Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2020-04-12, 19:53

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Do they not sound exactly the same. Is not the only difference that the OPL3 has stereo?, and when using OPL2 games, will not the sound be the same? OPL3 has more voices, but is 100% backwards compatible. However, with Adlib/OPL2 you actually can't have the same amount of polyphony as OPL3, so it …

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2020-04-12, 05:06

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Jinxter wrote on 2020-04-11, 19:20: matze79 wrote on 2020-04-11, 19:08: Yeah opl2lpt rocks! Great Device!!! It there any reason so choose the OPL2LPT over the OPL3LPT? Price maybe, also authentic OPL2 if you want adlib sound.

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

Posted on 2020-04-11, 17:34

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I've messed around with OS/2 Warp 4 at length and brought the kernel up to Warp 4.5 level and ultimately wiped it clean. I had a few reasons; first, Warp 4 was not an OS I was nostalgic to begin with as I was a Warp 3 user primarily, and second it did not grow on me as I thought it would. So in the …

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Re: G550 info

Posted on 2020-04-11, 07:00

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DX6/7 in particular was a very fluid transition and I know of few DX7 gamed that wont run on DX6 hardware. DX8 was a different beast.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-10, 12:10

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buff wrote on 2020-04-10, 11:59: Who was the reseller? Looks nice It's local..

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-10, 11:58

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Got myself a modern white ATX case from a distressed importer for around $15; I will be building a reverse-sleeper Windows 2000/98 dual boot build in it. https://i.postimg.cc/nC8Y9Jnj/ATX-Case-2-01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Yh1N1sSX/ATX-Case-2-03.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/Xr4fxkGn/ATX-Case-2-02.jpg Do …

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Re: Modem usage

Posted on 2020-04-10, 07:15

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jmarsh wrote on 2020-04-10, 04:12: In rare cases you can connect two modems directly and tell them not to rely on dialtone being present but it's not guaranteed to work at all. There's really no advantage compared to a null modem connection.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-10, 06:38

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kolderman wrote on 2020-04-09, 22:39: Industrial CF cards are the way to go. I have several used ones and they have been rock solid and stable. Branded cards such as Kingston, Sandisk are also good IME; just don't rely on Chinese knock off products.

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-04-10, 06:31

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ES1869 is basically ES1868 with an integrated 3D Spatializer. It requires different drivers but it is virtually the same chip otherwise. Your card lacks a joystick port, wavetable header and an IDE connector but for basic SB Pro compatibility, decent PCM audio and ESFM music it is a decent card.

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Duke3D 640x480 hardware requirements?

Posted on 2020-04-09, 18:27

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What does it take to run Duke3D at 640x480? Fast ALU? Fast FPU? Fast VGA? On a whim I ran it on my Cyrix 6x86MX PR233 and Matrox Millennium and it seemed to run perfectly to my amazement. I always thought this game requirred PII and beyond for VESA modes so what gives? Was I wrong?

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-04-08, 08:25

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Did you get this from AliExpress? Do you have any capture samples you can share? Does it automatically upscale, or can that be turned off or set to integer scaling?

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Re: Windows 2000 20th Anniversary Client/server build

Posted on 2020-04-07, 15:52

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Windows 2000 is my favorite Windows release ever. It has compatibility with most 98SE games and most XP games, is as solid as XP and runs on a lot leaner hardware. It is also rock solid. Windows 2000 / RedHat Linux dual boot was what I lived on until Windows 7 was released. (Ok, I cheated, I used XP …

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Re: Software Compatibility on AMD K5 CPU

Posted on 2020-04-07, 15:27

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Most K5s need 3.52V instead of the 3.3V of the classic Pentiums. From my experience, late AMD K5 and IDT Wihchip C6 does not require stated voltages to work stable. I always ran mine at 3.5V. I think the later revisions with the die shrink are fine on 3.3V but original revision silicon like the …

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

Posted on 2020-04-07, 14:03

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kolderman wrote on 2020-04-07, 06:33: I find novert to be fine. I find it to work fine as well. For a while. Until it doesn't..

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-07, 11:21

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SB2.0 is nice but definitely not awesomerer than a Blasterboard.

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Re: G550 info

Posted on 2020-04-07, 11:18

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No, the G550 is a DX8 card. (while in German, see here for specs: https://www.hartware.de/2002/01/15/matrox-millennium-g550/) Vertex shader is there. As I wrote, the G550 is not for gaming. G450 has no OpenGL support. A very limited OpenGL library was made way after it's release that only supported …

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Re: G550 info

Posted on 2020-04-07, 09:01

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BigDaddyM wrote on 2020-04-07, 08:57: G550 is DX6 card too, vertex shader will not be used in games. I think G450 has OpenGL support They are both DX7 (I see mentions of DX6 online but I think they are DX7 - if not someone correct me please) cards and both have OpenGL ICDs.

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Re: Choose between these two graphics cards

Posted on 2020-04-07, 08:43

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If you want to play DX8/9 games use the 9600PRO, if you want to play DOS and DX5/6/7 games then pick the FX5600

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Re: G550 info

Posted on 2020-04-07, 07:41

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G450/550 is a good PCI choice for i810 boards.

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Re: Software Compatibility on AMD K5 CPU

Posted on 2020-04-07, 06:39

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I used a K5 PR166 for quite a while and never had any issues with that..

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