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Re: ABIT VT7 Via PT880 Motherboard

Posted on 2017-04-29, 06:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I agree with Phil that the i865 is the most robust Socket 478 platform to go with, but I think this ABit board might be an interesting project. The VIA P4 boards were kind of weird. They sold for a little while for the simple reason that Intel refused to sell a DDR RAM based chipset (because RDRAM …

Re: SB16 System Requirements.

Posted on 2017-04-29, 06:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In all honesty, the SB Pro 2 or something fully SB Pro compatible is probably a better choice for this machine. You will never be using it to play MP3s via MPXPlay or running a game which supports high sample rate audio like Crusader: No Remorse, and no SB16 card supports all the stereo capabilities …

Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS

Posted on 2017-04-29, 05:55

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

According what i've seen here on vogons, the YMF-724 and the ESS solo-1 are the only pci soundcards with sb-link interface, right? Also cards with the FM801 chipset and some Crystal Semi based cards. I believe there were a handful of Soundblaster 16 PCI cards that also had PC/PCI headers but I'm …

Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2017-04-29, 05:45

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

The CIF version of MW2 is certainly playable and a nice upgrade to the software renderer, although it's inferior to all the other MW2 ports to proprietary graphics APIs.

Re: Somebody who know the name of this AMD card?

Posted on 2017-04-29, 05:40

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Bah, stupid me. I believe your card doesn't have support in 98 SE (last card was x850, I believe). However, the same issue holds true with XP, as the OS only has DX90c available.

Re: Sound Blaster Emulator for Dos?

Posted on 2017-04-29, 05:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

That's still a virtualised instance of DOS in DOS. Ideally, we'd have something which both intercepts real mode and p-mode hardware access to typical Soundblaster resources and redirects to an Intel HDA driver.

Re: Somebody who know the name of this AMD card?

Posted on 2017-04-28, 18:43

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

It should be quick, but you won't be able to use an DX10+ features (except perhaps via the OpenGL driver).

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

Posted on 2017-04-28, 18:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Kamerat wrote: VHS players that supported "Hi-Fi" were capable of near CD quality audio. 😀 With the right adapter, Betamax decks were used for digital PCM recording prior to the advent of DAT.

Re: Help! HIMEM errors after Enabling L2 Cache

Posted on 2017-04-28, 18:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Speedsys checks memory performance across the various step sizes, so you can see were caches are in effect. http://forum.benchmarkreviews.com/showthread.php?p=15023

Re: Explain to me 2 sound card setups.

Posted on 2017-04-28, 18:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And connecting two outputs together is never a good idea, sound cards may have speaker outputs driven by speaker amplifier that runs from 12 volts, so they would be fighting hard against each other. Line outputs that are driven by simple operational amplifiers might work but it's really better not …

Re: Confused about X-Wing/TIE Fighter versions (GOG especially)

Posted on 2017-04-28, 18:04

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

This can be solved with DOSBox or a highly flexible slowdown machine (C3 Ezra/K6-2+/P5 with TR12 registers).

Re: Sound Blaster Emulator for Dos?

Posted on 2017-04-28, 18:01

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hmm... that only works for Win32 calls, no? Maybe something could be done via port trapping, but I understand there are limitations on that. http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/mix_entry.php?id=11947 Three immediate options I see: 1) Build a native DOS machine with ISA or compatible PCI sound …

Re: Searching for ASUS P/I-XP55T2P4 - U7 Chip

Posted on 2017-04-28, 07:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Referring more to OP as it would cut down on some additional shipping costs.

Re: Help! HIMEM errors after Enabling L2 Cache

Posted on 2017-04-28, 05:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

feipoa wrote: Its a PC Chips board? I'm not surprised at all by your troubles. I wouldn't be so quick to blaim the COAST module. Did PC Chips ever make fake pipeline burst cache? PC Chips and fake components? Was water ever wet?

Re: SB16 System Requirements.

Posted on 2017-04-28, 04:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You might have some more hoops to jump through if it's PnP, but I see no reason why not.

Re: SBPro (CT1330A) + LAPC-I, Best System for em?

Posted on 2017-04-28, 04:41

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Cards that require -5V: ISA Cards & Devices Requiring -5V TL:DR, it's not that many.

Re: Help! HIMEM errors after Enabling L2 Cache

Posted on 2017-04-27, 20:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is this your motherboard? http://motherboards.mbarron.net/models/pcchips/m525.htm

Re: Compaq Presario 2240

Posted on 2017-04-27, 19:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Socket 7 Pentium II? What is this witchcraft?

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2017-04-27, 16:59

in Milliways

in Milliways

To be honest I was expecting a serious answer. Or no answer. Asking a question can't be against the rules. I can rewrite it to something else like "omg where did u get this, can't find it anywhere..' the point stays the same. Looks to me that you are oversensitive. I don't take this site to be any …

Re: Searching for ASUS P/I-XP55T2P4 - U7 Chip

Posted on 2017-04-27, 16:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here's one using a parallel port: http://elm-chan.org/works/pgal/report_e.html Or you can just get a G540 for around 50 USD.

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