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Re: Boot from hard drive = invalid system disk, from cd then hd is fine

Posted on 2016-07-12, 09:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How much is the size of the SD card ? Everything beyong 2GB is usually SDHC or SDXC. Older hardware like card readers. flash cards or cameras may not work with them, because newer SD types need special cntroller support. And other old devices seem to work with 4GB SDHC cards at first glance, but …

Re: Is there something like fraps for dos?

Posted on 2016-07-12, 05:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Would be nice but the only way that I know is to use another machine with a capture card installed. Fraps is demanding on modern machines but wouldn't be surprised that a basic screen capture utility could be made for just single frame captures. I'm not interested in screen capture, I want to be …

Re: Boot from hard drive = invalid system disk, from cd then hd is fine

Posted on 2016-07-12, 02:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, try SDFormatter to clean you SD card. Then put it back in that PC and make sure the BIOS is recognizing the card correctly (enable or disable LBA). If you can, disable thing like "block tranfer" or "32bit transfer". Set PIO modes to 0-3 (PIO mode 4 is kwnon to be buggy). Then try to install DOS …

Is there something like fraps for dos?

Posted on 2016-07-12, 02:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a feeling that this would be very hard to implement but just maybe someone has already done so... setting the number of cpu cycles in dosbox isn't working for certain games, I'm forced to set a percentage of the cpu instead and the number of cycles aren't even displayed.

Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled

Posted on 2016-07-12, 02:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So the speed disparity with equal video cards must be due to having a p3 at 233, even with only a 77 mhz difference over the 166? Yeah. 77Mhz doesn't sound like a lot, but 233 is over 40% faster than 166. I'm not sure how a P3 and P1 compare clock-for-clock, that's another variable. I had an idea …

Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled

Posted on 2016-07-12, 01:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I ran the pcp and 3d benches on a pentium 166 with pci voodoo banshee, then on an agp tnt2 with a p3-700 underclocked to 233. The scores were something like 5-10* higher, about what I expected due to AGP, so I put in a pci s3 trio and actually got a similar result on the 3d bench. Why is this? …

Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled

Posted on 2016-07-11, 23:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I ran the pcp and 3d benches on a pentium 166 with pci voodoo banshee, then on an agp tnt2 with a p3-700 underclocked to 233. The scores were something like 5-10* higher, about what I expected due to AGP, so I put in a pci s3 trio and actually got a similar result on the 3d bench. Why is this? …

Boot from hard drive = invalid system disk, from cd then hd is fine

Posted on 2016-07-11, 00:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Using an ide to sd card adapter, booting dos from cd then installing to hard drive results in this error. However having a windows me cd in the drive, then telling it to boot from hard drive works fine. I have no idea why this is happening since I'm just telling to booted cd to do what the hard …

Got an 18 year old system back from my old neighbour

Posted on 2016-07-10, 10:57

in Milliways

in Milliways

I can't find anything older than pentium 4's being sold locally (as in, e-waste shops) and not going to pay ebay prices. Got my pentium 166 back from 1998 that I sold to my neighbour. He whacked it in this case though: http://i.imgur.com/VtwTO3xl.jpg It actually lets you use 72 pin edo ram and sdram …

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2016-07-10, 10:48

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I don't bother cleaning up the cables anymore because they just get back to how they were in a few months anyway:

Re: How much would an 8-bit video card cripple a pentium 3?

Posted on 2016-07-09, 09:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ratfink wrote: Will the ISA card work at all in a p3 motherboard? I have a p2 350 with isa slots if it doesn't, will be interesting to find out. I've bought about eight different sound cards because I recall having one with midi better than OPL3, but not as good as wavetable.

How much would an 8-bit video card cripple a pentium 3?

Posted on 2016-07-09, 07:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looking at playing doom at 386 or 486 speed. I'm going to do this once I get my hands on one as an experiment, just wondering how it would also go for things in general.

Re: Were there ever sound cards with midi quality between opl3 and wavetable?

Posted on 2016-07-09, 01:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's it :) The AudioPCI simply does not have a FM chip, it "simulates" FM by mapping instruments from the wavetable. It sounds horrible as a result :lol: I found an opl4 soundfont and it sounds much better than that. Well of course, any SoundFont sounds better than the AudioPCI's FM :) Though it …

Re: Were there ever sound cards with midi quality between opl3 and wavetable?

Posted on 2016-07-08, 07:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PhilsComputerLab wrote: That's it 😀 The AudioPCI simply does not have a FM chip, it "simulates" FM by mapping instruments from the wavetable. It sounds horrible as a result 🤣 I found an opl4 soundfont and it sounds much better than that.

Re: Were there ever sound cards with midi quality between opl3 and wavetable?

Posted on 2016-07-08, 04:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

gdjacobs wrote: Both. Well, this is what it sounds like in either mode. I had a similar problem with the live under dos, it was due to an incomplete patch set or file or something like that. https://youtu.be/dU26F3LqgY8

Re: Were there ever sound cards with midi quality between opl3 and wavetable?

Posted on 2016-07-08, 04:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PhilsComputerLab wrote: Try a DOS game with Sound Blaster / FM option. From within windows 98 or true dos?

Re: Were there ever sound cards with midi quality between opl3 and wavetable?

Posted on 2016-07-08, 03:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PhilsComputerLab wrote: Yea it's the Audio PCI. Creative bought Ensoniq and then sold a few cards under various names. Sound Blaster PCI 128 or something like that? I have a 128, sounds almost identical to xp's software synth.

Re: Were there ever sound cards with midi quality between opl3 and wavetable?

Posted on 2016-07-08, 03:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps you were using an Audio PCI or Live! card, some of these map OPL3 to General MIDI, so they tend to sound very wrong and different to OPL3. I was thinking the same thing :) I take it they don't exactly advertise this feature? My sb live 5.1 doesn't do it, and I'm guessing an enqoniq would be …

Re: Were there ever sound cards with midi quality between opl3 and wavetable?

Posted on 2016-07-07, 21:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How about the Roland MT-32/LAPC-1? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_LAPC-I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_MT-32 It uses LA synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Arithmetic_synthesis Basically a combination of short wavetable samples (mainly for accurate attack of an instrument, …

Were there ever sound cards with midi quality between opl3 and wavetable?

Posted on 2016-07-07, 20:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got my first pc in 1998 and I can swear that whatever sound card I was using was much better than opl3, but not as good as wavetable/ms wavetable synth. E.g at the doom 2 title screen, the strings sounded like the Psycho shower scene and the cymbals were much less realistic/almost sounded like …

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