we don’t own a damned thing That's it. You never buy games, music, movies...but only a right to use them in a context. There's even more fun with "collector editions", which include much crap but no games at all . UNBOXING THE CREW 2 MOTOR EDITION / COLLECTOR'S EDITION 4K https://www.youtube.com/ …

In the Phase 22 manual, there is a detailed explanation with exemples of PIC and APIC on two different mobos. See PDF page 39 : http://www.terratec.ultron.info/Producer/PHAS … 2_Manual_GB.pdf

What message is displayed just after driver loading ? If you cannot see because of Windows starting, press the F5 key repeatedly at boot time, then choose "6. Command prompt only" in the menu. It might be : error: PCI device detect failed: Device not found. Creative SB16 Emulation Driver NOT loading …

Hi ! In your Autoexec.bat this is weird : SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM I mean CTSYN should point to the drivers folder : SET CTSYN= C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\DOSDRV C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM Also make sure you have the last drivers. I think it's SB16 v5.00 …

This is new to me also. Seems confirmed by the data sheet which basically says the card can have different identities (Subsystem read/write) https://www.dosdays.co.uk/media/ensoniq/AudioPCI/ES1373_datasheet.pdf 4.13. User Definable Subsystem Vendor ID and Subsystem ID The 1373 device powers-up/ …

That's it for sure, and very interesting to read. Just learning something new today, thanks ! 😀 More here : Hardware Restore Cards History https://horizondatasys.com/recovery-card/

I was reading an anti-virus page on QDI defunct site, and they wrote some words about "Protect cards". Never heard about them... any additional informations available ? Legend QDI© Recovery Easy has proved itself superior to traditional protect cards. Traditional protect cards usually tie up at …

I could not find a Radeon which can run Shadow Warrior properly. I can play, but with crap colors... Also The Lost Vikings scrolling is jerky, if I remember well. Finally, there is no Radeon drivers for Windows 95 (not even for the Rage 128, anyway). The best card Dos-Win3.1-Win95 I could find is …

Anyone experienced the very last cards possible, like Geforce FX 5xxx ? Just curious.

Didn't knew it was called PC booters :blush: It came from old 80s computers C64 / Atari / Amiga, when software houses tried to protect from illegal copying. At times, hard drives were not much used for gaming. Things changed in the 90s, when HDD became cheaper and games installable. Or is this a DOS …

Depend on what kind of code one would make. ASM is required for drivers / kernel / bios dev / reverse engineering. But you can dev many things in Pascal, C, C++, Basic. To name a few !