Re: First dos sound blaster game.
Posted on 2018-03-18, 16:35
First game that had a sound mode that required sound blaster and didn't work with earlier cards so that most likely means that it used sound effects too.
First dos sound blaster game.
Posted on 2018-03-18, 16:18
Does anyone know what was the first dos game released that had sound blaster support?
Re: Options to cover a 3.5" floppy slot in a case
Posted on 2018-03-17, 19:55
Why not put a floppy drive there even if it would not be connected to anything if you don't need it in that pc? it would at least give it the correct look.
Re: Athlon64 memory trouble.
Posted on 2018-03-16, 21:17
I was thinking that if getting better ram modules would help with the problem and I am going to have to spend money on ram, I might as well go to faster ram like trying to find fast g.skill, ocz or crucial PC4000 ram. Then money would be going to a ram speed upgrade as well in addition of increasing …
Re: Athlon64 memory trouble.
Posted on 2018-03-16, 20:25
It is the newest bios version you can get from asus site. All those kingston memory modules and apacer ones are DS. I have 2 identical apacer modules there and they work fine at 400mhz, T1 and 2.5-3-3-8 timings. Here is a picture of one of them: 20180316_221605[1].jpg I can't think of any other …
Re: Athlon64 memory trouble.
Posted on 2018-03-16, 19:47
If it would work at 333Mhz, would the reason for it not working at 400Mhz be because of the motherboard or the low quality of memory modules? Basically I am asking if getting better ram modules would help or is this limitation of the motherboard and memory controller?
Re: Athlon64 memory trouble.
Posted on 2018-03-16, 18:55
Here is a picture of kingston memory modules I have tried. Filename ram1gb.jpg File size 1.81 MiB Views 204 views
Athlon64 memory trouble.
Posted on 2018-03-16, 17:45
I recently built an Athlon64 system https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=58911 and I would like to be able upgrade the ram to 2Gb with 2 1Gb ddr memory modules in dual channel. I have many 1Gb DDR memory modules, most of them different models of kingston, but I don't seem to be able to make …
Re: 2 sound cards in one PC
Posted on 2018-03-14, 01:34
I guess I assumed it too that because yamaha card setup sets the dos joystick port, having a second pci card with joystick port would interfere. I just generally thought joystick ports were meant for dos, because by the time audigy 2 zs was released, I bet pretty much all joysticks meant to be used …
Re: 2 sound cards in one PC
Posted on 2018-03-13, 14:55
One of the cards is a card with Yamaha ymf724F-V chip that has joystick port and the second one is Sound blaster audigy 2 zs that has joystick port header on the card. I just got the audigy card today. Not really sure if the audigy joystick header only works as joystick port or does it work with …
2 sound cards in one PC
Posted on 2018-03-13, 12:34
I would like to use 2 sound cards in a same system. One of them for dos compatibility reasons and the other one just for windows use. Both of them have joystick/midi port. Does one of the joystick ports need to be disabled somehow for dos use if I want to use joystick or midi in dos games?
Re: Case fans running too slow?
Posted on 2018-03-12, 20:33
I think that it is only that the motherboard doesn't know what the max rpm of the fans are. If the rpm the fans are running are close to what their max rpm is, you can just ignore it or buy fans that have higher max rpm.
Re: 1.44 floppy problem in DOS 6.22
Posted on 2018-03-12, 14:51
With mysterious floppy related problems, I usually first try different floppy controller. It is reasonably easy thing to try to rule things out.
Re: Phil drops a graphics card benchmarking bombshell!
Posted on 2018-03-12, 00:49
I was just recently thinking about if I should get one of those fx series cards thinking that they might be the fastest graphics card that supported those older features like 8 bit paletted textures but after watching this video I started to doubt things.
Re: Something worth in this pile of cards ?
Posted on 2018-03-11, 21:21
Also one of the black connectors almost looks like it would only have 2 rows in the female connector, so might that be ega card? I can't be absolutely sure because of low resolution of the pictures, but it looked like that to me.
Re: Something worth in this pile of cards ?
Posted on 2018-03-11, 20:45
I think it depends on what you are looking for. Video cards that have only one black colored vga interface have a chance to be something usable in retro systems and same with sound cards that don't have colored connectors. The sound card with colored connectors and black board reminds me of sound …
Re: Phil drops a graphics card benchmarking bombshell!
Posted on 2018-03-11, 00:42
Also I would have wanted 82.69 driver version to be tested, because I have read that they fixed many bugs in that version and it would have been nice to see if the upwards trend would have continued in performance after the last driver version Phil tested.
Re: Phil drops a graphics card benchmarking bombshell!
Posted on 2018-03-11, 00:08
You are most likely right. Later made drivers most likely expect faster cpu to be used with them and the system used to test the drivers probably have had faster cpu as well. It might not be possible, but it would be nice to see gpu and cpu load % values when doing a test like this.
Re: PINNACLE SYSTEMS IAGO ASSY 172320 REV.E3
Posted on 2018-03-10, 23:57
Most likely has some kind of industrial use . Perhaps it is used to run some special display and doesn't output signal that normal displays understand. If it has an FCC ID, it could be often used to find out it's purpose.
Re: Something for lovers of bad video cards (youtube)
Posted on 2018-03-10, 21:38
I have a laptop that has that trident blade xp and it goes through 3dmark01 and I get similar results as I would get using voodoo3, so I wouldn't really call it a bad chip. Also it seems very compatible with dos. I have gotten no visual glitches in any dos game I have tried. I am sure it was …
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