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Reply 23180 of 27057, by pentiumspeed

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Finally located 5 pieces of 20MHz oscillator in SOJ package for reasonable price. Ebay search didn't include this seller, it was in the links bar below the another through seller's main store links while looking at their 20MHz oscillator which costs 3.5 times as much.

For the experiment with slowing 386 or 486 down to 10MHz.

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Great Northern aka Canada.

Reply 23181 of 27057, by Nexxen

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-11-20, 02:31:

Finally located 5 pieces of 20MHz oscillator in SOJ package for reasonable price. Ebay search didn't include this seller, it was in the links bar below the another through seller's main store links while looking at their 20MHz oscillator which costs 3.5 times as much.

For the experiment with slowing 386 or 486 down to 10MHz.

Cheers,

I have friends in China, through Taobao everything is cheaper.
I asked them to buy crystals, they come 10x cheaper, from 5€ to 50 cents...

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Reply 23182 of 27057, by kohellus@gmail.com

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Hi,

Got one of my projects some head start. Started building some sets, P3 650 vs Athlon 650. Bought a radeon 7500 and looking for Geforce2 ti to company the P3. The Athlon mobo need recapping but it works.

Reply 23183 of 27057, by Tuba

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I finally got my act together and registered here...

I also decided on the specs of the oldest of the retro systems I'm going to bother with for the time being. Went with a Windows 95C build with a P233MMX on a ChainTech i430TX mobo, 32 MB SDRAM (until I find another 32MB stick somewhere), Matrox Millennium G200-SD PCI, AWE32, 3Com 3c509B, Teac CD-524E, and a CF to IDE adapter. Currently doing a few benchmarks for stability testing.

Reply 23184 of 27057, by vutt

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Went on with little GM modules shopping spree lately. Got:
1) SC-55K from Yahoo Japan
2)E-Wave add-on from Serdaco for Orpheus
I already had Yamaha MU50. From full main stream coverage GUS midi was missing. Then I stumbled upon Hummtaro fantastic soundbanks thread. Good reason to dust off my X3MB. WoW! Recently added GUS SB sounds very close to real one.

Today I got little bit more organized. Bought one of those cheap label printers finally. Result - pic attached!
Yamaha is YMF744 PCI card with it's fantastic XG synth exclusively for Win98.
Now I have filled all my mixer channels. No room for upgrade..
Although I'm reading that there is a limit to midi-trough daisy-chain setups. I'd like to keep it so. I'm enjoying a lot on the fly music switching ability.

Note to myself before upgrading - Be patient. Wait for Orpheus II and you'll get automatically many free slots for your mixer while keeping same options...

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Reply 23187 of 27057, by Shponglefan

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Worked on testing more sound card configs in my 486 system.

Tested out the combination of a GUS Classic, Terratec Profimedia Gold 16/96 and a Yucatan FX wavetable daughterboard, plus a Roland MPU-IPC for external MIDI.

Since the MPU-IPC has its port set to 330, I set the MIDI port on the Terratec to 300. For games with configurable General MIDI ports this was fine. I did run into an issue with X-Wing which doesn't allow for custom port settings. Though I could always use a custom batch file to change the Terratec port or just use an external MIDI module for that game.

Other than that one little wrinkle, everything else tested fine whether using GM, an external MT-32, GUS, or SB Pro compatible sounds.

Quite happy with this setup. 😁

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Reply 23189 of 27057, by Shponglefan

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pbagain wrote on 2022-11-20, 20:52:
DundyTheCroc wrote on 2022-11-19, 16:19:

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What game is that? Looks pixelly-awesome and vaguely familiar 😉

Looks like Panzer Dragoon.

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486 DX-33 with 5 sound cards
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Reply 23190 of 27057, by liqmat

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Shponglefan wrote on 2022-11-20, 21:07:
pbagain wrote on 2022-11-20, 20:52:
DundyTheCroc wrote on 2022-11-19, 16:19:

pc3.jpg

What game is that? Looks pixelly-awesome and vaguely familiar 😉

Looks like Panzer Dragoon.

Correct. Sega PC version. Still runs without much fuss on Windows 10.

Reply 23191 of 27057, by DundyTheCroc

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pbagain wrote on 2022-11-20, 20:52:
DundyTheCroc wrote on 2022-11-19, 16:19:

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What game is that? Looks pixelly-awesome and vaguely familiar 😉

Panzer Dragoon for PC, the one that came bundled with Diamond Edge 3D 2120 and uses NV1 hardware acceleration.

Reply 23192 of 27057, by holdencars11

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Recapped GA-7VKML... I think I will do a fun budget 2001/2002 build with a Duron

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Reply 23193 of 27057, by ayandon

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Yesterday I cleaned this card using Soap Water > Hair Dryer > Sun > a little bit of WD-40.

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I want to restore my late father's 1st ever computer IBM ET&T PC-XT that he gifted me.
Hope you will be kind enough to guide and support me to restore his loving memory.

Reply 23194 of 27057, by ayandon

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Today I cleaned this card using Soap Water > Hair Dryer > Sun > a little bit of WD-40.

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I want to restore my late father's 1st ever computer IBM ET&T PC-XT that he gifted me.
Hope you will be kind enough to guide and support me to restore his loving memory.

Reply 23195 of 27057, by RaiderOfLostVoodoo

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ayandon wrote on 2022-11-21, 17:45:

Yesterday I cleaned this card using Soap Water > Hair Dryer > Sun > a little bit of WD-40.

Great job.
I hope you did rinse the card with clear water. You don't want residues of the soap on you card.
You can safe yourself some time and work, by drying hardware in the oven on low temperature. Keep the oven a bit open, so moisture can escape.
Also I wouldn't use WD-40. Do you have 99.9% isopropyl alcohol (also known as IPA or isopropanol)? You can get it super cheap if you buy a gallon. That stuff is insane. I scrub hardware with IPA and a cotton swab after I've bathed and dried them.

Reply 23196 of 27057, by debs3759

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If you didn't rinse with a solvent such as IPA, won't the WD-40 eventually eat away at components and tracks?

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Reply 23197 of 27057, by BitWrangler

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I've been considering testing WD-40 as it's a 90% ingredient match for the spendier contact cleaners, and the cheaper ones, all the effectiveness is in the IPA content. It shouldn't damage PCB, IC packages or traces and contacts at all, but might remove screen printing, soften heatshrink like around capacitors and any globs of hot glue/wax that are holding inductors in place.

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Reply 23198 of 27057, by Kahenraz

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I just use dish soap (Ultra Joy), Dawn or Goo Gone (citrus cleaner), if it's oily or greasy, and usually follow up with IPA and compressed air. I don't know why or when WD-40 should ever be used on electronics. That sounds terrible.

Reply 23199 of 27057, by gmaverick2k

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Spray bottles of brake clutch cleaner in a ventilated environment. Does the job and then some.. techYEScity style 😀

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