Re: Fastest AGP GeForce with Official Win98 support, GeForce 6 or 7?

Posted on 2020-11-29, 23:40

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God Of Gaming , pcie-to-agp bridge can not "help compatibility" for sure and it can't make worse for sure, it's just transparent data channel. It doesn't matter. You forget what's really does matter: except pcie-to-agp bridge there is northbridge too and there is bus for video card too which can be …

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Re: Fastest AGP GeForce with Official Win98 support, GeForce 6 or 7?

Posted on 2020-11-26, 11:05

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... geforce 7000 series are useless for win9x ... Oh really? And why do you tell about all 7 series family at once? You forgot about one very important thing. Windows 98, 77.72 9X driver and G70 have together most acceptable working condition only if AGP. Yes, I told about 7800GS AGP. I don't know …

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Re: Alesis S4+ vs SC-55 for GM games - Youtube vid

Posted on 2020-11-23, 08:05

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I'd never tried Alesis synths for GM games but one model was just awesome for me and I was very interested to listen it in games. It's a keyboard synth Alesis Quadrasynth S4. It has divine sound! Listen its demo-song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD4sZPLi318 But :) it doesn't mean that this synth …

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Re: No sound using Yamaha YMF744/754 VXD drivers under Windows 98SE (Sony PCG-C1XN)

Posted on 2020-11-23, 07:28

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Sometimes Windows 98 may say "No conflicts" but they are. I advise to remove automatic settings checkbox from DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC and try to choose alternate configurations with IRQ 10 or 11 (but not 5! it's for legacy). Using IRQ 9 may casue conflict with ACPI. If it is not possible in Windows on …

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Re: Connecting the PC Speaker from motherboard to Sound Blaster Live! CT4780

Posted on 2020-11-23, 06:29

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Namrok , firstly start OS in pure DOS mode and run this utility: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=59887 - find there PC spk channel and enable it. If you'll get sound then insert another 'test' HDD, install fresh 98 system without any updates and try Creative's Windows driver(s) again. …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-07-17, 16:33

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UPD: the same goes for south bridge chipset (FSB) throttling too, 50%, 75%, 87,5% values only. And in most cases the 50% value is enough if we use ODCM at the same time, it's enough for getting 386-486 speeds. Not recommend to use more than 50% chipset slowdown. May stop some peripherals like …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-07-17, 16:21

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It's all very good about thousands of steps if using Pentium-Pentium2-Pentium3 speeds. But we must remember about very slow 8086-80386 speeds: Old DOS games very like small and integer-valued CPU multiplier toward FSB. 1, 2, 3, 4. Integer-valued and small (I repeat), it is one of guarantors for …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-07-17, 10:51

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It's funny. I got two commendations already in this project but I even didn't try this program myself :) I have Pentium-4 with SB-Link bus, Pentium-4 with ISA bus, Core2Duo with ISA bus. And I have been using all these parameters (multiplier, ODCM, L1/L2, FSB throttle) for a long time via good but …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-07-09, 21:21

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I have found that ODCM for all NetBurst and all Core2 families is setting up only by one (same for all) specific register 0x19A and it works perfectly. And I can say exactly: it's not seems, it's for sure applicable to Pentium 4, Pentium D, Pentium 4M, Pentium M, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core 65 and …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-07-09, 03:11

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Yes! ODCM is different and it gives us much more scope. We can use ODCM without chipset throttling and in most cases eliminate "error 200". We can use ODCM+cache disabling and in many cases get 386 speeds without chipset throttling. We all know that major chipset throttling may cause key/mouse …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-07-09, 02:51

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Next revision... perhaps to include AMD K10 multiplier support per Falcosoft's suggestion? I hesitate to include CPUs beyond K8/Core2, as their chipsets no longer support Windows 98, hence they are not ideal for retro gaming, although they could still be used for DOS gaming if slowed down enough. …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-07-09, 02:33

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kalohimal , thank you very much! I don't have enough time today for test, use and have fun for our retro rigs, decisions. Tell me please do you use MSR 19Ah for CPU throttling? Not chipset+FSB throttling by southbridge but skipping CPU clock cycles. It's ODCM. I tried it in DOS by MSRED program and …

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Re: Vortex 2 TOSLINK cd music help

Posted on 2020-07-06, 08:04

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I didn't find it yet. Was looking photos in www very closely. Power +5V is fourth pin at the bottom line from left to right. Probably another +5V pin is fifth at the top line from left to right. You may seek digital TTL output on other pins .

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-06-20, 08:47

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Hi kalohimal , I'm very happy to see somebody is still developing this theme. My regards and good luck! I'm not a programmer, I was not building MSRED+CACHECTL but these two utilities were built by my task, my request and my testing. Programmer is i8088 . CR0 register disables all cache system. It …

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2020-05-25, 07:55

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Work with a lot of keys is extremely inconvenient if they don't fit in one command line and you're forced to type another commands. Therefore use "-f matrix " please, it's absolutely self-sufficient method. Try to enable ac97-afront route and disable i2s1-afront route. I don't understand what you're …

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2020-05-24, 10:51

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You forgot about -io ac97 afront 100. Maybe on your device LINE IN is not linked to i2s1 input. If you will type -b everytime it will not be bad.

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Re: Vortex 2 TOSLINK cd music help

Posted on 2020-05-23, 20:07

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It's top right. Bottom left is for MIDI daughterboards. I have a same board on green PCB. Need to find it if not lost. I'll try to find it and then tell you where are +5 and ground.

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2020-05-23, 16:30

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What about AC97 volume levels? Try please to enable it through AC97 channel.

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Re: Vortex 2 TOSLINK cd music help

Posted on 2020-05-23, 16:20

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maverick85 , Vortex 2 has at least two digital inputs. First is connected to AC97 with its ADC and attached to analog mixer, second is attached to separated S/PDIF input. It can be used with CDROM or any other S/PDIF source. All you need is reveal on your "some pins" power +5V line and do not touch …

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2020-05-23, 14:04

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SuperSirLink, do you have any DOS7 boot CD? Try to boot "fresh clean" system from CD without any TSRs and run ek2m then diagnose. If FAT16 you can run DOS6 boot CD. Place result here please.

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