How many different wavetable synthesizers can I fit into a single system? It appears I am limited by the number of ISA slots after all! At least the Turtle Beach Maui (ICS Wavefront) and Creative Goldfinch CT1920 (EMU8000, basically the MIDI portion of an AWE only) need neither IRQ nor DMA.

WtF is kosher salt?! Is it slaughtered a specific way?

Found a really interesting card on ebay: The Yamaha YMF278B is the OPL4 chip, unfortunately on this card, it is not useable in DOS or Windows' command window. www.ebay.de/itm/26747198... Cards that can make use of it in real DOS include the Miro Sound PCM12 and PCM20 and Logitech Soundman Wave.

It's not easy to look at western covers of japanese-developed games. Look at the beautiful original artwork on the japanese box, and if you play the game you'll notice the main character is not actually a weird disfigured viking but supposed to be some knight-looking duke!

I know why they got rid of Clippy!

The Igel-5/3 thin client has some serious potential as a Windows 98 machine. The VIA C3 Nehemiah CPU is extremely flexible in terms of speed, up to a Pentium III 700 equivalent. It has Sound Blaster emulation that sounds okayish, but we can use a real SB Audigy 2 ZS and still have an empty PCI slot!

The PCChips M863G is one of the few Socket A boards that fit into my Palladine LCDPC pseudo-CRT, but it must be one hell of a shitty product. First one I bought had half its caps blown, second one had them all intact - but gave graphical artifacts! I have really narrowed it down to the board itself!

New awareness campaign

Talked about the Medion ATI Radeon 9800 XXL (OEM product produced by MSI for Aldi) recently, and here we can see: MSI combined a regular 9800 XT GPU with 128 MB of 2.8 ns Hynix BGA memory, then underclocked it to practically 9800 Pro clocks. The cooler looks beefy but consists of ceramic I believe.

My pile of unplayed great games is already so big I might be dead before I start playing Baldur's Gate 3, I would hardly even care if no new games could be developed starting today.

jeez

Posted a whole thread full of great "Trump sucked off Clinton" memes on X to piss of the population there, and from several thousand followers it got 2 likes. Nothing to see here officer, surely not a shadowban on the topic lol

The same rich idiots that told me downloading a song on Napster was like stealing a car are trying to tell me that absorbing every movie ever made into *THE ROBOT* is fair use, actually, and a legion of dickriders coming to defend them because it's the future. Like fuck off.

I'll never get over how my Sound Blaster 2 clone is so cloned that they used a photo of an actual Sound Blaster 2 on their box cover, instead of, you know, their own product. You can tell by the CMS sockets* and the literal CT130B print on the PCB in the picture. *the clone has solder points only

Another one of these parts where the price suddenly went through the roof: The Aureal Vortex 2. I figured I'd get one sooner or later anyway so I didn't buy it when they were 15-20€. A year later: 80+€, currently almost 100. And I assure you: they are NOT worth it. 1/2

A few months later by the way, you could pick up the same system but with a Radeon 9800 "XXL" (slightly higher clocks, finally adequate cooler) for 999€ (1100$ USD). The case was a red dot design award winner with its neatly hidden connectors and hydraulic sliding door.

Alienware REKT by Aldi lol The Radeon 9800 XL and XXL were OEM versions of the Radeon 9800 XT produced by MSI, clocked below normal XT specs but still above Pro. And 533 vs 800 MHz FSB for less than half the price within months. Ouch.

Okay someone HAS to play this

The last part I need for firing up that 3 GHz but still ISA computer should arrive tomorrow, I can't wait to bench DOS stuff! Also I might try adding a line out to my Creative Goldfinch CT1920, which is just an EMU8000 synthesizer with expandable memory, which needs no DMA or IRQ, just an address.

That's the last straw right here. I was almost mad enough to leave when they started giving me AI misinformation whenever possible, but now they are supporting the fourth Reich. Nope. It won't be easy, but I WILL find alternatives. Phone OS is gonna be hard, though, since I hate Apple.

Here's the Peltier-cooled Pentium 4 (Northwood, 3 GHz w/ HT) with the 3 ISA slots, and what I wanted to insert. In the end, I had to swap the AWE32 CT3980 for a shorter SB32 CT3670 for length reasons. I can only imagine how pissed a PCB designer must be to print "Please: RTFM" on revision 1.2 😂

And here's the gopnik version, since my only other ITX motherboard is a H87 or whatever chipset with an i7 4770k. But: it is nice and small and has a cup holder and cigarette lighter, which has become more relevant since cannabis has been legalized.

