Re: SD vs CF Stability in 2023
Posted on Yesterday, 08:01
@wierd_w Thanks for your experience report. Very sad to hear that even recent SD->CF adapters still not work well for our needs in CF->IDE adapters.
Re: SD vs CF Stability in 2023
Posted on Yesterday, 06:16
To make things clear. In my DOS PC I have this CF->IDE Adapter: https://www.startech.com/de-de/hdd/35baycf2ide It works well and I have no problems. Writing data to the CF card on my modern PC also works well. To avoid buying an expensive 128GB CF I thought of using for example one of those or any …
Re: SD vs CF Stability in 2023
Posted on 2024-05-02, 13:03
Last post in this thread is more than 1 year old. Maybe in the meantime things have happened. I'm searching for a reliable SD->CF adapter to use with my StarTech CF->IDE adapter. For now I'm using a 32GB Transcend CF and have no issues. I want to go for the maximum DOS 7.10 is working with and use a …
Re: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Audigy cards (version 3.1)
Posted on 2024-05-02, 06:05
@Joseph_Joestar Thanks for the updated guide and driver install CD 😀 It's always nice to see people actually work on "old" stuff!
Re: Recommended PCI sound cards for Win98?
Posted on 2024-04-30, 07:00
Because I want both, A3D + EAX I have 2 soundcards in my Win98 machine. There are many games that only support one of these 3D audio technique. This way I always can use either of it. My soundcards are: - Aureal Vortex 2 (Diamond MX300) for A3D 1.0 + 2.0 - SB Audigy 2 ZS for EAX up to EAX 4.0 …
Re: How to tell if a CF card supports TRIM? Which TRIM program for DOS?
Posted on 2024-04-29, 06:42
Look for R.Loews Trim. It should include a TRIMCHK.EXE that checks for Trim support of the drive.
Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?
Posted on 2024-04-24, 05:57
In description it says: CD-ROM images are represented by ISO or raw binary .bin/.cue file formats
Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?
Posted on 2024-04-17, 09:49
Thanks @Zeerex, very interesting! CD-Audio works. Unfortunalety it's only usable with a Laptop / PCMCIA solution.
Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?
Posted on 2024-04-05, 13:26
I don't have one on my own but there are people swearing on such devices called upscalers. The main purpose is to upscale low resolutions of old video consoles/pc for high resolution TVs (Full HD up to 4K). As a side effect many also offer CRT filters/shaders and such things. What I read it seems to …
Re: Config.sys and autoexec.bat for Dos 7.1
Posted on 2024-04-05, 09:19
This step-by-step confirmation also works in DOS 7.10. First config.sys is processed and afterwards you will be asked if autoexec.bat should be processed.
Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones
Posted on 2024-04-02, 11:45
Alright, I indeed messed up "digital" sound effects with digital CD-Audio. But then I know this is not a problem of my individual card and leave it with analogue CD-Audio connection.
Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones
Posted on 2024-04-02, 09:19
@Joseph_Joestar I'm having the same problem with MK8330 sound card. Using SPDIF_IN for digital CD-Audio sounds terrible. Kind of too loud/distorted. I have to use analogue CD-Audio and always wondered why digital CD-Audio is not working with that card. So maybe it's indeed a CMI8330 issue.
Re: Real HDD vs CF to ide vs SD to ide?
Posted on 2024-04-02, 07:24
I'm running these 2 variants: - CF to IDE adapter (StarTech) in my DOS-System Built that earlier before when I thought I can not have more than 8GB drive space (4x 2GB partitions) because of FAT16 limitation. The big advantage is that you can easily take out the card and transfer data to it on a …
Re: Corruption issue when using rloew's TRIM.EXE (TRIM utility for DOS) with FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1/1.3.1 partitioned DISK
Posted on 2024-04-02, 06:55
It's excatly as you described @darry 😀 After deleting a file and look at the hex content with a disk editor the bytes are still the same as before. But after executing trim.exe all bytes have "00" content. So, I can say trim.exe is working in my configuration. Thanks for your help!
Re: Dualshock 4 and Windows 98SE? It works! Other controllers tested as well.
Posted on 2024-03-27, 08:05
Wow, very good find! Thanks for the info with DirectInput vs. XInput. I think I will give both controllers (DS4 and X360) a try on my Windows 98 + XP machine. Can someone recommend good wired DS4 and X360 controllers with link? Unfortunalety market is flooded with crappy third party asia models of …
Re: ideal sound card for early win xp system for 2000-2002 games?
Posted on 2024-03-27, 07:46
I also recommend a SB X-FI. I have a X-FI HD (that's just the external variant) in my XP system, too and are very happy with it. Absolutely no problems and 3D sound using headphones is awesome! It features very good EAX support.
Re: Corruption issue when using rloew's TRIM.EXE (TRIM utility for DOS) with FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1/1.3.1 partitioned DISK
Posted on 2024-03-27, 07:06
Thanks darry! That seems like a very good way to check it 😀 I'm trying it tonight with my older Hiren's Boot CD and Norton Disk Editor that's working with my PIII hardware.
Re: Corruption issue when using rloew's TRIM.EXE (TRIM utility for DOS) with FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1/1.3.1 partitioned DISK
Posted on 2024-03-26, 09:03
Sorry to necro this thread. But it seems suitable and I didn't want to open a new thread. In my Windows 98 gaming rig I'm using a Samsung Evo 860 SSD with StarTech IDE-SATA converter (model "IDE2SAT2"). rloew's TRIM.EXE seems to work fine. At least I got a "Done" message. I'm running TRIM.EXE every …
Re: Installing soundcard dos drivers
Posted on 2024-03-25, 10:36
Maybe Unisound is working with that card. UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b
Re: I call it "poor man's Orpheus" :-)
Posted on 2024-03-25, 10:26
Thank you. I will test Doom1.
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