Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-19, 10:23

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mpe wrote on 2021-02-19, 09:44: Great. Compared to 1.0, does it have anything extra apart from reversed stereo? That's prolly all that is to it. I wanted this for the fact that 1.1 was the last version for ACE.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-19, 06:59

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Filename GRAVIS-ACE.jpg File size 724.44 KiB Views 1917 views Got this delivered on my desk. I've been looking for V1.1 for a long long while and finally here it is.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-14, 12:57

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Filename MIDI-CABLE.jpg File size 496.3 KiB Views 1921 views Bought a optocoupler midi cable.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-24, 06:20

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They did make nice motherboards and that one looks like new it's a great find. I really like that heatsink on it to. I feel I found a lost piece at last. That micronics motherboard will not support all PCI video cards, since some of them would not initialize the video card. I had to move on to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-23, 15:25

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Decided to get this Biostar MB-1500PCT motherboard and try to restore it. I'll probably make a dedicated thread asking for assistance, but in the meantime maybe someone has this board and could make pictures of the missing elements? Awesome. Never seen one myself. Hope these get you started. From …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-23, 15:16

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SCB-55.jpg Micronics.jpg Got myself some treatments. I recall Micronics mobos were horribly expensive but well built in general. This one isn't exception; well thought-out layout, good components everywhere, easy jumper labels, and so on. There's one glitch though. Once you hook an ATX power plug, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-15, 09:22

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Wolfus wrote on 2020-12-15, 07:01: Of course I don't. It's DTK PAM-0073i. Thank you! I added the model in S7 ATX mobo with +4 ISA slots.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-14, 22:40

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Wolfus wrote on 2020-12-12, 23:47: When I saw this board, I could not resist. Do you mind if I ask what mobo it is? I cannot seem to find a 430TX board with the layout of yours.

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Re: Socket 370 with ISA best motherboard

Posted on 2020-12-14, 07:26

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by brownk

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Option 3: Build an industrial PC w/ as many ISA + PCI slot combo as you wish. There's no such thing as "too many slots". 😎

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Re: Bizarre Ebay Transaction - Am I The Jerk? I've NEVER had something like this happen before.

Posted on 2020-12-09, 09:01

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Back when Newegg was pretty new, I bought an ASUS P4 mobo which turned out to be a lemon. After about a month of "conversation", they refunded the whole cost and gave me two of the same mobo. Until Amazon came along, I was a loyal customer to them, no matter what others said.

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Re: Apple is getting off AMD GPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-12-08, 15:26

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I can sense this topic would not last even a few days. 😎

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-04, 07:21

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by brownk

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luckybob wrote on 2020-12-04, 07:16: When you have money, people find you. Amen to that.

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Re: My Dual Socket XP Build

Posted on 2020-12-03, 15:59

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by brownk

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Yes, a Raspberry Pi with a small host-powered USB HDD is ideal for this. Those 4TB Seagate Basic drives are nice. There's no need to have a full PC running 24/7. I'm not going to lay out details but there are some people running Windows XP on Ryzen 5. I suspect we'll probably see WinXP on RPi …

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Re: Does PCI-Express sound card with gameport exist?

Posted on 2020-12-03, 15:41

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Looks like you can at least get the Creative Labs cards gameport working in Windows 7 32-bit and possibly all the the way up to Windows 10 64-bit: https://www.freegameempire.com/blog/post/Sound-Blaster-Gameport-Driver-for-Windows-7.aspx https://forum.hardwareheaven.com/threads/gameport-driver-for- …

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Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?

Posted on 2020-12-03, 15:40

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Schiit-Modi-3.jpg Presonus-Eris-E35.jpg Modi 3 DAC w/ Eris 3.5 monitor is my setup. I listen an infinite loop of mod, game music, movie ost, some 70's rock, & bit of classic. I really didn't need an external DAC but for whatever reason realtek spdif output had this wonderful feature of crashing …

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Re: Does PCI-Express sound card with gameport exist?

Posted on 2020-12-03, 02:01

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-12-02, 16:27: Does this mean that a regular CMI8738 PCI sound card should work just fine with one of the PCI to PCIe adapters. I honestly don't know. I'm tempted though. 😉

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Re: Does PCI-Express sound card with gameport exist?

Posted on 2020-12-02, 15:30

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You can google "PCI-Express Soundcard CMI8738-LX" and the product link is on top of the 1st page. It seems to be a soundcard for AmigaOS, using CMI8738-LX . CMI8738.png Interestingly, CMI8738 is a PCI bus based chip with "SBPro" compatibility. I suppose the 2nd square chip sitting right next to …

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Re: My newest Soundfont (A mashup of the Roland JV-1010 with the Yamaha Tyros 4)

Posted on 2020-11-30, 04:40

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by brownk

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Thanks for the hard work. I'll try the font with lot of goodies!

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Re: Is anyone excited for Big Navi?

Posted on 2020-11-26, 14:05

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I'm guessing AMD is already talking about unprecedented demand for their fantastic products rather than "we needed to seem like we have a card that matches Nvidia". I hate marketing / PR and how lying is the default for any large company communicating with their customers. Well, at least, on the …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-20, 18:09

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ATI was da best in the world up until Mach32. After that, they F-ed themselves. Voodoo series, except the very first one, is overrated. Nvidia is nothing but a copycat. Turtle Beach Multisound series is da best music card series, ever. After that, they F-ed themselves. GUS is overrated. Go Roland …

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