Re: will you run windows95 on a highend 386?

Posted on 2017-09-17, 08:06

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by Jo22

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Just checked my old PC magazines.. In my place, in March '96, the latest in technology available was a Pentium 90 or 120 (166 available "soon") . Most machines were stil not sold with more than 8MiB of RAM, though. A 16MiB configuration was pure luxury and the maximum you could buy. Also, a CD-ROM …

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Re: CL Mode VESA driver

Posted on 2017-09-17, 05:56

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UniVBE never worked for me (too buggy). I would stick to the official VBE BIOSes, if possible. 😀

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Re: Generic Compact Flash Cards

Posted on 2017-09-17, 05:40

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Breaking Compact Flash cards.. How do you do that ? :lol: - I'm using a takeMS no-name card for almost two years now. It's the card me and my family use to display family photos and movies on our old CRT television set in the living room. The card itself is about from 2003 and is still going strong, …

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Re: Tandy \ Disney Sound Source \ Soundblaster playback on parallel port DAC CVX4

Posted on 2017-09-16, 20:24

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Hi! Is this thread still alive ? I just remembered there also was a great patch thread for Telarium games that got posted early this year. These games may also work fine with Covox and TEMU, as it seems . Anyway, I just remembered it because today I bought a book titled Rendezvous with Rama on eBay. …

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Re: will you run windows95 on a highend 386?

Posted on 2017-09-16, 08:52

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by Jo22

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I forgot.. There's a really old trick to speed-up Win95 on slow PCs. It will disable the "last access" log entry for accessed files. Just add "ACCDATE C: -" to config.sys. It's similar to the Windows NT NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate.

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Re: Help Identifying an Old RAM/Clock/Game Port Card

Posted on 2017-09-16, 07:25

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by Jo22

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Sorry, can't really help. :( Just a few thoughts.: The left dip switch is for RAM setup, the right one seems to be for serial/parallel. Drivers for the clock could be generic, so just search for the clock name (or try any XT clock driver). Also, MS-/PC-DOS 3.30 and up support the AT clock, so maybe …

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Re: Generic Compact Flash Cards

Posted on 2017-09-16, 07:15

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by Jo22

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I also use quite some no-name brands here and they worked fine so far (in DOS machines). For benchmarking I use an USB 3.0 card reader and HD Tune. Access times of ~1ms or below are quite good. 😀

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Re: The more rare Pentium ii PCs

Posted on 2017-09-14, 12:51

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by Jo22

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Luckily, USB 3.2 will arrive soon and improve the situation by making people buy USB 3.0 tech. 😉

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Re: Problems instaling W98

Posted on 2017-09-14, 12:40

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Hello, that's a really powerful system! :) I wished I had something like this (+little more RAM) when I got my first copy of Vista. Unfortunately, I can't really give you an advice because of this. Back in the golden days of bluescreens I used to use something like a Pentium 75 w/ 16MiB RAM and a …

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Re: will you run windows95 on a highend 386?

Posted on 2017-09-13, 20:10

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I remember it being really witchety on even late 486 and early Pentium-class hardware. Me, too. Win95 RTM and OSR2.x were like day and night. Perhaps our copy at home was a bit more stable also, because we had a localized version. In my opinion, the original release of Win95 was still at a beta …

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Re: will you run windows95 on a highend 386?

Posted on 2017-09-13, 17:51

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Win95, on release, was notoriously buggy. OSR2 fixed a lot of those bugs. Yes, but strangely, from my experience it wasn't that buggy on normal 386 hardware. Also, the early Win32s and NT 3.1 applications were less bloated and worked just fine here. The story might be different on overbred +100MHz …

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Re: ProAudio Spectrum 16. Why no love?

Posted on 2017-09-13, 11:25

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I can't speak for the PAS or PAS Plus, but the PAS16 has a clean audio stage as far as I can tell. It also comes with a proper microphone-input for dynamic microphones. As for the iMuse games, I think they just use a single driver because all PAS models are compatible when it comes down to …

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Re: ProAudio Spectrum 16. Why no love?

Posted on 2017-09-13, 01:50

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As mentioned, I often use mpu401. Redbook audio is often used as well. Well.. To be honest, the PAS16 isn't a powerful MIDI device. Another card might be better for this (-> HardMPU). The sound card comes in for sound effects and speech. Even with genuine hardware, would I notice a difference …

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Re: ProAudio Spectrum 16. Why no love?

Posted on 2017-09-13, 01:30

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Not as many Lucasarts games supported as I hoped. Does Day of the Tentacle have *any* PAS support? Didn't see it on the box Hmm.. Mobygames doesn't mention it. I would have to check that by installing the game. On the other hand, it also isn't clear about SB16 or SB Pro 2 support.. If the game uses …

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Re: ProAudio Spectrum 16. Why no love?

Posted on 2017-09-13, 01:09

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Or I don't quote myself, and mess it up. Too lazy to fix it :lol: That's okay, never mind! ^^ If you're looking for a SB Pro compatible card, there are many choices. Maybe you're lucky and even find an original SB Pro 1. Then you could use the PAS16 for OPL3 and the SB Pro for Dual-OPL2+DAC. Well, …

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Re: ProAudio Spectrum 16. Why no love?

Posted on 2017-09-13, 00:58

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Also, the PAS16 was an early and very popular OPL3 board. :) Originally, some games only even offered OPL3 music for PAS16 (no SB16 mentioned yet). A famous game that comes to mind is Knights of Xentar*. Personally, I hope that someone will *finally* make an attempt in trying to start to write an …

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Re: ProAudio Spectrum 16. Why no love?

Posted on 2017-09-13, 00:00

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by Jo22

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Mobygames lists over 100 games w/ PAS16 support. http://www.mobygames.com/attribute/sheet/attributeId,1728/ Seriously people, why is the PAS/16 always beeing compared to Sound Blaster ? The PAS/PAS16 had never been a Sound Blaster clone. *sigh* It was a standard in its own reign. That's like saying …

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Re: OPL2LPT

Posted on 2017-09-12, 06:39

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by Jo22

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Thanks for the videos! 😀 This is a very interesting project.

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Re: Windows 98 Direct Cable Connection over Serial

Posted on 2017-09-12, 05:06

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by Jo22

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Try sending in simplex mode. It's half as fast, but less chance of signal crossing. That's right. From a personal experience, a simple serial connection should work no problem for a disctance across approximate 20 meters, though. As far as I remember, for DOS, there's also a free version of …

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Re: 486SX question

Posted on 2017-09-11, 17:28

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by Jo22

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486DX2-66 was about the borderline. (Don't know ift that's also implying the 486DX50, though - never had one.)

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