Re: Trouble getting Gravis PNP soundcard to work on my 386

Posted on 2024-03-22, 22:06

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by dukeofurl

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I'm totally ok with "not great" Gus SB and opl emulation. As weird as it sounds, this was how I remember the games sounding (exclusively used a Gus Max for years in the 90s) so I'm very interested in getting that opl emulation going. But where the experience differs, is that in the 90s, …

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Re: Trouble getting Gravis PNP soundcard to work on my 386

Posted on 2024-03-22, 16:47

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by dukeofurl

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Will try to reinstall. Previously I grabbed a drivers and utilities pack for the Gus pnp that someone had prepared and was working off that, but I do have the CD, just no CD-ROM drive on the PC I'm installing it to 😄. I did scan the CDs contents previously for it and didn't see it just hanging out …

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Re: Trouble getting Gravis PNP soundcard to work on my 386

Posted on 2024-03-22, 11:17

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by dukeofurl

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Should there be a separate executable for iwsbos in my ultrasound directory? I don't seem to have that. Will try to hunt it down.

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Re: Trouble getting Gravis PNP soundcard to work on my 386

Posted on 2024-03-22, 01:56

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by dukeofurl

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I thought megaem included sbos, which I thought emulated adlib as well as soundblaster? Is there a different program I should run to emulate adlib? I know the Gus gets a bad rap for the result, but it can do it, no?

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Re: Trouble getting Gravis PNP soundcard to work on my 386

Posted on 2024-03-22, 00:48

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Ok! I changed no settings but got some stuff to work. If I run ultramid (not megaem), and I patch all the Epic games with prepgame, then they all work with ultrasound! Yay! Tyrian doesn't seem to be one of the games that prepgame fixes, but it seemed to play music today, too... however I noticed it …

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Re: Trouble getting Gravis PNP soundcard to work on my 386

Posted on 2024-03-20, 12:19

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by dukeofurl

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You mention using a GUS UltraSound previously. Was it a GUS PnP? Or was it a different model of GUS? Not all of them have the same chipset(s) and therefore have different compatibility levels. GUS Extreme is the most compatible since it has an ESS chipset for SB Pro / Adlib compatibility. For Jazz …

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Trouble getting Gravis PNP soundcard to work on my 386

Posted on 2024-03-20, 01:39

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I'm having some trouble getting a Gravis PNP soundcard (one of the popular modern reproductions) working on my 386. I've actually gotten it to work in some rare circumstances, so the card is OK, but its not regularly repeatable. I had a Gravis Ultrasound running on this same pc back in the 90s on a …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-09, 12:14

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by dukeofurl

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Added windows 3.1. I figure w95 might run but wouldnt give me much of any advantages here. The PC is likely too slow to play w95 games. PXL_20240309_043134690.jpg By the way, the PC speaker on this PC is quite loud. I've never heard of such a thing, but I don't suppose there is software that might …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-08, 21:32

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by dukeofurl

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edit: dont enable all of them, just video, system, and the one that matches the xtbios address I did switch these bios settings on today, but ultimately it was the same FPS in 3D bench as without the settings. 15.6FPS looks like the current and probably final max right now, which is certainly a …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-08, 04:03

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Pickle, you are a genius! L2 is enabled now and there's an appx 4-5 fps boost in 3D bench! PXL_20240308_035651100.jpg Ignore the clock speed, I had turned off "turbo" for a second in the bios to see what would happen, and the cpu showed up as considerably slower. PXL_20240308_040137932.jpg Doom is …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-08, 03:51

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by dukeofurl

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This looks promising Filename PXL_20240308_034931665.jpg File size 1.9 MiB Views 532 views File license Public domain

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-08, 03:45

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by dukeofurl

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Pickle wrote on 2024-03-08, 03:08: Also one of your earlier bios shots showed system set to fast which is good, but that is your way to 'turbo' the system to be slower 😀 Wait... you're saying that if I set the system performance in the bios to "slow" it will run faster? 😀

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-08, 02:31

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by dukeofurl

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Motherboard says "SN 901013" on it. I didn't get any relevant hits with a quick google search though. Cache check didn't see the cache when run on default settings. Over in this topic https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=45756 it is said that "The DLC/SXL chips have L1 cache enabled by default, …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-08, 00:14

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by dukeofurl

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Will do some further investigating tonight and tomorrow. The PC has no turbo switch. The motherboard says standard computer corporation in multiple places, I assumed it's their proprietary design but I suppose it could just be branding. I'll look for a serial no or so later, nothing is printed on …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-07, 22:43

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by dukeofurl

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Here's the benchmarks with no particular options tweaked for the 486drx PXL_20240307_215006538.jpg PXL_20240307_220050170.jpg Then I started tweaking some stuff in an alternate cyrix program with the goal of trying to make sure the clock doubler and cache were enabled. I'm not sure whether what I …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-07, 18:04

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-07, 18:02

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by dukeofurl

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Good news! I've been able to use the xtide bios to enable booting from my cf with no particular issues. I'm working on configuring my cyrix 486drx CPU now and realize I don't really know what a chunk of these options mean🤔. Any settings in here that might increase speed? PXL_20240307_175230376.jpg …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-06, 00:34

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by dukeofurl

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Stardate 3/5/24: Jumped the gun a little bit and bought a CD drive to fill the empty drive bay. Only after I bought it did I realize that I'm missing the mounting brackets/caddy to hold a drive! 😅 I must have taken it out when I took out the old CD drive 20+ years ago, that drive was eventually …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-03-01, 01:24

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by dukeofurl

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Pickle (and everyone else in this thread) thank you so much for your help and suggestions. It is making the journey here much less frustrating and more fun and interesting. To satisfy any curiosity, the empty 5.25 bay was a 2x CD-ROM drive that I removed in the late 90s for another project. That …

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Re: Standard Computer Corporation 386/486, attempt to refurbish

Posted on 2024-02-29, 20:55

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by dukeofurl

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Wow xtide looks really interesting. I had no idea something like that existed. I'd give WD overlay a shot but I'm unable to create my own 5.25 floppies right now, and that's what I'm limited to for getting files over to the 386. I'm not readily seeing folks advertising chip provider services. If I …

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