Re: What is Sony SuperStation Tape?

Posted on 2023-05-21, 17:06

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AFAIK, the main thing is they were the only tapes the SuperStation drives would officially write to, while being able to read other formats. The Sony SuperStation External Tape Drive can read / write the SONY SuperStation 10GB and 6.6GB tape cartridges as well as read the QIC-Extra, TRAVAN, QIC-WIDE …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 (AU8830A2) problems!

Posted on 2023-05-06, 14:18

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Does Device Manager should the device and driver are loaded without error? Are there any messages in the event log? If it appears to work but there's no sound, are you just using the front stereo output? If so try the rear with a 3D sound demo. Maybe something is dodgy with the front jack or amp. …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-05-05, 00:40

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That’s way too scary. I am 100% accidentally ripping something off the motherboard if I try that. Also the headers are organised 90 degrees from those on your board so I would need to bend them to plug in at the bottom of the board. And there is not enough room in the case! The power supply shroud …

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Re: Necroware's S7-VRM

Posted on 2023-04-29, 23:41

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Awesome work, I enjoyed following the progress by watching the videos as they were released.

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Re: Dead M919 Board - What to do next?

Posted on 2023-04-23, 04:09

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Good ideas to start out. I guess I will have to find the pinout for the DX4 and probe the bottom of the board while it's running. I also thought about the fact there's no COAST module in there, but the CPU should(?) be able to run without it. It can run without the custom cache module. Is not COAST …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-04-13, 00:30

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I like the BIOS options where you can reserve IRQ and DMA resources. We're early plug and play bioses devoid of this feature? You could assign an IRQ or DMA to a specific slot, but I've seen Windows 9x mess with it and do its own thing and assign things you didn't want. You ended up with things …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-04-12, 21:23

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Is this the "plug and pray" that everyone was talking about in the early 90s? I always thought it was just people who didn't know how to use the driver software. No, it was bad. If devices and software would have worked with any resource it would have been fine. But you have certain devices using …

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Re: Affordable MP-401 UART without a second sound card?

Posted on 2023-03-27, 14:14

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Wouldn't it be possible to build a simple MPU-401 card by using an ATmega328p ("Arduino"), a basic "COM-Port" (8250, 16550A) at port 330h/at 31250 Baud? I vaguely remember that normal COM ports on ISA multi-i/o cards could be modified to run at 31250 Baud (instead of 38400 Baud) by changing their …

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Re: Affordable MP-401 UART without a second sound card?

Posted on 2023-03-26, 14:30

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Unisound should resolve your issues. You can initialize only the MPU401 on the second card so you don't need to worry about other resource conflicts. Depending on the games you want to play. A YMF719 might work well for a single-card solution. Its OPL4 has some issues with a small number of games. …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2023-03-25, 01:00

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The McCake is the wrong product for you. The MP32L is really what you should get. But here's the GamePort pinout https://old.pinouts.ru/Audio-Video-Hardware/pc2midicable_pinout.shtml And I believe this should be the pinout off the McCake. https://www.epanorama.net/documents/pc/waveblaster.html The …

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Re: Old games--Joysticks

Posted on 2023-03-19, 23:45

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Are you asking about using old joysticks with old games on modern systems, or modern joysticks and controls with old games? Old Windows games used DirectInput and many new controllers are XInput, there are already way to remap these to work with old games. The PCGamingWiki page for Crimson Skies …

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Re: Using an FX 5200 for old games

Posted on 2023-03-12, 01:47

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Ah, so you are saying that The FX 5200 cant run Direct3D 2 or 3 games? The Riva 128 doesnt have Cards with DVI from what I can see. Which is one of the main Criteria I have. I would use 320x200 via VGA most likely, and possibly 640x480 on "newer" games (which also includes duke nukem 3D) and Up on …

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Re: Using an FX 5200 for old games

Posted on 2023-03-11, 23:35

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If I see it correctly you are all mostly complaining about the performance of newer games. Well "old" compared to 2023, but new in terms of...well, this forum maybe. ^^ Anyone of you using the 5200 for DOS games (running with DOS 6.22) and maybe early windows one? I don't expect to play Quake 3 on …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2023-02-27, 22:08

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Thanks for your reply. I'm currently in contact with dreamblaster and am testing a few things. If it doesn't work I might have to send it back. But right now I wanna check out first if it's not a config issue. I have a creative live 5.1 in my system as well. As soon as I chose the MPU as a the midi …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2023-02-27, 00:57

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Hey, could someone provide some support with the McCake? I installed mine on a YMF719E-S Yamaha soundcard. If I setup a game to use it as a midi device and then test it, it might work for a short while. But then it starts going crazy by playing random sounds all the time (it sounds like an …

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Re: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2022-12-20, 19:32

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In AUTOEXEC.BAT: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P300 E620 T6 F398 C:\PATH\TO\UNISOUND.COM /VC:80 Adjust the Sound Blaster base address, IRQ, and DMA channels to your liking, of course. The key is to move the AWE64 MPU-401 out of the way (P300), and the CQM (F398, which is a parameter specific to …

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Re: Need Help Choosing a PSU for a WinXP PC

Posted on 2022-12-17, 14:29

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Are there still new PSUs sold with any molex (or Floppy) connectors? Anyway, if you need any you can just replace the SATA plugs on any new PSU if you don't mind losing the warranty. You can get molex crimps and reuse the plastic from old PSUs. Any quality PSU modern PSU should work that is at …

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-15, 20:07

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keropi wrote on 2022-12-15, 20:04: any idea how this thing actually looks like? size/connectors/etc? No, it has an April-May 2023 estimated ship range. So it's likely not final yet. It does list support for OLED, and rotary encoder.

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-15, 19:12

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Fixel just posted a preorder for the first batch. $319, and says limited quantity preorder and price will change. https://3do.dev/products/ide-emulator-batch1

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Re: X-Wing (floppy) problem on AMD 5x86-160

Posted on 2022-12-14, 22:22

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I never played X-Wing, but I found that its successor TIE Fighter has midi music that the SB16's MPU cannot handle. IIRC it is most noticeable as delays whenever a midi music track changes. You can test whether things run better and reliable with the OPL/FM music option, if so then you know what …

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