Re: AMR slot can I add one?
Posted on Today, 03:37
Not worth the effort to add these slots, it was only used on dial-up modems in practice.
Re: Midi emulation crashes on AWE32
Posted on Today, 03:30
Hello. Are you running protected mode games? If so, AWEUTIL's MPU-401 emulation won't work with these out of the box. At least there is DOS32AWE which can be used as a workaround for games using the DOS/4GW extender. Another workaround is to run them within Windows 95/98 if you have it installed on …
Re: I found a 775 to 478 adapter
Posted on Today, 01:22
Despite the lack of practical uses, that's an interesting and unusual adapter to see.
Re: The King has left the Building.
Posted on Today, 01:17
The improvements in the Pentium were the UV pipeline and faster FPU, it didn't have a dramatic impact for consumers because nearly all software back then didn't take advantage of these. Quake (the original DOS release) was the first game properly optimized for that CPU.
Re: Best inexpensive Windows 98 CD-RW drive
Posted on 2024-05-24, 21:58
+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 …
Re: Ram Expansion for S3 Virge PCI Card
Posted on 2024-05-24, 14:43
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.
Re: Change the number of sound FX channel(s)
Posted on 2024-05-24, 13:49
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 …
Re: Change the number of sound FX channel(s)
Posted on 2024-05-24, 02:14
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.
Re: Dos problems
Posted on 2024-05-24, 02:03
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 …
Re: Advice on Voodoo5 replacement: Voodoo3 or GF4 + Glide wrapper ?
Posted on 2024-05-23, 21:07
ultra wrote on 2024-05-23, 20:37: I'm wondering which wrapper would work best with a GeForce4 Ti? Zeckensack's Glide wrapper.
Re: Quake GOG music
Posted on 2024-05-23, 16:03
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.
Re: Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT4/98/2k/Me/XP)
Posted on 2024-05-22, 19:37
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 …
Re: Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT4/98/2k/Me/XP)
Posted on 2024-05-22, 13:23
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.
Re: Advice on Voodoo5 replacement: Voodoo3 or GF4 + Glide wrapper ?
Posted on 2024-05-22, 13:09
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 …
Re: Hi Everyone from Italy
Posted on 2024-05-21, 16:34
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.
Re: Advice on Voodoo5 replacement: Voodoo3 or GF4 + Glide wrapper ?
Posted on 2024-05-21, 14:20
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 …
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
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 …
Re: Pentium 4 Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT4/98/2k/Me/XP)
Posted on 2024-05-20, 22:58
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 …
Re: Soundblaster 16/32 click noises in DOS (DMA clicking bug?)
Posted on 2024-05-20, 20:06
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.
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
Yes. The best one is XMSDSK which is removable when no longer needed.
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