Re: There has been no sound in Dangerous Dave 3 and 4 at SoundBlaster setting

Posted on 2022-02-15, 15:54

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by mothergoose729

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

dor123 wrote on 2022-02-15, 14:45: There is 16MB allocated memory. Extended memory and conventional memory are different. If the game can see EMS then it should be fine, but if it can't then conventional memory is all it knows how to use. There are some techniques you can use to try and free up …

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Re: windows Xp build - code name: the last samurai

Posted on 2022-02-11, 14:26

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Looks like a fun project. I didn't know that XP could run off of a core i5 and newer. XP can pretty much run on anything up to the Haswell generation Intel CPUs, anything newer and you are guaranteed to not find drivers. Even then the lack of chipset drivers isn't usually much of a problem. I am …

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Re: PSA: FilePlanet now distributing malware

Posted on 2022-02-08, 22:02

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Yikes, I recently put together my own archive extensively from fileplanet. Any idea how long this is been an issue?

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-02-07, 00:13

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Thief and Thief 2 use 8 bit textures and have various problems with even geforce fx cards. I don't think it has anything to do with XP3. Of course there are community patches that fix all of that. Most or all of the games can be made to run one way or another. Splinter cell has a lot of graphical …

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-02-03, 19:15

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

A higher performance p3 would definitely perform better. Even a 1ghz coppermine, which is a lot easier to find a compatible board for, would be a good 40% faster. Something else to think about would be a p4 or athlon build if later windows 98 is the focus.

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-02-03, 12:40

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

A Tualatin or other high performance P3 would just about carry you to 2003, at the cost of some DOS speed compatibility. With two slotket adapters you could pretty easily CPU swap them in and out based on what you needed... provided you have two slotket adapters ofc and a compatible motherboard. …

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-02-02, 17:18

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I ran a few benchmarks in Win98: VIA C3 Nehemiah 1.2GHz + 500MB RAM + GF4 Ti4200 @ 1024x768x32 3DMark2001 SE: 4719 3DMark2000: 5956 3DMark99 MAX: 29 I guess the 3DMark2001 and 3DMark2000 scores look okay, considering the CPU. But what the hell is happening with the 3DMark99 score???? I tried …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-31, 01:34

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another ebay purchase, a Quadro FX3000 256MB, which I believe is equivalent to an FX5900. My 5900XT has developed a weird fault where it complains of lack of power with any power supply and motherboard so I wanted something at least as good to replace it and got this. The fan is a bit annoying …

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-22, 23:32

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I believe with nglide an fx5500 is roughly similar to a voodoo2 in performance. You can do voodoo emulation with dx 8 but it isn't nearly as good as the dx9 emulators.

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-21, 23:28

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I don't have a gamepad on hand for GODS, but I would bet you can run it at 386 speeds just fine. That runtime 200 error usually happens with pascal programs and typically you can get away with pentium speeds. I don't have any issues with Dark Forces at all, but I think I have patched and modded it. …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 22:07

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by mothergoose729

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

I don't own the mister, but I've been following it for years. I don't know what you are referring too with MDFourier. If you told me that a mister core has more accurate sound than the leading software emulator I would say that is unlikely but plausible. Sound emulation has often been neglected and …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 21:35

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by mothergoose729

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

It's not approximated, it's expressed in terms of different hardware in use, and there's really no practical reasons (logic utilization, routing efficiency, etc) to express real chips separately, unless those parts would be reused in another project. Z80 is an example of something that could be …

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-21, 21:20

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I think we're in almost complete agreement - the Nehemiah is better than the Ezra-T for a hybrid DOS/Windows PC. I just feel that the Ezra-T runs the DOS games that I like to play better than the Nehemiah, that's all. Which games? A few games from the top of my head that played smoother on the Ezra …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 20:11

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by mothergoose729

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Each individual chip in a SNES for example is not described exactly in HDL, where each chip has a different set of timing and clock cycles and the interactions between each chip are described faithfully, instead operations are approximated and batched together at acceptable timing It's not …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 16:37

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by mothergoose729

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

the mister has less latency is because there is no OS getting in the way, as all the software runs on it bare metal. In theory you could could run software emulators bare metal on a raspberry pi or an x86 pc and they would be just as good. The fpga vs sw is not about os vs bare metal. The cores in …

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-21, 16:03

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I have a very similar system. I tried over 300 different DOS games from '81-'97 and I only found two or three I couldn't get to work. Throttle can cause stuttering in the graphics and issues with the gameport. Sometimes mo'slo works better for covering those gaps. mo'slo doesn't typically cause …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 07:28

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by mothergoose729

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

The hardest thing with MiSTer to trying to explain why it's better than just running an emulator on your PC. Maybe you are fine with a Pi hooked up to your TV. But I and others can tell a difference. People have said they have sold parts of their retro hardware collections after getting a MiSTer …

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Re: Methods to enhance retro-flexibility on Pentium 4 class hardware...

Posted on 2022-01-21, 07:14

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great thread, I love the p4 for windows 98, if a reliable way to disable L1 cache is found it can go a long way for DOS. The most important speed range for DOS is the 386 and the slower pentiums. Both should be possible with throttle. I think a lot more can be said for using PCI sound cards for DOS …

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Re: Nehemiah DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2022-01-20, 22:19

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I have a very similar system. I tried over 300 different DOS games from '81-'97 and I only found two or three I couldn't get to work. Throttle can cause stuttering in the graphics and issues with the gameport. Sometimes mo'slo works better for covering those gaps. mo'slo doesn't typically cause …

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Re: Is there Anyone "Overpaying" for Hardware and Proud of it? Well, maybe not Proud, but...

Posted on 2022-01-18, 00:22

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't want to think about how much I payed for my matching voodoo 2 cards 😒.

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