Re: FM-V Towns - a tale of rare Japanese equipment

Posted on 2023-10-16, 12:51

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Oh nice! Man, I'd love to visit Japan one day... - Can the Soundblaster safely be switched with another soundcard? I'd prefer one that has a wavetable daughterboard connector, so I can use my old Yamaha DB50-XG in it. - That is, if there's sufficient space in there. Yeah, absolutely. The ISA/PCI …

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Re: FM-V Towns - a tale of rare Japanese equipment

Posted on 2023-09-18, 17:55

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by Kurasiu

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I have an fmv partially working can not install town os wondering do you have an ide image to use arexa way to get the cd back working I'm not even sure how to make an IDE image of Towns partition, since it's a completely different format not even visible to any of the tools I used. Is there any …

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Re: PC/Mac Hybrid CD-Games

Posted on 2023-09-18, 14:51

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IIRC some Sanctuary Wood educational games, like Wordstuff or Adventures in Flight, were also hybric PC/Mac titles.

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Re: FM-V Towns - a tale of rare Japanese equipment

Posted on 2021-09-25, 09:40

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Hey, thanks! Really glad you all liked my little rambling about that machine! BTW, you speak Japanese? Nah, not really. It's more like "I still remember something from the Uni classes..." I was studying on Polish- Japanese Academy of Information Technology after all. ;D Anyway, I forgot to mention …

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FM-V Towns - a tale of rare Japanese equipment

Posted on 2021-09-21, 19:59

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Ready for a little article-thingy post? I just felt like documenting my tech shenanigans with a rare Japanese piece of equipment, as it's a tale of incompatibilities, scarce information, lackluster instructions and intriguing design. But first I should properly introduce you to the star of the show. …

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Re: The growing pains of ALI chipset and AGP cards - Geforce 2 edition

Posted on 2021-04-17, 18:05

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Yeah, I read that thread yesterday, but for some reason it didn't work for me - I guess AGP cards like Geforces are just too much for this motherboard to handle. I had a spare MX 400 laying around, so I decided to test this one as well. Unfortunately things didn't go too smooth. Here are the results …

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The growing pains of ALI chipset and AGP cards - Geforce 2 edition

Posted on 2021-04-16, 09:46

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by Kurasiu

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I've been a happy user of Commate S7AX motherboard with AMD K6-2+ (500 MHz) and Voodoo 3 for some time now. However I recently got my hands on the Geforce 2 GTS card, and decided to give it a go. Now I knew how problematic ALI chipsets and Nvidia cards are, but I still wanted to check it out myself. …

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Re: Trident 9388 and DOS games

Posted on 2020-12-11, 18:26

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Sorry for doubleposting, but I just couldn't leave it alone and decided to dig further into the world of old Trident chips. While looking around for any clues, I stumbled upon an old DOS utility disk, with several interesting programs, like SETPCI or SETBOARD. There was also one called SVM, that let …

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Trident 9388 and DOS games

Posted on 2020-12-10, 19:30

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I recently picked up a Fujitsu Lifebook C325 and restored it to life. As much as I like this machine, it has a Trident 9388 chip onboard, which suffers from the dreaded scrambled/split screen bug in several DOS games (Asterix & Obelix and Inner Worlds here): https://i.imgur.com/5V0flc2.png https:// …

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Voodoo cards on a bottlenecked system (Socket 7)

Posted on 2020-07-22, 09:23

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Recently I found a rather nice deal for a Voodoo 3 2000 (PCI), and been thinking about picking it up and replacing Voodoo Banshee with that V3 card in my Windows 95 rig. The question is - will V3 make much of a difference in terms of performance, compared to Voodoo 2 or Voodoo Banshee, on a …

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Re: IDE/CD-ROM header on Aztech MM PRO 16III (AZT2320)

Posted on 2020-03-15, 18:21

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by Kurasiu

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Okay, I made a little faux pas, as I tried it on a DVD-ROM drive. I dug up an old 24x CD-ROM drive and it works just fine! LBA is still stubborn and refuses to work, but at least it's getting past the logos now (although crashes to a black screen after the first FMV ends). I had no problems running …

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Re: IDE/CD-ROM header on Aztech MM PRO 16III (AZT2320)

Posted on 2020-03-15, 09:16

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Yes, I tried them, but unfortunately there are no pure DOS drivers available, and the AZTPNP cobfig tool from their site lacks the required cfg file, so I believe it's generated when the NT/9x driver is installed. @JazeFox I guess my victory was short lived, as even though I managed to load the …

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Re: IDE/CD-ROM header on Aztech MM PRO 16III (AZT2320)

Posted on 2020-03-14, 19:59

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Wow, that was fast, you're the man!! Indeed, that build of UNISOUND worked wonderfully, along with the IDE init (on port 168/IRQ 10) https://i.imgur.com/swBIg0G.png Tested a few CDs and some games that were most problematic in the past (Monster Bash, Duke Nukem II...), and all of them worked great, …

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Re: IDE/CD-ROM header on Aztech MM PRO 16III (AZT2320)

Posted on 2020-03-14, 14:47

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Thanks for the suggestions! Unfortunately neither of these worked... However while checking the AZTPNP.CFG file, I've noticed it only has sections for the audio device, MPU and gameport, with no mention of IDE/ATAPI configuration, which makes me believe this is the config file for the card without …

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IDE/CD-ROM header on Aztech MM PRO 16III (AZT2320)

Posted on 2020-03-13, 23:06

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My adventures with the CD-ROM controllers and sound card continues... I recently picked up an Aztech MM PRO 16III PnP card with an IDE/CD-ROM header. Since the card is PnP, and the Amibios in my 486 build isn't, I'm using dwcfgmg.sys/ICU utils to configure the card. While the card is found and …

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ISA CD-ROM controller - any additional drivers necessary?

Posted on 2020-03-06, 21:40

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I recently found an old ISA CD-ROM controller and decided to put it to my 486DX2-66 build ( DataExpert 4407 v1.3 board , Cirrus Logic VLB graphic card with HDD/FDD/serial/paraller controllers) While the CD-ROM lights up and operates just fine, I'm completely unable to configure it, either via the …

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Re: VIA UniChrome Pro IGP vs Windows 98SE

Posted on 2020-01-24, 07:17

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Okay, I actually managed to find a dirt cheap VIA Epia board (the EN10000G one), as suggested in the previous thread . Even more amusingly, it looked like both boards had pretty much the same BIOS settings. Used the same Win98 disk, Hyperion 4 in 1 and CN700/S3 display drivers. And guess what? Works …

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Re: VIA UniChrome Pro IGP vs Windows 98SE

Posted on 2020-01-19, 09:20

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by Kurasiu

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I've tried three different VIA 4 in 1/Hyperion chipset drivers - 4.35, 4.56 and 5.14 - however they all produced the same result...

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Re: VIA UniChrome Pro IGP vs Windows 98SE

Posted on 2020-01-19, 00:05

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Yeah, saw that thread too, wonder if he finally managed to get it working. :/ However I did a little progress - upon one logged boot up, Windows managed to start, although in 16 colours. The device manager showed that the device is working and the drivers are okay, but there's a memory range …

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[SOLVED] VIA UniChrome Pro IGP vs Windows 98SE

Posted on 2020-01-18, 11:45

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by Kurasiu

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I recently got my hands on a mini ITX Jetway board ( the J7F2 variety, Eden 1.2 GHz model ), and since it was supposed to be compatible with Win 9x, I thought about turning it into a nice little Windows 98SE machine with Yamaha YMF744 in the PCI slot. Everything went pretty smooth (system …

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