Re: I'm new here, from South Africa, ask me anything
Posted on 2020-04-24, 21:39
Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-24, 18:43: appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-23, 17:14: One of us! One of us! You’re South African or a non Facebook user? I actively avoid Facebook.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-24, 18:10
I also happen to have one of these cards (Zoltrix Audio Plus 6400 3D PnP V.5 AV310 - quite a mouthful indeed), but I never thought much of it because its OPL3 Synth is considered to be particularly subpar . I should certainly try it out sometime! I take that back, the CMI FM Synth is PRETTY cloes …
Re: Chances of this chip being 100% original?
Posted on 2020-04-24, 15:34
Sorry my bad 😁
Re: Chances of this chip being 100% original?
Posted on 2020-04-24, 14:37
all yamaha chips I got from china were remarked ^^ I bought a lot of GAL chips from china once, and since it was leftover stock apparently still in the original packaging the image was exactly what I got :) a lot of the yamaha chips from europe are the same remarked ones as from china, I guess they …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-24, 12:28
derSammler wrote on 2020-04-24, 11:42: appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-24, 10:02: No, there was no Retrocengo contribution it is 100% local made here in Turkey. Even the name suggests this is a clone of Thorsten Schubert's "D520 HDMI Converter". No, the name is derived fromt he A520 RF modulator. It's …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-24, 10:02
That upscaler sir.... That is fantastic. Is Retrocengo perhaps involved in some way? I am really looking forward to hearing more about it. How well does it perform and what might the end price be, if it goes on sale somewere? No, there was no Retrocengo contribution it is 100% local made here in …
Re: Retro OSes for retro computers
Posted on 2020-04-24, 07:50
kolderman wrote on 2020-04-24, 07:43: MATE is Gnome2. It is not. It is a fork of Gnome 2 and that does not make them the same thing.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-24, 07:48
Well, neither of these are 'retro' hardware but they are for retro computers. First is an HDMI Upscaler for my Amiga 500; this is a limited run project we collaborated on with the Turkish Commodore/Amiga scene, and the end result is simply fantastic. I will post photos and videos of it in action …
Re: Chances of this chip being 100% original?
Posted on 2020-04-24, 05:54
Try rubbing it with a cotton swab drenched in isopropyl alcohol, if you get black paint coming off it's 100% fake.
Re: Slot A thunderbirds
Posted on 2020-04-23, 21:27
I came into this topic, and read it all, and was preparing to post "Oh, I also have a Thunderbird 700", but then I checked my inventory and I actually have a Pluto 800, for better or worse.. https://i.postimg.cc/6QP35k5t/AMD-Athlon-800-B.jpg I plan to put together a Win98/2K dual boot system some …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-04-23, 21:20
Today I've spent hours trying to get SLI running with two Voodoo II's and it just doesn't work. First I had just two of them: A Creative CT6670 and a PowerColor. Both of them work fine individually, but in SLI mode my screen just turns itself off and the computer locks up. On the PowerColor I …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-23, 20:10
it's probably easier and cheaper to find a coppermine board ^^ but yeah I'm not that hyped about dual tualatins either, because that would require me to get two of them... Well, if you aren't after -S variants, things like the P3-1200 aren't that terribly rare, I have two. I just don't think I'll …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-23, 18:59
I really want a dual Socket 370 one day, even if it is a Mendocino only board I can run dual Celeron 533s on. I want to run Windows 2000 on it..
Re: I'm new here, from South Africa, ask me anything
Posted on 2020-04-23, 17:14
Re: I'm new here, from South Africa, ask me anything
Posted on 2020-04-22, 13:12
and I'd guess those are definitely not bootlegs? x3 No they are not, they retain basically the entire original copy protection in the case of Amiga games for example. They were definitely licensed because only particular developers' games were in the market, USGOLD, Sierra and Lucasarts for example …
Re: I'm new here, from South Africa, ask me anything
Posted on 2020-04-22, 12:55
Did you, in the late 80s and early 90s, have strange releases of original games for the local market? Here in Turkey a local retailer sold original games in Betamax casette boxes with Black & White manuals. They later went even cheaper and sold the games in plastic shrinkwrap with no boxes at all. I …
Re: Help deciding on a sound card
Posted on 2020-04-22, 12:51
4238 is probably a 3D integrated version of the 4237 and not the 4235 which was actually corrected in 4236. 4236/4237 both have very good FM Synthesis (even though it is distinctly different from Yamaha OPL3) so stick with the onboard sound chip for best compatibility and quality of the stuff you …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-04-22, 08:57
Just a single card today - but an interesting one. Top in this picture is the AudioExcel AV310 I already had, below the new acquisition. 15875065682960.jpg CMI8330 cards are always welcome - I like their SBPro2+SB16 support and bug-free MIDI (and can forgive iffy FM). But take a look under the MIDI …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-04-21, 17:02
Nobody said otherwise.
Re: Cyrix appreciation thread
Posted on 2020-04-21, 12:16
mwdmeyer wrote on 2020-04-21, 10:56: Yes I always wondered if the Cyrix would be better than a Pentium for things like Starcraft and other RTS games. I'd need to do some testing at some stage. The problem is that while it may be better, Pentium is good enough for those, while Cyrix is not even …
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