First post, by manuelink64
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Hi to everyone:
I rescued and old Toshiba Satellite 4020CDT. (64MB RAM, 6.4GB HDD, PII-300MHz). without OS.
Installed Win98SE from scratch and all the drivers and programs from the Toshiba (TIAS) website (yep, they still there!).
The specs PDF says the notebook has equipped with a Yamaha OPL3-SA3 soundboard.
I was happy to play old DOS games again with a "real" OPL card, but the nightmare begun:
- Fisrt, setup the soundcard is pain in the ass between the BIOS and the official DOS utility.
- Second, the Tiido YMF tool don't detect the soundcard at first glance (tried the /FORCEPNP, a little success! ).
a few hours later, I (believe) configured correctly the soundcard (the Tiido and official tool don't play anything in SB test, but WSS and OPL are ok)
Then try a few of my favorite DOS games in "Pure" DOS and Win98 CLI.
- Lotus III - Ultimate Challenge
- Tyrian 2000
- F29 Retaliator
- Raptor: Call of the Shadows
All of them has fluctuation on speed, some are constantly slow (Raptor, lotus) like the classic NTSC to PAL game conversions,
others play at correct speed for a few seconds, then slow, then speed up and go on in the same loop (Tyrian).
F29 are OK.
The soundFX are OK even if select a S.Blaster type card
it's maybe a bad drivers, CPU, DMA, IRQ, NB Chipset thing?
I use the default SET BLASTER values.
Thanks in advance.
[Unisys CWP] [CPU] AMD-X5-133ADZ [RAM] 64 MB (4x36) FPM [HDD] Seagate 8.4GB [Audio] SB16 SCSI 2 (CT1770) [Video] ATI Mach64VT2 [OS] Windows 95 OSR2.5