Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-10-21, 14:10
Thandor wrote on 2021-10-08, 17:32: Creative Contraptions The Incredible Machine for CGA ?
Re: isa sound card with removable chip
Posted on 2021-10-21, 02:59
AppleSauce wrote on 2021-10-20, 23:16: Wasn't the GF1 chip socketed on the original gravis ultrasound? It was. Even in the late 90s there were cards like Creamware TripleDAT/CutMaster with socketed chips - but this was high-end digital audio workstation stuff...
Re: isa sound card with removable chip
Posted on 2021-10-20, 16:41
Socketed chips were common on early sound cards, see eg. Sound Blaster 1.x, with a bunch of socketed chips: OPL2, DAC for OPL2, DSP, 2 x CMS But I've never seen sockets on those late-ISA single-chip cards. So yes, I'm also inclined to believe it's development, not retail.
Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?
Posted on 2021-10-16, 19:03
Don't know why, but always thought that USB t0 PS2 + PS2 to Serial adapters should be enough for a mouse 🙄 Must be careful with such things... Those common PS/2 mouse <-> COM port adapters only work if the mouse is designed for both PS/2 and COM ports, notably it must support the 12 V of the RS-232 …
Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?
Posted on 2021-10-16, 16:22
ThinkpadIL wrote on 2021-10-15, 13:25: Serial-to-USB For mice only... https://github.com/mborjesson/USB-Mouse-to-Serial https://www.versalent.biz/usbm232.htm
Re: Who here has heard of this drive? :)
Posted on 2021-10-14, 10:20
My personal favorite in that format war was SuperDisk, since it could replace your regular floppy drive and was just cooler than Zip, since it was floptical - a super-high density floppy drive with laser-guided heads. You mean that Zip isn't laser servo? I thought all the floppies 20 MB and larger …
Re: Who here has heard of this drive? :)
Posted on 2021-10-13, 23:35
HDD, but with removable platters? That would be the same idea as in Syquest...
Re: 386 board that takes 64mb ram?
Posted on 2021-10-13, 12:32
386 boards with support for 16 MB 30-pin SIMMs are uncommon. I've got a 386 with 64 MB of RAM, but it's 2 x 32 MB 72-pin SIMM.
Re: ATI Small Wonder technical info
Posted on 2021-09-28, 08:04
On the diskette from ATI, there should be the example program... Copy code to clipboard 1 IOX.ASM } - Sample program and 2 GSDEMO1.C } utilities for ATI 3 GSDEMO1.COM } 640x200 16 color mode
Re: Sound blaster 2.0 CT1350 Troubleshooting no CMS music
Posted on 2021-09-28, 06:51
First, SB with CMS chips isn't 100% compatible with the real Creative Music System a.k.a. Game Blaster. A game that tries to detect the Game Blaster will fail on a Sound Blaster, and the only workaround is to patch the game to bypass the detection routine. Second, the games with CMS support are from …
Re: Sound blaster 2.0 CT1350 Troubleshooting no CMS music
Posted on 2021-09-27, 19:38
I don't think so... CMSDRV/SBC-CMS is necessary for that .CMS files player from Creative, maybe for something else... But the games I tried (eg. Silpheed) don't need CMSDRV/SBC-CMS.
Re: Sound blaster 2.0 CT1350 Troubleshooting no CMS music
Posted on 2021-09-27, 18:55
You're trying to use the C/MS version of CMSDRV, which doesn't work with Sound Blaster. Use this one instead - http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=3 … menustate=45,38
Re: Web browser market share over the years.
Posted on 2021-09-26, 01:27
Seamonkey can still be configured to back to Communicator 4.x layout and buttons, and there's a few themes that bring back the Seamonkey 1.x/Communicator4 graphics (Seazilla etc) so all the old Netscape familiarism can still be had . Seazilla looks promising, but... "This add-on is not compatible …
Re: Web browser market share over the years.
Posted on 2021-09-25, 16:24
Bruninho wrote on 2021-09-19, 22:09: RIP Netscape, best browser I have ever used. So true! I wish there was a browser with the look&feel of Netscape Communicator, and with full support for the modern Web. SeaMonkey is close, but could be closer...
Re: Anybody recognises this MDA card?
Posted on 2021-09-18, 13:30
Badscrew wrote on 2021-09-18, 11:31: Good to know that the LPT could be disabled: I already have one on my multi-io card. Is it closed disabled or open disable, do you know? In the card I have, closed = disabled. But indeed, it probably won't conflict with the I/O card.
Re: Anybody recognises this MDA card?
Posted on 2021-09-18, 11:04
Yes, looks like Winbond, a ubiquitous Hercules clone. One of the jumpers selects the external character generator ROM, the other disables the LPT.
Re: How to properly add 80287 NPU
Posted on 2021-09-15, 22:07
maxtherabbit wrote on 2021-09-15, 14:30: 18MHz is just fine for the 287xl. They work perfectly up to like 20 or so OK, but that's overclocking. 287XL is rated for up to 12.5 MHz.
Re: How to properly add 80287 NPU
Posted on 2021-09-15, 02:56
The question is how to use the 10mhz 287 in my system (i can go back to 12 Mhz), do i need to install the OSC3 [probably 20 Mhz] and jumper headers JP5 and JP6, what about R46 and c60? First and foremost, check the state of the CKM pin, and measure the frequency in the CLK pin of the coprocessor …
Re: How to properly add 80287 NPU
Posted on 2021-09-13, 22:02
The question is: what exactly model is the FPU? For synchronous operation, 286@18 MHz requires the FPU to be rated for at least 12 MHz (if based on the original 287), or at least 18 MHz (if based on 287XL).
Re: Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS
Posted on 2021-08-06, 09:07
BTW: What other software was affected by the lack of those INT 2F calls? What other software is affected by the lack of GEMMIS support?
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