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Re: Finicky Gravis Ultrasound Classic

Posted on 2006-12-11, 20:29

in PC Emulation
If this error occurs within the GUS setup program that comes with the card, this is normal. The program seems to be unable to test DMAs correctly on ISA PnP machines. Fortunately it can be told to ignore the errors and carry on with the installation. Also make sure you've got the latest driver …

Re: creative isa, sb16 and vibra 16, what is the difference?

Posted on 2006-12-04, 22:45

in PC Emulation
It depends on the game, if you want to check your setup, run DOOM (the shareware version will do) with Gerneral MIDI (Sound Canvas, Wave Blaster) music. The bug cannot be missed in the music of the first level, single instruments will 'get stuck' after a short time, it sounds very annoying. If it …

Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-12-04, 11:55

in PC Emulation
What are, for our purposes, the VESA modes that DOS games used? I think this will do for a list: 640x400x8 640x480x8 640x480x15 640x480x16 800x600x4 800x600x8 1024x768x4 1024x768x8 Other than the 15-bit mode, which has been dealt with above, most graphics cards support these modes in linear or …

Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-12-03, 23:15

in PC Emulation
Is there a card that can pass all those VBE tests? Does such a creature exist? Probably not. My S3 Trio (with S3VBE loaded) comes close, but still has flickering and stuttering issues in some of the modes. And you'll have to take the results with a grain of salt, since it's only a synthetic test, …

Re: Colours in FreeDOS

Posted on 2006-11-30, 03:31

in DOS
It's not easy for us non-native English speakers to differentiate between the British and American way of spelling (Just had a look at the Wikipedia page , well, this comes from basing orthography on a dictionary dated 1755 :lol:). I usually don't care and pick the version I like best; many American …

Re: "Best of Both World" sound card? (EAX and A3D)

Posted on 2006-11-29, 02:55

in PC Emulation
Probably because Creative sued Aureal for patent infringement, lost the case, and, being a bad loser, bought up Aureal including the A3D technology. See the A3D Wikipedia page for more details. Sometimes I wonder how PC audio would be like if Creative actually made their stuff themselves instead of …

Re: My oldschool rigs (updated again)

Posted on 2006-11-28, 15:17

Yes, I'm running an amd 133 (33x4). The write-back cache on these cpus probably gives it a small edge over the dx4. Unless the DX4 also has WB cache - mine does :wink: But I found out that the WB cache doesn't make much of a difference when running the PCPBench. I ran univbe and uvconfig and got …

Re: My oldschool rigs (updated again)

Posted on 2006-11-28, 02:23

I upgraded my bios on my 486sp3 and improved to 7.3 with the et4000 card (only 2mb though). 7,3 with a ET4000(rev. C) on a 33MHz PCI bus is actually quite good! (I assume you ran the bench at 133MHz with the AMD K5). Remember that the PCI transfer rate is rather lame on the 486SP3, so this becomes …

Re: My new retro PC

Posted on 2006-11-28, 01:41

in PC Emulation
Nice upgrades! :happyhappy: In the Windows 9x PC thread you also list a 12MB RAM upgrade for the AWE64. I'm just curious, is this an original Creative or a 3rd party addon for standard SIMMs? [...] so that I can use the 'Pro Patches Lite' set. I was mildly disappointed with the performance of the …

Re: The Windows 9x PC

Posted on 2006-11-28, 01:01

in PC Emulation
Frankly I am unsure about that bit. While I am definitely sure that Pentium IIIs did have multiplier locks that would forbid you above a certain multiplier, I don't know whether they would recognize a multiplier below the intended one. I just tried it on my girlfriend's oldschool rig (yes, she has …

Re: The Windows 9x PC

Posted on 2006-11-27, 01:13

in PC Emulation
If can manage an extreme underclock, you can knock it down to a blazing 133MHz! (2.0 x 66MHz) Please correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the P-III models have a locked multiplier (except for some ultra-rare engineering and press samples)? In such a case the CPU could only be downclocked to 466 MHz …

Re: How (in)compatible MS-DOS 7 is?

Posted on 2006-11-26, 15:15

in DOS
The advantage of hardware slowdown methods (disabling caches or lowering FSB) in contrast to software slowdown programs is that the hardware methods results in much smoother gameplay. Of course doing it the the hardware way is limited, a P3 with lowest possible FSB and without caches may still be …

Re: My oldschool rigs (updated again)

Posted on 2006-11-25, 19:59

Many thanks for the G200 TSR, I don't have my G200 installed right now, but it might come in handy :happy: Here are some PC-Player benchmark results, which I already posted on a german DOS forum (they have a kind of PCPbench contest going on here ). 486 rig: Intel 486DX/DX4, Asus PVI-486SP3 64 MB …

Re: My retrogaming PCs

Posted on 2006-11-24, 03:43

I got a bootable SCSI controler Advansys based on chip ASC3050B but it don't work with 83MHz fsb maybe I'll installed it on the 486, I also got an IBM 4.3GB SCSI HD Yeah, with 83 MHz FSB your PCI clock is 41.5 MHz, which is way out of spec. SCSI controllers are among the first to give up at such …

Re: How (in)compatible MS-DOS 7 is?

Posted on 2006-11-24, 03:12

in DOS
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: Whoa, you mean turning off the CPU caches? Should I go to BIOS, or are there utilities (small .EXE, etc) for that purpose? There are several tools to switch off the L1 cache, however, I'm not so sure about L2. Better use the BIOS settings instead (if that's still …

Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-11-23, 23:41

in PC Emulation
5u3: Is there a progam you can use to test VESA modes? I would like to know how you found out that the Voodoo 3 is not compatible with 15-bit modes. SciTech used to bundle a program called "VBETest" with their older releases of UniVBE. I attached it to the end of this post. The PC Player benchmark …

Re: How (in)compatible MS-DOS 7 is?

Posted on 2006-11-23, 16:46

in DOS
But in order to install SB16/AWE32 in DOS, we don't really need the Creative installer, do we? I mean, we can still do it manually by editing the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, isn't that the case? Exactly. This is also a chance to leave out some of the memory hogging TSRs that are installed by …

Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-11-23, 02:24

in PC Emulation
Why use a MX model when you could use a Geforce 2 GTS? Think of the GeForce 2 MX as sort of a placeholder, most of the points are still valid with other 3D cards. I listed the GF2MX because it is the card I would choose. Very easy to get one cheaply, as an entry-level mass product it doesn't have …

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