Re: CRT vs LCD?
Posted on 2015-06-26, 19:44
Well, (2) may be true, but aging CRTs come with its own problems, (6) is not true, (7), well, you have some strange taste 😜, and (8) wow, talking about an oxymoron. 😁
Re: Recreation of my original K6-2-500 (The "Zitech" Machine)
Posted on 2015-06-25, 14:55
Yeah... Same card, same settings. When I am speaking of MS-Dos it is pure Dos. No dos prompt or anything. Just MS-Dos-6.22 and not Win95/98/ME. I am not considering them Dos at all, because the Dos used in these operating systems, are intertwined with the Windows invironment. Though I am aware of …
Re: Recreation of my original K6-2-500 (The "Zitech" Machine)
Posted on 2015-06-25, 13:01
The problem arose with some classic Dos gaming. Doom2 and Duke3D just sounded awefull, compared to a MS-Dos-6.22 installation. Duke would just be playing some mudy sound when AWE32 was selected as the music card. And Doom2 was just plain low in volume. Something had to be done, I thought. Strange …
Re: Does dosbox crash when a DOS game crashes?
Posted on 2015-06-23, 06:50
This appears to be DOSBOX itself crashing. I've seen both, depending on how bizarre the game crash was. Most frequently, DOSBOX remains responsive, although you have to close and restart it. In rare occasions I've had similar problems, where I couldn't even get to the desktop normally, and had to …
Re: "Standard" 1 MB RAM AWE64
Posted on 2015-06-23, 06:39
OK, then. Since there appears to be no evidence to the contrary, I've edited the Wikipedia page to remove reference to the 1MB variant. I'll inform the Nerdly pleasures blog author as well. Thanks, guys. 😀
Re: "Standard" 1 MB RAM AWE64
Posted on 2015-06-22, 20:55
Aha. Good point. 256K * 16b makes it 512KB. The other CT4380 on that page has a different chip, but same configuration. The "Value" variants - CT4500 and CT4520 - appear to have different chips yet again (by NEC/NPN), but they each seem to be the same 512KB configuration. The "Gold" has two 1M by …
Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC
Posted on 2015-06-22, 19:48
I just realised sound card was having some WSS I/O errors and SB checksum errors, had to changed values but I don't know what I did to make it to work. Maybe this could be somehow colliding with something. But I didn't find better driver (soundcard Yamaha OPL3-SAx with YMF719E-S sound chip). Try …
Re: "Standard" 1 MB RAM AWE64
Posted on 2015-06-22, 19:15
Is there a definite answer on this? Namely, do the CT4380 have 1MB of RAM or 512KB? The Nerdy Pleasures blog claims they are different, but the quoted post from there suggests that maybe it's wrong. I recall reading a different source the claimed that the standard version (CT4380) was simply renamed …
Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC
Posted on 2015-06-22, 19:01
Perhaps your hardware is faulty.
Re: CRT vs LCD?
Posted on 2015-06-22, 18:50
Short of perhaps AMD's latest GPUs, every video card I have seen either had VGA, or at least one of the DVI outputs was DVI-I, which includes DVI-A, which is VGA. Meaning that you can convert it to VGA with a passive adapter. Then again, today there are very cheap, even if active, converters from DP …
Re: CRT vs LCD?
Posted on 2015-06-21, 19:51
Both have their advantages. The advantages of CRTs are perfect viewing angles, accurate colors, resolution flexibility, no lag and no pixel response issues. LCDs on the other hand can be manufactured to larger screen size, flexible form factors, higher resolutions, and they always look 100% sharp at …
Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04
Posted on 2015-06-21, 04:45
Question: How would 320x400 look good being a completely wrong aspect ratio?
Re: SATA question
Posted on 2015-06-20, 20:13
According to WD's documentation, your board does have one of the problematic chipsets that may have issues detecting the drive unless jumpered to SATA1. http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1337/c/123/session/L3RpbWUvMTQzNDgzMDQ2NS9zaWQvZlBoeDdvcG0%3D However, newer WD drivers will …
Re: what are your favourite ps/2 mice?
Posted on 2015-06-19, 15:24
The mouse will still work, but some advanced features, that depend on the software, may not be available. For example, DPI / button assignments may not be configurable.
Re: what are your favourite ps/2 mice?
Posted on 2015-06-16, 20:22
Gotta add that I absolutely adore the back and forward functions (which are the defaults assigned to the 4th and 5th mouse buttons), so at this point I will not use any mouse with less than 5 buttons.
Re: Trying to get Sound Blaster 16 to play Sound effects under DOS
Posted on 2015-06-16, 20:15
So, how does it work for Creative cards? Non-PnP variants with jumpers use jumpers, Non-PnP variants without jumpers use Diagnose, and PnP variants use CTCM? Did I capture it right? Did I miss something? Seems like I only ever had SB PnP cards, so I always used CTCM.
Re: what are your favourite ps/2 mice?
Posted on 2015-06-16, 19:24
vetz wrote: Logitech MX518 USB mouse that works as PS/2. I have one and like it a lot. Also, the MX310, if you are a fan of symmetrical mice (that can also be comfortably used by left-handed people). Most of my mice are the MX310.
Re: Recreation of my original K6-2-500 (The "Zitech" Machine)
Posted on 2015-06-16, 10:03
Actually found one on ebay, the type, name and size, that I had in the original machine. The only reason that I remember it, was because of that rubber-thing surrounding the drive. Yep, I had a couple of Seagates like that. I think my 17GB was one, and I also recall a 4.3GB drive I used in an older …
Re: Recreation of my original K6-2-500 (The "Zitech" Machine)
Posted on 2015-06-16, 06:44
Kick-ass machine. :cool: I actually still have my original K6-2 500MHz system, which I purchased sometimes in 2000, I think. Yeah, it was kinda late for a (Super) Socket 7 build, but I was apprehensive of some compatibility issues that P2/P3 systems may have with my much beloved legacy software. …
Messing with retro SB cards (SB16/AWE64) and Gravis Gamepad/Gamepad Pro pads
Posted on 2015-06-15, 19:06
I just got some fun out of playing with some retro hardware on my retro PC(s) over the weekend, which includes 3 ISA Sound Blaster cards, and two Gameport controllers, so I decided to share. No particular purpose / underlying theme to this topic, just posting my experiences. :) Audio Cards Sound …
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