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 …
Re: Sound blaster 16 with CR-563-b
Posted on 2020-05-23, 03:22
Hey Cesora, Since I just posted on another CD-ROM question I thought it worth mentioning. Even if you get an IDE CD-ROM a Pentium 200 is right on the edge of where the BIOS may or may not have support for booting from CD-ROM. That sounds like the era of Award bioses. If you have BIOS version 4.51PG …
Re: DOS getting stuck during installation
Posted on 2020-05-23, 03:12
It sounds like you got this fixed but I wanted to add something that causes a very similar, infuriating problem. Some AWARD bioses have an option for virus protection. If you enable it, the bios tries to prompt you whenever a program writes to the C: boot sector. The problem is that the Windows 95 …
Re: Getting CD drive working on 486
Posted on 2020-05-23, 03:02
Before bootable CDs the bios didn't know or care about cd-rom drives. What OS are you running? In Win95 it should just work. For DOS you need to find an atapi cd driver and load it in config.sys. oakcdrom.sys and xcdrom.sys are common generic ones for atapi (IDE) cds. Then you need mscdex in your …
Re: Windows 3.11 vs. Windows 95
Posted on 2020-05-23, 02:47
Around 1995ish I was using a new 486DX2-66 with 4 MB of RAM & WfW 3.11. The manufacturer had an offer for a Windows 95 upgrade CD which we got. I hated it! The swapping. My little educational math games were so slow. Not knowing that the reason was that 4 MB was totally unrealistic for usable Win95. …
Re: Getting Sata to work in IDE mode on WIndows 98 - Help Please
Posted on 2020-05-22, 16:43
It's weird. For my system when I use the win98 disk and start windows with cd drivers booting from cd it sees my cd drive fine. Once windows actually boots up it doesn't see it anymore. Windows 98 shows that it has IDE controllers for each of my sata inputs but has an exclamation point on it …
Re: Getting Sata to work in IDE mode on WIndows 98 - Help Please
Posted on 2020-05-22, 01:38
Let me guess, a CDD461 or CDD462 on a CM-153 interface card ? I looked at those on Google images and it didn't look like them. The front was significantly bigger than the CD tray and the only button was a (large) eject button. I forget how I came across the drive. I think it was bundled with one of …
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