Hi I've had a problem, where my AWE32 has a real Yamaha OPL3 chip, but only 512kB RAM without expansion possibilities. I also have a AWE64 which has enough ram for good soundfonts, but it has the CQM chip which sounds horrible in old adlib games. I was thinking that the OPL3LPT adapter might be a …

It was stashed at work and they were like "please take it away if you want to." Apparently a bunch of hardware was ordered at one point in history, but many employees left at same time, so the hardware was not used after all. When business later increased, it was then already time for more modern …

I recently got a nice unused Nokia 19" flat crt monitor (supposedly manufactured by Viewsonic), so I wanted to put back together a dos/win3.11/win98 machine from parts I had laying around. Only a case was missing, and I was able to obtain a case with a fitting beige look, from an old Compaq Proliant …

It was also possible to extract with WinRAR and for me it was not necessary to copy over the ddraw.dll, just set the compatibility mode. However with nvidia GTX980 in win10 the 3dmark is stuck to vsync on, even when forcing it off in nvidia control panel. So it's not possible to use this for real …

I was unable to see what type and year of laptop you have. For example I have a Compaq LTE5100 from around '94. It came with a 800MB 2.5" ide disk. I tried various 'modern' disks on it and it seems unable to have them working on DOS at least, because bios detects them as weird much smaller …

maybe my latest $5 recycler rescue is worthy of my first post Surprisingly good web surfer for what it is, although the lack of browser support on NT makes it hard to get anything done on such a javascript-centric internet. Still need to finish cleaning it, bump the RAM up to 512 MB and find a …

This is my other old PC. Compaq LTE5100 laptop, fully working. I had to replace the fan and clean the volume pot. It unfortunately has a 800x600 panel, not 640x480, so VGA games are a bit letterboxed. Another weird thing is that games that use MODEX screen mode run at low FPS, like Doom. Heretic on …

My first PC was a 8086 with HGA and supprisingly a sound blaster clone and 10MB hard drive, but most and best memories came with a decent 486DX2 setup and later a Pentium 2 with Voodoo2 card. All that hardware was lost because back then it was good idea to sell old stuff when upgrading, and I guess …

By the way I have to cheer for dosbox again. We tried a 3 player Heretic deathmatch with dosbox ipx emulation over the internet, all 3 computers being rather low end (from Athlon XP1800+ to XP2400+ host CPU). It ran smoothly all time except a few slight slowdowns occuring randomly, which might have …

After poking around the config file I found out the following combination for the laptop: priority=normal,normal cycles=max It allowed to play Doom and similair games without any keyboard lag ever occurring while MPU emulation still enabled. However I found out that just by having the MPU enabled in …

Update I found out the cause already.. it's MPU401. Whenever it's enabled in the conf then games like Doom begin to have the keyboard lag. The funny thing is, it doesn't matter what midi-out device is used and it doesn't matter wether Doom actually uses General Midi, OPL or nothing. As long as …

Hello First I want to cheer for the latest release 0.70. I was able to get 80 000 cycles out of my main Athlon XP2400+ host, the dynamic core really has had some major improvements. It was enough to have enjoyable IPX multiplayer games in Doom and Heretic over the Internet finally. (yes, those games …