Re: I can't always boot Windows 3.1 on my 80486SX2 Olivetti PC

Posted on 2016-05-29, 09:32

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by Elia1995

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Ok, I'm letting Scandisk checking the sectors, let's hope it doesn't find any bad sector... http://image.prntscr.com/image/10f63b808e9242e19bcbb49f60feba41.png Damn, it's really slow... EDIT: Ah well... http://image.prntscr.com/image/22dbc9f293a14bc69645a5e6f5d061db.png :depressed: Look how Scandisk …

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Re: I can't always boot Windows 3.1 on my 80486SX2 Olivetti PC

Posted on 2016-05-29, 08:24

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by Elia1995

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I have MS-DOS 7.10 in there.

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I can't always boot Windows 3.1 on my 80486SX2 Olivetti PC

Posted on 2016-05-29, 07:34

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by Elia1995

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Hello, I'm having this odd issue since yesterday, I can boot up Windows 3.1 just fine after a bunch of retries, it works fine if first I launch Doom 2 for about 10 minutes and then I try to launch Windows 3.1, but I can never boot it up just as I turn on the PC. I get this error message if I try to …

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Re: No MIDI music from my CT3670

Posted on 2016-05-28, 12:44

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by Elia1995

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I'm going to check if the Steam version of ultimate doom has all the DOS executables, if it does, I'll then bring them to that DOS PC somehow, obviously I wont copy all the DOSBox related files.

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Re: No MIDI music from my CT3670

Posted on 2016-05-28, 12:26

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by Elia1995

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I only have MS-DOS 7 and Windows 3.11 in that PC, I can load soundfonts from Windows 3.1, but will it run the game in protected-mode like that ?

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Re: Windows 98's Explorer crashes on DOS games

Posted on 2016-05-28, 12:25

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by Elia1995

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ok, I'll try that, thanks

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Re: My "modded" Olivetti M4 454 S

Posted on 2016-05-28, 12:21

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by Elia1995

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Ok, good news, I managed to find an old, huge 14-pin VGA cable with 15-pin female on the other side, so I'm now using it as an adapter AND IT WORKS !!! :D :D :D By the way, this computer has an 80486SX2 as CPU, not a DX2 as some said above. I also found an S3 Virge graphics card, but I can't find a …

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Re: No MIDI music from my CT3670

Posted on 2016-05-28, 10:54

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by Elia1995

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I tried it and whenever it uses General MIDI, the PC freezes… Ah, my Doom doesn't have AWE32 in the music options… only SoundBlaster, Adlib, Midi, Disney, Ultrasound and Tandy.

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Re: Windows 98's Explorer crashes on DOS games

Posted on 2016-05-28, 07:28

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by Elia1995

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MAX=50012 ? I suck at byte conversions 🤣

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Re: No MIDI music from my CT3670

Posted on 2016-05-28, 07:27

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by Elia1995

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I didn't know about that aweutil command, do I have to use it before executing any game ?

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Re: No MIDI music from my CT3670

Posted on 2016-05-27, 17:16

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by Elia1995

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I'll try to get a gameport to round (midi out and midi in) cable (if I can still find any... I hope so) and connect my MIDI keyboard (which is the only MIDI device I own at the moment) to experiment with midi output from the sound card...

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Re: No MIDI music from my CT3670

Posted on 2016-05-27, 16:04

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by Elia1995

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Yes, I indeed use AWE32 in those games, but I also have other games that support General MIDI, SoundBlaster and AdLib as Music output, but not AWE32 and soundblaster and adlib as music sound quite... meh.....

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Re: No MIDI music from my CT3670

Posted on 2016-05-27, 14:16

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by Elia1995

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I don't have any general MIDI device to connect there, or else I'd have tried... so is there no way via software to redirect the output to the speakers ? I do have Windows 3.1 in there aswell, if that's any useful.

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No MIDI music from my CT3670

Posted on 2016-05-27, 13:46

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by Elia1995

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Hi, as some of you might know from this thread ( http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=47793 ), I've made a DOS PC with this AWE some sound card, yet I have a problem with it, not a big deal, but I'd love to get it working nonetheless. Basically I can't get MIDI music to play through the …

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Re: Can't get Oni to work under XP and it lags a lot under 98

Posted on 2016-05-27, 13:41

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by Elia1995

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Yeah, that's what I've ended up doing at this point. I wont play it in 1080p resolution to make it look the most nostalgic as possible though lol Unfortunately, until I can get a working motherboard with an AGP slot, that's the only vintage motherboard I have where I can use Windows 98SE with a …

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Re: My "modded" Olivetti M4 454 S

Posted on 2016-05-27, 09:17

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by Elia1995

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I bent it back and forth for like an hour yesterday, yet it didn't pop out and started to bend other pins aswell with the pliers' edges... I'd feel safer to eventually find a VGA cable which is already 14-pin or an adapter with 14 pins on one side and 15 holes on the other (they do exist, but I …

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Re: Can't get Oni to work under XP and it lags a lot under 98

Posted on 2016-05-27, 08:42

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by Elia1995

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I do have other PCI-E cards lying around, but I'm afraid I'll then have problems finding drivers for Windows 98SE !!! 🙁 I also have a Radeon HD 3xxx series one, which is more powerful than this X300SE, but then will I be able to get it working on Windows 98 ? 😐

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Re: What is this card and what are its appliances ?

Posted on 2016-05-27, 08:08

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by Elia1995

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I do have a 386 computer in my other home (from where I'm salvaging all this beautiful vintage hardware for my experiments), I'll check if it has a compatible ISA slot, the Olivetti M4 434 S here doesn't, it has only ISA slots, but none of them fits this card (also I can't fit it in physically due …

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Re: What is this card and what are its appliances ?

Posted on 2016-05-27, 07:56

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by Elia1995

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But I can't fit in any video cable in it, are there some CGA to VGA adapters ?

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What is this card and what are its appliances ?

Posted on 2016-05-27, 07:54

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by Elia1995

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Hello, I found this old card, which I think is an ISA card, but I have no idea what it is actually for. On a first thought I thought it's a sound card, you know, two jacks and maybe a gameport, but that isn't true, it isn't a gameport at all, in fact none of my gameport joysticks seem to fit in it …

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