Re: Sound drivers work in DOS 6.22 but not in Win 3.11

Posted on 2020-03-28, 03:07

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Hi, may I ask if the Windows drivers for your Sound Blaster 16 are installed ? If so, you can check and correct the driver settings manually. To do so, either run SYSEDIT in Windows or open SYSTEM.INI in a text editor. (The highlighted parts are the most important ones.) Then, watch out for the [ …

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Re: Help needed with dead 286 board. With schematics.

Posted on 2020-03-26, 23:40

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After a cursory glance at the BIOS disassembly I can say forget the POST card - doesn't look like it does any port 80 writes so there won't be any meaningful codes. This mobo really is a kind of early XT to AT hybrid. Make sure the keyboard is connected - I've seen some early mobos behave odd when …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-03-26, 03:11

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Oh. :( I liked the way it was, personally. Hercules&CGA are like brothers/sisters. They are essentially based on the same CRTC, the HD46505. And most cards can be jumpered to either mode. Edit: I hope it wasn't my fault that causes that wish. My sister alswasy complains that I'm too chatty and do …

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Re: Help needed with dead 286 board. With schematics.

Posted on 2020-03-26, 00:58

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This is all it shows when I got it to boot. Not much info there. Never got it to boot again after this. Hm. Maybe it's really related to the clock somehow. Maybe there's a broken diode next to the clock chip ? Dunno. A non-functional clock also means that the data in the clock's CMOS RAM is …

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Re: retro AM radio

Posted on 2020-03-25, 20:21

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Cool! :cool: In Germany, the German Museum in Munich, Bavaria has an AM station, too, I heard. It's called "Radio Eule" (Radio Owl, since the mascot is an owl) and can be heard outside the museum, even. Thanks to its comparably large antenna (100m long, 10W ERP, 1500KHz). https://www.deutsches- …

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"The missile knows where it is.." (hilarious explanation)

Posted on 2020-03-25, 18:32

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Hello everyone, The title is surely a bit misleading, but it's also the title of a YT video, so I adopted it for this thread, as well. I hope yo don't mind. Long story short, it's about how a missle calculates its position. Or at least how it did in the 1960s.. Long story: It's a wonderful example …

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Re: Games for Hercules monitor

Posted on 2020-03-25, 03:14

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Errius wrote on 2020-03-24, 13:45: What Hercules card does it have? Assuming it still has the orginial graphics card installed.. AGA card, perhaps ?

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Re: 386 DX40

Posted on 2020-03-25, 03:06

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See here: https://www.computerhope.com/ac.htm Also make sure you are using a compatible device driver for your CDROM drive. Try this one : CDROM driver videcdd.sys https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ms-dos-starter-pack.html Beware, VIDE-CDD.SYS is one of the smallest, not one of the most compatible …

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Re: 386 PC with both diskette and floppy drive

Posted on 2020-03-25, 02:40

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it would really help if you used the correct terminology - both 3.5" and 5.25" diskette drives are "floppy drives" and none of them use an IDE cable You'd be surprised how often even computer "experts" in modern forums claim/believe that floppy drives used to be connected through IDE.. :rolleyes: - …

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Re: Recommend me some gold old DOS games?

Posted on 2020-03-23, 17:12

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+1

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Re: Issue with IDE drives failing auto detect

Posted on 2020-03-22, 00:55

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1) it's hard to find a working floppy controller. I have 5 old isa multi-io controllers and only 1 has a floppy controller that works on multiple systems These floppy controllers are meant to be used with the corresponding ISA IDE interface (which is fully functional with Pentium BIOSes, btw). They …

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Re: Trying to install Sound Blaster 16 drivers on Windows 3.11

Posted on 2020-03-21, 20:25

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Hi! The card seems to be a Vibra model. https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Creative_Labs#Sound_Blaster_16_.28Vibra.29 Maybe it uses Plug&Play and needs a Plug&Play utility thus. That's what the configuration diskette is for. Unless your old Compaq has a Plug&Play BIOS already, of course. Then the …

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Re: Issue with IDE drives failing auto detect

Posted on 2020-03-21, 20:19

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Hi, you could try WHATIDE or IDEDIAG utility. Maybe they help you to find out drive geometry. Re: IDE disk-on-module + 386 Good luck! 😀

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-03-21, 16:49

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I don't think anyone mentioned Korean Dungeon Boy yet. Some of the cleanest, well drawn Hercules gfx you'll see this side of the Milky Way. Fun too! (kind of important I guess) Thank you for mentioning this one. It looks interesting and well drawn, indeed. That's how things should have been more …

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Re: Trying to install Sound Blaster 16 drivers on Windows 3.11

Posted on 2020-03-21, 15:37

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These folders are likely meant to hold the content of three separate diskettes: SB16 Driver Disk Creative Plug&Pray Disk (with CTCM/CTCU programs ?) Disk with software for the SB16's optional ASP/CSP chip No idea why this method was used instead of simply including disk images, though.

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-03-21, 15:24

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Technically this game has fantastic effects that I never saw on cga on any other game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SygD93F95js PopCorn is awesome. The colour is wrong, though. It's supposed to be red, not pink, I believe. I found out by checking several emulators and on an old OAK card in CGA …

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Story of a 1980's FPV flight

Posted on 2020-03-21, 15:09

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Hello everyone, Just saw some interesting article at hackaday that I like to share.. It's about an early attempt of carrying a wireless video camera in an r/c plane. https://hackaday.com/2020/03/13/an-epic-story … 80s-fpv-flight/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5_gPhT61ek Best regards, Jo22

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Re: RTVGA 8 bits on PC/104 socket and converter to ISA with MonochromeVGA

Posted on 2020-03-21, 14:59

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NuXT v2.0 Cool! :cool: The green acrylic I/O shield is one thing that impresses me the most. Edit: I've seen a similar design in on older 286 systems a few times, mainly industrial ones. If memory serves me well, then the daughter card was a VGA compatible design based on the Paradise chipsets. …

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Re: Video playback on a 286? - here's how to do it

Posted on 2020-03-20, 23:58

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I tried your variant of Quicktime, and when I open mplayer.exe now, the Video For Windows player, it always is crashing to due to general protection errors in different DLL's and EXE's. Here's an example: Sorry to hear! :( I'll double check on one of my 286 PCs as soon as I can. Currently, the …

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Re: Video playback on a 286? - here's how to do it

Posted on 2020-03-20, 14:53

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I love this thread. ^^ Fun fact: A 286 (10 or 12MHz) was the original CPU in the Multimedia PC specs (MPC v1.0) before it got revised to a 386SX (16MHz). See https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=506399#p506399 Also, Video for Windows v1.0 also runs on a 286 still, v.1.1 requires 386 and higher. A …

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