Re: Help anyone with IBM PS2 and XGA card on MCA bus

Posted on 2022-12-27, 10:47

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let's hope it will output "FAIL" in "DMQS not supported" machines and "GOOD" in "DMQS supported" machine The result was exactly that - FAIL on the XGA and PASS on the XGA-2 graphics adapter. excellent, so at least one thing confirmed that I am correct about it. So, it seems IBM's XGAAIDOS.sys …

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Re: Help anyone with IBM PS2 and XGA card on MCA bus

Posted on 2022-12-26, 20:57

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@MMaximus and @SSTV2 both of you - many thanks! it's very interesting, to be honest I did not expect that, because @MMaximus model 80 reports "DMQS supported" - that fails in 86box even when VM is emulating Model 80. So, that kind of confirms my suspicious that maybe there are BIOS revisions without …

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Re: Help anyone with IBM PS2 and XGA card on MCA bus

Posted on 2022-12-26, 15:45

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PS/2 model with 32-bit MCA slots compatible with such a card. no one corrected me, but after some reading it seems at least "XGA-2" cards even they are 32-bit MCA, work in 16-bit MCA slots. however, their drivers require at least i386 cpu and even more unfortunate cheap and available models like ps …

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Re: Help anyone with IBM PS2 and XGA card on MCA bus

Posted on 2022-12-25, 16:04

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@MMaximus and just to add if you take your PS2 out of storage first you can do is download this: https://web.archive.org/web/20140911121135if_/http://www.members.aon.at/mcabase/pub/files/xga2util.zip and run: xga2 -v >> xga.log and upload the "xga.log" here and we proceed from there. Right now, I am …

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Re: Help anyone with IBM PS2 and XGA card on MCA bus

Posted on 2022-12-25, 15:28

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I have a model 80 in storage with an XGA2 adapter, I might be able to help out if you don't require anything too complicated from me :) nope, it's very easy, it will be just boot to dos, copy and run few exe files that I provided to you and tell the output - see the attached screenshot for example …

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Re: Help anyone with IBM PS2 and XGA card on MCA bus

Posted on 2022-12-25, 11:37

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I know @LuigiThirty in Twitter has one working (she was developing a port of Doom for XGA cards), maybe she could help with this. thanks, I don't want to bother directly people, i.e. approach them on Twitter, etc. So, if anyone is interested, can contact me here or join the "party" here: https:// …

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Help anyone with IBM PS2 and XGA card on MCA bus

Posted on 2022-12-23, 10:47

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Hi, I am fighting few problems with the very new XGA emulation in 86box: 1) https://github.com/86Box/86Box/issues/2983 2) https://github.com/86Box/86Box/issues/2968#issuecomment-1353478837 and 2) even the developer of the emulation has no any idea at the moment. So, I want to investigate further …

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Re: Request PC Video BIOS for No9 IMAGINE128 II

Posted on 2022-12-19, 16:28

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by pure accident I found that only few months ago @pancakepuppy posted BIOS here: Re: Number Nine Imagine 128 Series II problems. Bad memory possibly? I am not sure if it will work, but I am very optimistic, because the MAC card I have has the exact same IBM memory. Huge thank you to @pancakepuppy …

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Re: Request PC Video BIOS for No9 IMAGINE128 II

Posted on 2022-12-19, 11:30

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I found @Stiletto mentioned here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=576928#p576928 he even got updated "Imagine 128 Series 2" BIOS from Number Nine and I perfectly understand why they sent him ROM chip - it cannot be updated in software, because it uses 27C512 chip - I made the above dump with …

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Request PC Video BIOS for No9 IMAGINE128 II

Posted on 2022-12-18, 15:00

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I am looking for Video BIOS(es) for PC from NumberNine IMAGINE128 II graphics card(s). I had one, but it turned out it's flashed with vBIOS for Macintosh and for Mac fans - I am attaching that Mac vBIOS to my post. So, I would really appreciate if someone can provide PC vBIOS and so I can try and …

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Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3

Posted on 2022-12-02, 23:25

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That sounds good too. I merely spoke of the Pi with relation to it's (usually) cheap, generic status. But, of course, that status is not very true, in the current supply situation! I don't know how much Pi capable to do MT32 costs, but my Fujitsu Futro thin-client costs 15 bucks, it's hard to beat …

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Re: Which cheap sound card is least worst for DOS and W98

Posted on 2022-12-02, 22:21

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Avance Logic ALS4000 supports DDMA, but I don't know if their DOS software is capable to enable that mode plus your motherboard chipset has to support DDMA, I guess that means for Socket 478, you need SiS chipset.

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Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3

Posted on 2022-12-02, 21:37

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On a different track. It surprises me that there doesn't yet exist a Pi-based simple VST host, I prefer to use some high-quality thin-client like Fujitsu Futro rather than Pi-based system, but that's just my taste, I guess. YamahaXG VST as far as YamahaXG is concerned, my biggest surprise is that …

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Re: Windows XP how many people still use for it their MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-12-02, 21:18

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I dont like cleartype neither, sometimes get difficult to read it takes 20 to 30 minutes reading to get huge eyes irritation - the veins in my eyes become irritated, red and visible - I don't know how that's called in English - maybe "red eyes", but it's something I cannot fake (as doctor House …

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Re: Windows XP how many people still use for it their MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-12-02, 20:48

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I am still using it, because "ClearType" makes my eyes hurt and causes me headaches. Interestingly, it's not just me - if I google "ClearType" together with eyes hurt or headaches there are many complains but most of them circa 2005-2007. I guess people no longer have big CRTs like 20+ inches to see …

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Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3

Posted on 2022-12-02, 20:33

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@ArielAr : very late reply, but I don't follow closely this topic in the last many months. So, more or less, all questions you have are already covered in this forum thread, but I understand the thread is very long and convoluted and very easy to miss even the main points and achievements. Currently …

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Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3

Posted on 2022-05-04, 23:49

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PS: Any help would be greatly appreciated! that's a great project and I hope your effort will succeed. It is simply using the SC-55 VSC samples (which are identical to the Microsoft GS Wavetable synthesizer). Maybe the quality is slightly higher than the Microsoft synthesizer, but it doesn't use …

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Re: Imaging Copy-Protected CDs

Posted on 2021-09-05, 22:01

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Yeah shows the same two as the NEC. Please show me where you can get a SHW-16H5S for a $1 ? only two on ebay cheapest is $15+ the other $48+ since there is no any difference between SHW-16H5S and any other LiteOns or NECs or LGs or Sonys and many many other drives in regards their ability to make …

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Re: Imaging Copy-Protected CDs

Posted on 2021-09-05, 21:41

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Yeah back in mid 2000's had a few LiteOns and they copied nearly everything I owned w/o issue though never had Quake 4 or Fifa which is on the ND-4571A list https://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Home.aspx?CategoryId=1 It's not about a particular game, but about the revision of the copy …

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Re: Imaging Copy-Protected CDs

Posted on 2021-09-05, 20:18

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@Horun: Running Alcohol 120% is not the issue, the issue is that you must have compatible drive depending on the protection used on the disc - that's the most important thing. for example, if you read old review of DVD drive: https://www.cdrinfo.com/d7/content/nec-nd-4571a?page=4 you can see they …

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