I'm just curious, would one notice a big difference in quality when it comes to General MIDI and XG moving from the soundcard to the dedicated MIDI units, or is it negligible?

Also, should I be seeing the FM synth as a selectable midi device in Windows 98? The actual synth works fine in DOS games but I'm just curious as to why I only see DS-XG and the MPU401 as midi devices in the Control Panel... You can enable the FM Synth with YMF7x4Utilities, but then you will not be …

Also, should I be seeing the FM synth as a selectable midi device in Windows 98? The actual synth works fine in DOS games but I'm just curious as to why I only see DS-XG and the MPU401 as midi devices in the Control Panel...

Thanks for the help everyone Funny thing happened, I came across my old copy of Descent from the 90s, the registered version. It runs fast but totally playable. If I downclock my CPU as far as it will go, the game runs at the correct speed. Weird how the shareware version had problems but the …

cyclone3d wrote: amino glycine wrote: So I just installed and registered Power YMF, but the 4MB extended bank option is greyed out. Do I need to download it from somewhere? I can't find it anywhere online... Look here - I think this will get you going: Yamaha S-YXG100plus SoftSynth for Win9x 4MB …

play with caches and memory latency? there are source ports which might run at the correct speed too; Yeah maybe some bios settings can slow things down but that would require rebooting and then undoing my changes when I want to play something else I know about the dxx rebirth source port but …

So I just installed and registered Power YMF, but the 4MB extended bank option is greyed out. Do I need to download it from somewhere? I can't find it anywhere online...

Hey all, So I'm currently running a PIII 866MHz machine with Windows 98, just installed an Aopen card with the YMF744 (having a real OPL3 on a PCI card is a godsend, plus the XG sounds great with games like Final Fantasy VII), and I'm looking to run both later DOS and some Windows games on it. …

There should be an entry for CTCM in CONFIG.SYS. Not sure what happened, but you can just put an entry in AUTOEXEC.BAT as well if you like. Maybe the installer ran into an issue? Descent does indeed struggle to run well on a 486. At least on my DX2 66 it was not something I would call playable. If …

Good to know, thanks! A few things I've noticed so far: 1. It seems like I'm able to run my AMD486DX4 at 120MHz (instead of 100MHz) with no problems. Neat. Yes, I am using a fan and heatsink. 2. After installing the drivers for my AWE64, when rebooting I would get a message about AWE32 …

Just installed the drivers for my SB AWE64 PnP and it worked great Without getting too off topic, I have both an S3 Virge Stealth 3D 2000 and 3000. Both have 2MB of RAM. Any opinions as to which one is better or are they both about the same?

I'll definitely stick around. It's because of videos from you and LGR that I got interested in older computer hardware!

Phil, that was it! Thank you so much! Btw, I love your videos, I installed MSDOS 7.1 via your method this morning. And yeah, it's a pretty nice late-era 486 motherboard. Picked up it up on ebay from a guy in the Ukraine that has a bunch of them.

Hey everyone, I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I've got a 4DPS motherboard (version 2.11). The BIOS is 1.71. I've tried flashing a new BIOS but it appears I might have the eprom version so sadly I can't. Anyways, I have an 8GB compact flash card I'm using as the hard drive. The …