Re: Intel S5 - doesn't keep cmos setup

Posted on 2021-07-03, 13:33

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by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember this being a common problem on Intel's own Socket 5 motherboards. Zappa, Zappa/E and Morrison boards. All the boards use the PC87306 Super I/O chip. The CMOS will not save settings and won't keep time with power off. It isn't a bios issue because I remeber flashing various MR-BIOS …

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2021-06-23, 14:16

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Video

Brand is Inno3D 256MB PCI-Express. https://www.cdrinfo.com/d7/content/inno3d-7900gs?page=1 https://www.cnet.com/products/inno3d-geforce-7900-gs-graphics-card-gf-7900-gs-256-mb-series/ Not had any problems with this card running any Dos games so far and it has VBE3. ATI/AMD apparently never made …

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2021-06-22, 18:37

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Video

I have been using a GF 7900GS @100hz in pure DOS since 2007 with UniRefresh. Dos svga vesa games at default @60hz is screen flicker headache inducing hell, especially on larger crts. DVI will output 60-72hz but could also be changed if panel supports it eg 144hz. This is just with the factory …

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2021-06-20, 23:46

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Video

thx guys I couldn't find any threads discussing the GF7 in depth, and I searched for quite a while. I want to use one of the cards with PCIe-AGP bridge chip, if i can get ahold of one. Somewhat odd follow up questions - has anyone ever tried using a GF7 under pure DOS? Does it support VESA modes, …

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Re: Street Racer (DOS, 1997) problems with included UniVBE and CD audio

Posted on 2021-06-10, 15:30

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Software

I ran across this problem with the game 'D'. The game had a built in version of univbe 5.3 that was too old to detect my GF4 that had a vbe3 bios. The way to fix it was using a utilty from Rob muller called univdrv. It contains modified versions of univbe.drv that you copy to the right directory of …

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Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)

Posted on 2021-06-10, 15:06

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Software

Posting to second this. The SB Live's soundfont support on the emulated MIDI device for late protected mode games makes it a very good fit for Duke3D and Doom. :) I think it's quite likely that it's the main reason the SB16 DOS emulator exists. Do you mean soundfont support in real dos or win9x dos …

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Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)

Posted on 2021-06-05, 17:55

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Software

This is not true. The SB Live's SB16 + Midi emulation can work with protected mode games. Doom, Descent, Duke 3D and other games on Build engine, Warcraft 2 etc. are all protected mode games using DOS extenders and work without problem with SB Live. Posting to second this. The SB Live's soundfont …

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IBM hobbled intel motherboard

Posted on 2021-05-17, 19:38

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trying to help a friend who has a IBM PC-350 computer. I took the motherboard out of the case and noticed IBM have modified it in with jump wires. Motherboard is an OEM Intel Advanced/MN Morrison, using 430FX chipset (socket 5). It has blue jump wire between ALS245a connected to a vias close to the …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-05-17, 17:58

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Software

I've gone through this thread and the mr-bios user manual (133 pages) for v3.30, can't find what the maximum Hard drive limits supported are. Does mr-bios support drives > 128GB in the latest version (I believe version 3.46 the latest?).

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Force TSR to load in Conventional Memory

Posted on 2021-04-04, 13:32

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Software

A soundcard tsr I use automatically loads itself in upper memory(no other options given), which crashes some games. I found loading it in conventional memory fixes this but the only way I can do this is by disabling all UMB which greatly decreases memory available. Is there a way to force a Dos TSR …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2021-03-26, 18:28

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by Riikcakirds

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Games using Adlib sound.com The Cardinal of the Kremlin (1990)(IntraCorp) Si Chuan (1990)(Soft-World) Questmaster I- The prism (1989)(Miles Computing) Majung Academy (1990)(Soft-World International) NY Warriors (1991)(Arcadia Systems) Tilt (1991)(Genias) Balance (1993)(Kingsoft) Dynatech (1992)( …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2021-03-11, 18:43

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by Riikcakirds

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Arnie 2 (1993) Celery Software - CT-VOICE.DRV v1.15 (ver hex 0F 01) Fields of Glory (1993) MicroProse Monopoly (1993) Supervision Entertainment Ltd. PC Fútbol (1993) Dinamic Multimedia, S.A. Whale's Voyage (1993) Flair Software Ltd Dreadnoughts (1992) Turcan Research Systems Limited Olimpiadas 92: …

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Re: FIC 486-PVT Ram issue

Posted on 2021-03-04, 16:47

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you have any fpm ram instead of edo. I would try an ISA Diagnostic POST Card (with 4-Digit display) too just in case their is another problem at post. You can get them for 3-4$ on that auction site. Does the vga output at all on an ISA video card.

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Re: Win98SE, DOS, Terabyte Plus

Posted on 2021-03-04, 16:25

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I installed rloew's overlay and it allows fdisk to see the drive, but only up to so many gigs. I am trying to figure out how to use his other files to try to get the full 1tb. I've been using a 2TB drive for win98/ME since 2018, drive is 82% full, mainly ISO files of games I own over the years and …

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Re: Win98SE, DOS, Terabyte Plus

Posted on 2021-03-03, 16:54

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by Riikcakirds

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I installed rloew's overlay and it allows fdisk to see the drive, but only up to so many gigs. I am trying to figure out how to use his other files to try to get the full 1tb. I've been using a 2TB drive for win98/ME since 2018, drive is 82% full, mainly ISO files of games I own over the years and …

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Re: Difficult games to get working

Posted on 2021-02-11, 19:10

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Software

Should be a thread about what mouse drivers break games, probably hundreds of games. Another example The Simpsons: Bart's House of Weirdness 1991. This game works with Ctmouse 1.9 and newer. Microsoft mouse ver 9, 10 and 11, which I always thought was the most compatible standard, breaks the game , …

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16Bit Color Dos Games

Posted on 2021-01-19, 01:31

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Software

PLaying a lot of late Dos SVGA games recently and it seems most games used 8bit/256 color modes. like Heretic 2, Descent 2, quake, grand-prix 2, etc only 256 colors. Duke3d played at 1600x1200 also limited to 8bit/256 colors . So did Dos games start using 16bit? Is there a list of dos games that …

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Re: YMF744+DSDMA+DOS+P965(and other PCIe chipsets)=success

Posted on 2021-01-06, 00:34

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Sound

The steps were run setupds /s then dsdma and then set blaster a220 i5 d1 h1 t4 p330. I don't think you need H1 for this card. YMF7x4 cards don't use High DMA and neither did Creative's Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 (T4) which they emulate. By declaring it manually in the BLASTER variable you might actually …

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Re: YMF744+DSDMA+DOS+P965(and other PCIe chipsets)=success

Posted on 2021-01-05, 01:00

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Sound

After some more tinkering I have sound working. I had to use the same IRQ 5 for both pci AND sound blaster emulation, also changed the card to the 2nd of two PCI slots. After this I re-enabled most bios options, usb mouse/keyboard emulation, etc and everything still works. The other error was with …

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Re: YMF744+DSDMA+DOS+P965=success

Posted on 2021-01-01, 01:12

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by Riikcakirds

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in Marvin \ Sound

Tried another P965 board with succsess, the Asus P5B. Also reserved IRQ5 in the BIOS. First I installed the YMF744 in PCI slot 3. With 4GB of RAM SETUPDS refused to load complaning about too little free memory. Then I reduced the RAM to 1GB and SETUPDS loaded, but DSDMA didn't load. Loading DSDMA …

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