Super Mouse Branded Serial Mouse: Origins and Driver Source?

Posted on 2023-03-30, 15:04

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by Galacnor

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Hello again Everyone, Recently I picked up this serial mouse for my current 486 project. It's simply called "Supermouse" and it came with its original packaging. https://i.ibb.co/SfL8GGX/20230325-103047.jpg https://i.ibb.co/R6jbJv7/20230325-103057.jpg The only thing missing from the box is, sadly, …

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Re: Troubleshooting Compact Flash to IDE on 486 System with American Megatrends BIOS

Posted on 2023-03-24, 02:40

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by Galacnor

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Hello Everyone, The new Compact Flash card arrived and I was able to successfully format it and install MS-DOS 6.22 without issue. The system is now running as expected. https://i.ibb.co/m60NR56/20230321-212837.jpg It seems as if the 256mb card I was attempting to use was either damaged or …

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Re: Troubleshooting Compact Flash to IDE on 486 System with American Megatrends BIOS

Posted on 2023-03-20, 02:21

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by Galacnor

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You can try using S0KILL to make the CF card appear as new (fresh from factory). Maybe there's some spurious data left that messes up things for DOS.. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=618884#p618884 Otherwise, I seem nothing wrong here. You did nothing wrong. If you like, run CheckIt! and/or …

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Re: Troubleshooting Compact Flash to IDE on 486 System with American Megatrends BIOS

Posted on 2023-03-20, 02:08

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by Galacnor

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Can you make a closeup photo of your CF adapter, especially around the back side of IDE connector to show the pins soldered. Hello Vstrakh, Of course. Here are some photographs. https://i.ibb.co/1qBcF3r/20230319-195732.jpg https://i.ibb.co/hsz9PjP/20230319-195811.jpg https://i.ibb.co/PZwpjmL/ …

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Troubleshooting Compact Flash to IDE on 486 System with American Megatrends BIOS

Posted on 2023-03-19, 04:46

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by Galacnor

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Hey guys, Long time no see! It's been a number of years since I've been active due to my university studies; however, I've recently been trying to get a 486 system up and running during my semester break and have been having some hard luck with a Compact Flash adaptor that I am trying to make work …

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Re: ESS1688 Causing Trouble: Wolfenstein 3D freezes/Monkey Island-No Sound

Posted on 2020-03-20, 00:08

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by Galacnor

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I think your issues are probably DMA related as well. Try configuring with a non-standard DMA like 3. I think the issue is rather that he's using jumpered config and not knowing the DMA, since this also means there's no BLASTER variable set (otherwise he'd know the DMA) and in turn means games have …

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Re: ESS1688 Causing Trouble: Wolfenstein 3D freezes/Monkey Island-No Sound

Posted on 2020-03-19, 10:09

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by Galacnor

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Why "DMA: ?"..? What DMA are you using? I'd recommend setting the card to 220, IRQ 5, DMA 1, HDMA 5. MPU-401 is for MIDI. You can disable it if you don't have a MIDI device connected. Also, when using ESSCFG, let it do the autoexec.bat modification it asks for. Hello DerSammler, I put DMA ? because …

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ESS1688 Causing Trouble: Wolfenstein 3D freezes/Monkey Island-No Sound

Posted on 2020-03-19, 00:45

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by Galacnor

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Hello everyone, With this new coronavirus thing I'm staying inside a-lot and messing with some computers of mine. On the table right now is a nice 386 class system equipped with an AMD 386DX-40. I previously had this computer working like a champ; but, a failure of the 30 year old hard drive in …

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Re: Advice on 486 build ?

