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The ZippA - does anybody has preserved the BIOS?

Posted on 2024-02-23, 21:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, there was a software/hardware called The ZippA to boot from parallel port ZIP drives even on XT class computers. There used to be two versions: 1. with modified MBR on the local harddisk load some function and then the system can continue to boot from the ZIP drive before an OS is loaded from …

Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-21, 09:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As long as it is a 386SX or better, install QEMM386 and then use parcp-USB... https://joy.sophics.cz/parcp/parcp-usb.html - it's really simple to use and it works fine with PCs and ATARI ST computers on the old side, and Windows-XP...11 or MacOS or Linux on the new computer side. Alternatives are …

Re: Fresh Windows 95 on Olivetti Envision 400

Posted on 2022-03-18, 19:11

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Yes, I have, but german version only.

Re: QEMM386 and floppy drives

Posted on 2022-01-25, 18:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you provide me QEMM 9.0 or point me to download, I think mine is older. I will also test without the stealth switch.

Re: QEMM386 and floppy drives

Posted on 2022-01-25, 17:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, I don't want to use another floppy controller as this one is very special, it can read FM modulation and 128 Byte sectors, it is very usefull to read and write foreign disk formats like CP/M and typewriters.

QEMM386 and floppy drives

Posted on 2022-01-24, 16:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, since some time I observe some trouble on my 386 machine (Olivetti M380XP9) when I boot with QEMM386 active. Maybe you can give me some idea what to change on the configuration. Currently QEMM runs with the Stealth:M option, but also the Stealth:F method has the same behaviour, but QEMM can …

Re: Olivetti PCS33 (386 SX)/M-300 - Repairing

Posted on 2021-12-21, 19:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A lot of Olivetti fans here, nice! This is a part of my collection: https://forum.classic-computing.de/gallery/in … -1st1-olivetti/

Re: Windows 3.11, Cyrix CX486DLC and Soundblaster Pro - no sound with all CPU features on

Posted on 2021-12-13, 19:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps, turning on the caches somehow messes up the DMA transfers, which the sound card uses. Do floppy drives work after you enable the cache ? Floppy drives also use DMA. Floppydrives are working fine, even raw floppy access software like IMD, Anadisk, etc, is working fine, I even was able to …

Re: Windows 3.11, Cyrix CX486DLC and Soundblaster Pro - no sound with all CPU features on

Posted on 2021-12-13, 11:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I will try your file, thank you. I have the Cx486DRx.ZIP in two versions but I am not sure if the tools I use are out of this. I only can see that the Cyrix chip without cache enabled is already 5% faster than the original i386 and with cache enabled about +15-20%, but still far away from a real …

Re: Must have / Must see Scene Demos on a 80386-33 ?

Posted on 2021-12-13, 10:44

in DOS

in DOS

there is a really good list of early demos from trixter. http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/demo_reviews.html Thank you, this list looks really like a lot of work for me... But it does not mention which memory config is required. Unfortunatelly that particular machine needs QEMM to load …

Re: Windows 3.11, Cyrix CX486DLC and Soundblaster Pro - no sound with all CPU features on

Posted on 2021-12-12, 18:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The board is old, it is from arround 1987, it is an Olivetti M380XP9, in the US maybe available as some version of the AT&T 6386 (there has been at least 8386, 8386E, 6386 WGS, 6386E WGS). How to detect hidden refresh? As flush# was eneabled I disabled it without any change i result.

Re: Windows 3.11, Cyrix CX486DLC and Soundblaster Pro - no sound with all CPU features on

Posted on 2021-12-12, 12:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BARB is not the thing to make it work

Re: Windows 3.11, Cyrix CX486DLC and Soundblaster Pro - no sound with all CPU features on

Posted on 2021-12-12, 09:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Enabling BARB seems to be easy, but how to find noncacheable areas? And how to set?

Re: Windows 3.11, Cyrix CX486DLC and Soundblaster Pro - no sound with all CPU features on

Posted on 2021-12-11, 22:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

To enable cx486.exe q cx486.cfg cx486_cd q to disable no_cache I think it has to do with the cfg file. The cfg file can be modified by starting cx486.exe without parameters. In the cfg file the settings are, read wit cx486.exe: cache config register 0 0=1 NC0 1=1 NC1 2=0 A20M 3=0 KEN 4=1 FLUSH 5=0 …

Windows 3.11, Cyrix CX486DLC and Soundblaster Pro - no sound with all CPU features on

Posted on 2021-12-11, 19:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, I have a Cyrix CX486DLC in my 386-33 PC. It has also a Soundblaster Pro soundcard. This soundcard works just fine on this configuration inside Windows 3.11 as long as I don't enable the special features / enahced cache of the Cyrix CPU. As soon as I do this with the Cyrix tool and then start …

Re: Which Soudtracker / Mod-Player to use with MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-12-11, 10:12

in DOS

in DOS

Thanks, I will try these, if you have other suggestions, still welcome.

Which Soudtracker / Mod-Player to use with MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-12-11, 08:37

in DOS

in DOS

I have a large collection of MOD files (maybe 60 GB). Last night I tryed to play some on my 386-33 with SB-Pro, but I was not quite satisfied with the mod players I took from my backup of my last DOS-PC in the 1990's. I tryed Grind (by @Trixter, still active in vcfed.org forum, here I don't know) …

Re: Fresh Windows 95 on Olivetti Envision 400

Posted on 2021-12-08, 16:58

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hello, I don't know what is the Enivita21, is that Italian envision install CD? I only have German one and I never installed by myself as it already was preinstalled on a 2 GB hard disk. By the way, the behaviour that the Envision goes to sleep mode after ac power on is normal. You can not change …

Re: Olivetti SNX 140/s + EISA-SCSI-Controller + Windows 2000 = trouble...

Posted on 2021-12-08, 16:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ah, you are here also... When you asked, no. Now after recieving the machine (thank ylou!!!) and sleepless nights I finally found all files for complete SNX famkily including also the dual/quad Pentium Pro machines of the SNX 200/400 series somewere in the internet. The SNX 160/s will be rebuild.

Must have / Must see Scene Demos on a 80386-33 ?

Posted on 2021-12-08, 16:51

in DOS

in DOS

Hello, I want to fill the harddisk of my 80386-33 with amaizing Scene demos. Which ones would you sugest? The machine has 80386-33 (in fact a Cyrix/TI 486DLC with FPU), Soundblaster Pro, 8 MB RAM and a 1 MB VGA card (Trident 8900C). An important issue is that aspi4dos/aspidisk needs to be loaded to …

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