VOGONS

Common searches


Search results

Display options

Re: Is there Anyone "Overpaying" for Hardware and Proud of it? Well, maybe not Proud, but...

I am willing to pay "reasonable" prices. What is reasonable has increased substantially over the past couple decades as old parts go from "garbage" to "vintage" status. Sometimes I have to look at ebay sold prices (not completed) for a reality check. Fortunately I already have everything I need and …

Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

in Milliways
I feel like you guys are overreacting. :-) I for one am pretty confident that, at least during our lifetimes, most of the old hardware will continue to work just fine. Furthermore, if most of the common faults (i.e. faulty caps, resistors, diodes, voltage regulators, damaged traces, etc) can be …

Re: Sound card issues with hardware acceleration

Reveal SC400. It predated Windows 95, so no DirectSound with the supplied drivers. When you have the hardware acceleration set to anything other than none, DirectSound is used by Windows at a minimum to mix the output regardless. At least that's my understanding. There are multiple Soundscape …

Re: Sound card issues with hardware acceleration

It's literally in the title... https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/directsound Like I said before, I had the same problem in the past. I was partially incorrect in that it is possible to have a VXD driver with DirectSound support. Unfortunately my crappy sound card did not. The result was …

Page 12 of 22