Re: 486 board
Posted on 2012-01-31, 00:12
yeah the soldered chip is a definite minus 🙁 it seems like *good* 486 boards hardly ever come up for sale
486 board
Posted on 2012-01-30, 23:20
What do you guys think of this board? http://www.ebay.com/itm/486-66MHz-VLB-Motherb … =item4161627363 It's not a bad price for what you're getting. I don't like the fact that the cpu is soldered in....
Re: waveform generator program
Posted on 2012-01-30, 20:36
Well I thought it was prettty neat 😀 You can add together up to four waves of different frequency and/or waveform, and then export it as a WAV file - good for making sound effects 😀
Re: waveform generator program
Posted on 2012-01-30, 20:08
networking under DOS
Posted on 2012-01-30, 20:02
Here is a question for you guys. How hard is to set up networking under DOS? I have done it under win95/98 before, but never DOS. What domyou need? I know there is a "client" you can download and install from Microsoft, but I am cloudy as to what that is going to.
Re: quake sound blaster question
Posted on 2012-01-30, 03:32
.... an thanks to everyone who made a comment here. You guys were very helpful 😀
Re: Best and worst portrayal of hacking/computing by Hollywood?
Posted on 2012-01-30, 02:13
How about Jurassic Park - when the little girl says "I know this - it's a UNIX system." Yeah, right.
waveform generator program
Posted on 2012-01-30, 02:12
Is anyone interesting in testing a waveform generator program I was playing around with? It was written in Turbo C - I know it runs under DOS and win 98, not sure past that point
Re: Another 486 being built
Posted on 2012-01-30, 02:10
okay - I'll ask - what the heck is a PISA slot? I have never seen anything like that!
Re: quake sound blaster question
Posted on 2012-01-30, 00:48
I was actually considering getting this off ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Creative-Labs-CT2230- … =item2eba65c38e On the other hand what I have no works - maybe better to leave well enough alone
Re: 486 Time Machine Build
Posted on 2012-01-30, 00:42
I think you have somehow managed to capture what we all feel building retro machines. Building the actual machine is fun, but going back and playing some of those old games again is never quite the same, Very nice thread!
Re: quake sound blaster question
Posted on 2012-01-29, 20:11
Opps - you are right - it is CT-4170. Are you saying that is actually an 8-bit card? That explains a bit....
Re: quake sound blaster question
Posted on 2012-01-29, 19:40
No. it's a 16-bit card -4270. When I run diagnose it tests both the 8=bit and 16-bit audio
Re: Need help replacing "screeching" hard drive
Posted on 2012-01-29, 19:31
This may sound simplistic but can't you just hook up the new drive as slave or to the secondary IDE port and copy all the files? I have done that before.....
Re: If you could only choose 12 games...
Posted on 2012-01-29, 19:28
Re: If you could only choose 12 games...
Posted on 2012-01-29, 18:41
Unreal (the original) Unreal Return to NaPali Half-life (the original) Half Life Blue Shift Quake Duke Nukem 3d Radix Beyond the Void Doom Doom II Terminator Future Shock Blood (the original) Unreal 2
Re: quake sound blaster question
Posted on 2012-01-29, 18:32
I am thinking maybe it has something to with with CTMU - it seems to only let you assign between 0 and 3 When I set up Duke 3D, it was only listing DMAs 5,6,7 for 16-bit - and the game runs fine I think PNP cards were okay under Windows but NO GOOD under DOS.
Re: quake sound blaster question
Posted on 2012-01-28, 18:15
Thanks for all the input here guys. I found the problem - it was in the high DMA setting. The auto configuration was trying to run LOW DMA = 1 and HIGH DMA = 3. Yet when I ran diagnose manually it was reporting an error setting the HIGH DMA. The SET BLASTER statement was setting both DMAs equal to …
Re: quake sound blaster question
Posted on 2012-01-28, 14:53
I finally did get it ti to work - using those same two files you showed in your video. I am not sure what it did different that I wasn't doing before. I believe it placed a BLASTER setting in autoexec. bat that was different from the one you get when you call CTCM. I am still not sure why you need …
Re: quake sound blaster question
Posted on 2012-01-27, 23:56
Thanks for the input here. It still doesn't work. When I run CTCM it does do a SET BLASTER, and the error message in Quake goes away (but sound still doesn't work) I downloaded some more software and dd and install, and it DID add the two drivers loaded in CONFIG.SYS, but I get an error message from …
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