Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-08-31, 01:17

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16 bit mixing would be nice, the ASS might already do that for SB16 like in Build engine games, but Windows Sound System or AudioDrive support would be cool. Does the fact that you're using ASS also mean the game hangs on SB16 when using MIDI output with high sample rates? Also best wishes with …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2021-08-30, 16:59

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You can read the articles about the GeForce FX regarding the performance and image quality on DX9 titles such as Half-Life 2. nVidia also cheated a bit with the drivers doing shader replacement to improve performance at the expense of the visual quality prior replacing them with the GeForce 6 series …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2021-08-30, 16:24

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The main reason over using a GF4 over the FX series are that the latter one are terrible for DX9 stuff except the Aero theme for Windows Vista and 7, and requires later drivers that comes with more CPU overhead (especially on old computers).

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Re: Why Etherlink XL 3C905B freeze my pc?

Posted on 2021-08-30, 14:41

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It's preferable to use a FTP server and the packet driver rather than NDIS drivers on DOS (On modern Windows versions the SMB1 protocol is deprecated and disabled by default for security reasons). The only problem I had with the 3Com 3C905B-TX card was that when transferring files it occasionally …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2021-08-30, 14:06

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Anyways I guess this confirms the only true compatible cards are 3dfx ones. Very debatable. :-) A few games that have some rendering issues with GeForce cards (like Incoming, Thief 2, and probably a few others) are not enough to tilt the balance in 3dfx's favor. I can also list quite a lot of games …

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Re: Socket 7 system: Help needed with some issues

Posted on 2021-08-29, 22:22

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As is visible on the schematics in attachment, there is a USB connector on the motherboard. It has 6 rows of two pins each. Is this what a USB 1.1 connector looks like? I took a look at the motherboard header on the USB 2.0 bracket in my Windows 10 PC. It has only 5 female connectors (sixth one is …

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Re: File manager better than the windows' file explorer?

Posted on 2021-08-29, 21:58

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2021-08-29, 21:32: shows the option such as select all, etc instead of hidden? Do people even know about using hotkeys and/or command line instead of relying entirely on mouse? Just saying 😉

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Re: K6INIT: AMD K6-3/3+/2(CXT) initialization driver for MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-08-29, 18:46

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Thanks for the fix! In addition to this I have tested setting the multiplier with K6INIT (using a K6-2+/450) and it works except for the x2.5 multiplier as the K6plus doesn't support that one. This program is making DOS related utilities seem obsolete in comparison. :) That ExitKeepC routine seemed …

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Re: K6INIT: AMD K6-3/3+/2(CXT) initialization driver for MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-08-29, 02:21

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Did some further testing with K6INIT and the performance is now exactly the same when using both K6DOS.SYS and K6WCX for setting write ordering and combining respectively. One feedback here about the program: Why it is a TSR? Although the memory consumed is insignificant (960 bytes), I don't see …

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Re: K6INIT: AMD K6-3/3+/2(CXT) initialization driver for MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-08-28, 16:41

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Could someone check if it's actually possible to use write combining with this region in the first place? I cannot do this without the machine freezing instantly. But I kept it in because a friend suggested it. The A0000 range? I could do it with K6WCX using the following parameter: K6WCX A0000 1 …

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Re: SmartFormat (TFORMAT.EXE) - anyone have a copy?

Posted on 2021-08-28, 16:12

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Errius wrote on 2021-08-28, 15:09: Browsers are dropping support for FTP. Waterfox and Seamonkey still support it. Even the obsolete Internet Explorer browser still support this. Alternatively one could use FileZilla to access FTP links.

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Re: K6INIT: AMD K6-3/3+/2(CXT) initialization driver for MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-08-28, 14:22

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On the other hand, it seems like if something like UMBPCI were used instead of EMM386, where the physical memory address really is B000:xxxx, when using that address space for UMBs, this utility could indeed break that somehow. UMBPCI only allows to use the range C800-EFFF range as the others are …

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Re: Limit DOS RAM memory (XMSDSK / HimemX / JemmEx), DOS RAM size limit

Posted on 2021-08-28, 12:21

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I wonder why Mr Loews solution never was mentioned in this multi year thread That solution is the most interesting as it doesn't even require a XMS memory manager to be loaded. What solution? This LIMITMEM? Going to give it a try :-) http://lonecrusader.x10host.com/rloew/limitmem.html Yes. ;) He …

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Re: Why people still love XP

Posted on 2021-08-27, 15:13

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I remember stuff that had bare bones 640x480 generic VGA modes, but 800x600 or 1024x768 were supported for specific chipsets only, like Cirrus Logic or S3, that suggests to me that they used accelerated features. Mostly these would have been image editors and photo viewers etc. Yep, non-standard …

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Re: Why people still love XP

Posted on 2021-08-27, 15:01

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You mean, you don't need an OS GUI to run a program that has its own GUI. :) It's true. Most if not all DOS programs that implements GUI doesn't use any kind of acceleration due to lack of proper standardization there on consumer hardware. There's VBE/AF but that one wasn't widely adopted due to …

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Re: Why people still love XP

Posted on 2021-08-27, 13:28

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XP is more then a GUI though. Unlike the early versions of windows it is an actual OS controling your hardware. That's something true since Windows XP it is the first NT-based operating system that most consumers experienced unlike the earlier 9x-based ones which ran on top on a MS-DOS variant. The …

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Re: Is it worth it for me to get a Voodoo card?

Posted on 2021-08-27, 00:08

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There are other options and for a Pentium MMX ....3d acceleration just isn't going to be ideal with ANY card. Most people stating that 3D acceleration is not worth for a Pentium MMX are actually aiming unrealistic expectations. Back then most games aimed around 30 FPS or a bit lower. I find the …

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Re: What happens when your MB doesn't support the K6-2+/3+?

Posted on 2021-08-26, 23:44

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hey're K6-III 450/AHX 2.4v CPUs according to the imprint on the heat spreader. No idea if that's actually accurate given how many incredibly weird counterfeiting operations there are out there in the world for things like this, but the card definitely gets to POST. These CPUs have different …

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Re: Limit DOS RAM memory (XMSDSK / HimemX / JemmEx), DOS RAM size limit

Posted on 2021-08-26, 23:21

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rmay635703 wrote on 2021-08-26, 22:55: I wonder why Mr Loews solution never was mentioned in this multi year thread That solution is the most interesting as it doesn't even require a XMS memory manager to be loaded.

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Re: K6INIT: AMD K6-3/3+/2(CXT) initialization driver for MS-DOS

Posted on 2021-08-26, 14:56

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Nice! I had to use a wrapper in CONFIG.SYS to enable the write combining with K6WCX prior loading an extended memory manager. One thing in K6DOS.SYS that other related utilities doesn't do is setting the write ordering mode for an additional little boost apart from the write combining.

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