Re: X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM and 'Can't find X-Wing CD' / problems with MX300

Posted on 2008-09-15, 18:21

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by GL1zdA

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The SBPro Emulating device has defaults: Port 220h, IRQ 5, DMA 1 and 3 (don't know why 2 DMAs?). Port can be set to 220h, 240h and custom. IRQ can be either 5 or 7. DMA can be 1 and 3, 1, 3 or none. I tried the defaults, the standard 7/1/220h, 5/1,3/220h, 5/1,3/240h, 5/3/220h, 5/3/240h, 5/None/220h, …

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Re: X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM and 'Can't find X-Wing CD' / problems with MX300

Posted on 2008-09-14, 21:01

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by GL1zdA

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Well, my problem is, it freezes under Windows. In DOS mode there are no problems with the default setup. I tried to change the settings, but without any success - setmuse (the sound setup utility) either freezes Windows or plays nothing. (If I choose a SB as SFX and misconfigure the port setting, or …

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Re: Sound cards - from best to worst

Posted on 2008-09-14, 11:21

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ Sound

Thanks for both answers. aleksej, how do you connect the modules, soundcard and speakers? I mean, how do you get both music and SFX? Do you use a external mixer?

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-13, 21:46

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

swaaye wrote: I don't really use it because I hate being stuck with only a serial mouse. ] Why don't you use a PS/2 to COM adapter?

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Re: Pentium Pro systems

Posted on 2008-09-13, 11:04

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by GL1zdA

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ohh...that mobo you show in those links look beefy, seems most sellers on Ebay still think it's 1996-97 when they sell these motherboards judging by the prices They probably sell it as replacement for people, who really need them (because the one in their critical server might be damaged), thats …

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Re: Some question about MT-32 and GM(SC55,88,88Pro etc.)

Posted on 2008-09-12, 16:28

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by GL1zdA

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Well, I think the question should be rather 'which games were written for the MT-32 and which for the SoundCanvas'. Here is list for the MT-32: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MT-32-compatible_computer_games There are games MT-32 compatible, but those which weren't written for the MT-32 have …

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-12, 00:01

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Big thanks 5u3 for all answers. Now I only need a nice AT case to test my 486 machine...

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-10, 11:42

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by GL1zdA

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4. How much RAM can be handled by DOS/WfW 3.11? Win 3.1/WfW 3.11 look like they are limited to 256mb of extended memory: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/84388/en-us For DOS it's going to depend on what memory extender you plan to use but I believe the theoritical max for EMS is 16mb and XMS is 4Gb. …

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Re: Sound cards - from best to worst

Posted on 2008-09-10, 11:40

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by GL1zdA

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Does anyone use the Yamaha MU-series sound modules? Which would be good for GM games? I found here a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_MU-series , but there's only information about few of them.

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Re: VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev 1.8 and Fujitsu 5.2GB HardDrive (MPA3052AT)

Posted on 2008-09-10, 10:01

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by GL1zdA

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I know the Cylinders, Heads and Sectors but no idea of the Precomp and Landzone attributes. Try '-1' for Precomp and Landzone equal to Cylinder count. (This worked for me). The Landzone seems to rarely be different more than -1/+1 the Cylinder count, the Precomp other popular values are: 0/128/256/ …

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Re: 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-07, 22:30

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for all responses. An EISA mainboard seems to be a tempting choice :). Unfortunately I can't see any offers neither for them nor for EISA based expansion cards here, in Poland. I won the bidding for a Intel 486 Ninja MB . Although the seller didn't knew what he was selling, he e-mailed me all …

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Re: Pentium Pro systems

Posted on 2008-09-07, 17:57

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I also own a Socket 8 mobo and a Pentium PRO 200 MHz 1 MB Cache CPU, but I never had time to build a working system. What fans will work with Socket 8, because my CPU arrived without any heatsink? PS. The 1MB Pentium PRO wins my award for being the sexy'iest CPU - the black package rocks! Picture ( …

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486 Motherboard

Posted on 2008-09-03, 16:25

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by GL1zdA

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What 486 motherboard can you recommend me? While it was relatively easy for me to choose a motherboard for a Pentium MMX or a motherboard for a Pentium II/III, I don't know what 486 motherboard to choose. I would like it to support the i486DX4 and AMD 5x86. I found here a nice guide, here are the …

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Re: Terratec 128PCI

Posted on 2008-09-03, 12:40

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by GL1zdA

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The 128i is based on the ES1938 AFAIK (Solo-1). The Maestor is ES1968. ES1938 Product Brief - looks not bad.

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Re: How do I use an external wavetable within dos applications/games?

Posted on 2008-09-03, 11:27

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by GL1zdA

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If you want only the driver, then look for 'rel102.exe': http://www.google.pl/search?q=102rel.exe If the downloaded setup says its corrupt, try a different mirror - at least on one site the file was not working. (the one I am using has MD5: 923838155EABB9B3118340E9220756F6). Or try to find it on FTP …

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Re: X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM and 'Can't find X-Wing CD' / problems with MX300

Posted on 2008-08-31, 20:06

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by GL1zdA

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I downloaded the VDMSound package for Win9x, but I don't know how to configure VDMSound to only do MIDI emulation. I guess I don't have to install all dlls in install.bat and delete SET BLASTER in dosdrv.bat and probably change something in vdms.ini... Could you tell me how to do it?

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Re: How do I use an external wavetable within dos applications/games?

Posted on 2008-08-31, 19:43

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O2IR25MT Big thanks for this iso! The version of AU30DOS.com I have comes up version 2.007. If anyone has one later, let us know. It seems to be the last one (it's included with the 4.06.2048 drivers) I tested today the MX300 with generic Aureal drivers. The last …

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Re: Virtual PC and VMware Workstation DOS memory management

Posted on 2008-08-30, 17:16

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by GL1zdA

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It would be nice, if you would make your config.sys and autoexec.bat more 'verbose' - add comments to settings. I, and probably many other people, who don't know a lot about DOS configuration files, would benefit a lot from these, since we wouldn't have to look up the meaning of all settings. I …

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Re: X-Wing Collector's CD-ROM and 'Can't find X-Wing CD' / problems with MX300

Posted on 2008-08-30, 10:03

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by GL1zdA

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What drivers are you using? I have the 1.02 beta package. Maybe I will try older ones or generic Vortex 2 drivers.

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Re: Baby AT cases or alternatives

Posted on 2008-08-29, 20:18

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by GL1zdA

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I was looking today also for AT cases :) I am looking for old Highscreen cases (sold by Vobis). They had nice Big Towers, (you could pull out a cage with the MB, also you could open one side of the case without using screwdriver.). They also had this Colani designed cases. There were also some …

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