Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-31, 04:36

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Or just use the Battle.net version, which uses audio recordings of the Roland Sound Canvas 55 (external MIDI module, very expensive) Even the original DOS version of WarCraft 2 had CD (redbook) audio, giving you the highest possible music quality at the time. While the developers did also include …

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Re: K6-III+ Build having trouble determining baseline performance

Posted on 2022-08-31, 03:37

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Your performance looks alright to me. For comparison, here are my results with a Celeron 466 and a Voodoo3 2000 AGP. BTW, don't expect great results in 3D Mark 2000 and 2001 on the Voodoo3. Those benchmarks expect T&L (2000) and pixel shader support (2001) which that card doesn't have. Stick with 3D …

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Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-30, 16:44

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Finally finished Stargate Atlantis (started in February) Now Starting SG1, episode 3, gonna take a while fun to see how much I missed because I only watched the series late Sunday nights over the air. SG1 and SGA are such great shows. Probably my favorite TV shows of all time, alongside Star Trek: …

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Re: Is it worth throwing away nostalgic stuff?

Posted on 2022-08-30, 07:51

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I'm selling maybe 75% of my stuff and binning 25% - the bits that are temperamental so I don't want to sell, some untested RAM i picked up in a bucket, a couple of MX cards that no one wants... You could sell all of those in a lot, as long as you properly declare it as "for parts only". People who …

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Re: looking for Waveblaster 1 Disc

Posted on 2022-08-30, 07:31

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Ulfenknulfen wrote on 2022-08-30, 07:22: yes, i'm looking for the install 3.5" Disc. I think you may have unintentionally caused some confusion here. Disc = optical media e.g. CD, DVD, Blu-Ray etc. Disk = magnetic media e.g. floppy disk or hard disk.

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-29, 12:07

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Ok interesting. One more question. For late dos games would it be better to have awe64 cqm or SB16 OPL3? If we're comparing OPL3 vs. CQM then genuine OPL3 will always win. That said, with the AWE64 you also have the option to use its on-board wavetable in AWE32 mode instead of limiting yourself to …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-29, 11:01

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by Joseph_Joestar

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And here are the tests with my ESS 1868F on the same AhlonXP 1700+ system at full speed: Dyna Blaster - music works, digital sound doesn't Prehistorik - music works, digital sound doesn't Lemmings - music works (game doesn't have digital sound effects?) Golden Axe - music works, sound effects play …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-29, 10:01

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Yeah, there are a bit TOO many variations of this file, I've also had to search quite a bit to make it work... I've attached the ones that work for me (for SB PRO and SB 16). I've just tested the SB16 version with the AWE64 and it works fine (once the speed gets below ~ Pentium 100 - 133 MHz). I …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-28, 19:55

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Thanks for the quick tests. Regarding Prehistorik, are you using the correct CT-VOICE.DRV (the one for SB16)? If not, it will fail to detect a sound blaster. I used the CT-VOICE.DRV which comes with the AWE64 DOS driver (found in the C:\SB16\DRV directory). I'm not too familiar with the different …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-28, 19:23

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Off the top of my head, I think these games included Dyna Blaster, Prehistorik, Lemmings, Golden Axe (and maybe even Prince of Persia?). Ok, did some testing with these using the CT4520 on my AhlonXP 1700+ at full speed. Here are the results: Dyna Blaster - music works, digital sound doesn't …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-28, 18:06

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Off the top of my head, I think these games included Dyna Blaster, Prehistorik, Lemmings, Golden Axe (and maybe even Prince of Persia?). From that list, I played Prince of Persia and Lemmings, and I think they both worked fine at full CPU speed. It's been a while since I tried this though, but I …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-28, 17:22

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Then I would strongly advise against using Creative ISA cards, which exhibit speed sensitivity related issues on fast systems (effectively losing a lot of their usual excellent game compatibility). Do we have some concrete examples of this on AWE64s? I was under the impression that it was mostly …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-28, 17:10

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I also read in these forums there's a number of games claiming 16-bit sound which are actually still 8-bit. So, that reduces the value of SB16 compatibility for me - the only reason I irrational hung on to Creative. I had a SB16 as a kid, and to me, later DOS games (made in 1995 and onward) just …

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Re: Finding my first build specs- what board was it.. (clues inside)

Posted on 2022-08-27, 06:21

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by Joseph_Joestar

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kennyPENTIUMpowers wrote on 2022-08-27, 05:39: - i believe it had an AT power (might have had ATX connector as well) and KB connectors (i reused my old P100 case/PS and keyboard) If it hat both power connectors, that might narrow things down. Possibly PC Chips M571 or a similar model?

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Re: games that use EMBM

Posted on 2022-08-26, 10:23

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by Joseph_Joestar

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seems that I am not up to date on this. So DXTC is (the successor of) S3TC ? What about compatibility? What "older" gfx-cards support DXTC ? That's what I gather from what I've read here and also here . The earliest non-S3 cards which supported it were ATI Radeon, Nvidia GeForce and 3DFX Voodoo 4. …

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Re: games that use EMBM

Posted on 2022-08-26, 09:18

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by Joseph_Joestar

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thx for that very helpfull wiki page...would be interesting to add other nice features like ..."games with s3tc texture support". Do you mean games which have unique content that only works on S3TC capable cards? Or games which have S3TC support in general? Because if it's the latter, pretty much …

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Re: games that use EMBM

Posted on 2022-08-26, 06:53

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I have updated the Vogons wiki EMBM page . Right now, it's only listing the games for which Matrox claimed that they would have EMBM support. The full list was taken from their archived website . More games will be added if we can get proper confirmation of their EMBM use. Preferably with …

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Re: Motherboard advice for Win98SE build

Posted on 2022-08-26, 05:20

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Found an interesting old discussion regarding the Matrox G400 vs Voodoo 3 image quality: https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox/c/NdoSLFEzPL0 Man, I'm so attached to the Matrox cards, and I found a G400 (non-MAX) for a good price, I think I just have to buy it :) I have both …

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Re: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2022-08-26, 05:04

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I guess it's specific to PT880 or my motherboard, but on a clean install I get a memory resource conflict with one of the Host Bridges, specifically the one that stores the AGP configuration registers. I guess the AMD boards don't get that. I've never experienced that kind of an issue on my system. …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster Card for ISA slot

Posted on 2022-08-25, 21:27

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by Joseph_Joestar

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That's a Vibra, not a regular SB16. Probably the best of the Vibras though. You only suffer from Vibra hissing/ringing and MIDI slowdowns. No other bugs. IIRC, Vibra XV models don't have High DMA support. AWE64 cards do, even the value versions. This might matter for certain games like Duke3D which …

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