Re: Phil's MS-DOS Mode Tutorial: Working Memory, Mouse, CD-ROM and Sound Blaster 16/32/64 in Windows 9x MS-DOS Mode

Posted on 2014-12-28, 11:17

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SBW9XUP.EXE doesn't contain CTCM but the Installation CD does and puts it in C:\Windows.It also looks after MS-DOS mode, putting an entry to run CTCM.EXE into DOSSTART.BAT. So yes, if you do it "your way" with Installation CD + 95DOSAPP would work very well. How odd for Creative to worry about CTCM …

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Re: Phil's MS-DOS Mode Tutorial: Working Memory, Mouse, CD-ROM and Sound Blaster 16/32/64 in Windows 9x MS-DOS Mode

Posted on 2014-12-27, 23:47

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Interesting I never did that, always used the Windows 98 built-in drivers and there is no CTCM to be found. Do you install off a driver CD when you install Windows 98? If so, what CD do you use? From Vogons driver archive? See this is where it gets complex with so many options :) I think I just …

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Re: Phil's MS-DOS Mode Tutorial: Working Memory, Mouse, CD-ROM and Sound Blaster 16/32/64 in Windows 9x MS-DOS Mode

Posted on 2014-12-27, 23:20

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Yes I remember you mentioning this earlier. I haven't ignored it and there will be a video covering only PnP Sound Blaster installation with CTCMBBS and 95DOSAPP! See I was torn because I believe that many W9x builders struggle not just with getting sound working but other things as well. So I …

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Re: Phil's MS-DOS Mode Tutorial: Working Memory, Mouse, CD-ROM and Sound Blaster 16/32/64 in Windows 9x MS-DOS Mode

Posted on 2014-12-27, 22:17

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You're right I just had a look. The behaviour is different to my Super Socket machine, on that I have a "manual" MS-DOS 7.1 Installation were I used a boot disk, partitioned and formatted it from that disk and then transplanted the DOS files from another Windows 98 SE installation. Is there a …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2014-12-26, 22:03

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Still mapping out the Video for MS-DOS mode. The thing is that they will likely also struggle to get memory, mouse and CD-ROM drive going as well so this might be a bigger project than I first anticipated. Don't worry about memory/mouse/CD/other stuff, that could be figured out in other videos... I …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2014-12-26, 19:46

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Requests for help with installing Plug and Play Sound Blaster cards in DOS keep popping up on Vogons so I decided to make a new video explaining the steps. Very nice! I like how you managed to keep things concise considering the complexity of the subject. Everyone unsure about PnP Soundblasters …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2014-12-25, 23:33

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Great game! The opening tune rocks and is probably the only part of the game that's better in the floppy version, because there's no voice over. Agreed. I like the OPL3 version best, it's more energetic and "techno-ish" than the General Midi variants, which adds a lot to the atmosphere. So in high …

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Re: AWE64 Gold weirdness

Posted on 2014-12-25, 22:35

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orcish75 wrote: You'll need a power supply with a -5V rail. Not for an AWE64. Only very few cards need -5V, most notable the SB 2.0 and the LAPC-I.

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Re: DOS 7.1 AWE32

Posted on 2014-12-25, 22:05

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Guys... As Phil already has pointed out, if you use the proper drivers from Creative's website, there is no need to muck around with SETVER or anything else. This has worked without problems for a lot of people. Every time I ran into this "your configuration has changed" message at initialization it …

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Re: DOS 7.1 AWE32

Posted on 2014-12-24, 10:34

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I've tried with 95dosapp + ctcmbbs as you suggested, but throws the same error when launching CTCM (Please run Windows 95...). - Delete any CTPNP.CFG files laying around (there may also be copies in the Windows and root directories) - Run CTCU once, select one of the profiles and save This should …

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Re: Clock generators on Socket 7 and older motherboards

Posted on 2014-12-21, 16:16

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lazibayer wrote: ASUS PVI-486SP3 Clock generator: VT8228N Datasheet not found 🙁 I tried the combinations for this one a few years ago: Link

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Re: Whats the best version of the Sound Blaster 16?

Posted on 2014-12-21, 15:51

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borgie83 wrote: Lastly, anyone had any experience with the hanging note bug using this card? I've kept my CT2940 as my "hanging notes testing card" because the hanging note problem is much worse on this one than on any other SB16 card I ever owned.

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Re: AWE64 Gold weirdness

Posted on 2014-12-19, 00:34

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3) could be a muted channel. Did you check the mixer settings? 2+1) getting CTCU to work is most probably the key to fix the problem with aweutil, which in turn should solve the FM/wavetable issue.

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Re: The Pirate Bay Shut Down

Posted on 2014-12-17, 11:49

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Pirate Bay shutdown has had virtually no effect on digital piracy levels

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Re: OMG, was this game for real?

Posted on 2014-12-14, 00:13

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Jepael wrote: Played It, it's the second game for PC I ever recall seeing. Same here. That game was everywhere.

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Re: Which is better for old games? fuzzy 90's crts or 2000's sharp looking crt.

Posted on 2014-12-11, 12:17

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However I have a problem with LCDs and that is the lack of support for low resolutions. At least none of the ones I have allow me to use a resolution lower than 640x480. Are there any modern flat-screen monitors that can display resolutions lower than that? Yes, there are new monitors that still …

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Re: Can't make these games work (real old PC)

Posted on 2014-12-10, 18:49

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The memory hole is just needed by some OLD ISA card and maybe for SB PCI128... I just have an ISA AWE64 so enabling memory hole may create more problems than it can solve. The memory hole in this case is intended for limiting the available RAM. Lots of RAM can stop some games from running properly. …

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Re: VLB Graphics recommendation

Posted on 2014-12-09, 23:39

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Back in the day I had a no-name Cirrus Logic GD5428. Performance and compatibility were OKish, but the card was quite unreliable. I had to take it out and reseat it every few days, otherwise the BIOS would give me the "no video card" beeps. Cheap CL cards often turn up at ebay, make sure the card …

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Re: Which is better for old games? fuzzy 90's crts or 2000's sharp looking crt.

Posted on 2014-12-07, 21:54

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I use three monitors: a 24" TFT, a 19" aperture mask CRT from ~2001, and a very primitive 14" CRT from ~1992. All connected to my three retro PCs via VGA matrix (a combined switch/splitter which lets me assign any source to any screen). So, even if none of my screens is perfect, I can choose the one …

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Re: Eliandas ISA VGA card roundup

Posted on 2014-12-07, 00:00

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Nice! 😀 I'm kinda surprised by the good performance of the Trident 8900D.

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