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Re: Which hard drives can you use with a Pentium 75 (socket 5) computer?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 05:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On Intel boards this is usually preserved during BIOS update as the image is located outside of the area flashable by fmup.exe with default settings. As far as I remember there was a separate utility for flashing OEM logo. But if you care, do a backup. Should live between EC000H and ECFFFH …

Re: Grand Theft Auto 1997 don't run in 3DFX mode in DOS

Posted on 2020-06-01, 09:02

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I should read more carefully. Shame on me 🤦

Re: Grand Theft Auto 1997 don't run in 3DFX mode in DOS

Posted on 2020-06-01, 08:11

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

yeah, try 66mhz bus speed. if that doesn't do it you'd have to get another cpu though as the multiplier is locked. Pentium II 300 is already 66MHz FSB CPU, but there is a good chance that multiplier is unlocked. (chance is even bigger for older Klamath processors). You probably can go down to 2.5x …

Re: Which hard drives can you use with a Pentium 75 (socket 5) computer?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 18:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Show us photo of the splash screen !

Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-05-30, 10:46

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

By the way I am also looking for more files, for examples, I don't know if somebody recorded games music in .DRO format. I found lot of .RAW in another Vogon thread. There are number of Adlib Files (archived from MELCOM chiptune archive) here: https://archive.org/details/chiptunes-back2roots-2005- …

Re: Which hard drives can you use with a Pentium 75 (socket 5) computer?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 20:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

According to Intel archived page, final bios version for this motherboard (not OEM) is 6 http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/AdvancedZP/ I found this BIOS here: ftp://soporte.uson.mx/DRIVERS/TARJETAS_MADRE/INTEL/Intel_Bios_Updates/BIOS_Updates/Intel/10006bs0.exe Here are more …

Re: Which hard drives can you use with a Pentium 75 (socket 5) computer?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 20:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

According to internet your motherboard is Intel Zappa. So there is for sure version 6 of the BIOS (now you have 4). There is also version 11 for Gateway 2000 OEM of this board. http://r3tr0.de/mirror/ftp.mpoli.fi/hardware/ … NTEL/index.html I would try to flash this bios.

Re: Which hard drives can you use with a Pentium 75 (socket 5) computer?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 19:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It really depends on BIOS. For hardware of this era there are 2 limits: 8GB or 32GB. If you are lucky you can find modded bios with those restrictions removed. If your BIOS vendor is AWARD, you can patch it by yourself using BIOS Patcher from http://www.rom.by/ http://www.rom.by/articles/BP/index_ …

Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-05-29, 18:26

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I would say It is better but not ideal. Still slowing it down results in more faithful playback. Full speed dx4/100 - speed test - 250'161 De-turbo dx4/100 - speed test - 33'129 adtrack2_004.dro - dx4 fullspeed mp3 adtrack2_004.dro - dx4 de-turbo mp3 onward_n.dro - dx4 fullspeed mp3 onward_n.dro - …

Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-05-29, 14:29

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Wow ! Just WOW ! I can confirm that now DRO files are played back perfectly fine on the "real thing". That was very fast ! Without a doubt this is the best module player for 16 bit PCs !

Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-05-28, 22:15

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

This new B19 still doesn't mute .dro files at the end. Other files are ok. Soundcard is CMI8330 on 286 CPU, and AZT2316/YMF718 on 486 CPU. On 486 CTRL+ALT+DELETE helps, on 286 only hard reset, or power toggle. Dosbox is ok, I observed this behavior only on real hardware. Also .dro player routine …

Re: Failed FN45 Socket A ITX board - where to start with diagnosis/repair?

Posted on 2020-05-28, 06:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Check CR2032 battery. I had similiar symptoms on socket 478 board once, because battery was dead and caused short circutit.

Re: Dell D505 - Win 98 drivers

Posted on 2020-05-28, 05:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DosFreak wrote on 2020-05-27, 13:36: Windows 3.1x should work but you'll likely just need to use generic VESA drivers for video. Sound card should be AC97, I don't know if there are Windows 3.x drivers for that or not. There are: http://turkeys4me.byethost4.com/programs/?i=2

Re: GLX Player the only XT player ? Check Mod Master...

Posted on 2020-05-27, 20:15

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Thank you FreddyV for extending Adlib support ! It would be great to see .a2m and .amd support some time... I've also tested some other files and it seems that all RAD files are ok. But SAT definitely sounds different than played by Surprise Adlib Tracker 2 itself. One more thing. Pressing escape …

Re: PCI Diamond Viper v550 16mb VS PCI Monster3D II 3Dfx Voodoo 8MB

Posted on 2020-05-27, 13:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mentalbass wrote on 2020-05-27, 09:09: Or leave the viper and passthrough it? I dont use the onboard matrox g200. As you wish 😀 Riva TNT is faster than G200 but both are from 1998. So comparison would be interesting. Moreover TNT is connected through PCI vs G200 AGP.

Re: PCI Diamond Viper v550 16mb VS PCI Monster3D II 3Dfx Voodoo 8MB

Posted on 2020-05-27, 07:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Your Vectra VEi8 has probably onboard Matrox G200, so.. Yes you can remove PCI Viper 550 and connect Voodoo passthrough cable to Matrox.

Re: Shuttle HOT 555 VER 1.41 BIOS

Posted on 2020-05-19, 12:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe flash memory is broken ? I had similar situation in the past. I've prepared bootdisk floppy with awdflash and bios.bin on it, with only one line in autoexec.bat (flashing command). Flashing procedure completed succesfully, and everything returned to normal state, well ...for some time. I've …

Re: SiS651 Chipset and Windows 98

Posted on 2020-05-15, 05:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are IGP and IDE drivers for this chipset for Windows 98 still on SIS site. http://w3.sis.com/download/ Try to install them and see what happens 😀

Re: Testing the waters with a 486 - MS-4145 board repair

Posted on 2020-05-14, 19:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

kikipcs wrote on 2020-05-14, 17:27: Dzięki! Couldn't find a proper explanation of what the different letters mean. 😀 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7400-series_int … grated_circuits Didn't noticed you're also Pole... https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seria_7400 Najciemniej pod latarnią, hehe 😉

Re: Testing the waters with a 486 - MS-4145 board repair

Posted on 2020-05-14, 17:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SN74F04D is OK. F - means fast, TTL levels of 0 and 1 HC - this is CMOS version, different voltage levels

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