Re: Help on PB Aztech soundcard/modem and drivers
Posted on 2021-10-26, 18:48
In DOS, you can use UNISOUND. Win98 should have built-in drivers.
Re: SATA2IDE HDD converters. Please share your experience
Posted on 2021-10-03, 07:17
I'm using a generic adapter (chip isn't jmicron or Marvell) and it works fine on my 440bx board in DMA mode with an SSD.
Re: CD audio based Win 9x games stuttering
Posted on 2021-10-02, 06:52
I can see two possible issues. One is that playing CD audio from an image will have a much higher CPU cost than playing it from CD, which is free. What are your system specs? Another possible issue is the fact that your hard drive is busy playing the CD audio, leading to stutters when it needs to …
Re: Assorted sound card combinations
Posted on 2021-09-28, 18:10
deepthaw wrote on 2021-09-28, 17:35: Do the MIDI bugs impact using the wavetable header or MIDI through the gameport? Both. I recommend as dionb said and using a non-SB16 card for MIDI.
Re: Early revision ASUS P2B and Coppermine Pentium 3
Posted on 2021-09-23, 11:42
Does anyone know if I need to swap out the VRMs along with replacing the HIP6019BCB chip? I think you mean the MOSFETs; look up the specs to see how much current they can provide, at lower voltage, they'll have to supply more current for a chip that uses the same amount of power. Here's something I …
Re: WINXX.CAB by Rudolph R. Loew Need this seeded please.
Posted on 2021-09-16, 17:05
Re: Using MT32-Pi with a ESS Audiodrive 1686F isa card.
Posted on 2021-09-16, 14:21
You could use EITHER a cable from your gameport to a standalone MT32-PI, OR buy a version that plugs directly into your sound card's wavetable header (Serdashop mt32 mccake). If you go the external route, you need something like this https://www.serdashop.com/DB15MIDI and a standard MIDI cable or …
Re: Deus ex freezing at startup
Posted on 2021-09-14, 18:27
At the time I played it without any issues on a TNT2 M64, but that was using much older drivers, probably.
Re: Windows 98 PCI Card
Posted on 2021-09-14, 18:25
SATA so you can use SSDs without a converter?
Re: Non -authentic SB card for 286
Posted on 2021-09-12, 19:24
If you want broad support for older sound standards, yet mono is good enough, look into an Aztech AZTSSPT0592-U01 based card, as that supports Covox and Disney Sound Source. However, it doesn't offer an MPU401 interface, but neither do the old sound blasters. If you just want something that sounds …
Re: Need motherboard for InWin A500 case ?
Posted on 2021-09-11, 06:33
Mods : Why haven't we banned this nonsense yet? This user's entire post history is stolen pictures and random hypothetical builds in which they ask for advice without listening to anyone's responses. It is of precisely no value to the community and wastes other users' time when they try to be …
Re: This slocket adapter allows 3.5V to be sent to the processor
Posted on 2021-09-10, 19:35
That's interesting. So the jumpers are simply requesting the voltage from the motherboard. Is this passed directly to the PWM controller or does BIOS get involved? I'm looking to swap out the PWM controller on my ASUS P2B which can only be configured to 1.8V via slocket and this corresponds with …
Re: Early revision ASUS P2B and Coppermine Pentium 3
Posted on 2021-09-09, 13:25
What is the voltage clamp used for? I only see it on some slockets. I don't have any slockets with a VRM on it. Would these allow for setting the voltage lower than 1.8V? Allow me to quote my article on P3 upgrades http://kentie.net/article/deskproupgrade/index.htm There's also the matter of non- …
Re: Early revision ASUS P2B and Coppermine Pentium 3
Posted on 2021-09-09, 11:21
A voltage clamp on the slotket won't help you, that's meant for data signals.
Re: CT2290 for 65$, worth it ?
Posted on 2021-09-07, 07:01
Gmlb256 wrote on 2021-09-06, 21:43: The CT2290 has a real Yamaha OPL3 integrated into the CT1747 chipset and the MPU-401 actually works well there There's two types of hanging note bug and it's still got the less-frequent , yet still really annoying, kind, I can confirm this from first-hand …
Re: Is there any reason to use pre-TNT2 from NVIDIA or pre-Rage 128 from ATI?
Posted on 2021-09-06, 18:13
Well with the Rage Pro and related chips you can mess around with games that support the CIF api, however be warned that it's a pain in the butt: https://gona.mactar.hu/ATI3DCIF/
Re: What is the main bottleneck in dos programming?
Posted on 2021-09-03, 13:28
Bottleneck depends on the program/hardware combination, not on the OS. However -Unless you're using a toolsuite that integrates a DOS Extender, accessing more than 1MB of memory is difficult. -Hard disk access will generally be slow as there was usually no DMA support. Though disks were slow to …
Re: Windows 98 can hard lock when pairing a Pentium 3 with an older 440 chipset
Posted on 2021-09-03, 12:25
Could it be because the Voodoo 3 is basically a PCI card with an AGP connector, and the other cards use AGP features?
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2021-08-30, 20:44
... The LUT idea works very well for dithering the B&W modes, since it avoids lot's of branches, so I guess it's also a good idea for 4-color and 16-color modes. For now I won't be doing anything very specific for CGA/EGA modes, since most of the 8-bit ISA cards aren't able to sustain good …
Re: Can anyone name this game?
Posted on 2021-08-23, 11:15
System shock
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