Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-08-14, 10:00

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I guess this is speed step version 1. Thanks for advice. I'll try some things. This is the laptop. https://support.dynabook.com/support/staticCo … omTOCLink=false

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-08-14, 09:35

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It has speedstep application in windows, that works. I do not know if it is throttling the CPU or changing the the multipliers, not sure how I can tell the difference. SpeedStep on PIII I guess just changes the Bus Speed.

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-08-14, 08:30

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will check says fid/vid control is not supported. Also it says Multiplier control is not supported. . As its a Pentium III

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-08-14, 07:52

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I used this program on a I815 chipset laptop with a mobile PIII 850. Was able to throttle to 1x and disable L2, thats about as much as I can do with it. which got me to about a P133mhz in speed sys. Id like to be able to go slower without disabling the l1 becasue then the cpu is too slow. Any advice …

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Re: Geforce256 DDR, PIII 933 and XP - best drivers

Posted on 2020-08-14, 02:49

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21.83 is supposed to be more stable, but ya that was the 1st driver that supports desktop acceleration with XP.

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Difficult games to get working

Posted on 2020-08-14, 00:17

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Post games here that are hard to get working. (Real Hardware) Working means full GPU acceleration and Sound. Dos and Windows. Wrath of Earth FF 7 (Vanilla) Metal Gear Solid

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Re: PCIe floppy controller card? or PCIe -> PCI -> floppy controller card?

Posted on 2020-08-13, 04:17

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USB floppy drives work fine unless u have a bad one.

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Re: Windows 98 WPA2-PSK on a 3com WL-536 PCMCIA card

Posted on 2020-08-13, 04:13

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Odyssey Client, if the card really supports WPA2 it will work. I never tried any Marvell chipsets which is what that card has, but atheros chipsets work great.

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Re: floppy drive "terminator"

Posted on 2020-08-10, 10:01

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why would anyone want to do that.

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Re: How much RAM do you need ?

Posted on 2020-08-10, 08:58

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So what would you say is a good amount of memory and cache for the following computers in order to play DOS games well and run Windows 3.0 programs ? IBM AT - 8088 = ? IBM XT - 286 = ? 286 and cache = ? 386 and cache = ? 486 and cache = ? depends what u consider a game, and what u consider is …

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Re: Cyrix Screamer Pro P200+

Posted on 2020-08-10, 02:22

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somewhat certain it's the scsi card /w the 64dram that produced such high scores in winstone, and the rest of the machine is irrelevant.

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-08-09, 09:59

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Any requests that you guys want me to test? Specific games. Scrolling in Commander Keen, smooth or jerky and test please Wrath of Earth, weird game that works only in pure dos. -- In other news... Any way to make USB mouse work under pure dos on N600C, and any solution for keys limits? I can press …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-08-09, 02:35

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Edited above post with link to Prince Intro, I am going to test those other games tonight if I can. Small update it appears that this laptop maybe hard wired with sb-link. I tried going into setupds and I selected S-IRQ and made the Irq 7. Without using swapIRQ i just tried directly launching Prince …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-08-09, 02:26

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Oh, can you also record how Prince of Persia sounds on this Yamaha FM chip? Intro. Toshiba Satellite 2805-s402 Yamaha DS-XG Game was played in windows 98se Native DOS Box Sound was recorded with 98se sound recorder @ 44,100hz 16bit Stereo PCM WAV format. Sound Clip was cliped with Audigy on 98se …

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Re: Installing new hard drive for windows, drive letter assignment

Posted on 2020-08-08, 11:01

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Anyways if you want to use a larger hardisk and have more storage, you're using fat32 and dos 6.22 can't work with fat32. As I recall the bigest partition you can make with dos 6.22 is 8gb, and if you want multiple partitions than the total sum of all partitions is no larger than 8gb. so how were …

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Re: Pentium III + Windows 98, Slow network transfers

Posted on 2020-08-08, 09:10

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If you want good speed do this. Install TCP Stack 1.4 Install VTCP.386 4.10.2223 "236926USA8.EXE" Install QFE Hotfix VIP.386 4.10.2228 "Q301453.EXE" Once you do that You can replace 98se winsock files with windows ME files (MSWSOCK.DLL, MSWSOSP.DLL, WINSOCK.DLL, WS2_32.DLL, WS2HELP.DLL, WS2THK.DLL, …

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Re: Poll: pick and build for DOS Midi gaming and early W98 gaming

Posted on 2020-08-08, 04:59

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i just picked the banshee becasue the other options were bad. Id probably do something like a geforce 2mx PCI, becasue u can use early driver like 6.xx to 8.xx series with low overhead, since slow CPU the geforce2mx + the voodoo 2 would give good compatibility. Id agree 1 isa slot isnt enough but he …

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Re: My 1st socket 7 system in 20 years - Gigabyte GA-586HX + K6-233

Posted on 2020-08-08, 02:41

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good build imo

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Re: Poll: pick and build for DOS Midi gaming and early W98 gaming

Posted on 2020-08-07, 21:34

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Intel PR440FX single Pentium Pro Overdrive (dual isn't useful) I assume u mean a Pentium II overdrive that works on socket 8 AWE64GOLD Voodoo Banshee Maxi Gamer Phoenix Voodoo 2 12MB (for game that doesn't like the banshee) 512 Ram Startech IDE CF with 2 GB Swissbit card This would be the strongest …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-08-07, 18:50

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Any way to make USB mouse work under pure dos on N600C, and any solution for keys limits? I can press only two keys in time, if I press third it won't work. For eg, if I walk forward-right I can't jump. only this, you still have to run cutemouse afterwards. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t= …

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