Re: 3Com Etherlink III 509B ISA - Driver Doesn't Find Card

Posted on 2022-01-23, 10:58

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by elianda

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Windows 98 was refusing to use one of the cards so I used 3c5x9cfg.exe (version 3.2) to toggle its PNP option. This instantly bricked two of the adapters and gave the third an EEPROM checksum error. Are you really sure that the 3Com configuration tool supports multiple cards in the same system?

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Re: Help on a Mozart OTI601 soundcard

Posted on 2022-01-10, 18:47

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by elianda

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I guess that is to be expected as it is not a PnP card.

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2021-09-03, 08:29

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I have currently no setup with 386MAX, though if you try then change the memory manager detection part to be skipped and default to the EMM386 way. If it is fully compatible then this should do. If that works we have to adapt the memory manager detection a bit. It would also helpful to know which …

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Re: Nexgen - the 486 killer - WIP

Posted on 2021-08-19, 19:03

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by elianda

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Ah man, sorry skip that question, I somehow missed that page of the thread.

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Re: Nexgen - the 486 killer - WIP

Posted on 2021-08-19, 17:22

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by elianda

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Nice NexGen System. Where did you connect the Sanyo CDR-H94RSA SCSI CD-ROM drive? I don't see a SCSI controller card in your system pictures. Do you use some kind of SCSI <-> IDE converter on the Promise Controller? What is your experience with other graphics cards in this system? With my ET4000W32 …

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Re: Cirrus Logic Eagle II 8-bit VGA card

Posted on 2021-08-09, 18:27

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by elianda

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You can try these ftp://retronn.de/driver/Spea_V7/V7_Vega/ They are for the Spea V7 Vega that has the same chipset. Specifcally: https://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_cl_vga.html

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Re: Pouet Demoscene Hardware (In)Compatibility Thread

Posted on 2021-07-21, 19:26

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by elianda

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Though, if you lie about the aspect ratio, are circles still circles on your screen?

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Re: Aztech Waverider Pro 32-3D

Posted on 2021-05-03, 15:28

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by elianda

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betamax80 wrote on 2021-05-03, 14:42: Would anyone like to host the former Aztech FTP content? I downloaded it in 2017 thinking it might dissappear at some point - it did. It's around 1Gb in size. You mean like: ftp://retronn.de/mirrors/ftp.aztech.com.sg/ ?

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Re: A brief comparison of 386 FPUs

Posted on 2021-04-26, 10:44

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by elianda

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Are there applications known that make use of the specific fast operations in certain FPUs? Like the 4x4 matrix transformation in the IIT FPUs?

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Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 23:01

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by elianda

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DOS CDROM stuff is all PIO... I'am pretty sure thats incorrect. Just look at the Bus Master driver package from Triones for Intels Triton chipsets. Or adaptecs CD driver for their scsi cards, or early CD-ROMs with proprietary connector. I attached some readme from the high speed cd-rom driver …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2021-03-18, 13:00

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by elianda

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To be more specific: SoftMPU works if the port access to the MIDI port is done from V86 mode. Dos Extenders like DOS4GW also have the feature that sub routines can be called from non-protected mode, which might be the case for MSS.

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Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 12:13

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by elianda

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The more general question is, what features do the smaller drivers drop to have such a small memory footprint. This is not well documented mostly. e.g. Kanji file structures, CD-ROM XA, CD-I...

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Re: Appian Graphics Gemini PCI - S3 Savage MX 16MB

Posted on 2021-01-17, 15:04

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by elianda

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So what are actually the PCI Vendor / Device IDs of your card? Does it also use the 86C290 chipset? Since there was the question about benchmarks here, I did a few with the Spectrah Dynamics Inc LD-S370 Savage MX https://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_s3_savage_mx_spectrah.html See the second …

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Re: DScaler 4.2.3a

Posted on 2020-12-19, 14:22

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by elianda

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Hmm, I have not touched the video recording part, but maybe progressive output somehow interfers with that. I have to look into this. What would be the advantages for capturing with DScaler when going from AVI to MKV? The only thing I can imagine is writing the DAR to the container.

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-11-13, 10:44

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by elianda

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I don't know, 720 x 400 would show as 4:3 if you don't have a choice of display, but I personally never end up squishing it when viewing in a capture window. By the way, have you done testing on the effects of interpolated scaling on temporal image quality on YouTube? I've noticed it tends to end …

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Re: DVD accelerators compared

Posted on 2020-10-27, 22:46

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by elianda

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I am not 100% sure, but ftp://retronn.de/driver/Creative/PC-DVD_DXR2/ and this player ftp://retronn.de/driver/Creative/DVD_Player_3.50/

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-10-24, 11:41

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by elianda

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If you capture YUV the OSSC doubling is a good option. If you capture RGB it is on your side where you do the color space conversion. As you upscale for youtube anyway, it makes sense to already provide the encoder with the RGB data and let it do the conversion. Aspect ratio: In a general case there …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-10-21, 09:34

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by elianda

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I use Epiphan cards and made some years ago a tool for such optimizations. It is much easier to tune the stuff when you have the numbers at hand and don't have to judge some noise in screenshots. It was posted in this thread here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=26661&p=370770#p370770 …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-16, 09:42

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by elianda

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AFAIR there are no 4K capture cards that capture RGB. (Correct me if you know one) Every flat panel screen samples 400p modes as 720, so e.g. 320x200 is displayed wrong since it requires sampling with 640 pixels.

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Re: S3 Virge DX 4MB vs Matrox Mystique 4MB

Posted on 2020-08-31, 16:59

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What is much more important for DOS is that the Virge has support for low-res VESA modes as well as 15 bit modes (but not 24 bit). The Matrox just support 8/16/32 bit starting at 640x480. That is an interesting information! Is that why my onboard-mystique does not work in many demos with special 15 …

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