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Re: Bootable floppy disk:Test the size of the cacheable area

Posted on 2010-04-20, 14:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I haven't tried the other programs yet. Will these programs be able to check above 64MB? I had a problem with another program and I think it had to do with the fact that DOS has certain trouble with memory above 64MB. I'm not realy knowlegable about this particular stuff DOS just knows 1 MB + HMA. …

Re: Looking for American Megatrends "Baby Screamer Mark V" 386 mainboard

Posted on 2010-04-18, 13:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Games for 386 usually don't utilize a FPU. FPU was not default at this time. Maybe Microsoft FS or Strike Commander but this might crawl on a 386 aswell.

Re: Creative AWE32 PnP CT3980 = silent

Posted on 2010-04-16, 14:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How about this: http://simmconn.tripod.com/ ?

Re: Looking for American Megatrends "Baby Screamer Mark V" 386 mainboard

Posted on 2010-04-12, 16:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes this is a nice one. Though I haven't had this particularly board on the photo running recently. The older boards seem to be quite unbreakable though (as long as the BIOS ROM is still ok). But it's not for sale. From what I read this board has got it all. It's a pretty late piece of 386 hardware …

Re: Looking for American Megatrends "Baby Screamer Mark V" 386 mainboard

Posted on 2010-04-11, 20:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes this is a nice one. Though I haven't had this particularly board on the photo running recently. The older boards seem to be quite unbreakable though (as long as the BIOS ROM is still ok). But it's not for sale.

Re: 386DX40 - Not as fast, as it used to be

Posted on 2010-04-02, 01:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

VESA VBE Video Modes have not much to do with BIOS shadowing, because you access the framebuffer either by the 64 K window at A000:0000 or the VESA LFB. Both is mapped Video RAM. Your only BIOS access is to change modes or pages if you dont use LFB. As for your 386 system, I still cant see where it …

Re: Is there a DOS util that can auto-edit a file depending on an enviroment variable?

Posted on 2010-03-30, 15:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd just want to mention that the classic edlin editor that comes with dos is fully remote controllable by piping in the commands. And its damn fast aswell.

Re: 386DX40 - Not as fast, as it used to be

Posted on 2010-03-28, 00:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ah yes, could be. Well I usually enable it for Video BIOS, System BIOS should be enabled by default. Also if you use QEMM it shadows BIOS usually, but might slow down a bit if you extensivly use DMA. This applies ofcourse only if the BIOS functions slow down your programs.

Re: 386DX40 - Not as fast, as it used to be

Posted on 2010-03-28, 00:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the BIOS is fine, I would check the ISA cards. Do you use one of the faster VGA cards like an ET4000AX ? Do you use a Gravis Ultrasound that does channel mixing in hardware?

Re: 386DX40 - Not as fast, as it used to be

Posted on 2010-03-27, 13:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My System has 64 kB L2 Cache. My System: Speedsys 5.98 in Processor benchmark. Memory values: Read / Write / Move / Average in MB/s L1 Cache 25.5 / 30 / 37.3 / 31 Memory 15.7 / 30.1 / 19.8 / 21.9 Norton SI7: 42.5 So it seems your system runs well.

Re: Guillemot Maxi Sound home studio 64 pro - no music in pure DOS

Posted on 2010-03-27, 12:02

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yes the SC8500 is the non Pr with the CS4236 Codec. It has the 4 MB Roland licenced SF in ROM. The SC8600 is the Pro with the ESS Codec. From the pic I think it has RAM only?!? Maybe due to the law process between Dream and Roland at this time. As for EWS64XL, it has no ROM aswell, but the …

Re: Guillemot Maxi Sound home studio 64 pro - no music in pure DOS

Posted on 2010-03-26, 21:25

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Well, I think you can take most of the information from the EWS64 / Guillemot Maxi Sound Home Studio 64 (without Pro) thread. Overall on this card only the Codec is just exchanged to a ESS Audiodrive. (the non-Pro has the CS4236, the EWS64S an AD-SoundPort and the EWS64XL a CS4236B) I don't have …

Re: 386DX40 - Not as fast, as it used to be

Posted on 2010-03-26, 21:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, try some more modern program for comparison benchmarks. Maybe one of these: Speedsys, Norton SI 7, ctcm7r Check first if the MHz really matches 40 Mhz. (checking the Turbo contact is a good start, try simply with a jumper) Next things I configured in the BIOS (default 386 Award Bios): MEMORY …

Re: Geforce 2 recommendation request

Posted on 2010-03-20, 21:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The GeForce4 MX is mainly a boosted GF2 due to memory controller rework (Lightspeed Memory Architecture II). Ok and Hardware iDCT, but that doesn't improve 3D performance. This site lists the theoretical bandwidth and technical parameters quite well: http://mysite.verizon.net/pchardwarelinks/video_ …

Re: Is there a reasonable priced audio mix console???

Posted on 2010-03-09, 04:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use this one: http://www.thomann.de/de/art_macro_mix.htm It is rather small has 4 inputs and for my user profile sufficient 😀

Re: PCI sound in DOS

Posted on 2010-02-26, 22:13

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I have to admit I usually plug a GUS for 16 bit digital. Most games that really utilize SB16 support also GUS or are patchable and GUS is preferable over SB16.

Re: PCI sound in DOS

Posted on 2010-02-26, 14:33

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Speaking of old games, AWE is not even SB Pro compatible nor GM compatible. I prefer cards with a SB Pro / WSS compatible Codec and a GM solution. Real GM compatibility is better than having 16 Bit sound in the few games that really utilize it and don't support WSS. Just to name a few: EWS64 Series, …

Re: Ultrasound PnP and High IRQ Games

Posted on 2010-02-26, 13:23

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

- You can configure GUS PnP also on low IRQs - prepgame patches DOS4GW automatically... So there is no high IRQ problem 😀 And EWS64XL+SCB-55, AWE32 and GUS can work also fine in the same system, though I kicked the AWE32 due to redundancy 😉

Re: PCI sound in DOS

Posted on 2010-02-26, 13:16

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

The best decision is to buy a MB with ISA/PCI for a Pentium + a good ISA soundcard (so it's probably not from Creative) On the other hand there is no best decision anyway.

Re: How Wave Blaster 1 really sounds

Posted on 2010-02-23, 21:42

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

elianda: Absolutely not. DSP is DSP, it has not much to do with the sound itself. It's just a technical solution, no more, no less. Well the DSP renders the output and the midi engine running does influence the result. Check a Roland Sound Canvas vs. a Dream SAM9407 using the Roland licensed …

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