Re: Guide for Orpheus ISA Card with optional PCMIDI, X2GS and MT32-Pi simultaneously on DOS and WIN98SE.

Posted on 2024-02-29, 14:24

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Are there DOS games that automatically (and only) check 330 for General MIDI/GS that this method would break? I know the intention here is for older DOS games who only check 330 for MT-32, but I know there's a handful of DOS games that don't ask for the port that are General MIDI/GS compatible. Doom …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2024-02-27, 06:49

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I can't for the life of me find the right Crystal 4237 drivers for Windows 3.1, could you point me in the right direction? [...] Windows 3.1 drivers are located in the original Orpheus page: http://pcmidi.eu/orpheus.html When it comes to win3x things will work the same as the original Orpheus , …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2024-02-27, 05:25

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I did some 3.11 testing , it is indeed possible to install both and you do get both 4237 and GUS devices available and working the setup is meh though , I cannot see the point messing so much in 3.x to get both parts working in tandem , you do have to install first the 4237 and then GUS driver and …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-11-08, 04:13

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1. Anyone compared performance a same game with this and in PCem/86box (and/or Dosbox)? Only for a few games. Thus far I've done an informal (i.e. not with exact benchmarking) test of Unreal, Unreal Tournament, Rogue Squadron 3D, and Need for Speed 3. My PC host is an intel i7 11800H running …

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Re: Dual Sound Card Defaults - AWE32 and Gravis Ultrasound

Posted on 2023-09-21, 19:16

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Don't bother installing the Windows 9x driver for the GUS, it is buggy and suboptimal. Just simply initialize the sound card with ULTRINIT in AUTOEXEC.BAT. In case you have connected the AWE output into the GUS line-in and play DOS games within Windows using the GUS, I recommend adding a PIF …

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Dual Sound Card Defaults - AWE32 and Gravis Ultrasound

Posted on 2023-09-21, 13:31

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I'm having a problem with certain games and settings in Windows 95 with a dual ISA sound card setup, a Sound Blaster AWE32 and Gravis Ultrasound. I like using Gravis for music in many games simply because I like the way it sounds and I prefer using the AWE32 for everything else. Some games don't …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-01, 18:26

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The latest release seems to have completely broken my build. I'm running VirtualBox 6.0.24 and the previous release (the 7/10 release) seemed to do nicely for most things I was running. The GLChecker worked great, showing I had HW acceleration as did dxdiag, showing blazingly fast D3D support. The …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-09-01, 13:18

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The latest release seems to have completely broken my build. I'm running VirtualBox 6.0.24 and the previous release (the 7/10 release) seemed to do nicely for most things I was running. The GLChecker worked great, showing I had HW acceleration as did dxdiag, showing blazingly fast D3D support. The …

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Re: QEMU and WHPX

Posted on 2023-08-22, 19:05

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I've been having the same issue, and I think it's a bug with Windows Hypervisor, not with QEMU. If/until Microsoft patches it, I'm not sure if QEMU is even going to work in Windows anymore, at least not for old Windows installs.

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Re: Current Best Video Driver for PCem

Posted on 2023-07-28, 03:36

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On a bit off-topic, but I've always been curious: is there any video driver that can do 1280x720 in PCem? I use the Phoenix S3Trio64 for my PCem build over the ATI cards because you can get 32-bit true color in 1024x768, whereas I've only ever been able to get 24-bit color at that resolution with …

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Re: Realms of the Haunting - Gravis Ultrasound?

Posted on 2023-07-26, 03:24

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Hey Vogonites, For a while now, I've been trying to set up an automated, no-cd DOSbox installation of Realms of the Haunting with custom .bat and .conf files for easy access and proper emulation. I've accomplished all I've set out to do as far as that goes and Sound Blaster 16 works fine, but it …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-07-15, 18:26

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This line is only needed for VBox 7.0 as explained here: https://github.com/JHRobotics/mesa9x Quake II boots fine for me in VBox 6.0. Played around with it and got it working, was using a really old version of Quake II, after a newer patch everything works perfectly! I'm so happy this thing exists …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2023-07-15, 12:48

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This is really cool, but I'm a dunce when it comes to setting these things up. Whenever I run this line: VBoxManage setextradata "Windows 98" "VBoxInternal/Devices/vga/0/Config/VMSVGA10" "0" and I go to start up my VirtualBox, I'm greeted with this error: "Failed to open a session for the virtual …

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Re: WIN98SE Automatic Shut Down while playing 3D games

Posted on 2023-03-17, 01:47

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Overheating might be the cause, although feeling the bottom of the computer, it doesn't seem that hot, but maybe I'm just used to newer hardware that gets a lot hotter than this. If I were to troubleshoot for overheating, is there some kind of Windows 9x utility I can use that measures heat on the …

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WIN98SE Automatic Shut Down while playing 3D games

Posted on 2023-03-17, 00:54

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I've been tinkering with getting Windows 98SE on a designed-for-XP laptop. My specs are as follows: Model: Gateway 600YG2 Processor: Intel® Pentium 4™-M CPU 2.6 GHz Ram: 256MB 266 MHz DDR-SDRAM Graphics Controller: ATI Mobility Radeon 9500, 64MB of VRAM Sound: Allegro ESS ES1988 chipset (SB …

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Re: Windows 98SE Mini PCI Wifi card woes

Posted on 2023-03-14, 21:39

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Revisiting this one, I got it working using an aftermarket, custom driver, which I'll link here. In spite of claiming to work with a different version of the Broadcom PCI wifi card (Bcm94309mp), I can confirm that it worked well with mine (BCM94306). In terms of what kind of encrypted wireless …

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Re: Windows 98SE Mini PCI Wifi card woes

Posted on 2023-02-22, 19:11

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by EriolGaurhoth

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OMORES wrote on 2023-02-22, 18:41: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > ENUM > PCI *Windows 98 is very PCI tolerant as you can see in the attached image, on a newer motherboard there are like 50+ PCI devices Thank you so much! This will be very helpful in troubleshooting these drivers.

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Re: Windows 98SE Mini PCI Wifi card woes

Posted on 2023-02-21, 22:33

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by EriolGaurhoth

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I'm using a USB stick for WiFi in Windows 98 - there are many early B/G dongles Windows 98 compatible. But I guess you just want to install that card for your peace of mind. You can take a look into registry also and delete devices from there and reinstall. This was the only way to get rid of a …

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Windows 98SE Mini PCI Wifi card woes

Posted on 2023-02-21, 19:25

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by EriolGaurhoth

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Hey all! I've been trying to install Windows 98 on a designed-for-windows XP laptop: the Gateway 600YG2. The specs are as follows: Processor: Intel® Pentium 4™-M CPU 2.6 GHz Ram: 256MB 266 MHz DDR-SDRAM Graphics Controller: ATI Mobility Radeon 9500, 64MB of VRAM Sound: Allegro ESS ES1988 chipset (SB …

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