Re: Windows 98 program to list all D3D display modes?
Posted on 2021-06-08, 13:05
I'm running Powerstrip 3.90 and I can't find anything that enumerates display modes, D3D or otherwise.
Windows 98 program to list all D3D display modes?
Posted on 2021-06-05, 15:25
Is there a simple program that will output a list of all the possible D3D display modes my card supports? I know some ways I can get the info (it's a built-in function of DarkBASIC so I could use that to print it...) but I'm surprised that Everest Home doesn't detect and show a simple list of …
Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)
Posted on 2021-06-04, 00:39
Unfortunately not. In the PnP/PCI Configuration screen of the BIOS, the options are: Copy code to clipboard 1 PNP OS Installed: *Yes*/No 2 Reset Configuration Data: *Disabled*/Enabled 3 4 PCI/VGA Palette Snoop: *Disabled*/Enabled 5 Assign IRQ For VGA: *Enabled*/Disabled 6 Assign IRQ For USB: * …
Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)
Posted on 2021-06-04, 00:02
Also you might be thinking of the WDM driver behaviour where running games in a DOS box in Win98 does use the Win98 midi device (and so the soundfonts): The New Creative Labs Sound Blaster Drivers Collection. (Updated 6th Jan. 2014)
Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)
Posted on 2021-06-03, 15:53
Posting to second this. The SB Live's soundfont support on the emulated MIDI device for late protected mode games makes it a very good fit for Duke3D and Doom. :) Doesn't the SB Live only support soundfonts in DOS games if you're running from a DOS prompt in Win9x? In my experience SBEINIT.COM runs …
Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)
Posted on 2021-06-03, 00:39
With the network card installed, I get the following IRQ usage: IDE Cntrlr 14 SMBus Cntrlr 10 Simple COMM. Cntrlr 10 Multimedia Device 5 (SB Live) Input Device NA Display Cntrlr 10 Network Cntrlr 11 ACPI Controller 9 The SB Live takes whichever of 5 and 7 isn't assigned to the parallel port. If the …
Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)
Posted on 2021-06-02, 23:03
With JemmEx, I get a more verbose error running Jazz. JemmEx: exception 0C occured at CS:EIP=01E8:00001252, ERRC=00000000, SS:ESP=0018:0000FFFC, EBP=0001003C EFL=00013006 CR0=80000011 CR2=00000000 EAX=00115000 EBX=00400028 ECX=00000028 EDX=0009142D ESI=00401539 EDI=00020553 this is with any of the …
Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)
Posted on 2021-06-02, 19:55
This is not true. The SB Live's SB16 + Midi emulation can work with protected mode games. Doom, Descent, Duke 3D and other games on Build engine, Warcraft 2 etc. are all protected mode games using DOS extenders and work without problem with SB Live. Posting to second this. The SB Live's soundfont …
Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)
Posted on 2021-06-02, 17:22
The system stability is rock solid in Win98 and MS-DOS. :) If I wasn't trying to specifically play Jazz, I wouldn't notice any issues. I'd memtested and was running Quake 2 multiplayer games immediately before this, so the rest of the system works together great. To try to track down my problem I …
MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)
Posted on 2021-05-31, 00:38
I'm trying to set up my Pentium 4 machine with a decent config for MS-DOS Mode for DOS games. I've got a Sound Blaster Live! PCI card SB0100 which is working fine under W98se. I've downloaded the livedos drivers from Phil's site ( https://www.philscomputerlab.com/sound-blaster-live.html - the …
Re: RTL8139 works in Win98SE, but unreliable in DOS (or DOS mode)?
Posted on 2021-05-30, 14:00
I'll try it. 😀 Does that apply here though since this is a PCI card? Edit - no difference.
Re: RTL8139 works in Win98SE, but unreliable in DOS (or DOS mode)?
Posted on 2021-05-30, 12:34
I've found a workaround. I'm not sure whether it's my specific card being old or the W98 drivers being strange, but it seems that when W98 shuts down, it leaves the card in a bad state. (Possibly in the EEPROM - it persists over a reboot, so where else would it be I guess?) Using the Realtek …
Re: RTL8139 works in Win98SE, but unreliable in DOS (or DOS mode)?
Posted on 2021-05-30, 09:55
I don't think it's the case the driver was written for older cards because there are separate packet driver .COMs for the older 8029 (driver dated 1995) and the newer 8139 (driver dated 2000)
RTL8139 works in Win98SE, but unreliable in DOS (or DOS mode)?
Posted on 2021-05-29, 14:22
I have a generic RTL8139C PCI Ethernet card which works fine in Win98SE with Realtek's drivers (just using the .inf, not installing any fancy managers, etc.), but is very unreliable when I reboot into MS-DOS Mode, use the F8 'Command Prompt Only' option, or use MS-DOS 6.22 proper. https://imgur.com …
Re: Getting 'Get Lost' by Tom Bombadil working on real MS-DOS
Posted on 2021-05-13, 16:15
I've found the real reason why the filenames were broken copying Get Lost. The reason is that whatever I was using to burn the CD was renaming files with dashes to underscores. I've noticed it happening with a few other games. It could be a limitation of the DOS-compatible filesystem of a CD? Safest …
Scitech Display Doctor: What DOS games and video card combinations benefit most?
Posted on 2021-05-12, 11:10
I've always been curious about SDD but I've never found a reason to use it. The intersection of SVGA fast-paced games and MSDOS was really small to my knowledge, so I never understood how SDD would be a benefit. The only games I can recall playing at the time in SVGA would be Theme Hospital and …
Re: When using a Win 98 boot/rescue disk, is it necessary to shut down the computer?
Posted on 2021-05-12, 10:00
Having fdisked and surface scanned the hard drive and found no problems, I think I'm going to put this weird behaviour down to moving the PCI cards about and rebooting windows.
Re: When using a Win 98 boot/rescue disk, is it necessary to shut down the computer?
Posted on 2021-05-06, 18:35
Anyway, what motherboard are you using? An atrocious MS-6534 from a Medion cheapo supermarket pc from 2000. The bios menu has a strange bug where when you cycle through the 'Halt on: All Errors/No Errors/Keyboard' option, sometimes random colours appear and the screen shifts up by a row of …
Re: When using a Win 98 boot/rescue disk, is it necessary to shut down the computer?
Posted on 2021-05-06, 04:45
I was aware of that :) but I wasn't sure what would be loaded and what wouldn't. I have a faint memory of things like mouse.com having an effect on Windows 98 when left in the autoexec, so I didn't want to worry what sbeinit or a network packet driver would do. This way seemed cleaner (and less …
When using a Win 98 boot/rescue disk, is it necessary to shut down the computer?
Posted on 2021-05-06, 01:50
I have a WIndows 98 Pentium 4 machine with an SB Live! SB0100 PCI installed. My intention is to dual boot with Win 98 and Win 98's own MS-DOS (for FAT32 support) by using a modified bootable Win 98 rescue floppy disk. I've made the disk, and edited its autoexec.bat and config.sys so it doesn't have …
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