Re: Munt with dosbox in Linux
Posted on 2007-10-09, 07:43
Someone made a patch for this: "i386.cpp:142: error: unknown register name ‘xmm3’ in ‘asm’ " error? My Linux distro does not have gcc 3 anymore.
Re: let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility
Posted on 2007-08-20, 20:28
Manufacturer name: MSI Graphics card name: MSI FX5200-TD64 GPU name: Geforce FX5200 AGP Comment: mode 0x0F has a bug: vertical lines on screen. The underline attribute in text mode does not work. I compared vbediag output of MSI FX5200-TD64 and Asus A8N-VM CSM. Except: OEM software rev: 4.52 to 5.81 …
Re: Voodoo 3/4/5: DVI?
Posted on 2007-08-20, 09:39
DVI specification was officially released in April 1999. So only cards released after April 1999 can have DVI. It is worth to know that sometimes card's manufacturers were adding DVI to GPUs released before year 1999. The oldest one I found is Riva TNT2 from Creative. It is just a matter of sticking …
Re: let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility
Posted on 2007-08-20, 00:29
@jthieme: impressive, thank you. Interesting. To my surprise ATI has so many modes - more than Nvidia. Another interesting thing is ATI/AMD has Vesa 3.0 support now. This is new (before only Nvidia, Voodoo, S3 Savage and recently Intel and Matrox since G550 used to have vesa 3.0). If you see older …
Re: let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility
Posted on 2007-08-17, 14:27
I found some tests on the net: == VBEDIAG v0.1 == VESA VBE version 2.00 OEM: 'ATI RADEON 9600 PRO' Capabilities: 00000001 = 8bitdac Total memory: 16777216 bytes = 16384 KiB = 16 MiB OEM software rev: 01.00 OEM vendor name: 'ATI Technologies Inc.' OEM product name: 'V350' OEM product rev: '01.00' …
Re: let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility
Posted on 2007-08-17, 14:16
People still use VDMSound and NTVDM? How quaint..... Are you requesting that people boot into MS-DOS to run these utilities or do you want them to run them from NTVDM? I use. Dosbox is too slow and not always necessary. 80% of my games works fast in vdms so why not using it. Pure DOS is the best …
let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility
Posted on 2007-08-17, 13:30
Good graphics card for DOS should have many screen modes and display them correctly. For people using VDMS for games it is important as only sound is emulated and video compatibility/quality depends on vbios of your graphics card (not so much on GPU as people may think). So if you have some time run …
Re: svga or vesa text mode
Posted on 2007-08-17, 12:43
Pretty sure Geforce cards have good support for all the vesa modes, and they run the normal real DOS text mode fine. Not integrated Geforces. I have Geforce 6150 (integrated on Asus A8N-VM CSM mobo) and vga graphics in fire & ice game http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/fire-ice is like a bit soup ( …
svga or vesa text mode
Posted on 2007-08-16, 18:05
I have Geforce 6150 and can not find vesa or svga text modes. Do you know any application which could show me them? I tried vgatest.exe and it has vesa text at no. 8 position but none modes are found. I need text mode: 1024x768 at 16 colors (may be more colors) for my Linux console. Vesa gfx modes …
Re: mouse: inport;serial;PS/2 -which one wastes less CPU resources?
Posted on 2007-02-03, 19:30
The best is PS/2 because: -LPC chip on motherboard decodes the packets which mouse sends (as original i8042 keyboard & mouse controller does). -As for hardware resources only rarely used IRQ12 is required for mouse (mouse uses i/o already used for keyboard: 60-64h). serial mouse disadvantages: - …
Re: mouse: inport;serial;PS/2 -which one wastes less CPU resources?
Posted on 2007-02-03, 17:23
You forgot USB mice. USB is not working in DOS. USB is not present in older computers. USB wastes the most CPU cycles and system resources in comparison to the other mouse types of connection (up to ~14% on modern machines are ate by usb mouse). The CPU consumption of other mouse connections is …
mouse: inport;serial;PS/2 -which one wastes less CPU resources?
Posted on 2007-02-03, 16:43
Which type of mouse connection wastes less CPU/Computer resources? Inport - a special ISA card with special mouse, does not hog CPU as bus mouse, serial - ordinary older mouse connected to RS-232C port known as COM1 PS/2 - ordinary round mini plug with 6 pins. Very popular today.
Re: Any games with PGA or 8514/A gfx modes support?
Posted on 2006-07-17, 11:06
None of games uses PGA or 8514/A
Re: Looking for prepgame file
Posted on 2006-07-14, 20:49
Re: Looking for prepgame file
Posted on 2006-07-14, 20:25
Maybe someone who has Driver CD for GUS PnP will share such file? file name should be prepgame.exe It patches dos4gw.exe and some other files but knowing whats wrong with dos4gw could help us to recover not only GUS PnP but other soundcards like SB16 for example which only works without drrriting in …
Re: Looking for prepgame file
Posted on 2006-07-14, 20:19
That was GUS patch bank. I have it. Prepgame comes from driver package of GUS PnP and fixes dos4gw.exe problem with 16bit DMA. Such fix could be good to heal many dos4gw games like setlers2 which has broken high dma due to broken dos4gw.
Looking for prepgame file
Posted on 2006-07-14, 15:53
Hello! I'm looking for prepgame file. It is said this file is a part of GUS driver suite for DOS. Where I can find this file or whole GUS driver pack for DOS? Prepgame should be placed inside GUS or GUS PnP driver pack. Gravis ftp and www site only has windows driver, google only says about such …
Re: [patch] DAC on LPT1, covox emulation added
Posted on 2006-07-07, 18:45
I run the game using PC speaker emulation. Now it is much better.
Re: [patch] DAC on LPT1, covox emulation added
Posted on 2006-07-07, 18:18
At the beginning the wind blows. If go on wall there is sound like from early arcade figting games. There is no background music in game. Only if I win battle with tentacle short music plays. Maybe you should adjust volume in ALSA? To hear it I have to move PCM slider to the 75%. There is ping when …
LPT DACs in stereo
Posted on 2006-07-06, 11:53
Hi! This patch is not finished yet. It is just the same as 'DAC on LPT1, covox emulation added' previous patch but with little fixes and first attempt to stereo implementation. I finally understood how LPT stereo DACs autodetection works and since this patch dosbox tells DOS applications about …
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