Re: Best PCI sound card to work on DOS natively

Posted on 2021-04-07, 12:03

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M0101 wrote on 2021-04-04, 08:52: What about SoundBlaster Live!? What about SoundBlaster 128 PCI? The Ensonic AudioPCI based card? Oh no, please don't! I'm still seeing (hearing) nightmares on it's OPL and MIDI.

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2021-04-06, 18:42

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Well, today's operating systems keep a lot in the ram and therefore kinda run from a "ram drive". It's not a new idea...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-30, 11:48

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Now finally one of the most influential graphics card of PC history I bought last Friday have arrived. And also an 8800GT. https://i.ibb.co/B216KwL/3dimage-8800gt.jpg The 3DImage9750 will participate in my early 3D accelerator adventure. When I get home I'll check if it works. It supposed to post, …

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Re: Serial mouse not working on PC Chips m571

Posted on 2021-03-25, 11:57

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Make sure you provide your board properly with negative 12V, too! I've spent so many *days* debugging these kinds of issues only to find out my PSU didn't supply negative 12V or that negative 12V traces on motherboard were bad.

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Re: network shareing method with windows 95 on windows 8?

Posted on 2021-03-23, 14:27

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Well, sure, there's the Microsoft networking client for DOS. But again, the only advantage there is that you can stream data and it most definitely isn't as easy to get going as FTP, at least these days. (It takes up a big chunk of RAM, too.) Curious what the current state of ease/difficulty is to …

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Re: CF vs DOM vs SSD

Posted on 2021-03-23, 13:56

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I've been using cheapest chinesium 4/8 GB CF cards on my 386 with dos up to P-MMX with Win98SE, with absolutely 0 problems. It almost sounds like maybe people just don't know, how to prepare the CF card. (partitioning, "active" bit on partition, but if i remember, there was a bit on card as well, to …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2021-03-19, 07:49

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@BetaC, unisound is just for DOS. Windows needs its own drivers. (Unisound isn't really a driver even. It's more like an initializer.)

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Re: Like Abit VP6 but with 2 ISA slots

Posted on 2021-03-17, 16:30

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You just need to use 5V linear regulator between ground and negative 12V to get your negative 5V. Schematics are in git for the ISA card. You only really need 2 components - linear regulator and a small cap to stabilize negative 5V. 😉 https://github.com/necroware/voltage-blaster

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Re: Like Abit VP6 but with 2 ISA slots

Posted on 2021-03-17, 15:07

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by GigAHerZ

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For negative 5V, you can add similar modification to power supply side, that essentially does what the ISA board does. ISA is just convenient, but you can do it on power-supply side, too. I recently just got a ATX PSU, that does provide negative 5V to ease my life...

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2021-03-17, 10:38

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Carrera wrote on 2021-03-17, 10:27: I remember that tip as well! Also, if you were lucky to have 2 hard drives setting those parameters to the other drive could sped things up a bit... Woah, what's the logic in that? Something related to seek times?

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Re: VLB EIDE controller hard drive c0mpatiblity

Posted on 2021-03-17, 09:03

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~500MB on older bios, ~2GB on FAT16 filesystem, ~8GB or ~32GB or ~128GB on newer bioses. According to what is the limiting factor, there are different workarounds for that.

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

Posted on 2021-03-16, 21:48

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Is 2005 retro activity enough? I was reminded of a shooting game i made myself on 2005, when i was 14 years old. The webpage is in Estonian, but it's easy enough to navigate: https://webzone.ee/mispos/ The game file was renamed and download didn't work, but i was able to recover my password to that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-15, 19:18

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Got a newer ATX type PSU, which also provides negative 5V. Tested and working! And it weighs a ton! 😮 That's gonna be a great bench PSU for all kinds of PC testing, be it AT or ATX motherboard. It cost me 3,9€ + 2€ shipping. Now gonna need to clean it up nicely.

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Re: Win 95 woes

Posted on 2021-03-12, 10:40

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by GigAHerZ

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Dos requires drivers for the cd-rom to become visible. Win95/98 startup disk loads cd-rom drivers at boot.

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-03-01, 09:20

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That... is... AMAZING!

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

Posted on 2021-02-25, 10:42

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Upgraded my Asus 1011px with an SSD recently. With an Atom N570 and 2GB RAM it can actually play 720p Youtube videos without skips, though maximizing-minimizing them is still a struggle. I could have sworn that a couple years back I could barely run 480p ones. Maybe someone at Google actually …

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

Posted on 2021-02-25, 08:04

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Back in day, i was running Visual Studio 2008 on a Atom N270. Later, i ran a laptop with Atom N550 for quite some time with reasonable success. Only thing, that's really too much for it, is today's browser engines. They are not really suited for those CPUs. Though, there are other browsers running …

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Re: Faulty S3 805 VLB video card

Posted on 2021-02-18, 10:07

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What i've found is that the signal on those cards is very low. When i disconnected the 6 diodes near VGA connector, the picture became a lot brighter. But i have no solution for v/h sync signals. I had a LCD, that had also trouble recognizing that there is a proper picture and i blame the low signal …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-02-17, 09:38

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https://youtu.be/b2B8PnDj-DI Here is a little update of what i'm currently developing for FastDoom. Text video modes rendering at 80x25 and 80x50 (and maybe more hidden modes such as 132x44) with 16 colors. It's missing all menus / intermissions / text messages and HUD but rendering is done nearly …

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Re: Network Programming

Posted on 2021-02-16, 10:51

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Mr. Brutmann with mTCP stack might be helpful. It works on top of packet driver and provides TCP/IP stack. And of course, it's a modern approach to do this.

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