Re: PC Speaker on 486 suddenly stopped working
Posted on 2015-12-01, 14:54
Some boards have a BUZZ1 spot where you can solder one of those Piezo speakers, and then you don't need to connect any wires anywhere. Probably not 486 boards though. 😀
Re: Looking for Pentium 4 motherboards
Posted on 2015-12-01, 10:14
Well, yes necessarily. Your argument is BS. Intel specified how their part was to be used . It make no difference what anyone else is doing or what is standard when you are given clear directions for THAT part and you don't follow them. In your analogy a court would find the buyer as the …
Re: Looking for Pentium 4 motherboards
Posted on 2015-12-01, 05:24
Well, not necessarily. There are what is called industry standards and practices. If you violate what is the common way to do things, and how people expect things to be done, then yes, you take at least partial blame, even if you explained it carefully enough. For example, did other contemporary …
Re: Looking for Pentium 4 motherboards
Posted on 2015-11-30, 19:51
ASUS P4P and P4C mobos are notorious for USB faults. Problem was found to be Asus not complying with Intel's recommendations in the chipset design guide. Then again, my P4 rig has been running on P4P800-E and P4C800-E boards exclusively for 11 years, and this issue never happened. I think we …
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-30, 19:43
I ran some experiments with the files attached by badmojo . First, it seems that it is not possible to intermix files between releases. At least not trivially. MK.EXE has something encoded about the files it expects (probably some sort of checksum), and if they don't match, it complains that they …
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-29, 14:31
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-29, 10:02
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-28, 18:01
Would it be possible to ask that you attach the EXE files you have to this thread (main game EXE + setup EXE)? I am curious to compare. If that is OK with the moderators, of course. Note that I am not asking for the whole game - the EXE is useless without the full game data.
Re: SB16 and AWE64 side by side in DOS
Posted on 2015-11-27, 09:04
What for? AWE64 is basically SB16+wavetable. Are there any practical reasons to want to have such a combination? Not just "it sounds a little different because of OPL vs CQM or subtle changes in DSP/FM implementation".
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-26, 17:42
It looks like these files patch the first UltraTech release (which is on your original floppies) to the second UltraTech release. Good find.
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-26, 14:26
Curiously, my beta version does have sound, and I don't have the SB init bug in my UltraTech release, neither in real DOS, nor in DOSBox (without having to mess with cycles). These issues may have to do with the particular audio hardware installed/emulated. My DOS rig has an SB16/AWE64, and DOSBox …
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-24, 17:12
Wow. That never happened to me in the couple of years I played the beta. So looks like there may be more than one version of that as well. 😀 Oh, and in my beta version, Raiden is still spelled Raiden, as in the Arcade, and not Rayden, as in the later home versions.
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-24, 16:54
Speaking of the beta version, which I just replayed to refresh my memory: While it does have sound and music, some of the sound effects are missing or replaced with generic "thuds". Also, Reptile does not randomly drop down before battle to give hints about finding him in this version, although it …
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-24, 15:49
OK, so things are clearer now thanks to your summary. By the looks of it, judging by the dates on my GRA files, it looks like I have the beta version, as well as the latest Ultratech release. The dates on my executables differ, but since the executables have definitely been tampered with (as I said, …
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-24, 11:12
You are right, it's confusing indeed. It is possible there are more versions floating around. Edit: I see that while I was typing you added the info about the beta version, so a lot of what I wrote may not be relevant. :) I have what appears to be an early beta, with most data files date 24-Nov-1993 …
Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)
Posted on 2015-11-24, 10:07
I know of 3 MK1 DOS versions: floppy beta, floppy final, and CD. My guess is that this "ultimate" version is in fact the beta version, which tends to crash a lot, has a thing or two missing, and some moves are hard to perform. But I could be wrong. Please try the following things: * Does ESC exit …
Re: P4/Netburst Build - Equal Amount Pleasure and Pain
Posted on 2015-11-19, 05:45
This is a very nice build, and about as high-end as it goes for a pre-775 Pentium4. Seeing as we frequently get (overly) attached to things we own, I also happen to be extra fond of late s478 Northwoods, as I still own such a system too. Not quite as high-end as yours (just a regular 3.0C, and a …
Re: Was the P4 architecture a dead end?
Posted on 2015-11-17, 18:18
But to be fair, Pentium M does even worse than Pentium D; even 720p is choppy on the Dothan. Replying to myself here. Adding a second core to the Pentium M makes it more than competitive. I pulled out my mid-2006 iMac, powered by a 2GHz Core Duo "Yonah" and running Win7. Surprisingly enough, this …
Re: Planning on Pentium 1 build... Suggestions?
Posted on 2015-11-17, 09:59
I guess the first thing you should narrow down is the list of games you might play on that machine. Precisely. Because a Pentium, and even a 486, may be too fast for some games (old things with poorly programmed CPU-dependent timers), and then some other games can benefit from faster machines than …
Re: Praying for Paris
Posted on 2015-11-16, 10:25
Can someone just ban sliderider already? His posts are at best pointless, often ill informed / off topic, and are downright offensive in this instance. I don't generally like political discussions on the internet, especially in technical forums, and do my best to stay away from them. However, I …
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