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Re: 3Dfx v1,v2 and VIA Apollo Pro 133T problem please help to find the solution..

Posted on 2022-12-12, 21:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

why the Voodoo 2 not working in Pure DOS mode? just black screen or hang the Machine!???? Nothing wrong there. I also had similar issues with a Slot 1 PIII Coppermine CPU with certain DOS games that uses Glide on a Voodoo2 card, with a slower CPU the same programs worked fine. Which DOS games are …

Re: Voodoo 2 SLI with an x800 Pro

Posted on 2022-12-12, 20:57

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

For D3D and OpenGL games, no in most cases. For older games that uses Glide (especially if it is exclusive or is better supported), then yes. Whether setting up SLI with the Voodoo2 cards or not, it depends on you. For me it isn't worth it, but with it you can get some extra performance and allow …

Re: List of Glide only games (which don't support any other API)

Posted on 2022-12-12, 20:31

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Decided to check Carmageddon. Originally it didn't come with Glide support out of the box, it debuted with Splat Pack. For the original release, a patch came to include Glide support afterwards. Although the game has a Windows version, that one only uses DirectDraw for rendering.

Re: List of Glide only games (which don't support any other API)

Posted on 2022-12-12, 12:24

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Pył (1999), an obscure game that only supports Glide for 3D acceleration. Archimedean Dynasty (1996) and Gunmetal (1998) are other examples. The 3dfx version of both Blood and Shadow Warrior don't support voxels and aren't properly hardware-accelerated. Why do people still insist in those versions?

Re: Issues with getting FM/music to work with CT2260

Posted on 2022-12-11, 14:33

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

For Prince of Persia, you would need to slow down the computer to get the digitized sound working. I don't know much about the sequel, but in the BIOS setup try increasing "8-bit I/O Recovery Time" to see if it helps. For The Ultimate DOOM, did you set the music to "Sound Blaster"? If so, try using …

Re: A "broad spectrum" 90s build?

Posted on 2022-12-11, 14:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

At least 20A on the +5V rail should be good enough, PIII CPUs doesn't strain it much like AMD Athlon CPUs. -5V isn't relevant if you don't intend to use any early Sound Blaster ISA sound card, PAS16 or the Roland LAPC-I.

Re: How I could have Gravis Ultrasound driver installed

Posted on 2022-12-11, 00:32

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

dor123 wrote on 2022-12-10, 14:41: The games include Pinball Dream, Pinball Fantasies, Pinball 4000, Epic Pinball, Silverball and Jazz Jackrabbit. All of these (except the earlier standalone version of Pinball Dreams) take advantage of the GUS's hardware mixer. The improvements in sound quality are …

Re: Which Socket 7 motherboard to keep and which CPU?

Posted on 2022-12-10, 17:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does the 200 have the 3.5x multi or is it locked? (You’ll have to test to know) set 1.5x on mobo No, only the 233MMX interprets the 1.5x multiplier as 3.5x around the desktop Pentium family. i have one 200MMX that use 3.5x if set to 1.5x Interesting, perhaps it depends on the CPU revision.

Re: Which Socket 7 motherboard to keep and which CPU?

Posted on 2022-12-10, 17:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-12-10, 17:23: Does the 200 have the 3.5x multi or is it locked? (You’ll have to test to know) set 1.5x on mobo No, only the 233MMX interprets the 1.5x multiplier as 3.5x around the desktop Pentium family.

Re: Which Socket 7 motherboard to keep and which CPU?

Posted on 2022-12-10, 17:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Between these two CPUs, the Pentium MMX is the most flexible. It has the TR12 registers which SetMul can use to provide additional ways to slow down the computer. As for the motherboard, keep the Gigabyte as majestyk said. Jan has a modded BIOS that improves UDMA compatibility and allows support for …

Re: How to update ASUS P2B (PCB 1.12)

Posted on 2022-12-10, 15:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ASUS still has these BIOSes (click "Show All" to see the rest) on their website. It also has the Aflash BIOS tool.

Re: Intel Ark drops native Direct3D 9 support.

Posted on 2022-12-08, 17:38

in Milliways

in Milliways

Is old OpenGL 1.0 still working? and driver updates can affect it directly. So how is it now? AFAIK, nVidia and AMD cards still has the legacy functions when using the compatibility profile (older programs use it by default) in OpenGL. Haven't checked if the recent Intel's OpenGL ICD still has that …

Re: Intel Ark drops native Direct3D 9 support.

Posted on 2022-12-08, 15:04

in Milliways

in Milliways

Is old OpenGL 1.0 still working? OpenGL doesn't work like D3D. In OpenGL, each ICD (including the shader compiler and T&L routines) is done entirely by the hardware vendor and driver updates can affect it directly. In D3D, vendors only provide the DDI and the DX libraries takes care of the rest. …

Re: Some games' FM (MIDI) music sound noticeably different between SB Pro and 16...

Posted on 2022-12-08, 00:51

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I think that the OP may have selected the original SBPro in those games in question. That one has a dual OPL2 chip configuration and whose routines for stereo separation aren't compatible with a single OPL3 chip which will output mono on both left and right speakers.

Re: Mod Master XT 1.0 Released : Play .MOD, .XM and .VGM on a 8088 4MHz

Posted on 2022-12-06, 16:16

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

FreddyV wrote on 2022-12-06, 15:35: I think that ESS is not SB16 compatible, so 16Bit is nto possible. While it is not SB16-compatible, it is still possible to add 16-bit mixing in DOS for WSS-compatible and ESS AudioDrive sound cards. MPXPLAY, Impulse Tracker and some DOS games actually support …

Re: PCI vs PCIe Interface for WinXP Sound Card?

Posted on 2022-12-05, 17:20

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Jaron wrote on 2022-12-05, 17:07: Gmlb256 wrote on 2022-12-05, 16:51: None of the SB X-Fi models ever had a gameport. The early PCI ones did. Nope. The pins aren't compatibles even if it resembles one.

Re: PCI vs PCIe Interface for WinXP Sound Card?

Posted on 2022-12-05, 16:51

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

PCI vs PCIe doesn't matter when loading any SoundFont onto the SB X-Fi, I used to have the PCIe version and there was no noticeable difference on that regard. As Joseph_Joestar said, USB joysticks and gamepads are more suitable for Windows XP and later unless you want to use legacy devices. Same …

Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2022-12-05, 12:27

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I thought that people were aware of this considering that the visual difference with the skybox in Quake 2 was easy to tell when toggling the "8-bit textures" setting, but it seems that it isn't the case. 😐 Regardless, those screenshots from the first level clearly displays the difference.

Re: Windows 9x supported disk size

Posted on 2022-12-05, 05:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For Windows 95, only OSR2 and later supports FAT32 partitions. Prior to this, only FAT partitions were supported like older standalone MS-DOS versions.

Re: Limit DOS RAM memory (XMSDSK / HimemX / JemmEx), DOS RAM size limit

Posted on 2022-12-04, 20:35

in DOS

in DOS

Older Himem.sys versions from before DOS 7.x had a 16MB or 64MB limit, I vaguely remember. Yep, I didn't forgot about that. ;) Depending on the situation they can be used on newer versions of DOS. Very useful quick and dirty solution, but certain older versions consumed more conventional memory …

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