Re: What's up with all those Setmul switches?

Posted on 2017-09-15, 19:51

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by gerwin

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That's my observation, as well. Being able to toggle between 233 and 100 would be even more versatile. That is a nice graph! It will come in handy. These four lines complement eachother nicely to get a good coverage of SpeedSys values. Yeah unfortunately my SS7 board doesn't do 50 FSB. I don't …

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Re: Any notable difference in Sound Blaster / Pro 16 emulation?

Posted on 2017-09-15, 15:20

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by gerwin

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. Dark Sun - Wake of the Ravager, info from SOUND.INI: Sound Blaster Regular Digital Driver: sbfm.adv Digital Driver: sbdig.adv Sound Blaster Pro I Midi Driver: sbp1fm.adv Digital Driver: sbpdig.adv Sound Blaster Pro II Midi Driver: sbp2fm.adv Digital Driver: sbpdig.adv Sound Blaster Pro III Midi …

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Re: Voodoo 3 PCI - no voltage concerns?

Posted on 2017-09-14, 17:17

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by gerwin

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If you care for your fingers; Don't touch the VRM on a Voodoo 3 PCI.

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Re: Ess 1869f isa sound card.

Posted on 2017-09-14, 15:16

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by gerwin

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I am sure it should show a message, Since the second ESSVOL line is there to show a message of the volume settings. You may need to read/learn more about MS-DOS basics, since you seem to have difficulties with running simple programs in DOS.

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Re: What's up with all those Setmul switches?

Posted on 2017-09-14, 01:45

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by gerwin

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Great work! Just what I was curious about. That is indeed a lot of different speeds. I actually knew you had submitted such tests, but did not fully realise it already proved that TR12 options are present on the ordinary 233 MMX. I am too busy with other things I guess. (I suppose there can be even …

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Re: What's up with all those Setmul switches?

Posted on 2017-09-14, 00:45

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by gerwin

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After that I also tried it with one of my Pentium MMX processors, 200 or 233MHz (P55C): The TR12 switches no longer had any effect. I have to correct myself here. I just tried out all my Pentium MMX processors with the SetMul TR12 options, while benching them with SpeedSys before and after. Pentium …

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Re: SFF DOS box with VIA C3 (Neoware CA2)

Posted on 2017-09-13, 18:49

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by gerwin

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It runs anything i have thrown at it so far, and very fast. A bit too fast actually, and my version of moslo does not seem to work on it (as the only program not working on it unfortunately). Interesting little system you have there. The cool thing is that you can still decide on what ISA soundcard …

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Re: Ess 1869f isa sound card.

Posted on 2017-09-13, 18:41

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by gerwin

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Open go.bat in that package to see the example. The lines with REM in front are commented out so only the lines below matter. I put the folder name you mentioned in front. If you put the lines below in your autoexec.bat it should work. The bottom two lines are about the volume settings. c:\dos\ …

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Re: Looking for a good Airplane Game

Posted on 2017-09-12, 19:19

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by gerwin

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Since no one else does, I recommend Strike Fighters series 1 and 2 . All of them run fine in Windows XP, except 'North Atlantic' which requires some tweaks for XP. The '2' series can be automatically merged into a single game with the combined content. https://store.thirdwire.com/store_w7_all.htm# …

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Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle

Posted on 2017-09-11, 16:08

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by gerwin

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I enjoyed some of those Books that he wrote together with Niven. Sorry he is gone.

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2017-09-11, 01:56

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by gerwin

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Upload no. 19 is available: -Fix in GUS-PnP driver detection routine, as it messed up the WSS driver in PCem v12. -More consistency between SB16, WSS and GUS-PnP drivers. -Increasedd DMA buffer size on SB16 sound hardware, to minimize Midi problems; 4096kB for SB16 DSP v4.11, 4.12, 4.13 / 2048kB …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2017-09-06, 16:19

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by gerwin

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SquallStrife It is not really important, but the text line-height is not entirely proper. Text can overlap the text below it. It has always been that way. I think if you just remove line-height styles it should correct itself. Using Firefox here.

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Re: How to bring back GPU Scaling in Catalyst Control Center?

Posted on 2017-09-05, 17:56

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by gerwin

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Screenshot of the 20(11)-10 driver I am using on a Windows XP system. Using it with atioglxx.dll OpenGL driver version (20)11-5. This scaling option works well and I would hate to do without it. Intel HD Graphics have this scaling option too, but the option only appears when the desktop resolution …

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Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter

Posted on 2017-09-05, 00:15

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by gerwin

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Nice work, as always! If you happen to have one SimmConn to spare in the future, maybe I should upgrade my dusty AWE64Gold.

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2017-09-04, 23:46

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by gerwin

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A technical note on the possible lockup with the Sound Blaster 16 cards, when using digital effects together with the build in MPU-401 Midi interface. This is a problem also found in other games. As discussed earlier the patch SBMPU401.EXE (inside waveptch.exe) offered by Creative prevents such …

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Re: AWE64 clicking on FM

Posted on 2017-09-03, 21:11

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by gerwin

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Good find!

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Re: VIA C3 Nehemiah vs. Coppermine(-128) and Tualatin

Posted on 2017-09-02, 20:05

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by gerwin

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I have seen that too. But that may be because of a lazy/uninformed former user. These boards have the 'voodoo jumpers' which need to be set for power hungry video cards, including Voodoo 3 and Geforce. If not then the VRM near the AGP slot will get very hot and the capacitors near it will suffer.

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Re: VIA C3 Nehemiah vs. Coppermine(-128) and Tualatin

Posted on 2017-09-02, 19:23

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by gerwin

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I may have given you a false alarm on the caps. I just partly recapped mine with new 330uF ones. I still had an occasional refusal to bootup, and then found that the board boots again when changing that red jumper J15 near the battery to the closed position. open= Soft Off (default) / close=Full on. …

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Re: AWE64 clicking on FM

Posted on 2017-09-02, 19:04

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by gerwin

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Weird stuff. But at least there might be a solution in the line of what you are currently trying. What if you just switch the order of these two lines, like this:? C:\SB16\AWEUTIL.COM /S /R:10 /C:10 C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S The system that I was using at the time was i440BX based. Either from Aopen or …

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Re: AWE64 clicking on FM

Posted on 2017-09-02, 15:44

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by gerwin

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olivil wrote: Any of you experienced something similar? Yes, I perceived the same FM issue when I tried an AWE64 gold. But I did not try to solve it. I swapped out the AWE64 gold for another soundcard. I know this does not help much.

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