Re: Ideas for upgrading K6-2 266 System
Posted on 2020-05-27, 01:42
Re: the Windows protection error - have you tried the Windows 95 patch for AMD 350 MHz and faster CPUs?
Re: Update on ESA 486 industrial motherboard
Posted on 2020-05-25, 23:31
I got this system back out to try something. I took the bracket off of an ATI Rage XL and put it in the single PCI slot such that the VGA port stuck out through the ATX backplate area and is therefore accessible. This actually works, and has working Windows 3.x drivers. I was even able to set the …
Re: NOT enough memory to play DOS games ?
Posted on 2020-05-24, 19:56
It seems his main problem was not having DOS=HIGH in config.sys, right? It was always confusing that DOS=HIGH isn't referring to upper memory (and therefore works even on a 286), while the high LH (LOADHIGH) actually means upper memory and requires emm386. I don't know that I've ever dropped below …
Re: Super Socket 7 Windows 98 Build Issues
Posted on 2020-05-24, 19:25
Yes, but he also said he tried under-clocking. Johnnyboy161, I don't know if you've done much with Linux, but if so, a classic test of hardware like this was to rebuild the kernel as that heavily uses the memory and CPU, causing intermittent issues to crop up. If you find an appropriate distribution …
Re: NOT enough memory to play DOS games ?
Posted on 2020-05-24, 19:20
640k ought to be enough for anyone... still biting 39 years later haha
Re: DOS + Yamaha YMF724 on an HP T5740 thin client
Posted on 2020-05-24, 18:20
Oh, I agree as far as using an Atom on a newer system - they don't have the horsepower for anything beyond a low-end Windows XP build. My only bigger pet peeve than underpowered CPU's that come into my repair shop is Windows 10 laptops with a 32GB emmc hard drive. These things barely hold a bare OS …
Re: Super Socket 7 Windows 98 Build Issues
Posted on 2020-05-24, 17:43
What is the bus speed set to and what speed are the memory DIMMs? Edit: I see you said 133. I assume the bus is 100?
Re: Going SAS for storage - downsides?
Posted on 2020-05-24, 04:12
Not sure if you're following all the stuff about SMR and SMR drives mis-labeled but that could be a factor in the pricing.
Re: CD Drive issue or Sound Card issue, or maybe something else?
Posted on 2020-05-24, 03:35
Out of curiosity I wonder if you rip the audio tracks with cdparanoia or another program like that if it gives you errors.
Re: Soundblaster on DOS to run DOOM
Posted on 2020-05-24, 02:35
Yeah, I wish I had more ideas. But if there were a PCI version of a Sound Blaster that worked without trouble like this, we wouldn't be scrounging around for ISA cards and ISA capable motherboards... As others have pointed out there is a bit of a time disconnect here and that could be part of your …
Re: Ultimate Win95?
Posted on 2020-05-24, 00:13
aaronkatrini wrote on 2020-05-23, 22:56: wouldn't a Dual Socket 7 system be the ultimate Win95 machine? No multiprocessor support in Windows 95
Re: Soundblaster on DOS to run DOOM
Posted on 2020-05-23, 18:41
You said that it has BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 T6 That means, as far as your games are concerned, the IRQ is 7. I'm confused why the games keep asking you for these settings rather than reading from the BLASTER variable. Could you try a different game? How about Wacky Wheels?
Re: Soundblaster on DOS to run DOOM
Posted on 2020-05-23, 18:03
Ok so part of the confusion is there is an actual irq (9) and then there is another irq (7) used for Sound Blaster emulation. So the IRQ 7 is what you should tell the game. But the issue here as others have stated is that you have to use both this card and a software program that pretends to be a …
Re: CD Drive issue or Sound Card issue, or maybe something else?
Posted on 2020-05-23, 05:59
The direct cable from the CD drive to the sound card is only used for playing audio CDs, so that shouldn't be a factor. Is the Sound Blaster 16 Plug and Play? Is the 3Com Ethernet card? Can you give the i/o port settings and IRQs of both. Any other ISA cards? Wikipedia alludes to capacitors. …
Re: Soundblaster on DOS to run DOOM
Posted on 2020-05-23, 05:53
After you run the SB Live! config utility run the SET command. There should be a BLASTER= environment variable. Can you post the settings. Those should be what you pick.
Re: How to get a packet driver onto my IBM XT
Posted on 2020-05-23, 04:51
Does anyone know if it's possible use Cassette BASIC to get an assembly language program in memory and jump to it? It's something I've never looked into. This is possible on an Apple II (something involving negative line numbers if I remember right), and ADTPro uses it as part of the bootstrapping …
Re: Windows 3.11 vs. Windows 95
Posted on 2020-05-23, 04:35
It wasn't any better with a Pentium 100, no mobo cache, and 8MB ram. The 3.11/95 transition gets my vote for the worst Microsoft OS transition. Hell, my friends and I would still talk about how much it sucked in 2001, so much so I was a bit afraid of XP. The official requirements of XP too were …
Re: Ultimate Win95?
Posted on 2020-05-23, 03:44
I think you're right. I feel like an AMD K6 for your existing machine would approximate it pretty well too though. It's interesting the time period you mention is also right around the time the Celeron came out. I feel like other than gamers/custom builders, people running Windows 95 toward the very …
Re: EMM Driver for Dos ?
Posted on 2020-05-23, 03:33
Haha I don't mind answering as you are giving me a lot of nostalgia for around 10-14 years old. My guess is you need to add in config.sys: device=c:\dos\emm386.exe noems and reboot. I'll leave it up to you to research the meaning behind this and the other things/tweakage it lets you do. But boiling …
Re: FDD lubrication
Posted on 2020-05-23, 03:27
I've done one of these lubrications+gear replacements on an old Mac floppy drive. The auto-inject ones are quite complicated with lots of springs and panels to be taken apart in the right order. I used spray lithium grease and was kind of amazed how well it works. The thing ejects the disk almost …
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