Re: Cloning the AdLib Gold Surround Sound Module

Posted on 2020-11-06, 08:52

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

In Switzerland you can be an independent "hobbyist" and seller and you don't need to report anything nor pay any taxes up to 100K profit a year. You don't even have to setup an official company at the commercial register. At 100k/y the fun starts: commercial register, obligation to apply and pay VAT …

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Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2020-11-05, 21:37

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

Good stuff! Will give it a go over the next few days and report 😀 Congratulations 640k!enough

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

Posted on 2020-10-19, 09:12

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

Have finally been able to play a bit more with the Orpheus yesterday - the sound quality is nothing short of spectacular and probably the lowest noise floor of any card I tried. Ace job keropi and Marmes 😀

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Re: Post your favorite video game cover (MS-DOS/Early Windows edition)

Posted on 2020-10-17, 10:39

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by Boohyaka

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not very original but as they're some of my favorites game (as my avatar illustrates), I always loved Space Quest covers. Particularly 3 and 5: https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/635576-space-quest-iii-the-pirates-of-pestulon-dos-front-cover.jpg https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/ …

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Re: FIC PA-2010+ BIOS weirdness

Posted on 2020-10-16, 22:47

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well it seems that your BIOS doesn't have the information I was looking for so I can't really say if my assumption was correct or not :( Meanwhile, you can attempt to patch your bios using this tool for MS-DOS to improve HDD support ^^ http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php?p=188943#p188943 …

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Re: FIC PA-2010+ BIOS weirdness

Posted on 2020-10-16, 07:46

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by Boohyaka

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh merci! Looks interesting 😀 I'll try later today.

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-10-15, 18:45

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

ah, makes sense actually! learned something new.

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Re: FIC PA-2010+ BIOS weirdness

Posted on 2020-10-15, 11:37

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oh, I said south bridge because of this mention on the Soyo website about it "this beta BIOS is for VIA586A south bridge only" Attaching two BIOS files: 6200J90E is the one meant for 4.0 and I'm successfully running 113AB135 is the one meant for 4.1 that I want to run but doesn't work Board rev …

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Re: FIC PA-2010+ BIOS weirdness

Posted on 2020-10-15, 10:18

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fair enough, I can live with the limit, I was just trying to get the max potential out of it. I didn't know bigger HDD's could make the BIOS hang, as I'm used to create a smaller partition in bigger drives and never had a problem with it so far. About the super io comment, interesting but that still …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-10-15, 09:17

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

Yes, well that was definitely new to me! The Orpheus was fine out of the box on 2 other motherboards I tested with default settings, and this Soyo has always been fine with all the sound cards I've thrown at it, and I've tried quite a lot...well, just glad it's fixed and learned something new, thank …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-10-15, 08:59

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

My initial (stable) configuration was CLKIN 1/2. Then when I had the issues I went back to BIOS defaults thinking it would be most compatible, which sets AT bus clock to 7.159MHz, still didn't work. Then JazeFox recommended I basically tried all timing settings and the bottom line is: 1/2 1/3 1/4 …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-10-15, 08:50

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

So after a lot of investigation and time from JazeFox (awesome lad!) I'm happy we were able to fix it! For some reason my motherboard and Orpheus combo is super picky with AT bus clock. It started working when setting timing to CLKIN 1/6. Huge thanks again for your time JazeFox 😀

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Re: FIC PA-2010+ BIOS weirdness

Posted on 2020-10-15, 08:40

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by Boohyaka

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tested with a 425MB WD Caviar IDE HDD, a Maxtor 200GB IDE HDD, and a 120GB SSD with a (working) CF-IDE adapter. All those work with the 4.0 rev BIOS. In any case something else must be wrong, as even with no HDD installed and configured in BIOS, there's is no floppy seek at boot at all, and it …

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Re: FIC PA-2010+ BIOS weirdness

Posted on 2020-10-15, 07:50

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tested all BIOS versions I could find and bottom line my v4.1 board only works with 4.0 BIOS. Doesn't make sense to me and sucks to be stuck at 8gb when there could/should be a solution 🙁

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FIC PA-2010+ BIOS weirdness

Posted on 2020-10-14, 16:15

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, I have received a FIC PA-2010+ mobo. According to the PCB this is a rev 4.1 board. The included BIOS chip seems to be an original Award bios chip, labelled 6.18J90Es. When booting, that's the version reported by POST, so looks OK. But the HDD size is limited to 8GB so I start looking for updates …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-10-13, 11:35

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

Thanks for the quick answer! I removed everything I could to exclude incompatibilities or conflicts, so right now the config is: - Soyo SY-025K, 486dx2-66, 16MB RAM - UMC 8672 I/O VLB card - Cirrus Logic GD5426 VLB VGA card - Orpheus, obviously :) UNISOUND /F: hangs the same UNISOUND /XXF: hangs the …

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

Posted on 2020-10-13, 10:48

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

Received my Orpheus today, it's a beautifully crafted card, amazing stuff! Congratz again keropi and Marmes 😀 EDIT: fixed my issue which was some ISA timing shenanigans, I'll now take more time to properly test the card in the upcoming days!

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-10-13, 10:41

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

Hello JazeFox, I have problems using unisound 0.75e with the Orpheus card on my 486DX2 build. Here's hopefully relevant info: - unisound hangs when I launch it - unisound /cl shows it partially detects the card but hangs there (screenshot at the end) - I'm using SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4 and …

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Re: Soundcard capabilities benchmark or tool, and ASOUND ALS100 based card questions

Posted on 2020-10-10, 00:47

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ Sound

This card will go in a new P233MMX build, I'm still waiting on the mobo, covid making things slow...I'm now curious and looking forward to actually giving it a proper test as I now have enough machines and soundcards to make an interesting comparison - this card, ESS1868f, AWE32 CT3900, and soon …

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Re: PayPal takes your money

Posted on 2020-10-08, 21:36

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by Boohyaka

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Paypal is useful but they have all kind of shady practices. I'm Swiss and I'm pissed that they taking extra fees that are totally uncalled for even when paying in Euros to UE countries. Between UE countries no fees, between Switzerland and UE, fees. It could make sense in some way, except UE, …

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