Re: looking for newer/alternative bios for SiS 486G ver E motherboard
Posted on 2020-11-12, 19:47
Cool! Let me know if you manage to get write-back working.
Re: looking for newer/alternative bios for SiS 486G ver E motherboard
Posted on 2020-11-12, 19:40
I have no idea if you still have this board, but try this, dumped from my SIS 486G ver:E (non-cheapo version with socketed chips and real L2 cache chips). It's from 28/07/94. https://16-bits.org/etc/sis486g_ver_e.bin This BIOS has a setting for internal cache mode (write-through/write-back), and …
Re: Decoding Roland PCM ROMs
Posted on 2020-10-13, 20:06
I see. One problem here is that you can't know for sure if the decoded D-50 PCM ROM in the VST is bit-accurate to how D-50 is decoding its encoded ROM in realtime. It's possible that the original D-50 is using tricks to save chip manufacturing costs or to make the decoding faster, while Roland …
Re: Decoding Roland PCM ROMs
Posted on 2020-10-13, 19:34
I noticed that on line 18, the "32767.0f" part is actually "32787.0f" in MUNT. Try to change it and see if it gets bit accurate now? Though tbh, that kinda looks like a typo in the MUNT code. EDIT: Most likely not a typo! I see the same value in the integer LA32 code too. Also how do you know if …
Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-10-08, 16:00
Try it at the default clocks, maybe that's having an effect? Strange about the Omegas, what about the vanilla 6.2's? I think I'll just live with the noise, it's barely visible and I'm being a bit pedantic. I'll try another Omega driver and get back to you. The one I tried was cat_7.12_ati_omega_ …
Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-10-08, 15:49
Have you a vga adapter to screw in to the dvi port to try? I tested this now, and the image is more sharp for sure, but I still have that very faint snow effect (noise). It may be slightly better, though. Only visible when there's a lot of black content. EDIT: Pretty sure it's much better than it …
Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-10-08, 15:35
So I got my ASUS Radeon 9600 XT today. The fan was grinding, so I disassembled it, cleaned with IPA and reoiled. All good now, though it's insanely loud! I tried to install the latest Omega drivers, but it wouldn't work at all... I installed the latest ASUS driver and it has a tool for setting the …
Re: Fasttracker 2.10 & 2.11 for MS-DOS
Posted on 2020-10-06, 20:14
Yeah, MPU401 support would be cool! Also traffkin, please be sure to send the code back to me if you manage to complete these implementations/fixes, so that I can continue with bugfixing in the future. I'm sure that there are more of the old bugs in there.
Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-10-02, 09:44
The most important thing is that I get at least some better performance than my FX 5600. That card gets quite hot too, I don't really like it.
Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-10-02, 09:05
Both will be severely bottlenecked by the Tualatin CPU and perform equally, so the 9600xt's only advantage is DX9 compatibility and no DX9 game will run well on a P3 CPU regardless of GPU. It's quite overkill for the Tualatin. It will work, but expect quite a few driver bugs with pre-2000 games. A …
Re: Fasttracker 2.10 & 2.11 for MS-DOS
Posted on 2020-09-30, 21:25
traffkin wrote on 2020-09-12, 16:34: thank you!!! i'll look into it tomorrow and start to analyze possibilities. and of course will keep you updated! 8bitbubsy wrote on 2020-09-12, 10:33: I sent you the source code and a readme.txt file to explain how to use it. Any updates on this?
Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it
Posted on 2020-09-30, 21:17
He disabled the comments on his video now, not sure if I think that's the way to go about it.
Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-09-30, 19:28
appiah4 wrote on 2020-09-30, 19:27: Radeon 9250 AGP is dirt cheap and a good match for this system. Already bought a 9600 XT on eBay.
Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-09-30, 18:20
Standard Def Steve: Darn, your P3 system really is superb. Kinda jealous, but I need to be happy with what I got 🤣. I have SDRAM only. 😒 What motherboard does it use?
Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-09-30, 09:20
I made an offer of £15 for an ASUS A9600XT/TVD/128M on eBay and the seller accepted it (didn't really expect that), so 9600XT it is! I really hope it will run stable at 70MHz AGP...
Re: Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-09-29, 19:12
I run Windows 2000. I would get frequent BSODs and stuff with my USB2 card in 9x and Me, but it's stable as a rock with win2k. That FX5700 Ultra card is like €33 in shipping, and then comes VAT and import charges. 😒 Also do you really recommend Quadro FX for a Pentium III gaming system?
Recommended good (but cheap) GPU for Tualatin system
Posted on 2020-09-29, 17:22
I have an AGP4x P3 rig with a Tualatin 1266MHz 512kB overclocked to 1330MHz (FSB 140) and I was wondering what GPU I should get for this system? I want one that is cheap on ebay, but yet powerful. This means that the high-end Geforce 3/4 Ti's are out of the equation, as I think they cost too much. …
Re: Fasttracker 2.10 & 2.11 for MS-DOS
Posted on 2020-09-14, 15:08
It has to remain like this. The reason is that when FT2 loads MOD/S3M/STM files, it converts them to an XM module internally. FT2 has only one replayer, and if you bugfix it for better MOD-accuracy, it will suddenly be less accurate for XM (I care very much about extreme FT2 accuracy, so I don't …
Re: Windows XP on newer Systems (Intel >Haswell/AMD Ryzen)
Posted on 2020-09-14, 15:01
Not going to hijack this thread anymore after this post, but I just want to reply to some stuff. If somebody will write an exploit, somebody will write a patch. Not sure about that. The small percentage of people that still use XP, are people working in hospitals, military (ironically enough) etc. …
Re: Windows XP on newer Systems (Intel >Haswell/AMD Ryzen)
Posted on 2020-09-14, 09:35
I know this isn't relevant to what you are trying to achieve, but I really hope you're not connecting this machine to the internet.. XP is soon a 20 year old OS, and it doesn't receive updates anymore. I bet there are multiple known unpatched 0day exploits for XP already. Wouldn't be fun to have …
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