Games freezing in dosbox.

Posted on 2022-09-12, 18:59

by

by Riikcakirds

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I have been playing 'Cadaver - the payoff' and in dosbox the game suffers from freezing at random times. One way to reproduce this is start the game, after the intro press 'c' when it ask you to select which game to play. Then when the game starts don't move or do anything but press 'g' on the …

---

DOS clock/time stops when system in sleep ?

Posted on 2022-09-05, 18:07

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

In my Dos system (Intel SE440bx-2 motherboard ,dos7.1 ) the bios manages the Power/suspend features. After Dos wakes up from a power saving mode it has lost the the correct time. Say it is 3pm when it enters suspend mode, I wake it up by pressing the keyboard at 6pm, Dos time.exe command will still …

---

Re: Primal Rage - Running without the CD

Posted on 2022-09-01, 15:03

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I would have thought GameCopyWorld would have something, but no. Just google 'primal rage nocd' and try your luck against viruses I guess? Tried that, only thing I could find was a txt file describing which bytes to change using an hex editor. Changed it but it didn't work. Also tried downloading …

---

Re: Jurassic-Park (OCEAN) no Sound Effects on AWE32 or compatible

Posted on 2022-09-01, 14:48

by

by Riikcakirds

in DOS

in DOS

Finally found a fix to this. As the game needs EMS(expanded memory) which is not that common, i though it must be related to EMM386. I replaced emm386 with Jemm386 (Jemmex also works) and the game now plays all digital SFX with soundblaster selected. First game I have come across since using Dos in …

---

Re: 430FX motherboards - busmastering fault warning

Posted on 2022-08-29, 18:02

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've found out the bug affects PIO mode 4 and MWDMA-2. It's safe to use PIO modes 0-3.

---

Re: Jurassic-Park (OCEAN) no Sound Effects on AWE32 or compatible

Posted on 2022-08-29, 14:30

by

by Riikcakirds

in DOS

in DOS

Bump with exactly the same problem and no solution after searching. The game runs fine with music but no SFX with sound blaster selected. You start the game with a tazer gun and it should make a digital sfx when firing. The setup install.exe lets you select music and SFX separately, the only …

---

430FX motherboards - busmastering fault warning

Posted on 2022-08-22, 17:11

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I noticed when I run Speedsys in dos or any PCI ID information utility in Win95 on my new built Asus P54TP4 motherboard I get the following warning message: "82338/82371FB PIIX PCI EIDE Controller (Faulty BusMastering!!)" This is the first time I've used a 430fx chipset but I can't find anything …

---

Re: Finally have a DOS sound setup that seems to cover just about all the bases, and actually works!

Posted on 2022-08-17, 19:11

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

After weeks of fighting with various configurations and just not being totally happy with anything I think I've finally landed on what is, for me, just about perfect, and just thought id share! I'm running 2 sound cards plus a Roland SC-88vl. Not the simplest setup lol, but this is how it's cobbled …

---

Re: Does Win98se need SB16 Drivers

Posted on 2022-08-17, 18:19

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Installed sbw9xup.exe dated [4 November 1998] SDR-95UPD-1-US (Revision 16) These appear to be the latest from creative but are older than the drivers in Win98. It fixes a full duplex issue recording and playing music. I tried it recording from line in when playing sound on a game and it is working …

---

Re: Does Win98se need SB16 Drivers

Posted on 2022-08-15, 18:43

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Installed sbw9xup.exe dated [4 November 1998] SDR-95UPD-1-US (Revision 16) These appear to be the latest from creative but are older than the drivers in Win98. It fixes a full duplex issue recording and playing music. I tried it recording from line in when playing sound on a game and it is working …

---

Does Win98se need SB16 Drivers

Posted on 2022-08-13, 15:56

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I started using a SB16 (CT2800 ISA model) in Win98se and it seems to be working. Are the built in Win98 drivers the best drivers to use, or is it better practice to install the latest drivers from Creative's website.

---

Re: UMBPCI - game compatibilty

Posted on 2022-08-13, 13:52

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I can't find any search results on vogons about umbpci specifically causing games not to run, only posts saying it works. After running around 10 different games I've come across a game that doesn't work with umbpci .sys loaded. 'Cadaver - the payoff'. With umbpci loaded the game goes to the …

---

Re: Batman the movie

Posted on 2022-08-06, 18:25

by

by Riikcakirds

in DOS

in DOS

The previous 'Batman the caped crusader' from 1989 says on the box it supported at least tandy sound (3 pc speaker). Batman the movie is definitely only pc speaker, Ocean cheaped out. I completed it around 1992 in cga mode. One thing that bugged me with the game, the joystick calibration routine is …

---

UMBPCI - game compatibilty

Posted on 2022-08-04, 16:52

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I can't find any search results on vogons about umbpci specifically causing games not to run, only posts saying it works. After running around 10 different games I've come across a game that doesn't work with umbpci .sys loaded. 'Cadaver - the payoff'. With umbpci loaded the game goes to the …

---

Re: General MIDI and AWE64 issues

Posted on 2022-07-02, 19:27

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Any disk cache software in DOS tends to cause more problems than they are worth when dos crashes. With ultra fast cf/sd/ssd hard drives I skip smartdrv because it can cause data loss/corruption and just wastes conventional or upper memory. I never had issues with disk cache software in DOS, BUFFERS …

---

Re: General MIDI and AWE64 issues

Posted on 2022-07-02, 13:20

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi, I'm having exactly the same issue as this op https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=11199 I'll be tracking here what I have: - FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 - SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold with 28MB upgrade - AWEUTIL 1.35 - CTCM 1.06 - Epox EP-D3VA It appears that for me, setting the PNP OS to "No" yields no …

---

Re: ALR Evolution V ST (Socket 5) build

Posted on 2022-07-01, 11:02

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did it - I finally did it! It's running at 200mhz, I'm gonna get the tweaker just for the sake of having it clean but having the resistor between BF0 and VCC3 and I soldered a small wire between VSS and BF1 which finally got it to run at 200mhz, I'm happy.. next is trying to get a K6-233 to run …

---

Re: ALR Evolution V ST (Socket 5) build

Posted on 2022-06-29, 15:11

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did it - I finally did it! It's running at 200mhz, I'm gonna get the tweaker just for the sake of having it clean but having the resistor between BF0 and VCC3 and I soldered a small wire between VSS and BF1 which finally got it to run at 200mhz, I'm happy.. next is trying to get a K6-233 to run …

---

Re: Promise TX4 Sata II PCI Card Windows 95/98/ME Driver.

Posted on 2022-06-25, 14:40

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just to be clear, are we talking about SATA150 or SATA300 TX4? There is TX4 card in both SATA I and SATA II variant. The card is a SATA300 TX4, picture below. tx4by0.jpg This card is very fast in dos, realmode or protected mode (with emm386 loaded). Benchmarks at 83-87MB/s on a Pentium 75 with SSD …

---

Re: Promise TX4 Sata II PCI Card Windows 95/98/ME Driver.

Posted on 2022-06-24, 13:40

by

by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AKA DOS mode, or how ever it's called. No advanced features that would result in better speed if OS had drivers to talk "native" language. Maybe it's combination of SSD and the card. So far I didn't manage to get more than 10 MB/s without drivers. If I install XP and then drivers it goes over 100 …

---