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Re: 286 - The trials and tribulations!

Posted on 2012-07-26, 21:25

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

You cast: "Thread necromancy", Success! My 286 system is in storage at the moment (have our wedding in a few weeks and also trying to sell the house), but I'd definitely try Landmark 6 when I get it up and running again. I did eventually replace the surface mount 286 with a PLCC socket in order to …

Re: What speaker setup are you using on your vintage machine?

Posted on 2012-07-24, 21:08

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yep, the KVM switches VGA, PS2, USB and audio. It's a Belkin Omniview: http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=160570 The PS2 switching even works with my SGI/Amiga setup, which I was surprised at. Of course, there's only ever one output from the KVM to the speakers active at any …

Re: What speaker setup are you using on your vintage machine?

Posted on 2012-07-24, 17:46

in Milliways

in Milliways

My PC's (both 'modern' desktop, and all of the retro ones) go through a set of Creative T40 desktop monitors: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51msxLUZ2RL._SL500_AA300_.jpg The machines with midi interfaces and multiple soundcards have external mixers for all their outputs: http://www.audiomate …

Re: RAMdrive for DOS/Win3.1

Posted on 2012-07-23, 19:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Would it be possible to put your swap file on a ramdisk to save wear and tear on a CF drive? And if you have more memory than your system can cache will it still cause the system to slow down if the memory that isn't cached is partitioned as a ramdisk and not normally accessible? Why locate it in …

Re: Using ISO images in DOS

Posted on 2012-07-21, 10:57

in DOS

in DOS

Yes I tried disabling smartdrv and I also tried the UIDE disk cacher. I don't think it's fragmentation. Even the directory listing is stopping every 10-20 files when listing a longer directory. I can't help there, sorry. I've used the same technique on a P4 3.06GHz with Freedos, a PPro 200 with Dos …

Re: Using ISO images in DOS

Posted on 2012-07-21, 10:50

in DOS

in DOS

dosquest wrote: @mystery well, seeing as I am lazy, I am hoping to write the guide one day and then go back in time and have you change your replies saying "Thanks! Wow! That guide helped me!" Yeah, well until that time it really doesn't help anyone else now, does it?

Re: Using ISO images in DOS

Posted on 2012-07-19, 13:08

in DOS

in DOS

dosquest wrote: I was looking at this more from the point of view of having cd-rom support for those games that refuse to run without a disc in the drive I was able to accomplish that, if you want look at my Harvester post. The posts above refer to using ISO images on real DOS systems, not in …

Re: Is my CRT not dithering?

Posted on 2012-07-11, 22:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't miss them to be honest. On the PSX (I used a RGB Scart cable into an Amiga monitor) I had to adjust the geometry for almost every game. My 21" back-breaking heavy Compaq CRT took ~ 30 minutes to warm up and the image shift a little to the left. Only after that was it properly ready to go... …

Re: programming project

Posted on 2012-07-09, 18:07

in Milliways

in Milliways

The thing is, these days most compilers can generate machine code that is much more efficient than most people could write in assembler 😀

Re: I wish that I could raid that place.

Posted on 2012-07-06, 21:46

in Milliways

in Milliways

The SGI story is scandalous - I remember it being posted; most of that stuff was still new and unused. Some of that kit was extremely rare and people were clamouring to get hold of it, alas I believe it was virtually all destroyed.

Re: Is my CRT not dithering?

Posted on 2012-07-06, 21:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dithering? CRT monitors don't process the image at all, and therefore won't have a 'sharpness' control (generally they'll have colour temp, brightness, saturation and contrast, horizontal/vertical convergence, phase alignment etc) - the image is controlled purely by the rgb signal directly affecting …

Re: IDE to Compact Flash as MS-DOS boot drive.

Posted on 2012-07-05, 17:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Alternatively, exit out of the DOS 6.22 install routine (F3 does it, I think), and just run fdisk from the floppy.

Re: playable demos with prequel story?

Posted on 2012-07-05, 17:12

in Milliways

in Milliways

'Jack in the Dark' was a single-floppy prequel to Alone in the Dark 2 - you played as the girl who is lost in the AITD2 who is locked in a toy store. It came free with AITD2 and with later cd-rom editions of AITD.

Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2012-07-05, 08:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was on my year-in-industry University placement in 1999, so I had disposable income... I got myself the following: Gigabyte GA6BXD 440BX SIngle P3-450 Katmai processor 256 then quickly upgraded to 512MB 80GB HDD Creative DXR3 DVD decoder and DVD drive Diamond Viper V770 Ultra TNT2 Soundblaster 16 …

Re: Help Me fix (or rebuild) an OLD Computer for a Scanner at Auto Shop (Family Business)

Posted on 2012-07-03, 20:42

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

'Sun' in this case doesn't refer to Sun Microsystems - but SUN the company who make emissions testing stations and other vehicle diagnostic tools (my point of reference: my father has been a mechanic for the past 40-something years). Most of the hardware will be off-the-shelf parts, but its the …

Re: AMD Catalyst 12.6 released

Posted on 2012-07-01, 21:38

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Just FYI - Catalyst 12.6 has dropped support for Radeon HD2xxx, HD3xxx and HD4xxx series - so it's now only for the 5xxx series and up, at least in the Linux release, anyway.

Re: Gravis UltraSound MAX v2.1 problems

Posted on 2012-07-01, 12:11

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I did reccomend disabling the extra ports 😉 Try therain.mid - you may also want to get hold of the larger 'Pro Patches Lite' sample set - it's a good improvement on the basic samples included on the Gravis install floppies.

Re: Gravis UltraSound MAX v2.1 problems

Posted on 2012-06-27, 11:33

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Seriously, I can't ever see it working. The best/latest driver released was a beta directsound compatible version - like I said, it didn't support the GF1, only the CS4231 chip. Stick with Dos, or Win95/98 if you want to utilise it properly.

Re: New PC emulator - PCDude

Posted on 2012-06-25, 09:05

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Looking at main.cpp it seems as if there is nothing other than basic machine code instructions implemented yet - ie no IO, no bios, no drives, no display, no keyboard etc. It might be better looking at some of the other well established x86 emulators/simulators first for the missing pieces, rather …

Re: windows 3.1 reboot

Posted on 2012-06-24, 09:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well - on the other hand I think we forget how far computer hardware has come. Windows 3.1 goes all the way back to the....... 386. Would anything any better run on a 386? Interesting question..... Yep. There are a few options for a 386, if you have enough ram: early 90's versions of Solaris x86 ( …

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