Re: FoxPro 2.0 for DOS
Posted on 2008-08-26, 21:06
could this be a Y2K problem? Kinda doubt it, but who knows.... It sure sounds like a very picky app. I'm not sure what to suggest other than an even more thorough emulator such as Bochs perhaps.
Re: Recommend a MIDI soft synth
Posted on 2008-08-25, 18:53
There's also the nifty S-YXG100 (Sondius) for Win9x. It's hard to find though. http://www.sonicspot.com/sondiusxg/sondiusxg.html S-YXG100 Sondius XG SoftwareSynthesizer combines the S-YXG50 software XG engine with the SVA physical modeling techniques used by Yamaha's VL1, VL7 and VL70m tone …
Re: Compiling for an EeePC (Celeron M) : Results
Posted on 2008-08-25, 18:41
well you'll just have to try to figure out how to build it on there. 😀
Re: RMAA of soundblaster family
Posted on 2008-08-25, 18:39
Very interesting. Honestly, those results are better than I would expect. SB16 and the AWE cards are really the worst sound outputs I've heard. Especially compared to the Soundscape cards, SBLive! and Vortex cards I have. :) you need to dig up a AWE64 Gold and test it. It supposedly uses a better …
Re: Smartdrv.exe Alternatives
Posted on 2008-08-25, 18:30
Does DMA really benefit DOS at all? I can understand that it might if you have a UDMA controller, a fast HDD, and a fast sys. I don't know if the UDMA controller itself will configure for the proper UDMA speed. So maybe it gets you out of PIO4 (16MB/s) and up to UDMA xxx? However, it seems to me …
Re: Slow video performance
Posted on 2008-08-25, 18:28
nice work there, eh.
Re: Compiling for an EeePC (Celeron M) : Results
Posted on 2008-08-22, 21:07
I've found that my Athlon 64 3000+ in my big notebook is a little over 2x faster than this EeePC at 1000 MHz. Going by a Quake timedemo. With the same compile optimized for a Pentium M 🤣. Poor little Dothan CPU misses its 2MB cache I think. The A64 is an old Clawhammer with 1MB L2 @ 1800MHz.
Re: FoxPro 2.0 for DOS
Posted on 2008-08-22, 19:16
What about trying MS Virtual PC, Bochs, or VirtualBox?
Re: Compiling for an EeePC (Celeron M) : Results
Posted on 2008-08-22, 19:07
Actually, on the Eee900 it starts at 900 MHz. There is an option in the BIOS for "power save mode" which puts it at 630 MHz and undervolts everything. On "performance" mode, it starts at 900 Mhz and I've found that it'll do 1000 MHz fine. On power save, it can only handle 750 MHz oc.
Re: Smartdrv.exe Alternatives
Posted on 2008-08-22, 19:04
Disk caching makes a huge difference in DOS regardless of how fast the drive is. I've always used Smartdrv because it's probably going to be the most compatible option. Disk caching will cause problems with some apps and drivers though. For example, the DOS driver that comes with Ensoniq AudioPCI …
Re: Best/Fastest ISA GFX Card?
Posted on 2008-08-22, 18:56
You'd probably be pretty well off with a Cirrus Logic ISA card. ISA is so slow that there just isn't much that can be done. Unless you definitely want GUI acceleration, but ISA cards are not what you want if you desire that.
Re: Nominations for the best all-rounder graphics card for a 486
Posted on 2008-08-21, 19:27
I used to have a Herc Dynamite Power VLB. Excellent card. Was superior for DOS compared to a more expensive #9 Motion 771 (S3 968) I got later on. I was hunting for VLB vid cards in 1996 cuz I was a poor kid. Ebay got me these things for ~$40. :) I had a friend with a crap Trident 9400CXi VLB that …
Re: Best/Fastest ISA GFX Card?
Posted on 2008-08-21, 19:21
I "upgraded" from a Trident 8900C ISA to a Diamond Speedstar Pro ISA (CL GD5426) back in the day and saw a major performance jump. Anyway, here is an article from an ancient CGW that will do the trick hopefully. http://thumbnails2.imagebam.com/344/ca8a353434351.gif (links to a gallery at imagebam)
Re: S3 graphics card recommendation for DOS please
Posted on 2008-08-20, 18:59
ViRGE is VBE 1.2 too. There is UNIVBE and the S3VBE TSR to use though. Even without VESA 2.0, they are still more compatible than plenty of cards with 2.0 and 3.0.
Re: Slow video performance
Posted on 2008-08-20, 18:58
COAST they were called. Cache On A STick. 😀
Re: Windows 98SE and Large Hard Drives
Posted on 2008-08-20, 18:57
I made a 180 GB FAT32 partition for 98 to read. :) I have a 200 GB drive on a Pentium Pro (VS440FX) mobo. 20GB for 98 partition, ~180GB for CD ISO storage (I hate using the actual CDs.) Works fine. I used a Promise Ultra 66 and Partition Magic to get the partitions made and then switched to the old …
Re: Best AudioPCI card?
Posted on 2008-08-20, 18:52
Did they just tell you to buzz off with your unrecognized card? Or did nasty things happen?
Re: Compiling for an EeePC (Celeron M) : Results
Posted on 2008-08-20, 18:44
Yeah that's what I'm seeing. The only time compiler options that made a tangible improvement were O2 + profile guided optimization + omitted frame pointer with GCC 3.4.5 and DOSBOX 0.72. That gave me a small improvement of about 5% over the 0.72 compile on the DOSBOX site. Everything else, even …
Re: Compiling for an EeePC (Celeron M) : Results
Posted on 2008-08-19, 18:54
Yeah I did some file compares and rigged up a 0.72 with some fixed CPP files with the added includes. It worked. The compiler was warning about some sort of typedef mis-use too but it didn't seem to cause anything to fail. GCC 4.3.1 won't make me a faster EXE though. I tried lots of stuff. Used the …
Re: Fastest 2D ISA, VLB, PCI, and AGP graphics chipsets?
Posted on 2008-08-19, 18:48
NVIDIA's chips from TNT onward usually run DOS games pretty well from both the speed and compatibility angles. They are actually very fast DOS cards. Maybe the fastest. I ran a whole slew of different cards in a P3-600 months ago and found the these NV cards to work almost as well as the S3 cards …
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