Re: 14" Packard Bell CRT Brightness and Alignment Issues
Posted on 2020-06-28, 10:32
You're welcome! 😀
Re: All the truth about FM in ALS100 Plus+ cards (includes facts, tech info and tests)
Posted on 2020-06-28, 10:28
Thanks for posting this! It's very informative. ^^ As most ALS cards from cheap manufacturers output a lot of noise, I wonder what will be the best method to record the cleanest sound possible... https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=54687 It's just a small temporary solution, though.. : …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-28, 10:19
I realyl think Apple is more and more moving away from pro customers. When Jobs took over, Apple really found a niche with pro-customers & artists, i.e. Sound, Video, FX etc. Strange. I thought professional users discovered Macs by the mid-late 80s to early 90s, after Jobs left. If memory serves, …
Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 08:20
Acorns shared nothing in common with Amigas at all from what I can see.. [..] Well, things are not obvious always. Mega Drive and Amiga are also considered similar, despite the "fact" that they are only sharing a quick M68k, while the SNES and Amiga have so much more in common (both have …
Re: best mouse
Posted on 2020-06-27, 05:41
Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-06-26, 09:33: A mouse without balls and a tail is just not right. Pika! No wait, that's so wrong. 🤣
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-27, 05:33
Actually a PPC built of Dosbox runs much faster in Rosetta in 10.5 VM than on a real PPC machine ;) That's a lot of stacked emulation. Surprising it runs so well. Emulation inside emulation.. This instanly reminds me of "The 13th Floor" or "Welt am Draht" (German; World on a Wire ). Both are …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-26, 12:03
It's quite ironic how Apple more and more resembles the stuff they opposed in their infamous commercial . I couldn’t agree more! But they’re repeating errors of the past before Jobs return. And this time, Jobs isn’t around to save them again. I haven’t seen a word from Wozniak about the transition …
Re: XT system strange software incompatibility with MFM drive
Posted on 2020-06-25, 16:28
With the same MFM+floppy combo controller, I can run anything from the floppy drive but not from the MFM HDD. From the HDD only text mode apps. Never had in the past such an issue. Hi, can you run CheckIt! off the floppy disk ? If so, check the memory browser. It's just a wild guess, but maybe the …
Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-06-25, 07:28
Thanks God someone finally understood it. Yes. I'm aware of MS experiments in this area, but I don't think they're going that far with it. I'm quite impressed with the fact that they are now embracing Linux (somewhat) with their WSL on Windows 10. I tested it at work before the quarantine months …
Re: Windows 3.0/3.1/3.11 FPU Usage
Posted on 2020-06-25, 06:55
Thank you very much for testing, Keropi! 😎 What about the standard VGA drivers (3.1 and 3.0) ? The 3.1 version does dirty-rectangle from what I remember, maybe it has some FPU code also ? Anyway, just curious - since I have no physical 286/386 at hand now (all boxed up)! 😅
Re: SB16 MIXERSET load wrong parameter
Posted on 2020-06-24, 17:11
I did a clean install of SBBASIC and CTC Dos driver from Phils page (DOS 6.22 + win 3.11). I use a CT4170 SB16. Hi Chris, Do you have another card for testing, too ? I "grew up" with the CT1740 only and have little experience with the late models. CT4170 seems to be the very last model before the …
Re: Installing sound capabilities on my new 486
Posted on 2020-06-24, 14:11
Interesting! I have little experience with a SB16 in OS/2, except for a few experiments in Virtual PC 2007. Back when I had got OS/2 Warp 3, I had used a Pro AudioSpectrum 16 card. I reserved SB 1.5 compatible part for DOS and Win-OS/2 sessions.
Re: testing com ports loopback in DOS and CTmouse Question..
Posted on 2020-06-24, 14:05
mkubiak402 wrote on 2020-06-24, 00:45: is there any program out there i can use to do a loopback test in dos? CheckIt! v3 and v4 do have a loopback test. Works with dongle and without one. 😀
Re: SimTower on Windows 3.1, setup ran out of memory.
Posted on 2020-06-24, 14:03
You're welcome. 😀 I'm glad it works now. 😁
Re: Strangest modem ever... with hardware wavetable.
Posted on 2020-06-24, 09:54
Cool find! Reminds me of these old sound modems with phone jack connectors (for headseta) that could be used as an answering machine. My beige Creatix modem was one of them, I believe. It also was usable as a WAVE file player through the communications software. This was via V.24 port, so likely …
Re: Blue Lava Systems XT-IDE Deluxe EEPROM Question
Posted on 2020-06-24, 09:15
I'm not 100% sure, but maybe these sites can help to identify some of the settings and features: https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/tag/xt-ide/ https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/XT-CF https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/XT-CFv2 https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/XT-CFv3 https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/Lo-tech_XT-CF_ …
Re: How to get a packet driver onto my IBM XT
Posted on 2020-06-23, 17:50
[..] port on any of my modern computers, but as a network engineer I do have a ton of USB to Serial adapters utilizing the PL-2303 chip. I read in a post however that this doesn't work due to the voltage levels on serial port on the XT side. I read a little bit of the RS-232 standard and it sounds …
Re: Testing upper 256 KB video memory in ISA VGA card
Posted on 2020-06-23, 17:29
That's an issue because the normal VGA standard has a max. of 256KiB, but you want to test features of "Super VGA". The hardware register to check memory essentially can hold either the values "false" or "true" only. Depending on these, a program can only check if the card has full VGA RAM or less. …
Re: How much slower and resource intensive is Windows 98SE vs Windows 95C?
Posted on 2020-06-23, 12:17
Not saying Win95 is bad choice. I myself run it on anything below a PII and have no need for VB or any of the other "important DLL's" mentioned above. Shareware/Freeware CD-ROMs from the early to mid-90s (when Win95 had any relevance) often came with their own catalogue programs, which relied on …
Re: NEC PC-9801 no sound ?
Posted on 2020-06-23, 11:51
If you're generally interested in PC98, you also may want to have a look into these few other PC98 threads at vogons.. ^^ https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=62483&p=699773 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=49934&p=528988 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=63466&p=711675 …
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