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Re: SB PCI128 Installed - No Sound!

Posted on 2007-12-06, 19:48

in Windows
photograph the card for us :) Or at least get the CT**** number off of it. It might be some weird OEM version. Also might want to try taking all cards out except it and the video card. And try different PCI slots. Depending on your mobo, the PCI slots will share IRQ signals with each other and some …

Re: Best Pentium I CPU for old DOS games

Posted on 2007-12-05, 19:51

in PC Emulation
Yeah dvwjr I forgot that PPro has a lot of trouble with 16- and 8-bit code. I know that in Duke Nukem 3D, for example, a Pentium MMX is a good bit faster at the same clock rate. Apparently Build engine uses a lot of such code. PPro can really beat up a Pentium in floating-point heavy games though, …

Re: Best System Configuration For 90's PC Games?

Posted on 2007-12-04, 22:59

in PC Emulation
In DOS you can't load soundfonts. I've looked and looked but have never found a utility to do it. So AWE32's RAM is useless in DOS. If you can get the game to work in a Windows 9x DOS session, where you can load soundfonts with Creative's utility, you can set the game to use General MIDI and will be …

Re: Best Pentium I CPU for old DOS games

Posted on 2007-12-04, 22:48

in PC Emulation
Pentium (P5, P54) has 16KB L1 cache. It's a split L1 cache, 8KB for instructions and 8KB for data. Pentium MMX (P55C) has 32KB, split in the same way. This is where most of Pentium MMX's performance improvement came from; double-size L1 cache. Pentium Pro has 16KB L1, and 256KB to 1MB L2 in the …

Re: Best System Configuration For 90's PC Games?

Posted on 2007-12-03, 22:04

in PC Emulation
So I can run the AWE32 and the Soundscape together? Interesting. So if I had both in the same system what order should I chose for sound when given options (from best to worse)? 1. Soundscape support 2. AWE32 3. SBPro / SB16 4. General MIDI Also if I have a MT-32 module, where does that fit into …

Re: 98lite - Suitable for Gaming?

Posted on 2007-12-03, 21:49

in PC Emulation
Yeah if you've never used it before, it will take extra hours of tweaking to get it figured out. I'd just stick with Win98SE. That's how I've always ended up going even after trying out 98lite a few times.

Re: Best System Configuration For 90's PC Games?

Posted on 2007-12-03, 21:43

in PC Emulation
Most early Windows 9x games that aren't shooters don't need much CPU power. Diablo runs fine on a low-end Pentium, for example. As for sound cards, well a lot of DOS games have native support for Soundscape. So I guess you'll just have to see if you have trouble with it. Back in the day I ran a …

Re: Best System Configuration For 90's PC Games?

Posted on 2007-12-03, 21:22

in PC Emulation
Soundscape has better MIDI than AWE32 for DOS Games. AWE32 also has a big, annoying TSR called AWEUTIL (I believe) that is needed for General MIDI support quite often. This needs EMM386 to be loaded, or it won't work. That's not ideal at all... The only downside to Soundscape is its lack of SBPro …

Re: Best System Configuration For 90's PC Games?

Posted on 2007-12-03, 21:12

in PC Emulation
CentaurHauls is the id of a WinChip C6 CPU. It's a Pentium equivalent unless you want to play 3D games that use lots of floating point math. It sucks for that. Luckily, most DOS games are for 486s or less which have even worse FPUs (or don't have an FPU). 64 MB is plenty for Windows 95. Even for …

Re: Share your 3D accelerator nostalgia here

Posted on 2007-11-26, 20:48

in Milliways
heh i had a 4mb s3trio card first and unreal tournament ran sloow :P then i got a TNT 2 card and it ran fine so long as there was no smart AI or too many AI ;) ah the limits of a p133 and 48mb ram :) the image quality with the tnt 2 was vastly better then the s3trio :P S3 Trio can't accelerate much …

Re: Share your 3D accelerator nostalgia here

Posted on 2007-11-26, 20:46

in Milliways
It's also neat when you find the "best" version of a game runs on an obscure 3d accelerator that nobody has and isn't produced anymore. So which card-specific game that looks the best? Unreal before the D3D patch. :) D3D support was awful for years anyway. Hell, Glide still runs the game better …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-20, 21:38

hey that O2 is pretty cool. I'm not sure how well a VIA CPU will cope with DOS games though; they are pretty slow. Still much better than a cell-phone or PDA CPU. I used to have a Sharp Zaurus. It had a 206 MHz Strongarm CPU. I never tried DOSBOX on it, but there were many good game engine ports. …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-20, 20:53

Dark Forces in DOSBOX stresses my Pentium M 2.13 GHz. I can't imagine any pocket PC CPU being able to remotely handle it. You might be able to play games meant for a 286, but that's probably about it. The CPUs in phones and PDAs are pretty basic, with little cache memory, limited integer performance …

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