Re: old soundcards with rmaa tests (gus, blaster)

Posted on 2021-06-21, 15:13

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by arncht

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[...] How do you mean? I played in dos with the isa card, and recorded with my mixer on my modern pc. The loopback is not really good, it could compensate the weaknesses. Then I misunderstood what you posted earlier. Could you make a little diagram of the setup? Or at least specs of the modern PC ( …

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Re: old soundcards with rmaa tests (gus, blaster)

Posted on 2021-06-16, 04:45

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by arncht

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So you're playing and recording with the same DUT? I'd personally be tempted to try to use a known-good card (AWE64Gold, SBLive or similar) to test against, to be sure whether it's recording or playback that gives bad results. How do you mean? I played in dos with the isa card, and recorded with my …

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Re: old soundcards with rmaa tests (gus, blaster)

Posted on 2021-06-14, 15:29

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by arncht

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Wow, nice work! Could you elaborate on exact setup you used here. Would it be feasible for others to get close enough to reproduce it? I have a pile of sound cards I'd like to put through their paces (if I ever have time...) i used zedi8 mixer, and the config was: p200, dtk 430hx board, matrox …

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Re: old soundcards with rmaa tests (gus, blaster)

Posted on 2021-06-14, 15:21

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a measured a couple of old isa sound cards in dos with rmaa 5.5. i used an analog/digital allen & heath mixer for recording, and every output level calibrated to the same input level. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_aWLWR6R-6AYVsOsWdQrN0SOgJOVMC-N?usp=sharing Thank you! It must have taken …

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old soundcards with rmaa tests (gus, blaster)

Posted on 2021-06-14, 06:30

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by arncht

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a measured a couple of old isa sound cards in dos with rmaa 5.5. i used an analog/digital allen & heath mixer for recording, and every output level calibrated to the same input level. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_aWLW … C-N?usp=sharing

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Re: Early riva128 driver

Posted on 2020-08-28, 14:55

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by arncht

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the stb works on the asus v3000 😀

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Re: Early riva128 driver

Posted on 2020-08-21, 09:41

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by arncht

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i found diamond driver: VIPER V330 W95 v4.10.01.0011 the reference part looks from aug 1997 and the vendor part is from oct 1997

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Re: Early riva128 driver

Posted on 2020-08-21, 08:42

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by arncht

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i think the same... the v3000 drv would be also fine (it should be v1.x). i did some research: aug 1997 - https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/vga/nVidia/Utility/e139_agp-v3000.zip - asus v1.00 drv oct 1997 - http://ftp.tekwind.co.jp/pub/asustw/vga/agp/v3000/3dpv3000-102.pdf - asus v1.07 drv nov 1997 …

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Early riva128 driver

Posted on 2020-08-20, 20:44

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by arncht

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Hi I am looking for early riva128 pci drivers from 1997. Somebody has one? I found just from 1998.

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Re: Socket 5 @ 1995.05 - Pentium 120, S3 Vision968, Sound Blaster AWE32, Gravis Ultrasound

Posted on 2020-05-30, 17:16

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by arncht

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project done, the first post updated.

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Re: intel dx2-66 with blue heatsink

Posted on 2020-03-15, 18:08

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by arncht

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i found box with x87 cpus, pentium, etc, but nothing with 486, just the overdrive.

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Re: intel dx2-66 with blue heatsink

Posted on 2020-03-15, 12:43

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by arncht

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derSammler wrote on 2020-03-15, 11:14: No, that's the normal retail boxed release. OEM had no heatsink at all. where is the box? i did not see any, just overdrive boxes.

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Re: intel dx2-66 with blue heatsink

Posted on 2020-03-15, 11:06

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by arncht

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thx... with this type of blue sink? in this case it looks, the blue version is also an oem solution.

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Re: intel dx2-66 with blue heatsink

Posted on 2020-03-14, 16:38

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by arncht

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here they write... boxed http://www.cpu-galerie.de/html/intel486-80486dx2.html but how the box looked? the overdrive is obvious.

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Re: intel dx2-66 with blue heatsink

Posted on 2020-03-14, 16:26

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by arncht

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I have seen tons of different coloured heatsinks on 486's. I had a gold/copper-coloured one on a 486-dx2-66 in an IBM at some point. The glued on heatsinks, just came in whatever colour, the maker of a given machine chose to use. Basically it is just a standard CPU. these are the intel official …

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intel dx2-66 with blue heatsink

Posted on 2020-03-14, 11:38

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by arncht

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hi, i know about 3 editions of the dx2-66: * naked, as oem cpu * overdrive as retail cpu (boxed) * blue heat sink version? where they use it? what was the reason of this edition? i did not find any info about it. originally i thought this cpu was the retail, but from the newspapers looks the …

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Re: Looking for info on 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2020-03-14, 11:31

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by arncht

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Looks like I'm too new to sent PMs. Could someone PM "arncht" on my behalf? .. if he has any jumper settings written down for his "VL/I-486SVG0X4" board and could share them in this thread? Thanks in advance sorry, i was not here since a long time... do you have photo about the mainboard? in the …

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Re: VLB IDE cache controllers, benchmark

Posted on 2020-03-07, 19:22

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by arncht

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try to benchmark and compare the similar age controllers, with authentic hdd from the same year. you will get the right result.

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Re: Old game and demoscene demo captures on real hardware

Posted on 2020-02-05, 09:27

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by arncht

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i wont post links here anymore, if you are interested in, you can follow me: games, hw, etc: https://www.facebook.com/mylittleretrocomputerworld https://www.youtube.com/mylittleretrocomputerworld https://www.instagram.com/mylittleretrocomputerworld demoscene: https://www.youtube.com/ …

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Re: Old game and demoscene demo captures on real hardware

Posted on 2020-02-04, 14:14

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by arncht

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Terminal Velocity (1995) DOS game @ Sound Blaster AWE32

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