Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2016-11-03, 12:24

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Overclocking old hardware, is just too fragile and not healthy in the long-run. Especially when now, it is super-rare and expansive to buy/own SS7 motherboards... Well, in this generation, you are not really overclocking the board, just the CPU - by selecting a combination of bus and multiplier …

---

Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2016-11-02, 16:42

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No 1: Aopen AX59PRO This was the board they originally put in my K6-II system. I seem to recall it was nice, but after about 1.5 years it failed. My system was bought as part of a batch for this college, and the main technician there told me after the fact that many of these AX59-Pro failed for …

---

Re: Possible to have 4 different windows installs on the same drive?

Posted on 2016-11-02, 14:02

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@dr_st True, albeit it is close to it. And WfW 3.11 does things an OS also does. Like controlling the disk directly (FastDisk), using VFAT or writing to a swapfile. And networking also is a thing. Novell sold Network OSes that ran on DOS. So strictly speaking, WfW can be considered as a primitve …

---

Re: Possible to have 4 different windows installs on the same drive?

Posted on 2016-11-01, 19:27

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If it's Windows 3.x, which is not a real OS, then yes.

---

Re: AWE64 not working in Rise of the Triad

Posted on 2016-11-01, 14:15

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

bristlehog wrote: So, add DEVICE=C:\DRIVERS\CTCM.EXE to your config.sys file. No. Just run CTCM from AUTOEXEC.BAT. It does not need to stay resident; no need to treat it like a device driver. Looks like it's high time for me to install RoTT and see how it works with my AWE64...

---

Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2016-10-31, 13:49

by

by dr_st

in DOS

in DOS

After a couple of months of joint research with James-F , all our findings have been summarized in the following write-up: https://cloakedthargoid.wordpress.com/mk1-dos-versions/ In the process, I discovered a couple of interesting things that I did not know. In particular: Switch 6: Moon …

---

Re: Why 478 and not 775?

Posted on 2016-10-31, 07:43

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

you can find faster CPUs for the 478 socket then you can for socket A - namely 3.4 and 3.6 GHz pentium 4's. There's also 64 bit compatible 478 CPUs. As such, the faster socket 478 PC money can buy is faster then the fastest socket A machine. This is sort of a mute point, since you could comfortably …

---

Re: Retro Gaming Laptops Win9x and XP

Posted on 2016-10-25, 14:58

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Like dr_st, I too have a T60 with a Radeon Mobility X1400 and 15" widescreen display. It's built like a tank. I currently run Win7 on it, but I think it would make an outstanding XP gaming laptop. The X1400's performance is comparable to a GF4 Ti4600 or Radeon 9600XT. So, think 2003-ish gaming. …

---

Re: IPS monitors with real 70 Hz support ?

Posted on 2016-10-24, 19:09

by

by dr_st

in Milliways

in Milliways

My Dell U2410 (IPS) does 720x400 and 640x400 at 70Hz but it skips frames because the panel itself is locked to 60Hz even though the display accepts 70Hz at that resolutions correctly. The 2209WA can supposedly be 'overclocked' to up to 75Hz without dropping frames. I wonder if the U2410 can too. …

---

Re: Retro Gaming Laptops Win9x and XP

Posted on 2016-10-24, 19:05

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had two T42s and i wont recommend buying one now. They are notorious for developing problems with the Radeon GPUs detaching themselves from the motherboard. They have other problems too. The Southbridge chip likes to get 'detached' as well. Late T42s and all T43s had the GPU soldering …

---

Re: Retro Gaming Laptops Win9x and XP

Posted on 2016-10-24, 16:02

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

t42 or t43 look interesting for win9x/dos gaming. For DOS - not really. Audio device is not DOS-compatible. For Win9x/WinXP - sure. is the 14" display as god as the 15.4 ? No. Only the 15" SXGA+/UXGA displays on these models are good (IPS). And even they are not so good for gaming , because the …

---

Re: SB AWE64 ISA versions and soundfont size

Posted on 2016-10-24, 12:44

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is a better page for AWE64-specific stuff, which has already been mentioned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_AWE64

---

Re: Games with Adlib as an option for sound effects

Posted on 2016-10-24, 10:03

by

by dr_st

in DOS

in DOS

Duke Nukem II

---

Re: SB emulation on GUS

Posted on 2016-10-23, 12:39

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the SB emulation is not perfect, this makes the GUS not a great card as a single card for a wide range of DOS games. A better option would be an AWE64 or, if you are not a fan of Creative's FM/synth implementations - a good OPL3 card + MIDI daughterboard via wavetable header, like the Audician 32 …

---

Re: Games with Adlib as an option for sound effects

Posted on 2016-10-22, 21:39

by

by dr_st

in DOS

in DOS

The first Mortal Kombat also has some effects in Adlib mode. Not as rich as in SB mode, though.

---

Re: SB Pro and SB32

Posted on 2016-10-22, 21:25

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On this particular model? In general, I don't think it's true for AWE cards.

---

Re: SB Pro and SB32

Posted on 2016-10-22, 20:59

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

RJDog wrote: Neither have perfect OPL-3 clones but the CMI8330 does not have the infamous hanging note bug that the CT3600 does. Do you plan to connect it to external MIDI so that you care about the hanging note bug?

---

Re: Why 478 and not 775?

Posted on 2016-10-22, 08:36

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I never had a problem with a SATA2/3 drive on a SATA1 board. No jumpers were needed. I think only some stupid drives like WD need jumpers. Might also be some specific stupid boards.

---

Re: SB AWE64 ISA versions and soundfont size

Posted on 2016-10-22, 08:28

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I fixed the main Wikipedia page.

---

Re: Why 478 and not 775?

Posted on 2016-10-18, 05:52

by

by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And really late socket 775 is really Vista/7 territory, although they retain full compatibility with XP.

---