Re: Wing Commander: Privateer won't run with sound on 486 FreeDOS machine
Posted on 2024-05-13, 22:55
Issue turned out to be a defective ESS sound card and possibly not set high DMA channel (5) after more testing.
Wing Commander: Privateer won't run with sound on 486 FreeDOS machine
Posted on 2024-03-27, 04:36
Hi, I have been trying to get Wing Commander: Privateer running on a system with FreeDOS 1.3. The game works perfectly if I disable all sound in the setup program, but refuses to launch with any sound card specified either as FM music or digitised sound, giving the error message 'Your Privateer …
Re: Best 3D graphics card for a 430TX QDI Titanium IB+ with Jan's modded BIOS?
Posted on 2023-10-13, 08:07
I got a PCI TNT2M64 and it works well with the NVIDIA Detonator PCI 2.08 drivers.
Re: PCIe RAM Disk - TAKE MY MONEY!
Posted on 2022-12-09, 03:12
It's hard to express that an Atari ST with TOS in EPROM reacts quicker than a modern Ryzen with 16 cores and an NVME SSD: If you press a key on an Atari ST, the character is faster displayed on screen than on a modern high-end PC. Is that literally true? I know nothing about the low level workings …
Re: Is it just me or are Realtek wifi cards hot garbage?
Posted on 2022-11-11, 03:25
I have heard of major issues with all revisions of the infamous Intel I225-V 2.5 gigabit Ethernet controller. Dropouts, etc. So maybe watch out for that one. Sadly I get the feeling that Intel has gone downhill majorly with their verification and validation of their non-WiFi products at the …
Re: Is it just me or are Realtek wifi cards hot garbage?
Posted on 2022-11-10, 23:01
I stick with Intel for wired LAN, and Intel or Qualcomm/Athreros for wireless. That said, I did experience my first Intel NIC partial failure in my pfSense firewall. All four ports would just drop about once a month, requiring a reboot. Jetway JNF9HG-2930 with 4 x Intel i211AT. However, it had …
Re: Best 3D graphics card for a 430TX QDI Titanium IB+ with Jan's modded BIOS?
Posted on 2022-10-29, 12:31
So the POST card arrived and it appears to indeed be a 5V-only board, when the card is stuck in the bottom PCI slot.
Best 3D graphics card for a 430TX QDI Titanium IB+ with Jan's modded BIOS?
Posted on 2022-10-21, 10:21
Hi, last month I received this motherboard paired with a Pentium MMX 200. I have since updated the bios with Jan's modded J.2 version. I then upgraded it with a K6-2/500AFX (running at only 400MHz due to 66MHz bus limitations and the 6x multiplier limit). I am using 128MB SDRAM (2x64MB high density …
Re: Getting a HD to work for Win95 on a Pentium 75
Posted on 2022-09-10, 13:15
It could be that the CF cards themselves have partially broken LBA support.
Re: How to install Windows 98SE on a modern PC
Posted on 2022-09-09, 09:53
Update: I forgot about manually installing the 'PCI bus' driver under Add New hardware > Find manually > System devices, after removing the ACPI BIOS support. The system was also getting different errors such as a fatal exception 0E at 0028:65007004. Someone else has reported this issue on an AM2 …
Re: How to install Windows 98SE on a modern PC
Posted on 2022-09-09, 08:06
Currently trying on an ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 Rev G/A 1.03 with Beta BIOS P1.60G. This board does have an integrated graphics controller inside its 760G chipset, but there are no video out ports and my best understanding is that BIOS 1.60G disables the IGP so as to allow Windows Aero to function …
Re: Installing every OS on a Thinkpad X60
Posted on 2022-09-09, 07:25
I'm afraid I don't have those drivers any more. However I'd recommend you not use cards with that chip if you're buying one anyway. Get a 3c905 based card; they are cheap, plentiful, and well supported in all operating systems. Turns out the 82574L (as the Pro/1000 CT) has drivers for it anyways. I …
Re: Is it just me or are Realtek wifi cards hot garbage?
Posted on 2022-09-04, 20:04
I have generally found them to be quite reliable, both in terms of system stability and connection reliability . Just five days ago, I installed a TP-Link Archer T4E ( Realtek RTL8812AE ) for a friend . System runs Windows 10 x64 on an i5 2400 and gets used about 10 hours a days (with at least 2-3 …
Is it just me or are Realtek wifi cards hot garbage?
Posted on 2022-09-04, 19:22
Every single one I've used whether USB or PCIe has randomly dropped out, dropped speed to sub 1Mbps MCS scheme, refused to wake up from computer sleep (especially the RTL8192EU in the TP-LINK WN-723N USB dongle) or even crashed the OS when behind an ASmedia PCIe switch on my ASRock X370 motherboard …
Re: Hard drive sizes for different machines/eras
Posted on 2022-09-04, 15:35
I'm in 'the largest the machine will support' camp myself. There are plenty of cheap used 20GB drives (smaller than the 32GB limit, will usually be recognisable as 8.4GB on Award BIOS at least) on eBay.
Re: Installing every OS on a Thinkpad X60
Posted on 2022-09-04, 15:33
I was able to find drivers for DOS and Windows 98 for the built-in ethernet card, but not WiFi (as expected). I'll be using a little USB-powered ethernet to WiFi bridge device to connect to WiFi networks. If it's not too late or a great hassle, would you be able to link or upload the Win98 drivers …
Re: Emulation speed issues with 86box
Posted on 2018-02-05, 04:33
How can I enable it in pcem, there's no line for it in its' .cfg file? In the menu bar, you can choose Settings->Configure to find a checkbox right below the emulated CPU type (486). The line in the config file is "cpu_use_dynarec = 1". 86Box should have a similar setting (haven't used that since …
Re: Intel dropping UEFI CSM (legacy BIOS support) for new systems in 2020
Posted on 2017-11-23, 02:16
A modern OS should(?) still be able to detect them with its drivers if they don't rely on asking the BIOS about what devices are present. Detecting and configuring a device is a feature of PCI / PCI-X / PCIe since the very beginning. For PCI, AFAIK not necessarily. Plenty of PCI cards I know use …
Re: Intel dropping UEFI CSM (legacy BIOS support) for new systems in 2020
Posted on 2017-11-20, 21:30
All new video cards already support UEFI and have for a couple years. Unless you are wanting to run really old cards on a newer motherboard I don't see why this would be a problem at all. How new and how old cards are we talking about? Is it safe to assume all PCIe cards support UEFI? Would it …
Intel dropping UEFI CSM (legacy BIOS support) for new systems in 2020
Posted on 2017-11-18, 20:12
Link Intel's dropping support for the UEFI Compatibility Support Module (also known as 'level 2 compatibility') for their new platforms come 2020. Come then, you'll be unable to natively boot from devices with a MBR partition table, which was the primary method to boot the system from BIOS. Curious …
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