of the Geforce 256 :happy: http://i.imgur.com/mu4u1aPl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/feztq05l.jpg

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-28, 19:00

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This card arrived today which i won for 99p off ebay. Looks like a nice little card. ESS ES1869F with wavetable onboard.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-07-24, 21:33

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Finally found the time to test the main part of my next project. Its a ECS Elite UMC UM8810PAIO Rev 2.1. It came with the 1.2 Voltage regulator and PS2 port. I had a Its ST DX266 to test out. Set the board up with 2x8mb Sims but it would not post. After some reading of the manual, J10 needs all the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-03, 20:00

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Just some Sound cards today. Labway ESS Solo-1 and what i think is a Miro Connect 34 Wave Minus the Modem Module.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-29, 19:37

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by Bancho

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Two more cards arrived today. ATI Rage Fury Maxx and 3DFX Voodoo 4500 AGP

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-27, 10:17

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This arrived the other day. Guillemot 3D Prophet Geforce 256. Not sure if it is DDR or SDR.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-14, 20:42

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by Bancho

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This Socket 3 board showed up today. ECS Elite UMC UM8810PAIO Rev 2.1. Comes with the Voltage regulator board and ports. Looking forward to putting a machine together around this.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-06-08, 19:07

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Just some graphics cards. 2x Innovision Mighty Banshee 16mb SGRAM boards and a Inno 3d GF2 MX400 64mb PCI.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-05-11, 20:39

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by Bancho

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Spotted this on my general browse of ebay. Was listed incorrectly. When i spotted the OPL chip i had to buy it. £5 shipped. Sound Blaster CT2940

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Re: My Socket 7 Pentium MMX build

Posted on 2017-05-04, 20:09

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by Bancho

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What are you planning on doing with yours? I see you have empty ISA slots there, which is a terrible sin :evil: Have you considered the Creative GoldFinch? They're a neat way of adding AWE and another sound font option (Windows 9x) if you're looking for a project. Thanks for sharing. Mainly playing …

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Re: My Socket 7 Pentium MMX build

Posted on 2017-05-03, 21:36

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Well i've made a change to the system again and its with the sound. It Yamaha loaded this time! I won a brand new Sealed SW60XG off ebay which i bought for this machine. I wanted to pair it up with my OPL3/OPL4 combo card to make a really great flexible setup in the sound dept. http://i.imgur.com/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-27, 07:54

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This arrived this morning after much anticipation! Sealed Yamaha SW60XG. Part of me want's to keep it sealed but i also want to use it for my socket 7 machine.

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Re: My Socket 7 Pentium MMX build

Posted on 2017-04-01, 16:26

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Well made a few more changes to the machine. I had a 16mb Module to replace the 8mb currently installed in the Sound Card. Fitted the module and was it detected fine. http://i.imgur.com/nEDRT3Kl.jpg I also replaced the PSU with a 230watt AT model. I can now use the Power Switch which gives that …

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Re: My Socket 7 Pentium MMX build

Posted on 2017-03-14, 22:41

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Well i made some changes to the machine today. Seeing as i've got another build in the pipeline i wanted to use the DB50XG for that build. I had these two sound cards which i planned on fitting. A Terratec EWS64s with 8MB ram and A Yamaha OPL3/4. http://i.imgur.com/nvU5js9l.jpg I installed the EWS64 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-14, 19:00

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This showed up this morning and will be going into my 200mmx machine. Terratec EWS64s card with an unknown size simm module. Came with manuals but unfortunately no Driver CD. Does anyone have this they could upload or know where I can get it? http://i.imgur.com/P36cDrql.jpg That's a nice one. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-13, 13:13

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by Bancho

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This showed up this morning and will be going into my 200mmx machine. Terratec EWS64s card with an unknown size simm module. Came with manuals but unfortunately no Driver CD. Does anyone have this they could upload or know where I can get it?

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