Re: "Doom" on Intellivision
Posted on 2023-05-27, 03:34
you may want to check the upload date on that video... there actually is a doom port for ZX spectrum though.
Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues
Posted on 2023-05-26, 21:18
yeah, have to concur with win95 really feeling at home on those expensive pentiums of its day, i don't see the argument for running it on most 486s and certainly not 386 machines. all the software that came out for it clearly targeted pentiums from the beginning, so if you didn't need that new …
Re: The Joy of MMX
Posted on 2023-05-26, 13:01
Things that would give it a lease of life would be UDMA support, SDRAM memory and not having the restriction of 64 MB cacheability limit found on most Intel 430 chipsets. At least it would be competitive with earlier P6-based CPUs but not with later iterations such as PII-400. no, pii 233 would …
Re: The Joy of MMX
Posted on 2023-05-26, 12:33
pentium MMX was intel's attempt to sell the p5 architecture for another year with overhyped MMX marketing, IMO. a p200mmx with SDRAM and all bells and whistles bought as "high-end" in early 1997 probably aged out the fastest compared to any other similarily priced setup of its day. tillamook is …
Re: Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure - Did this game EVER work 100%?
Posted on 2023-05-26, 11:35
i have not tested this game, but this actually might be the first win95 commercial game release so it's not surprising to hear it being troublesome. this game actually even predates directx. i have tested gex which is over a year newer, but still gave me trouble. made a topic about it once here: …
Re: Gateway 2000 P5-60 and Tekram DC-290N
Posted on 2023-05-26, 11:21
just to be sure, did you check with PCI.EXE if the IDE controllers properly get an IRQ assigned? these boards predate plug'n'play and could be a bit finnicky at times if you have multiple cards installed. in any case though, in 93/94 you really had to go SCSI if you wanted optimal performance. …
Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues
Posted on 2023-05-26, 10:46
Thanks for the info! I wasn't aware of this back in the day but my PC at the time probably didn't have a "large" amount of RAM. I checked and I initially only had 8MB in the machine I put Windows 95 on! according to this source, it's an issue with >48mb. this still would fall into the win95 era …
Re: Gateway 2000 P5-60 and Tekram DC-290N
Posted on 2023-05-25, 22:04
the original batman board is quite rare, i don't even recall it being discussed here beyond people mistaking batman's revenge for it. if it really turns out that these boards can't run any PCI IDE controller that'd be an interesting discovery. you could try some SCSI hardware if you have it, though …
Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues
Posted on 2023-05-25, 21:38
um, this very much seems like the old win95 issue of vcache growing out of control on high RAM machines... http://www.putergeek.com/vcache/
Re: Diablo 2 Migraines - Won't even install- Any ideas?
Posted on 2023-05-23, 11:57
would also try to toggle DMA on/off if that is an option with that adapter. otherwise, i would run a memtest.
Re: General doubt on PC games that use CD audio
Posted on 2023-05-21, 20:08
It has something to do with how more primitive operating systems dealt with concurrent activity, I think. Having your floppy or CD-drive accessed would hose anything else a system running DOS or Windows 9x was doing and I think the amount of creative work-arounds from the game developers themselves …
Re: Warcraft.org Map Pack
Posted on 2023-05-21, 16:31
the .ace links work for me.
Re: General doubt on PC games that use CD audio
Posted on 2023-05-21, 13:30
the issue isn't that audio pauses upon track changes, where obviously there will always be a seek time with optical media, it's that PC games grind to a halt for a second or two. a CD drive playing audio should not affect the game at all. this really seems like a legacy PC cruft issue that reminds …
Re: Changing resolution of Win9x/2k DOS box?
Posted on 2023-05-21, 00:28
i'm not sure if this is what you are referring to, but nvidia drivers from around the mid-2000s have a doublescan option. this can be used if not desiring scanlines from low resolutions on a CRT, or to get around the lack of integer scaling options on LCDs.
Re: General doubt on PC games that use CD audio
Posted on 2023-05-21, 00:16
always noticed that as well, but it's not something that ever seemed to be much discussed. just looked around a bit and found this: https://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?p=21450 the mentioned MCI_STOP command is explained here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/multimedia/mci-stop …
Re: Asus P/I P55T2P4 IDE DMA Not Working in Win98SE
Posted on 2023-05-20, 23:38
of course the CF itself needs to actually support the required modes. i've looked up spec sheets for two transcend lines - the regular 133x is slightly vague with a mention of "up to UDMA mode 4", but for their industrial line, all the supported PIO, MWDMA and UDMA modes are explicity listed.
Re: Pentium - Hard disk size - DOS /Game required space
Posted on 2023-05-20, 15:01
so you currently have a working, fully usable 8.4gb drive installed which is really more than plenty for a pentium 200 but then you're asking whether 2gb would be enough for all your games? maybe look at how much of the drive you are using right now. the best solution for using that 20gb drive would …
Re: WIndows 95 Installation CDROM Driver not found
Posted on 2023-05-20, 14:36
Shockingly, the boot disk that came with OSR2 CDs did not include a CD-ROM driver. At least the ones I've seen and/tried did not! There may have been recovery disks that did but those would probably have been custom ones by Packard Bell, Compaq, IBM, etc... that doesn't seem to make any kind of …
Re: Asus P/I P55T2P4 IDE DMA Not Working in Win98SE
Posted on 2023-05-20, 00:20
the issue isn't with the chipset or the drivers, it's with the newer devices that you are trying to run on IDE. for the CF, some adapters are known to not be wired to support DMA, the issue is described here: http://support.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/cf.html regarding the SATA drive, the startech …
Re: The Pentium 3 makes your internet faster!
Posted on 2023-05-18, 15:41
yeah, not to mention going from a 400 to a 550. one would really be testing a p2 450 vs. a p3 450 and not put any extra RAM in either to make any kind of solid judgment about SSE. even then IIRC the katmai had a tweaked l1 cache controller that could account for a little bit of difference. i think …
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