Re: Compaq Presario 433, my 486 pure DOS machine

Posted on 2016-04-25, 22:37

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by Yushatak

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Did you load the special drivers necessary for using a sound card IDE interface? IIRC you need specific ones (that said I've never had one work, not that I've tried more than once or twice). Anyway I'd rather have era-appropriate external solutions that are slow than something ugly - however, I …

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Re: Compaq Presario 433, my 486 pure DOS machine

Posted on 2016-04-23, 14:33

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by Yushatak

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Hadn't really intended to pull it apart and check things, but with that level of enthusiasm how can I not? :D 1. POD @ 83Mhz - If memory serves it helps Quake run playably. Pretty much everything you'd want to run on this machine will run with any higher-end 486 chip, and most will run fine with a …

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Re: Compaq Presario 433, my 486 pure DOS machine

Posted on 2016-04-23, 13:45

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by Yushatak

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I've been obsessed with these Compaq All-In-Ones for years now, and my main DOS box is a kitted-out Presario 425. Specs: Pentium Overdrive CPU (yes it works even without the extra pins of a socket 3) 20MB RAM (I'd love to bypass this limitation by some means for good Win95 performance someday) Sound …

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Pandemonium 2 w/ Voodoo 2

Posted on 2016-04-23, 13:05

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by Yushatak

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I'm setting up all the Glide API games I please on my 300Mhz Pentium box (a Tillamook turned into a desktop chip in a SS7 board, ask if you want more details), and it runs 98se with a Diamond Monster Voodoo II 12MB. It seems almost all of the games I've tried to install so far want a Voodoo original …

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Re: [Help needed] Compiling SDL_net 1.2.7 with MinGW-Msys (mingw-get-inst-20111118.exe) under Win7 ???

Posted on 2012-01-01, 21:01

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by Yushatak

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Ah, derp - I somehow missed the _net.

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Re: Compiling with the Pixel Shader Patch...

Posted on 2012-01-01, 20:02

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by Yushatak

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Okay I've got this sorted finally. Problem was: using the non-SVN source. I was trying to compile the source from ykhwong, and it's apparently based on a bit older SVN, at least the autotools-related files. They break the compilation process in such a way as it can't find things properly. I then …

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Re: [Help needed] Compiling SDL_net 1.2.7 with MinGW-Msys (mingw-get-inst-20111118.exe) under Win7 ???

Posted on 2012-01-01, 19:54

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by Yushatak

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If all you want to do is compile DOSBox you don't need to build SDL - install this: http://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-devel-1.2.14-mingw32.tar.gz Extract it to a folder, go into the folder (in MSYS, that is) and run "make native". Alternatively I think you can just slap an SDL.dll in the folder with …

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Re: Compiling with the Pixel Shader Patch...

Posted on 2012-01-01, 18:42

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by Yushatak

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That was my next plan, to try the Feb SDK rather than the June, but a pack of premade libs sounds way easier - 🤣. Thank you ykhwong. :3 Edit: OMFG it still says it can't find libd3dx9. 😳

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Re: Compiling with the Pixel Shader Patch...

Posted on 2011-12-31, 22:37

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by Yushatak

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Yes I know - I read the info on your site and others about that, but reimp informs me that it's an invalid or corrupt file, when I know it's fresh from the SDK, which checks itself/etc. There are alternative ways to turn a lib into an "a" file, and alternative sources for premade versions of MinGW …

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Compiling with the Pixel Shader Patch...

Posted on 2011-12-31, 20:53

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by Yushatak

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I set up a nice clean MingW/MSYS environment to compile in, and set up SDL, then tried to compile. It wants a library from DX that isn't included. So I install the DX SDK, and include it, and try again. No? So I get a ".a" copy of the ".lib" files, since apparently MS formats changed at some point …

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Re: Touchscreen + DOSBox = FAIL... How to work around SDL!

Posted on 2011-10-10, 00:21

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Reasons it doesn't work now: -Everything expects relative input, touchscreens provide absolute input. -DOS games handle mouse input in a variety of ways. In this thread I solved the first problem, but only for Windows machines. This solution fixes it on any platform, and thus could actually go into …

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Re: Touchscreen + DOSBox = FAIL... How to work around SDL!

Posted on 2011-10-09, 18:38

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I found some documentation: http://blogs.distant-earth.com/wp/?p=293 This suggests that with two lines of code, DOSBox could attain full touchscreen support... It's been aeons since I dove into the DOSBox code regardless of knowing C/C++ or not, so I'm again rusty as crap. Would anybody care to …

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Re: Matrox G250 Trouble

Posted on 2011-09-04, 23:42

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by Yushatak

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Figured out the optical drive problem - apparently NOTHING you can do will make DOS (or the BIOS CDROM boot option) see an optical drive (or removable disk that can't act as an HDD, likely) on a Promise controller, sans drivers that I haven't located or may not exist. Windows can and will see these …

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Re: Matrox G250 Trouble

Posted on 2011-09-04, 21:14

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by Yushatak

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98SE is the one I've been trying to get working to no avail. I may try 95, since it's more primitive in some ways, including drivers, and should have less things that can fail. Also, in 95 (maybe in 98/ME? dunno..) you can add resolutions merely by editing the registry, so if the Matrox card doesn't …

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Re: Matrox G250 Trouble

Posted on 2011-09-03, 13:52

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by Yushatak

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I'm running at 100Mhz FSB with a 3x multiplier if memory serves. ;3 (but memory may not serve, lol) 100Mhz FSB + Pentium = Flying Pentium xD However, this board supports a wide range of multipliers (2x, 2.5x, 3x, 3.5x, 4x, 4.5x, 5x, 5.5x) and FSB 66, 75, 83, 95, 100, 112, 124Mhz.. it's a beast! Also …

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Re: Matrox G250 Trouble

Posted on 2011-09-03, 05:15

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by Yushatak

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After a horrific bloody battle with the BIOS flashing tools that lasted (without exaggeration) 13 hours, I've got the card running and stable again. As an extra insult to injury, I came across a page detailing the problem I was having that led me to (mis)flash the BIOS, and I dealt with that by …

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Re: Matrox G250 Trouble

Posted on 2011-08-15, 19:30

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by Yushatak

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I booted into safe mode to switch to the default driver, went back to normal mode, hooked in jump drive, set up MGATweak to start on boot so it can apply it's settings, set it to save settings and minimize to tray.. Looking at the numbers, it seems my card is underclocked to 131Mhz or so, which is …

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Re: Matrox G250 Trouble

Posted on 2011-08-15, 19:09

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by Yushatak

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Found some HP-specific drivers released explicitly for the G250, tried them, at first it booted to a black screen with the cursor, got my hopes up, but it hard crashed after a while of sitting there with the cursor frozen.. I rebooted and back to the same issues. Went looking for MGATweak.. let me …

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Re: Matrox G250 Trouble

Posted on 2011-08-15, 17:26

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by Yushatak

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How did you get a 300mhz Pentium? The only factory 300mhz Pentium was a Tillamook and that was only in like 3 models of laptops that I know of and that was on a processor card, not socket 7. It's a Chinese repackaged laptop chip put into a Socketed form factor. It's a Tillamook 266Mhz laptop chip …

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Matrox G250 Trouble

Posted on 2011-08-15, 13:23

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by Yushatak

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I invested in a Matrox G250 AGP (factory OC'd G200) and a VRAM upgrade for it (yeah I've heard it clocks it back down, dunno if I'd end up using it or not), for use in my 300Mhz Pentium box (and yeah, I mean Pentium, not P2, etc.). I set it up, working fine, but when I install drivers for the card …

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