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Re: Good "super small/portable" suggestions?

in Milliways
I would vote for the Book8088 or Pocket386 for pure DOS just because it has the screen and keyboard. Otherwise a WeeCee would have been the tiniest, but it needs a screen and a keyboard and power. If you could get the Surface3 to boot to DOS, that would be fantastic, as it's really slim and …

Re: SB16 Vibra +1 tone

Awww that sounds cute 😅 I'm wondering if your mobo/BIOS settings are using a too high ISA clock. The BIOS settings should have frequency divider setting (or sometimes it's jumpers on the board). Try to use the maximum divider and see if it makes any difference.

Re: What game are you playing now?

in Milliways
For the last couple of months I went through Sierra's AGI adventure games on my TurboXT. The machine has no HDD. It has two 5.25" drives. So it was quite an experience 😅 Started with SQ1, SQ2, then KQ1-4 and finally Police Quest and Black Cauldron. I ran them from their original media, and a save …

Re: Pulling my hair out with EGA programming.

Yes I agree. Anyways I feel at this level one needs to always keep an eye on the generated instructions anyways.. especially in hot-spot areas like a blitter. Just put a breakpoint at that function and switch to disassembly to see what the compiler decided to do. One can then play around the code to …

Re: SB16 Vibra +1 tone

I don't have that same model. I have the CT2890 Vibra16 S, which also has OPL3 and is PnP. It plays fine and dandy though. Didn't notice any issues with pitch or speed of FM. It could be some electronic component going off the mark (crystal oscillator or a cap maybe?) Is digital sounding alright?

Re: Pulling my hair out with EGA programming.

It's actually slightly faster (about 3%) to read vmem into a char 32 times than it is to read vmem into itself 32 times. Interesting. That's probably because writes to vram are super slow whereas writes to main memory are pretty fast (in comparison). So. vram read -> mem write = fast, vram read -> …

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