Not heard if Mitac, who cares about the speakers it was free
Got this for £11.99, great small screen for the price
What retro things have you done today?
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Got this for £11.99, great small screen for the price
That looks a nice screen too! I have heard of mitac but for laptops not for monitors.Not heard if Mitac, who cares about the speakers it was free
Got this for £11.99, great small screen for the price
Not too worried about the speakers as I run my sounds through creative t40s anyway
I've moved away from my Iiyama 17" TFT as its crap at handling DOS resolutions, and have a 19" Lenovo ThinkVision L192p 5:4 screen and it handles DOS resolutions great. Only downside is the Lenove is black where the Iiyama was a matching beige.
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Currently running an iiyama 21" Vision Master Pro CRT, amazing monitor, but my god it takes a load of space, thinking of going back to a Dell TFT.
Don't do it! My main monitor is a 19" CTX Triniton. The TFT is nice for testing bits, but when it comes to gaming, a nice high refresh CRT is amazing. Blood at 120hz using unirefresh is amazing!
Strange, maybe its a 4:3 think. The LG I have is 17” but also 5:4 and everything i’ve thrown at is so far has worked
Yeah it could be a 4:3 thing, interestingly it's only seems to happen with later Nvidia cards (GF3 onwards) Anything older, or voodoo 3 etc seem to work fine on the monitor, but alas, I like to use high end Nvidia cards so the Lenovo will now take over testing duties.
Hive mind......please help
Sound card is now set up with proper DOS drivers but...
Update: epic pinball now working fine but the sound quality is pretty awful and crackling, almost sounds like it's lagging?
Another Update: so pinball fantasies and quake SW don't seem to think I have a soundcard in DOS which is odd. Wolf3d however fires up first time and all runs perfectly
SB settings are all present in autoexec.bat file and I have used the DOS boot configuration window and successfully tested the sound all 3 ways
Ahh the good old days lol
Sound card is now set up with proper DOS drivers but...
Update: epic pinball now working fine but the sound quality is pretty awful and crackling, almost sounds like it's lagging?
Another Update: so pinball fantasies and quake SW don't seem to think I have a soundcard in DOS which is odd. Wolf3d however fires up first time and all runs perfectly
SB settings are all present in autoexec.bat file and I have used the DOS boot configuration window and successfully tested the sound all 3 ways
Ahh the good old days lol
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@phatboy It might be worth watching LGR's Epic Pinball review as he might mention something helpful there?
LGR - Epic Pinball - DOS PC Game Review - YouTube
My retro activity was to buy a Socket 370 motherboard. I've only had very limited hands-on experience with S370, somehow. The boards seem pretty expensive on eBay, for an M-ATX* form factor board, but I came across an HP board. Some Vogons and google later and it looks like it uses a standard ATX power connector and is decent enough board so I bought it for £25, and it may or may not come with a CPU. I have an 800EB CPU but bought a 1GHZ 133 chip for £9 also.
My case is prepared with cables and drives stuffed up top and the actual motherboard area should be quite clean and tidy as it is just the ATX 1x IDE cable (and front panel cables).
That X600 has also been pacified / passified? as I had no idea what to do with it and the fan was sticky! No idea if it will be sufficient.
* (You may remember I bought this board for £70 a while back to go in the ACME case. I managed to kill it on the first day, so I need a replacement M-ATX board
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LGR - Epic Pinball - DOS PC Game Review - YouTube
My retro activity was to buy a Socket 370 motherboard. I've only had very limited hands-on experience with S370, somehow. The boards seem pretty expensive on eBay, for an M-ATX* form factor board, but I came across an HP board. Some Vogons and google later and it looks like it uses a standard ATX power connector and is decent enough board so I bought it for £25, and it may or may not come with a CPU. I have an 800EB CPU but bought a 1GHZ 133 chip for £9 also.
My case is prepared with cables and drives stuffed up top and the actual motherboard area should be quite clean and tidy as it is just the ATX 1x IDE cable (and front panel cables).
That X600 has also been pacified / passified? as I had no idea what to do with it and the fan was sticky! No idea if it will be sufficient.
* (You may remember I bought this board for £70 a while back to go in the ACME case. I managed to kill it on the first day, so I need a replacement M-ATX board
)Just trying to look into the feasibility of USB 2.0 in Windows 98?
Looking at Phils Comp videos it looks like NEC based ones are the way to go. found a brand new one on the rainforest for £8. Think I may give it a stab. got to be easier than millions of CDR's I have at the moment lol
Looking at Phils Comp videos it looks like NEC based ones are the way to go. found a brand new one on the rainforest for £8. Think I may give it a stab. got to be easier than millions of CDR's I have at the moment lol
Some VOGONS that I answered anyway@phatboy It might be worth watching LGR's Epic Pinball review as he might mention something helpful there?
