Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

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I'm wondering if it's theoretically possible to reduce the memory consumption of cardsoft drivers by disassembling them and creating an alternative build with reduced functionality? I can hardly imagine someone doing this. You could try different drivers to see which consumes less memory. And is …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-09-11, 15:28

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Congrats on the 1.0 version! Awesome project!

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2024-09-07, 14:17

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Hello everyone, I apologize for being away from this forum for so long, because Real Life happened. But to quickly answer the queries above: Hi quote myself if someone have any idea, still no luck in any of my machines to make wolfdosmpu+QEMM+softmpu working, hangs at start at "WORKING wolfdosmpu+ …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2024-09-07, 14:08

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MAZter wrote on 2024-08-06, 19:10: Bondi wrote on 2024-08-06, 18:06: It can be set up to sit on 330 actually. But still doesn't work in Wolfmidi How you can change port for SCP-55 in MS-DOS? Just fired up my SCP-55. It selects port 0330 automatically. I load just SC/SS, DICRMU01.SYS and scpena.exe. …

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Re: Is there a PCMCIA to CF Card adator that works in DOS or Win 3.11.

Posted on 2024-09-06, 15:44

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if you've installed and are running socket services, running ataenab which is supposed to be an all in one tool shouldn't be necessary. There should just be a couple more files as part of cardsoft that need to be run for ATA cards to detect and work - atadrv.eve and cardid.exe Totally agree. No …

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Re: Is there a PCMCIA to CF Card adator that works in DOS or Win 3.11.

Posted on 2024-09-06, 04:43

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if you've installed and are running socket services, running ataenab which is supposed to be an all in one tool shouldn't be necessary. There should just be a couple more files as part of cardsoft that need to be run for ATA cards to detect and work - atadrv.eve and cardid.exe Totally agree. No …

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Re: any Thinkpad fans?

Posted on 2024-09-05, 06:06

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Don't have the 700c, but want to check in as a Thinkpad fan with 330C, 360CE, 560, 755CD, 760LD, 760EL, A21p, A31p, X60s, X230, x280 😀

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Re: Is there a PCMCIA to CF Card adator that works in DOS or Win 3.11.

Posted on 2024-09-05, 05:58

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My Laptop in Question is a Dell Latitude XPi Looks like your laptop has Vadem PCMCIA controller chip and used Systemsoft Cardsoft drivers for PCMCIA support. You can download a copy from archive.org (see my signature). The latest version is 5.x, but I don't remember if it has DOS installer. If no, …

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Re: Is there a PCMCIA to CF Card adator that works in DOS or Win 3.11.

Posted on 2024-09-04, 15:51

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MAZter wrote on 2024-09-04, 14:51: For parallel port I recommend DataFab card reader: https://www.ebay.com/itm/276614977934 Here seller mistakenly mark it as serial. Interesting device. Does it have drivers for DOS?

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Re: Is there a PCMCIA to CF Card adator that works in DOS or Win 3.11.

Posted on 2024-09-04, 11:39

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The question was explicitly about booting I thought? A bonafide microdrive controller may contain a boot prom, for instance, allowing booting. I didn't see specifically booting mentioned. Yet, all mentioned devices can work as boot devices if the BIOS supports booting from PCMCIA. Thinkpads of 3xx …

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Re: Is there a PCMCIA to CF Card adator that works in DOS or Win 3.11.

Posted on 2024-09-04, 09:10

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I think any PCMCIA-CF adapter should work with an appropriate ATA driver loaded. The driver is usually a part of PCMCIA drivers pack. What laptop are you using? For instance the above microdrive adapter works with any CF card, given it's capacity is supported by the driver. It's usually 2 gigs in …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2024-08-31, 11:57

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Bought this card recently. As mentioned above in this topic, this a Windows 3.11 card, but can work in W95 as well. Turtle Beach AA.jpg Turtle Beach CP.jpg It can play WAV and MIDI files. Midi synthesis is done by software (V-synth). I attach a couple of samples. There are some errors in the …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2024-08-31, 07:20

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Hi! what is the card? what is "multimedia" mean? This one took long to answer. It is the interface card for Zenith Z-player - external double speed CD-ROM unit with two built in stereo speakers and ESS based 16-bit sound card (W311 and W95) http://alsplace.os9al.com/zplayer.html zenith z player.jpg …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2024-08-23, 17:36

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I have a near complete in box .WAVjammer that is missing the dongle. I've had this for years but have been unable to locate a replacement. Does anyone happen to have a loose dongle for this or know the pinout to make a new one? I've attached some photos of the box here for posterity. 20240823_ …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2024-08-23, 14:54

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Found the drivers needed for the exp soundnote 16 however I can't seem to get the card configured properly so no music on mpu-401 but adlib and SB FM seem to work anyone know What the correct configuration on cardsofts configure utility for IO ports ? I think the Soundnote doesn’t have mpu-401 …

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Re: Help with DOS PCMCIA Slot Memory and EMM386 memory

Posted on 2024-08-21, 18:04

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Depending on the card it's either C800-CFFF or D000-DFFF range should be excluded. That's at least what I've personally encountered. Sometimes it's possible to narrow this range. But I don't think there is a range that works for all cards. Usually the manual mentiones specificaly the range that …

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Re: MS-DOS 6.22 on 2020 Thinkpad X13 Gen 1 with Intel i5-10310U

Posted on 2024-08-18, 17:22

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Thanks for sharing your findings with the Thinkpad. Good to know SBEMU is working on the 10th gen. I have a X280 and guess it should work on it as well.

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-08-18, 14:19

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Hi everyone, I just released version 1.0.0-beta.5 of SBEMU. It succeeds release 1.0-beta4 (a.k.a. 1.0beta4 ). I'm trying to stick to the Semantic Versioning spec with release versions going forward, hence the different version pattern. Also, in the release page, a categorically grouped changelog ( …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2024-08-18, 09:58

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Inside a (non-functional) Panasonic CF-VEW211. CIS chip is apparently dead or wiped, maybe worse. Interesting. Why do you think it's the CIS chip? There is a dump of the CIS of this particular card somewhere in this topic. In theory it can be replaced and reprogrammed. That is on my list of little …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2024-08-17, 18:14

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zikolas wrote on 2024-08-17, 16:27: Inside a (non-functional) Panasonic CF-VEW211. CIS chip is apparently dead or wiped, maybe worse. Interesting. Why do you think it's the CIS chip? There is a dump of the CIS of this particular card somewhere in this topic. In theory it can be replaced and …

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