Re: Help me building a retro PC for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-12-15, 23:09

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PSU should be fine. No, but it can make things much easier. I recommend a Gotek Floppy Emulator rather than a real floppy drive. It lets you put floppy images on a USB drive and is seen as a real floppy drive. They are under $20 USD. Win98 can use SATA, but some chipsets work others won't be …

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Re: Help me building a retro PC for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-12-15, 13:34

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I haven't used that motherboard so I can't comment. But it does have a VIA chipset so it should work with pure DOS mode sound. Other chipsets like the NForce can't do pure DOS mode sound with most PCI sound cards. I ran GLIDE Tombraider just fine on my Win98 machine with dgVoodoo. You just run it …

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Re: Help me building a retro PC for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-12-15, 13:01

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vinxi2 wrote on 2020-12-15, 12:50: Do you mean a configuration like this on a Pentium 3 or Athlon 64? Either should work. My Win98 machine is an A64 3000+, 5500FX, Audigy, and Vortex 2 that pipes digitally into the Audigy.

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Re: Tomb Raider + Quake 1 3dfx: How can I get them on my p133?

Posted on 2020-12-15, 04:09

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What about using a SD2IDE adapter to replace the hard drive? SD cards are faster than old HDDs, and you can mount it so the SD card can ejected to transfer files without needing to open the case.

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Re: Help me building a retro PC for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-12-15, 03:09

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Are you set on running games in our pure DOS mode? If not get a 4200ti or 5500FX and use dgVoodoo for glide games. SB Live or SB Audigy for sound. SD2IDE to storage and you have a great 98 era PC.

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

Posted on 2020-12-14, 19:49

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I would certainly fancy a more self-contained version of this device. Do you have any news about that DOS utility, so we can switch CD images from inside the host machine? Usage it in a retro gaming rig would be far more viable, if I didn't have to connect the IDE simulator to another computer. …

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Re: Lets make new M919 Cache sticks?

Posted on 2020-12-13, 13:51

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-12-13, 05:09: How much did you pay for the one you got? Search eBay for sold listings of m919 cache, but $45 + $4 s/h and state tax.

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Re: Lets make new M919 Cache sticks?

Posted on 2020-12-13, 05:00

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Oh good. I was actually trying to figure out where the PCB design, etc. was as I have an M919 board but no cache module. The seller got back to me and he's doing another small run over the holidays. In case you or anyone else wants to try for that before going through the process of building one …

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Re: Lets make new M919 Cache sticks?

Posted on 2020-12-13, 00:12

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Here's the author of that board 'jerryt74332' on this forum made them last year and put the design on EasyEDA for anyone to make up. Sourcing, installing and testing the cache chips is not a small feat so the guy you bought from did a lot of work too :) This is the thread that seems to have gone …

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Re: Lets make new M919 Cache sticks?

Posted on 2020-12-12, 22:14

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I received the cache stick today after it was bouncing around in the limbo that is USPS these days. I put it in my M919 V3.4b /w AMD 5x86 @133Mhz and it passed cachechk and topbench without issue. The listing states it was tested at 160Mhz by the seller. Phil's Quake benchmark saw the ~20% speed …

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Re: Best CPU for Socket 2 motherboard.

Posted on 2020-12-12, 16:43

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You're going to need what model motherboard that is or a much better picture to help people identify it. It looks like a DX2 chip is already installed. What voltage is that chip? If it's 3V you might be able to get a regular DX4 100 as overdrives expected 5V and then have voltage regulators to drop …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2020-12-11, 14:49

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There you will fall back into the problem mentioned in your first question. I don't believe you understand my first question. With two RPi 4 CMs on a single waveblaster header. How would you control the volume levels of the two separate outputs? You're mixing two analog outputs into a single analog …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2020-12-11, 13:50

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For games purpose, switching should be sufficient. For musical exploration, two midi inputs allow for example the mixing of different banks / instruments at the same time, etc ... and another universe that we can explore with the capabilities of the RPi CM4. But how would you mix/control the …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2020-12-11, 12:39

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Is it a good idea or not? the waveblaster header has a Midi out pin (wavetable board to sound card). this pin is rarely used on wavetable boards (one card to my knowledge). Is it possible to transform this pin into midi IN in the WP32 McCake module and thus have a total of two midi INs? This would …

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Re: Which of these sound modules should be removed?

Posted on 2020-12-10, 16:53

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The SC D70 is based on the 8820 so it's not a direct replacement of the 8850. But the SC D70 has both optical and digital via USB audio output that's mixed at a higher frequency than the 8850. So while things won't sound 100% the same, the SC D70 can give a higher quality ound. I'd recommend keeping …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2020-12-09, 15:55

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Will this device be useful for those titles that require an actual MT-32 and will sound wrong on an SC-55 or any other MIDI device? I believe the issue I'm thinking about was connected to intelligent mode stuff. I'm mostly clueless on MT-32 stuff so please excuse the weirdly worded question. 😅 I …

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Re: Audigy 2 ZS Jumper Question

Posted on 2020-12-09, 13:19

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Note at the bottom says jumper across 25-35 tricks the card into thinking you have a front panel like the one above, not sure why you want want to though? If you aren't connecting anything else to the card, there's no reason to. But the jumper does enable some inputs which are disabled without an …

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Re: Auzentech Prelude 40 pin header uses?

Posted on 2020-12-08, 23:32

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Old reviews for that card say the 40 pin header supports AD_LINK which is the pinout the Audigy 2 and other X-Fi cards use. I can't confirm it, but you could use a multimeter and see if the grounds and +5V pin line up. If it does those accessories should work with that card. https://pinouts.ru/Audio …

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Re: Sound Blaster Settings Keep Changing

Posted on 2020-12-08, 18:19

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Is it worth using the Creative drivers anymore? I have similar possibly the same model Vibra in my 486 I've been tinkering with over the past few months. Unisound works like magic, you just run a SET BLASTER with the settings you want and then execute Unisound and the PNP settings are configured on …

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

Posted on 2020-12-07, 15:15

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What a great undocument parameter for BLASTER ! I can set the IRQ parameters of MPU-401 synchronously now. Undocumented? Did you read the BLASTER environment variable in unisound.txt? It's listed right there. It's not a normal BLASTER switch that other programs use. It's something custom for …

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