Time to go full LGR and rackmount them
The thought has crossed my mind! When I move house soon, hopefully i'll have a bit more space to build some sort of box to mount them in.
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SBLive - Windows and DOS digital sounds (I have an audigy 2, do they have good SB emulation for dos> comparable or better than the live. I launch all of my DOS games fromt windows 98 so pure drivers are not required.)
SW60XG - GM greatness
Adlib clone - because I can
Didnt want to start installing windows so late but its all good to go, except this DVD drive has now died on me... Was only picked as it was a good colour match. Got tons of spares to try but thats a bit more effort than I can do tonight.
Also a random geforce 4 in as the g3f3 ti is wasted with a 350mhz cpu.
The cpu is only temporary, looking at a P3 500 and adding my TNT2 Ultra once I fix its fan.
I had an audigy 2 and remember it using similar or identical emulation to the SB Live! - very poor SB dos emulation.In the multiple soundcard club
SBLive - Windows and DOS digital sounds (I have an audigy 2, do they have good SB emulation for dos> comparable or better than the live. I launch all of my DOS games fromt windows 98 so pure drivers are not required.)
When you say ‘pure drivers’ what do you mean? If you play a game in Win98 that’s a dos game, it will still use SB emulation if using the audigy / live e.g. duke3d, go to music selection, choose SB, it will sound terrible. Selecting Waveblaster makes it sound much better FYI
…but… as you have an sw60xg you should be able to use that instead if the poor sb music emulation.
This has got me thinking as I only have one ISA slot. My ISA slot has a Sb 16 CT2230 in it but I do have a SB live card. I could sell the Ct2230 and look for a sw60xg and use the live again.
The problem here is that pci cards in dos apps (be it launched from win98 or dos) are problematic. I also may run into pci conflicts using the sb live as i did before. I wouldnt have to install the shockingly bad sb dos emulation drivers at least.
Will probably stay on the lookout for a db50xg to go with the sb16
I’ve had a listen to the MU10 & MU50 and to me don’t sound as good as the db50xg. If i was going to go external I would probably pick up an SC55. That to me sounded the best. I dont want to go external due to cables, module space and general faff
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I only use the love for digital sound no music at all
So far it’s been perfect for that. I can select general midi for the Sw60XG and if I do pick sound blaster it uses my ad-lib clone. I do have to remove the ad-lib address from the SB emulation in device manager but apart from that it’s easy to set up!
you are right I did see what the lives FM emulation is as like and it is dreadful. Too slow and wrong notes. Not even usable!
So far it’s been perfect for that. I can select general midi for the Sw60XG and if I do pick sound blaster it uses my ad-lib clone. I do have to remove the ad-lib address from the SB emulation in device manager but apart from that it’s easy to set up!
you are right I did see what the lives FM emulation is as like and it is dreadful. Too slow and wrong notes. Not even usable!
Try Epic Pinball with the dos emulation drivers
No genuinely.....don't lol
Before I was shown the light by you lot and got a proper ISA sound card I did this, and still hear the sped up garble fest in my head
I do too. It was comparable to going to a house music afterparty with a comedown after a hard dance music event!No genuinely.....don't lol
Before I was shown the light by you lot and got a proper ISA sound card I did this, and still hear the sped up garble fest in my head
Slowed down garbage that hurts your brain
In the multiple soundcard club
SBLive - Windows and DOS digital sounds (I have an audigy 2, do they have good SB emulation for dos> comparable or better than the live. I launch all of my DOS games fromt windows 98 so pure drivers are not required.)
SW60XG - GM greatness
Adlib clone - because I can
Didnt want to start installing windows so late but its all good to go, except this DVD drive has now died on me... Was only picked as it was a good colour match. Got tons of spares to try but thats a bit more effort than I can do tonight.
Also a random geforce 4 in as the g3f3 ti is wasted with a 350mhz cpu.
The cpu is only temporary, looking at a P3 500 and adding my TNT2 Ultra once I fix its fan.
Nice one dude! Glad to see its making progress now and you have OS installed and a sweet sound setup.
Excuse me, my core system in my main computer is 10 years old. Did you just hint at it being a very tiny bit retro? Why I oughta....I bought a 7990. I'm going to pair it with an i7 860 and see how well an 11year old CPU and 10 year old GPU can handle modern games (this might be stretching the definition of retro so thin I can see through it)
@Tee Hee Johnson they still come up fairly regularly on eBay but you need to be patient if you don't want to spend £50 plus on something like a Nvidia 6800. It also depends if you mean good as in "not a crappy MX card" for XP or good as in a late, Windows 7 capable card like an X1950 or 7800 or something which will be very expensive.
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I've been meaning to reply to say thanks for the hot tips, will start looking at the Quadro and FireGL cards, hadn't considerd that (odd, I as used to own a Quadro for sharing GPU between virtual machines!).
Oh yeh, i forgot that you were going to give it a try. That's practice, 3 laps, black bike, manual gearsThank you for the reminder! Still need to give Moto racer a go. My sidewinder gamepad has arrived now so no excuse
The fact that it says Intel Confidential and ES at the end of the code would indeed suggest that it’s an Engineering Sample. I wonder if it’s multiplier unlocked!
EDIT: Here is some info on that particular code QU01ES. https://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/QU/QU01.html
EDIT: Here is some info on that particular code QU01ES. https://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/QU/QU01.html
Managed to get a triple-boot going on the test-bench. Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP Pro, seeing Windows 98 SE running on a 3.3GHz machine and a SATA SSD never gets old, it's just so responsive!
Yeah i find it funny how fast and responsive it is when you give it a fast CPU and SSD. How much ram are you running? Are you using the RLOWE Patch over 512mb?