Re: The curious case of ESS Solo-1 and gameport
Posted on 2019-12-23, 21:09
Oh, where would that tool be located? I used the drivers from Phil's Computer Lab, and it seems to only install the drivers and the com tool/ini/sys in the root directory.
The curious case of ESS Solo-1 and gameport
Posted on 2019-12-23, 20:06
I recently got an ESS Solo-1 PCI card for a Windows 95/DOS rig. While it works mighty fine in both Windows and DOS, I absolutely can't figure out how to enable the gameport. While installing the Windows drivers, only the device and DOS emulation drivers are installed, and there doesn't seem to be …
Re: Trident Cyber 9525DVD and Direct3D
Posted on 2017-05-05, 13:30
Yeah, that's pretty much it. :) Some games run slower, some faster, but overall the sprite/texture issue is persistent across all of them. Croc and Turok runs fairly well, Shogo is a bit too choppy for a FPS, while Sonic R slows down to a crawl, 5 FPS at best. Oh well, as I said, there's always the …
Re: Trident Cyber 9525DVD and Direct3D
Posted on 2017-05-04, 08:33
Tried Turok, Croc 1, Sonic R and Shogo: MAD, sadly all of them have that sprite drawing issues. Oh well, all is not lost, at least the software rendering works great, as the machine is equipped with a PIII. ;) I remember having a Trident card in my old (1997, as I recall correctly) computer, and …
Trident Cyber 9525DVD and Direct3D
Posted on 2017-04-28, 12:05
Anybody have any experience with the Trident Cyber 9525DVD (2.5MB) card? I have a Toshiba Satellite pro 4220 with the said card, and I can't get D3D games to run correctly. No matter what I do, all of the sprites in the D3D-accelerated games (like text, GUIs, 2D background animations etc.) are …
PCMCIA CD-ROM troubles - PC Card to CardBus adapter?
Posted on 2017-02-24, 14:24
Recently I acquired an old Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Mobile 500 notebook , which works like a charm, but features no optical drive (floppy drive only). Figured I might pick up a PCMCIA CD-ROM someday, and had luck, as a local computer shop was selling an old CD-ROM PCMCIA drive for a great price ( …
Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?
Posted on 2016-04-19, 12:33
I actually own the late Amiga 500 model (the one with the 500+ board, complete with ECS/Fat Agnus, but 512K of chip RAM only, though there are free slots on the motherboard to add the RAM chips), with 1 MB of chip RAM (I resoldered the jumpers and changed the slow trapdoor RAM into chip RAM), …
Re: YMF744B-R in Tecra 8100 question
Posted on 2016-03-30, 21:12
Well, that's it then - the YMF is a PCI device, and obviously PCI only gets IRQ11 assigned on this system (INTA = IRQ11). The SwapIRQ should do its job, unless you got another PCI device on INTA you want to use simultaneously. Right. I returned today and tested it with several other DOS titles, …
Re: YMF744B-R in Tecra 8100 question
Posted on 2016-03-25, 08:48
@h-a-l-9000 Sadly, I can't change the PCI IRQ value, as, no matter what I set in the config options, this particular option never gets highlighted. I have the exact same problem with yamaha PCI DS-DX cards (IFM-724). SetupDS refuses to let me change any hardware settings which angers me greatly. …
Re: YMF744B-R in Tecra 8100 question
Posted on 2016-03-24, 23:29
Well, now that's something - I snooped around the net, looking for other problems like mine, and stumbled across a little TSR program, called SwapIRQ . And guess what - after setupds init I ran it and swapped IRQ 11 with 5, and both Wacky Wheels and Bioforge have both sounds and music playing ( …
Re: YMF744B-R in Tecra 8100 question
Posted on 2016-03-24, 20:35
Thank you for the reply! Unfortunately, it seems that there's no legacy isa option in the BIOS. The only two BIOS pages have the following options: https://40.media.tumblr.com/42ef4bbf3acf21eb3f7871147efda7da/tumblr_o4k8z4MuMS1sxws2ko2_500.png (full view) https://41.media.tumblr.com/ …
YMF744B-R in Tecra 8100 question
Posted on 2016-03-24, 18:13
Hey everyone, I recently picked up, for a quite cheap price, a Toshiba Tecra 8100 notebook. It features the Yamaha DS-XG YMF744B-R sound card. Installed Win98SE, configured it and everything's fine, expect for sound in DOS. Here's the thing - no matter what I do, the DOS driver (setupds.exe) will …
Re: Weird Voodoo colouring issue
Posted on 2014-03-03, 21:26
@Jorpho: yes, I installed the official patch, it only made possible to play on GeForce 3, but the issue with 3Dfx driver is still there. @leileilol: no, the autoexec doesn't have any new lines, and nothing was added after installing the drivers. Though yes, I found the variables description table …
Weird Voodoo colouring issue
Posted on 2014-03-03, 12:58
So once again I have a (at least a minor this time) problem with my Voodoo card. At first I was paranoid, as I though I bought another busted card - there are weird colour issues on the textures - they are inproperly coloured and sometimes flashing all sorts of funky colours (textures only, any …
Re: PCI/AGP card combo?
Posted on 2014-01-27, 20:14
4 cards? Wow, that's nice! 😀 Well, the noticeable blur at 1280x1024 really does strain my eyes after a while, but on 640x480/800x600 there are barely any differences. And the game I've tested run flawlessly (eye straining-wise), even on high resolutions in D3D/passthrough.
Re: PCI/AGP card combo?
Posted on 2014-01-26, 23:26
Ok guys, the issue is resolved. It seems that the motherboard was the problem, as it completely died the next day (from reasons unknown). I got an ASUS Cubx, based on Intel 440BX with one ISA slot as the replacement, put in the exact same configuration (it's a socket 370 as well, so no problems …
Re: PCI/AGP card combo?
Posted on 2014-01-09, 15:29
After a bit of snooping I found out that "Voodoo1 cards produce artifacts on the screen and do not play most DOS Glide games correctly when the FSB is higher than 100 MHz, even if the PCI bus runs at default clock speeds." The FSB on my board is set to default (133 MHz, the minimum value). Could …
Re: PCI/AGP card combo?
Posted on 2014-01-08, 14:47
So, the Voodoo 2 came in today, got pretty excited, mounted it, plugged the cables. And... disappointment. I mean sure, the card was detected, the screen quality is quite nice (a bit of a blur is visible @1280x1024, but nothing eye-grinding or such), but after running a game it looks like this: …
Re: PCI/AGP card combo?
Posted on 2014-01-03, 10:47
Again, please tell us what system you're using right now, besides a GeForce 2. Right, sorry! Forgot to post it earlier, haha. It's a Pentium III (Coppermine/1000MHz) machine, with 256 Megs of RAM, two HDDs (system and specifically for games, W98SE/DOS7 standard combo) and Yamaha OPL3-SAx soundcard. …
Re: PCI/AGP card combo?
Posted on 2014-01-03, 00:34
Don't believe everything you read. Another overhyped problem (along with alot of others here on Vogons and retro community in general) which has no practical difference as long as you don't use a very shitty VGA cable. Haha, right, that's why I'm asking the experts here. :) It worried me a little …
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