Reply 40 of 62, by Mithloraite
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wrote:This is Vogons, everyone here at least has two of those.
And starting in MS-DOS mode doesn't help for me
The 486 and Pentium I played it on are both Win98SE systems
now I performed this experiment with a Pentium and the bug is dead 😀
At least for me, it is.
The lack of a Pentium patch that seemed so absurd (while a joystick patch was made) is reasonable.
The reason is it is ~not~ needed really.. as I expected.
The key was the story by
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=14752
In short, this person has discovered his own old & true 486, but the Slow Bug was ~still there~, to his great surprise.
His trouble was that he has discarded the old cheap ESS card that worked with his old 486.
Without this ESS "cutie", the Slow Bug on the 486 system was just as severe as on a Pentium with AWE32.
That would be the most stupid story of being ESS-happy... 😀 but it pertains to our case.
I took a most 'Old-school-non-compliant' Pentium. It has MMX, P-1 type DIMM 32mb memory, and an obscure VIA
board by ZIDA. Not a ~single~ part similar to the old 486 beauty.
But I have added the ESS. The Terratec Profimedia ESS Gold 16/96, no less. So ~fashionably~ made of all ESS cards...
Having had finished beholding its beauty I prepared a great DOS configuration and a 'perfect' Blackthorne setup.
Only the ~very~ original installation files were used (bthorne.i00, bthorne.i01, install.exe).
Then I have selected the SB Pro for effects and music.
Here we go! no Slow Bug at all. Runs as quick as the Prince of Persia 😀
P.S.
this system is ~not~ Win98SE. It was, but I reformatted it to FAT16 to create a 'purrfect' DOS P1 system.
P.P.S.
the ESFM music is quite beautiful with this card. the Sarlac Castle scene is the true Melody of Evil and/or Spelling Doom 😀
the first level tune is very invigorating... and classically noble at that.