Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 for in windows98 dos prompt

Posted on 2019-02-12, 02:36

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by doaks80

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If you want to play DOS games, and have an ISA slot+audician32....go with that option. The XG softsynth in Win98 is actually quite good. Keep/combine the Audigy2 for pure windows games. Personally I combine an Audigy1+AWE64 on my Win98 rig.

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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 for in windows98 dos prompt

Posted on 2019-02-12, 02:15

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by doaks80

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No, get an Audigy1 or Live.

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Re: Voodoo pass-thru Option #431987

Posted on 2019-02-10, 12:06

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by doaks80

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Are M/F vga cables exactly rare? I bought a number off eBay a while back, and they work well. Although only one end has screws.

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Re: AMD Athlon system with very rare 1GHz Thunderbird Slot A CPU!

Posted on 2019-02-09, 11:48

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by doaks80

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Damn...wish I knew about them before I sinked up my V5...not cheap but I guess they are worth it.

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Re: AMD Athlon Slot A system with very rare 1GHz Thunderbird CPU!

Posted on 2019-02-09, 10:28

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by doaks80

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What on earth is the heatsink behind the voodoo core? Small copper heatsink for the backside of the VSA-100 chip, fit 100%. Better cooling and longer life. The card also works fine with 183MHz, higher not tested and I do not want to do it. Yeah i get that, i do the same thing....i mean the long …

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Re: AMD Athlon Slot A system with very rare 1GHz Thunderbird CPU!

Posted on 2019-02-09, 09:42

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by doaks80

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What on earth is the heatsink behind the voodoo core?

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Re: Bought a faulty V2

Posted on 2019-02-09, 09:28

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by doaks80

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A quick update, the dispute on ebay has been decided on my favour, the seller has 5 days to give me the label to return the item, otherwise ebay will fill a complete refund. Be careful, i got scammed hard by ebay once....seller refuses to provide return label, scamBay then asks me to send at my …

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Re: Recreating MaximumPC's Dream Machine 2000 (Plus!)

Posted on 2019-02-09, 05:36

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by doaks80

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I never knew p3 came with RDRAM. Thought it came in with the p4. And you're never going to use all those burners 😉

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Re: Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-07, 08:52

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by doaks80

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Interestingly Terra Nova worked fine on my DOS6/SS7 machine...with a much older graphics card that seemed to work well with UniVBE. The game has native support for AWE32 and the music sounded pretty darn good. This was an install from a CD burned from an image included in the GOG install.

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Re: Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-06, 18:28

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by doaks80

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Sorry the AWE64 initialized fine - tested with Doom2 and all OK. The problem with Terra Nova was something to do with graphics modes...it asks to build a UniVBE driver but with/without it the screen doesn't render and I need to reboot. And I was running CTCM instead of diagnose and also AWEUTIL /EM: …

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Re: Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-06, 11:28

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by doaks80

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So I hacked phils msdos starter pack to have a windows section, and added in CTCM to the DOS section. I copied ctpnp.cfg to another directory, changed the irq/dma/port to what I wanted, and then ran ctcm on startup and it seemed to work and tested. The game I was trying to run, Terra Nova, still had …

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Re: Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-06, 07:58

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by doaks80

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I sometimes wonder wats the difference between software configurable IRQ/DMA (diagnose.exe) and ISA PNP (ctcm.exe) - the both run a program that reads settings from a file/env and instruct the card what settings to use. So what's the difference really?

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Re: CF to IDE compatibility

Posted on 2019-02-06, 07:21

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by doaks80

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I use a SD card in a standard CF/SD adapter inside a CF/IDE adapter and it's extremely fast, and cheaper than a bunch of real CF cards. Better than a SD/IDE adapter as none of them plug directly into the ide port without a cable. Also SD/CF adapters are very mature amd reliable devices from the …

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Re: Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-06, 07:17

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by doaks80

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Thanks.

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Re: Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-06, 01:57

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by doaks80

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OK - so autoexec multiboot will kick in before Win98? Thats nice...so if I leave the default option to extended memory only that will be fine for Win98. And I can select the EMM/ctmouse/ctcm option for pure DOS. And it is an AWE64 in my Win98 not an AWE32 - so in the DOS menu option, I will just run …

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Re: Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-05, 19:25

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by doaks80

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Recently I have no Mouth but Must Scream. It doesn't like windows, but when I reboot in MSDOS7 mode the mouse doesn't work and there is no music (AWE64). I then tried it another another pure DOS6 system with a properly configured autoexec/config.sys and an AWE32 and it worked. Basically I would like …

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Autoexec.bat/config.sys under Windows 98

Posted on 2019-02-05, 02:30

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by doaks80

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What exactly is the connection? Do they only apply to pure DOS7 mode and VDMs? Or will stuff in there load with and affect Win98 itself? I want to add things like ctmouse and ctcm/ctcu because I have a game that won't run in a DOS window but not sure if it will mess up Win98 as well...

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Re: System constantly forgetting I have a Voodoo2 installed

Posted on 2019-02-03, 04:50

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by doaks80

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Put the voodoo5 out of sight, the system is obviously getting distracted.

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Re: SB AWE64 MIDI player not working ?

Posted on 2019-02-02, 09:52

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by doaks80

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Midi in dos window or native win95? What happens when you load awe control panel? Can you load soundfonts?

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2019-01-27, 09:57

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by doaks80

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A little toggle on the top of this card that switches between port 300/330 would have been very useful. You can connect a simple switch to the jumper header on the card, so it should be very easy to make your own. You could even connect it to the turbo switch on your case for example. Good idea, I …

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