Re: Newer graphics cards, Glide, and Windows 3.x

Posted on Yesterday, 05:12

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by Joseph_Joestar

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A Voodoo 3 2000 should be fast enough for all Win98 games, if you stick to 1024x768 resolution or lower. It also works fine under Win3.1 using the Velocity 100 driver. The compatibility with DOS Glide games is decent but there are some that won't work and need an older Voodoo card. I also think the …

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Re: Super Socket 7 project, need help on video card and sound card

Posted on 2020-04-06, 18:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Voodoo 3 gets my vote. Built-in support for palleted textures and fog table ensures full compatibility with early Win98 3D accelerated games. You also get excellent overall performance, Glide support under Windows, as well as partial support for some (not all) DOS Glide games. The VGA output of the …

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Re: Build Advice - Best All Rounder Retro PC for the first 2.5 eras of gaming

Posted on 2020-04-03, 11:27

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Morgan Duron 1300 or Tualatin Pentium III 1400 can easily handle Windows 2000 with 512MB RAM and that will run a good deal of Win XP software just fine. I guess it depends on what OP considers "early XP era" in terms of games. Windows XP came out in late 2001, so if he's thinking about games from …

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Re: Build Advice - Best All Rounder Retro PC for the first 2.5 eras of gaming

Posted on 2020-04-03, 09:07

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I am looking to build the best SINGLE all rounder PC that can support the From DOS to early WInXP. So 2.5 eras of gaming. As others have already said, it's best not to throw XP into the mix and just stick with DOS and Win98. Among other things, Win98 may not work reliably if you have more than 512 …

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Re: Win98SE USB2.0 issue

Posted on 2020-04-02, 18:56

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Try using nusb 3.3 instead of 3.6, it was a bit more stable in my experience. That said, I completely gave up on USB storage under Win98. A while ago, I was in a similar situation and tried a bunch of things but I couldn't get it to behave reliably. Instead, I now dual-boot Windows 2000 + SP4 …

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Re: Anybody has had luck with the Creative Live Drive bay Addon?

Posted on 2020-04-01, 18:56

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by Joseph_Joestar

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do you use the WDM drivers or the VXD ones? I use WDM drivers because they seem to work better for games running under the Win98 DOS prompt. They also allow for the use of sound fonts in any DOS games that support General Midi. Note that I didn't install the dedicated DOS drivers from the CD …

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Re: Anybody has had luck with the Creative Live Drive bay Addon?

Posted on 2020-04-01, 16:45

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Arceles wrote on 2020-04-01, 16:39: Thanks a lot! I will try it, what about the remote controller, does include also drivers for it? I bought mine second-hand and it didn't come with a remote, so no idea about that.

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Re: Anybody has had luck with the Creative Live Drive bay Addon?

Posted on 2020-04-01, 16:29

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by Joseph_Joestar

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You shouldn't need a special driver for the front panel, besides the one you already use for the sound card. If the ribbon cable is properly attached and the power cable is connected it should just work. Concerning the ribbon cable, check that pin 1 on the card matches up with the red line on the …

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Re: Non-ISA sound cards for DOS

Posted on 2020-04-01, 08:05

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by Joseph_Joestar

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You may find those are the exact sort of games that will spit the dummy with a PCI sound card under DOS. But good luck! While it's true that PCI soundcards have issues with some games, it also depends on the method by which they achieve DOS compatibility. Those that use a TSR program usually fare …

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Re: Not read cd 52x burned in backpack cd writter 4x

Posted on 2020-04-01, 07:57

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by Joseph_Joestar

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CDs have a "lowest supported burn speed" indicated on the packaging. In this day and age, that's usually 8x, but it depends on the disc manufacturer. In my experience, if you burn CD media using a lower speed setting than what is recommended, the discs may become unreadable, even if your CD writer …

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Re: Non-ISA sound cards for DOS

Posted on 2020-03-31, 15:31

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Yamaha YMF 7x4 cards are a good choice but only if your motherboard supports either DDMA or SB-Link. Otherwise, DOS compatibility falls back on a TSR which causes issues with a bunch of games. This card uses a genuine OPL3 core for FM synthesis in DOS and also has a very nice sounding wave table for …

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Re: The "Driver CD" for motherboards thread

Posted on 2020-03-26, 15:58

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by Joseph_Joestar

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thanks joseph! i tried to use the link but it gives an error 404 does it work for you? maybe the link is wrong? Strange, I checked the link after uploading and it worked for me then, but now it appears to be dead. Re-uploaded to mediafire: https://www.mediafire.com/file/17gneoqkpfs2ph3/Abit_KT7A- …

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Re: The "Driver CD" for motherboards thread

Posted on 2020-03-25, 06:50

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by Joseph_Joestar

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sure i can use that, can you share an image iso uploaded to mediafire or zippyshare or anynother? Here you go then, uploaded to zippyshare: https://www31.zippyshare.com/v/muyqTzWR/file.html As mentioned earlier, my KT7A-RAID is Revision 1.0 so I'm not sure if these drivers are suitable for later …

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Re: Suggest a bootable backup program for an AMD K6-2 based machine?

Posted on 2020-03-24, 15:28

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Acronis True Image can do that for you, but you'll have to search for an older version. I use version 8.0 from a bootable CD to back up and restore my DOS and Win98 drives to an external hard disk connected to a USB 2.0 card. Never had any problems.

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Re: The "Driver CD" for motherboards thread

Posted on 2020-03-24, 11:15

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I still have the original driver CD for my Abit KT7A-RAID Rev 1.0 in case you need that. I think the only difference between that and the non-RAID version is in the Highpoint controller driver.

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Re: Turn of the Millennia Win98SE Build

Posted on 2020-03-24, 11:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I actually didn't want to use the Audigy 2 ZS at all towards the end, as I ended going for a pre-2000 build (although the processor and graphics card pushed that with December 1999 release dates lol), but some Windows-only games were giving me slurred/slow speech with the ESS, which was fixed when …

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2020-03-15, 16:32

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I'm finally back at my retro rig, so I'm uploading the intro song played back on my Avance Logic ALS100 using the SBAWE32 and the SBPro setup options. When you listen to both recordings via headphones, the lack of stereo on the SBAWE32 setup option is easy to hear.

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Re: Sound blaster issues with Yamaha YMF724F-V PCI & YMF719E-S ISA in Prehistorik

Posted on 2020-03-12, 20:12

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Try making your sound card use IRQ=7. I'm not familiar with Prehistorik, but I know that some older games expect IRQ7 from a Sound Blaster.

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Re: DOS 6.22 vs DOS7.0 compatibility difference

Posted on 2020-03-09, 20:30

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I had to patch Duke 3D to install with 64MB RAM. There's an easier way to solve "too much RAM" issues - make a ramdrive and have it eat all the excess memory. I use XMSDSK.EXE for this purpose and it allows me to run games that normally won't even start if you have more than 32 MB of RAM, such as …

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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS issues.

Posted on 2020-03-09, 10:45

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Yep, that looks like a Dell card, hence the detection problems. Check this post and see if those instructions help. I don't have any personal experience with Dell cards, so I can't offer any help beyond that.

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