Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2014-08-07, 01:11

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I bought an ALS100 Plus and it's pretty much the same. Not as bad as you described, but there's a loud hiss which can be heard regardless of the amplification level. If it weren't for that, it would be a pretty darn good SB16 clone. As it is now, it's useless to me. That reminds me, I should …

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Re: How many use linux?

Posted on 2014-08-07, 01:00

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by Stiletto

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I was surprised to learn that there is apparently no freeware application for playing Blu-Rays yet that supports Blu-Ray menus. You'd think that wouldn't be a problem because Blu-Ray menus use Java and free Java VMs are abundantly available. Anyway, both Linux and Windows are in the same boat as …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-08-06, 23:54

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by Stiletto

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Harekiet wrote: Oh well for the PC emulator I'm slowly writing ooooooh. 😁

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Re: Free upgrades to Windows 9 possible

Posted on 2014-08-06, 15:40

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by Stiletto

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If they really want people to use the new operating system all they have to do is price it reasonably, I upgraded from windows xp to 8 last year(I think?) when I bought it at retail for about $55, I was happy to pay that for a new legitimate OS but over $100 turns people off and that's when they …

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Re: Pentium 4 or Celeron D?

Posted on 2014-08-05, 14:52

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In typical HP fashion they decided that the xw4400 was designed for a narrow range of Core2duo chips and did not see fit to upgrade the Bios to allow newer Core2's or any Pentium 4 chips :/ lots of support threads angry at a lack of core2quad microcode updates and reports of 100% stability ignoring …

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Re: 130W psu enough for my 486sx build?

Posted on 2014-08-05, 14:29

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe it's time for a new PC power consumption calculator website specializing in retro parts... that would be a good VOGONS member project. 😀

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Re: x86 CPU emulation test suite?

Posted on 2014-08-05, 14:13

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by Stiletto

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I may pester Firewave, perhaps he's done more recent builds. 😀 (FYI Marvin people: this utility is a bit pointless to run in hardware...)

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Re: x86 CPU emulation test suite?

Posted on 2014-08-04, 19:45

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by Stiletto

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in PC Emulation

Thanks for reminding me, I'd forgotten about this thread. The answer in general is yes, Qemu has one. http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=tree;f=tests/tcg;h=ee74399cbb2909979d2126dc82d93c9410754976;hb=HEAD A MAME/MESS developer teammate of mine had this to say about his 01/18/2012 compiles on 7/5/2012 …

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Re: Some nice finds? Got given a bunch of goodies today.

Posted on 2014-08-03, 23:16

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

In case it isn't obvious, the dual GPU cards there are for dual monitor, not for some sort of extra acceleration like SLI. 😉

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Re: X-Wing/Tie Fighter Collector's *CD-ROMs* for Windows?

Posted on 2014-08-03, 16:53

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by Stiletto

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Yeah those were X-Wing 95 and Tie Fighter 95, early remakes of the collectors CD's (which were native DOS) made using the X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter engine. X-Wing 95 Tie Fighter 95 I remember that it can be a little tricky to track these down on Amazon and eBay and the like given the version confusion …

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Re: Is it just me, or do the DOS versions of Elite suck?

Posted on 2014-07-31, 22:49

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by Stiletto

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in Milliways

Please be careful guys, New Kind project ended for a reason.

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Re: GUS Classic resources and SB emulation questions

Posted on 2014-07-31, 05:40

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thought you guys might like this post by Maraakate over on neozeed's blog (the blog in general is truly awesome BTW): http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=4433

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Re: Glide and early D3D and OpenGL games with benchmark features

Posted on 2014-07-30, 14:53

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yea not sure what's going on there. That page simply doesn't come up in my google results. Maybe it is because I live in Australia? Or maybe you don't normally search for video games, so your "search bubble" excludes results? It's getting complicated these days. With this query, vetz's link is the …

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Re: Help identifying sound cards

Posted on 2014-07-30, 14:35

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nahkri wrote: LunarG wrote: I take it you mean you only get sound from the "line-out", right? No i mean the line in,as u can see from the picture the card has 3 conectors ,out,mic and in,i only get sound from the out conector. Typo?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-07-29, 05:14

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

boxpressed wrote: SB Pro 2.0 (NIB). Not sure how people feel about sealed collecting on Vogons, but I couldn't pass up this one to keep sealed. Meet Artex...

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Re: Windows 98 SE Vs. Windows 2000

Posted on 2014-07-28, 19:37

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm talking about 9x gaming. Appropos to nothing, but I had students attempt to play 9X games during lunch/smokes breaks during NT4/2000 courses, and they were really hit or miss. That explanation is pretty much WHY VOGONS exists. We (DosFreak, Snover, Nicht Sehr Gut and myself) started the forum …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2014-07-28, 19:21

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by Stiletto

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SquallStrife, could categories be "clickable" (such as on the main page) so that clicking the name of the category opens the category? Also, when a category is expanded, could the folder widget thing remain expanded? When I select 3dfx (for example), I'd expect the folder view to still be showing …

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Re: Help identifying sound cards

Posted on 2014-07-28, 19:09

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

http://i1373.photobucket.com/albums/ag385/magix_2001/IMG_2007_zpsc2f0b3f0.jpg Can someome pls help me identify this soundcard,from the main chip i say it's a media vision but not sure what model,has some jumpers on it and i would like to know how to set them. It's a MediaVision ProSonic Jazz 16 …

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Re: How to tell if a big box PC game has been resealed?

Posted on 2014-07-28, 18:00

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by Stiletto

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n1mr0d wrote: The guy that made 8088 Corruption did a nice video on shrink wrap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhwpm3Eu7H4 You can call him Trixter here, we all know who you mean. 😁

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Re: Syndicate Plus too fast

Posted on 2014-07-27, 20:12

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by Stiletto

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Moved to DOSBox forum as it seems to be a DOSBox question.

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