Re: Needed some isa drivers
Posted on Today, 15:08
This one seems to be the WDM driver for ISA ESS chips...
Re: Needed some isa drivers
Posted on Today, 14:39
Windows 95 drivers are easy to find - search for "1869w95.zip". But it's strange it doesn't work with the built-in drivers...
Re: Needed some isa drivers
Posted on Today, 14:27
rain wrote on Today, 14:12: Ess audio drive es1869f Aren't drivers for that already included in the 98SE ?
Re: Drivers/Questions about ESS488
Posted on Today, 07:10
Yes, that HWINFO. The attached program should also do the trick, in verbose mode: blaster -v
Re: Borland "abandonware" gets an implicit stamp of approval
Posted on Today, 02:09
Nice! And it should be noted that Borland had the Museum section on their website already in the 90s, with stuff like Turbo Pascal and Turbo C.
Re: Drivers/Questions about ESS488
Posted on Today, 01:08
Yes, some cards have jumpers to enable/disable the amplifier, close to the OUT jack - but I can't see anything there on your card. Also, FM music plays at normal volume, right? If so, then it can't be disabled amplifier. Try some other software, eg. Pinball Fantasies. In SETSOUND.EXE, try "Sound …
Re: Drivers/Questions about ESS488
Posted on Yesterday, 15:54
OK, so the FM synth does work. Now, try to play some .MOD file in Inertia Player: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=29208 In ISETUP.EXE, select the plain Sound Blaster, and try both AutoDetect and manual settings. At first, try Mixing Speed = 22 kHz, if you get it working you can try 44 kHz.
Re: Open source floppy disk imaging program(s)?
Posted on Yesterday, 15:35
Windows isn't free, but it somehow doesn't make it good for imaging diskettes... When dumping a diskette to a file, it's always a good idea to write-protect the diskette - no problem then. But can't write-protect when doing the opposite, and: - Windows 9x writes the "IHC" signature in the boot …
Re: Open source floppy disk imaging program(s)?
Posted on Yesterday, 03:56
There's dd.exe in Cygwin port of coreutils... dd if=somefile.img of=\device\floppy0 Edit: I tried it in Windows 11 with a USB floppy drive, and the following worked: dd if=somefile.img of=/dev/fd0 But it was slow. For good performance, larger block size is necessary, eg.: dd if=somefile.img of=/dev/ …
Re: Drivers/Questions about ESS488
Posted on Yesterday, 02:44
Prince of Persia - with a Sound Blaster - uses FM for music, and PCM for effects. If both work, the hardware is probably OK. What sound settings you use in Doom?
Re: Drivers/Questions about ESS488
Posted on Yesterday, 01:19
Anonymoose wrote on 2024-04-14, 01:28: I have an ESS ES488 card, and while it does work, some games/programs don’t seem to work with it? For example, Protracker II doesn’t emit sound and Doom doesn’t play music. So, what software does work? And what's the machine you're testing the card in?
Re: Windows 3.1 Must Have Software -
Posted on 2024-04-21, 16:55
BitWrangler wrote on 2024-04-21, 16:26: I think the TCPIP bundled with Internet Explorer 3 was fairly decent, though you did have to put up with the dialler popping up from time to time, I think it was every time a new thing opened a socket. It only supported dial-up, not LAN, right?
Re: Windows 3.1 Must Have Software -
Posted on 2024-04-21, 16:19
Trumpet for TCP/IP (works better than Microsoft‘s one IMO. Also doesn‘t require Workgroups) Microsoft TCP/IP-32 supports DHCP, and should be faster than Trumpet, but requires WFW 3.11. As this topic is about Windows 3.1, then indeed, Trumpet Winsock is a must have. The best version seems to be 2.1F …
Re: Unknown ISA card
Posted on 2024-04-18, 08:14
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997SPIE.30 … ..327O/abstract "System has an advanced analog-digital controller" The patent numbers also point to "Head-Mounted Display With Eye Tracking Capability".
Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?
Posted on 2024-04-17, 16:40
BitWrangler wrote on 2024-04-17, 14:47: Well now I gotta try an upgrade from 3.1 with the hercules mono driver 🤣 Yes, it does work. But it doesn't make sense, of course - 348 pixels vertically is not enough for certain system windows.
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2024-04-16, 22:27
I'm afraid DRAM would be too slow for palette. The color lookup table in RAMDAC chips is implemented as SRAM.
Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?
Posted on 2024-04-16, 06:02
Jo22 wrote on 2024-04-16, 05:22: Wasn't there an AGA card, at one point? Wasn't it some sort of ATI Small Wonder? PC-10 III and PC-20 III had onboard Paradise PVC4, with DIP switches to select Hercules or CGA (+Plantronics???) mode. I think earlier generations of PC-10 and PC-20 had that AGA card, …
Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?
Posted on 2024-04-16, 05:10
I've seen plenty of Commodore PCs with Commodore monitors. Usually they were the 18 kHz MDA/Hercules monitors - after all, Commodore PCs were typically used for office stuff, just like PCs of any other brand. But there were also 1084 variants supporting various inputs: - TTL RGBI, for PC with CGA - …
Re: Which card would be good for a 386dx40 system
Posted on 2024-04-16, 04:35
Authentic SB16s would probably be too TSR heavy SB16 cards don't need any memory-resident drivers. First generation is configured by jumpers only, no need for drivers at all. Later generations require software initialization, but it doesn't stay in memory. But I do agree that SB16 may be overkill …
Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?
Posted on 2024-04-15, 22:31
So as as the OP goes it had superior graphics and a superior monitor. Superior graphics ? Depends when, and how you define "superior". The 15 kHz video of Amiga was good for games, and for TV stuff, eg. genlocking. The 18/21/31 kHz video of PC was better for office applications. It was mostly the …
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