Re: Screams “AWW” my frustrations with Sound Blaster.

Posted on 2019-06-11, 01:24

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I tried 2 or 3 sb live install cds without success and then used a sblive9x installer separate from the driver cds and it worked no problem. then I installed the rest of the tools etc from the CDs including the dos drivers. i have 3 sb live cards and none of them have worked with any of the …

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Re: (The Tuala-Bus) Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+ Live, Voodoo4 4500 Rambus rig

Posted on 2019-05-27, 01:44

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

mastergamma12 wrote: I upgraded the 30GB Quantum potato I was using to a 80GB WD Caviar SE. Crazy how much faster replacing that drive made the whole system. thought about going for solid state? or you wanna keep it era specific. hot system btw!

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Re: FM vs MT-32 vs General MIDI DOS Game Music Comparo

Posted on 2019-05-27, 00:50

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by foil_fresh

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It's been about 2.5 months and over 1600 listens on this playlist. Here's some fun stats about song popularity: -Tie Fighter is the most popular song with 114 total listens, followed by the menu music of Betrayal at Krondor, with 100 listens. -SQ5 is much more popular than SQ6, 73 listens to 48. - …

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Re: Your (feasible) dream retro PC(s).. do you have them?

Posted on 2019-05-24, 04:41

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

we had a 486 dx 33mhz when I was a kid, and I always wanted the dx4 100. don't think I've ever used one. that would probably be my dream pc because I don't think i'm ever going to see one for sale (at a reasonable price). but i'm pretty close! tonight i'm putting together my socket 7 build; the …

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Re: Microsoft Interactive CD Sampler (1999)

Posted on 2019-05-23, 23:58

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Software

Well I have found the CD. I looked where I looked before and it was there. Guess I just over looked it I sure thought it may have got thrown out when I cleaned up. Now I do still need to find another CD if possible because this one is scratched. I think it will install though. I just rather have …

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Re: Dos shell / file manager alternatives

Posted on 2019-05-23, 23:51

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Software

I used Quickmenu III by Neosoft to orginise my old dos system. It has a file manager built and a lot of other useful utilities in it as well. Fits on a 720k floppy disk and can be used on XT class systems. To use backgrounds you'll need EMS. You can create submenus as well.Uses mouse and/or …

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE64 and AWEUTIL in pure DOS

Posted on 2019-05-22, 07:23

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by foil_fresh

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Through google I found this topic dealing with the same problem: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=44276 However, even after running AWEUTIL /EM:GM successfully and manually configuring the game for AWE32/MIDI music and AWE32 sound effects, I still get no music in game. EDIT: I replaced …

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Re: Dos shell / file manager alternatives

Posted on 2019-05-21, 00:10

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Software

wow, thanks for all the reccomendations. Norton commander seems promising. @ foil_fresh 1. Are you using Smartdrive ? That should speed up the loading of Dosshell quite a bit. 2. What kind of drive are you using? If a regular HDD, you can gain a whole lot of speed by changing to a fast CF card or …

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Dos shell / file manager alternatives

Posted on 2019-05-20, 07:22

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Software

Hi, I'm interested in seeing what cool file managers for dos you all use? I'm using dosshell from dos 6x but unfortunately I have so many games and game files that it takes roughly 2 minutes to load dosshell - a pain in the macadamias each time I reboot. Are there any file exploreres that might do …

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

Posted on 2019-05-14, 06:37

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

same here! It was blocked school district wide for me, but they only blocked the DNS name. They didn't block the actual IP. Yeah, I remember at my school that they would block websites by using the full DNS name almost always including the usual "www." subdomain part, so it was usually quite easy …

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Re: Best hardware for Need For Speed Porsche 2000 / Unleashed

Posted on 2019-04-17, 07:09

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Software

I'm getting about 40fps at 1024 resolution on an Athlon 2200+ machine with a Radeon 9550. The brake light textures and the floor of the garage in the menus (the floor is a disco party when it's meant to be a downlight from the roof) are the only glitchy stuff I see. The projection headlights also …

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Re: Early 2000s Windows XP build?

Posted on 2019-04-15, 05:11

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i'd google the recommended specs for the games you want to play and then go from there. but if your budget is huge I would get a 775 based board and cpu (core2duo/quad) with a decent pci-e graphics card that has like 512 mb so that you can max out all resolution, quality and effect settings. I made …

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Re: Gameports and joysticks

Posted on 2019-04-15, 05:02

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah I specifically bought the wingman to be the "test" device as it was sold as working but who knows. I'll try those drivers like you mention. Thanks!

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Gameports and joysticks

Posted on 2019-04-15, 04:23

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by foil_fresh

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in Marvin \ Sound

Sure it's not a sound topic but it's a sound card topic... kinda. Anyway! I have bought 2 old joysticks, one is the Sidewinder Precsision Pro and also a Logitech wingman light. Both of these joysticks have drivers in windows 98 and they are options to select from the hardware when I choose to add a …

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Re: AMD K6-2 equivalent to pentium......

Posted on 2019-04-11, 00:37

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm about to start building my dos machine and I have a K6-3+ 400mhz, and I also have a 166mhz MMX Pentium cpu that came with the s7 board. I will be using this pc for dos games and the occasional glide game on the banshee i'm putting in it. should I stick with the Pentium for compatibility or use …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-02-14, 03:58

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by foil_fresh

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moto racer! on a banshee card, it runs really nicely in windows xp. but i really want to play redline racer. i'm building a P3 machine at the moment for windows 98 gaming but have been having an incredibly hard time getting it to work. it doesn't run on win xp and the patch i got won't work with …

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Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2019-02-14, 03:30

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by foil_fresh

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games i gave up on as a kid: -syndicate -ufo:tftd -command and conquer (i finished red alert tho) due to one of those missions you don't get an MCV. i was a build-100-medium-tanks kind of player. -descent -ultima pagan -the terrible terrible street fighter 2 port for pc i will beat these games one …

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Re: What DOS games do you feel I'm missing?

Posted on 2019-02-14, 03:19

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by foil_fresh

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chinny i just wanna say thanks for chosing Seth as your avatar in this forum, as i get to read everything in his voice. Kane is pleased.

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Re: Replacing MLC capacitor on Creative TNT2 Ultra 32MB

Posted on 2019-02-05, 07:49

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks all for the replies. Good advice all round. I've bit the bullet, purchased a soldering kit on ebay and plan to do a resolder on it because it appears to still be completely intact (the cap). I haven't measured anything about the capacitor as i don't have a multimeter. I plan to flux the area, …

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Replacing MLC capacitor on Creative TNT2 Ultra 32MB

Posted on 2019-01-21, 11:17

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by foil_fresh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi yall! Sorry if this isn't the correct place to make this thread but here goes... I have recently picked up a Creative TNT2 Ultra to put into my PIII pc but have noticed that a capacitor looks loose/is destroyed. I've attached the picture of the capacitor (C70) on the board. Does it look broken or …

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