Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 23:38

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Ok, I have scoured the bowels of the Internet and am quite confident that your motherboard is either a Trigem Anaheim-2 or Anaheim-2a with a CS4280 . I found what I believe are the original drivers provided by Trigem here http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/archive/Trigem/drivers/Sound/Cs4280/ I have …

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Re: Freedos alongside Win98SE

Posted on 2020-04-26, 23:05

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but it might be easier just to toggle the boot order in your BIOS when you want to switch. I agree 100% . Boot managers can be a pain to fix when things inevitably break . If you are only going to be switching occasionally, best to do it through BIOS . I also concur about Mortal Kombat 2; Freedos …

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Re: Asus P2B rev. 1.04

Posted on 2020-04-26, 22:08

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Scythifuge wrote on 2020-04-26, 22:00: darry wrote on 2020-04-26, 20:34: The G550 has DVI, so you could avoid a switch box . No Windows 3.x driver, however... But the Voodoo 3 does, so you can use that in Windows 3.1 . It's not like windows 3.1 supports multiple monitors or 3D acceleration .

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Re: Scaler for retro-to-4k TV

Posted on 2020-04-26, 20:38

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Greetings, I am using a Sewell Hammerhead on a smaller 4k TV ever since I discovered that my series 6 TCL 4k TV stretches VGA resolutions (the series 5 does not.) The problem with the Hammer head is that is cuts off the bottom line or so (can't see the flashing cursor or the bottoms of q's and g's …

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Re: Asus P2B rev. 1.04

Posted on 2020-04-26, 20:34

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The G550 has DVI, so you could avoid a switch box .

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Re: Any modern psu's that have large 5v rails

Posted on 2020-04-26, 20:30

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I posted a small thread on this topic earlier. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=52964&start=20 You may be able to find new build Startech and Athena power ATX supplies that follow the ATXv1.3 power allocations. Athena are generally junk, but the Startech PSUs are fine. https://www. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-26, 20:18

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I gave my breadbin (250407) a VIC-II cooler. The chip have a heatsink on it as well, making it an effective cooling solution. C64-Cooling.jpg That looks cool. Is the next step a water or mineral oil cooled C64? 😉 EDIT: maybe with an overclocked SuperCPU . Thanks. Yes, it does look cool, and it …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 20:16

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OK, I will try to dig up my CS4630 this evening, and attempt to replicate the issue you are experiencing . I have an Asus P3B-F based Windows 98SE machine I should be able to use as a testbed . If that fails, we could give the ES1370 a shot . It will require EMM386.EXE to be loaded so it may limit …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 20:02

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Not the best choice for DOS either . It it worked the CS4280 would probably be more compatible . Does your board have ISA slots ?

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 19:52

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I do not know why it's not detecting it . Maybe a BIOS setting . Do you have any other soundcards (preferably ISA , if the board has ISA slots ) ?

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 19:12

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BliggyBlop wrote on 2020-04-26, 18:53: CWCDOS still doesn’t find a SoundFusion chip. Does running cwcdos /v show anything more ?

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 18:48

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If it asks for the path to the drivers, point it toward the folder where you ran setup.exe from . Otherwise, you can update drivers from device manager and pointing to the folder where you ran setup.exe from

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-04-26, 18:43

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brostenen wrote on 2020-04-26, 18:39: I gave my breadbin (250407) a VIC-II cooler. The chip have a heatsink on it as well, making it an effective cooling solution. C64-Cooling.jpg That looks cool. Is the next step a water or mineral oil cooled C64? 😉 EDIT: maybe with an overclocked SuperCPU .

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 18:36

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If you need more detailed help along the way, feel free to ask .

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 18:27

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Once DOS support is working, copy the folder containing cwcdos.exe to c:\ , uninstall the vxd drivers, install the wdm drivers and Execute cwcdos.exe from its directory when needed (or put it in autoexec.bat) .

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 18:11

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Question: Do you know if those drivers you linked are .WDM? I’d like to use daemon tools for some games on my Win98SE computer. They are vxd, the wdm ones do not have pure DOS support . Once you have DOS support working, you could simply backup the Dworking DOS init utilities and install the wdm …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 17:58

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If cwcdos still does not work but you would like to press on trying to get it to work maybe you can start a thread about it. I have a CS4630 based card in storage, but have not used in over 15 years and did not use it in much in DOS ( used XP at the time), and do not remember what I used to …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 17:52

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if you can't get cwcdos.exe to at least detect the card, I suggest getting an other card with better native DOS support (ou should be able to disable this one in BIOS) .The PCI Crystal chips have a less than ideal OPL3 implementation anyway . If cwcdos.exe works, we can mobe on to the next step .

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 17:47

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OK, your best bet is installing this driver set https://web.archive.org/web/20041230172145/http://www.cirrus.com/en/software/drivers/audio/PV2885.zip by unzipping and running setup.exe under Windows . That should install everything you need . If the version of cwcdos.exe it installs still does not …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II problems

Posted on 2020-04-26, 17:31

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Thanks for that . Apparently, CS4280/CS4614/CS4624/CS4630 all have the same device IDs and similar functionality under DOS ( but different capabilities under Windows ) . The Windows 98 SE drivers I found do not seem to have pure DOS support at all . Let me dig a bit and I will get back to you this …

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