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also works on macos mojave apparently!
https://www.tp-link.com/ca/support/download/archer-t3u-plus/
installing the mac driver now on my 10.14.6 box

i never got it to work properly..

1990s / what is a mini HDMI cable?

« Last post by chrisNova777 on January 20, 2026, 06:29:21 PM »

A Mini HDMI (Type C) is a smaller version of the standard HDMI port, designed for portable devices like cameras, camcorders, and some tablets, allowing them to connect to larger displays (TVs, monitors) while delivering the same high-definition audio and video quality, often requiring a special cable or adapter to fit the standard Type A port.

Examples of Cards with Mini-HDMI:
NVIDIA GeForce: GTX 460, GTX 560 Ti, GTX 570, GTX 580, GT 640, GT 730, GTX 780 Ti.
AMD Radeon: Some older Radeon HD 7000 series models.
NVIDIA Quadro: Quadro K1200 (often with Mini DisplayPort too).
Why They Use Mini-HDMI:
Space Saving: Mini-HDMI takes up less physical room on the card's bracket, allowing for larger cooling solutions or additional ports like DVI.
Compact Designs: Common in smaller form-factor PCs (like Mini-ITX) or older generations where port standardization wasn't as unified as today.

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Sequencer Plus / Re: Voyetra Sequencer Plus GOLD v4.11 (Aug 1993) for DOS

« Last post by RandomTestSubject on January 12, 2026, 09:54:39 PM »

I have SPG running in 86Box on my Mac Mini M4, and it does quite well. For the tightest MIDI timing, make sure to select the small CPU frame option introduced in 5.x. There is also a MIDI input bug at the moment that can crash the input (but not the VM) but I have made the dev aware of it and they indicated a fix will be coming in version 6. You can work around this in the meantime by just using a very fast emulated CPU, I think mine is 400-ish MHz. Once the bug is fixed you should be able to use an emulated 386 or 486 at typical speeds. Also, if your emulated machine uses acpi, avoid using irq2/9 for your emulated mpu-401. Any other irq should be fine though. Oh, and you'll probably want to set your keyboard to PC mode in MacOS just to make life a little easier since SPG is largely keyboard driven. Once you account for these details it actually works very smoothly. The jitter is within 1ms plus or minus of the timing of SPG on real hardware, and the real hardware is within 1ms plus or minus of perfect.

Also, the latest version of 86Box has its own VM Manager now. Not sure if it is as feature-filled as MacBox, but it it works well enough for me. Let me know if you have any questions where running SPG in 86Box is concerned, happy to share what I know.

Sequencer Plus / Re: Voyetra Sequencer Plus GOLD v4.11 (Aug 1993) for DOS

« Last post by milenkov on January 04, 2026, 09:32:45 AM »

Has anyone tinkered with 86Box emulator (https://86box.net) to run Voyetra SPG?

Unlike Dosemu, Dosemu2 and 8086tiny (and its forks) it runs on macOS (10.13 and newer) and Windows machines.

Unlike DOSBox and DOSBox-X it has support for MIDI in (https://86box.readthedocs.io/en/latest/settings/sound.html#midi-in-device).

Presumably it would be nice to use Apple Silicon Mac minis to run Voyetra SPG. MacBox (https://github.com/Moonif/MacBox) is of help.

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