First post, by assimilat
Hello All,
I hope its okay for me to post this here as it isnt really a game problem but it seems you guys know more than any other group online about getting Dos video systems working right...so here we go...
The problem I have is there is an audio mastering system made by Weiss called the 102 http://www.weiss.ch/102/102.html it outputs data to a remote control system which is an old 386 with a proprietary ISA card and a DSP32 card. It runs from Dos using a piece of software called Penguin:
Which is the GUI for all the controls. The system came with a 16" monitor that uses of a Diamond SpeedStar 24 that has a Tseng et4000 chipset.
Now I have a 10.2" LCD touch display http://www.xenarc.com/product/1020tsv.html and I would like to use It to streamline the system a bit but when I connect it I just get a garbled mess... I have upgraded to a 120Mhz Pentium system so I could add a PCI USB card for the touch system and I have gotten that part of it to work, But the display on the LCD is still a mess. I have read through the manual and there are only a few thing in there that looked like they have anything to do with the actual PC hardware...all it really says is:
"FROM THIS VERSION ON THE PENGUIN SOFTWARE RUNS ON ALL SUPER VGA CARDS
EQUIPPED WITH AN TSENG CHIP ET4000. (not ALL are tested, ask your distributor)
SEVERAL MANUFACTURERS OF VIDEO CARDS DO USE THIS CHIPSET NOW.
These cards are a little bit slower concerning window management but they are
much cheaper and do provide much better flicker rates! (70 Hz and more)"
I have gotten it to run under Windows 98 but it goes straight to fullscreen mode and it wont let me drop it to a window.
I have also gotten it to load on a newer system running WinXP using VDMSound with VESA mode enabled but the video is still fullscreen and messed up.
Here are the original system specs:
20Mhz IBM 386
64MB Ram
PiQ-1000 Weiss Interface Card (ISA)
CEC/Lucent DSP32C Card (ISA)
Diamond SpeedStar 24(ISA) Tseng et4000
16" HiRez graph. Monitor (50MHz)
Here are the new system specs:
120MHz Pentium I
128MB Ram
PiQ-1000 Weiss Interface Card (ISA)
CEC/Lucent DSP32C Card (ISA)
Diamond SpeedStar 24(ISA) Tseng et4000
XENARC 1020TSV 10.2" LCD Touchscreen
I have a few extra video cards around as well If any of you think using a different one would help....they are:
Creative CT6710 (Nvidia Riva TNT 16mb)
Diamond Viper 770 (Nvidia Riva TNT2 32mb)
Pine XP-PCI2800 (SiS 305)
Jaton PCI53 (Cirrus GD5434 1mb)
Matrox Millenium G450 32mb Dual VGA w/Composite/S-video Dongle
MSI G4MX440-VTP (Nvidia Geforce4 Mx440 64MB Dual VGA /W S-video Out)
And if anyone wants to try it on their systems...it is hosted here:
http://assimilat.net/BW102.rar
It has to be installed from a floppy and to run it without the hardware you have to set these paramaters post install:
set Z80=
set DSP32=
and start it from p.bat or BW102.EXE
Or if you added pstart.bat to your autoexec you can remove those same parameters from pstart.bat and reboot.
I have also uploaded some design notes I found on the system...
they didnt help me much but they might be able to describe its function better than I did...About all I can tell is the GUI is drawn from BW102.DSK although I have no clue what to do with it...
Thanks for any help!!!
Andrew