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My main DOS pc is a 233mmx since I also want something to handle games like Blood and not crawl. ICACHE is a great tool to kill (and re-enable later) L1 cache on the fly so the system drops down to 386DX speeds. So unless you want to play really old xt-era games then your 200mmx will be just fine …

Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2017-12-30, 23:23

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

^ excellent 😀

Re: What Is the Best Way to Creating a Windows XP/98 Dual Booting Environment?

Posted on 2017-12-30, 02:09

by keropi

in Marvin \ Software

+1 for PLOP - I use it to triple boot dos/98se/win2000 , by far the best for me as well

Re: Sound Card Identification (OPTi 82C924 chip)

Posted on 2017-12-27, 23:16

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

^ yes it is and the ls-215 above it is the clone DAC

Re: EGA Monitor repair

Posted on 2017-12-26, 14:16

by keropi

in Marvin \ Video

they are X2 filter caps - they help with power-line noise - you can operate the monitor without them until replacements arrive like derSammler mentions

Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2017-12-24, 22:27

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

nah, it's just time - the lack of it. These first boards will have some kind of patch to them that will replace the one I showed before. Maybe a small wire with a resistor, maybe a couple of small passives, we'll know soon 😀

Re: New DreamBlaster S2 !

Posted on 2017-12-24, 22:21

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

Let's keep in mind that Dream themselves provide that 13MB bank - and no higher-quality alternative AFAIK, this is what they license with every chipset sold out there. The fact that the chipset supports 64MB doesn't necessarily mean that 64MB should be fully used to achieve the best quality - take …

Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!

Posted on 2017-12-22, 19:29

by keropi

in Marvin \ Video

dreamblaster wrote: so... I will pm plasma on this project EXCELLENT 😎

Re: Antistatic tape - do you use and where to buy?

Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:20

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Using antistatic tape is just too much IMHO unless the component in question is bigger than the bag... you can just use paper tape and be done with it if you are worried about static build up. The pink bag on the EEVBlog video is not an antistatic one, it's just a packing bag. There are proper pink …

Re: Is the AcuMOS AVGA1 (Pre-Cirrus) a good card for DOS gaming?

Posted on 2017-12-21, 08:35

by keropi

in Marvin \ Video

Really slow vga that handicaps the system... If you only have isa slots take a look some higher end 542x cards or a WD90C3x based one... A fast vga card can make a huge difference

Re: OPL2LPT

Posted on 2017-12-19, 14:03

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

^ excellent 😁

Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2017-12-19, 06:45

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

Still debugging... Very slowly 🤣

Re: Ebay thread goodbye thread

Posted on 2017-12-18, 13:57

by keropi

in Milliways

the thread is now a contest of who knows the most disgusting site/media on the web 🤣 On a serious note maybe the thread needs to go to sleep, I think it served it's purpose. 😀

Re: EGA/VGA Optima 1024 P.N. 3071 Rev A (Tseng Labs ET3000AX) info or manual?

Posted on 2017-12-17, 21:33

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got a similar OTI VGA/EGA card - the jumpers select if the card outputs on the VGA or EGA port and most likely what type of monitor is connected to the EGA port and maybe it can be locked down to CGA modes. I'll add my experience with the card I own since I believe things will be more or less …

Re: OPL2LPT

Posted on 2017-12-17, 20:04

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

I did some testing with my 386sx33 (with 16kb of cache)/EGA setup with 3 games that I know well: Keen4, Biomenace1 and Dangerous Dave Risky Rescue - all had such a small speed penalty that it was negligible. It seems like a good release to me - unless someone finds some serious bug.