Re: MSI 815E Pro Photo needed

Posted on Yesterday, 14:41

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by AvalonH

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On my motherboard is printed '815E PRO VER:1' MS-6337, I don't know what revision you have. Filename IMG_20200405_151322336_HDR.jpg File size 625.28 KiB Views 70 views Filename IMG_20200405_145653813.jpg File size 1.54 MiB Views 71 views Filename IMG_20200405_151509255.jpg File size 731.58 KiB …

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Re: Problems with Promise Ultra 100 TX2 - 486

Posted on 2020-03-28, 16:51

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tested a 2005 Adaptec 2410sa PCI-X card. This is a 4 port SATA raid controller. It boots and works in non-raid jbod mode using a connected SSD with DOS on a 486 Asus AP4, (420ex chipset). Same with a HighPoint RocketRAID 1820A 8 port SATA raid controller. Bit overkill for a 486 but good to know …

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PCI Bus Mastering in DOS

Posted on 2020-03-24, 19:08

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ Video

Does PCI bus mastering matter in Dos or offer any speed improvement (SVGA games). Using a SE440BX-2 motherboard that has PCI bus master slots I tested a few cards. 1999 Vodoo 3 3000 PCI - no bus mastering 1996 DIamond Steath 64 VIDEO VRAM PCI - no bus mastering - 1994 Mach 64 PCI - supports bus …

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Re: Need help with Batman games in DOSBox

Posted on 2020-03-23, 16:36

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by AvalonH

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I wanna be able to correctly run every Batman game made for DOS in DOSBox. That means: 1. Batman: The Caped Crusader 2. Batman: The Movie 3. Batman Returns 4. Batman Forever 5. Batman Forever: The Arcade Game 1. The Caped Crusader appears to run perfectly. The only problem is I can't figure out the …

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Re: California Games 2 adlib support and Golden Axe MT32 support

Posted on 2020-03-22, 00:05

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by AvalonH

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Looking for strings in CGII.EXE, you will find this segment: .^PSQRVW _^ZY[X r1tC PSQRVWU ]_^ZY[X adlib.dat !"$%& !#%'( !"#$%&(* !"#%')+- !$%&')+-/0 !#%&')+-/02 However, my version does't include the adlib.dat file; maybe there are some that did? Looking through CGII.EXE it doesn't even contain …

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Re: California Games 2 adlib support and Golden Axe MT32 support

Posted on 2020-03-21, 22:46

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by AvalonH

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

In Dosbox you'll have to lower the cycles until it's able to start with adlib sound. Gone down from 3000 to 50 cycles before starting the game. No Adlib sound only PC speaker. I don't think speed is the issue. The game doesn't even play sound on my 386 DX 16mhz with a sound blaster 1.5 or sound …

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Re: California Games 2 adlib support and Golden Axe MT32 support

Posted on 2020-03-20, 22:50

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by AvalonH

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

Same problem, how do you get Adlib sound working in California Games 2 in Dosbox. Also tried 5"25 original disks on my 386 , still no Adlib sound (there are a few videos on youtube with it playing Adlib music).

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Re: Problems with Promise Ultra 100 TX2 - 486

Posted on 2020-03-19, 22:01

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by AvalonH

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

feipoa wrote on 2020-03-19, 01:26: I recall soft resetting working with the SATA TX2plus. Did you try Ultra66, 100, 133 TX2 IDE cards with soft reset? It also works with the S150 TX4. Don't have the Ultra66, 100, 133 models to test.

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Re: Problems with Promise Ultra 100 TX2 - 486

Posted on 2020-03-18, 22:23

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by AvalonH

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cntrl Alt Del resets the computer in Dos ( this is using using the 486 Asus AP4 motherboard with this card).

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Re: My all-round DOS gaming rig - a small guide

Posted on 2020-03-18, 22:17

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by AvalonH

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you post the other games that didn't work on the Audician. I am building a new P1 machine and still undecided between using an Audician or an ES1869. Was going to use the Audician because I have found a few older DOS games not working with the ES1869. You are right about creative, SB16 plays …

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Re: What is the purpose of having a high DMA channel on SB16 etc.

