Re: Beauty or ugly beast - V5 5500 PCI
Posted on 2016-10-12, 06:50
melbar wrote: When i see these pictures, than i am thinking what the hell the person, who was responsible for this mod, their intensions are ... Just a retard, or troll probably. 😀
Re: Warcraft 2 resolution
Posted on 2016-10-11, 14:16
Ok guys, compare these pictures. What's there to compare? It's obvious. :) Stretch, aspect, and 1:1 - the 3 most common options for dealing with different aspect resolutions. Well, there is also "zoom and crop", but that's hardly suitable for video games. :) I don't think the monitor during the DOS …
Re: I just Build a Windows 98 windows xp gaming computer
Posted on 2016-10-11, 13:00
Memory speeds really do not matter much in practice. FSB1066 means a bus speed of 266MHz. DDR-400 is 200MHz. Being a 865G/DDR board, it must have dividers that allow RAM to run slower than the FSB. With DDR2, most chipsets stopped having such dividers - RAM could never be slower than FSB, only …
Re: Warcraft 2 resolution
Posted on 2016-10-11, 12:30
Everybody will have the same problem as you. If you stretch content to fit into a box with a different aspect ratio, it will look, well, stretched. :) The alternative, as you said, is to enable some sort of fixed aspect ratio setting (in the application or the GPU driver or the monitor), to preserve …
Re: AWE64 - music stops working and need to run AWEUTIL again
Posted on 2016-10-04, 10:27
Are you hot plugging that joystick? If so, please don't. I used to do that on my SBPro a long time ago but one day it burned out the port. That's interesting. I never thought they would be an issue with hotplugging gameport devices. In my mind I always treated them no different from standard serial …
Re: AWE64 - music stops working and need to run AWEUTIL again
Posted on 2016-10-03, 14:04
Well, that takes care of one thing then. I did learn a couple more things from playing around with the machine: The AWE64 goes crazy if I try to plug a gamepad (tried Gravis Gamepad Pro). All sound stopped working. I had to take the card out of the slot and put it back in. I vaguely recall it …
Re: AWE64 - music stops working and need to run AWEUTIL again
Posted on 2016-10-03, 11:46
OK, so after some continued investigation, I believe there may be a couple of different things here. Yes, I do use the standard A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 configuration. I enabled memory ECC function in the BIOS. It changed nothing. The issue happens in pure DOS only . Under Windows I have neither …
AWE64 - music stops working and need to run AWEUTIL again
Posted on 2016-10-03, 06:03
Recently, I've been having some issues with the AWE64 (CT4500) in my old K6-II DOS build (the motherboard is a DFI K6XV3+/66 ). The issue appears to be related to MIDI only (digital audio not affected). The symptom is that randomly either FM or AWE or both stop working, or sound really quiet, or …
Re: Joystick and Gamepad options for DOS Gaming
Posted on 2016-09-26, 15:20
synrgy87 wrote: Tested out the Saitek 6 button pad, it works but only as a 4 button pad which kinda sucks for the likes or Mortal Kombat If I'm not mistaken, Mortal Kombat versions before Trilogy only support 4-button controllers anyways.
Re: Joystick and Gamepad options for DOS Gaming
Posted on 2016-09-26, 14:10
It's compatible, and has cool features, but IMO you can go wrong with it. The one I have keeps detecting diagonals if you are not super-duper-exact with your fingers on the D-Pad. It's very hard to do anything precise with it, and my understanding was that it's not just a defective unit, but that …
Re: Running Windows 98se with 2gb ram
Posted on 2016-09-26, 12:49
gdjacobs wrote: Alternately, you can use HIMEMX to artificially limit available RAM to 512MB. Probably the best, easiest and safest way.
Re: Which old hard drives were high or low end?
Posted on 2016-09-25, 16:35
The Deskstars just before the GXP60 series were great though, would go as far as calling them unmatched amongst IDE drives those days. They were pretty cheap too, if I remember it right. Perhaps that's why it all turned in to such a debacle by the way? The earlier models earned the brand popularity …
Re: Sound Blaster 16 Bugs and Deficiencies Summary
Posted on 2016-09-24, 14:41
Great work summarizing it all, and a nice selection of samples. :cool: Here are my subjective impressions: The Vibra distortion in Skyroads sounds quite bad, but the ringing is somewhat bearable. Which distortion type is more common? The single-cycle DMA clicking is clearly audible, but it seems …
Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???
Posted on 2016-09-23, 16:32
No need to acquire anything, a complete informational web page about the SB16/AWE32 bugs with sound samples and frequency analysis is being made as we speak. :wink: It will include information about DMA Bugs, MPU Bugs, OPL3, CR1747, CT1703 DACs, etc.. will be fully explained there, to help people …
Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???
Posted on 2016-09-23, 16:12
Can you have a quick test with your AWE32 and return with a result to this thread? I wish I had an AWE32... :) At this point I only have access to a SB16 and an AWE64. I misplaced my ESS688 and Vibra16 ages ago. Would have kept them better, had I known how much interest this tinkering and …
Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???
Posted on 2016-09-23, 15:30
And this bug happens on pre-4.16 DSP Creative cards, right?
Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???
Posted on 2016-09-23, 14:50
That's what I've meant by "sound font loading". Then you are using incorrect terminology. We are not talking about any sound font loading, but for the ability to use the built-in sound bank in the AWE32/AWE64 ROM, together with the EMU8000 synthesizer. For games that have this support, it is a …
Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???
Posted on 2016-09-23, 13:49
Anything else than a real OPL chip or an OPL-Core sounds like crap in my ears. This is just how I hear it. For instance, the AWE64 does a horrible job on some of the notes. Not even reverb or chorus can fix that for me, on an awe64. I can't argue with anyone who says that this and this sounds like …
Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???
Posted on 2016-09-23, 08:05
for early DOS games, you can not get around the need for a real OPL chip. Sorry, that's not true. What you need is an FM synthesis chip. It does not have to be true OPL. Alternatives such as ESFM from ESS and CQM from Creative will perform the function of playing MIDI music. They will sound a bit …
Re: CD Audio emulation
Posted on 2016-09-22, 13:24
I believe you should be able to make a "pure audio CD" just from a .CUE file and a collection of .OGG, then using IMGMOUNT in DOSBox (or the equivalent in whatever environment you want to use). Then there is no space wasted, although changing tracks is not easy, since the offsets would need to be …
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