Re: Best inexpensive Windows 98 CD-RW drive

Posted on Yesterday, 21:58

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

+1 for LG IDE CD-RW drives, I have the CED-8120B. The only downside is that in DOS the CD audio works properly with GSCDROM.SYS in DOS. Other than that, it is excellent. Another one that I got decent experience is a the Lite-On LTR-52246S except on the noise department when reading CDs. That can be …

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Re: Ram Expansion for S3 Virge PCI Card

Posted on Yesterday, 14:43

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Video

No, S3 ViRGE doesn't handle non-power of two amounts of VRAM. You need memory chips that allows you to reach 4 MB for 1024x768x24 and 1280x1024x16 screen resolutions.

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Re: Change the number of sound FX channel(s)

Posted on Yesterday, 13:49

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

In windows you goto Device Manager -> sound, video game controller, Select the sound card and change the IRQ from the resources tab Picture below isn't for the soundcard but the screens are exactly the same so you know what your looking for https://images2.imgbox.com/cc/a0/GrbFjFdh_o.png in dos you …

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Re: Change the number of sound FX channel(s)

Posted on Yesterday, 02:14

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

I second what leileilol said. In addition to that, any software using the DOS/4GW extender doesn't support IRQs higher than 7, it isn't just limited to the DMX sound library.

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Re: Dos problems

Posted on Yesterday, 02:03

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by Gmlb256

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Why do you want 7.1 anyway? What's wrong with 6.22? I'm not aware of any major feature improvements. The main reason going for MS-DOS 7.1 is for FAT32 partitions, avoiding the limitation of 8 GB per HDD (and 2 GB per FAT16 partition). Other major features are LFN support thru a VFAT driver such …

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Re: Advice on Voodoo5 replacement: Voodoo3 or GF4 + Glide wrapper ?

Posted on 2024-05-23, 21:07

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ultra wrote on 2024-05-23, 20:37: I'm wondering which wrapper would work best with a GeForce4 Ti? Zeckensack's Glide wrapper.

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Re: Quake GOG music

Posted on 2024-05-23, 16:03

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

I didn't have problems burning BIN/CUE images with ImgBurn. Do you have an audio cable connected between the IDE CD drive and sound card? That's the only way to get CD audio working with DOS applications.

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Re: Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT4/98/2k/Me/XP)

Posted on 2024-05-22, 19:37

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I was reviewing the list of DOS games with 16-bit sound to see what other games might be worth it. I'll have to do some audio comparisons and see how much of a different is noticeable in practice. Audible differences can be noticed on attenuation and volume effects with the 16-bit mixing output. In …

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Re: Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT4/98/2k/Me/XP)

Posted on 2024-05-22, 13:23

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

There are other late DOS games with 16-bit mixing output that doesn't support WSS besides the Crusader series. Some examples: DOS Quake and Build-based games like Duke Nukem 3D.

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Re: Advice on Voodoo5 replacement: Voodoo3 or GF4 + Glide wrapper ?

Posted on 2024-05-22, 13:09

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I mentioned those two limitations since you're coming from the Voodoo5. 16-bit vs 32-bit color depth is more noticeable with gradients and alpha blended stuff. 256x256 texture limitation depend on the game, some of the early ones tend to have 512x512 textures. For Glide games, they are insignificant …

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Re: Hi Everyone from Italy

Posted on 2024-05-21, 16:34

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by Gmlb256

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hello and welcome! I had a Slot 1 AT computer during the late 90s, originally it came with a Mendocino Celeron CPU which I later upgraded it to a PIII-750. 😁 The one in my signature is primarily Slot 1 too, but with tweaks for flexibility reasons.

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Re: Advice on Voodoo5 replacement: Voodoo3 or GF4 + Glide wrapper ?

Posted on 2024-05-21, 14:20

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by Gmlb256

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The most affordable one would be GeForce4 Ti 4200 + Glide wrapper. Windows games using Glide API thru the wrapper won't look the same as what you get with a real 3dfx hardware, but it will work. You also get the advantage of using anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering in older games, hardware T&L …

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Re: What are the DOS games that have problems if you have more than 16MB of RAM installed?

Posted on 2024-05-21, 04:15

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

Pirates! Gold doesn't run properly with more than 16 MB RAM, and that one is notoriously nearly impossible to counter it with RAMdisk drivers unlike any other DOS games with this problem. Heh? I played Pirates Gold recently on my P233MMX with 28MB of RAM (it's 32MB but integrated VGA takes 4MB). I …

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Re: Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT4/98/2k/Me/XP)

Posted on 2024-05-20, 22:58

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I haven't used the Voodoo2 yet and don't know how necessary it is. I might opt to remove that card. It would free up some hardware resources as well. If you use the Voodoo2 with DOS games on your Pentium 4 computer, see if you can get any success with executables that has the Glide API (version …

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Re: Soundblaster 16/32 click noises in DOS (DMA clicking bug?)

Posted on 2024-05-20, 20:06

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah, the AWE64 was an improvement overall aside from the CQM FM synth. That bug on SB16 and AWE32 variants didn't kill them because at the height of their popularity, people played DOS games that used auto-init DMA, which didn't suffer from clicking noises.

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Re: What are the DOS games that have problems if you have more than 16MB of RAM installed?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 16:42

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

Yes. The best one is XMSDSK which is removable when no longer needed.

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Re: Soundblaster 16/32 click noises in DOS (DMA clicking bug?)

Posted on 2024-05-20, 16:32

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Sound

There isn't a way to fix the single-cycle DMA clicking bug on these sound cards, unfortunately. Some of the variants are much worse, where samples tend to drop out on several occasions. If SB16 and AWE support is wanted, consider adding a secondary ISA sound card as a workaround.

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Re: What are the DOS games that have problems if you have more than 16MB of RAM installed?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 16:01

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Software

Pirates! Gold doesn't run properly with more than 16 MB RAM, and that one is notoriously nearly impossible to counter it with RAMdisk drivers unlike any other DOS games with this problem.

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 15:50

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It was called good because those P4 CPUs came with 850/RDRAM while majority of users were still on SDRAM. The boost was considerable and DDR266 was not yet widespread. That's true. Even at the time when Intel released the i820 chipset for Pentium III, it made sense to go for RDRAM (consoles used …

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Re: Voodoo/TNT2/GeForce or Voodoo/GeForce for Windows 9x?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 15:34

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by Gmlb256

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in Marvin \ Video

I still don't know which is better! :) i know voodoo has many proponents, if I was putting together a system for 9x and wanted to do so cheaply with the maximum games 'reach' for the money i'd say tnt2 was just fine (or some cheap later similar card) as to which is better, who knows? its usually …

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