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Re: 3dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 VESA Fix

in Deep Thought
A Voodoo Banshee is NOT a Voodoo3. A Voodoo Banshee is a Voodoo2 stripped down chip (1 texture unit versus 2 texture units) with 2D capabilities added, while Voodoo3 was the substitute of Voodoo2 chips. Uh, actually a Voodoo3 is extremely similar to Banshee. A Voodoo3 is basically a Banshee with …

VESA Fix Utility Listing (for old video cards)

in Deep Thought
Useful utilities for shoring up your video card's VESA VBE support. Please post if you know of any other utils that work well for helping DOS game VBE functions. Universal Utilities UNIVBE 6.7 and Scitech Display Doctor 5.3/6.53 (freeware now!) http://www.mediafire.com/?4mznuyeymnj Most cards will …

Re: Fascinating X-Wing wiki article update

in Milliways
Yeah, the realism argument is one I remember from back when the two games were competing though. X-Wing does have a much less rigid feel to its mechanics. Personally, I think anyone who ignores either series is just robbing themselves of a lot of fun though. My fav space game mechanics are in the …

Re: Which Graphics Card?

in PC Emulation
Just pick a card that UNIVBE supports. :) I don't think there is a card out there w/o quirks. Picking a S3 something is sorta safe, but most of their cards aren't even VESA VBE 2.0 so you need to dig up the S3 VBE TSR and S3SPDUP that's out there. I actually found a PCI NVIDIA TNT to work fairly …

Re: Keep DBs off SB16s!!

in PC Emulation
Yup you got the right one. The problem is if you'd bought anything newer (i.e. the majority of AWE32/SB16s), the DB wouldn't work right. So I think it is worth looking into just what is the best card for DBs and DOS games. SB16 is just not a reliable selection, and its sound quality is rather bad ( …

Re: Keep DBs off SB16s!!

in PC Emulation
I am using a CH Flightstick Pro in conjunction with the Yamaha DB-50XG daughterboard that is attached to my SB16 (CT-1740). So far, I have had excellent results playing Descent 1 in pure DOS. However, playing Tie Fighter and Extreme Assault have been less than stellar. The whole game hangs for …

Re: Keep DBs off SB16s!!

in PC Emulation
Any card that claims SBPro compatibility that isn't an SBPro is likely only fully compatible with an SBPro 2.0 (which includes SB 1.5 and SB 2.0 compatibility.) It won't be compatible with a game that takes full advantage of an SBPro 1.0's FM capabilities. AWE32s, PnP SB16, or SB16s without true …

Re: Keep DBs off SB16s!!

in PC Emulation
Oh no. Vortex 2's DOS digital audio doesn't play nice with Wing 3. Pops, crackles, missing sounds. Ick. So, I dropped in that Ensoniq Soundscape Elite after all. With some BIOS PNP tweaking I managed to clear up two IRQs and two DMA for the darned thing. Reserving ISA IRQs in there is the key to …

Keep DBs off (most) SB16s!!

in PC Emulation
OMG. I've spent about 12 hours now trying to figure out the best soundcard setup for a PPRO rig I have. I've discovered that the SB16s have one horrible MPU401 waveblaster header. Stuck notes, off key nonsense, and more. I tried 2 PnP SB16s and a AWE32! Nevermind that the sound quality is notably …

Re: Best DOS video card?

CL 542x is actually quite fast in DOS. I upgraded from a Trident 8900C to the Diamond Speedstar Pro (5426) and it was very noticeably faster. I could run TIE Fighter SVGA with that CL chip. The Trident couldn't handle it at all. BTW, I'd always suggest using UniVBE with just about any DOS card. SDD7 …

Re: Best choice for an ISA Video Card

in DOS
I used to have one of those Trident 8900C cards. They are really terribly slow in DOS. I don't know how fast a ISA vanilla ET4000 is, but a VLB ET4000/W32p is insanely faster than that Trident card. I actually "upgraded" from that Trident to a ISA Diamond Speedstar Pro (CL 5426) and it was way …

Re: Terminator Games in 0.70

Tried running the Skynet version of Future Shock. It crashes or freezes a few minutes after starting a game. Seems to be related to dynamic core because a message comes up in the DOSBOX console window about dyncore causing an exception, I believe. But that was only on the time the game crashed. When …

Re: Need for Speed III Hot Pursuit with nvidia 7800 and glide?

in Windows
Can't get NFS3 working on my 8800 with zeckensack's driver. I followed the guide on his site exactly, too. I got high res with D3D though, by renaming the D3D dll file to voodoo2a.dll (or whatever that file is). In the registry I then changed the card info to 3Dfx and Voodoo2a I believe. As if it …

Re: Best DOS video card?

One thing I want to say about Matrox cards is that not only do they have fast DOS support with good VESA, but Matrox released BIOS updates for basically all of them over the years. These updates fix various DOS issues I believe. ET4000 and the S3 chipsets were the standard back in early/mid '90s DOS …

Star Wars Screen Entertainment

in Windows
Hey, does anyone have this super old screensaver? I can't for my life find my disks or any backups of it. I wanna set up a Win3.1 machine and try it out again.

Bioforge and the palm reader

in DOS
Would someone explain for me, in extremely simple terms, how to get the robot w/ severed arm to open the door in the beginning. I can't get this working even after reading walkthrus! The computer always says I'm using a bad code (only code in Dane's logbook).

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