Re: Why Voodoo3 instead of Voodoo5 for a legacy system?
Posted on 2007-06-17, 22:55
By the way: Are there any Voodoo3 drivers for Windows 3.11?
Re: Which AT motherboard to get
Posted on 2007-05-16, 11:07
Thanks for all your input. I have decided to look for the original TX97, since it has 4 ISA slots and is an AT board. If I don't find that one, I'd probably try the TX97-XE, which 5u3 has recommended. Well, EDO RAM would have been nice, because I have some of that memory lying around. Guess, I'll …
Re: Which AT motherboard to get
Posted on 2007-05-14, 15:16
Hi! Thanks for your reply. I'd have to get a new case and power supply for ATX then. I recently thought about buying an ASUS TX97 (pic), but they seem to make rare appearances on eBay. With ATX as form factor it shouldn't be a problem to find a suiteble board, I guess. Regards, locutus
Which AT motherboard to get
Posted on 2007-05-14, 10:34
Hello! I have a simple question: I am looking for an AT (!) Pentium I motherboard that has some Intel chipset, at least 4 ISA slots and 3 PCI slots, of which one may be shared between the two busses. It should also support EDO RAM and most importantly it should support at least 3 full-length ISA …
Re: Why we haven't moved to 64 bit?
Posted on 2007-05-10, 12:01
I once read that the leap from 16 to 32-bit was much bigger than the change from 32-bit to 64-bit. Apparently, numbers that are so big that they would need 64-bit to fit into one register are not very common. Hence, speed increase is only marginally, I guess.
Re: What Need for ISA Slots in a 3GHz Machine?
Posted on 2007-03-19, 10:06
Hello! If you are a musician, who is short of some MIDI outs, you could put in a Roland MIDI interface, like the MPU-IPC-T or MPU-401/AT. But other than that, I don't really see any use for those slots. Regards, locutus
Re: Question about LAPC-I and windows MIDI playback...
Posted on 2007-03-02, 10:06
Since, the LAPC-I does not support the General MIDI standard, it is perfectly normal that any General MIDI file sounds like crap. :-)
Re: Can anyone on earth get Syndicate Wars to run well in DOSbox?
Posted on 2007-02-17, 14:22
@wd: I am using HIMEM and EMM386.
Re: AWE-32 + Daughterboard = randomly corrupted midi.
Posted on 2007-02-16, 23:02
Hello, I tested LucasArts X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM with both CT3990 and CT3980 (+DB-50XG). With the CT3990 you didn't have to wait long until there were hanging notes (during the intro already). With digital effects turned off, the problem didn't occur, yet. With the CT3980 it takes some time …
Re: Little programmer's corner
Posted on 2007-02-12, 10:30
At first it is necessary to create a window. There's a good tutorial about it on winprog.org . This GDI article on the MSDN should get you there :-) I suggest you start reading about "Device Contexts", "Bitmaps", "Brushes" and "Rectangles" for an introduction. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ …
Re: dsp 4.13 hang notes bug - any kind of test needed...
Posted on 2007-02-10, 13:49
By the way: I have a CT3980 AWE32 PnP and I am experiencing the hanging notes bug with a DB-50XG. So I guess, that revision isn't bugfree after all.
Re: Little programmer's corner
Posted on 2007-02-09, 17:49
Yes, you'd probably have to build SDL from source and statically link it into your program. I believe there's a command-line switch for GCC to do that... "-mstatic" perhaps? PS: Let me know if something good came out of the merge of your source code with mine ;-)
Re: Little programmer's corner
Posted on 2007-02-08, 10:51
Hello kekko, nice programming! If you are interested in using only Windows functions for drawing (GDI) you might want to have a look at my tiny pong clone , which is also written in C using DevCpp. I wrote it to learn how to use graphics and sound routines from the Win32 interface. If you used GDI …
Re: Can anyone on earth get Syndicate Wars to run well in DOSbox?
Posted on 2007-02-07, 13:30
I have the EA classics edition "Syndicate + American Revolt" which is run directly from CD. The game then creates a directory C:\synd where it saves its configuration settings and save games. I am using DOSBox 0.65 and have found out that the game crashes after the Sound card selection screen if …
Re: Best DOS video card?
Posted on 2007-01-29, 13:01
Matrox and Tseng chipsets weren't that exotic to my knowledge. The ET6000 chipset for example (used by VideoLogic, Hercules among others) were best known for their speed and performance under DOS. But you are certainly right, if you say that S3 graphics cards were very compatible.
Re: Best DOS video card?
Posted on 2007-01-29, 09:37
What happens on Episode IV and above that makes the game unplayable, by the way? I mean, does the resolution mode change in such way that makes the game unplayable? Well, some kind of tearing takes place when walking left or right (horizontal scrolling). The whole screen flickers and it's not …
Re: Best DOS video card?
Posted on 2007-01-29, 00:32
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: valnar wrote: Commander Keen Strip Poker 3 (Artworx) Both games work perfectly on my Matrox Mystique. Episodes I through III DO work perfectly, however I won't believe you, if you say your Matrox card works with Episodes IV to VI. ;-) Regards, locutus
Re: Best DOS video card?
Posted on 2007-01-27, 01:57
@leileilol: Interesting idea. Do you know if it supports Glide under DOS, just like a Voodoo or Voodoo²? Regards, locutus
Re: Best DOS video card?
Posted on 2007-01-21, 14:50
Hello! I have built an old DOS computer to play classic games on and found out that there are many differences between video cards (Yes, even between 2D cards). Some of them tend to have problems when it comes to scrolling (best noticable with horizontal scrolling). The Matrox cards (including …
Re: Yamaha S-YXG series of sound synthesizers
Posted on 2007-01-21, 03:33
Yep, this seems to be an upgrade only: from http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Dec_24/ai_58357283 : "PC users owning Yamaha's SoftSynthesizer S-YXG50, S-YXG70 or S-YXG100plus will be able to upgrade to S-YXG/DM (DirectMusic-compatible SoftSynthesizer) using the upgrade module …
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