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

Posted on 2019-07-14, 18:42

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So I have received yesterday my TerraTec 16/96 Gold. It is an amazing card and well worth the (slightly expensive) price. Noise is non existent, and I like the fact that it has separate line out and speaker outputs. It also seems to have 2.54mm headers for each output/input, so it should be pretty …

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Re: [Experimental] The UOC Patch - An attempt at optimizing Mozilla based browsers for old machines

Posted on 2019-07-11, 14:35

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by cde

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in Marvin \ Software

This is some awesome work! I will try it with my Debian-based "iceweasel" (a Firefox rebrand) and let you know 😀

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2019-07-10, 12:22

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My OPL3LPT is not everytime detected i need to several replug it/repower it to get it finally working in the Testprogram. This is on Escom Blackmate 386SXL 33Mhz Notebook. Anyone has similar issues ? maybe this is also power supply issue, i power it from 5V Rail inside the Notebook. Initially I …

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2019-07-09, 19:05

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My OPL3LPT is not everytime detected i need to several replug it/repower it to get it finally working in the Testprogram. This is on Escom Blackmate 386SXL 33Mhz Notebook. Anyone has similar issues ? maybe this is also power supply issue, i power it from 5V Rail inside the Notebook. Initially I …

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Re: OPL3LPT : OPL3 FM Synthesis on parallel port

Posted on 2019-07-08, 16:54

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I would like to report my experience with the OPL3LPT: I have found it to be excellent, in particular using it with AdLib Tracker II (https://github.com/pdewacht/at2lpt/) is simply a joy, the sound is really good. Unfortunately my OPL3LPT became defective, probably during the two weeks after I …

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Re: Story behind your avatar?

Posted on 2019-07-03, 13:46

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In September 1992, BYTE published an article about the death of UNIX and the fact that it could be soon displaced by Windows NT. You can read the original article here: http://jonudell.net/archive/is-unix-dead.html or here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1992-09/page/n141 Probably …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 2 MX

Posted on 2019-07-01, 09:08

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by cde

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Are there motherboards with SSE2 capable CPUs and at least one (DMA capable) ISA slot? EDIT: to answer my own question, there are some rare P4 motherboard that might have an ISA slot. This thread has more information: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=54924 . Also see https://flaterco.com/ …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 2 MX

Posted on 2019-06-30, 12:17

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

That is some awesome advice cyclone3d, and I thank you very much for it. For the time being I will stick to 1666 MHz, the reason being that I can undervolt this mobile CPU to 1.3V, it allows me to cool it using only the rear case fan and removes the need for a CPU fan. This way both CPU and NB are …

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2019-06-21, 09:03

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks s0ren, and I'd really like to have too a nice upscaler that would provide pixel-perfect upscaling, with no attempt at blurring the output. By the way, I tried another monitor, this time the iiyama XU2395WSU-B1 (the XUB2495WSU-B1 would be equivalent but with adjustable height). It is much …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 2 MX

Posted on 2019-06-20, 19:26

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in Marvin \ System Specs

That is an extremely informative post looking4awayout, and I commend you for writing it! To answer your question, I did not use Roytam1's Firefox 45 ESR SSE because I did not know it existed. I will use it on Windows XP. However my main OS to browse Internet is Debian 7.11. I might recompile …

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Re: WFW 3.11 using all available ram?

Posted on 2019-06-18, 12:01

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gahhhrrrlic wrote: Add UDVD and MSCDEX That's slightly off-topic but I've had an issue with UDVD where Monkey Island 1 would not resume playing from the CD after existing a full-screen dialogue (typically in the Scumm bar), however when using VIDE-CDD I had no such problem and the CD audio track …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 2 MX

Posted on 2019-06-18, 08:56

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Yes, it does work as long as you only plug one device into it. I didn't try plugging two devices but I have no doubt the result would be bad. Now I'm thinking of a new solution, which is to take this as well as the header on the MB and have one USB 1.1 port and one USB 2.0 port on the front panel.

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 2 MX

Posted on 2019-06-17, 21:25

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Thanks. For the record, here's the adapter I bought: https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/332407752005 If at some point this item becomes unavailable, search for something similar to "1Pcs Single USB Male To USB 9pin Motherboard Adapter Cable Cord Wire 20CM". In the future I'd like to to a modification of the …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 2 MX

Posted on 2019-06-17, 08:59

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Thanks for the precisions, KT7AGuy. I have come to the same conclusion that 512 MB is the only amount where no corruption is guaranteed to happen. On the 1.3 board I also had issues with 768 MB or more, possibly because of bad caps. By the way, I have tried the USB type A to 9-pin USB header cable …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 2 MX

Posted on 2019-06-14, 12:46

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Hardware that was dodgy even as new suddenly works perfectly when introduced to really good caps. AMD CPU with VIA chipset and an Matrox graphics card was generally consirered a bad combo. But now ? not a single issue whatever 4-in-1 or graphics driver I throw at them. That makes complete sense. …

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2019-06-14, 12:43

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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What is a good LED display to use with a SS7 Mobo and Voodoo-3 AGP card and DOS ? To play DOS games. The 240B7QPJEB does an ok job at 4:3 aspect ratio although I dislike the fact than for example 800x600 is not simply doubled but some sharpening / contrasting is applied to the image and can't be …

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

Posted on 2019-06-11, 10:44

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But I would opt for the ES1869 over the ES1868 in newer builds as it also supports 48kHz record/playback. So I'm trying to understand the importance of 48 KHz as opposed to cards that only support the classic 44.1 KHz. Is it really important for newer games? I currently have a ES1868F and I like it …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 2 MX

Posted on 2019-06-10, 08:25

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by cde

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in Marvin \ System Specs

So I got the idea of using an Athlon XP mobile from another thread on vogons, this allows lower power consumption and a good range of multipliers. I haven't replaced the caps yet, as the board seems to be working fine. I might do it eventually altough it is a bit of work. Did you replace the caps on …

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Re: Windows 3.x at above 60Hz

Posted on 2019-06-09, 10:35

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Thanks all for your replies. Unfortunately the generic SVGA driver does not like the GeForce 2 MX. I have decided to use my LCD display instead of the CRT when the refresh rate is 60 Hz until I replace this card.

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2019-06-09, 10:32

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Thanks Falcosoft. I will stop my experiments with the multiplier because (although I'm not sure if it's because of the experiments or the modded BIOS) my KT7A 1.3 has become defective. I had a spare KT7A thankfully but from now on I'll only change the multiplier from the BIOS itself.

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