Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-17, 13:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, I disabled the game port as I don't need 2 game ports. Tried listening to canyon.mid from both sound cards to confirm both work, and yeah, they do, and I'd say the yamaha sounds a bit nicer too, weird, both should have the same OPL3 fm synth. A complaint I do have tho, is the yamaha is way too …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-17, 13:06

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Alright, so I found the culprit. Turns out the bottom ISA slot is dead. Moved the yamaha to a higher slot and win95 detected it. Now both cards show up and seem to work. The yamaha got assigned to irq7 automatically. There seems to be a resource conflict tho, theres yellow mark on it in device …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-17, 10:07

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It's supposed to be sb pro compatible indeed, but remember reading in another vogons thread the yamaha doesnt have perfect compatibility with all dos games. Hm... well, if I need it just for win95... shall I just replace it for an aureal vortex I wonder, the first one (au8820), its from 1997 so its …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-17, 08:11

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From what I recall, even on Windows 98 SE, I originally had some resource allocation issues and had to disable some legacy IRQs in the BIOS to get he Yamaha Audician32 to work properly. Are you trying to use both cards at the same time? If so, then I would expect various conflicts and issues. In …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-16, 21:38

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And you really installed DOS 6 first, then Win98? yes, and it was win95 osr 2.5, but with osr 2.x seems like you can only reboot back to dos6 once before io.sys gets overriden You have a 430TX motherboard that means its IDE controller has ATAPI support and it has USB support if you have the …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-13, 20:06

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well, it didn't work for me, it happened pretty much as they described, it seemed to work at first, but I was only able to "boot earlier version of DOS" once, after that the boot loader seemed to have crapped itself because the PC would no longer boot into any OS and would just stay on the post …

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Re: Is a Voodoo 2 worth the cost

Posted on 2020-09-13, 20:04

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one of my voodoo3 2000 agp cards died just recently, out of nowhere, the retro PC was on in the other room and the win98 maze 3d screensaver had came up, and it had frozen with artefacts, after rebooting the PC, artefacts all over the screen... no idea what happened, I had a high rpm fan tied to it …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-13, 16:54

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If you want the dual boot on the same hard drive without third-party boot managers, the best way to do this is to define a FAT16 primary partition, and use that as the boot partition (C:). First install DOS6.x/Win3.x there. Create an extended partition and logical volume(s) within it. These can be …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-12, 08:56

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yeah, I know, but if I have that, I could mark this machine as "ultimate 1996 pc" and add it to my sig, and of course if I can get this mobo I will add NT4 to the multiboot to justify it. But doesn't seem like I'll ever get it, one sold recently for 200 euros, and theres an auction for another one …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-12, 08:40

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I indeed would love to have awe32 ct3900 in this machine, but they always sell for so expensive. If I see one cheap I'm grabbing it. This sb pro 2 and the two yamahas I got for like 5 eur each. But if I could, ideally this machine would have a gigabyte 586dx 430hx dual socket 7 mobo with dual …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-12, 07:55

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The previous version of DOS should work. I've used it before. It keeps your old config files under AUTOEXEC.DOS and CONFIG.DOS and renames them back and forth. I assume it keeps a backup boot sector too. Is there any way you ran fdisk or any other disk utilities while you were booted into DOS? …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-11, 21:46

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can't really "fdisk the entire thing" for dos 6, 10gb xbox hdd is too big, dos 6 only supports fat16, max partition size 2gb, may as well use the remaining 8gb for win95, not to mention theres some win95-era games that I'd also like to play on this machine as they dont quite work flawlessly on my …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-11, 14:45

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progress report: so now that the ps2 mouse works, and sb pro 2 works at least under dos, but cant get it to work on win98... main reason for win98 was to get usb flash storage to work so I can easily copy files, but sb pro 2 not working was a major problem, so as a test I tried to install win95 osr …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-11, 10:24

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by God Of Gaming

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You can try manually installing the SBPro using the "Add New Hardware" wizard in Control Panel. And yeah, the lack of PS2 ports is why I'd never use a rig that doesn't have them built-in. Those motherboard headers tend to be finicky, and for me, using a mechanical ball mouse was one of the worst …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-11, 09:58

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Hi Have you checked the pinout of your PS/2 mouse connector? You might have to rearrange the wires as they unfortunately weren't standard. Looks like someone already checked for this board here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=45832 . Have you been able to find a manual for your board? This …

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Re: Your 'formula' for system specs and operating system matching

Posted on 2020-09-10, 21:25

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My rule of thumb is, set up a multiboot of all OSes that are either period correct for the hardware in question, or are older than it but have drivers available. As an example for my 2003 PC I quadrobooted win98se, win2000 sp3, winxp sp1 and win server 2003... also tried longhorn build 4011 but had …

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Re: Is a Voodoo 2 worth the cost

Posted on 2020-09-10, 07:03

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On nglide can't you set an arbitrary resolution and it will sample it for you? You can try a multiple of your screen resolution. not really, running nglide on a fx 5900 ultra under win98 so the performance available isnt unlimited, and using a 21" CRT at 1600x1200 at 100hz too, and tbh it's the …

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Re: Is a Voodoo 2 worth the cost

Posted on 2020-09-09, 19:12

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Something I don't like, tho, is that nglide, the major glide wrapper, doesn't allow me to force 16x AF and 4x AA in graphics card control panel, it just ignores these, and it's noticable. On a voodoo5 I should be able to enable some FSAA and maybe some AF, idk, I don't have one, I want one, I'm …

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Re: Help me finish my first DOS build

Posted on 2020-09-03, 13:20

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Progress report, bought a new sealed box of Dysan floppies, those format to 0 bytes in bad sectors, so problem definitely wasnt in the drive. Was able to install DOS 6.22 + WFW 3.11 and also Win95 dualboot, but as it turned out something's wrong with the PS2 mouse port on the mobo, couldn't get my …

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Re: 2001 Dream PC project

Posted on 2020-09-02, 06:20

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voodoo3 is unlikely to suffer gpu chip failures, not using ball grid aray like newer cards, so probably some of the memory chips need replacing, a rather complex operation still

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