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

Posted on 2024-06-05, 04:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looking back at that preset, I think I could have gotten it to better match the real SC-55, but that would involve increasing the bass and reverb at the expense of making the overall sound significantly muddier. Yes I use a little more reverb than your preset - I like the 'softer' sound of the …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2024-06-03, 23:06

in Milliways

in Milliways

Shagittarius wrote on 2024-06-03, 18:21: Far Cry 2 is the only game in the series that I really don't like. It is quite a different game to the rest but I've had some great fun with this one over the years - I like the setting and the gun battles. It is repetitive as hell though of course.

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

Posted on 2024-05-30, 11:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BigDave wrote on 2024-05-30, 09:08: I finally get to enjoy it It looks fantastic! And Rally Championship, what a great game 👍

Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2024-05-30, 04:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

sheep wrote on 2024-05-30, 00:27: I had to say something Did you though?

Re: Looking for recovery disk HP Vectra VE 5 / 166 Series 3

Posted on 2024-05-27, 06:02

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Perhaps you need to turn the onboard card off in the BIOS when using a PCI VGA card? Maybe they're fighting for resources...?

Re: Perfect ISA soundcard, in theory

Posted on 2024-05-27, 04:23

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I found a post from gerwin in that thread speaking about a bootup issue being fixed by replacing the C92 10uF 16V capacitor with a 2.2uF one. That may be completely out of the subject, but I though why not try that. So I did (used a 2.2uF 50V capacitor). Unfortunately, that didn't changed anything …

Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-26, 23:04

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

My memory of the first gen Pentiums was a cashed up friend convincing his mother to buy him a second hand machine based on a Pentium 66 - we were pumped and skipped school to mess around with it. Compared to my DX2 66 though I thought it was pretty disappointing - faster of course, but not a huge …

Re: Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT4/98/2k/Me/XP)

Posted on 2024-05-21, 22:47

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

What do you need SB16 support for specifically? I use WSS via my YMF719 and it generally works and sounds great for those later DOS era games that benefit from 16 bit.

Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-05-20, 00:28

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I'm loving the SVGA modes and they seem to work really well - the inbuilt benchmark is also fantastic. Apologies if this has been asked before or if it's just some side effect of the higher resolution that I'm not aware of, but the SVGA modes are much brighter than non-SVGA (on my system at least). …

Re: Do you keep a tech-journal?

Posted on 2024-05-15, 01:51

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yes I use a Google sheet to keep track of the hardware I own and what each build looks like. I've been using it for ~10 years but unfortunately I haven't kept a track of all of the things I've bought and sold over that time, I just delete them from the sheet. Having the prices would be interesting …

Re: Riva 128 PCI (Diamond Viper V330) screen position problems

Posted on 2024-05-14, 00:08

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Edit: Switched to 6.7. Now it works for both cases. The package also contained a tool to adjust position by video mode, which might help to allign the univbe output to the same position that the card delivers without univbe. Excellent! There are lots of tools out there that help with this era of …

Re: Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT4/98/2k/Me/XP)

Posted on 2024-05-14, 00:03

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I think I tried UniRefresh when I was mucking with refresh rates and Windows 3.11. But I don't think it worked on my particular GPU (GeForce4). Yes some of the later Nvidia BIOSes dropped the relevant VESA 3 commands to support it (this is in DOS I'm talking about). I use NVPatch with my MX440 - …

Re: Tiny 486 build - SBC with ISA backplane

Posted on 2024-05-13, 10:28

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Great result! I've never heard of that option either.

Re: Tiny 486 build - SBC with ISA backplane

Posted on 2024-05-13, 05:59

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I'm wondering if the issue is actually something related to the VIA chipset DMA implementation. Yes sounds like something is messing with it - are there any interesting options in the BIOS to fiddle with around the ISA bus? I can also recommend the Crystal based ISA cards - some of them are super …

Re: Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT4/98/2k/Me/XP)

Posted on 2024-05-13, 05:53

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-05-11, 20:58: More benchmarks, this time for Duke Nukem 3D and Quake with software rendering. Are you using UniRefresh? Makes Duke3D feel super premium.

Re: Riva 128 PCI (Diamond Viper V330) screen position problems

Posted on 2024-05-13, 05:51

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Which brings me to #2, finding a UniVBE or similar that makes the card visible for older software. What do you mean by 'finding'? The later versions of Scitech Display Doctor (UniVBE) will detect with the Riva128 and does indeed help with compatibility in some instances. The registered version is …

Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-10, 05:57

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

A human would respond to accusations of being a bot with something like "I am not a bot", not just post more random pictures.

Re: Tiny 486 build - SBC with ISA backplane

Posted on 2024-05-08, 00:25

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Good luck with it, they're good cards. There are older versions of that chipset too like the YMF701, which is not PnP. Still the same great compatibility but might cooperate with your board a bit more...? Or could be worse! Worth trying if you come across one.

Re: UniRefresh no longer works on nVidia's latest

Posted on 2024-05-07, 22:55

in DOS

in DOS

I just use this: NVPatch - making UniVBE work on NVidia cards Let's you patch UniVBE to work with your card, and then UniRefresh will work with it too.

Re: Tiny 486 build - SBC with ISA backplane

Posted on 2024-05-07, 03:59

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Not sure but I doubt it, that sounds like a more fundamental problem to me.

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