Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2015-05-17, 12:52

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by elianda

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So what is the exact memory layout going to be? (it is not 100% clear for me from the blog) - There will be 2x 256 kB SOJ onboard, which will give compatibility as 512 kB GUS classic (2 banks a 256 kB)? - with the Jumper the memory bus can be switched to the SIMM72 slot. There I can plug a 16 MB …

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Re: Sound Blaster LIVE! Versions

Posted on 2015-05-13, 10:30

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by elianda

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Actually it is not that much of a problem. Probably all Emu10K do the requests to gain control on the PCI bus. It got a problem with the KT133 chipsets since VIA used another logic to do PCI arbitration. You can make this visible by plugging a SB Live! and a BT878 based TV-card. If you play e.g. …

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

Posted on 2015-04-29, 16:27

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by elianda

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I actually don't remember. Everything was put up on about 3000 m2 with a lot of stuff (an people hehe).

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

Posted on 2015-04-29, 11:18

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by elianda

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I participated with 9 computers at the Long Night of Computer Games in Leipzig at 25th of April. You can find pictures here ftp://78.46.141.148/pictures/LNdCS2015/ 9 computers? Impressive effort. It's clear that you enjoyed observing others playing on these computers, must have been lots of fun. Is …

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

Posted on 2015-04-29, 10:07

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2fort5r wrote: That looks fun. Did you have to drive far? I'd be nervous of taking old computers on long road trips due to the vibration. It was about 1h trip. We had one system where the Multi-I/O controller got loose due to the transport, but I also brought tools and we could fix it before the …

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

Posted on 2015-04-28, 21:51

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by elianda

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I participated with 9 computers at the Long Night of Computer Games in Leipzig at 25th of April. You can find pictures here ftp://78.46.141.148/pictures/LNdCS2015/

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2015-04-28, 12:33

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@Squallstrife: I noticed that a lot of the uploaded stuff on vogonsdrivers has some common name like "Win9x driver for hardware" and lacks any additional description. Could you maybe fix this and add at least a note of the version and e.g. if the dos tools are included in such package etc. ? I also …

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Re: Pouet Demoscene Hardware (In)Compatibility Thread

Posted on 2015-04-28, 11:37

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by elianda

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It is actually a lot more complicated. Often demos use some low res high color mode. The availability of those modes does not depend only on the graphics chipset but also if it is available in the vesa bios. So you may have the same card with different bios versions and one card runs the demo, the …

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Re: Pouet Demoscene Hardware (In)Compatibility Thread

Posted on 2015-04-26, 23:11

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I usually give system config infos in the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9wj1UVqlWo Demo link: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=289 Ran 100%: Yes Graphics: S3 Trio3D/2X CPU: P3 800 MHz Chipset: 440BX Sound: EWS64XL problematic was that it required the DPMI API from Win9x, so it ran …

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Re: Pouet Demoscene Hardware (In)Compatibility Thread

Posted on 2015-04-26, 20:16

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@jaws: I am not sure how those infos should be collected in a useful manner. In your first post you had a config where the demo didn't ran, in your second you posted a config where it ran?!? Also one can not see if the crucial point for the demo is the choice of sound or graphics card or cpu power …

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

Posted on 2015-04-19, 20:40

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Also #000000 as overlay color was a nice choice 😀. Especially before coding sessions...

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Re: Diamond Speedstar Pro Cirrus Logic 5426 or 5429

Posted on 2015-04-17, 17:58

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by elianda

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This info might help http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?conten … rrus_logic.html

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Re: Kult CDs shareware CD collection

Posted on 2015-04-16, 08:39

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by elianda

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To which local jurisdiction do you refer to?

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Re: Anyone Taking Advantage of Youtube's New 60FPS Support?

Posted on 2015-04-14, 21:13

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by elianda

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An advantage of the upconversion seems to be that I got sound again in a few videos, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnFxW9d-V5s It was disabled for years since claims from Disney...

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Re: Help with DOS + GUS + Cubic Player

Posted on 2015-04-14, 19:09

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by elianda

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- One thing supported is if you press ALT-B for big modules they will be played in software (if CP has to downsample too many instruments to fit into memory of the card). - 2.6.0pre plays more accurately than 1.6.0 I think - for GUS CP enables only the voices for the actual playing instrument, so …

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Re: What's in your PCI/ISA slots?

Posted on 2015-04-13, 18:03

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by elianda

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one example: ftp://78.46.141.148/pictures/386dx40_sys2/386desktop.jpg ISA: Serial/Parallel Card ISA: Adaptec SCSI 1542B ISA: 3Com Etherlink III ISA: Primax Altrasound (Gravis Ultrasound CD3) ISA: TSENG ET4000 ISA: Terratec EWS64S ISA: #9 GXiTC AVGA2 512kB TIGA 4 MB FB-RAM, 1 MB iRAM ISA: Sony CDU- …

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Re: What is the best AWE32?

Posted on 2015-04-13, 15:40

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by elianda

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Just take note of the following: These are full length cards so, you need to make sure you have a case that it will fit into. That seems to be an urban myth. AWE32 cards are not full length. In fact they are about 1 cm too short to be full length. This is a bad design since they can not be attached …

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Re: typical speed of 4-8gb ide hdd on 486 boards?

Posted on 2015-04-09, 15:42

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by elianda

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It is a hardware limitation of the controller. Commonly on 486 they can do MW-DMA 2 which es equivalent to PIO-4 speed wise. If you have a PCI 486er and find a later SATA controller which actually works, you could exploit the PCI bus transfer rate. However, if you reach about 40 MB/s on a 486er it …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2015-04-09, 01:35

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by elianda

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Here you go: Same Sandy Bridge-E system, with the cards at 1030 MHz core / 3500 MHz mem. However Doom3 does not support SLI at all.

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Re: Help with DOS + GUS + Cubic Player

Posted on 2015-04-06, 21:15

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by elianda

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Blake: Are you sure you have selected (or the player selected) the GUS Wavetable device for playback? Otherwise it might use the e.g. Quality Mixer which runs on CPU and causes stutter. You can select it in the file selector (@).

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