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First post, by rick12373

Posted on 2016-01-01, 19:56

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I followed Phil's excellent guide here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6HzttM6wS0 for setting up the Windows 98 exit to DOS config. Everything works well apart from when I exit to DOS my game port and joysticks do not work. They are detected and work in Windows though. I currently have an ISA Awe 64 for a sound card.

Anybody have any ideas why this might be?

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
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Reply 1 of 10, by alexanrs

Posted on 2016-01-01, 20:09

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Have you tried running DIAGNOSE /S after exiting Windows?

Reply 2 of 10, by rick12373

Posted on 2016-01-01, 20:13

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I have DIAGNOSE in \CTCM & \SB16. Which one should be used?

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 3 of 10, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2016-01-01, 20:36

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SB16 is your Awe64 drivers for DOS?

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Reply 4 of 10, by PhilsComputerLab

Posted on 2016-01-01, 20:37

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Try the one in the SB16 folder!

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Reply 5 of 10, by rick12373

Posted on 2016-01-01, 20:45

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I tried it and it didn't work. Weird...

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 6 of 10, by PhilsComputerLab

Posted on 2016-01-01, 20:56

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rick12373 wrote:
I tried it and it didn't work. Weird...

What happens when you run it?

Try running CTCM from the CTCM folder, see if you get any messages.

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Reply 7 of 10, by rick12373

Posted on 2016-01-01, 21:01

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If I run DIAGNOSE /S I get the card settings listed. If I run DIAGNOSE on it's own it detects all of the hardware and tests successfully.

The same happens with DIAGNOSE in the CTCM folder.

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 8 of 10, by PhilsComputerLab

Posted on 2016-01-01, 21:07

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Well that's what you want 😀

But not sure why the gameport wouldn't work.

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Reply 9 of 10, by rick12373

Posted on 2016-01-01, 21:13

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Yeah it works in Windows and everything else works perfectly. I wish my old AWE32 still worked but the music playback on that became garbled for some reason. This was the only other card I had available.

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

Reply 10 of 10, by rick12373

Posted on 2016-01-02, 02:57

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Well this is frustrating...

486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card

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