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Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-05-22, 17:07

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I wonder if the shorter memory modules from the motherboard can be plugged into this sound card? That's my plan, if the system boots with the 16 MB SIMM without the currently installed modules... Yes they can be used there. But 2 MB is quite low for an AWE. It would be better if you had two 4 MB 30 …

Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2022-05-22, 01:26

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Does there exist a Windows 95 driver for it that supports digital sound output? The Ad Lib brand had been defunct for several years, by the time Windows 95 was released. I know. Although there exists a Windows 3.1 driver, I was not able to get it running on Windows 95. The driver included in …

Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2022-05-21, 22:52

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Does there exist a Windows 95 driver for it that supports digital sound output?

Re: games for a 12MHz 286?

Posted on 2022-05-19, 15:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Grand Prix Circuit from Accolade should run well.

Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-05-18, 21:13

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Not an ET4000 W32 or an ATI Mach64.

Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question. (i486 DOSBox)

Posted on 2022-05-18, 15:12

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I'd add a cheap VLB graphics card, like a S3 or a Cirrus. I'd also swap the 4 MB 30 Pin DRAM SIMMs with 16 MB 72 Pin DRAM PS/2 SIMM in total (8+8 or 16). Ethernet and Sound, yes ofc. Don't play with faster CPUs when you don't have a cooler.

Re: Getting DOS games to work under OS/2 Warp 4.52

Posted on 2022-05-18, 13:42

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

What sound support does the AWE64 have in OS/2? Can you load soundfonts?

Re: Getting DOS games to work under OS/2 Warp 4.52

Posted on 2022-05-18, 12:16

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I'm not an OS/2 expert too, but I have heared about Graphics Adapter Device Driver (GRADD) and SciTech SNAP Graphics für OS/2.

Re: Getting DOS games to work under OS/2 Warp 4.52

Posted on 2022-05-18, 10:41

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Which graphics card do you use? Does it have OS/2 drivers?

Re: Getting DOS games to work under OS/2 Warp 4.52

Posted on 2022-05-18, 08:58

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Elia1995 wrote on 2022-05-18, 08:24: Ironically, Windows 3.11 games seem to be working just fine, I even got full 256 colors support and sound working, it's only DOS games that are giving me so many tribulations... This is because OS/2 has a very good Win16 integration, called Win-OS/2.

Re: Building Retro 486

Posted on 2022-05-18, 07:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some of the late 486 chipsets support EDO DRAM. All of that late 486 chipsets have PCI support. The ALi M1487/M1489 supports EDO DRAM.

Re: Building Retro 486

Posted on 2022-05-18, 05:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Basically it's a good idea to write down the existing jumper settings after a purchase before changing them. You also may take a detail photograph and post it here (even now!). Before running a received mainboard it is a good idea to check the capacitors. When running it for the very first time , it …

Re: EMS memory mystery ?

Posted on 2022-05-17, 22:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

LSS10999 is right. It are the ROMS that are placed in the UMB space. But also graphics card ROM sizes matter. Basically older graphics card have smaller ROMS that just occupy C000-C7FF. Newer cards take 64 kB and more.

Re: SX955 is the BEST 486DX2 CPU?

Posted on 2022-05-15, 13:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Besides engineering samples, SX955 is the only Intel 486 DX2 that supports WB cache. All Intel 486 DX2 are 5 Volt types.

Re: soundblaster awe 32

Posted on 2022-05-15, 13:29

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

No, that's wrong. As long as you can run the initialisazion tools plus AWEUTIlL.EXE you should be able to hear sound. You need AWEUTIL because the OPL3 / FM synthesis may be routed through the AWE chip. Just try it and write about your results. Perhaps you have problems with the Plug and Play …

Re: General ISA Bus Mastering musings/questions.

Posted on 2022-05-14, 07:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, I'd like to compare 8 bit DMA from XT with 16 bit DMA from AT and ISA busmaster DMA and EISA busmaster DMA. EISA busmaster DMA is really fast and a class of its own. With an Adaptec 2742W it is no problem to get transfer rates of over 18 MB/s. XT DMA is the fastest way to connect a hard drive …

Re: My Socket 3 Build (DOS/WIN311)

Posted on 2022-05-10, 20:05

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Well, PCI cards will use an IRQ channel too. No, that aren't tasks where you will face great differences. Your CD changer has 16x speed, that is 2400 kB/s max. I expect your ISA controller may have a limit between 2000 kB/s and 3000 kB/s. - but the CPU usage will be at 100 % during this time. The …

Re: My Socket 3 Build (DOS/WIN311)

Posted on 2022-05-10, 19:52

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It uses PCI busmaster DMA. It does not use classic ISA DMA channels. So you don't need to setup a DMA channel. Well, bus transfers from the controller to the RAM and vice versa are faster. And when it is done by DMA, the CPU can do other things in the same time. You probably won't notice any …

Re: My Socket 3 Build (DOS/WIN311)

Posted on 2022-05-10, 05:30

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I recommend to use the 2920. Your NCR / Symbios / LSI is too good for that system. You may see a difference in multitasking operating systems with proper driver support (WfW, Win95, WinNT) when accessing SCSI devices, because it heavily reduces CPU utilization during access to SCSI devices. You may …

Re: My Socket 3 Build (DOS/WIN311)

Posted on 2022-05-09, 21:26

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Which PCI SCSI controller did you try?

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