Re: Successfully fixed a 3DFx Voodoo2 with miscolored output

Posted on 2020-03-15, 18:33

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by kolderman

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I was going to ask this question separately, but now there's a thread for it... I have a S3 Savage4 passing through a voodoo2 SLI combo, and sometimes the color comes out green. In DOS the text will be green, and when playing a games, the colors have been green-washed but still distinguishable. …

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Re: Is this build possible?

Posted on 2020-03-13, 20:22

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by kolderman

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Problem is win98 generally doesn't like two display adapters, you might be installing drivers every boot. Why not just a voodoo2?

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Re: My Big Red Switch 486

Posted on 2020-03-13, 18:31

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by kolderman

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Does the GUS do intelligent mode? Is that how you are hooking up the MT32?

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Re: KORG NS5R -- no drums??

Posted on 2020-03-13, 09:50

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by kolderman

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The Akai also auto-saves everything by the way. For game use it's helpful to factory reset it every time. Simply hold both the Up and Down buttons while pushing the power switch. You will see CLR appear on the display. So I got all the instructions working except this. My Akai has the up/down …

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Re: I don't understand all the hate for the Nvidia FX series

Posted on 2020-03-13, 00:39

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by kolderman

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I mean smash including compatibility not just performance.

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Re: Full Throttle 2020

Posted on 2020-03-12, 22:20

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I played the original FT on a retro PC late last year, it was really, really good. Just watching the intro every start-up was good. I am looking forward to playing the existing re-master on Steam some time, but it is not high on the list.

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Re: I don't understand all the hate for the Nvidia FX series

Posted on 2020-03-12, 20:47

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I was asking again about games that still use 8-bit palletized texture and table fog would this work in XP with radeon 9600 and 9800? Had to confirm for sure as I didn't heard of this like that before. Definitely not. I think Radeon dropped support for that even prior to the 9600, not sure exactly …

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Re: KORG NS5R -- no drums??

Posted on 2020-03-12, 18:44

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by kolderman

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Thanks that's awesome! I'll try that tonight.

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Re: KORG NS5R -- no drums??

Posted on 2020-03-12, 09:06

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by kolderman

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Are there any easy guides on doing a full factory reset or switching to GS mode? The best I could find was under Presets (R), not clear if I need to turn off/on after setting that.

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Re: Connecting 2 soundcards to one speaker

Posted on 2020-03-12, 01:23

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by kolderman

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Switchboxes are a lot cheaper than mixers. I use multiple mixboxes to do exactly this (although the cards are in different computers), and the output of multiple midi modules. If you search for "4 PORT Manual Switcher box Sharing 3.5mm STEREO Selector" on a certain auction site you see what I have …

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Re: Storing thy crap safely (ESD, Damage, etc): Opinions? What do YOU do?

Posted on 2020-03-12, 01:20

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by kolderman

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I just bought tons of ESD/Static Shield bags, they aren't that expensive on eBay. Individual cards in each one, then pile up in big, stackable plastic boxes.

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Re: KORG NS5R -- no drums??

Posted on 2020-03-11, 18:50

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by kolderman

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Thanks I'll try that. I guess GS will be best for old games.

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KORG NS5R -- no drums??

Posted on 2020-03-11, 06:17

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I am currently playing warcraft1 with midi playing over a NS5R and an Akai SG01K side by side. When I switch between them, I notice the melody sound similar, but the Korg is producing no drum sounds at all. The drums from the Akai sound really good. I am not doing anything special with the Korg - …

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Re: 3dfx card lot two questions

Posted on 2020-03-10, 03:34

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by kolderman

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I heard that you should not test 3Dfx AGP cards in a motherboard with a universal AGP slot. Is that true? Sortof. Some mobos with uAGP definitely support 3.3v, and you are safe. Others don't support 3.3v, but have a cutoff to prevent damage. Some may do neither and will damage both the board and …

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Re: Suggest an ISA sound card for DOS games that sounds as good as DOSBox?

Posted on 2020-03-10, 02:34

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by kolderman

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There is no perfect sound card. It's what makes dos gaming so fun! Generally if you can use midi, it will sound best. Followed by genuine opl3. Digital sound is for effects and maybe cd music playback. You sound like you are about to go down a rabbit hole...I would start getting familiar with using …

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Re: "Lone Wolf" Retro/Daily Driver

Posted on 2020-03-09, 20:44

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by kolderman

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I like the case. I would have used it for my WinXP/Core2Duo system, but I built it with a similar Corsair case instead. Is that a floppy drive bay down the bottom right? Not that it would be much use on a modern system but anyway.

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Re: 3dfx card lot two questions

Posted on 2020-03-09, 20:17

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Can't really use 2 3dfxs in one, easily. I prefer v5 and v2sli. But I have lots a of builds. If I only had a single early win98 build I would choose the v3. V5 should be fine for 2d dos games, haven't heard otherwise. V2sli works well for dos Glide games. You mean it works "easily" or it does "not" …

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Re: 3dfx card lot two questions

Posted on 2020-03-09, 19:48

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Can't really use 2 3dfxs in one, easily. I prefer v5 and v2sli. But I have lots a of builds. If I only had a single early win98 build I would choose the v3. V5 should be fine for 2d dos games, haven't heard otherwise. V2sli works well for dos Glide games.

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Re: Pentium 66 MHz socket 4 system

Posted on 2020-03-09, 10:26

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by kolderman

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-03-09, 10:21: The SB AWE64 has better sound quality than the SB Pro 2.0 in my opinion. Doesn't give authentic opl sound though.

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Re: What's this "Midiman" 8 bit isa card ?

Posted on 2020-03-09, 00:54

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by kolderman

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Any bug free, ISA midi card is useful, intelligent mode or not. And you could easily run MUNT on another device and connect this to it using midi2usb adapter. Thankfully awesome people here have made clones of cards like this, but an original would be quite sought after still.

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