Re: Diamond Mozart - drivers needed

Posted on 2021-07-03, 14:58

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by darry

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Hello guys, i got this Diamond Mozart card, but i cannot find any drivers . Do you have someone the drivers for DOS and WIN98? It has OPL3 so i am interested to check it out. Thank you Based on https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=236954#p236954 and its linked image (recovered through aechive.org …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2021-07-03, 04:40

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by darry

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Love on a real train - Tangerine Dream

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Re: Purchasing a 4:3 LCD for DOS/DOSBOX/MISTER/OSSC games?

Posted on 2021-07-03, 03:00

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by darry

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Thanks for the information and links! Does the Philips 252B9 support 70 - 75 Hz? (it looks like it only supports 60 Hz) I've looked through the threads you linked and there's quite a bit of information but it seems like no single answer (for anything reasonably available anyways). Have you seen the …

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Re: MP32L - Lite version of MP32 : Pi based MT32 synth

Posted on 2021-07-03, 00:51

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by darry

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I would suggest buying a DB15MIDI from Serdashop and using a simple DIN5 MIDI cable to hook the PC up with the hat. This way you can hook it up to another MIDI device simultaneously as well. https://www.serdashop.com/DB15MIDI I can not stress how much I love this product enough. I could not agree …

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Re: Purchasing a 4:3 LCD for DOS/DOSBOX/MISTER/OSSC games?

Posted on 2021-07-02, 20:16

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by darry

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If I don't have space for a CRT monitor, is there any reason to purchase a 4:3 LCD instead? For example, I have 1080p and 4K LCD monitors but I'm curious about 4:3 LCDs such as the Dell 2007FPb, etc. Can anybody explain the benefits (besides the aspect ratio) of using a dedicated LCD monitor? See …

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Re: Windows 3.x games and Windows 9x games that don't work in Windows

Posted on 2021-07-02, 20:11

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by darry

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Oregon Trail with the year 2005 should have worked. It stalls on Quicktime install. Which means it is kind of primitive. You don't use Quicktime for your cut scenes, you use DirectShow. Do you have some more info on that release ? I can't find a 2005 release of Oregon Trail on Mobygames or Google . …

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Re: Windows 3.x games that don't work in Windows

Posted on 2021-07-02, 19:56

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by darry

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History is judging that so called Win 9x games appear to actually have Win 3.x compatibility. I'll bite . Are you referring to a few Windows 9x games in particular or is that meant to be a general statement ? Do you have any examples/evidence to back up that affirmation ? Other than possibly some …

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Re: I can't run a dos installed game. Please help me!

Posted on 2021-07-02, 04:20

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by darry

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After fiddling with the .cue file I saw that the problem was "FILE "popple.bin" BINARY" . It said something like "GameByte Electronic_Popple_Gamepedia" or something like that and I renamed it just Popple as the file is named. After that I followed the steps that Mr. Darry provided and it works! I …

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Re: Did you ever have a realisation that your retro memories or assumptions weren't quite accurate?

Posted on 2021-07-02, 03:02

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by darry

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About 30 years ago, I remember playing a game titled Empire, enjoying it and then, for some reason, misplacing the floppy it was on . That memory recently re-entered my conscious mind and I looked it up on Mobygames . I believe it is this https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/empire___ from 1985 . I …

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Re: Does anyone know any "slave" board with memory processor, etc?

Posted on 2021-07-02, 02:07

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by darry

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What speed of hardware do you need for PCEM to be fast enough for what you want to do? If I may interject, the OP's 13 year-old Intel Core2 Quad, while still perfectly adequate for many modern tasks, has single thread performance that is less than half of a current generation 100 US$ Core I3 CPU …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2021-07-02, 01:35

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by darry

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I am not Dreamblaster, but I can attempt to answer. 1.The board can emulate a serial port via USB just to send hex and addresess? If by this you intend to ask whether this devices can be addressed as an RS-232 serial device from DOS when connected to a PC over USB, the answer is no . A PC connected …

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Re: ABP-960U PCI SCSI adapter. No more than 8GB.

Posted on 2021-07-02, 01:02

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by darry

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Can you post a good picture of the card ? I have a few 1998/1999 BIOS for Advansys based cards but they are chipset AND flash chip specific. Only for certain Advansys based adapters with Atmel Flash AT29C512/AT29C010A or Winbond Flash W29EE512 or SST 29EE512/29EE010 bios chips..... Your card being …

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Re: ABP-960U PCI SCSI adapter. No more than 8GB.

Posted on 2021-07-02, 00:27

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by darry

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Believe this may be a hard disk capacity limitation on these cards, as their extended translation routine only supports up to 8GB per disk That's what I thought initially. Just thinking If It's possible to update firmware or change that thing Can you post a good picture of the card ? I have a few …

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Re: Micron Millennia in a full tower case

Posted on 2021-07-02, 00:03

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by darry

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The Millennia big tower arrived safely, wanted to share a few pics. The original 8.4gig IDE drive was still in it, and still loaded with software, looks like the last file access was in 2010. There is a 92mm exhaust fan near the top of the case, that I'm replacing with a fresh Noctua. The P2 350 …

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Re: IBM PS/2 Model 50 Hard Drive

Posted on 2021-07-01, 23:56

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by darry

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Hi all, This just happened to a model 50 I've been trying to get working :( These appear to have rather proprietary drive interfaces! Any ideas apart from eBay where I might get a replacement drive? I guess I could put a SCSI MCA card in there and wire up a drive for that, but that's expensive. Can …

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Re: Are EGA monitors backward compatible with CGA and MDA cards?

Posted on 2021-07-01, 23:32

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by darry

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I hate interlaced video, but I can look at 1600x1200p60 all day Interlaced video is highly dependent on the specific monitor. Back in the 90s, when 1024x768 87i was a common entry-level resolution on CRTs, I had two computers with completely different montiors at that resolution next to each other. …

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Re: Weird noise artifacts on an old laptop, need help

Posted on 2021-07-01, 16:47

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by darry

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This looks like palette update "snow", which is perfectly normal occurence on many video chipsets. Indeed, and the WD 90C24 (which is what is in this laptop) is apparently one of those chipsets . https://web.cs.elte.hu/local/Linux-bible/X-Notebook/node8.html suggests that this "snow" can be worked …

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Re: DOSBox + Linux + CUE/BIN = FAIL

Posted on 2021-07-01, 13:38

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by darry

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I agree . However, this is likely not the issue in this specific case, as if the cue file and bin/img file are in the same directory and the cue file gets read, but the bin/img file does not, the directory permissions are not the issue . The permissions of the bin/img file could be a problem, but …

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Re: ABP-960U PCI SCSI adapter. No more than 8GB.

Posted on 2021-07-01, 00:30

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by darry

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That card looks like it could be an OEMmed version of the Advansys ASB-3940U . https://web.archive.org/web/20021002192844/ht … ex-download.htm EDIT : https://m.blog.daum.net/lsungyoo/163?np_nil_b … -1&categoryId=7

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Re: DOSBox + Linux + CUE/BIN = FAIL

Posted on 2021-07-01, 00:02

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by darry

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Good to check just in case, but in this specific case, the error suggests that the cue file is being found and read, but the referenced img file isn't . In the limited tests that I have run, the mscdex error is not shown if the cue file is absent (not there or wrong path) or inaccessible ( …

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