Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-12-28, 14:50

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by Riikcakirds

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There were some unofficial patches for 3.16 or 3.14, to make it running on more chipsets..There was link to download page, where it was described somewhere in Vogons.. Hmm. links from 1# post are mostly dead, so try to use internet Wayback machine with them 2,3 years ago time period. Ver 3.17 did …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-12-27, 23:18

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by Riikcakirds

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There were some unofficial patches for 3.16 or 3.14, to make it running on more chipsets..There was link to download page, where it was described somewhere in Vogons.. Hmm. links from 1# post are mostly dead, so try to use internet Wayback machine with them 2,3 years ago time period. Ver 3.17 did …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-12-26, 00:52

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by Riikcakirds

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Read through the thread and couldn't find an answer. What is the reason why everyone uses SETUPDS version 3.16 and not the later version 3.17.

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Re: Difficult games to get working

Posted on 2020-12-25, 18:19

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by Riikcakirds

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Another difficult game to get running on real hardware, Rolling Ronnie. Again it is not a speed sensitive game, doesn't work on a 386, 486 etc with or without sound set up. With ISA, PCI or AGP video card.

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Re: Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-25, 18:16

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by Riikcakirds

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After trying out more things I've just noticed a strange problem with the card. The card always defaults to IRQ7 and DMA1. I reserved all IRQs in the bios apart from IRQ5 but the card still uses IRQ7, same with DMA. Reserved all apart from DMA 0 but card uses DMA 1. This is with no other expansion …

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Re: Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-22, 15:12

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by Riikcakirds

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The fakes that I have seen look very minimalistic compared to what you have . Does Windows detect anything when the card is installed ? How were you able to retrieve the PCI ID ? So you think the card itself looks legitimate. Windows shows unknown device with a yellow ! mark. This is the same with …

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Re: Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-22, 14:24

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by Riikcakirds

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The fakes that I have seen look very minimalistic compared to what you have . Does Windows detect anything when the card is installed ? How were you able to retrieve the PCI ID ? So you think the card itself looks legitimate. Windows shows unknown device with a yellow ! mark. This is the same with …

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Re: Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-22, 13:58

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by Riikcakirds

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I have now tried this on XP and it can't find the card either. In Dos the SETUPDS utility gives the message "Can't find YAMAHA DS-XG" The PCI ID is 1073 0040

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Re: Difficult games to get working

Posted on 2020-12-21, 16:14

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by Riikcakirds

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Bart Simpson vs the space mutants On a 386, 486 or Pentium, speed doesn't matter, nor dos config or vga card type. Runs up to the copy protection screen, enter code and it black screens and freezes the pc. This is nothing to do with the copy protection because even the wrong code should take you to …

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Trouble with a YMF724E-V

Posted on 2020-12-21, 12:38

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by Riikcakirds

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I bought an old PC midi tower that contained a PCI YMF724E-V soundcard. Trouble is I can't get the card detected in Win98 or WinMe. download/file.php?mode=view&id=98681 Does this card look like a fake chinese model

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Re: GA-586ATS Ignoring jumper settings

Posted on 2020-12-17, 18:38

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by Riikcakirds

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Hello all. I have a socket 7 motherboard GA-586ATS that I use as my "Main" retro machine, getting almost daily use. It originally had a 166mhz mmx but I decided to fit a 200mhz instead. I cannot however get it to run at 200mhz! The problem is that the board considers pins 1-2 closed all of the time …

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Re: GA-586ATS Ignoring jumper settings

Posted on 2020-12-17, 16:54

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by Riikcakirds

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Hello all. I have a socket 7 motherboard GA-586ATS that I use as my "Main" retro machine, getting almost daily use. It originally had a 166mhz mmx but I decided to fit a 200mhz instead. I cannot however get it to run at 200mhz! The problem is that the board considers pins 1-2 closed all of the time …

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Re: Speedsys Wipes Ramdisk (xmsdsk)

Posted on 2020-12-16, 18:51

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by Riikcakirds

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-12-15, 21:22: Any DOS based extended memory test will do the same thing thank you for clearing that up, had no idea it could cause that.

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Speedsys Wipes Ramdisk (xmsdsk)

Posted on 2020-12-15, 15:15

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by Riikcakirds

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Speedsys seems to be used a lot around here to benchmarks older systems. I started using it recently and noticed it wipes out and corrupts the contents of a ramdrive created with the popular Xmsdsk. Create a ramdrive, doesn't matter what size or options you use. Copy any files to it or however you …

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Re: "Bart Vs the Space Mutants" problem

Posted on 2020-12-14, 16:02

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by Riikcakirds

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I've been trying to get this game working, running an original version. It runs from both floppy or HD but then blank screen after typing in the page number for copy protection. It works in dosbox. First game I have that doesn't work on a 486 simply caused the presence of a ISA Sb16. Running with a …

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Re: DOS UDMA

Posted on 2020-12-14, 13:24

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by Riikcakirds

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I have a number of motherboards with a UDMA or ATA selections available in the BIOS and it has an affects DOS performance. Is that what you guys are talking about? No, on every other motherboard I have used, changing the UDMA settings in the Bios has made no difference. In real mode dos without …

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Re: Missing conventional memory

Posted on 2020-12-12, 20:44

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by Riikcakirds

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I have loaded the bios defaults, no change. Also reflashed every version of the bios available, from oldest to newest. I have turned off everything in the BIOS, even the floppy. No mention of 8kb or memory regions. I guess it's just a bit maddening not having the full 640kb. Would be good to know …

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Re: Missing conventional memory

Posted on 2020-12-12, 18:54

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by Riikcakirds

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The board has a slot for cache RAM, right? Is there anything in that slot? The coast slot is empty. My revision of the board has the coast slot but also 2x 128KB pipeline burst cache chips soldered to the motherboard. This picture is the same rev GA-586ATS as my board: https://i.ebayimg.com/images …

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Re: Missing conventional memory

Posted on 2020-12-12, 17:09

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by Riikcakirds

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Hmm, this is strange and I am running out of ideas . Are you running BIOS version 1.32 www.gigabyte.com/au/Motherboard/GA-586ATS/support#support-dl ? Have tried resetting to default in BIOS setup ? The only other thing that I can think of is that your video card's BIOS is using 8KB of RAM below the …

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Re: Missing conventional memory

Posted on 2020-12-11, 22:33

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by Riikcakirds

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Thank you for the info. 2 questions: a) Do you have an ISA or PCI disk controller in that machine ? b) If you create a bootable floppy, copy mem.exe to it and boot from it, do you get the same results? My guess is that you either have a disk overlay you don't know about, a bootsector virus or some …

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