Posted on 2020-03-18, 16:39

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by AvalonH

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Some motherboards are buggy when using High DMA, mostly older <1997. You can test this with creative's diagnose.exe program, if it still hangs testing hight DMA when everything is configured properly with no IRQ conflicts. The only benefit is less overhead. Game music in later Dos games will still …

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Re: My all-round DOS gaming rig - a small guide

Posted on 2020-03-18, 16:24

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by AvalonH

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Weird. I never had a game not work with my Audician. Do those 30 games have anything in common? I've also switched my Audician for SB (a SB16 Vibra), but only because it has a PC speaker header and the Audician does not. And I did that exactly for one game: Wizardry 6, which didn't have proper …

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Re: Problems with Promise Ultra 100 TX2 - 486

Posted on 2020-03-18, 16:16

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am using a Promise SATA150 TX2plus and TX4 (4 SATA 150 ports) and both work on a Asus 486 AP4 Motherboard (Intel Aries 420EX chipset). Connected with a 256GB SSD, boots to DOS using UDMA5 mode using it's own bios extension . Benchmarks give 63MB/s in DOS with no drivers loaded. Very good for 486 …

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Re: SBPRO2 + SB16 same system

Posted on 2020-03-01, 18:46

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah, I was the one who posted that thread. But that's a weird outlier because Aladdin specifically supports SB16/AWE32 as a setup option, but doesn't play stereo music when that is selected for some odd reason. What I'm looking for is a list of games that only support SBPro (and maybe the OG Sound …

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Re: Time Gate Knight's Chase (Win95 SVGA version)

Posted on 2020-02-28, 13:33

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by AvalonH

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in Windows

How about BoxedWine? ETA: The GOG version is "powered by DOSBox", so I suppose there will be no help there. https://www.gog.com/game/time_gate_knights_chase The GOG and Steam versions are the European release that was VGA 320x200 and DOS only. The US release includes those but also a Win95 SVGA …

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Time Gate Knight's Chase (Win95 SVGA version)

Posted on 2020-02-26, 23:12

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by AvalonH

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in Windows

Trying to run this game on Win-10 and XP gives the same error message : KNIGHTS.EXE "The instruction at 00000000 referenced memory at 00000000 The memory could not be read from Click on OK to terminate the application" Tried all the usual compatibility fixes available in windows, single core only, …

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Re: My 486 restarts when i start Doom

Posted on 2020-02-25, 16:43

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by AvalonH

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Every time I have had this happen to me it was the power supply. Each time the power supply seemed to work as normal so it took a while to find the problem. Try another power supply if you have one, don't change anything else, run doom and see if it then works without resetting. What motherboard/ …

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Re: DOS 7.1 With Large Hard Drives

Posted on 2020-02-25, 16:39

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by AvalonH

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tried a single 2TB partition (on a 4TB drive) using DOS 7.1 a couple of years ago. Partitioned using the dos FDISK from Winme and dos Format from Winme. (win98 versions didn't work). Partition type was '0Ch' - FAT32 with LBA. It worked fine with no data corruption. This was using a intel P965 …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2020-02-12, 17:45

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by AvalonH

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

What sample rate do others use for the following settings in the config file : dosbox mixer= mt32.rate= fluid.samplerate= oplrate= gusrate= pcrate= tandyrate= At the moment I have all the above set at 49716. If I set the correct rates to stop any sample rate conversion, mt32.rate=32000 I get muffled …

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Re: Disk cache drops performance massively

Posted on 2020-02-03, 11:05

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ Software

Speedsys 4.78 is not accurate, this promise controller shows 1.2GB/s transfer speed in it's disk benchmark. maybe that is the checking speed? that is not a real world value i believe why can't i edit my old post to add this there? It's not the cache speed, that is the figure it gives for the …

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