There was one good ol' player called XTC. Worked with MP3's too, at least those ones with fixed bit rates (not VBR).

486/33, 8 Mb RAM, Spea/V7 Mercury 2 Mb (S3 928) VLB, Adaptec 1542CF+2x2 Gb SCSI HDD's+24x Pioneer CD-ROM, Genius Soundmaker 3DJ+GUS ACE; IBM PC 330, Intel 430HX, Pentium 200MMX, 128 Mb EDO RAM, Matrox Millenium 2 Mb, 4 Gb HDD, CD-ROM, SB-32 PnP with 2 Mb RAM; WIP: K6-2/550, 64 Mb SDRAM, S3 Savage4 …

486/33, 8 Mb RAM, Spea/V7 Mercury 2 Mb (S3 928) VLB, Adaptec 1542CF+2x2 Gb SCSI HDD's+24x Pioneer CD-ROM, Genius Soundmaker 3DJ+GUS ACE; IBM PC 330, Intel 430HX, Pentium 200MMX 128 Mb EDO RAM, Matrox Millenium 2 Mb, 4 Gb HDD, CD-ROM, SB-32 PnP with 2 Mb RAM; WIP: K6-2/550, 64 Mb SDRAM, S3 Savage4 16 …

I've seen some cards like this back in the golden days of me first Pentium :happyhappy: IMHO, they are cheap, noisy little buggers, and the drivers took precious space from low memory. AFAIK, they were noisier than ESS 688/1868/1869 and Crystal 4235/4236/4237 based cards that I tested 11-12 years …

I have run into the same problems myself. It's only related to the speed of the CPU. It's not possible to run it on CPU's faster than an 486. And for that, I tried it with various 486 cpu's on a motherboard. Worked well on 486/33 and I do not recall about 486/66, 486/100 and AMD 5x86/133.

Received from a friend a Super Socket 7 mobo, with a K6-2/500 cpu. Mobo: Aristo AM-954, VIA MVP3 chipset. This is WIP, so I still have to find some suitable components. Like: - 8-10-20 Gb ATA hard disk. I have a 9.1 UW SCSI, together with an Adaptec 2940UW controller, but this one sounds like a …

@swaaye [AWE32 isn't any better: AWE32 and Dark Forces] Tried it on my ol' rig (IBM PC 330, Intel 430HX, Intel Pentium 200MMX, 128 Mb EDO RAM). On AWE32, AWE64, and some SB Pro compatible+GUS ACE. The GUS music sounded a lot better. Sounded good on my Yamaha SW20-PC (when it was working!) 🙁

Quite good, compared to AWE32/64 and GUS MIDI. About the same quality. I guess it had a good 2 Mb set of samples.

I have 2 Teac's quad density drives. They are a keeper. I use them on my Acorn BBC's and BBC Master. Have 4 high density drives too, and I'll be willing to give 2 of them. Postal fees only.

I had one of those too. Passed away some time ago. Good OPL4 General Midi board. 2 Mb ROM, 128 Kb RAM. Used Analog Devices 1848 and Opti 928 chips for SB/WSS compatibility, and the above mentioned OPL4 for General Midi. It was my only "pure" General Midi ISA soundcard. The others being SB32 PnP ( …

Well, about GeForce 6200... It depends. I had one in me previous main rig (AMD Sempron 2600+, ASUS K8V-X socket 754 mobo with VIA K8T800 chipset, 512 Mb DDRAM, 80 Gb WD [ATA] and then 250 Gb Maxtor [SATA II], GeForce 6200. Mine was a very speedy card, more than 10000 3D Marks 2001. On the other hand …

Dude, you'd better try one of this: www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=6&l2=34 I had one and it's really quiet for a 52x; it's even quieter than me 24x SCSI Pioneer I use in my 486/66 rig.

Oh well, I have 2 older PeeCees at home, along with a plethora of components (ISA, PCI and VLB video cards, ISA and PCI sound cards. Me main oldie is an IBM PC 330; i got it for free with a Pentium 133 cpu, 32 Mb EDO RAM; right noo it is a Pentium MMX 200, with 64 Mb RAM and a 4 Gb Fujitsu HDD. It …