Re: HiRes/Widescreen Patch for Mech Warrior 3

Posted on 2017-06-29, 19:10

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Neither seem to work; my video options are still limited to those that shipped (640x800, 800x600, 1024x768). AFAIK the resolution patches silently replace the actual ingame resolutions: the text in the MechWarrior 3 options dialog remains unchanged. Therefore 640x480 in the options actually means …

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Re: Slowest Pentium v Fastest 486

Posted on 2017-06-28, 15:58

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by gerwin

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@Ampera It is never really about what multipliers a particular motherboard supports, it is about what multipliers a particular CPU supports. If you can get a 486DX4-100 running at 1x or 2.5x I would love to see details and/or a SpeedSys screenshot of that.

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Re: Slowest Pentium v Fastest 486

Posted on 2017-06-28, 15:02

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by gerwin

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So I don't think you can downclock at DX4/100 to DX2/66 or DX/25. As you and Ampera can see here: 486 VLB UMC-Chipset, what is it? . Both my Intel and AMD 486 DX4 can be jumpered for either 2x or 3x clock, so 66 or 100MHz. 33MHz was only possible with my true 486DX-33 and with the Cx5x86-100GP ( …

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Re: Some questions on PII and PIII era builds

Posted on 2017-06-27, 15:54

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by gerwin

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Some years ago I bought an intel SR440BX Motherboard from with an intel Pentium II 400MHz installed. That is a µATX Slot-1 Mainboard with onboard Riva TNT graphics (16MB) and an Audio PCI 64V. It has one ISA slot. It is not my favorite board since it doesn't downclock and overclock well, Still …

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Re: A List of DOS Games with 16-Bit Sound

Posted on 2017-06-27, 15:27

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Wonder what to think of the Theme Hospital entry. Since this games uses the protected mode Miles Sound System. A huge amount of games use this sound system. Does that mean that when using a SB16 it always result in 16-bit mixing in these games, or is it an optional setting in the Miles Sound System …

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Re: Some questions on PII and PIII era builds

Posted on 2017-06-26, 14:48

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The PII is kind of underwhelming compared to a 233 MMX or SS7 options The Klamath PII core itself is practically still a Pentium MMX. Not much benefit in itself. The Deschutes is the same but runs cooler, which is a very welcome feature. The main Pentium II selling point for gaming is not the CPU …

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2017-06-25, 18:43

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It should work. In this topic: VIA C3 Nehemiah vs. Coppermine(-128) and Tualatin. The VIA C3 compatibility of the SE440BX-2 Motherboard is demonstrated. With BIOS version P13 that is. For earlier VIA C3 models 'Samuel' and 'Ezra', like yours, most Slotkets will work.

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Re: 486 VLB UMC-Chipset, what is it?

Posted on 2017-06-25, 18:35

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by gerwin

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For this 486 I hotflashed the EEPROM with a newer Pentium II motherboard. But preferably use a Programmer Device.

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Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2017-06-16, 21:50

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by gerwin

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When the C3 Nehemiah processor functions on your motherboard, then it is all the same to SetMul. (Though the lowest possible speed settings may depend on the motherboard to some extend, as some systems lock when trying to set the nehemiah to a mere 200..266MHz.)

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Re: MS6905 "Master" Slotket Adaptor + Tualatin?

Posted on 2017-06-16, 15:23

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by gerwin

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In any case there is no need to set any jumpers on the motherboard other than the FSB jumpers. Sorry for the delayed response. But Skyscraper said it already. The MS6905 manual above is for an old revision with a 1.8V limit though. Later versions can go lower: example (I am currently having trouble …

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Re: What's the minimum cpu that will handle a 128kbit stereo mp3?

Posted on 2017-06-04, 22:22

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There is already a topic about this very question buried in this place... My experience using a Cyrix 5x86 100MHz Windows 95 with any MP3 player: 128kB Stereo MP3s need downsampling or quality reduction to play reliably. MPXplay in pure DOS: Can play 128kB Stereo MP3s without problems, 160kB too. …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2017-06-04, 17:59

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It worked, that is fortunate... Glad I could help.

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Re: What's the minimum cpu that will handle a 128kbit stereo mp3?

Posted on 2017-06-04, 17:52

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There is already a topic about this very question buried in this place... My experience using a Cyrix 5x86 100MHz Windows 95 with any MP3 player: 128kB Stereo MP3s need downsampling or quality reduction to play reliably. MPXplay in pure DOS: Can play 128kB Stereo MP3s without problems, 160kB too.

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2017-06-01, 23:28

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Glad it is not MBF. Would be nice to know what exactly is poked by ROTT, to make things work for your system. (Maybe this helps: http://web.archive.org/web/20040823011136/htt … xg/waveptch.exe )

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2017-05-30, 01:34

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This behaviour is indeed odd. I haven't touched the the SB16 and AWE drivers really (it is the Allegro 3.0 library that is used for sound). In the todo list is something with the SB16 already. I will see if there is time to to check it, but haven't had much time for hobbies for months now :( Just …

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Re: ReactOS 0.4.0

Posted on 2017-05-30, 01:27

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Sorry, no idea about the difference in requirements. (I do remember reading about some guy keeping track of idle memory usage, and his discussion of a single added MB; wheter that was necessary. Just to say: the Devs seem reluctant to raise memory usage unless really necessary for functionality.)

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Re: SB Pro compatible vs SB Pro/16 compatible

Posted on 2017-05-30, 00:48

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by gerwin

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Another aspect is that I don't think the SB16 was ever a very popular card, and therefore didn't really establish a standard as much as the earlier SBs did. IIRC SB/SBPro compatibility was licenced out by Creative to other soundcard companies, but not the SB16 interface as it was to remain a …

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Re: ReactOS 0.4.0

Posted on 2017-05-26, 10:36

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by gerwin

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The audio part of ReactOS could use some attention, that would make it more fun to try games, or just DOS games in the internal DOS emulator. I fully agree! :) I think there was a way to manually enable it by using AC97 or SB16 drivers (from NT4 ?). But this was very difficult and involved carrying …

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Re: Original Starcraft + Brood War is now Freeware

Posted on 2017-05-24, 01:14

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by gerwin

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StarCraft Version 1.18.7.1709 works in windows XP. (The Battle.net part does not, as was foretold)

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Re: ReactOS 0.4.0

Posted on 2017-05-23, 23:47

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Good news! It is there now! :D Yeah, I had 0.4.5 installed in VirtualBox already. But I did not have the time to install software that shows off any 0.4.5 improvements. Well, theming works, I did notice that, and it is significant. The audio part of ReactOS could use some attention, that would make …

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