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

Posted on 2024-03-24, 20:01

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Time for a new release, FastDoom 0.9.9! FastDoom 0.9.9 Changelog: Multiple optimizations (C, ASM) and code cleanup Disabled all cheats in Nightmare Removed IDSPIDPOPD cheat (IDCLIP is still available) Fixed snow while setting palette on slow VGA cards (via -fixDAC) Removed -nomonsters and -turbo …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-03-24, 15:39

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dontbugster wrote on 2024-03-24, 15:23: Mine was actually before :p (much less relevant yt channel) […] Show full quote thp wrote on 2024-03-23, 08:35: Media coverage: https://youtu.be/K6-AlpCEqpc Mine was actually before :p (much less relevant yt channel) https://youtu.be/UX9HhDrsq3k?si=Moxiv- …

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Re: Adaptec AHA-1542CP and Floppy

Posted on 2024-03-23, 11:53

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Note that some of those cards might also have FDC but no way to disable it, then you are forced to use that particular controller for floppies and disable 1542CP one. Just a small comment on this. That's exactly the case where the alternative IO port comes in handy. It was not possible to disable …

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Re: Adaptec AHA-1542CP and Floppy

Posted on 2024-03-22, 11:15

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I have a question. No two: 1. is the floppy connector of the 154x only for scsi floppy drives? 2. is there an advantage to use the connector of the scsi instead of the std multi i/o connector? AHA-154x cards have a standard 34 pin floppy connector. One of the advantages is that you can select an …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2024-03-12, 07:45

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I have just bought all the parts and pieces for the discman prd-150 including the sb-dm155 sony sound box and the correct pcmcia card interface for it and also found a oem power adapter from ebay I got the drivers from internet archive to be able to use in a pure dos environment I have went back …

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Re: Open Caddy of IBM THinkpad 370C

Posted on 2024-03-04, 07:40

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Here's the one I use. What can also matter is how you create the partition and make the card bootable. Try doing it from scratch(delete existing partition, create a new one, format/s) on the oldest computer you can. Ideally in pure DOS. IMG_1451.jpg EDIT: I use the same CF/IDE adapter, and the …

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Re: Open Caddy of IBM THinkpad 370C

Posted on 2024-03-02, 07:08

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I think the problem is the CF card. These Thinkpads usually work with drives no bigger than 8Gb iirc, maybe even smaller. So I'd try another card. Mine works with a 2 Gb CF. The brand of the card also matters, it sometimes gets tricky to make them working. Error codes can be found here https:// …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2024-02-27, 16:05

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I've finally made a translation of an old review of the Media Vision card. It was published in the italian magazine MCmicrocomputer n. 154 in September of 1995. Guess it's worth keeping if for historocal purposes. I attach both the original and the translation. The translation is done with google …

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Re: Newly made PCMCIA sound card

Posted on 2024-02-24, 14:20

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Very interested in this as my laptop doesn't have a sound card built in, how's it coming along? All I can say is that the project is moving on. I'm sure it will be released at some point. However, with equal chances it may take a month or a year. I have some updates form Kevin, but he probably …

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Re: SBEMU with protected mode MPU401 UART support

Posted on 2024-01-12, 20:01

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What kind of cables and other hardware is needed to use this with and without SOFTMPU? If anyone could add some photos, I would appreciate it. One needs a 8-pin Mini-DIN to DE9 cable like Hosa DBK-103 which is compatible with Roland, Yamaha and Korg synthesizers. Details of the cable https:// …

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Re: DOS PCMCIA card, socket services software for 2 GB CF card...

Posted on 2024-01-07, 12:34

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Bondi, I have tried to install the drivers for the Phoenix Card Manager 4.02 and Systemsoft Cardsoft 5.30.10 for the Toshiba Tecra 500CDT laptop's PCMCIA card which uses the Toshiba ToPIC95 chipset. I haven't had much luck in getting the Cardsoft 5.30.10 drivers to work and when I tried to do so, I …

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Re: SBEMU with protected mode MPU401 UART support

Posted on 2024-01-04, 12:34

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Cool stuff! Thank you for adding this feature! It's very nice to have an alternative to emulated FM music(which I have no complaints about).

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Re: DOS PCMCIA card, socket services software for 2 GB CF card...

Posted on 2024-01-04, 12:30

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Bondi, I have tried to install the drivers for the Phoenix Card Manager 4.02 and Systemsoft Cardsoft 5.30.10 for the Toshiba Tecra 500CDT laptop's PCMCIA card which uses the Toshiba ToPIC95 chipset. I haven't had much luck in getting the Cardsoft 5.30.10 drivers to work and when I tried to do so, I …

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Re: DOS PCMCIA card, socket services software for 2 GB CF card...

Posted on 2023-12-28, 07:43

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Hey ppgrainbow. There are two main software packages for PCMCIA support, which are Phoenix Card Manager and Systemsoft Cardsoft. However, I'm not sure they support that Toshiba ToPIC95 chip. Worth giving a try the latest versions of both. You can download the softrawe on archive.org in the link in …

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Re: Lesser known Win9x MIDI Softsynths

Posted on 2023-12-21, 08:53

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I recently found Altec Lansing WaveCUBE, which I found as WAVECUBE 40 MIDI Driver It works fine in a Win98 VM. The readme file indicates it could also work in Win 3.1, but I couldn't get it to install. I wonder if it's the same version that I found above. The disk isn't accessible now. Here's the …

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Re: Games with Adlib as an option for sound effects

Posted on 2023-12-19, 09:29

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Jurassic Park you can set up Adlib for SFX and SB/MT32/SC for music. I tried JP, but it unfortunately doesn't actually play PCM sound via Adlib, it uses FM for SFX. If I set SB for SFX it sounds quite differently. A nice game nevertheless. But the character runs very slowly (on a 486 DX50). Is it …

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Re: Link Repository for Vintage PC Driver\Documentation Archives, FTPs, Websites

Posted on 2023-12-10, 11:25

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An archived copy of some german file repository with lots of drivers and old stuff https://web.archive.org/web/20000621143458/ht … ware_index.html

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Re: All Express Book 8088 OPL3 Sound How to?

Posted on 2023-12-08, 19:27

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Hi. It should just work if a program supports it. Try Super Solvers Adventure for example. Ok, but how does an it know? I don't know how ad-lib was originally set up, but for sound blaster, there was a driver that had to be loaded in config.sys and system variables set up in autoexec.bat. I don:t …

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Re: IBM ThinkPad with Nvidia Graphics?

Posted on 2023-11-24, 11:19

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I have a T41 here but it uses ATI 7500 and it's useless and buggy with older games. Drivers seem to be utter rubbish. It's not so much a driver problem (the ATI Catalyst 6.2 works fine in Windows 98), but the early Radeon chips in ThinkPads are very crippled. The 7500 in that system doesn't support …

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Re: IBM ThinkPad with Nvidia Graphics?

Posted on 2023-11-24, 09:21

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The G41 had nVidia as an option. If it's good with Win98se, I don't know. Mine had it's harddrive die on me, before getting do driver install etc. :lol: (mine is not the nVidia version, but Intel Extreme Graphics, though) https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:G41 G41 seems to have official …

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