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Re: ATI Graphics Solution

Posted on 2019-06-07, 17:00

I have one question after reading thru the entire thread... Back in the Wolfenstein/Doom era, it was commonly believed that one of the major reasons why Amiga can't into 3D is the fact it only has bitplanes, and not chunky. Now I've learned that both Wolfenstein and Doom, on a PC, use... bitplanes, …

Re: ES1869 Audio Questions

Posted on 2019-06-05, 08:36

is there a way to get DOSBox to emulate this card? No. ES1869 is basically SB Pro 2 (which Dosbox does emulate) + ESS-specific 16-bit sampling (no emulation in Dosbox) + ESS-specific extensions to OPL3 (again, no emulation in Dosbox). Considering that there's very little DOS software with support …

Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2019-06-02, 21:45

Tiido wrote: WSS works on purely 8bit bus so having only 8bit slot doesn't preclude it. I mean 8-bit DAC/ADC, not 8-bit bus. WSS may only use 8-bit bus, but it surely supports 16-bit DAC/ADC. Which means the table in this post is wrong about WSS support, at least for those cards with no 16-bit …

Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2019-06-02, 17:14

Practically all of the 1st generation sound cards supports Adlib, Sound Blaster Pro II, Windows Sound System, Disney Sound Source & Covox Speech Thing. The Sound Galaxy NXPro, NXPro16 & Pro16/Basic16 definitely supports all of the above standards, but I'm not 100 % sure of the BXII, NXII & later …

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-30, 09:14

Neither Arkanoid 2 nor Bubble Bobble use SOUND.COM However, it's a good idea to try SOUND.COM, and some games which uses it (eg. Locomotion), to see if they properly detect and operate Adlib.

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-29, 14:53

Well, there may be some incompatibility. I recall playing Arkanoid 2 with some ESS card - worked fine, but I reckon it was ES1869. Anyway, make sure that ESS card is properly initialized: ESSCFG, ESSVOL, or something like that.

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-29, 14:20

Bubble Bobble doesn't detect sound card either, instead reads config from BUBBOB.CFG Delete that file, and then it should ask what devices to use.

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-29, 13:13

OK, just had a look... Arkanoid 2 doesn't detect sound card, for Adlib you need to run it with "ark2 a" command, then the config is stored in DOH.CFG, so next time you need no command line parameters.

Re: SBFMDRV

Posted on 2019-05-29, 12:54

SBFMDRV is used by some Creative's software bundled with early Sound Blasters, I forgot what exactly, perhaps Intelligent Organ and/or PLAYCMF ? As for some games not detecting Adlib... maybe the machine you're running them on is too fast?

Re: PC-DOS 7.1 and WfW 3.11

Posted on 2019-05-26, 03:50

The likes of Instant File Access and modded File Manager certainly prove MS ware telling fibs about win3.* accessing fat32 drives. I think you're mistaking two different things: - type of FAT filesystem (FAT12/FAT16/FAT32) - support for long file names File Manager doesn't access disks directly, so …

Re: SVGA diagnostics software

Posted on 2019-05-26, 02:10

X-VESA seems interesting indeed, but there's one problem - it uses a non-standard 90x30 text mode for menus, and I've already found one card where that mode fails to work correctly. So I'm still looking...

Re: SVGA diagnostics software

Posted on 2019-05-25, 04:39

The above don't seem to perform video memory test, and this is the most important feature I'm looking for. I want something like MemTest86 (comprehensive testing using various patterns), but for video RAM, rather than system RAM.

Re: SVGA diagnostics software

Posted on 2019-05-25, 00:31

Jo22 wrote: On DOS ? Dr. Hardware ? Looks like just a sysinfo program, I can't see any options to test video RAM integrity, or enter various video modes. VBETEST (a part of UniVBE) seems OK for testing various video modes, but I can't see it doing any video RAM tests.

SVGA diagnostics software

Posted on 2019-05-24, 23:49

I'm looking for some program to test various SVGA cards - mostly ISA, VLB, and early PCI ones. The program must run under pure DOS. Ideally, I want something like Checkit 3.0, ie. test video memory, and display some test patterns in all the modes. And small enough to fit on a 1.44MB diskette along …

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