Wouldn't this also make a cute Steam Machine? Ryzen 5500G with a Radeon RX 580, so not exactly powerful, but it looks great and should still play *most* stuff at 1080p mid I guess?

I am torn on the Metal Slug series: I absolutely adore the art and how evrything moves, the gameplay, all of it - but I SUCK at playing these myself. You would think the controls are too simple to mess up, but I often mix up grenade and jump because there's more going on then I can concentrate on.

All similarities between the Kremlin and what Trump is turning the White House into are purely coincidental. Nothing to see here! Just a man wanting to paint everything gold.

Looks perfectly russian if you ask me

You know what the vintage computing scene really needs? A 3d printable small case for Baby AT motherboards with space for a modern ATX or SFX PSU. Picture unrelated, it's my parents' cat, Kati.

Craziest part is how they just clip through everything, making it suddenly a viable weapon indoors. I can't.

Okay it boots fine without the card, the card still works in the other PC, when the card is so much as connected, I hear a quiet tick-tick-tick-tick noise that I cannot quite locate, I don't know what is causing it but this is the worst and I need to find out.

Every day a new curse. The Neoware CA2 had let magic smoke out of its previous IDE44 to dual CF adapter, so I ordered a new one, put it in and now the CF cards get detected again, it even looks as though W98SE is attempting to load, but something makes a TICK-TICK-TICK noise and the system reboots.

Can anybody help identify these three 72pin SIMMs? I hope one of them might be 16 MB. Each has the same amount of modules on both sides.

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So, this is what the Duke Nukem 3D opening Theme (Grabbag) sounds on the Guillemot Maxi Studio Dynamic 3D - using the officially licensed 4 MB Roland sound font (GSSBK320.94b). Recorded with Windows 98 SE's audio recorder (44.1 kHz 16 bit Stereo, 172kbps PCM).

Can anyone using "woke" as an insult please just unfollow me right here right now, that would be great thanks (fuck off and don't come back).

LOL I just received my first bluesky "your account has been suspended" phishing DM. It claims I wouldn't have access to my account and would need to go through a verification process under a link to regain access. In a DM that I could read because I was currently accessing the account.🤡

What software do you use for capturing audio on a Windows 98 PC? I only need the most simple, basic functionality, although MP3 or OGG format would be nice. I'll record more sound fonts the day after tomorrow. Here's Duke 3D - Grabbag on my previous thin client sound card: youtu.be/E7hHTjNueAQ

Practically nothing has ever surprised me less.

I'm careful not to say it when my boy is around, he might learn words already. But this is the glory hole book.

That's 8 Mbyte, too, isn't

I thought the 72pin SIMM module I installed was 16 MB, not 4. But it's very much possible I just jumpered it wrong, for the card has a jumper for 4 vs 16 MB. It's so late I probably won't open up the PC again before getting some sleep, though.

Need you guys to be my unartifical intelligence: what does "discreet portmanteau" mean when it comes to comparing different sound cards? Machine translations definitely do not get the context.

So, this particular Guillemot Maxi Sound 64 Dynamic 3D (PCB picture from amoretro.de) has loaded an officially loaded Roland sound bank per default. Shrunk from 4 MB to 1 MB, it features practically the same sounds as a Sound Canvas, just more compressed. But we can load higher quality banks!

So, my Neoware CA2 thin client is currently waiting for a new IDE44 to 2x CF adapter, but come Monday I can transplant this perfect little sound card and enjoy both my favorite form of FM synthesis (yes, even over Yamaha OPL3) and up to 18 MB of soundfonts ("banks") in .94b format.

Had mail from the incredible @xavierdury.net again, with a working card only missing the PCI bracket. And what do you know, as soon as I put it in, it instantly worked in both DOS and Windows, sadly confirming that the first card is in fact dead. Also I had forgotten I raised the volume. Jumpscare!

Maybe it's my being cishet and I'm forgetting something, but at the end of the day you use pronouns for talking *about* people, so if you talked *to* them before, you probably know what a person is like, and if it's important to them they can tell you their preferred pronouns.

*Pentium 4 Northwood 3.06 GHz FSB 533 Peltier cooled by an ActiveCool AC4G-D 2 GB DDR-333 CL2 60 GB SATA SSD via IDE2SATA adapter Guillemot Maxi Gamer Cougar (Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64 32 MB) 3 real full functionality ISA slots, currently empty. The board is this: theretroweb.com/motherboards...

Absolutely everyone should have seen this. Would certainly remove all disadvantages from my Pentium 4 ISA machine*, so I had ordered the parts to build several before my tremors got worse. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uNm...