Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2021-12-28, 13:17

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I bought another PII laptop with WinME installed, it has a ESS sound card and the WinME driver works good with legacy DOS-box support, I tried Prince of Persia and it works well compared with other win98 laptops with YMF754 or CS4624. Those two laptops have sound card & driver with legacy DOS-box …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-19, 14:49

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Brought a ESS solo-1 with A-Trend label in the back. It's too old and I wonder if it still works. It looks like a full height card in the picture,but only 8cm, I think it will fit good as a half height card with a proper bracket. Filename DSC_0303.JPG File size 1.36 MiB Views 321 views

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2021-12-15, 06:18

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I recently get a NEC USB 2.0 PCI adapter , and installed the driver successfully. The device manager shows “NEC uPD720010 USB 2.0 enhanced host controller“ and a “ USB 2.0 Root hub“, but the copy speed is still around 2MB/s via a 2.0 disk, don't know why.🤣 Hmm, Kingston? Those things tend to have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-14, 01:18

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YMH724B :D Obviously not Yamaha. But interesting because it's soooo fake :) Damn, I didn't see that. :D :D :D Shit that was too careless of me, fortunately it costed me only $2. And I thought it was a good bargain.🤣🤣🤣 Those CMedia chips are supposed to have DOS support as well. Not sure how good it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-13, 16:10

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Got yet another YMF724, which is low profile, fit to my planned SFF rig.😁 It doesn't have sb-link header so I'm gonna try DSDMA on it. DSC_0302.JPG YMH724B :D Obviously not Yamaha. But interesting because it's soooo fake :) Damn, I didn't see that. :D :D :D Shit that was too careless of me, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-13, 15:03

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Got yet another YMF724, which is low profile, fit to my planned SFF rig.😁 It doesn't have sb-link header so I'm gonna try DSDMA on it. Filename DSC_0302.JPG File size 1.1 MiB Views 599 views

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2021-12-13, 01:40

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Maybe you can try running setup in DOSBox and save it, then copying to the real machine. It's a little inconvenient but maybe works.😁

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2021-12-10, 22:09

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I recently get a NEC USB 2.0 PCI adapter , and installed the driver successfully. The device manager shows “NEC uPD720010 USB 2.0 enhanced host controller“ and a “ USB 2.0 Root hub“, but the copy speed is still around 2MB/s via a 2.0 disk, don't know why.🤣

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Re: Yamaha YMF724 on i845

Posted on 2021-12-10, 12:35

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should look at the manual and look at the IRQ sharing scheme. You might not be aware that onboard devices share IRQs with the PCI slot. So PCI slot 4 for example might share an IRQ with the USB controller. ANd PCI slot 2 might share an IRQ with a onboard raid controller. PCI slot 3 and 5 might …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2021-12-10, 09:32

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I think you need the modified setupds. The download is available at Phil's Computer Lab. I tested this with my 724 and 845 (ICH2) motherboard last night and it worked fine. Confirmed by unplugging/plugging back in the SB-Link header and doing the tests. Everything worked (Set to S-IRQ, and PC/PCI …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2021-12-10, 04:35

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Yep I modified the cfg file to set the correct DMA, but no sound. Guess it's too picky 😁. There is a omd folder besides msd, dunno the difference but I tried that in cfg but still no.

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2021-12-09, 17:07

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I have sb-link connected with 724 and i815 board, but the IRQ and IRQ mode in setupds is greyed out. Now I can only get FM in DOS. Am I connecting them wrong？ The header on both sides have no hint of the plug orientation.😁 Checked this thread https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=55398&start= …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-09, 17:05

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Got a YMF724 with SB Link header, guess it's pretty normal stuff here. (...) A-Trend card which I had back in the 90s and I still have it although my younger stupid me threw away the original box ;/ It's one of the best YMF724 cards. Yes it's a A-Trend card. That's quite old school for you. I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-09, 16:27

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Get another ymf724 that is said have a wavetable ROM on it: Yamaha waveforce WF-192XG. This piece is manufactured by Yamaha I guess. Just wonder how the wavetable works, through mpu401? does it need drivers or it only works in windows? I use ymf 724 driver and the SB & FM both works in DOS, but …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2021-12-08, 14:52

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I have sb-link connected with 724 and i815 board, but the IRQ and IRQ mode in setupds is greyed out. Now I can only get FM in DOS. Am I connecting them wrong？ The header on both sides have no hint of the plug orientation.😁 Checked this thread https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=55398&start= …

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Re: Yamaha YMF724 on i845

Posted on 2021-12-08, 12:14

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I installed 98 again and problem remains. But I found the solution: Because I disabled LPT port in BIOS before installing 98, the BIOS will explicitly reserve IRQ 7 for the LPT, disabling it will inform BIOS not to reserve IRQ 7 anymore. Now I just enable LPT in BIOS so that it will reserve the IRQ …

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Re: Yamaha YMF724 on i845

Posted on 2021-12-08, 11:26

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I believe its the original floppy version is IRQ 7 Drivers for the SB Pro are not going to help you here, Prince of Persia uses its own internal driver to communicate with your cards. Except for a very few games, you do not need to install the drivers for the SB Pro in DOS, although the mixer …

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Re: Yamaha YMF724 on i845

Posted on 2021-12-08, 11:22

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TO clarify somthing about prince of persia. That game uses IRQ 7 not 5 and I don't think you can change that. Both the first and the second game from the 1995 Prince of Persia CD collection ( Mobygames entry ) work fine with IRQ 5. Not sure about the earlier floppy versions though. Prince2.jpg I do …

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Re: The quest for an affordable (and possibly cheap) SFF retro PC! (DOS up to Win98)

Posted on 2021-12-05, 21:11

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I'm up to SFFs recently, I guess Dell Optiplex is a good choice, GX100/GX110, GX150 and then GX260/GX270/GX280. GX110 is pure white and beautiful (some models are not), but it seems to have only 1 ISA slot, there's raiser with ISA+PCI or all PCI slots but I don't think PCI graphics card is a good …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-05, 20:01

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Got a YMF724 with SB Link header, guess it's pretty normal stuff here. And a pretty old QDI SX5EP 815ep mobo with sb-link too. Pics are from seller. Filename _20211125_174600.JPG File size 389.71 KiB Views 799 views Filename Image (2).jpg File size 245.38 KiB Views 799 views

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