Re: I've developed a unpacker for CC0/CC1 game files - anyone know more games that i can test?

Posted on 2023-09-14, 19:54

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Software

anyone here with some of these huge game collections around - especially games from 1988 to 1995? you can help me by seaching your game folders for parts of the compression code BF 01 03 mov di, 301h 33 C0 xor ax, ax F3 AB rep stosw 5F pop di 07 pop es all you need is to download the standalone …

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Re: S3 968 Windows drivers

Posted on 2023-09-14, 18:42

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by Riikcakirds

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These are regular S3 drivers, but might work for the S3 chip itself at least: https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.dyu.edu.tw/pub/Hardware/vendor/S3/928drv/ Read the 00-index.txt file for details I tried the W950109B.ZIP drivers. Same problem unfortunately. It crashes right after installing the …

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Re: S3 968 Windows drivers

Posted on 2023-09-14, 15:53

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by Riikcakirds

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Select standard S3 driver and it should work. Unless the card is broken somehow - many Diamond PCI cards with S3 968 are. Yeah, I've tried adding the PC_ID to diamond Stealth 64 VRAM inf drivers (and #9 drivers). It then detected the card but crashed after installing the drivers. I think it needs …

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S3 968 Windows drivers

Posted on 2023-09-14, 15:35

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by Riikcakirds

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I can't find Win9x or WinNt (or Dos) drivers for this graphics card. In Win98 it shows in device manager as "Standard PCI Graphics Adaper (VGA)". It has been in a neighbors attic since late 1996. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=173733 The brand is Xionics (FCC ID L4D XIP1612 …

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Re: Missing conventional memory

Posted on 2023-09-09, 20:04

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by Riikcakirds

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I attached the file of the last 8kb of conventional memory. It seems to be 1KB EBDA repeated 8 times. Have no idea what it is, only that this board using a 430fx chipset has MW-DMA2 enabled without any driver loaded in real mode DOS (that can't disabled or enabled in bios). On usual 430FX boards, …

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Re: Missing conventional memory

Posted on 2023-09-09, 15:02

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by Riikcakirds

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I'm not that experienced with dos and learning as i go, are there any good utils or ways to show what program/rom/software is using conventional memory regions. Even a way in DOS to copy the first megabyte region of memory (0kb - 1024kb) to a file and examine it in a hex editor. To dump the last …

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Re: Dual Pentium 133: what to use it for?

Posted on 2023-09-08, 17:01

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I ran this board in 2001 using Win2k SP2. It worked well, smooth in Win2k. I first added two P200's. You need to connect the BF1 pins on each to the nearest ground pin. That will allow a 2.5 or 3 multiplier setting. Fill the board with 512MB FPM. I had it double booted to eithert 98 or Win2k. Also …

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Re: What is the biggest storage HDD Windows 98SE can use?

Posted on 2023-09-03, 13:22

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Note, since this thread was started the rloew AHCI SATA drivers and his 48bit LBA patch have become freely available. You should be able to use larger drives under Windows 9x now without a problem. I've found the patched ESDI_506.PDR from the ATADRV98.EXE package (by LittyX/Lixaanli) to be better …

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Re: How big is the custom video mode gap before VESA VBE 1.0?

Posted on 2023-09-01, 23:18

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by Riikcakirds

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So I found one game that uses SVGA < december 1990. Wonderland has a 800x600x16 mode. The readme says 800x600 only on PVGA1A and V7 VEGA cards. Yet I can still run it in 800x600 in real dos on a much newer modern nvidia gf4ti. How is that working, surely the 800x600 mode registers are different with …

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Re: What is the biggest storage HDD Windows 98SE can use?

Posted on 2023-08-31, 20:40

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I always ran into issues when going above 127 GB for Win9x. Sometimes, it appeared to work fine at first, but then random data corruption would occur, or the disk would freeze while in the middle of copying files. For me, the safest bet was to remain below that limit. That said, if you need more …

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Re: How big is the custom video mode gap before VESA VBE 1.0?

Posted on 2023-08-31, 20:26

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by Riikcakirds

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Did any games actually exist before december 1990 that used these custom svga modes (greater than VGA 640x480x16) but not vbe 1.0. Or even were any games ever released that used VBE 1.0 , (released in 1989) up to december 1990.

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Re: What is the biggest storage HDD Windows 98SE can use?

Posted on 2023-08-30, 00:41

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Even if your BIOS supports 48-bit LBA, Windows 98SE's esdi_506.pdr driver does not. You could run 9x in "Compatibility Mode" (use BIOS Int 13h for disk access) for those cases, but that is annoyingly slow. There were 3rd party drivers that did support 48-bit LBA, Intel's chipset drivers were one of …

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Re: windows 98 SE - how big drive disks?

Posted on 2023-08-27, 22:08

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by Riikcakirds

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As your computer boots press and hold the F8 key. At the menu select command prompt only. Then copy ESDI_506.PDR to WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS I have used the modified Winme version of ESDI_506.PDR (v1.0 dated 2006-07-21) by LittyX/Lixaanli. It worked with a single partitioned 2TB drive I used as a …

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Re: magic carpet 2 1920 x 1080

Posted on 2023-08-26, 22:53

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by Riikcakirds

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Is it resampled up from 640x480 or a hacked exe to add extra vesa modes.

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Do intel Chipset drivers do nothing at all really?

Posted on 2023-08-07, 20:42

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by Riikcakirds

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I only see inf files and their security cat files after extracting to a folder. Don't see any .dll files or any other special files. Even the inf files aren't very detailed. Is it just correcting the names in device manager, but nothing functioning or doing anything at all. I'm talking about Win9x …

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Re: Mr. BIOS on a Gateway 2000 P5-120

Posted on 2023-08-05, 12:10

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by Riikcakirds

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Has anyone tried to flash a Mr. BIOS image for an Intel Advanced/ZP (Zappa) motherboard onto the Gateway 2000 P5-120? As far as I know it's an Intel Advanced/ZP (Zappa) board though there may be some differences. The layout of the gateway board is definitely a little different than what's pictured …

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Re: Mr. BIOS on a Gateway 2000 P5-120

Posted on 2023-08-05, 00:49

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've never seen a zappa without the async L2 cache outlines printed on the board. This board has Pipeline Burst Cache, which I also have never seen on a Zappa. Ahh, it's an Intel Aladdin motherboard. It uses bios that end in the BROT extention, like 1.00.10 BROT. https://dfarq.homeip.net/why-intel- …

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Re: An Audigy 2 ZS literally resurrected from the dead

Posted on 2023-06-26, 21:54

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Sound

Very good work. I would like to know the tools of the trade you used as I have a couple of old cards like this, not sure about immersing in water to clean these parts as shown in youtube videos etc. Also what is the Audigy 2 ZS click-issue you mentioned. I searched Vogons and can't find any …

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2023-06-11, 16:40

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by Riikcakirds

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I though we are talking about refresh rate setting under pure dos, not ntvdm. When Windows are active, then nvidia driver can do various settings on the card so it may then support refresh settings some way/altered by driver. But I wonder if any 7xxx card can set refresh under pure dos... I have …

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Re: Super Trace VESA Benchmark

Posted on 2023-06-08, 10:44

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by Riikcakirds

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Using an S3 Trio64 2MB (the onboard graphics with an Intel Morrison motherboard 430fx) and a P120-16MB EDO Ram with no L2 cache: Booting to Dos 6.22 Only mode available is VGA 320x200 8bpp - Score is 299 Trio64 doesn't seem to support any vesa modes (the bios it ships with is VBE1.2). I got the …

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