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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-11, 22:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PuppyLinux 4.3.1 Retro does pretty much all I need on Socket7 & 64MB and above. For beefier systems (Slot 1 & 128MB or above) Trisquel Mini is perfect. Thanks, I'll try them both, although I was thinking AntiX for the latter, I'll definitely try that too. Have you set up Puppy to work with AWE32? …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-10, 19:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tried to install TinyCore 11.1 (Linux kernel 5.4) on my old Socket 7 Pentium MMX PC. I mostly want to see how "modern" I can get it to behave with those specs, while actually using the hardware that's in it, like actual S3 drivers, not VESA, loading GM/GS soundfonts, OPL3 etc. I got it to play …

Re: awe32 and gus on linux

Posted on 2020-11-10, 12:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's been a while, I know, but do you still have that setup? I'm trying to set up something similar with TinyCore 11.1 (kernel 5.4) on my Socket 7 Pentium MMX, and I'm having a bit of difficulty getting sound out of my non-PNP AWE32.

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2020-11-09, 11:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-11-05, 14:12: My two two wheels 😁 Is the bicycle a fixed gear (fixie)?

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-09, 01:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BetaC wrote on 2020-11-08, 18:45: No, it isn't. if this wasn't a pentium MMX, I would just go to 98 where I know a driver exists and works. Why not do just that? You can run Win98 usably on a Pentium MMX, and you can get rid of the bloated IE4 shell using 98Lite. It's worked very well for me on my …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-06, 21:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-11-06, 12:26: That is just awesome nice work my friend. I wonder if it'll work for XP pro 64 to make use of 8 or 16 gigs of RAM. I know that would be way overkill for XP but it would just be awesome none the less. I don't think overkill is something foreign to us 🤣

Re: Windows 95 vs Windows 98

Posted on 2020-11-04, 00:29

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

For Pentium laptops, I prefer to only use Windows 98 because it supports usb and is more versatile in case I want to switch the hard drive from an old laptop to a new one and vice versa. For 486 and lower Win 3.11 is fine enough. You can use USB (even flashdrives) with Windows 95B and later using …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-03, 16:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't know if it counts, but I compiled Adlib Tracker II SDL on FreeBSD 12.2 32-bit from source. I had recently installed FreeBSD side-by-side with Devuan on my netbook, and gotten it to a full XFCE desktop. Spoiler I'm starting to suspect that the real reason it was this sluggish was AHCI mode …

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

Posted on 2020-11-02, 13:28

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I know that people vastly more qualified at this (you included) than I am are working on it, but it still seems like fun to poke at things on my own, even if I do feel like I am taking the software equivalent of a hammer to it . Disabling the ADC bloc while the daughterboard is not in used makes …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-02, 13:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It was case restoration weekend: https://i.postimg.cc/CxhJC4yG/AT-Case-G-Restored.jpg The case is from Microstar (A local business that seems to have been importing their hardware in the early 90s) from whom I bought my own 486 DX33 in 1994. This one has no spec stickers, but there is a warranty …

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

Posted on 2020-11-01, 21:58

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

keropi wrote on 2020-11-01, 20:14: nice nice , good to see it resolved please report everything even if it turns out to be a non-issue 😀 Indeed, that could serve as a mini-guide or FAQ.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-11-01, 21:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

K1n9_Duk3 wrote on 2020-11-01, 21:23: wikipedia wrote: VEB Kombinat Robotron (or simply Robotron) was the biggest East German electronics manufacturer. Thanks, for some reason, all Google gave me was science fiction movies and arcade hardware.

Re: Overheating EMU8K on AWE32 CT2760

Posted on 2020-11-01, 12:52

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Any updates on this? Did you get it working on Windows?

Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-11-01, 12:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I delidded my Tualatin, sanded the IHS, and am using Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut between the die and IHS, and between the IHS and Startech S370 cooler. I did this for fun and so I could free up some thermal headroom for some light CPU OCing. However, said light OCing has somehow caused... …

Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2020-11-01, 11:51

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I found this for sale, anyone seen this strange card before? It looks like it got a crystal cs4236 chip and a modem with game/midi port and a wavetable header(?). It's also not an SB16 clone per se, rather, an SBPro clone, maybe with WSS support, though I don't know which chip introduced that, so …

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-11-01, 11:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

HanJammer wrote on 2020-10-30, 22:56: More Robotron stuff... I don't really need it so all is on eBay right now... What even is all that Robotron stuff? I haven't even heard of them.. The cards look a bit like 8-bit ISA.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-10-25, 23:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

HanJammer wrote on 2020-10-25, 18:07: Yeah, unfortunatelly the 20MHz one doesn't work (it tries but fails early in the POST). Hold on to it. It might be very well fixable. Have tried any troubleshooting on that board?

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-10-25, 23:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Revived a PC-Chips M748MR motherboard I was given 10 years ago along with a Pentium II CPU and RAM, all of which I used for a little bit and then stored for all these years. Thought it was dead (my POST card didn't say anything probably because it wasn't making contact with the crusty old PCI slots …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-10-19, 23:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DosFreak wrote on 2020-10-19, 23:25: Testing of mbf and duke3d on windows xp 32bit with videprt proxy on 980ti. Could you elaborate on what videprt proxy is? It sounds interesting.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-10-19, 23:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I replaced the analog stick on my PSP because it had way too serious drifting AND ghost movements at once. At the time I got it back in August, it was only mildly noticeable that something was off, to the point I could beat Maverick Hunter X, NFS Carbon OTC and GTA CW without difficulty (save for …

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