Re: Volo's Gamepad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (official thread)
Posted on 2020-06-27, 01:38
The irony of this whole project is that the Multibay Docking Station for the Compaq LTE 5000 series has a fully functional DB-15 Joystick/MIDI port.
Re: Windows 98SE PCI-E graphic card support
Posted on 2020-05-28, 15:51
The Intel chipset "drivers" really are just INF files to make the device manager entries look pretty. Windows 98SE doesn't need them on modern hardware. Rloew's memory patch and AHCI/SATA drivers are a must though. G31 chipset USB should work as its UHCI/EHCI compatible. The big caveat is that you …
Re: IRQ N/A?
Posted on 2020-05-26, 18:42
All it means is that PCI device isn't assigned an IRQ. 1102/7002 is the onboard game port device on a SoundBlaster Audigy card. VIA 686 southbridge machines and some Creative PCI soundcards don't get along. Try pulling the card and seeing if the machine boots.
Re: Difference between USB Legacy Support and Port 60/64 Emulation
Posted on 2020-05-26, 18:17
Found a few Gigabyte boards with both options. The description in the manual is pretty vague. Both methods use SMM to provide the emulation. I'm guessing Port 60/64 provides more emulation for certain situations. Many of these motherboards still have at least one PS/2 port on them, so i8042 support …
Re: Vintage Altec Lansing speakers
Posted on 2020-05-26, 16:05
https://img.claz.org/t/400x320/ienqtu-AREaAQdPRkodBRsHCAILXxYdGksNHRsADUsBBxxbBwAaXgJERiQ7JTwqDFIKQEFBXFUMFBARXVUMSBZAUFwLQUNAXFdZFRJGCgdBGQERGgoABxUZBQAXXhI0BRELEis5CAsdGBoSNigbHQAcBAAKGBUqOhAMBhsaDwAcLjkaDQACLkEQC1RaQUITXQFfRkBbAxUJ Here. The higher end ACS300.1 also used a clamshell design and …
Re: Difference between USB Legacy Support and Port 60/64 Emulation
Posted on 2020-05-21, 15:31
Should be the same thing. Different BIOS/UEFI setups use different names for the same thing.
Re: What was the last retail ISA sound card?
Posted on 2020-05-21, 15:27
The Soundblaster 16 WavEffects was still being sold in 1999 as I bought one at the time. The pack-in CD-ROM is dated 1999 as well.
Re: Oldest video card with DVI?
Posted on 2020-05-13, 23:21
Almost every Matrox G400 card can have DVI added to it. I have the daughter board for my Marvel G400-TV. I think some G400s came with DVI stock as well. The cards support Windows 3.1x, 9x, and NT 4.0,2000,XP. Here is the add-on complete with brackets if you find a G400 card: https://www.ebay.com/itm …
Re: The Great Sound Blaster Live! Install CD Test Off
Posted on 2020-04-12, 04:08
I have the full original SoundBlaster Live! purchased new in 1998 (I think the base card was the CT4620 plus the SPDIF digital output/MIDI breakout board). It's drivers were for Windows 9x/NT 4.0 only and that's likely what the 1998 dated CD is from. It also came with a terrible v1.0 DOS emulation …
Re: When did PCI become popular? And when did you have your first PCI System?
Posted on 2020-04-07, 13:22
PCI was adopted widely because it was cheaper to implement than VLB and still had a backwards compatible option of using ISA and EISA slots by using a bridge chip. Being a clean sheet platform independent "mezzanine" bus not hampered by a decade of kludges helped too as eventually Apple, DEC, and …
Re: Win3mu Soon OpenSource
Posted on 2020-03-25, 02:34
matze79 wrote on 2020-03-17, 10:26: No Midi Driver 😀 Quite the opposite. the machine has a SB X-Fi with real hardware MIDI.
Re: Looking for ATI AIW X800 XT Install CD
Posted on 2020-03-07, 21:24
You need to install the drivers for the video capture/tuner function to get rid of the unknown device. It is a separate driver package from the video drivers and is found on the AMD website as "WDM Integrated Driver". I also have a slightly later original driver CD for these cards. My X800XL (PCIe …
Re: Proposed OS/2 Build
Posted on 2020-02-02, 17:36
OS/2 supports SMP with an add-on. Personally if you can find it, OS/2 Warp MCP2 (4.52) or eComStation have better hardware support. SciTech SNAP is included for video as well. Things are wonky with circa 1998 hardware despite Warp 4 being from 1996. The whole OS is kinda stuck in that same viva la …
Re: How to build a Win16 or Win32 App?
Posted on 2020-01-19, 02:02
I used Borland C++ For Windows back in the day. Supports Win16 and Win32 if you are running 4.5x or later. It also has the ability to build "console" Win16 applications using its "EasyWin" libraries and it's resource editor Resource Workshop is top-notch for prototyping windows, dialogs, etc.
Re: My cool 486 EISA tower
Posted on 2020-01-17, 02:19
I had this board's successor model, the Micronics EISA/VL2. The biggest problem I had with it was the damned BIOS and memory controller. You couldn't run ROM BIOS shadowing with over 16MB of RAM installed due to how they implemented it on the board. With shadowing turned off, POSTing was stuck in a …
Re: DataExpert EISA/VLB info & utils needed
Posted on 2019-11-23, 18:21
The board has a full EISA BIOS on it and not every EISA board uses RTC modules. I would still try loading up the generic AMI EISA configuration tool and playing with it. The biggest limitation the HiNT Mini-EISA chipset had was related to bus mastering DMA (limited to 24bits like ISA apparently) and …
Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)
Posted on 2019-11-19, 01:09
For those wondering, the Dallas chip is basically a 1287 plus some battery backed RAM to store the EISA configuration. Almost all EISA (and some MCA) boards come with one. Many times the battery pins are not present on the DS1x87 packages as its a "module". For those unfamiliar with EISA, cards are …
Re: ICONIX, a division of Unisys
Posted on 2019-09-28, 04:01
That video card isn't a Mach64, its an original 1997 ATI All-In-Wonder card based on the 3D Rage II+DVD chip.
Re: WfW 3.11 - how this guy did that?
Posted on 2019-09-06, 02:55
Keep in mind that Windows 3.1x is limited to about 4MB of video memory due to its design. High resolution/color displays weren't a priority in 1992. Very few people ran desktops higher than 640x480 until well into the Windows 9x era.
Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z
Posted on 2019-09-05, 00:51
I really need to pull out my EISA/VLB 486 machine and see how this works on it. It does have a 486 DX4-100 Overdrive in it that supports the CPUID command, but that SiS EISA chipset might be a challenge.
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