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Re: Windows 98 framerate feels choppy

Posted on 2020-04-19, 08:21

the driver is too new imho PaddyWi wrote on 08 : 23 ; 18-04-2020: On Win9x, the mouse never moves as smooth as on any NT-based Windows. why? is there some interpolation that i can turn off?

Re: how can i run php3 and php4 on modern computers?

Posted on 2020-04-16, 01:49

by mrau

in PC Emulation

this is open source i thought - why dont You build it for yourself?

Re: Using VIA VT8231 South Bridge for sound blaster pro emulation

Posted on 2020-04-10, 10:47

by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

is it feasible to move such a chip to a separate pcb and use just the sb part of it?

Re: Pentium III + Windows 98, Slow network transfers

Posted on 2020-04-08, 18:33

by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

not sure this will help i believe many cards offer full offloading only on winnt but not on win 3 and 4 i also remember some simple settings were very suboptimal in windows 4 out of box, not sure whether it was about frames or timing;

Re: Vogons streaming announcement thread

Posted on 2020-04-05, 20:18

by mrau

in Milliways

it says there, if i got this right, that executing specialized code per frame is faster than just transferring a set of ascii characters and ascii character changes(for more accurate shapes)? a screen is 1k chars, changes may be some additional 100chars per frame max (it can be done without …

Re: Vogons streaming announcement thread

Posted on 2020-04-05, 00:35

by mrau

in Milliways

what would it take for such a thing to be semi watchable on a medium speed 286? live of course

Re: DOOM under FreeDOS in QEMU with sb16 emulation has no visual

Posted on 2020-02-07, 00:23

by mrau

in PC Emulation

only game with issues? other dos working better? what's your cpu? tried alternative doom engines?

Re: Disk cache drops performance massively

Posted on 2020-02-03, 00:46

by mrau

in Marvin \ Software

AvalonH wrote on 2020-02-01, 11:43: Speedsys 4.78 is not accurate, this promise controller shows 1.2GB/s transfer speed in it's disk benchmark. maybe that is the checking speed? that is not a real world value i believe why can't i edit my old post to add this there?

Re: Disk cache drops performance massively

Posted on 2020-02-03, 00:43

by mrau

in Marvin \ Software

Under plain DOS I get over 30 MB/s so dma must be enabled already? lower performance in windows will come from copying of content which is not required in dos; the additional loss of performance comes from system load and maybe You can confirm that by comparing performance of a simple loop in all 3 …

Re: 16 Bit Sound Cards in XT (8086/8088)

Posted on 2020-01-12, 05:02

by mrau

in Marvin \ Sound

wasnt playing wav over gus extra cpu intensive? would this become any easier if the cdrom was attached to sound integrated ide? or maybe scsi is the way to go? cdroms on such old machines will often play cdaudio without software support - hence 0% cpu usage might be possible? whats the use of …

Re: On "time-accuracy," and whether it's worth it.

Posted on 2019-11-28, 02:49

by mrau

in Milliways

its an individual thing id say - i personally value other things but i can fully appreciate a nice setup with proper software and config; i suppose its about a sensitivity to historic market evolution and ocd-ish precision in parameters of the selected parts; a 486 with a tnt2 is a nice thing to …

Re: The Asperger's Syndrome Thread

Posted on 2019-11-23, 19:34

by mrau

in Milliways

i have not been diagnosed but i im almost certainly autistic (people notice this 'something' about me) and i did focus too much on singular topics in the past, social incompetence is strong with this one too; i did hear a few more serious terms for my mind state as well though, no idea if these …

Re: Depression is a bitch, yet this is what I have been working on....

Posted on 2019-11-21, 23:26

by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what weighs you down? You know.... Just life in general. Having Aspergers syndrome my self, having a daughter with ADD and Asperger in severe degree and a son with ADHD and infantil autism. Their mother gotten schlerose. My girlfriend have schitzofrenia. Me, having to do everything at home, cooking …

Re: Depression is a bitch, yet this is what I have been working on....

Posted on 2019-11-21, 20:45

by mrau

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what weighs you down?

Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2019-11-12, 23:56

by mrau

in Milliways

how much use is lotus now compared to excel and co? i suppose it was very primitive? it says 3 analytical functions on the box.. how much data could one process in this?

Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2019-09-21, 16:10

by mrau

in Marvin \ Software

i believe he means that the fat should be the physical root of the fstree; im not sure how hard that is, filename length constrains may be an issue, respecting letter size should not be, presence of attributes should not be an issue either - or so believe