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Re: Why didn't CRTs have digital inputs?

Posted on 2019-02-07, 22:56

in Marvin \ Video
The world is fuzzy. :-) You're speaking wise words of truth, my friend. :) I recall there are endless debates wether or not telegraphy using Morse code (aka CW; continous wave) is a digital mode or not. Some people argue that it is, because it uses defined pulse lengt for dot and dashes (a dash is …

Re: Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-07, 12:50

Sorry about that. :depressed: Unfortunately, I originally grew up with pre-586 hardware mainly (even pre-486 to be precise) so that was my experience. If my memory serves me well, the 586 era roughly was about the time when we (at home) stopped mixing legacy and current hardware. Comming from the …

Re: "Lone Wolf" Retro/Daily Driver

Posted on 2019-02-07, 11:09

The requirements for Windows 8.1, 7, and 10 are all almost identical... I agree with that on the 32-Bit versions. The 64-Bit versions of 8.1 added the requirement of the CMPXCHG16B instruction, which some early x64-CPUs didn't support yet. :sad: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2058683/new-windows …

Re: Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-07, 11:02

This reminds me of my father's old 386DX40 PC. It had a Mitsumi LU005 which Win95 had got no drivers for. Thus, it was required to fall back to the DOS CD-ROM driver. Gratefuly, that one worked under Windows, too. As far as I remember, loading MSCDEX wasn't required, though. Win95 had its own native …

Re: Why didn't CRTs have digital inputs?

Posted on 2019-02-06, 19:01

in Marvin \ Video
Also it would have meant that the CRT would have needed some kind of framebuffer or at the very least a linebuffer. This would have even more increased the unit cost. Interestingly, the SECAM television system relied on some sort of framebuffer technique, too. From what I remember. the Atari 2600 …

Re: .WAV player for MS DOS that runs on a 286?

Posted on 2019-02-04, 02:10

Which ealier release of the SB16 drivers are you refering to ? I'm using this set, from early 1994. Interesting. :surprised: I must have missed that one. The setup program looks oldschool to me, so this probably is one of the early releases. Seems to run fine so far in PCem with 286 emulation, as …

Re: .WAV player for MS DOS that runs on a 286?

Posted on 2019-01-31, 06:33

(Creative was rater 286-fiendly with their 16-Bit Sound Blasters; they required VXDs for Windows 3.1; the 1.x drives always work.) Not sure what you're trying to say here. Creative's earlier, non-VxD SB16 drivers are fully-functional in Standard Mode Windows 3.1. Hm. Not sure what you're trying to …

Re: .WAV player for MS DOS that runs on a 286?

Posted on 2019-01-30, 18:09

The card is okay. It has PnP, but also a memory expansion socket for the EMU8000 synth (used by 386+ games and some MOD players). If memory aerves, you need CTCU and CTCM to configure the card under DOS (for ex. AdlIb "FM" is disabled by default). These programs should load fine with EMU386 (adds a …

Re: .WAV player for MS DOS that runs on a 286?

Posted on 2019-01-30, 10:34

Back in the mid-90s, I used Windows 3.10 for that. I had a 286-12 with 4MiB, a PAS16 soundcard and played large wave files by using media player (sound recorder for short recordings). Edit: Oh, just noticed you use an AWE ISA PnP card. Maybe the EMU386 + Windows 3.0 MME combo works for you. That …

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