Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-13, 10:20

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by derSammler

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unfortunately I do not have any drivers for the EIZO card, and I didn't find a lot of info about it in general, but I did get the perfect card to go along with it eventually a while ago ^^ I've got Win3.1 drivers for Spectragraphics cards. Can't attach anything here, however. Interesting - It …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-13, 09:57

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by derSammler

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Got (another) box of RAM today - mainly PS/2 and PC100 SDRAM. Really need to get something up and running to test the 300+ RAM modules I have now. //edit: Attachments don't work, so no picture.

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Re: Best imaging software for old operating systems

Posted on 2020-02-13, 09:45

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by derSammler

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I use "Partition Image", a single-file DOS tool. Never failed on me so far. Seems to be available in German only, however.

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Re: DreamBlaster S2P : Small form factor General MIDI on parallel port

Posted on 2020-02-13, 09:37

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by derSammler

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The S2P is an external device that also requires power. I don't see why on a "386 luggable" you could not just connect a GM module over the serial port instead. This will work in Win3.1 just fine. Apart from that, with SoftMPU, the S2P should work in Win3.1 already.

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-13, 09:31

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by derSammler

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It's a vga only card, that's it. You don't need to know what card. No info, no help. You probably know by now that it's not a VGA-only card and you only don't want to tell in order not to admit your mistake. That's just lame. Anyway, good luck getting your problem solved. You could have probably …

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Re: GeForce2 Ti vs. Matrox G400

Posted on 2020-02-12, 15:50

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by derSammler

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Who made this affirmation was drunk or high. Or he was trolling. Or he has no idea what he's doing. Really? And what gives you the privilege to claim that? Wonder who's trolling here. Also, he said that the GF2 is faster. Besides, a - let's say 3-times - faster graphics card doesn't mean that it …

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 13:57

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by derSammler

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mhdbox385 wrote on 2020-02-12, 13:56: My card is pure VGA. And you don't mind telling us was card it is? Also, to repeat my question: did you try loading UNIVBE?

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 13:55

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by derSammler

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Poor planning? NFS1 is from late 1995. As stated above, SVGA was long standard back then and if you had a non-SVGA-capable card, it would be too slow to handle the game anyway. Man, even SimCity 2000 *required* SVGA in 1993.

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Re: Windows 98, Matrox G450 and OpenGL

Posted on 2020-02-12, 13:51

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by derSammler

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fisher wrote on 2020-02-06, 19:52: derSammler: could you try it too? I'll try today.

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 10:03

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by derSammler

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I see what you mean. But what VGA card do you have at all? I can't recall ever coming across a 16-bit VGA card that can not do basic SVGA (640x480 at 256 colors and 800x600 at 16 colors). Only cards with 256 KB would be that limited and those won't ever be able to run a game like Need for Speed …

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

Posted on 2020-02-12, 09:33

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by derSammler

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Cleaned and tested two of my Zip drives only to find that apparently all my Zip100 disks are no longer working...

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 09:29

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by derSammler

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First, Need for Speed runs in 640x480 in-game if you select that resolution. See here for example: https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/need-for-s … eShotId,193589/ Second, no, that's not possible. There's nothing you can emulate here. The game's code would have to be changed.

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Re: Valuation of old hardware

Posted on 2020-02-11, 17:53

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by derSammler

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Check ebay for sold items similar to yours. Threads where people ask for the value of something are often just used to sell the stuff via private messages anyway, so no, there's no such section here and it's probably not wanted if any other section is flooded with such topics.

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Re: Help to identify an Aztech soundcard

Posted on 2020-02-11, 14:29

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by derSammler

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imi wrote on 2020-02-11, 14:21: google said something about a CD-Rom unit... haven't seen that one before, I'd like to know more too ^^ Goldstar interface. I have an external CD-ROM drive with that interface (but no interface card...).

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Re: PII 300, 266 or 233 on Dell SE440BX-2 or -3? (these are all 66MHz fsb CPUs, any 100MHz fsb works fine).

Posted on 2020-02-11, 10:10

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by derSammler

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Doornkaat wrote on 2020-02-11, 03:52: No support for 2.8v (Klamath core) CPUs? Maybe the manufacturer didn't expect anyone to downgrade to those old CPUs so they didn't support their voltages? Pretty much that I'd assume as well. Or maybe the voltage must be set manually for these to work.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-02-11, 09:49

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by derSammler

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Owning a SPARCstation 5 myself, this is only partly correct. The system is made of very thick metal and heavy as a tank. The plastic parts around that do indeed disintegrate with age are decoration only, they don't serve any purpose. On the other hand, I also own a Sun Blade 100, which was Sun's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-11, 09:38

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by derSammler

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Or a Pentium III 1GHz, Slot 1 with 100MHz FSB Good luck finding one of these. They are pretty rare. Also, it existed as the 1000B as well with 133 x 7.5, so you may even end up buying the wrong one. Slotket + P3 1333 is much simpler and cheaper. On the other hand, why aim for 1 GHz at all? There's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-11, 09:09

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by derSammler

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My board came with a 700 MHz P3 (so it's definitely compatible with Coppermine) and there are numerous reports from people running this board with a 1GHz chip. Here's just one example . Problem is that starting with 800 MHz, Intel went from 100 MHz FSB to 133 MHz (800 MHz P3 was available in both …

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Re: Sound Blaster 128 and SBLive

Posted on 2020-02-10, 17:34

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by derSammler

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PCI sound cards are generally not detected in pure DOS. You need to load the TSR for the card to work in DOS.

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Re: MID-format player for Adlib device ?

Posted on 2020-02-10, 13:15

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by derSammler

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That's not really possible, simply because FM synthesis doesn't work that way. You can't form a waveform using FM synthesis to resemble an arbitrary sample. Not with the limited operations of the OPL2/3 anyway.

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