Re: Curious Crystal 8-bit ISA midi card, help identifying?
Posted on 2019-04-09, 06:07
Look at that S/N 153437 - where are those other 150,000 cards!!!
Re: ForteMedia FM801 FM Synthesis
Posted on 2019-04-09, 05:25
Yeah, I've known about Frequency Monster for a while now. I was so pleasantly surprised by FM801 really, great compatibility, decent FM, optical out. I wish it supported A3D or EAX of some kind, but what was deal breaker for me was that it had no hardware or software MIDI Synth that worked in a DOS …
Re: Curious Crystal 8-bit ISA midi card, help identifying?
Posted on 2019-04-08, 21:29
I don't know what this car's name is but I know I envy it.
ForteMedia FM801 FM Synthesis
Posted on 2019-04-08, 21:18
The very few and scarce sources I found on the internet about this chipset led me to believe that its OPL3 implementation was horrible. I like to try horrible things out, so it was the first card I tried on the current i815 PC I am messing around with. Not only did noth the FM Synthesis and PCM …
Re: Poor 3D performance with PCI graphics cards on i815 Compaq Deskpro
Posted on 2019-04-08, 10:02
If I actually had a spare PCI slot I would have added a Voodoo 2 in a heartbeat; got none though. I do have a Radoen 7000 PCI and a Radeon 9250 PCI that I could use, but GF2MX400 PCI will do OK I think, 800x600 Quake 3 High is fairly playable and I don't plan on using this for more taxing games. …
Re: Poor 3D performance with PCI graphics cards on i815 Compaq Deskpro
Posted on 2019-04-07, 22:39
cxm717 wrote: On the G450 PCI in quake2 try setting gl_dynamic to 0. That made a big difference on my G450 PCI. Seemed to be only quake2 that was that much slower on the PCI version of the card. Then I lose dynamic lighting though?
Re: Poor 3D performance with PCI graphics cards on i815 Compaq Deskpro
Posted on 2019-04-07, 20:00
Well, I dropped the G450 PCI back in and in 3DMark 2000 it got 2028 points. Quake 3 High 800x600 was 31 fps, so it's a wash really. G450 has IMMENSELY better VGA output though, and I would have normally kept that in, but no driver that I tried (which had G450 support) seemed to work well with Quake …
Re: Poor 3D performance with PCI graphics cards on i815 Compaq Deskpro
Posted on 2019-04-07, 10:12
Well, I guess I found the major issue here: The RAM on my MX400 is 240MHz 64-bit as opposed to 166MHz 128-bit; that is effectively 28% slower RAM / less bandwidth. Add to this that it is on a PCI Bus, so it probably can't make very good use of the hardware T&L either.. I'm thinking of going back to …
Poor 3D performance with PCI graphics cards on i815 Compaq Deskpro
Posted on 2019-04-06, 14:54
I have a Compaq Deskpro EN-SFF (i815, P3-1000, 384MB PC133 RAM) that I am messing around with It has no AGP slots (the AGP is used by onboard TNT2 Pro on some boards, mine lacks it) so I was upgrading it via PCI graphics cards. First I installed a Matrox G450 PCI, and thought it would handle Quake 3 …
Re: ITT: You pick the parts and I build the 1990-1992 486
Posted on 2019-04-04, 20:01
how likely am I to run into VLB troubles with it? Im putting together a 40Mhz fsb system currently and VLB video is not giving me any issues. Im only using it for video, though, and all other cards are ISA. The trade I went for fell through; if I had indeed been able to get the DX40 chip it would …
Re: Best off the shelf spray paint for beige computer cases
Posted on 2019-04-04, 11:36
RAL color codes are universal and you can find these colors manufactured by many brands in places like hardware and auto part stores. I was looking at Montana Gold sprays the other day as they are very very high quality and have great adherence to plastic even without primer, and I noticed two that …
Re: Best way to transfer files over a network in Windows 95?
Posted on 2019-04-03, 15:15
IDE to Compact Flash is also an option..
Re: Best off the shelf spray paint for beige computer cases
Posted on 2019-04-03, 13:58
keenmaster486 wrote: I tried Rustoleum Almond appliance surface paint, and it was definitely too yellow for my tastes. Probably not what the original color was either. Rustoleum Almond is often referred to for painting Amiga 500 cases and early C1084/S monitors which have a definite brown tint to …
Re: Best off the shelf spray paint for beige computer cases
Posted on 2019-04-03, 13:49
Here's a little comparison I did for some RAL paint codes; I compared them to the three most commonly referred to spray paints on the market as well as the color of my Deskpro EN from my own photographs. Long story short: Oyster WHite seems to be a good match for the older, really beige 80s to early …
Re: HW for Pentium 166 Mhz
Posted on 2019-04-03, 06:46
dionb, i haven't researched it yet, but maybe it's a perfect way to create a 192MB ramdisk on that part of ram that isn't cached? ... and i just tried it out, and it works well! I'm using XMSDSK to allocate TOP 192MB of XMS memory for ramdrive therefore leaving bottom 64MB for Windows. And it works …
Re: Best off the shelf spray paint for beige computer cases
Posted on 2019-04-03, 06:44
is there some RAL Number for the Colors you use ? Yeah please let us know if there are any RAL codes on the cans. Off the top of my mind I would have said RAL 1013 Oyster White seems to be a good pick for a case beige but I can't find any photos of people who used this color.. I've also seen some …
Re: Best way to transfer files over a network in Windows 95?
Posted on 2019-04-03, 06:08
Just use FTP, it has worked for nearly 40 years.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-04-02, 20:05
Yeah a decent OCR scan of the manual is already out there, though that is 1.1 and mine is 1.0B but I doubt it makes a difference.
Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi
Posted on 2019-04-02, 14:29
With WDM drivers I would have no OPL3 so that's even worse of a compromise; the best I can probably do is use an external MIDI device then I guess, thanks :) Or just two sound cards in the same machine with a physical MIDI connection between them. You probably need two sound cards either way …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-04-02, 12:02
Not exactly hardware but a happy coincidence; after years of searching I found a SS7 board not long ago.. and only months later I ran across a manual for it in a thrift bookstore for just 50 cents. Happy times.
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