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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-08-16, 00:55

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

With IO/Mem decode register's initial state being like that... you should already be able to access 4E/4F. All LPCEXP did to that register was enabling the other two Wide I/O ranges (which were disabled and initially set to zero). The new boards arrived, and are working great on intel. On AMD I'm …

Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Posted on 2023-08-15, 07:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hanamichi wrote on 2023-08-14, 22:36: I also have the PCI-X to 4x PCIe adapter somewhere here. I know that PEX8114 can be used to connect PCIe x4 devices to a PCI-X slot in a similar fashion to PEX8111. However, I haven't found any real product besides a RDK that could achieve that purpose.

Re: PC Speaker specifications?

Posted on 2023-08-14, 11:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry for necromancing this old thread of mine but it seems I asked this question in the past, so another (follow up) question would not be completely out of line.. I have found some 57mm speakers that are 4R amd 0.5W - would these be too out of spec to use as PC Speakers? I'm thinking current draw …

Re: Various games passed/failed and benchmarks under MS-DOS on new GeForce RTX 4090

Posted on 2023-08-09, 05:33

in DOS

in DOS

I'm super surprised the 4090 even *works* in DOS. It must have at least some legacy 16-bit vBIOS. That is encouraging, for it means a utility which "fixes" (patches) its BIOS could be made as a TSR. The same goes for other "modern" onboard BIOSes with broken VBE3, 24-bit colors, and inability to …

Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-08-08, 16:01

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Does your test board (A320M-K) also have the TPM selection toggle? The one that allows choosing whether to use a discrete or built-in (firmware) TPM. Yeah I believe it does but I haven't messed with it yet - will have some time soon. I've attached the output of your program if that helps. Except …

Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-08-08, 00:56

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

By the way, it seems the executable I built with DJGPP (actually cross-compiled from Linux) doesn't run when JEMM386 is active. On this AM4 motherboard I'm having similar issues running DJGPP-compiled code that uses CWSDPR0 for ring-0 DPMI (e.g. sapphisa, quake) when even himem is loaded. I have to …

Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.

Posted on 2023-08-07, 05:56

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

EMS can be enabled with EMSMAGIC if needed. Interesting... UMBPCI+EMSMAGIC. I wonder if anyone ever tried this before. It seems to target NTVDM usage but can also be used for real DOS... From the manual it seems it can allocate EMS page frame (64K) in conventional memory and can be loaded/unloaded …

Re: Connecting two computers to one pair of speakers.

Posted on 2023-08-06, 05:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have two computers with audio cards, these are regular PCI audio cards, one for a DOS era computer, one for a Windows 98 era computer. I'd like to connect both of them to the same pair of speakers. Everything is 3.5 mm TRS. I've tried with a passive "dumb" mixer (which isn't really a mixer) that …

Re: Do/es this HW support VBE?

Posted on 2023-08-03, 02:44

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hoping I posted it on the right section and isn't a dumb question. I AM dumb when it comes to hardware. I don't know how to check VBE support other than actually installing MS-DOS and giving X program a try. My time is quite limited though and I don't think I could test in like a month, so I'd …

Re: Suggestions for w98se GPU with DVI out

Posted on 2023-08-02, 06:36

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hi guys. I am currently waiting for a system in the post and I would like some suggestions for a video card for it that supports DVI-D out. I intend to use it for w95-98 era games. Pentium II 400mhz 440BX mobo The motherboard has an AGP 2x slot and some PCI slots, I was wondering what is the best …

Replacing default VGA driver on Win9x...

Posted on 2023-08-01, 07:02

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Apparently it's possible to replace the default 16-color VGA driver on Win9x, using this guide from MSFN. The guide used a patched Win3.x SVGA driver, and was meant for Safe Mode (SYSTEM.CB), but the same could be added into Normal Mode's SYSTEM.INI as well, and I've confirmed it working. With its …

Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.

Posted on 2023-07-31, 00:06

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

How do you get the MS-DOS's HIMEM to access more than 64MB RAM? If you're referring to MS-DOS 6.x, as well as Win3.x, HIMEM is capped at 64MB. It's possible to access more XMS on DOS 6.x by using a modern driver, I think. Later DOS such as Win98's DOS7.1 comes with an improved HIMEM that supports …

Re: vogons search engine bug

Posted on 2023-07-27, 01:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

ok, found it, confirming it, it is caused by vogons adding "+" between words you can just use my method (advanced search with back button) which is not recommended cause of security reasons ;) ... This issue has been reported more than 3 years ago and it troubled me a lot, until I found that …

Re: Disable sound in DOS?

Posted on 2023-07-27, 01:26

in DOS

in DOS

I am playing games in FreeDOS (SimAnt) and whenever I launch the game I have to turn off sound and music again. Is there a way to avoid this like turning off the speaker altogether? I'm not sure about the detail. Does the game play sound/music over PC speaker? If the speaker is directly connected …

Re: Epox 8KTA3+ BIOS

Posted on 2023-07-27, 00:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If using SetMul you probably need to do it before actually entering Windows. I think raw I/O while in Windows is not really a good idea. There's a tool for Windows called CPUMSR that can be used to change multi on these AMD K7 CPUs. However in my case setting the CPU to rated multi in XP caused …

Re: Geforce 6800 Ultra PCIe and Win98

Posted on 2023-07-27, 00:07

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

hi guys again to test the drivers i have been trying to install winme and win98se in this old asus motherboard and a sata hardrive, but it doesn't work both winme or win98 start to install but then reboot and crash it seems there is a problem with the sata drivers , I changed the sata settings in …

Re: Public Service Announcement regarding 98se updates

Posted on 2023-07-26, 06:10

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in Marvin \ Software

Why bother with patchwork ME transplant "service packs" when you could just install Windows ME? :) If considering using DOS then WinME is generally not a good idea. Despite there are some good efforts in properly restoring DOS functionality to WinME, the DOS 8.0 that came with WinME has some …

Re: You might about to lose all your games bought from Ubisoft

Posted on 2023-07-26, 02:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

A bit off-topic... Looks like it's not just Ubisoft that's purging inactive accounts. Other companies are also following suit. I just received a mail from Google on my other email addresses (that was set as recovery email) and they're going to make a similar 2-year window for "inactive accounts" as …

Re: Epox 8KTA3+ BIOS

Posted on 2023-07-26, 01:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Athlon XP-M (mobile ones) boots with a lower multi than rated default (usually 6x) -- something else is needed to actually configure the CPU to operate at rated speed. The 13x being 12.5x and 14x being 5x are a common issue for KT133(A) AFAIK because the BIOS multi setting only touches four of the …

PSA: Alcohol 120% Free Edition is Adware. If you really need to use it, do it on an air-gapped system.

Posted on 2023-07-24, 11:18

in Milliways

in Milliways

I did not realize this until I actually installed it on a system. The free edition (FE) of Alcohol 120% is not clean. If you need to use it, better install it on an isolated, and preferably air-gapped environment. Simply put, Alcohol 120% FE contains an Adware functionality which you share your …

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