Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC
Posted on 2015-06-23, 14:58
I'm giving up today, it's driving me crazy. I will continue tommorow.
Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC
Posted on 2015-06-23, 16:36
No, I grabbed DOS 6.22 on internet, writed it to floppy and installed it, nothing more, nothing less. Your confidence about this not being virus-related seems a bit misplaced. ETA: The MSD diagnostics suggest IRQ 0 and IRQ 3 are handled by "E.EXE". That looks mighty fishy. You could still try some …
Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC
Posted on 2015-06-25, 19:49
Your confidence about this not being virus-related seems a bit misplaced. Nah, it's from my friend, and I scanned it before writing to floppy with ESET and then with MSAV few times after instalation. And the E.EXE is part of a Microsoft Driver for serial mouse, it shows that mouse is not installed, …
Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC
Posted on 2015-06-25, 20:08
And the E.EXE is part of a Microsoft Driver for serial mouse, it shows that mouse is not installed, but it is there and it's working. It wasn't in the autoexec.bat or config.sys that you posted. Also tried about 15 more drivers, none of them worked, even original software from Genius (I have Genius …
Re: Can't run a thing on my AMD 486DX2 PC
Posted on 2015-06-26, 01:04
Ok, this is SUPER weird. When I disabled the sound driver, Wolf started running. Even the sound came from speakers, but only some of them. Like picking up medkits and golds did, but guns and nazi shoutings didn't. But now it's clear. There is the problem. So I can trash the only driver for that …
Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 and AMD K6 Mobile
Posted on 2015-07-08, 22:27
This evening I added rough Cyrix 5x86 detection to SetMul, thereby making v1.2 acceptable for release. But since I can currently only test it with the PCem emulator, I will not overwrite SetMul v1.1 yet. It is attached here instead. The parameters for the Cyrix 5x86 are: multiplier 1,2,3,4 and half …
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 01:14
Good job! For DOS games, there is no getting around using am ISA sound card :) There is software to enable / disable CPU cache while the machine is running. SETMUL and CPUCACHE for example. A question for you. Could you please give a brief run-down how to setup dual boot MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 98 …
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 05:08
Thanks Phil. To dual boot (I've done it from scratch several times now), I have the following on hand: MS-DOS 6.22 Floppies (3) Win 98 SE Bootable CD 1. Boot off of the DOS floppy. When setup starts, press f3 twice to get back to the command prompt (A:\). 2. Using FDisk from the floppy, delete …
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 05:24
Thanks for this. Reason I'm asking is because I'm mucking around with boot managers and seeing which method suits the KISS principle :lol: I'm following your steps now, but did the second partition as FAT32, so I'd have more space. Using a 32 GB drive, 2 GB for FAT and 30 for FAT32. It's installing, …
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 06:08
Thanks for this. Reason I'm asking is because I'm mucking around with boot managers and seeing which method suits the KISS principle :lol: I'm following your steps now, but did the second partition as FAT32, so I'd have more space. Using a 32 GB drive, 2 GB for FAT and 30 for FAT32. It's installing …
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 06:16
Cool, I will check it out!
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 06:40
If the goal is to dual-boot only Win9x together with an older version of DOS, then the method outlined by RetroBoogie is good and you don't need any third party boot managers. Win9x will detect the existence of an old DOS version and allow you to switch to it in the startup menu as "Previous MS-DOS …
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 12:33
Well, while we're on this topic, you could also check out this official Microsoft guide. Can't you also use something like Plop Boot Manager or GRUB4DOS?
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 13:51
Didn't have much luck with those. I really like this one: http://sourceforge.net/projects/air-boot/ A "BIOS" oriented user interface 🤣 The Windows built-in method works really well, so it's indeed not needed. But if you want to have a few more OSes, then for sure.
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 14:10
As far as mixing FAT16 and FAT32, yes - DOS just won't see/assign drive letters to the FAT32 partitions, as well as large extended partitions that dr_st suggested. I think DOS shows a partition size of like -1% or something weird. I've tried using a live linux distro to create/format fat32 …
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 14:14
AFAIK, the 3dfx Voodoo cards are a better match for K6 processors. But I haven't done any testing myself. Maybe later NV drivers addressed this. Quake II is a game that, personally, I would prefer playing on a Pentium III machine. A K6-2+ or III+ running at 550 MHz on the other hand, would do quite …
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 16:07
Interesting. I assume the Voodoo 2d VESA performance is pretty fast as well and hopefully just as compatible as the Virge DX; may be time to try one I suppose. I have read that Voodoo 2 cards are not as recognized in DOS without patches as Voodoo 1 cards are. Do Voodoo 3 cards address this? Which …
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 16:21
Vetz has done some terrific work in this regard: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix DOS speed and compatibility is excellent. Signal quality output of the V3 is also very good, on Matrox level I would say.
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-13, 19:31
RetroBoogie wrote: I have read that Voodoo 2 cards are not as recognized in DOS without patches as Voodoo 1 cards are. That only applies to games hardcoded with the Voodoo1 library. The same goes for Windows when using Glide1 Dll.
Re: AMD K6-2/300 DOS Build
Posted on 2015-07-15, 12:58
AFAIK, the 3dfx Voodoo cards are a better match for K6 processors. But I haven't done any testing myself. Maybe later NV drivers addressed this. Quake II is a game that, personally, I would prefer playing on a Pentium III machine. A K6-2+ or III+ running at 550 MHz on the other hand, would do quite …
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