Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-27, 16:14

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by psychofox

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does the board work in the first place? one isa slot should be relatively easy (reverse engineering pins going to GD5426), more than one would require access to original riser card. There is no documentation for the chipset. Thanks for these pics and links. Yes, the board works just fine. Battery …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-27, 08:00

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by psychofox

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non standard, but considering it's plain isa, it should be simple enough to recreate it. Is it doable for a average vogoner? :) I mean i have little knowledge and experience i in electronics, (i have soldered a couple kit soundcards and stuff like that... ) Sure it is plain isa? This slot is about …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-27, 02:37

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by psychofox

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Bought this nice Acer A1 LPX board. Works, but sadly no riser board included. Are such slots standatized, is it possible to find such riser board?

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Re: Getting power to a fan on an old computer... is the sound board an option?

Posted on 2022-10-11, 13:41

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by psychofox

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I often re-wire the Molex connectors of 12V fans to run them off the 5V rail instead, this makes them run fairly slow and very quiet. If you have a tiny screwdriver and some patience it's possible to slide the pins out of the plastic housing, so you don't even need to crimp or solder anything! ( …

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Help to identify this card

Posted on 2022-10-07, 22:05

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by psychofox

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For a while ago i purchased a bunch of old cards and cables, and today i got some time to test some of this stuff. One card is interesting, and i cant find any info about it: https://i.ibb.co/DCgpJpG/20221008-005255.jpg It seems to have some S3 chipset so that is a potential canditate to my SS7 DOS …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-06, 10:47

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by psychofox

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Got this set of sound cards for total of around 45€. There are quite a few interesting cards in this set that i didn't have yet. One day... One day i'll find time to record all the popular FM synth songs with every card and will create a website with multitrack player that can play all of them and …

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Re: Which video card for SS7 DOS gamer?

Posted on 2022-09-29, 08:13

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by psychofox

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The image degradation is the consequence of using a pass through cable. I get around it by connecting the S3 card directly to the monitor while playing 2D games, and only hooking up the Voodoo1 + pass through cable if I'm playing 3D games. Kinda tedious, but I mostly play 2D stuff on my the DOS …

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Re: Which video card for SS7 DOS gamer?

Posted on 2022-09-28, 05:19

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by psychofox

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If you're primarily focusing on DOS gaming, the Virge + Voodoo1 combo will provide you with the best overall compatibility. See here: http://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/ Tried that combo. Powercolor Virge/gx2 has very nice and sharp picture. But combined with voodoo, image quality is way below average …

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Which video card for SS7 DOS gamer?

Posted on 2022-09-27, 16:32

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by psychofox

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Just recived Asus p5A-B motherboard for my new ultimate DOS gamer. IMHO one of the best SS7 boards https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jVwAAOSwt1ph7l-w/s-l640.jpg It has K6-2 266 already installed, i think i should probably change it to Pentium MMX 200 ? And the main question - i have couple of choices …

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Voodoo 3 3500 US version question

Posted on 2022-08-12, 06:50

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by psychofox

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i am looking Voodoo 3 3500 to my Pentium III build and I recently noticed, that US marketed V3 3500 has Radio tuner on board aswell. Very nice combo card. My question is, does its radio tuner pick up european frequencies? (For example I bought from ebay nice classic Alpine US car radio once, and it …

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Re: DDR RAM heatsinks on SDR

Posted on 2022-07-30, 07:03

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by psychofox

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Why? Why put thermal insulators on SDR? All that is going to do is make the RAM run hotter. If you really need SDR to run cooler than just point a case fan at it. Just a casemodding thing, no practical need for heatsinks. (although i use CL3 certified RAM at CL2, the dimms are barely warm, maybe 30 …

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DDR RAM heatsinks on SDR

Posted on 2022-07-30, 06:36

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by psychofox

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Does DDR heatsinks fit to SDRAM dimms? They probably do fit fine but i just in case ask since i have no DDR dimms lying around here at the moment for comparison. i am looking at these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000309965844.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.10d82513uSQfHz&algo_pvid=abec6f5b-1da8 …

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Re: Help with building a pentium iv build.

Posted on 2022-07-26, 08:46

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by psychofox

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Sb Live replace with Audigy or Audigy 2 (these can be used in DOS too if needed) or X- Fi. These cards have much cleaner output than Live. And newer version of EAX !

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Re: [Advice needed] I'm reaching my collection goal and currently considering stopping. What is your goal ?

Posted on 2022-07-19, 10:40

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by psychofox

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It is very difficult to stop collecting. I have been there, about 10 years ago. I collected ISA sound cards and at one point i had almost all rare cards and lots of cheap crap like ESS, OPTI, ALS etc . So i decided to sell everything. Rare stuff like Roland LAPC, SCC-1, Gravis cards etc sold very …

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Re: Help to identify an Aztech soundcard

Posted on 2022-06-20, 10:16

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by psychofox

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Hi everybody. Sorry for reviving the thread but I would like to contribute to the topic. No-no, thanks for reviving the thread. The instrument samples on this cards ROM are very well picked and game music with this card is definetly on top 5 on my list. I got mine working but the overall sound …

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Re: MP32L - Lite version of MP32 : Pi based MT32 synth

Posted on 2022-06-20, 08:07

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by psychofox

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Your issue sounds like SoftMPU is not working, or your computer is not managing to upload data to the MT32-Pi. This could be a problem with the USB MIDI interface you are using. What brand/model is it? I use it on my 486 PC at the moment , so no USB cable but MP32L directly hooked with Midi cable …

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Re: MP32L - Lite version of MP32 : Pi based MT32 synth

Posted on 2022-06-20, 05:55

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by psychofox

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heckyeah wrote on 2022-06-19, 19:22: Does your sound card support MPU401 intelligent mode? No, i use a cheap-o cristal chipset based SB clone + softmpu. For comparision i have an original old version MP32 running next to MP32L.

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Re: MP32L - Lite version of MP32 : Pi based MT32 synth

Posted on 2022-06-19, 19:08

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by psychofox

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Recived my MP32L last week, thanks for fast shipping dreamblaster! There seems to be still total component blacout in world, everywhere i looked, no Raspberries available. Has anyone tested MP32L on Raspberry Pi 2b? I did not find any info regarding MP32L on RP2b, so i decided to try out. So i …

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Re: Help me to choose 90s PC

Posted on 2022-06-18, 17:28

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by psychofox

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I would keep Pentium III 1000 and sell the rest. It can handle most of DOS games, some with disabled cache. Having 2nd machine would be justified in my opinion only if you wanted to play games on network. In that case I would have two almost identical machines so that no one would be in …

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Re: Help me to choose 90s PC

Posted on 2022-06-17, 06:05

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by psychofox

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Thanks for all your suggestions. I did yesterday lot of testing with 3 different PCs (486dx30, 486dx4 100 and Pentium 120) and ended up with dx4 So, PC 2 is: Minitower case with Turbo button and display :) Mainboard: Shuttle HOT-419 (that one is one of the first PC components, that i purchased with …

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