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Re: Help me choose my dos pc... please!

Posted on 2005-12-26, 19:38

in PC Emulation
Thanks for your advice too. I am actually hoping to emulate rather than build the 486. (using dosbox) :sly: Other than that, I still have difficulty to make up my mind. My oldest board has only one big advantage over the next one, that is fsb33 with minimum pentium speed of 50 MHz, switchable to …

Re: Help me choose my dos pc... please!

Posted on 2005-12-26, 11:17

in PC Emulation
Thanks again for your reply. At least the decision for the soundcard is made. I have just recently given away my SB64 to my kids school, and I am glad that I don't have to regret it. This Sb16 is the true "plug and play" type, no installer required. And the missing chip isn't needed either! I read a …

Re: Help me choose my dos pc... please!

Posted on 2005-12-26, 09:12

in PC Emulation
As I said, I found an instruction on how to cut open that odin chip. I am not sure if the battery isn't dead already. Does it supply only the clock or the bios memory as well? I can live with the date and clock wrong... its a retro machine anyway so let it be retro in date too... I have already …

Re: Help me choose my dos pc... please!

Posted on 2005-12-25, 22:33

in PC Emulation
Thanks for your input! The biggest CON for the first choice is the soldered ODIN chip. Failure is only a question of time. I found a guide on how to replace the chips battery or install an external one, but I haven't done it yet... The soundcard is the SB16 with SCSI-2, the CT1770. I found the …

Help me choose my dos pc... please!

Posted on 2005-12-25, 12:39

in PC Emulation
I am trying to put together an older DOS pc. By reading some of the articles here, I gathered some hints and problems already, but I would like some advice to my specific problem too. I plan to run all Dos games on an xp3200+ using dosbox whenever this works well. I also plan to test the games in a …

Re: Problem with display with fullfixed setting

Posted on 2005-10-27, 15:58

in DOSBox General
Can you try the suggestion made by gulikoza regarding my question in another thread: You could try setting Refresh Rate override in DxDiag (click start->run->type dxdiag->more help->override). When I used 70 Hz as override, i got a good result. You use your posted file, only change scaler to none. …

Re: Problem with display with fullfixed setting

Posted on 2005-10-27, 15:56

in DOSBox General
Can you try the suggestion made by gulikoza regarding my question in another thread: You could try setting Refresh Rate override in DxDiag (click start->run->type dxdiag->more help->override). When I used 70 Hz as override, i got a good result. You use your posted file, only change scaler to none. …

Re: how to increase dosbox native refresh rate?

Posted on 2005-10-27, 09:45

in DOSBox General
YEEEESSS!!!!! :happyhappy: :happyhappy: :happyhappy: Here we go... The door is wide open... It just came to me...isn't surface basically a directx surface with our modified sdl.dll? You could try setting Refresh Rate override in DxDiag (click start->run->type dxdiag->more help->override). Before I …

Re: how to increase dosbox native refresh rate?

Posted on 2005-10-27, 06:38

in DOSBox General
@Reckless: Can you tell me which thread it is, I don't find it... Which Display mode do you use? The openglnb mode is definately too slow for the task. I shall try the other suggestions once my main machine is back up again. Just for curiosity: Have you tried fullfixed to 640x480 with normal2x and …

Re: how to increase dosbox native refresh rate?

Posted on 2005-10-26, 21:09

in DOSBox General
As I've said, my ati control panel allows me to specify refresh rates for d3d and opengl. And that is with any resolution, including 320x200. But the picture will be slightly blurry at 320x200 since a TFT monitor has to internally resample to it's native resolution so you're better off with …

Re: how to increase dosbox native refresh rate?

Posted on 2005-10-26, 19:17

in DOSBox General
Thanks for all your suggestions, but I guess I my problem is outside the dosbox frame. I will have to convince my *censored* expensive Geforce6800 to act up and deliver the genuine 320x200 picture at some higher refresh rate. For my hardware Dosbox, I have a voodoo3 PCI enroute, where I have done …

Re: Getting my AWE64 working in pure DOS mode

Posted on 2005-10-26, 18:00

in DOS
May I suggest a different solution? I have had the same problem, in fact, I do have the working ctcm or ctcu etc. files somewhere. I grew tired of this and found salvation in the ESS Chipsets. I have an old notebook that uses the ess688 chip, which works with dos games without any driver whatsoever. …

Re: how to increase dosbox native refresh rate?

Posted on 2005-10-26, 15:08

in DOSBox General
Personally, I like my pixels to be as razor-sharp as possible with 2D graphics. I completely agree with you, however, I also like circles to be circles... :happyhappy: So with a 1280x1024 display, one has to make some compromise. I need to stretch in order to get circles. I found my solution to be …

Re: ykhwong's new release

Posted on 2005-10-26, 12:06

in DOSBox General
I just hang in here, cause this is an issue that intrests me too. I am using an Athlon XP3200+. Due to my TFT (see other post), I have to fullfixed= true to 640x480 with surface, normal2x and scale=true. I am under the impression that i am about as fast as a 486@66 MHz. Is this reasonable? How much …

Re: how to increase dosbox native refresh rate?

Posted on 2005-10-26, 10:25

in DOSBox General
Thanks for your reply. I learned one new thing from it. The "output" setting is doing something even if fullfixed=false. So I just tried all available output settings. The best picture quality (on CRT) is obtained with surface and with openglnb. The other options produce a more blurry picture. The …

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