Posted on 2018-08-09, 19:13

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by Galacnor

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Okay, I received the NEW cables today and hooked them up. Now I have a NEW problem. The bios recognizes my Hard-drive just fine. But when I try to boot from the hard-drive I get an error message "Hard drive failure, 80 error " So I can't boot even from a floppy. I did have to set the jumper on the …

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Re: Configuring a Turbo Button and LED Display

Posted on 2018-08-09, 19:05

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by Galacnor

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I could be wrong here, but it looks like the LCD is missing a controller on that little board, so there is no way to hook that directly up to the motherboard. My guess would be that was a daughter board for the controller-board that the lead attached to. Thanks for your help! It appears in this …

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Configuring a Turbo Button and LED Display

Posted on 2018-08-02, 06:07

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by Galacnor

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello everyone, As some of you may know, over the past year I've been slowly restoring an AMD 386-DX40 based PC that my late grandfather left to me. Thanks to help I've received on these forums, the majority of the system is working correctly, and I've just been taking care of little nitpicky things …

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Re: ATI VGA Wonder+ No Video Out

Posted on 2018-08-02, 05:03

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by Galacnor

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Good news for everyone! After a long hiatus caused by my inability to find an acceptable replacement motherboard for my system, I am back and happy to announce that the problem was not with either of the video cards, but with the motherboard. It seems that the battery corrosion on the original …

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ATI VGA Wonder+ No Video Out

Posted on 2018-02-05, 22:20

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by Galacnor

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Hello again! I had such great help with the last problem that I brought to you guys that I have another problem to share that I hope you can help me fix. My oldest PC is currently a custom build that I inherited from my late grandfather, he was, to speak frankly, a genius and skilled mechanical …

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Re: No Sound in Monkey Island 1 or 2 under DOS with soundblaster AWE64 (CT4500)

Posted on 2018-01-24, 23:32

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by Galacnor

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dr_st wrote: You need to run AWEUTIL /S to get music out of an AWE64. Your Autoexec.bat seems to be missing it. You've got her. Everything works as it should now that aweutil is loaded into the autoexec. Thanks everyone so much for their help on this one. Does anyone want to hear the AWE64? …

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Re: No Sound in Monkey Island 1 or 2 under DOS with soundblaster AWE64 (CT4500)

Posted on 2018-01-24, 07:56

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by Galacnor

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The divide by 0 error means your system is too fast. The 486 patch might not fix the timing issue sufficiently for the Adlib audio part, while solving other issues. Try killing your L1 cache completely, the hotkeys only add wait states. No problem :) EMM386 is memory manager. Sometimes they are …

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Re: No Sound in Monkey Island 1 or 2 under DOS with soundblaster AWE64 (CT4500)

Posted on 2018-01-24, 04:58

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by Galacnor

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The divide by 0 error means your system is too fast. The 486 patch might not fix the timing issue sufficiently for the Adlib audio part, while solving other issues. Try killing your L1 cache completely, the hotkeys only add wait states. Hello firage I have already solved the issue of the divide by …

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Re: No Sound in Monkey Island 1 or 2 under DOS with soundblaster AWE64 (CT4500)

Posted on 2018-01-23, 21:12

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by Galacnor

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EMM386 ? Hello agent_x007, Thanks for stopping by to try and help me out. I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to convey to me right now, could you expand a little for me? I understand that EMM386 allows you to have more memory than 1MB (I believe??) or something similar, however I don't really …

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Re: No Sound in Monkey Island 1 or 2 under DOS with soundblaster AWE64 (CT4500)

Posted on 2018-01-22, 22:40

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by Galacnor

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Probably might help if you post the config.sys and autoexec.bat. And of course make sure that the Set Blaster environment is set in autoexec.bat. I vaguley remember needing ctcm.exe running as well. Hello Dominus, Thanks for the help. Here are pictures of my config.sys and my autoexec.bat, along …

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Re: No Sound in Monkey Island 1 or 2 under DOS with soundblaster AWE64 (CT4500)

Posted on 2018-01-22, 03:36

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by Galacnor

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Hi Alex, I am not very used to the Monkey Island series, but I vaguely remember to have heard something about speed sensitivity of the AdLib detection. So perhaps the computer is just a little bit too fast (Monkey Island came out when some people still had computers running at 8 to 16MHz). To make …

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No Sound in Monkey Island 1 or 2 under DOS with soundblaster AWE64 (CT4500)

Posted on 2018-01-20, 15:03

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by Galacnor

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Hello everyone! I'm new to the forum, but not super new to DOS computing or retro gaming. Born in 1997, I'm someone who never really got to use MS-DOS in its golden era, but someone who has always found the operating system and the software written for it to be very interesting. Anyhow, I've got …

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