Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-07-16, 18:12
No, its a full 486 DX 25MHz which disables the onboard 486SX CPU via a extra Pin.
Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration
Posted on 2021-07-10, 06:06
Soundcard: the Audigy 2 is cheap stable and compatible with good gaming experience (EAX3). As far as I know, no EAX3 capable games were released before 2002. And anything made from 2002 onward is best played on WinXP. You missunderstood - EAX3 is just a fact for the Audigy2 and means also backwards …
Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration
Posted on 2021-07-10, 03:26
I've already mentioned some of the games that I'm definitely going to play, like tomb raider, quake, serious sam and max payne, mafia, return to castle wolfenstein, red faction. Other games will be pod, carmaggedon 2, colin mcrae 2, half-life, mdk 2, dungeon keeper 2, thief... also want to try …
Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration
Posted on 2021-07-09, 21:22
I want to build a PC and be done with it, so it would be nice if it run a lot of games with no issues or crashes to the desktop, because I never know what I might want to try. I am aiming at maximum game compatibility and system stability for the win9x era. For what I gather it seems that a 440BX …
Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840
Posted on 2021-07-02, 09:47
The OR840 supports dual-channel-Rambus. So you get a performance boost (in some cases for SMP), if you populate both channels. Rambus RAM is a serial Daisy Chain of Memory chips (chips, not modules!) with a Memory controller for each chip. As larger the Module Size, as longer the Daisy Chain. So the …
Re: Acceptable 3d accelerator for Pentium MMX era.
Posted on 2021-06-20, 05:58
I would recommend a contemporary graphics card. Later graphics cards have a high driver overhead because they were born into systems with significantly more RAM and CPU power. There are then such nice effects as that these graphics cards perform rather poorly in comparison with slow CPUs and then …
Re: Sound card with low noise, non-stereo reversed wavetable support?
Posted on 2021-05-22, 14:11
You wrote that OPL3 doesn‘t matter. Then would be the Maestro 32/96 an option. If you don‘t need the WTH, then the TB Tropez Plus would be your card: Crystal clear sound (one of the best of its time), OPL3 FM sound, best SB Pro comptatibility and very nice GM Wavetable sound . For me the best DOS …
Re: Building a good Windows 98 gaming pc
Posted on 2021-05-22, 06:09
I was actually wrong. The ATI Radeon no longer have support for D3D5 faetures (fog table, paltettized textures). From this point of view, the FX5900 would be first choice. If you want to stay with DX7 then the GF2 GTS/TI/Ultra or GF4MX 440/460 would be the best choice. You could compensate for the …
Re: Building a good Windows 98 gaming pc
Posted on 2021-05-21, 21:40
It would help a lot if you could narrow down the time. That you want to capture with it. From when, until when? At the top end, I would see the year 2003. That's when the DirectX 9 games started coming. DX9 had Win2K or WinXP as a prerequisite. There is an unofficial port of DX9 for Win98, but why …
Re: 1999 Dream PC project
Posted on 2021-05-19, 18:37
I think in 1999 where 128MB Rambus sticks common. You also should consider the OS - for a dual CPU system you need Windows NT4 or a Linux. Win2k would be the best, but it was released on 17. Feb. 2000. Windows 98 only supports single CPU Systems and 512MB RAM.
Re: Volume reduction on Roland LAPC-I
Posted on 2021-05-14, 06:33
semas to work - but there is only a little difference between 100% and 70% with my LAPC
Re: Volume reduction on Roland LAPC-I
Posted on 2021-05-13, 21:01
Hi Keropi, thanks a lot. I will test it tomorrow. Is there anything to configure like I/O address or IRQ.
Re: Volume reduction on Roland LAPC-I
Posted on 2021-05-13, 19:19
Hey! Ok, so you just need a SysEx file, which I can send you, and you also need a program which can send SysEx. Are you on a vintage setup or a modern PC? That would be very nice. Thanks a lot! I have a simple DOS midi player (DOSMID). I would prefer a simple DOS tool, like this midiplayer, so I …
Re: Volume reduction on Roland LAPC-I
Posted on 2021-05-13, 10:20
Hey, thanks for the hint. Please would you describe what i have to do? I have no experiences with SysEx. And i wasn‘t at QuestStudios, it must has been another Lutz 😀
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-05-11, 05:22
The Mach32 ISA is on par with the ET4000AX @10MHZ ISA Clock - tested on a SV2GX4 with a Am5x86 @160MHz - in DOS In Windows, the Mach32 is miles ahead the ET4000
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-05-10, 19:42
One more ISA/VLB pair. Now from ATI. Graphics Ultra Pro ISA Graphics Ultra XLR VLB I plan to upgrade the VLB card to Graphics Ultra Pro level. That is to 2MB of VRAM and better RAMDAC that is missing in the socket. Feels inferior with just the lowend 85MHz part.... https://dependency-injection.com/ …
Volume reduction on Roland LAPC-I
Posted on 2021-05-08, 15:44
Hi, i have a Roland LAPC which plays the Midi files and Midi tracks in Games very loud (unpleasant loud on Headphones) and with some distortion at this level. With a Windows Midiplayer i can reduce the Midi volume to a pleasant value and the distortion is gone. Is there an option to reduce the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-05-04, 14:53
Elsa Winner 2000 4MB VRAM ISA/EISA fully OVP Filename 20AB79A0-359E-44EB-B3C0-22319681B00A.jpeg File size 1.61 MiB Views 381 views Filename 26B3D106-6DBB-4832-B7A6-2EAEBAEEFBBD.jpeg File size 1.68 MiB Views 381 views
Re: Super expensive Pentium overdrive , any alternative?
Posted on 2021-05-03, 08:32
The P24T can have their quirks from DMA problems up to destroying himself and the board. I am at @dionb and would recommend a DX4 ODPR 100. It would run in 99,9% of all 486 with LIF and ZIF socket - and it is a real, genuine intel 486.
Re: German theme 486 computer.
Posted on 2021-05-02, 06:59
Graphics Card: Elsa / Spea / Miro Sound Card: Terratec / Miro / Spea RAM: Siemens Housing: Escom / Vobis (Highscreen) / Peacock / Nixdorf CPU: no german CPU, but would take AMD because their Fab in Dresden in late 199x Board: i only know Nixdorf and Siemens for 486, but they had no standard AT …
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