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Re: where to get the hardware?

Posted on 2023-01-01, 21:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also only few games will profit immensely from 3Dfx hardware and with current prices it's hardly worth it over what a cheap GeForce 4MX will deliver. Slowdown utilities and Glide emulation deliver pretty good results too. The only exception are the DOS games that supports Glide without having to …

DOS Glide 2.4x Mod for Voodoo2

Posted on 2023-01-01, 21:34

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

This seems pointless at first but over the years I have heard that very few DOS games that uses the Glide API usually doesn't work with Voodoo2 cards according to the compatibility matrix: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=35721 This was the only reason to get the original Voodoo Graphics …

Re: where to get the hardware?

Posted on 2023-01-01, 20:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also only few games will profit immensely from 3Dfx hardware and with current prices it's hardly worth it over what a cheap GeForce 4MX will deliver. Slowdown utilities and Glide emulation deliver pretty good results too. The only exception are the DOS games that supports Glide without having to …

Re: Aztech AT6800W (AZT2320 chip) Windows Sound System issue

Posted on 2023-01-01, 20:13

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Marco wrote on 2023-01-01, 20:00: In Iplay resp isetup I cannot even select WSS as it isn’t listed 😒 In ISETUP, it does appear as "Windows Sound System" after selecting "Select Sound Device". Strange if it didn't appear in your case. 😐

Re: ESFM reverse-engineered

Posted on 2023-01-01, 19:01

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Excellent! 👍

Re: memory A000:0000 - A000:FFFF is in use. Pleaese exclude it from your memory manager

Posted on 2023-01-01, 15:38

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Ok, I was wrong. By default, the emulated video card in DOSBox is a souped up S3 Trio64. Found the version 1.89 of that program, and the installation went fine by selecting the "Internal" VESA and standard VGA drivers. Keep in mind that DOSBox doesn't have adequate support for 24bpp VESA modes.

Re: Happy New Year 2023

Posted on 2023-01-01, 05:01

in Milliways

in Milliways

Happy New Year from UTC-5!

Re: Video games are too heavily monetized these days

Posted on 2023-01-01, 04:46

in Milliways

in Milliways

Thats why a love the older games like XT and so one.. A game doesnt have to be look technically high-end to give you pleasure.. The older games are nicer because are a lot simpler. Today only graphics seems to have a big role, if a game looks good.. Wolfenstein 3-D, DOOM and Quake (all of them from …

Re: Aztech AT6800W (AZT2320 chip) Windows Sound System issue

Posted on 2023-01-01, 01:53

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I got best results when setting the DMA channel to 0 for WSS stuff.

Re: SSC1 - SC-55 - MT32 - LAPC-I - what are the practical differences between these?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 23:44

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

but for some reason the OP still insist on getting an internal Roland hardware according to his words. :P In fairness, aside from the price there isn't anything wrong with getting a Roland SCC-1. A genuine SC-55 sound bank plus MPU401 support (w/ intelligent mode) isn't a bad package. Indeed, there …

Re: Memmaker breaks CD-ROM drive

Posted on 2022-12-31, 23:32

in DOS

in DOS

Does the CD driver and/or MSCDEX gets loaded with the optimized CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT created by MEMMAKER? darry wrote on 2022-12-31, 23:17: What do you mean by "remove memmaker" ? I think the OP means that the changes were reverted. Apparently, his English isn't good enough given the " …

Re: SSC1 - SC-55 - MT32 - LAPC-I - what are the practical differences between these?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 23:07

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'd highly recommend PCMIDI card with WP32 McCake. It takes only one ISA slot and you have it all mentioned (and more with soundfonts), and it's inside PC. Can't believe no one mentioned it yet. :) I was originally intending to mention that MPU-401 clone to pair it with a DreamBlaster X2GS (which …

Re: Motoracer 1 Direct 3d on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-12-31, 17:35

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

If possible, try using an older nVidia driver that the GeForce4 MX 440 supports. Later ones have compatibility issues. Another thing, did you deliberately stick to DirectX 4 (never released)? Even installing that unofficial service pack for Windows 98 (which I don't recommend) with all the official …

Re: memory A000:0000 - A000:FFFF is in use. Pleaese exclude it from your memory manager

Posted on 2022-12-31, 17:00

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Hello. It is probably that this Display software comes from an era that predates EGA and VGA compatible cards. Video cards prior these standards didn't use the entire A0000 memory space for video RAM. BTW, DOSBox isn't suitable for non-gaming stuff.

Re: SSC1 - SC-55 - MT32 - LAPC-I - what are the practical differences between these?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 13:48

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Given the other thread of yours about sound cards: a SB16 or AWE32 that has the CT1747 bus chip. One of them is the SB16 CT2230 which aren't hard to find.

Re: SSC1 - SC-55 - MT32 - LAPC-I - what are the practical differences between these?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 02:06

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

AlessandroB wrote on 2022-12-30, 14:25: Ok, i will take an SCC-1. Can you help me to set this card? i really never seen one Seriously, just simply get a DreamBlaster X2GS daughterboard which is way more affordable than an SCC-1 and being way less complicated for a MIDI setup.

Re: Aztech AT6800W (AZT2320 chip) Windows Sound System issue

Posted on 2022-12-30, 21:44

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I also had issues using WSS mode in DOS with an Aztech sound card that uses AZT2316 chip, the initialization is quite incomplete. One workaround was running Inertia Player 1.22 with WSS configured, after exiting everything else worked fine until I switched back to SBPro mode. However, I don't know …

Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

Posted on 2022-12-30, 15:50

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hi sorry the bump, do you knlw how to check if my dx4 75 support vme and use in qemm? thanks The issue with VME is only relevant for modern stuff, QEMM works fine with the 486 CPU that you are using. I want to squeeze my 486, if suport vme maybe i can get a extra fps in doom... Using vm86 mode in …

Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?

Posted on 2022-12-30, 15:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

What does Qemm did beter, what EMM386 cant? QEMM 7 or higher supports Enhanced V86 - you know, that feature that Ryzen totally messed up.. ;) Enhanced V86 aka VME can trap interrupts and so on an was introduced with the 586 or late 486es. http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/Jan98/Jan98.html Anyway, neither …

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

Posted on 2022-12-30, 14:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

^ That's from a Lian Li computer case, I recall that LGR did a review about this.

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