Re: Your most shitty motherboard?

Posted on 2023-04-26, 14:00

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by DonutKing

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ECS K7S5A for me. I researched before I bought it, half the reviews said it was crap, half said it was great. I took a gamble and bought one as I was on a tight budget and couldn't afford DDR RAM at the time, so I reused some old PC133 from my previous PC. I am one of the people who got lucky. My …

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Re: Slow tseng et4000

Posted on 2022-08-23, 11:12

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by DonutKing

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What are the DIP switches set to? It can vary between cards, but sometimes the DIP switches will set slower memory access via wait states for compatibility. Take a look here for an example: http://www.verycomputer.com/171_ce1703d62d4ad51a_1.htm What are the rest of your system specs? Another thing …

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2022-05-22, 00:01

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by DonutKing

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Wow! Awesome work, will be keeping an eye out for one of these !

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Re: Reelmagic/Realmagic MPEG games

Posted on 2022-05-18, 08:56

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by DonutKing

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Excellent work Uka! I'm looking forward to trying Conspiracy on my 386 😀

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Re: Civilization 2 issues.

Posted on 2022-05-17, 09:18

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by DonutKing

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Civ 2 required WinG to be installed, a redistributable installer was included on the CD. It sounds like the pirated version you got just included the game files and nothing else. Try to track down an ISO of the game CD or a legit copy and the installer should take care of this for you. Alternatively …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! (CT4830) SB16 DOS emulation issue

Posted on 2022-04-18, 00:15

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by DonutKing

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I had a similar issue with this card. I found that SBEGO.exe would play the wav and fm sample fine but couldn't get it to work in most games. Eg tyrian, alien carnage. I tried various driver versions but never had much luck. From what I gather the sb16 emulation 8snt perfect and if you really want …

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2022-04-09, 10:46

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by DonutKing

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I bought a VT6212L based card off aliexpress.com- the cheapest one I could find. 20220328_200722.jpg It didn't work in my pentium MMX system. It wouldn't boot with the card installed. I determined that the card requires 3.3V but my socket 7 motherboard only has 5V PCI slots. After a bit of effort I …

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Re: DOSBox ReelMagic Fork

Posted on 2022-03-30, 11:02

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by DonutKing

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in DOSBox Development

Excellent work! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time. I quickly tried Return to Zork and it plays great!

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Re: How to set Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 (SiS471) into L2:Write-through mode?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 05:02

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by DonutKing

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did you try keeping JP6 set to 1-2 (but JP20 to 2-3) and disabling DRAM Write Burst as I suggested? In my case it also hangs after the config table if I don't disable that option in the BIOS. On the other hand setting JP20 to 1-2 in order to connect the CACHE# line to the chipset always locks up …

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Re: How to set Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 (SiS471) into L2:Write-through mode?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 03:35

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by DonutKing

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Latest BIOS should work fine (if possible get the version modded to enable dirty tag bit for L2 WB). I think the jumpers for setting L1 WB in that thread are not entirely correct, please follow my guide , those jumpers should be the same on 1.7 and 1.8: JP16 pins 1-2 (this connects the WB/WT# pin …

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Re: How to set Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 (SiS471) into L2:Write-through mode?

Posted on 2022-01-31, 13:15

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by DonutKing

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

-I find that the BIOS setting 'Local Bus Ready' is somewhat unstable when set to 'Transparent'; I have to set to 'Synchronize' for best stability. Transparent mode gives a small performance boost in benchmarks. Other people have the same experience? Yes. I've played around with this beauty: …

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Re: How to set Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 (SiS471) into L2:Write-through mode?

Posted on 2022-01-31, 11:54

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by DonutKing

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, sorry to necro an old thread. I've got a VL/i486SV2 rev 1.7 modded to GX4 using this guide Specs: Am5x86-133 16MB single 60ns SIMM 1024kb L2 cache using a 128kx8 for TAG VLB ET4000w32/p 2MB VLB Promise EIDE2000 I/O Controller AWE64 Gold Gravis Ultrasound Classic 2GB CF card HDD Sony CDU55E …

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Re: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2021-12-21, 03:16

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by DonutKing

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Thanks for the excellent guide. I wanted to confirm that this guide also works for Windows ME. The only issue I had was Step 4.3 (Run C:\AU2\AUDIGY DOS DRIVER\Setup.exe and restart when prompted) The installer complained that Windows 95 or 98 was required. If you rename or delete the checkOS.exe …

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Re: Voodoo 2 component map

Posted on 2021-12-04, 12:53

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by DonutKing

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Hoping someone here can help... I have two 12MB STB voodoo 2's. One is working, the other is detected in Windows device manager but all Glide games and the 3dfx demos tell me that they couldn't detect a Voodoo card. I discovered that C577 was missing off the back of the faulty one. I had a spare …

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Re: What are some common failure modes for defective Voodoo2 cards?

Posted on 2021-11-22, 00:30

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by DonutKing

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Quick update. I just reflowed all IC pins on one of my voodoo2s with success. The card is properly detected and plays games, albeit the colors are not right. Might have to replace output selector and ramdac, after testing, per this thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=72580 Going to try …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-20, 21:22

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by DonutKing

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I picked up a Roland Sound Canvas 8820 20210820_232144.jpg This is one of the latest models of Sound Canvas. It supports SC55, SC88, SC88 Pro and a native 8820 instrument mapping. I used to have an SC55 mk2 which I regrettably sold years ago. The Sc8820 is much smaller, and although it lacks the LCD …

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Re: Am5x86 on UM8810P

Posted on 2021-08-20, 13:14

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by DonutKing

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I truely hope you find your answer, and with this group you very well might. That being said, I think this situation calls for some xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/wisdom_of_the_ancients.png "All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2021-07-13, 13:00

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by DonutKing

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in Release Announcements

Ancient DOS Games Episode 284 - Transport Tycoon Deluxe is online! This week was kinda bad for me in real life so it's kinda crazy that I managed to push this video out, but it also meant I didn't have time to go back and address something which popped up while writing the script... After re- …

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Re: A Goblin Hoard : My PC Big Box Collection

Posted on 2021-05-11, 07:57

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by DonutKing

in Milliways

in Milliways

dr_st wrote on 2021-05-03, 11:29: Do you have Warcraft I in any form? Haven't seen it so far. Yeah I have one - not perfect condition though Filename 20210511_175330.jpg File size 1.35 MiB Views 994 views Filename 20210511_175409.jpg File size 1.32 MiB Views 994 views

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Re: A Goblin Hoard : My PC Big Box Collection

Posted on 2021-05-11, 07:51

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by DonutKing

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Would you mind showing the contents of your theme hospital please? I've got the AU box but I suspect the contents are from the UK version.

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