Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2019-04-07, 14:28
386_junkie wrote: Whats an "Ultrabook"? here
Re: Audiophile PCI sound card for dos games under 9x?
Posted on 2019-04-07, 07:57
Creative Audigy, Aureal Vortex 2, Yamaha YMF754 - all of them resample the audio to 48kHz and do that quite roughly. 48kHz is not optimal for DOS games with 22kHz and early win9x games with mixed 22/44 kHz sample rates. Digital output could be problematic too, because it's also usually limited to …
Re: Audiophile PCI sound card for dos games under 9x?
Posted on 2019-04-06, 07:39
What about the Audigy II Platinum EX? It does have TI/BurrBrown DACs in the external box. https://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/creative-sound-blaster-audigy2-platinum-ex,1.html No, its not really that good. Its useable at best. Rather muddy and flat sounding like the rest of the audigys. At lest …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-04-05, 05:00
Hopefully you took some precautions before poking around inside that monitor... :neutral: And the pair of Adaptec SCSI controllers I have no way of testing, since I don't have any devices to connect to them. If they have a SCSI BIOS, you should be able to test them partially - the controller itself …
Re: Sound Blaster CT4810 echo??
Posted on 2019-03-28, 19:11
No checkboxes?
Re: A cheap way (DIY) to send MIDI from Game Port to USB?
Posted on 2019-03-28, 06:47
Without the optocouplers the adapter is out of spec, AFAIK. Now you have the chance of causing a ground loop, which is not a good thing for your audio quality.
Re: Good LED display to use with DOS gaming ?
Posted on 2019-03-27, 07:02
bofh.fromhell wrote: Intel486dx33 wrote: What is a good LED display to use with DOS gaming ? I like the old 5:4 Dell's, like the 19/1705FP's They scale pretty good and have DVI as a bonus. Their pre-DVI LCDs also work well. Some minor scaling issues with low resolutions, but they do display them.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-03-27, 07:00
I dont have the riser card :( This is my oldest PC so I dont know much about it. It has inetgrates 512Kb graphics and extra 512Kb added, its the max amount. Processor is i483DX and 2x4Mb RAM. It was a lucky find for 10Euros + 3EURO postage :) The battery is dead, I will replace it. My othet build …
Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client
Posted on 2019-03-27, 06:40
Of course, the real limitations of this project will be in the hardware you will likely run this on. On a 486 you'd be limited to a 10Mbit LAN connection at the fastest, while your text editor's speed will be further limited by the amount of memory it requires (and OS limitations). I also don't have …
Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client
Posted on 2019-03-26, 20:04
Windows has a Terminal emulation program (aptly called "Terminal") as well as a Telnet client (called "Telnet"). Windows also has a web browser, called "Internet Explorer". But we don't use that because it cannot access any modern websites. The terminal would have to support SSH and be open source …
Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client
Posted on 2019-03-26, 19:06
Sounds reasonably good. Question: What about adding a terminal window to issue commands while logged into the server? Oh, that's a good idea. A terminal is a whole other project, though, and ought to be developed separately and integrated into the editor. Windows has a Terminal emulation program ( …
Re: A cheap way (DIY) to send MIDI from Game Port to USB?
Posted on 2019-03-26, 06:49
Thanks Cyclone but the whole point is to make it with Arduino, and not having to buy USB interfaces, or Gameport-MIDI cables. Just one DB-15 male connector, maybe some optoisolator, an Arduino board, and a Micro-USB cable. Oh, this post should be in MIDI Emulation https://www.vogons.org/viewforum. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-03-26, 06:45
I also attempted to install some sound banks using MIDI-OX and it shows as dump/received!! but it's not loading for some reason. The FB01 Sound Editor software refuses to open those SYX files for an odd reason. Sound banks obtained from here: http://mmmazes.blogspot.com/2010/05/fb-01-patches.html …
Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client
Posted on 2019-03-25, 18:36
I think this would be an exercise in futility. The system requirements on non-trivial git repositories are huge, and git is written as a conglomerate of bash scripts, C code and other bits, that porting it to DOS would be a nightmare. Better to use a network share and have ANY modern machine (maybe …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-03-25, 18:28
Wow, that's a new low in shitty packing. That's like smashing a rare vase so it can be shipped in a smaller box. What the F... was that seller thinking (did he think?)? I'd neg that seller right away, even if the cards weren't shown in the picture.
Re: Media Vision PAS16P Poping sound ?
Posted on 2019-03-25, 14:27
Could be something as simple as a dirty output connector (or the card is just quite noisy).
Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client
Posted on 2019-03-25, 06:59
As for supporting uploading to Git repositories, very bad idea to make it OS-dependent anyway - better to build the support right into the program. Plenty of ways to do this. It is not OS dependent. Git uses your OS for communicating with the outside world. In the case of Git repositories such as …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-03-25, 06:25
I have the same setup but it cost me more than $25. Good deal. It was initially offered for around 100 USD. A few days later the seller dropped the price to 25 USD to gain some interest. It needed around 2 hours of cleaning. Especially the gross keyboard was a challenge but it is a really capable …
Re: Idea: a Sublime-like code editor for Win 3.1/9x with Git client
Posted on 2019-03-24, 18:56
keenmaster486 wrote: Gee, wouldn’t this be nice? If I or someone else wrote a program like this would people use it? I sure would. ...except that most Git repositories stopped supporting the SSH protocols that Win 3.x can use, so good luck with that.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-03-24, 08:57
Okay, so I knew of the candy Apple iMac-like PC cases from around 2000, but never knew they made monitors in the same style. Actually, I think most candy PC cases look better than that monitor foot... 🤣
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