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Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-09-01, 21:31

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I got mine today and it sounds really good. I tried a whole slew of games with different styles of music (Doom (2), Rise of the Triad, Descent, Theme Hospital, Colonization, UFO: Enemy Unknown, Transport Tycoon, Duke Nukem 3D and SimCity 2000) and I really liked how everything sounds. My ears aren't …

Re: best way to move a Win98 install to different partition?

Posted on 2020-09-01, 15:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For Windows 95, 98 (and probably ME) you don't have to hide the partition, you only have to set its partition to 'active' when you install or boot it. It will then consider that partition as 'C:' and leave the DOS 6.22 files on what will then be 'D:' alone. Because if you keep the DOS partition as …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-09-01, 14:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm a bit puzzled with my Compaq Armada 1750. While running some utilities I noticed that they were reporting the CPU clock speed as 500MHz. Thinking they were wrong I used the Compaq Diagnostics boot disk to check, and it is saying the machine has a Pentium III 500MHz CPU. Windows 2000, too, is …

Re: Starting DOS games freezes the PC

Posted on 2020-09-01, 11:28

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

eXoDOS games are setup to run in DOSBox, and sometimes modified in other ways (e.g. UFO Enemy Unknown is already patched with UFOpatch). But it would be quite the coincidence if all the games that you picked are broken. I happen to know that Rise of the Triad (Dark War) from that collection works on …

Re: Starting DOS games freezes the PC

Posted on 2020-08-29, 19:53

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

To help read the text that flashes on the screen shortly, you could try recording the screen with your phone. It has helped me a few times, for example with EMM386 giving errors and immediately triggering a reboot. Are you trying to run the games from DOS or from Windows? You can try to disable as …

Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-08-29, 19:23

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Why is the "ESS FM Synthesizer" so different from the "FM Synthesis" in DOS? Do they use different hardware? Is the "FM Synthesizer" trying to use wavetable-like effects to emulate MIDI? I'm not 100% sure myself, but I think ESS cards run in "native mode" under Windows when used as a General MIDI …

Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-08-29, 14:38

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Does your card have a built in MIDI synthesizer? If not, do you have a MIDI daughter board or external module? Most sound cards, including most based on the ES1869, only provide the MPU401 MIDI interface but no way of internally converting MIDI instructions to sound. I think it has because in DOS …

Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-08-28, 23:14

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I've had an issue with my ES1869F for a while now and that is MIDI in DOS games when running them under Windows (95 and 98SE). To get music at all I have to select General MIDI (at 330h) instead of "Sound Blaster" like normal, in DOS. But the music sounds completely different then, wrong even. In …

Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-08-27, 11:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finally got a laptop that I'm quite happy with: Compaq Armada 1750. I had one lying around but the IDE controller didn't work and hard drive pins were bent so I couldn't do anything with it, but with a donor system board from an incredibly damaged 1750 (which had plastic debris everywhere inside) …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-26, 19:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What was the benefit of freeze spraying? Was the cooler glued to the chip and would this help to break the bond? I've never had problems with removing GPU coolers before. Just some screws and (usually very dried up) paste that would hold the fan and heatsink in place.

Re: Today is Windows 95's 25th Birthday. Share your memories.

Posted on 2020-08-26, 17:07

in Milliways

in Milliways

If I remember correctly, you could load Windows 95's explorer.exe into Windows 98 using 98lite, I think. I used it for performance back then but I guess you can also use it to simulate that nostalgic feeling 😜

Re: Today is Windows 95's 25th Birthday. Share your memories.

Posted on 2020-08-26, 16:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

My first experience wasn't the greatest. For some reason, we installed it (with floppy disks) on a 386 SX 25MHz which took minutes to boot to Windows 95. Luckily I was already familiar with 'F8' so I could skip all that to get to my games. I can't remember really using it myself except for playing …

Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-08-26, 14:15

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

That's a very reasonable price. I loved the way the demos sounded so I'd like to claim one 😀

Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-25, 10:33

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Thanks! I didn't realize cache could make a 20% difference, that's huge. I might have to reconsider soldering on sockets for cache on this board 😀

Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-25, 10:12

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

FastDOOM 0.6 486, Doom 1.9 Shareware, Demo3 Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4, DX2 @ 66MHz, 1MB L2 Cache, 24MB RAM, 1GB CF HDD, ARGUS Prototype Rev. 02 #0 Cirrus Logic 5428 VLB -> 43,023fps Ati Mach32 VLB -> 42,851fps Those are impressive results. This 486 I'm testing on doesn't have any L2 cache. If you have …

Re: Hassle-free network card for DOS/WfW311?

Posted on 2020-08-24, 13:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, that's right. I think I used these driver disks (this site, Metropoli, is a nice resources of drivers in general)

Re: Building an nt4 dedicated fileshare

Posted on 2020-08-23, 21:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also had trouble with DOS/Win 3.1/Windows 9x and shares but that all had to do with authentication. "Newer" Windowses and Samba (Linux/BSD) don't support older authentication schemes, so if the shares requires that you log in as a certain user they won't work. Globally accessible shares, read only …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-08-23, 21:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did my first component transplant between two Compaq Armada 1750. The system board of the one that looks like new was malfunctioning: IDE controller did not respond to anything (CD-ROM didn't even open) and the tiny Compaq-sized "IDE" pins were also bent out of shape. I found an incredibly damaged …

Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-23, 13:45

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Here are my timedemos for v0.6. I was thinking that my randomly chosen demo (demo3) maybe wasn't the most intensive one, so also tried demos 1 and 2 (Ultimate Doom v1.9). I also took the opportunity to run the game in real mode without any driver TSRs. That's not my default boot mode so I probably …

Re: I found some game saves from 2000 but i need help to find for which game.. some hex help appreciated.

Posted on 2020-08-22, 20:50

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

What games or kind of games did you remember playing back then, ruthan? And for which ones did you already locate your save games? Maybe that will narrow the list down a bit 😀

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