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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-07-19, 19:46

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I still plan on throwing the orpheus into one of my other socket7 systems but really wish I could have used it in the dell as it has become my primary DOS machine. I think I can pre-announce that the upcoming version of ORPHINIT will include support for another initialisation method, which should …

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-07-18, 20:39

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I actually purchased another one a few months ago to have on hand for parts in case mine ever went bad. The old tech hoard continues to grow haha. I had updated my BIOS on the main system to A20 a while ago which was the one I was testing the card on. I am not sure what version the other machine …

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-06-03, 01:50

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I actually purchased another one a few months ago to have on hand for parts in case mine ever went bad. The old tech hoard continues to grow haha. I had updated my BIOS on the main system to A20 a while ago which was the one I was testing the card on. I am not sure what version the other machine has …

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-05-31, 12:50

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

No luck unfortunately - I think it may be a conflict with the board's drive controller I was able to reset BIOS and boot from floppy after clearing CMOS but the moment I try to configure my hard drive reverts back to the same behavior. I'll throw in an external drive controller and see if I get any …

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-05-29, 11:18

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Thanks for responding keropi! I just checked out your facebook page and found that post I think (unless there is another Optiplex user says he had a GN with a 200MMX) unfortunately I couldn't expand all of the comments to read how it was resolved. I do think you are on to something though. I will …

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-05-28, 14:12

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Just let it sit for 5 mins on several shutdowns and restarts still the same issue. I threw the card in one of my socket7 machines with the jumper settings that were shipped with the card and bingo bango came up with no problems and works great. Put my old Awe32 back in the Optiplex and boots as …

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-05-28, 13:08

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Just got my card yesterday and have the day off today so it is time for some retro goodness. Unfortunately when I install the card my system will not boot from any device (hard drive, floppy). System posts but will not go any further than initial boot screen and memory scan. I am thinking it is a …

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-04-10, 12:40

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I have that exact keyboard tray. I rather like it. It does look quite nice. Do you know if it's still produced? Yea! You can snag it at Amazon here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A3YX582/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I had first opted for an under the tabletop …

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-04-09, 22:21

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Just moved and got my office all set up: Comp Area 1.jpg Work from home and modern workstation on the right and retro setups on the left Comp Area 2.jpg CRT and keyboard and mouse setup for my retro rigs Comp Area 3.jpg Left Top is 486 100mhz Top Right SS7 K6-3+ Voodoo3 Middle Horizontal is K6-2+ …

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 AGP under performing?

Posted on 2020-10-07, 15:25

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I vaguely remember seeing a video from Phil's computer lab where he ran into the issue of an AGP card showing up as PCI and that limited performance for him as well. I am not sure if it was driver related or chipset

Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-01, 20:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would lean more towards SS7 for DOS compatibility. You have a really good range of processors and with a MMX or a K6+ cpu you can use setmul to really dial in for speed sensitive games. For a pure DOS PC SS7 is the way to go I think. 440BX is touted as being an ultra stable chipset over those that …

Re: AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header

Posted on 2020-09-22, 01:57

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Just did this mod this evening. Thanks for the inspiration and the detailed instructions!! Works great 😀

Re: Geforce AGP + Voodoo 3 PCI @ VIA MVP3 and Win98SE

Posted on 2020-09-21, 13:00

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Second on Hardware profiles. I have that setup in my Win98 Tualatin build. AGP Geforce 4 Ti4200 and a PCI Voodoo3. If I want to play any glide games i go into the bios and switch primary video to Voodoo3 and then load hardware profile that has that enabled and the geforce disabled. Reverse for using …

Re: PCI Cards faster than AGP on Epox ep-mvp3c2 SS7 DOS Benchmarks

Posted on 2020-09-15, 02:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

UPDATE: Did some more testing today testing in Win98 FutureMark99 TNT M64 AGP 3110 6904 TNT M64 AGPVIA4-1 Driver Standard 3146 6893 TNT M64 AGP VIA4-1 Turbo 3150 6947 TNTM64 PCI 3111 6835 DOS: AGP - 3DBENCHV2 - 272, Quake 640x480 17.3 PCI - 3DBENCHV2 - 388, Quake 640/480 22.8 No K6WC or other MTRRs …

PCI Cards faster than AGP on Epox ep-mvp3c2 SS7 DOS Benchmarks

Posted on 2020-09-14, 11:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a new board over the weekend and I am trying to figure out a quirk that it has related to AGP and DOS benchmarks. It appears that the AGP slot is somehow crippled in performance compared to PCI. Board is an Epox EP-MVP3C2 with BIOS VP3C0C21 from "CPU Upgrade: Getting the AMD K6-2+ / K6-III+ to …

Re: Dell Optiplex 466/L assistance needed

Posted on 2020-09-07, 12:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Isn't the 466 a 486 machine? I just did a quick google search and those pointed to it being a 486. I have an Optiplex GL5100 which is a socket 5. Have you opened it up and checked out what the socket says?

Re: PCI Power Filter Card - Linus Tech Tips Video

Posted on 2020-09-04, 11:58

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Ultimately they determined that there wasn't any distinguishable difference in their test bench which made sense but it got me thinking about older builds. Looking at a few socket 7 boards I had lying around I was curious if this thing could actually do anything for retro builds... I'm going to …

PCI Power Filter Card - Linus Tech Tips Video

Posted on 2020-09-04, 00:43

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I just watched a video on LTT doing a review of a $40 PCI card claiming to improve audio quality of PC audio by cleaning out power signal noise See Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZzIqiwisY Ultimately they determined that there wasn't any distinguishable difference in their test bench which …

Re: Starting DOS games freezes the PC

Posted on 2020-08-31, 20:28

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I don't like Phil's startup files in general - too many options which have no practical use, but technically, they should work fine. Ruling out sound-related problems is indeed a good way to start. Crusader games and Mortal Kombat games all have "no sound" options. Do the games run fine this way? …

Re: How do YOU mount your CF2IDE card?

Posted on 2020-08-30, 14:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here is another pic of my 486 (right) and SS7 (left). The 486 has CF and the SS7 has SD. The seller on ebay that does the 3d printing for the SD cards also has them in other colors but they didn't really match my cases. Filename Front Drive Bay.jpg File size 1.6 MiB Views 412 views

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