I know the ESS chipset itself isn't the issue, I have another Compaq Armada 7800 which runs AT2 under 98 just fine... I'm sure I'm setting something up wrong, but I'm out of ideas where else to look, which is why I turned to here :) The fact other DOS software can access the OPL3 in 98 just fine, …

Hi all, I'm toying with a Compaq Armada 1750 which has an ESS1869 chipset built-in. I'm using the 95 VxD drivers found in the Vogons driver collection. I can tell that Windows has the card in PnP mode set with SB address at 220h, OPL at 388h and MPU at 330h. Playing Duke Nukem 3D under 98SE I can …

So I did some more digging and it seems like there is an S3 Speed Up utility which should improve performance in certain video modes, and it needs the S3 VBE Core 2.0, however... the latest version of the VBE core that VOGONS has doesn't support the ViRGE/MX, which is what this laptop has. I also …

Seems like that's the key then... Too bad the scaling is nearest-neighbor non-integer and looks terrible on the actual LCD screen!

I guess neither do I know what I'm talking about because it's no longer showing up on boot, but I don't think it was HIMEM. I do remember it saying Windows XMS driver, it loading before JEMMEX and therefore JEMMEX saying a memory manager was already loaded. I managed to get a DEVICE= directive …

I've had memory managers do weird things like that before, yeah. Try not restarting in "MS-DOS Mode", but placing menu options in your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to either load or not load Windows (you'd have to modify MSDOS.SYS also, I believe)... OR you could just hit F8 as it starts booting and …

Could be a memory manager issue, try switching from EMM386 to JEMMEX, or using HIMEM only The config.sys for this Win98 install was empty, so I tried writing a DEVICE directive to load JEMMEX, but whenever I reboot into DOS mode the Windows XMS Driver loads first no matter what, and I can't find …

Hi all! I've installed Windows 98 on a Compaq Armada 7800 following my last post, which enabled me to play DOS games with support for the SB-compatible ESS1879. However, I seem to run into games being ever so slightly slower than they should be, mostly noticeable only through audio, and weirdly …

Hi all! I have a Compaq Armada 7800 with an ESS1879 chipset, ostensibly through an internal Compaq PCI-to-ISA bridge. I installed Windows 2000 on it since I wanted some more modern amenities than 98, but this presents the problem of not having sound when running DOS games under NTVDM. I know all …

If this game does work in dosbox, you may use the (full) dosbox debugger: you may put breakpoint, change memory and resume.... Yes, this is true, I can do what I want manually with the debugger console. But my goal is to automate those actions so the game plays itself indefinitely match after match …

I didn't want to start a new thread because this seemed like pretty much exactly what I wanted to do, and I'd like some help with it. I'm trying to mod a game called The Solar Hockey League (1992) into playing itself with random (or bracketed, maybe) AI teams (you can normally already set AI against …