Re: Anyone using SDD UniVBE with an ARK1000 VLB card?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 15:35

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Video

Chadti99 wrote on 2021-10-14, 15:23: With 5.3a I get screen rolling with vid_mode 11 “320x200” in Quake. Did you try running UNICENTR that comes with UniVBE? Seems to be related to the refresh rate and that utility has some keys to adjust that with "-" and "+" keys even though on lower resolutions …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Pro (CT2950) not working

Posted on 2021-10-14, 14:06

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

UNISOUND is also a good alternative for configuring PnP cards on computer that lacks PnP BIOS support, especially for that 286 computer.

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Re: Anyone using SDD UniVBE with an ARK1000 VLB card?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 13:50

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Video

Try using UniVBE 5.3a, sometimes the later versions aren't always the best one especially for very old video cards.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 13:15

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I was trying to go on a test run with one of my Trio3D/2X 8MB and I found it unusually troublesome. I've been planning on experiencing the true potential of this beast, but games either won't launch or only run in software mode. So far the only games I had a modest amount of luck with are: …

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Re: K6-2+ Questions

Posted on 2021-10-13, 22:01

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You have a more powerful and faster CPU, but even on an ordinary K6-2 300@400/380 (66x6 or 83x4.5) the shift in memory throughput is noticeable. K6-2+ has an integrated 128KB L2 cache running at full CPU speed which makes a difference over the regular K6-2. Most games that run on these PCs don't …

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Re: Screamer 2 and Screamer Rally sound and performance issues

Posted on 2021-10-13, 20:39

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

Screamer two has no AWE32 as an option in the setup. It detects it as SB16. Maybe thats the reason why only fx is working. I will check if they maybe added AWE32 with a newer game version. It's normal that certain games may automatically detect the SB AWE card as SB16 for digitized sounds (the AWE …

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Re: The late 1997 - early 1998 build I never had. Until now?

Posted on 2021-10-13, 15:05

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting, I didn’t know that was how it was done, I assumed you switched output devices in Windows. You can still switch between output devices thru the Multimedia option within Control Panel if you installed the drivers for both SB AWE64 and the PCI sound card. The line-out to line-in …

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Re: The late 1997 - early 1998 build I never had. Until now?

Posted on 2021-10-13, 14:13

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am actually looking for a good sound card that can do EAX but I'm a little tight for PCI slots with this motherboard - unless I swap the Voodoo2 SLI for an Obsidian X-24 I've got boxed up, it would mean freeing up another slot though. Any recommendations? You can actually get both SB AWE64 and a …

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Re: CT4830 vs SB0220

Posted on 2021-10-13, 13:44

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

fxgogo wrote on 2021-10-13, 06:12: I have the CD for the 4830 if you would like the drivers that came with the card. Just used it on a 98 machine and seems to be working well. There is no need to do that as it's already on VOGONS drivers.

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Re: Utility to output if DOS system is running in Real mode or Protected mode?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 17:25

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by Gmlb256

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in Milliways

I like the Micronics MICEMM memory manager, as it is an EMM386 equivalent that can work in unreal mode (eg with the REAL option), so EMS and UMBs are available without v86 mode. How EMS memory performs with that expanded memory manager? Seems interesting considering that it uses the uncommon unreal …

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Re: Utility to output if DOS system is running in Real mode or Protected mode?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 15:43

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by Gmlb256

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in Milliways

CHKCPU also works as well for checking the CPU operating mode in addition to displaying additional information such as multiplier and FSB.

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Re: VDMSound 2.1.0: use too much memory\CPU

Posted on 2021-10-11, 20:32

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in VDMSound General

386 @ 40MHz was too slow use for example zdoom port with mouse looking up and down ! FYI, DOOM has an option to use low details for such slow computer (although it's not the optimal experience) and there is even FastDoom . But yeah, a source port is indeed a better choice considering the computer …

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Re: CT4830 vs SB0220

Posted on 2021-10-11, 20:04

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

As far as I know, both are fine and "true" SB lives. Beware of the SB0200, the earlier Dell OEM live - this is the one with no EAX acceleration in hardware. This. However I've heard that the SB0220 needs specific drivers on Windows 9x. Alternatively the Audigy2 ZS drivers works for both cards using …

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Re: Windows 98 SE unable to write more than 8GB to hard drive?

Posted on 2021-10-11, 18:31

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

Have you tried updating the BIOS? Dell still offers A06 BIOS for Inspiron 5000e. However, even with an updated BIOS, I'd recommend using an HDD no larger than 60 GB as the FDISK and FORMAT provided by "DOS 7.1" of Win98SE can only deal with 32 GB maximum. I'd divide a 60 GB into two 30 GB …

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Re: New DOS Glide / VGA / VESA game in 2021: Dzzee

Posted on 2021-10-11, 16:08

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Video

Thanks to some help in the OpenWatcom Discord, I got the DOS Glide build to build with 2.43 (needed to pass in the NOCASEEXACT option to the Watcom linker, as the glide2x.lib symbols are all uppercase), if anybody wants to give it a try (needs glide2x.ovl, either in the system directories or in the …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2021-10-10, 22:40

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Dosbox-X has an interactive GUI that lets you change stuff on the fly without exiting and changing the conf then reopening The GUI originated from the defunct DOSBox SVN Daum branch by yhkwong which I liked for its flexibility. In addition to this DOSBox-X attempts to be more accurate compared to …

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Re: What is the recommended spec for CPU and RAM for DOS game?

Posted on 2021-10-10, 15:54

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by Gmlb256

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Jo22 wrote on 2021-10-10, 14:12: Himem.sys (the XMS manager) from the DOS 5/6 era had a 64MB limit, as well. Even older versions of HIMEM.SYS had a 16MB RAM limit. 😉

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-10-09, 16:32

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by Gmlb256

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in DOS

Do you know what other "features" like this should be toggles? I'm actually quite surprised about the history of this pushwall bug. I fixed it assuming ECWolf's own behavior, without thinking that they are also breaking compatibility with some existing maps. Another "feature" I can name are the " …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2021-10-09, 13:39

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by Gmlb256

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in DOS

Nice to implement the pushwall bugfix, back then it was believed that this bug was map-related and several old mods assumed that the pushwall moved three spaces until it was discovered that this was caused by the pwallstate condition in WL_ACT1.C. You could add a command line switch or an option for …

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Re: New DOS Glide / VGA / VESA game in 2021: Dzzee

Posted on 2021-10-08, 16:48

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Video

Here's another stab at the Glide API, this time using Glide 2.43 and Win32, compiled using OpenWatcom. This one finally did the trick for 3Dfx! :thumbup: Got a very consistent 60 FPS with vsync enabled and 205-220 FPS without it. If only the 3Dfx version of DOS could work using the same Glide …

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