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

Posted on 2019-08-02, 17:56

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by bakemono

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Wanted to test a program in Win3.1 which I haven't been using at all for a while. So I did a fresh install onto the D: partition on my 486. Funny seeing it start up in 2 seconds... but the sound drivers, holy crud! I don't remember it being this difficult to make an SB16 work in Win3.1! I have the …

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/3GB switch on 32-bit Windows

Posted on 2019-08-01, 17:13

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by bakemono

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I tried adding the /3GB switch into BOOT.INI as a suggested fix for a game crashing. I also set the Large-Address-Aware flag bit in the game EXE, but it doesn't appear to do anything, for this or other programs. Task Explorer still shows everything being loaded below the 2GB mark. Is there any …

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Re: Point of View GT610 temperatures

Posted on 2019-07-31, 23:56

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by bakemono

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kjliew wrote: That's just mean that you didn't run shaders heavy workload. That's possible. IIRC the only stuff I ran on it was old DX7/8 games.

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Re: Point of View GT610 temperatures

Posted on 2019-07-31, 22:22

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by bakemono

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My opinion is that you can't always trust stock cooling devices to be adequate. 100C is nuts. But does the temperature look normal when the system is idle or first starts up? It could just be a bad reading... I have a passively cooled GeForce 210 which I don't think ever got above 75C. And they are …

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Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2019-07-31, 22:02

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by bakemono

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After testing on the Sound Blaster Pro and PC1640: I discovered that if I use the 22727Hz frequency in stereo, the music is slow down. If I go down to 21739, It is Ok. It looks like if the sound Blaster Pro is limitted in reality at 21739, not 22100 (Anyway, we can't set 22100) I can't believe I …

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Re: Opti 82c931

Posted on 2019-07-26, 10:50

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by bakemono

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For running in DOS I think you need the SNDINIT program but it's hidden inside a compressed file in the windows driver package. I have a ZIP with all the DOS files already expanded. I just don't remember what lines are supposed to be in AUTOEXEC.BAT to initialize the sound card. I'm guessing you …

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Re: Lowest CPU to play MP3s?

Posted on 2019-07-24, 16:56

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by bakemono

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This player can handle 160kbps 44KHz stereo on a 486-100 (maybe even a DX2-80) http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/Digital_Sound_System The Amiga OS "amplifier" can play 64kbps 22KHz downmixed to 11KHz on a 50MHz 68030 with 68882 FPU 😉

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Re: PNY Geforce GTX 650 2gb - wimpy card?

Posted on 2019-07-24, 16:45

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by bakemono

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GTX 650 seems like a pretty good card to me, I bet you need a faster CPU to hit 60fps in Crysis. Although I thought Crysis only went to "high" settings in XP, how did you run it on "very high" ?

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Re: 8500GT questions

Posted on 2019-07-24, 16:21

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by bakemono

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Q35 chipset has GMA 3100 doesn't it? An 8500GT should be waaaaaay faster than that.

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Re: Only good browser for XP is MyPal

Posted on 2019-07-20, 12:46

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by bakemono

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Still, I don't see any benefits to using XP for browsing You're focusing on the wrong thing. XP isn't a browser, MyPal is. XP is a general purpose operating system for general purpose computers. The benefits of it are utterly huge hardware and software support, and arguably one of the best GUIs on …

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Re: how not to build a sound card

Posted on 2019-07-19, 14:13

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by bakemono

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Yeah, I have to try some more modifications when I get time. Adding a resistor here or capacitor there might be able to clean up the sound. I did find this schematic diagram for a YM2203 board so I have something to learn from.

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Re: About the audible "clicks" of OPL2 and OPL3

Posted on 2019-07-19, 13:55

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by bakemono

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We know the A of envelope could be 15 to 0. Higher value comes with faster attack. 15 means immediately. This could cause the sudden change of the output. Does it happen instantaneously on the real chip? Or still takes some measurable time? I was coding a mod player and had problems with popping on …

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Re: Which is the best traffic-monitor for XP?

Posted on 2019-07-19, 13:22

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by bakemono

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Wireshark 1.2.18 runs on Windows 2000 (with ext. kernel) so I would expect it to run fine on XP as well.

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

Posted on 2019-07-19, 13:09

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by bakemono

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I wonder if anyone tried actually using it like this... and what happened. At least the CPU and slotket didn't go up in flames. Interesting mod though 🤣...

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Re: HP NC4200 12.1"(2005) putting Pentium M780 ?

Posted on 2019-07-19, 13:00

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by bakemono

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If the BIOS doesn't recognize that CPU then it might boot up at 800MHz. Then you would have to use software to switch the speed to normal. Does Win10 work on i915? I seem to remember a bit of a scandal about Vista not even being able to run the Aero visuals on i915 because Intel didn't implement the …

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how not to build a sound card

Posted on 2019-07-17, 13:40

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by bakemono

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So... I designed my first PCB (not counting the homework assignment I had one time where I had to lay out a circuit on a piece of graphing paper). What is it? Well, it's basically an EPROM and a YM2203 on an 8-bit ISA card. The reason I did that is because I felt that an EPROM alone would be too …

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Re: Old Windows routing software

Posted on 2019-07-16, 22:34

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by bakemono

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There was one I used a long time ago. I think it was DeLorme / AAA Map 'n Go

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Re: Sodlering faster RAM to a graphics card

Posted on 2019-07-15, 21:15

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by bakemono

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Did you ever touch the heatsink? Then you'll notice there is no headroom for overclock, at least not when passive cooled. Not true. The MX460 came with a higher clock speed as stock. If the heatsink is very hot, then add a fan... DDR400 is mostly, if not all, is high density. So 8 chip equals 256mb …

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Re: Only good browser for XP is MyPal

Posted on 2019-07-15, 20:48

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by bakemono

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Windows 10 comes pre-compromised, by Microsoft. It has built-in adware, spyware, and DRM, requires massive WAN bandwidth to handle the mandatory updates, and is dismally unreliable due to the associated regular (again mandatory) reboots. With all that funny business it has a larger attack surface …

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Re: Moving data between an old computer and a new one

Posted on 2019-07-14, 22:10

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by bakemono

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My first choice is always ethernet. If the system runs DOS then it can run the mTCP FTP server, and the newer system can connect with WinSCP (or whatever). If the system runs Windows then it can use file sharing or HTTP to download stuff. (Create an HTTP server on your LAN by using the utility HFS) …

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