Re: FIC 486-PVT Ram issue

Posted on 2021-03-04, 16:47

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by Riikcakirds

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Do you have any fpm ram instead of edo. I would try an ISA Diagnostic POST Card (with 4-Digit display) too just in case their is another problem at post. You can get them for 3-4$ on that auction site. Does the vga output at all on an ISA video card.

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Re: Win98SE, DOS, Terabyte Plus

Posted on 2021-03-04, 16:25

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by Riikcakirds

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I installed rloew's overlay and it allows fdisk to see the drive, but only up to so many gigs. I am trying to figure out how to use his other files to try to get the full 1tb. I've been using a 2TB drive for win98/ME since 2018, drive is 82% full, mainly ISO files of games I own over the years and …

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Re: Win98SE, DOS, Terabyte Plus

Posted on 2021-03-03, 16:54

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by Riikcakirds

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I installed rloew's overlay and it allows fdisk to see the drive, but only up to so many gigs. I am trying to figure out how to use his other files to try to get the full 1tb. I've been using a 2TB drive for win98/ME since 2018, drive is 82% full, mainly ISO files of games I own over the years and …

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Re: Difficult games to get working

Posted on 2021-02-11, 19:10

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by Riikcakirds

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Should be a thread about what mouse drivers break games, probably hundreds of games. Another example The Simpsons: Bart's House of Weirdness 1991. This game works with Ctmouse 1.9 and newer. Microsoft mouse ver 9, 10 and 11, which I always thought was the most compatible standard, breaks the game , …

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16Bit Color Dos Games

Posted on 2021-01-19, 01:31

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by Riikcakirds

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PLaying a lot of late Dos SVGA games recently and it seems most games used 8bit/256 color modes. like Heretic 2, Descent 2, quake, grand-prix 2, etc only 256 colors. Duke3d played at 1600x1200 also limited to 8bit/256 colors . So did Dos games start using 16bit? Is there a list of dos games that …

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Re: YMF744+DSDMA+DOS+P965(and other PCIe chipsets)=success

Posted on 2021-01-06, 00:34

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by Riikcakirds

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The steps were run setupds /s then dsdma and then set blaster a220 i5 d1 h1 t4 p330. I don't think you need H1 for this card. YMF7x4 cards don't use High DMA and neither did Creative's Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 (T4) which they emulate. By declaring it manually in the BLASTER variable you might actually …

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Re: YMF744+DSDMA+DOS+P965(and other PCIe chipsets)=success

Posted on 2021-01-05, 01:00

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by Riikcakirds

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After some more tinkering I have sound working. I had to use the same IRQ 5 for both pci AND sound blaster emulation, also changed the card to the 2nd of two PCI slots. After this I re-enabled most bios options, usb mouse/keyboard emulation, etc and everything still works. The other error was with …

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Re: YMF744+DSDMA+DOS+P965=success

Posted on 2021-01-01, 01:12

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by Riikcakirds

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Tried another P965 board with succsess, the Asus P5B. Also reserved IRQ5 in the BIOS. First I installed the YMF744 in PCI slot 3. With 4GB of RAM SETUPDS refused to load complaning about too little free memory. Then I reduced the RAM to 1GB and SETUPDS loaded, but DSDMA didn't load. Loading DSDMA …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-12-28, 14:50

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by Riikcakirds

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There were some unofficial patches for 3.16 or 3.14, to make it running on more chipsets..There was link to download page, where it was described somewhere in Vogons.. Hmm. links from 1# post are mostly dead, so try to use internet Wayback machine with them 2,3 years ago time period. Ver 3.17 did …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-12-27, 23:18

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by Riikcakirds

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There were some unofficial patches for 3.16 or 3.14, to make it running on more chipsets..There was link to download page, where it was described somewhere in Vogons.. Hmm. links from 1# post are mostly dead, so try to use internet Wayback machine with them 2,3 years ago time period. Ver 3.17 did …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-12-26, 00:52

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by Riikcakirds

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Read through the thread and couldn't find an answer. What is the reason why everyone uses SETUPDS version 3.16 and not the later version 3.17.

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Re: Difficult games to get working

Posted on 2020-12-25, 18:19

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by Riikcakirds

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Another difficult game to get running on real hardware, Rolling Ronnie. Again it is not a speed sensitive game, doesn't work on a 386, 486 etc with or without sound set up. With ISA, PCI or AGP video card.

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Re: Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-25, 18:16

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by Riikcakirds

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After trying out more things I've just noticed a strange problem with the card. The card always defaults to IRQ7 and DMA1. I reserved all IRQs in the bios apart from IRQ5 but the card still uses IRQ7, same with DMA. Reserved all apart from DMA 0 but card uses DMA 1. This is with no other expansion …

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Re: Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-22, 15:12

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by Riikcakirds

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The fakes that I have seen look very minimalistic compared to what you have . Does Windows detect anything when the card is installed ? How were you able to retrieve the PCI ID ? So you think the card itself looks legitimate. Windows shows unknown device with a yellow ! mark. This is the same with …

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Re: Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-22, 14:24

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by Riikcakirds

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The fakes that I have seen look very minimalistic compared to what you have . Does Windows detect anything when the card is installed ? How were you able to retrieve the PCI ID ? So you think the card itself looks legitimate. Windows shows unknown device with a yellow ! mark. This is the same with …

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Re: Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-22, 13:58

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by Riikcakirds

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I have now tried this on XP and it can't find the card either. In Dos the SETUPDS utility gives the message "Can't find YAMAHA DS-XG" The PCI ID is 1073 0040

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Re: Difficult games to get working

Posted on 2020-12-21, 16:14

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by Riikcakirds

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Bart Simpson vs the space mutants On a 386, 486 or Pentium, speed doesn't matter, nor dos config or vga card type. Runs up to the copy protection screen, enter code and it black screens and freezes the pc. This is nothing to do with the copy protection because even the wrong code should take you to …

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Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-21, 12:38

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by Riikcakirds

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I bought an old PC midi tower that contained a PCI YMF724E-V soundcard. Trouble is I can't get the card detected in Win98 or WinMe. download/file.php?mode=view&id=98681 Does this card look like a fake chinese model

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Re: GA-586ATS Ignoring jumper settings

Posted on 2020-12-17, 18:38

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by Riikcakirds

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Hello all. I have a socket 7 motherboard GA-586ATS that I use as my "Main" retro machine, getting almost daily use. It originally had a 166mhz mmx but I decided to fit a 200mhz instead. I cannot however get it to run at 200mhz! The problem is that the board considers pins 1-2 closed all of the time …

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Re: GA-586ATS Ignoring jumper settings

Posted on 2020-12-17, 16:54

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by Riikcakirds

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Hello all. I have a socket 7 motherboard GA-586ATS that I use as my "Main" retro machine, getting almost daily use. It originally had a 166mhz mmx but I decided to fit a 200mhz instead. I cannot however get it to run at 200mhz! The problem is that the board considers pins 1-2 closed all of the time …

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