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

Posted on 2019-07-27, 15:55

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pan069 wrote: I've got my Ensoniq 3dfx Voodoo Banshee plugged in: […] Show full quote I've got my Ensoniq 3dfx Voodoo Banshee plugged in: ... Banshee closeup: ... Banshee from another angle: Not sure how I didn't know an Ensoniq-branded Voodoo card existed. Cool!

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Re: Windows 2.x splash screen

Posted on 2019-07-25, 19:11

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derSammler wrote: Yes, we know. That's what we are talking about already. I believe the topic is actually "Windows 2.x splash screen". Do you want us to split off the other stuff? 😉

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Hulu is adapting Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy series

Posted on 2019-07-25, 01:30

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Well now, here we are with another adaptation. Hope everyone has their towel with them! https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/24/20726429/h … y-douglas-adams

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Re: CD-I Playback?

Posted on 2019-07-23, 20:46

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Is there any chance of being able to play the games? With the MPEG cards like Creative DXR2? I strongly doubt it. I think that will be CD-I Movie only. With the weirder I2m and Philips cards? I am not certain and no one has played with one long enough to be able to say. www.theworldofcdi.com may be …

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Re: win3.1 vs wfw3.11 - tcp/ip install the same? or different?

Posted on 2019-07-23, 19:06

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Moved.

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Re: Windows 98SE USB drivers issue (P55 chipset)

Posted on 2019-07-23, 18:51

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kolderman wrote: If I had to guess I would say the motherboard is cactus. oeuvre wrote: what? New one on me too. Definition #2. I would assume etymology from "caca" but who knows. *shrug* https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cactus

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Re: CD-I Playback?

Posted on 2019-07-23, 05:06

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Al Kossow's an old "Internet friend" of mine, I can ask questions about it at least! I saw a tweet that stated that http://www.theworldofcdi.com got their hands on an I2M PCI CD-i card themselves: https://twitter.com/jbrooksbsi/status/781520904232640512 (not mentioned in the AssemblerGames thread!) …

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Re: CD-I Playback?

Posted on 2019-07-23, 04:36

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I think you just made my night. I guess I never saw your previous topic: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=62944 Regarding the CD-I/PC 2.0 card: Philips 22ER9170／00 seems to have been the CD-I/PC 2.0 part number for the PAL version and 22ER9170/17 for the NTSC version, incidentally. It's …

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Re: Fun with CGL (Creative Graphics Library) on 3D Blaster

Posted on 2019-07-23, 04:00

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furan, thanks for posting this analysis - keep up the good work! 😀

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Re: CRT gaming on period systems

Posted on 2019-07-23, 03:34

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Yeah, good thing, its just that my first post may seem pretty weird for a post starting a thread without the context of what I was replying to, someone might wonder what I was smoking "by starting this thread" :) It's never a perfect process. Detangling posts with multiple ongoing discussion …

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-07-22, 18:23

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Split the monitor discussion per cskamacska's recommendation to here: CRT gaming on period systems

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Re: CRT gaming on period systems

Posted on 2019-07-22, 18:21

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cskamacska wrote: The monitor discussion should be seperated into a new topic, theres good info here, and its just buried under Win98 stuff. Did my best to split it off. Thanks for the recommendation!

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Re: Unofficial Soundbanks for Dreamblaster X2/X3M

Posted on 2019-07-22, 17:00

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t9999clint wrote: *edit* just noticed now that this is a old thread.... sorry for zombie posting.... Dude, someone just tried an 8-year bump. You're fine, this thread started in 2019. It's not until someone bumps a thread that hasn't seen a new reply in, like, three or more years until we start …

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Re: Jedi knight Dark forces 2 sometimes no music win98se.

Posted on 2019-07-21, 22:46

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Sorry but what is DAE? Digital Audio Extraction. If you have the WDM (Windows Device Model) drivers installed for your sound card in Windows 98SE (versus the old format of drivers that I forget the name of), Windows will effectively rip the audio from the CD while whatever software that is using …

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Re: Lowest CPU to play MP3s?

Posted on 2019-07-21, 22:34

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derSammler wrote: This thread is not only dead since 8 years Not any more - split the new posts and locked the old one, while inserting a link to the old thread in the first post in this one. Eight years is a hell of a bump - don't do that, RiP.

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Re: how not to build a sound card

Posted on 2019-07-19, 17:40

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root42 wrote: Great work! Incidentally someone seems to have reverse engineered the IC itself: https://github.com/galibert/ym2203 That's Olivier Galibert, best known in our circles for his two decades of work on MAME. 😀

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Re: Moving data between an old computer and a new one

Posted on 2019-07-18, 17:06

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Re: USB Audio Reccomendations

Posted on 2019-07-17, 04:28

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rishooty wrote: For the most part, I use high-quality APTx-LL Bluetooth headphones with its accompanying adapter and it works fine. Off-topic: what do you prefer for this?

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Re: Sony Vaio is back ?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 04:19

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shiva2004 wrote: It's not "Sony Vaio" anymore, just "Vaio". Sony sold the brand some time ago, I don't know who's behind it now. Interesting, didn't know anything about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaio

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Re: Datasheets for Mediavision chipsets?

Posted on 2019-07-15, 04:16

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According to https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/SND_JAZZ16.html : digital chip MVD1216 (Jazz16), codec MVA416 (CS4216) and mixer MVA514 (ICS2514) There's some information on two of these chips in the Logitech SoundMan Wave Technical Reference (Logitech changed the mixer for a Sierra SC18076 instead …

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