Re: Should I upgrade to an AGP card for 98SE games?

Posted on 2022-01-04, 05:54

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You're also in prime capacitor plague territory ... I've had very mixed luck sourcing industrial PC components from Aliexpress / eBay sellers, the last go-round took a few months and 3 exchanges to get a working board. For the money, time, and risk required to buy a bare mainboard you can buy an …

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Do ISA audio cards work in industrial 478 motherboards?

Posted on 2022-01-03, 20:39

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by Lylat1an

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I'm thinking this could be the solution for a good Pentium 4 Windows 9x gaming PC that can also run DOS games. However, I've read that industrial boards don't always support audio from ISA cards. What exactly will I need to look for in their specs?

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Re: Should I upgrade to an AGP card for 98SE games?

Posted on 2022-01-03, 17:57

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You're also in prime capacitor plague territory ... I've had very mixed luck sourcing industrial PC components from Aliexpress / eBay sellers, the last go-round took a few months and 3 exchanges to get a working board. For the money, time, and risk required to buy a bare mainboard you can buy an …

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Re: Should I upgrade to an AGP card for 98SE games?

Posted on 2022-01-03, 03:04

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And this is how it begins... first you'll have a system which probably meets your needs... but then you start to read further about palleted textures, midi, table fog, 3dfx, PowerVR, idiosyncrasies of various video/fsb/cpu/chipset configurations set together, games which run too fast, games which …

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Re: Should I upgrade to an AGP card for 98SE games?

Posted on 2022-01-03, 03:03

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Be sure to review this spreadsheet (gona?) put together for the best DOS video experience. the 6200 wasn't checked directly, but the 6800 GS was. You might be just fine with the card you already have for DOS and Windows as it's from the same family NV4x. But is yours turbocache? LE? Anyway, plenty …

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Re: Should I upgrade to an AGP card for 98SE games?

Posted on 2022-01-02, 23:03

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I found a Socket 478 board with AGP 1.5v, four PCI v2.2, and 3 ISA slots. https://www.ebay.com/itm/264115189029 That should allow me to run my Sound Blaster 16, mouse controller, and a Voltage Blaster with a better video card. I haven't thought much about which Windows games I want to play: I'm …

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Re: Should I upgrade to an AGP card for 98SE games?

Posted on 2022-01-02, 19:19

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Might as well if you're getting a new mobo anyway. Are you mainly gaming? If so, which era of games. Too fast a system will make older DOS games harder to run well. If that's not a concern, then go for it! Yes, the system is for DOS and Windows 9x games. (On separate drives) I'm looking at socket …

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Should I upgrade to an AGP card for 98SE games?

Posted on 2022-01-02, 18:55

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My current retro rig motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot, just an onboard SiS 530/5595 chipset. I chose to use an Nvidia GeForce 6200 PCI card, as it was the most recent PCI card to support 98SE on their driver page. But now that I want a newer motherboard for faster storage, I'm wondering whether …

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Re: Usb gamepad DOS

Posted on 2022-01-02, 17:29

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Making DOS recognize USB was a pain when I tried it last year, I ultimately gave up on it. If you don't want to use an "Advanced Gravis" pad in your game port, there's a program called SNESKEY that allows you to connect a real SNES pad to a parallel port. There are schematics online for building …

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Re: scsi controller on 486 and boot from cd-rom

Posted on 2022-01-02, 04:53

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Thanks for the replies.. 1) Wow! I saw on ebay that 1542 is very expensive! There are no alternatives as a card? 2) How should you set up your computer bios to boot from these scsi cards if it allows me to boot from floppy only or from "hard disk 0"? How do you bypass the ibm bios setting? 3) In …

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Re: scsi controller on 486 and boot from cd-rom

Posted on 2022-01-01, 23:40

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by Lylat1an

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In my experience, a drive controller card with its own BIOS should be bootable. Just make sure it uses a PCI revision that's compatible with your motherboard. Alternatively, you could also try a floppy-based booting solution. I know that Windows 95 and 98 usually came with boot floppies, otherwise …

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Re: Most recent platform for Baby AT motherboards?

Posted on 2021-12-31, 20:14

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by Lylat1an

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The Promise SATA150 TX2plus looks like the best option for a card with Windows 98 support since I'd like to use a native IDE device, but it still needs PCI version 2.3. Does the Corvalent Raptor AT support that spec?

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Re: Most recent platform for Baby AT motherboards?

Posted on 2021-12-31, 20:05

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cyclone3d wrote on 2021-12-31, 19:42: There are very few SATA II cards that have drivers for 98SE. None that are SATA III Plus, if it PCI, there is pretty much no reason for anything over SATA 1, as the PCI bus speed maxes out at 133MB/s Good point... Still, I'll be using SATA III SSDs.

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Re: Most recent platform for Baby AT motherboards?

Posted on 2021-12-31, 19:29

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How about the Corvalent Gator AT MN-GMEBT-01.pdf I found some of those on Ebay, but I can't judge whether or not one will actually be an upgrade from my SS7 board. (I'd also need to cut up a clone chassis for the CPU to fit in the drive bay area of my case) I may be willing to sacrifice AGP …

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Re: Most recent platform for Baby AT motherboards?

Posted on 2021-12-29, 20:57

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Op, your motherboard has an ATX power supply connector; have you considered using one? Much easier to get a good quality power supply that way, and all you lose is the reset button (since it becomes your power on button). I have, but I think I need a -5v line for my ISA cards. I could use a Voltage …

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Re: Most recent platform for Baby AT motherboards?

Posted on 2021-12-29, 18:47

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Op, your motherboard has an ATX power supply connector; have you considered using one? Much easier to get a good quality power supply that way, and all you lose is the reset button (since it becomes your power on button). I have, but I think I need a -5v line for my ISA cards. I could use a Voltage …

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Re: Most recent platform for Baby AT motherboards?

Posted on 2021-12-29, 18:23

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If you really wanted, you could probably go up to at least Pentium 4 if you use a backplane and SBC.. maybe even higher. But it wouldn't be much of a retro rig then. As for upgrading at all, what is the current hardware? Do you use it for DOS as well as Windows? this is mainly for knowing if it …

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Most recent platform for Baby AT motherboards?

Posted on 2021-12-29, 17:50

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by Lylat1an

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I'd like to upgrade the hardware in my Retro Rig if possible, the best I could find back when I built it was a Super Socket 7 system with a Baby AT motherboard. I want to keep the case, which is not compatible with ATX, thus I believe I'm limited to Baby AT. Were there any better platforms made in …

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Re: SNES or Genesis/MD controller to GamePort adapters?

Posted on 2021-12-26, 18:35

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by Lylat1an

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-12-26, 18:33: I believe you can plug the Sega 9 pin controllers into an Atari/C64 joystick adapter and get up/down/left/right and one fire button. I've done that before, but this is for a DOS computer.

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SNES or Genesis/MD controller to GamePort adapters?

Posted on 2021-12-26, 18:24

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by Lylat1an

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I've tried parallel port converters and they aren't working in the game I want to play. Looks like a game port solution is the answer, but I'm not seeing any old PC controllers that I like. Are there any products that can convert my trusty console controllers to a game port?

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