Re: List your K6-III desktop parts here
Posted on 2011-05-31, 07:59
Re: So you think you have a big collection of obsolete CPU's?
Posted on 2011-05-30, 23:17
Don't worry buddy. It how you use it that counts
Re: Star Wars - Tie Fighter Collectors CD - audio configuration
Posted on 2011-05-30, 23:02
What's your SC55 attached to, is it on the same sound card as your daughterboard? I had lockups in ROTT and a couple of other games when trying to use an XR385 daughterboard and an SC55 attached to the same sound card. Removing the SC55 seemed to resolve it. Kind of a pain in the arse because if you …
Re: Anyone using a RAMBUS system?
Posted on 2011-05-28, 21:16
Saw a compaq deskpro EN at my last job, that had a Pentium 3 933 with 256MB RDRAM. It was attached to a scanner. They thought it needed high memory bandwidth to work with images from the scanner. Would have cost a bloody fortune back in the day and I reckon they wouldn't have noticed any difference …
Re: 486 mobo won't POST
Posted on 2011-05-27, 13:10
I had one of those cards, and it smoked on first use 😒 although I suppose I can't really complain for the price, caveat emptor.
Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison
Posted on 2011-05-27, 13:09
The whole point of the overdrive family was that you only needed to plug it in et voila, upgrade complete yeah, this was my understanding as well, and many 486 boards didn't have multiplier adjustment.
Re: 486 DX 2 66 What OS
Posted on 2011-05-26, 23:36
Yes that's what I got when I tired it, I went with MSCDX and Oaksys and it's working flawless. In DOS 6.22 and WFW 3.11. Thanks everyone for your input! QCDROM and SHCDX33 have never worked well for me. I always end up with an Access Denied error! Yep I had no luck with SHCDX either. I used the …
Re: Two ISA sound cards on a DOS/98 machine?
Posted on 2011-05-24, 02:47
I had the speaker output of the SBPro fed into the line input of the SB16, and the batch files ran the respective sound cards' mixers to adjust the volumes of each. I was doing this with my SB16/GUS but its actually a bit of a pain because the GUS is MUCH louder than the SB16, and the DOS mixer for …
Re: 486 DX 2 66 What OS
Posted on 2011-05-23, 22:52
Dos anyone have any leads on working MS-DOS Mouse and CD-ROM DRIVERS? I use ctmouse, read about it here: http://www.bootablecd.de/FreeDOS/help/en/hhstndrd/base/ctmouse.htm Works fine with serial and PS/2 mice under DOS. You may need to adjust the sensitivity/acceleration but that's described in the …
Re: SiS Xabre & friends
Posted on 2011-05-23, 22:43
You know caps can fail even without it being visually apparent Pretty sure there were no bad caps- visibly anyway.
Re: Two ISA sound cards on a DOS/98 machine?
Posted on 2011-05-23, 21:31
I run an Sb16 and a GUS classic under dos without issues. Sb16 uses I/O 220, IRQ 7, DMA 1, MIDI 330 GUS uses I/O 240, IRQ 5 and 11, DMA 0 and 3, MIDI 300 make sure you get the latest drivers for the GUS, last version of megaem, 4.10 I believe, makes SBOS redundant. Although the SB16 is better for …
Re: Today's Predicted Rapture!
Posted on 2011-05-23, 12:23
When I was a kid I was mesmerized by the way that dude waved his arms when he spoke.
Re: Setting up Roland Sound Canvas SC-55
Posted on 2011-05-23, 10:07
here's something I typed up on another forum on the subject: Yes, I had an XR385 wavetable card attached to my SB16, and also have an MT32/SC55 which I can attach to the card externally using the joystick/midi port. The XR385 and external device will both play at the same time. Unfortunately I can't …
Re: Just to let you guys know
Posted on 2011-05-23, 05:18
I recently obtained TF2 and i'm already replacing most of its sound effects so it doesn't resemble a Source game If you find a mod for TF2 that gets rid of all the stupid gimmick weapons, the trading, crafting, mann-conomy and the ridiculous hats... let me know :) I stopped playing when they …
Re: Setting up Roland Sound Canvas SC-55
Posted on 2011-05-23, 05:15
Yep, I use a Roland SC-55 with a USB-Midi adapter on my Win 7 x64 machine and it works flawlessly. It installs all the drivers you need automatically when you plug in the USB adapter. Check the DOSBox FAQ for further info.
Re: Internal PC speaker recommendation required please
Posted on 2011-05-22, 22:36
Not sure how those small buzzers are different from a standard PC speaker but I'm guessing your motherboard didn't like it. I've been fiddling around with a pc speaker and did something I shouldn't have, and the whole system shut down or rebooted. You should be able to track down ANY basic 8ohm bare …
Re: Today's Predicted Rapture!
Posted on 2011-05-22, 13:13
Y2K was different though. There was a real problem but it was fixed in the vast majority of cases so nothing happened. I used to work for a hospital and now work in finance and in both cases the major computer systems had issues with the date rollover, and were patched to fix the issue well before …
Re: Today's Predicted Rapture!
Posted on 2011-05-21, 22:42
well its Sunday here in Australia and pretty much nothing happened yesterday at 6pm... however - for anyone that does get raptured, I call dibs on the stuff you leave behind.
Re: MPU-IPC-T and X-Wing
Posted on 2011-05-20, 13:23
I'm sure I played X-Wing on a 386SX-40 - towards the end the Death Star levels where almost unplayable, mostly it was fine though. Turning the 'death star surface detail' down removed all the obstacles from the trench and made the final level of the the 3rd tour amazingly easy :D was basically …
Re: MPU-IPC-T and X-Wing
Posted on 2011-05-20, 11:14
What's that 'extra AT cycle WS'? maybe that will help. I remember playing x-wing floppy on my aunt's DX2-66 and if I remember correctly it ran great with details about 75% up. There wasn't a whole lot of difference as you went up though. Tie Fighter though, you definitely want a Pentium for that so …
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