Re: Older VGAs with both 9pin and 51pin connectors, what's the deal?

Posted on 2017-05-22, 10:54

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ Video

Or they limit you to the older ega/cga ttl standards if the 9pin connector is used? That's the reason. The 9 pin connector VGA cards contend for the "best cga emulator" title: CGA Compatibility Tester vs. VGA cards

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Re: 3COM Etherlink III ISA NIC problems

Posted on 2017-02-01, 09:02

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

3c509116.zip which contains a v1.16 packet driver from 2002. You have a more serious resource allocation issue on this system, nevertheless. If the 3com card can correctly update and store its configuration data "once upon a boot time" but not next time, you might have another device at the same …

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Re: 1991 Dream Machine (386 DX/33)

Posted on 2017-02-01, 07:04

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Pretty much the essence of the 386 era and a damn nice case... congrats on this great build! (I put my LAPC-I in a K6-III build, thus loosing the LA synth... But it could be compensated by the external route: Music Quest MPU clone to CM-32L) One might also consider an MCB-1 connection to a GM synth …

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Re: Monkey Island 1&2: Roland MT-32 + Sound Blaster support

Posted on 2017-01-19, 14:18

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by Jolaes76

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Thanks... I guess I skipped again the RTFM route 😀

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Re: Monkey Island 1&2: Roland MT-32 + Sound Blaster support

Posted on 2017-01-19, 14:11

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by Jolaes76

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By sheer coincidence, I have just gone thru the patching process on a Win 7 machine, transferred the files to a Vectra M2 DX4/100 running DOS 6.22 and the game works fine, CM-32L plays the music and the speech works flawlessly on an SB Pro compatible Acer Magic S23. (I wonder if there is a way to …

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Re: Apparently not all GS-only sc-55s are the same, some are GM

Posted on 2017-01-14, 06:49

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ Sound

You need to physically remove the chip. Put it in an EPROM burner and write it. When the original chip is non-writeable, you must find an UV erasable equivalent or EEPROM.

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Re: DOS games Sango Fighter & Sango Fighter 2 are available for free

Posted on 2017-01-04, 13:55

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by Jolaes76

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Great fixes 😀 My greatest woe with the original releases was that MIDI port change was impossible, so I could not run the game with General Midi at 300h, for example. Is it possible / feasible to implement this feature?

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Re: How can I ensure I'm running in real-mode dos?

Posted on 2016-12-07, 20:22

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by Jolaes76

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PCI DOS sound card card drivers do not work in real mode. Period. What about a Vortex 2? I recall I could load its dos driver without any protected mode enforcing UMA manager.

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Re: Problem installing Yamaha YMF718-S OPL3 card in Win3.11 - not enough extended memory

Posted on 2016-11-30, 13:02

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does mem /c come with DOS 6.22 or Win 3.11? The /c parameter of mem.exe should even work with older DOS versions. In my experience, sometimes you need a more advanced tool to display the memory map (mi from FreeDOS, manifest from QEMM etc.) but in most cases the DOS native mem command is just …

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Re: original mpu-ipc (not mpu-ipc-t) installation issues

Posted on 2016-11-17, 18:50

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not an ideal test platform. Too fast and ISA might be out of specs / clock as well. The big problem is that on many newer, ACPI motherboards IRQ 2/9 is not usable in Windows 9x (I do not know about 3.x) and you must reserve IRQ 9 for ISA/Legacy in your BIOS even if you want to run DOS without …

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Re: Need help for my newly acquired 8088

Posted on 2016-11-12, 18:06

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes... A regular 720k drive 😀

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Re: Need help for my newly acquired 8088

Posted on 2016-11-12, 17:20

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you know where to get such a card with RTC ? I'm looking for one, too. Haven't seen them on Ebay for years. Not on ebay, no. Better luck locally on flea markets, or facebook retro groups, other members at amibay or vcfed selling items etc. The pricing varies greatly though so I perfectly …

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Re: Need help for my newly acquired 8088

Posted on 2016-11-12, 12:44

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Personally, I would not bother with this card if I had another one. No documentation and already damaged... others in the same boat were asking for a manual about similar cards...no luck. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?53173-8-bit-Multi-IO-card-can-anyone-ID-it You can still try though …

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Re: Need help for my newly acquired 8088

Posted on 2016-11-11, 21:46

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Contact Carlostex, he still might have a few self-made kb adapters...

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Re: Need help for my newly acquired 8088

Posted on 2016-11-11, 20:25

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Take a look at your 16bit ISA VGA cards and try to find out if you have an 8 bit compatible one among them. Use Total Hw 99, vogons topics and vintage computer forums (vcfed.org) to get some help. If there is a 8/16 jumper on a card then you have a good chance that the card will work in your XT. Not …

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Dark Legions "Generic GM" related bug

Posted on 2016-11-09, 12:14

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by Jolaes76

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This is a work-around for those who could not setup the game for using a General MIDI device as intended. (I run a few circles around the sound setup until I realized what the problem was. It is not the fault of the sound drivers but the wrong value(s) written in "sound.cfg". I think it could be …

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Re: Need help setting up my YMF719

Posted on 2016-10-28, 04:52

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My Audician32 also makes this "peeeeeeeeewhhhh (pause) hrrrrr" on a ps/1 system which has a proprietary PSU (the form factor is at least, but it is also a weak one compared to other AT power supplies). But now we revealed the sacred 3rd taboo deficiency of ymf 71x ISA cards and this shall raise the …

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-26, 15:08

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I assume we can call it history... Surprisingly, the echoes of this confusion rang for quite some time. 😲

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-26, 14:41

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by Jolaes76

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

MPXPLAY.... even the latest revision will NOT autodetect a rev5 CT1330A as an SB Pro, it is wrongly picked up as an SB16 and plays jitter only that way. If I manually specify "SBP" and anything lower than 22 khz in mpxplay.ini then it will start (in two bloody minutes!) and plays back "RIGHT CHANNEL …

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Re: mpxplay and GUS problem.

Posted on 2016-10-26, 07:51

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by Jolaes76

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A "normal" GUS clearly is NOT the optimal target card for this player. Native support is always superior than emulation. GUS Classic has no native support in MPXPLAY. Note that the GUS MAX has native support, and now I gave it a try for you, and it works, but the DX4/100 in my retro rig makes sound …

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