Reply 20 of 62, by Scandy
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So, my "brand-new" Pentium 150-S has arrived! 😀
First, some other photos (I'm really sorry for the poor quality but, being at my parents, I had very little time before leaving).
...and now please I beg for your help! 😊
1. I'd like to identify precisely the hardware... could you help me?
- Motherboard: ???
- CPU: Pentium S 150 (...and what does it mean "S"?)
- RAM: 64 Mb (type?)
- Sound card: ESS 1868f
- Video card: Matrox Mystique MGA MYST 4I 4mb PCI? (not sure)
- HDD 4Gb
- 2 Floppy readers
- 1 CD-Rom LG Electronics CRD-8322B 32X
2. I tried to install FreeDOS 1.1 last night (booted from CD-ROM) but after deleting all partitions and re-created from scratch one with FDISK utility, installation inexplicably stops with a "Driver not loaded" error! 🙁
After a few attempts, as a temporary solution I retrieved the three backup floppies of MS-DOS 6.22 (kept in a drawer for about 22 years!) and installed without probs the good old OS!
But I'd really like to upgrade to FreeDOS, so any advice would be greatly appreciated (nothing found about this error on the net).
3. Tested few games and they all work as I remembered, excluding Golden Axe (some stuttering at scrolling) and Crystal Caves which only shows a series of colorful vertical lines (controls and audio by speaker is OK, I could even quit the game blind). Since it's a title to which I am very fond, maybe there's a way to fix it? 😀
4. What should I do to configure the sound card? (I think I need a step-by- step guide... I do not remember how to do it).
Thank you very much for your support, any other advice/comment/historical background is greatly appreciated!
THE NIGHTLAND is my board + video game for Commodore 64.