Re: Voyetra VP-11
Posted on 2011-09-21, 09:40
What a shame it's not MPU-401 compatible. No point in inflating the price, so tell me if you want it and I won't bid on it. Otherwize I might buy it for my expansion slot-free 486.
Soundfonts in Windows 7
Posted on 2011-09-20, 23:00
I upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows XP. It seems that 7 doesn't support soundfonts or switching between different MIDI-devices and only uses the standard Windows synth whenever a MIDI-song is played. It doesn't support the gameport either, but even if I were to connect my MT-32 with a USB-MIDI- …
Voyetra VP-11
Posted on 2011-09-20, 22:52
I found a Voyetra VP-11 for sale: http://www.tradera.com/Voyetra-VP-11-MIDI-interface-for-paralellport-DOS-auktion_301978_139501067 It's apparently a MIDI-interface that connects to the parallell port. I could use it with my very compact Tulip 486 that doesn't have any expansion slots. Does anyone …
Re: sticky rubber.... any solution?
Posted on 2011-09-16, 16:43
I wonder the same thing, since the rubber pick-up roller of my 17 years old printer sometimes picks up two papers from the tray at the same time. I figured the rubber had gone dry and that I need to dip it in some kind of potion of rejuvenation.
Re: PORNO! ...on your PC?
Posted on 2011-07-31, 22:09
Once as a young boy I got a CD full of shareware and freeware. Most off the stuff was innocent, but there was a "game" called SimuSex that was not. You can check it out here if you are interested. It's freeware. http://gamegraveyard.net/game.php?id=16
Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?
Posted on 2011-07-30, 21:40
In the end, I decided to use the Acer driver VIDE-CDD.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE. Now I have 602 Kb of free conventional memory and everything went into the upper memory once I rearranged the boot order of the things in the config files. UIDE.SYS didn't work. The on-screen messages during boot said that the …
Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?
Posted on 2011-07-30, 17:59
UIDE.SYS sounds interesting. Does it work in MS-DOS with MSCDEX.EXE and without glitches? I couldn't find the Toshiba driver, but I tried the Acer driver. It worked well, uses only 5 Kb and loaded itself into upper memory, but now MSCDEX.EXE suddenly left upper memory and uses 27 Kb of conventional …
Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?
Posted on 2011-07-30, 16:56
I will try out the Toshiba driver and the Acer driver. I have 596 Kb of free conventional memory right now, but I've spent a lot of time optimizing and the most important thing that needs correcting is the CD-driver that needs to either go into upper memory or use as little memory as possible. But …
Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?
Posted on 2011-07-30, 15:04
Memmaker didn't give me any more memory than I had before, so I guess my config files were already optimized. I'm already using CTMOUSE and it works fine, except that I have to load the driver twice at start-up to avoid an annoying bug that moves the cursor into a corner and freezes it. Something …
Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?
Posted on 2011-07-30, 13:21
I've been fiddling around with my 486 today, and I found out that I could save 15 Kb of conventional memory by replacing the CD-driver nec_ide.sys with sbide.sys in config.sys. Nec_ide.sys uses 25 Kb, but sbide.sys uses only 10 Kb. I had used nec_ide.sys since I have a NEC CD-unit, but Creative's …
Re: Emm386.exe won't load with an IDE controller card in the computer.
Posted on 2011-07-30, 09:34
Wait, problem solved. I jumpered the card to use BIOS address DC00 and now it works. I guess I should have tried that from the beginning. Thanks for your help anyway. EDIT: D800 works too. I think I'll use that one. EDIT 2: I just disabled the BIOS of the IDE controller and now the card works …
Re: Emm386.exe won't load with an IDE controller card in the computer.
Posted on 2011-07-30, 09:28
try: DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000h-DC00h this will exclude memory addresses D000 to DC00 from being used by EMM386 It works when I switch the switch "RAM" to "NOEMS", but adding X=D000h-DC00h doesn't make a difference. I need EMS memory, so I can't use NOEMS. How can I make Emm386 use …
Re: Emm386.exe won't load with an IDE controller card in the computer.
Posted on 2011-07-30, 08:16
The available BIOS address options for the card are D000, D400, D800 and DC00.
Emm386.exe won't load with an IDE controller card in the computer.
Posted on 2011-07-30, 08:03
My 486 motherboard only has one IDE connector. Since I want 2 harddrives and 1 CD-unit, I added an ISA IDE controller card called Promise EIDE Max. I used a PCI SCSI card for the CD before without any problems, but it used to much conventional memory, so I thought I would replace it with an IDE card …
Re: ProSonic 16 and Mozart. What is known about these cards?
Posted on 2011-07-28, 20:29
How can you tell the difference? I tested the games with a regular SB Pro and they would still work with the SB 16 driver selected. At least Duke Nukem 3D and Simon the Sorcerer 2 would work that way.
Re: ProSonic 16 and Mozart. What is known about these cards?
Posted on 2011-07-28, 18:51
It was definitely CTMMSYS.SYS I was using at the time and not ctsb16.sys. It was also necessary to make sure the SOUND environment variable appropriately (i.e. to the folder with the DRV subdirectory). That's all I can recall. I've tried ctmmsys.sys and added SET SOUND=C:\SB16 to my autoexec.bat. …
Re: ProSonic 16 and Mozart. What is known about these cards?
Posted on 2011-07-28, 14:07
I don't know the exact details of the SB16 compatibility or lack thereof, but I do distinctly recall being able to load CTMMSYS.SYS and getting it to do stuff. I loaded the SB16 drivers, but I still can't make DOS-games recognize the ProSonic 16 as a SB16. The ctsb16.sys even tells me that it's not …
Re: buying versus building
Posted on 2011-07-27, 23:40
That's a bold statement. If you have no idea what you're doing, you can very easily lose out in terms of both price and quality, and if you try to save money by recycling old parts, you'll likely get what you pay for. Well, I wouldn't recommend my 70 year old aunt, who couldn't care less about the …
Re: ProSonic 16 and Mozart. What is known about these cards?
Posted on 2011-07-27, 20:44
I tested by starting up a bunch of games with different cards chosen in the option menus. It was pretty clear cut whether a choice of sound card would work or not. But I only used the driver that came with the original installation disk. I never thought about trying out the Sound Blaster 16 driver, …
Re: ProSonic 16 and Mozart. What is known about these cards?
Posted on 2011-07-27, 18:24
I couldn't find any DOS-drivers for the Mozart card, but I've tested the ProSonic 16 card. It's compatible with Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro, Adlib (OPL3) and Thunderboard. It's not compatible with Soundblaster 16, ProAudio Spectrum or ProAudio Spectrum 16. I get stereo sound when using the …
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