Re: Which Socket 7 motherboard to keep and which CPU?

Posted on 2022-12-10, 17:23

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Between these two CPUs, the Pentium MMX is the most flexible. It has the TR12 registers which SetMul can use to provide additional ways to slow down the computer. As for the motherboard, keep the Gigabyte as majestyk said. Jan has a modded BIOS that improves UDMA compatibility and allows support for …

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Re: How to update ASUS P2B (PCB 1.12)

Posted on 2022-12-10, 15:47

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ASUS still has these BIOSes (click "Show All" to see the rest) on their website. It also has the Aflash BIOS tool.

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Re: Intel Ark drops native Direct3D 9 support.

Posted on 2022-12-08, 17:38

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by Gmlb256

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in Milliways

Is old OpenGL 1.0 still working? and driver updates can affect it directly. So how is it now? AFAIK, nVidia and AMD cards still has the legacy functions when using the compatibility profile (older programs use it by default) in OpenGL. Haven't checked if the recent Intel's OpenGL ICD still has that …

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Re: Intel Ark drops native Direct3D 9 support.

Posted on 2022-12-08, 15:04

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by Gmlb256

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in Milliways

Is old OpenGL 1.0 still working? OpenGL doesn't work like D3D. In OpenGL, each ICD (including the shader compiler and T&L routines) is done entirely by the hardware vendor and driver updates can affect it directly. In D3D, vendors only provide the DDI and the DX libraries takes care of the rest. …

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Re: Some games' FM (MIDI) music sound noticeably different between SB Pro and 16...

Posted on 2022-12-08, 00:51

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by Gmlb256

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I think that the OP may have selected the original SBPro in those games in question. That one has a dual OPL2 chip configuration and whose routines for stereo separation aren't compatible with a single OPL3 chip which will output mono on both left and right speakers.

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Re: Mod Master XT 1.0 Released : Play .MOD, .XM and .VGM on a 8088 4MHz

Posted on 2022-12-06, 16:16

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

FreddyV wrote on 2022-12-06, 15:35: I think that ESS is not SB16 compatible, so 16Bit is nto possible. While it is not SB16-compatible, it is still possible to add 16-bit mixing in DOS for WSS-compatible and ESS AudioDrive sound cards. MPXPLAY, Impulse Tracker and some DOS games actually support …

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Re: PCI vs PCIe Interface for WinXP Sound Card?

Posted on 2022-12-05, 17:20

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

Jaron wrote on 2022-12-05, 17:07: Gmlb256 wrote on 2022-12-05, 16:51: None of the SB X-Fi models ever had a gameport. The early PCI ones did. Nope. The pins aren't compatibles even if it resembles one.

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Re: PCI vs PCIe Interface for WinXP Sound Card?

Posted on 2022-12-05, 16:51

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

PCI vs PCIe doesn't matter when loading any SoundFont onto the SB X-Fi, I used to have the PCIe version and there was no noticeable difference on that regard. As Joseph_Joestar said, USB joysticks and gamepads are more suitable for Windows XP and later unless you want to use legacy devices. Same …

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Re: Table Fog & 8-bit Paletted Textures

Posted on 2022-12-05, 12:27

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Video

I thought that people were aware of this considering that the visual difference with the skybox in Quake 2 was easy to tell when toggling the "8-bit textures" setting, but it seems that it isn't the case. 😐 Regardless, those screenshots from the first level clearly displays the difference.

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Re: Windows 9x supported disk size

Posted on 2022-12-05, 05:01

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For Windows 95, only OSR2 and later supports FAT32 partitions. Prior to this, only FAT partitions were supported like older standalone MS-DOS versions.

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

Posted on 2022-12-04, 20:35

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by Gmlb256

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Older Himem.sys versions from before DOS 7.x had a 16MB or 64MB limit, I vaguely remember. Yep, I didn't forgot about that. ;) Depending on the situation they can be used on newer versions of DOS. Very useful quick and dirty solution, but certain older versions consumed more conventional memory …

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

Posted on 2022-12-04, 15:55

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by Gmlb256

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in DOS

Himem.sys of DOS 6.x has a switch to reserve RAM for BIOS interrupt 15 hex. It's /INT15= . It is also included with later versions that comes with Windows 9x and it isn't really useful when it comes to limiting the amount of available XMS memory. The maximum value allowed is 65535 in KB and using …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-03, 17:56

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Most would rather get the Glitch Works RTC replacement module instead so they could use a coin battery and making replacement easy in the long term. Most would rather mod original Dallas chip retaining original motherboard look, as well choosing the most economical and ecological solution. 🤷 Well, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-03, 14:55

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I ordered a Dallas clock chip replacement for use on a socket 7 board I have with a dead rtc battery. Where did you source it from? Likely from eBay, which there are sellers that sells "newer" Dallas RTC batteries. These still works on Socket 7 motherboards that uses the RTC chip. Most would …

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Re: Slowing down dos games on a Dell XPS t450

Posted on 2022-12-03, 05:27

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

Disabling the L1 cache on that PIII CPU will make it way too slow except for very early 90s games. Nevertheless, look for SetMul which can disable both L1 and L2 caches without having to enter the BIOS setup. Another option is Throttle , which isn't frequently mentioned but uses ACPI throttling …

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Re: How to get a PCI Ethernet Card that Windows won't detect working

Posted on 2022-12-02, 15:05

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Issue solved but now windows wants to tell me on startup that I am missing a bunch of .vxd files that I don't need. How do I get rid of this? Thanks! This sometimes happens when installing the drivers for the NIC. Reinstalling "Client for Microsoft Network" usually fixes that. One thing to be aware …

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Re: Can't install Alien Trilogy

Posted on 2022-12-02, 12:33

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

So far, unfortunately, no. 🙁 I believe that the hi-color mode uses 15bpp which nVidia cards never supported.

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Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2022-12-01, 23:15

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

It's easy to see why georgel became frustrated. He made this tool and helped others get it working, but when he asked for something in return (upload missing AWEUTIL version, or that sound font CD) he was ghosted. There was absolutely no need to gang up on him for reacting a bit grouchy. Problem …

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Re: Can't install Alien Trilogy

Posted on 2022-12-01, 23:10

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

:thinking: Try the patch 2.0 of Alien Trilogy: https://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/298/7/19303 Check the README file, which has the following information: Fixes. ------ This patch fixes many problems including incompatibilities with the following video cards: Matrox Mystique Matrox Millenium …

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Re: Can't install Alien Trilogy

Posted on 2022-12-01, 22:21

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by Gmlb256

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:thinking: Try the patch 2.0 of Alien Trilogy: https://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/298/7/19303 Check the README file, which has the following information: Fixes. ------ This patch fixes many problems including incompatibilities with the following video cards: Matrox Mystique Matrox Millenium Cirrus …

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