LGR - Epic Pinball - DOS PC Game Review - YouTube
My retro activity was to buy a Socket 370 motherboard. I've only had very limited hands-on experience with S370, somehow. The boards seem pretty expensive on eBay, for an M-ATX* form factor board, but I came across an HP board. Some Vogons and google later and it looks like it uses a standard ATX power connector and is decent enough board so I bought it for £25, and it may or may not come with a CPU. I have an 800EB CPU but bought a 1GHZ 133 chip for £9 also.
My case is prepared with cables and drives stuffed up top and the actual motherboard area should be quite clean and tidy as it is just the ATX 1x IDE cable (and front panel cables).
That X600 has also been pacified / passified? as I had no idea what to do with it and the fan was sticky! No idea if it will be sufficient.
* (You may remember I bought this board for £70 a while back to go in the ACME case. I managed to kill it on the first day, so I need a replacement M-ATX board
What soundcard?
I expect a Soundblaster Live! with DOS emulation drivers.
Emulation of SB 16 is poor and very poor for OPL3. Epic pinball was a stuttery mess with my SB Live, Soundblaster 16 ISA card in now and all the problems went away.
Emulation of OPL and 3dfx is quite hard, the reason I built a retro machine with a Voodoo 3 & Soundblaster 16 CT2230
Well the Aztech/Awe64 Gold combo beat me in the end. I could not get those pair to work together no matter what I did. So I pulled out the Aztech and decided to see of the Yamaha YMF724 PCI would work instead. Works really good, but you have to use dos32a extender instead of DOS4GW as the card doesn't like it and will crash the programs that use DOS4GW.
Had to try epic pinball and it sounds... truly epic on the Yamaha (I love the title screen music). No noise whatsoever! Interestingly the card I have is an original Yamaha card but it has SPDIF out on it which will output the OPL over the digital channel. To be fair, the analogue output is noise free anyways!
Had to try epic pinball and it sounds... truly epic on the Yamaha (I love the title screen music). No noise whatsoever! Interestingly the card I have is an original Yamaha card but it has SPDIF out on it which will output the OPL over the digital channel. To be fair, the analogue output is noise free anyways!
@Guest2 Card is a Labway LWHA151A00 A151-A00 ISA unit which is a Yamaha YMF719E-S based card and is OPL3.
Wondering if I just have some issues with my card or the drivers aren't quite right. Seems from reading around online it shouldn't be half bad. Its just being a bit tempremental
Couldn't agree more on doing it the right way, that's the reason I moved away from the SB PCI i did have
I have a feeling somehow windows installed it's own driver again instead of the Yamaha installer cd version despite being directed to the latter.
It's showing as WDM driver and I don't have any of the control panel software stuff that it seems comes with the drivers. Might be the issue? Worth a stab reinstalling it anyways
Something is defo a miss as now wolf3d doesn't detect a card at all and doom has lost its SFX.
It's showing as WDM driver and I don't have any of the control panel software stuff that it seems comes with the drivers. Might be the issue? Worth a stab reinstalling it anyways
Something is defo a miss as now wolf3d doesn't detect a card at all and doom has lost its SFX.
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@phatboy One way to know your card is working, is download unisound https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=72553
Pop it in the root of your C: drive. Boot your machine, and smash the F8 key to get the startup menu and select option 6 - Command line safe mode.
When at the C:\ type Unisound /CL which will list any plug and play sound cards your have. If you only have the one, it should display that. Then just run unisound and it should initialise the card with the standard address settings (220, I5 D1 P330) try some games and see if it works.
You can set the volumes from the command line for example unisound /V99 /VW99 /VF99 etc. unisound /? will show you all the arguments you can use
If it works, you can create a line in your autoexec.bat and it will initialise the card on boot. (This is just for DOS btw)
Pop it in the root of your C: drive. Boot your machine, and smash the F8 key to get the startup menu and select option 6 - Command line safe mode.
When at the C:\ type Unisound /CL which will list any plug and play sound cards your have. If you only have the one, it should display that. Then just run unisound and it should initialise the card with the standard address settings (220, I5 D1 P330) try some games and see if it works.
You can set the volumes from the command line for example unisound /V99 /VW99 /VF99 etc. unisound /? will show you all the arguments you can use
If it works, you can create a line in your autoexec.bat and it will initialise the card on boot. (This is just for DOS btw)
When using the Yamaha OPL-SAx drivers, it will create a line in the DOSSTART.bat which calls SETUPSA which is the program to set the address and the mixer. There is a bug in the mixer where you have to set something to a specific value which i forgot :-| It's documented by James-F on vogons. He has a good thread with lots of info bout the YMF71X cards.
Awesome
Cracking, thanks very much for the assistance.
Thats my lunch time sorted tomorrow lol.
It seems to work absolutely spot on in windows and the sound quality is really nice so hoping it's just a bit of configuration required to get things all sorted.
Cracking, thanks very much for the assistance.
Thats my lunch time sorted tomorrow lol.
It seems to work absolutely spot on in windows and the sound quality is really nice so hoping it's just a bit of configuration required to get things all sorted.