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Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on Yesterday, 00:04

The difference between 94% of 128MiB and 84-86% is roughly the amount that the GPU reserves to use as VRAM (16MiB). It's probable that 1.03 changes how it reports that reservation to Windows. Yeah, the system actually seems way more stable with this older bios. The 1.03 made windows kinda "stutter" …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 23:47

Thanks again for your help! If i hadn't noticed you had a different BIOS version, i probably would never think of downgrading it (with 1.03 windows said it had 94% of free resources, with 1.01 always says 84 or 86%... weird!!!!). :P The difference between 94% of 128MiB and 84-86% is roughly the …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 23:21

Thank you again so much for taking time to test it! I went and tried a different smaller mp3 and had the same crash. Then, having ran out of ideas, I decided to apply the same bios version you have (1.01). Mine was 1.03 but it applied without any issues. I checked on BIOS settings and the MAC …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 22:57

Ah yes, i forgot you had Daemon Tools installed! Well, i'm really thinking that the problem has to do with directx and the audio drivers. Probably the way the mp3s i'm playing were encoded, or something. I'm always trying with a big one (320kb, about 12mgs) . The crash only seems to happen when …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 22:12

Thanks again so much for all your time and help on this!!! No problem. It's sort of a blend of "do unto others as you'd have done to you" and taking it as an opportunity to build up the google-able record I wish had been available when I started researching for mine. I'd offer to help you eliminate …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 20:33

Honestly, given how fiddly I found audio drivers to be on my end, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the cause of your problem. Have you tried playing any mp3 files using media player? I'm suspecting all these drivers don't work that well it, as winamp seems to play them without any issues... Also, …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 19:48

Your audio drivers are also older than the ones i'm using Honestly, given how fiddly I found audio drivers to be on my end, I wouldn't be surprised if that's the cause of your problem. Have you tried playing any mp3 files using media player? I'm suspecting all these drivers don't work that well it, …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 19:21

@DoutorHouse Hello, I just played 23 MP3 files directly from a USB stick on the T5710 under Windows 98SE with Windows Media Player as a test. Works so far. Do you still need installation instructions for the ThinClient T5710? I have it in a long and a short version. The short version would be: open …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 19:20

Maybe it's directx 9 related. Here are the MD5sums for all the things I'm running on this one which I thought might be relevant. Let me know what else you've installed and I'll tell you the filenames and md5sum for anything equivalent that I've installed. 5f8832e16c14bbbb6fe0e681ea627c0e 98se_ …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 18:59

(One more coming in the next post.) ...and here's the final one. IMG_0837.JPG Oh, also, have you tried running a 32-bit non-UEFI version of Memtest86+ on it? That's one of the things I always do when I receive or build a new machine. Thanks! My bios settings are pretty much exactly the same as …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 18:24

Hehe, most of that is way beyond my skills! I've never even used LINUX! I'm very happy I managed to fix this problem in a few hours as I was starting to think i should just wait for my t5710 to arrive and get rid of this one... Funny thing is, pretty much everything I described is either me pushing …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 02:20

Thanks for the tip about the USB fix! I actually got a file named U98SEUSB.EXE to install on my T5710, when it arrives, as i read somewhere it could be needed... I'm now 100% sure that it was the fact that just the primary ide controller was being enabled caused all the random crashes. The default …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-30, 01:46

Thanks for the update! I'm glad you're making progresses! I'm sure you'll eventually figure out what's wrong with those WDM drivers! I actually decided to reinstall Win98SE from the beginning and apparently my system is finally almost stable (only some random winamp crashes but no more BSODs!). I …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-29, 22:41

Status Update: First, thank you very much for pointing me at that VIA USB2 driver. It appears to have solved the USB HID hotplug crashes. Second, slipstreaming in 98se_Vogons_Approved_Slip.7z caused the Date and Time control panel to be inaccessible with a "An error occurred while windows was …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-29, 10:17

[/quote] Thank you . I've never been good at engaging online and I live in the middle of nowhere, so, whether on my blog or elsewhere, most of my retrocomputing is just "blogging into the void". [/quote] No worries! I'm not a programmer at all, retrocomputing is just a hobby of mine (I've been …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-28, 22:28

Thank you so much for this info! It really saved me a lot of time when setting up my HP t5530. I'm also trying to install Windows 3.1 on it and i found a WAVE driver for the 8233 VIA chipset that works with this computer, allowing wav files to be played. Nice! What's the archive filename I should …

Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-05-28, 20:03

Please feel free to comment, or ask for modifications of this document, that i hope will be useful for people like me who were wondering what cheap computer to buy to play MS-DOS games natively with sound ;) I've got an HP t5530 and can give you details missing from HP's spec sheet to fill out an …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-05-23, 17:03

You can check with e.g. HWinfo for DOS if IRQ5 is used by some PCI device. Having same IRQ for LPT and sound seems to work smoothly. It works smoothly, yeah... Like I said, on this particular model, it really has to be like that, otherwise SBEMU will hang on some games... HWINFO says that it's the …

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-05-23, 16:15

Came across this amazing program recently, decided to try it and it's working pretty good with my HP t5530 Thin Client so far (apparently it has a VIA VT8233/A AC'97 enhanced audio controller that works fine on WIN98SE but not for DOS...) I set it up with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 98SE (managed to …

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