Re: Is it possible to have 2 graphics cards installed at the same time?

Posted on 2012-09-12, 11:20

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ Video

Could you not just disable the ISA card in device manager in Win98? forcing it to use the PCI card? Sorry if that’s a stupid suggestion I'm 1/2 asleep :dead: I'm guessing that both cards will try and load their VGA BIOS at the same location in memory though, that and the same interrupts for both …

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Re: Issue with a Gravis Ultrasound Classic

Posted on 2012-09-07, 16:15

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by megatron-uk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Right, now since you have a full 1mb, I'd reccomend you hunt down the latest Propats release (1.61?). It will sound even better - possibly 'different', but definitely better 😀

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Re: How about putting this in your 286/386 system?

Posted on 2012-09-03, 08:10

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by megatron-uk

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in PC Emulation

It's just a single board computer really - the ISA bus is just to physically locate it.

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Re: Socket 7 - FSB scaling results with L1 Cache disabled

Posted on 2012-09-01, 15:19

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What I'd like to see is Doom benchmarks or some other relevant dos games, about 15.5-16 is about right for 3DBench for a 386DX-40 but a typical speedsys result would be around 9.2(without FPU), obviously its not a perfect science but it would be interesting and possibly pcpbench scores too, I still …

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Re: Issue with a Gravis Ultrasound Classic

Posted on 2012-08-30, 15:23

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It may possibly be the amount of RAM - most cards had 512k, iirc? Does the readme for ROTT say anything about the amount of memory required? Do you have the original patch files or the expanded pro pats set? The latter has some bigger samples and might be causing some samples to not load.

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Re: Which of these Matroxes?

Posted on 2012-08-28, 14:47

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For a 486 the Millenium II is the right choice in terms of period - I have the same one in my AMD X5 PVI-486SP3, it works great.

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Re: I'm thinking about getting Descent...

Posted on 2012-08-15, 09:13

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by megatron-uk

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in DOS

Not sure - but it sounds fantastic on either.

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Re: A question about power cables and roland sc-8850...

Posted on 2012-08-08, 09:19

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by megatron-uk

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Come on, it's not a power supply - it just needs a figure-8 mains cable. The power supply is built in to the unit!

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Re: 286 motherboard

Posted on 2012-08-08, 08:21

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some 286 motherboard chipsets have support for UMB and EMS, these are quite useful as you can use the normally 'wasted' 384k space between 640k-1024k area to load drivers that would normally reduce your base memory …

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Re: 286 motherboard

Posted on 2012-08-07, 08:57

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some 286 motherboard chipsets have support for UMB and EMS, these are quite useful as you can use the normally 'wasted' 384k space between 640k-1024k area to load drivers that would normally reduce your base memory. My HT12 chipset is one such example, but there are others. With my 4mb 286, I use …

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Re: 3DO Blaster Help

Posted on 2012-08-04, 14:56

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll be happy to give it a shot, Stiletto! I'll try it this weekend and report back. And boy a PCFX-GA would be cool... my rule is it has to be for Wing Commander, though. Otherwise I'd go crazy :) Here's a weird question: was there ever a feature connector splitter? I ask because the 3DO card is …

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Re: MT-32 - check, all the other stuff... maybe?

Posted on 2012-08-01, 08:02

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by megatron-uk

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in Milliways

Gotcha, so there's no real difference in sound quality, even if one is an audiophile. (Not that I obsess over it, I just hate hanging notes and crackle on my headphones.) I'll have to experiment, see if there's a Dos game I have with broken sound in that setup. This may prove interesting. I …

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Re: Partitioning and formatting - disk issues

Posted on 2012-07-28, 13:48

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by megatron-uk

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in DOS

I'm not sure I get the problem. As stated previously, FAT16 can only handle 2gb partitions - if you want larger, just use a Windows 98SE (whose dos components support FAT32) boot disk and partition and format your disk with that. Ok, but I do NOT want larger partitions on this tiny drive, see also …

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Re: Partitioning and formatting - disk issues

Posted on 2012-07-28, 12:30

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by megatron-uk

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in DOS

I'm not sure I get the problem. As stated previously, FAT16 can only handle 2gb partitions - if you want larger, just use a Windows 98SE (whose dos components support FAT32) boot disk and partition and format your disk with that.

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Re: Asus 486 mobo PVI-486SP3

Posted on 2012-07-27, 08:06

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by megatron-uk

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another general observation is why did Asus put 8 DIP-28 sockets, with 4 being DIP-32 extensions? How much more would it have cost to just make all 8 DIP-32 to allow for 1024 KB of cache? I know! That would have made things much easier (and allowed more flexible cache configurations - using all DIP …

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Re: 286 - The trials and tribulations!

Posted on 2012-07-26, 21:25

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by megatron-uk

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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 …

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

Posted on 2012-07-24, 21:08

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by megatron-uk

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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 …

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

Posted on 2012-07-24, 17:46

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by megatron-uk

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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 …

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Re: RAMdrive for DOS/Win3.1

Posted on 2012-07-23, 19:10

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by megatron-uk

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 …

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Re: Using ISO images in DOS

Posted on 2012-07-21, 10:57

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by megatron-uk

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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 …

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