Re: DOS games running on a Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 SE PocketPC device ?
Posted on 2019-04-15, 21:44
Re: BLASTERBOARD : A modern SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card
Posted on 2019-04-15, 21:39
Hi, just want you to tell that I'd love to support this project if I could. Unfortunately, I can't at the moment since I'm very short on money right now. If you still need some tests for comparsion against a SB2, SB16, PAS16 or ThunderBoard, please let me know.
Re: Best way of debugging Win16 programs on 64-bit Windows?
Posted on 2019-04-14, 18:30
If you are using ntvdm (which is recommended because if it crashes you can just kill ntvdm rather than having to restart the whole vm) there's windbg and the watcom debugger. I wonder, why is OS/2's VDM never mentioned anywhere in this respect? Was there no debugger of this kind available at the …
Re: most compact 8088/8086 board you've seen?
Posted on 2019-04-14, 09:43
Yes, more memory anomaly here: it has 768kB of RAM (+parity) but of course only 640kB is visible. If the system has a CGA or Hercules card installed, just add 704K.COM to autoexec.bat It'll increase DOS RAM to 704K, at least. If RAM is available at the A segment block (if memory is contingous).. …
Re: CL-5446 being better than S3 Trio64v+ ?
Posted on 2019-04-14, 09:26
CL-GD5428/5430 were also used in Japan, on the PC-98 platform (NEC PC-9821).. yawetaG and me had a little talk about SVGA chips on that platform a while ago . The Cirrus, as well as other chipsets, were increasingly used about the time Win95 became popular. Being VGA cards, more or less, they …
Re: OAK OTI-037c - 800x600 mode ?
Posted on 2019-04-14, 00:24
Quick Update. Just had a little bit of time for testing the 67c.. My guess wasn't so wrong, it seems. The VGA Mode selector program works whit it, as it did with the 037c. Even more, it has the same glitches in PopCorn. Directly after running VGAMODE, the game is still pinkish. This leads me to the …
Re: VGA cards conflict with Adaptec host adapters - any advice?
Posted on 2019-04-13, 21:21
retardware wrote: With S3 86C911, no AHA-1542CF is being seen. 😳 That's the first single-chip 2D accelerator! It was named after a Porsche 911, I believe.
Re: Dreamblaster and gameport question
Posted on 2019-04-13, 19:26
Oh, you're using an internal MIDI device ? In that case, you can just simply attach a joystick to the game port of the same card no problem. The wave blaster header is not connected to the game portion of the external DB15 port (namely the X/Y axises, buttons 1-4). Rather, the waveblaster header is …
Re: most compact 8088/8086 board you've seen?
Posted on 2019-04-13, 18:56
It would be a nice thing to make a MicroATX XT Mainboard with Trident VGA, HD Floppy Controller and IDE CF Socket, and maybe Adlib Sound ? :D I think I'd prefer an integrated MPU401 to an integrated Adlib. I'd be happy with a simple game port already. Can't believe it is still somewhat being …
Re: Dreamblaster and gameport question
Posted on 2019-04-13, 18:19
The MIDI port and the game port are two sepparate devices. It's just that the Sound Blaster card used some unused pins of the DB-15 connector that was used by the IBM Game Control Adapter card. And since Sound Blaster became so popular, almost all sound card makers continued to support this choice. …
Re: most compact 8088/8086 board you've seen?
Posted on 2019-04-13, 16:49
With CGA you can get 768Kb conventional RAM for sure.. True. As fas i do remember, the usual steps are (or rather were) 704K/736K/768K. :) The 704-736K region is used by the MDA's text mode, afaik. " This address is not completely decoded; the entire 32k from 0B0000h to 0B7FFFh is filled with …
Re: Slow AVI with DX4-100 in Windows 3.11
Posted on 2019-04-13, 13:26
Hm. Not sure what it is then. If speed is an issue, did you try to enable/disable FastDisk driver (32-Bit disk access) ? It's not necessary, normally, but affects overall Windows performance in so far, as it can work in tandem with Windows 3.11's HDD cache (32-Bit file access) and allows Windows to …
Re: need idea: what can i do with a 286?
Posted on 2019-04-12, 21:30
I also recommend to read the articles at rcollins.org. They are very interesting an well written, so even a complete layman has a chance to get the basic idea of complicated stuff. Here's one entitled "The LOADALL Instruction" - http://www.rcollins.org/articles/loadall/tspec_a3_doc.html
Re: Ryzen 7 most powerful windows 98 computer?
Posted on 2019-04-12, 21:24
Also note that Ryzen had issues with Ehnanced V86 (VME), It's fixed now, what ever that means. http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-fixed-on-amd-ryzen/ http://www.rcollins.org/articles/vme1/
Re: Slow AVI with DX4-100 in Windows 3.11
Posted on 2019-04-12, 20:19
I also have Video for Windows 1.1E installed. Please also check if it's the right version and uptodate (Intel Indeo codecs 3.2 and 4.1 were optional)- Some VFWs were faster than others (supported DCI ?) if my memory serves me well. Speaking of the S3 Trio, you also can try the ELSA drivers. They …
Re: Bandwidth of the pc game port?
Posted on 2019-04-12, 19:20
Also note that the game port needs some time to "recharge" and that older game ports were speed-sensitive. Some had variable resistors to correct that little issue.
Re: Is collecting cellphones a thing? (Odd quenstion, I know)
Posted on 2019-04-12, 18:10
More than collecting I like to really use and test different and older phones/smartphones. Too bad the really old phones needed 5 volts sim cards so modern sim cards would be damaged by using them. That's interesting, never thought about that, which is strange, since the 5V vs 3.3V issue is always …
Windows 3.1 in BIOS ROM (news)
Posted on 2019-04-12, 08:25
Hi everyone, Just saw an interesting article at hackaday.com. https://hackaday.com/2019/04/10/windows-3-1-in-my-bios-its-more-likely-than-you-think/ It's not entirely new, things like this had been done before with DOS (ROM-DOS, Pen DOS etc) and Windows 3.1 (C64 Webit, settop boxes with DOM etc.), …
Re: most compact 8088/8086 board you've seen?
Posted on 2019-04-12, 08:06
Didn't Vtech also make Z80/808x PCs before they became a cheap toy company ? I've seen a few tiny XT motherboards here. Just click on "Photo" in each table.
Re: Windows 3.1/3.11 Drivers for Graphic Cards...
Posted on 2019-04-11, 22:33
There's also a Chips F82C451 C chip, as used on the OCTEC EVGA 16.. Source: http://www.pc-schnulli.de/hardw/grafikk.html Maybe there are 3.x compatible drivers onlne, that also work with the 450. Edit: There's this one, for example. Can't test it, however, since I lack that VGA card.
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