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CompactFlash and controller compatibility

Posted on 2018-02-26, 21:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello everyone, So I've been trying to use for a while now a few CompactFlash cards from different manufacturers on different systems, using on-board VIA, and ALi controllers, and add-on PCI controllers such as the Promise Ultra100 TX2 and the Sil0680 and honestly reliability, or should I say, …

Re: Old 5x86 needs some help

Posted on 2018-02-20, 21:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like a PC CHIPS M919. v3.4B with fake cache chips installed (top right corner) and no COAST module (real cache addon). You'll see it boot with a 256KB WRITE BACK CACHE installed message, but its all tom foolery. oops, looks like I jumped the gun, and it has been identified... This is a board …

Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter

Posted on 2018-02-20, 21:41

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

33oldnew wrote: One gold for me, if possible, preferred soldered. ditto. 😀

Re: AWE 64 Gold - Audio output VERY low

Posted on 2018-02-16, 16:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hello all, I have recently taken my old awe 64 gold out of the cupboard and started tinkering with it. All was running fine for about 1 hour, then the audio volume level dropped dramatically. Then I tested the output of the card via SPIDIF and works ok, but on the analog line out I need to crank it …

Re: Switching DOS into REAL mode

Posted on 2018-02-16, 16:37

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

You can only switch from real mode to protected mode, but not vice-versa. To get back to real mode, you must reset the CPU (note: the CPU, not the system, which can be done in software with tricks). It's only the 286 that needed to be reset. 386+ are perfectly capable of exiting protected mode. But …

Re: Help to Code Bootup Options in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat

Posted on 2018-02-14, 22:36

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

dr_st wrote: Yep, that's much more elegant. But why don't you just use CuteMouse like everyone else? It's likely you will not need the different mouse driver configs. I can vouch for cutemouse. It uses negligible ressources. I use it in all my configs.

Re: AWE 64 Gold - Audio output VERY low

Posted on 2018-02-13, 21:11

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Have you tried midi (EMU chip) and digital audio?

Re: Help to Code Bootup Options in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat

Posted on 2018-02-13, 20:09

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

My single config gives me XMS, EMS, mouse, CDROM and audio (+DOSKey, a personal favorite of mine), with 621KB of free conventional memory (624KB if IFSHLP/DBLBUFF are excluded). How did you get that much free memory with MSCDEX loaded? As for cases where EMM386 is an issue is when I need to be able …

Re: Help to Code Bootup Options in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat

Posted on 2018-02-13, 17:16

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

In general, Config.sys boot options is one of these things where I found that people mess way too much with them. It seems that people get into the mindset that if a feature exists, then it must be good for something and so should be used gratuitously. I used to do this myself, and then I found out …

Re: Can't set up a Gravis Ultrasound PNP

Posted on 2018-02-12, 21:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

btw, I don't want to hijack this tread but has anyone used the iwavecfg.exe v1.3 tool to manually force the GUS Pnp ressources to specific values? I noticed that once I did, I was unable to flash the card back using official Gravis ROM tools as it no longer recognized the card. You mean PNPMAP? You …

Re: 9 Pin Serial Port Help

Posted on 2018-02-12, 21:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Same exact problem. You can fix it yourself with minimal effort. No mouse? and Serial port pinout discrepancies

Re: Can't set up a Gravis Ultrasound PNP

Posted on 2018-02-12, 20:33

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

btw, I don't want to hijack this tread but has anyone used the iwavecfg.exe v1.3 tool to manually force the GUS Pnp ressources to specific values? I noticed that once I did, I was unable to flash the card back using official Gravis ROM tools as it no longer recognized the card.

Re: Help to Code Bootup Options in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat

Posted on 2018-02-12, 20:21

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Completely pointless, as %config% contains the name of the selected menu item automatically. I thought so too initially but could not find a clean way of managing the wide range of different configurations I had. How would you handle different configs such as: - Conventional memory - XMS - EMM386 …

Re: Can't set up a Gravis Ultrasound PNP

Posted on 2018-02-12, 20:03

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Good question. I'm at work, and should be working harder. 😀

Re: Help to Code Bootup Options in Config.sys and Autoexec.bat

Posted on 2018-02-12, 20:01

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I had a similar situation where I needed more control over options from my config.sys file. Like, say you also use the boot menu to run things like softMPU which only works if EMM386 is loaded, or conversely MXK6OPT which can only run if it isn't. You can use SET xxx=yyy as early as config.sys in …

Re: Can't set up a Gravis Ultrasound PNP

Posted on 2018-02-12, 19:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Here is iwinit -v9 output. I don't know how to paginate command output under DOS, but it seems like nothing important has been cut off: http://i.imgur.com/GepUvZrm.jpg Dude, you have 0 bytes of DRAM and you have IRQs > 9, this will have little to no chance of working with DOS games. Stick to IRQ 7 …

Re: no mouse and serial port pinout discrepancies

Posted on 2018-02-11, 03:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I hope this helps some of you to fix/resolder new serial port slot adapters to work on old machines.

No mouse? and Serial port pinout discrepancies

Posted on 2018-02-11, 03:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello everyone, So I discovered something today while trying to get a serial mouse working on my 486. It would seem that older machines with serial port headers differed from the pentium era and up. Basically, I thought I was losing my mind when all I was unable to get any serial ports working …

Re: Doom 1 Hard reset

Posted on 2018-02-09, 18:26

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

THIS --> Xs1nX wrote: Got a link to the 2.01 floppy image ? i cant find it. Please 😎

Re: Doom 1 Hard reset

Posted on 2018-02-06, 22:13

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

What soundcard do you use? and what settings? Are you using a memory manager? For best compatibility with old games, I'd suggest IO:220, IRQ:7 and DMA:1 assuming you use a soundblaster-type card. Just be sure your LPT1 port is disabled or assigned to a different IRQ. Cheers

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