Also was wondering what the cheapest audio solution would be since I can't figure out how to install the drivers which aren't compatible. Not sure if generic audio drivers exist? I found this guide for Intel HDA, but haven't tried it myself: https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2019/06/windows- …

as windows loads I get a black screen. any tips? Just a hunch: Try putting a monitor on the video out (vga?) and see if maybe it’s mistakenly using the wrong display or using a mode unsupported by the laptop panel. Or just try the keyboard hot key for monitor internal/external and see if you get …

It is not a plug and play card I believe. So you must manually install the card in win98, using the "Add new hardware wizard". For DOS you need to set the BLASTER variable: https://retronn.de/imports/soundblaster_config_guide.html https://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_ct1600.html

I understand that it is not a hardware solution to this, but has anyone tried the SHSUCDHD for this problem? https://github.com/adoxa/shsucd/ "SHSUCDHD v3.01 Simulates a CD-ROM using an image file" I wonder how well it works with older (386/486) machines.

In my opinion the only bad think about the FX platform was power consumption. I used an FX 8350 in my main desktop pc from 2013 to 2019. With decent cooling, like EVO 212, heat was not an problem. The price to performance ratio performance was ok. I paid around 180€ for the cpu in 2013. For that …

How about NVIDIA Quadro4 100 NVS PCI? Those can be found on ebay for 15.99EUR, but the seller only ships to Italy, so you might need an italian proxy address for shipping 😉 The cards seem similar to this: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro4 … 0-nvs-pci.c1461

Has anyone had experience with the EIZO L767 or am I better off staying with the S1923? Isn't the response time on L767 quite slow? Something like 25ms. I've been studying these displays too and almost bought new old stock S1923 but then hesitated. I'm not sure how much the 5:4 ratio would bother …

Make sure to get some airflow over the transistors on the upper left area. I believe their heat is the main reason for those cards to die. Thanks for the tip. When doing some googling about this card I saw several comments along the lines that "the 7950gt was a nice card until it died (too early)" …

Won a bid for a new in a box Geforce 7950 GT AGP, paid 11 euros + shipping for it :) This was at a local auction site and the seller didn't really bother take good pictures or describe the item that much. So no one else bid on it. I saw from the fuzzy pictures that it is an agp card and thought that …

Are these wolfmidi generated midi files available as .mid files to listen on a midi player?

If you search ebay for "K6 400ATZ" the lowest price for brand new AMD-K6-III+/400ATZ is 70USD at the moment. Stock voltage is 1.6 and rising the voltage a bit it can easily be overclocked to 550MHZ.

Bought a 3Dlabs Permedia card. My expectations aren't too high but it was cheap and interesting. I guess nobody likes these 😁 Seems to be the same card as presented here: https://vintage3d.org/3dlabs2.php Filename permedia3000.jpg File size 1.53 MiB Views 2063 views File comment permedia 3000

"ALEKS" here has designed his own hardware (backplane, cpu board, graphics & i/o card etc): https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=950100#p950100 That stuff isn't trivial, his build logs are very impressive and interesting to read. There are also BOMs and schematics: https://alexandrugroza.ro/ …

I also have a boxed version of this card with external input/output box and software. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm interested if anyone has exprience of using this. Are there any DOS drivers for ESS Maestro-2EM that work with this card? There are also ISO's available at archive.org: https:// …