MS-DOS Time-Machine - Hard Drive Options

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53x9wtkNeBc

MS-DOS Time-Machine - CD/DVD Drive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCWU_JN2ZU0

MS-DOS Time-Machine - Graphics Card and Monitor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3y8NPKSTI0

MS-DOS Time-Machine - USB Floppy Emulator / Simulator

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEjjGHv6860

Build Log Part 2: HDD, CD-ROM, Floppy and Graphics Card

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHU_n8D_9VM

ah, that floppy emu will be interesting, thanks for making this!

Files for my next video:

- CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
- CD-ROM drivers
- MOUSE drivers

interesting... a multi-boot tutorial?

Holy Shit you've been busy

keropi wrote:

interesting... a multi-boot tutorial?

Just a template ready to go. Not everyone wants to muck around in the text editor 😀

senrew wrote:

Holy Shit you've been busy

I've gotten quite familiar with PowerDirector and the capture process, so now it doesn't take me long to produce a video.

MS-DOS Time-Machine - Boot Menu, CD-ROM and Mouse Driver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVbue9qYYkE

MS-DOS Time-Machine - Notebook hard drive bay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=filEaqh_1xs

MS-DOS Time-Machine - Microdrives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN24rD2UcrA

Totally Inspired by your video serie!

Beautiful 😀

Another video...

MS-DOS Time-Machine - Installing a PnP Sound Blaster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2TWI1DUg74

I've been following this with great interest as I'm in the finishing stages of building my own setup. Something that may be of interest to you is throttle. At present it doesn't work with the motherboard you're using, but I'm currently working with the developer to see if it's possible to make it happen.

From the homepage;

What it does: Throttle uses your system hardware to modify the clock speed going to your CPU, rather than using software "delay […]
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What it does:
Throttle uses your system hardware to modify the clock speed going to your CPU, rather than using software "delay loops" or HLT instructions to slow your machine down. This method provides very smooth slowdowns without any incompatibilies with software.

Throttle is not a TSR and uses no memory whatsoever.

When running, no program will be able to detect it, nor modify its settings.

Now for the caveats:
Throttle may not be the perfect solution to your speed problem.

In order for throttle to work its magic, it needs to talk directly to the chipset on your motherboard. Only certain chipsets (most chipsets created after 1996 or so) work with throttle.

When testing this on a dual 700MHz P-III-E, I was able to get it functioning like a 40MHz 386DX. Using SlowDOS, I could drop this right down to NEC V30 levels of performance. In the case of throttle, no memory was used, SlowDOS took 1Kb.

The system I'm using to help develop Throttle is using the exact same motherboard that you have in your system, but with a K6-III+ underclocked to 300MHz, 128Mb RAM and an S3 Savage 4 Pro. If he succeeds, then I would strongly recommend giving it a go.

http://www.oldskool.org/pc/throttle/DOS

I don't like Throttle that much. It can cause weird behaviours in games and also gives you joystick drift. This was my first attempt with with a P3, but the S7 platform is so much better suited in every way.

Now for very late / demanding / SVGA games a P3 is the way to go for sure, but not for games that have issues with anything faster than a 386.

With a K6-3+ there is no need for other software. Use the AMD driver to change the multiplier in CONFIG.SYS and disable the caches when needed. On a Pentium you can even disable L1 cache through software, very handy.

Some boards even have a FSB setting in the BIOS. I believe my Iwill board does this. Very convenient.

I don't suppose you could point me to the relevant driver could you? I can't seem to find it. I'll test Throttle some more, but to date it's worked well for me.

The programmer has created a new version that works specifically with the board (ALI are breaking the PCI specification which is stopping a more elegant or chipset specific version). He has warned me that even changing the BIOS could break the program, so naturally he's not happy to release this yet, but his hack has worked well on my machine, bringing it to fast 286 levels with cache disabled.

Mau1wurf1977: have you tried watching these on youtube with 'automatic texting' on ?

I'm having trouble with my home machine, and tried briefly to watch at work, where we have no sound (thin clients), hence my turning on the text.... it is really friggin hillarious what rolls over the screen at ANY given moment.... !!! 🤣 🤣 🤣

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+ The word 'uh' seems to pop up quite a lot, not sure why.

bestemor

That's funny 🤣

coherentbaboon wrote:

I don't suppose you could point me to the relevant driver could you? I can't seem to find it. I'll test Throttle some more, but to date it's worked well for me.

Sure! Find attached k6dos.sys.

Make sure you study the readme file.

After more testing I have decided to go with a Pentium MMX cpu running at 66.6 x 2 = 133.3 MHz.

The non-MMX and K6 is too slow with caches disabled, at least for my liking. Because I use a 16MB memory module, and it seems to be a slow one, performance is quite low to begin with.

On the MMX CPU I get a 3dbench score of:

L1 off L2 off: 11.7
L1 off L2 on: 34.4
L1 on L2 on: 119.9 (3dbench2 or version 1.0c)

For graphics I have settled with a US (NTSC S-Video output) MX 440.

I am now waiting for a new case (which has two 3.5" and four 5.25" external bays) and an updated 3.5" SATA dock.

And in regards to sound after long thinking and testing I have now settled for:

Sound Blaster Pro 2 and MPU401AT.

For me, my games my preferences this is the "best" combination.

Silencing Your CD drive

So your CD drive spins up and down? Watch this video for a quick and easy fix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov86vQ2tY9I&li … gbVqyX&index=18

This video is part of a massive playlist about building and configuring a MS-DOS Time-Machine computer.

Download link for CDBeQuiet!

http://cdbq.dosforum.de/

My MS-DOS Time-Machine thread on VOGONS:

MS-DOS Time-Machine Gaming - Mau1wurf1977's YT Videos

so i can use/play my games from GOG on dos/98 ?