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Re: SOYO 4SAW Mod BIOS

Posted on 2024-04-18, 09:54

I know it works on mine 🤭 4SAW2 (or is there a version marker I'm overlooking?) It's based on version WA53, but I might base it on WA911 at some point because computerguy and I figured out why that one doesn't boot with VLB cards

SOYO 4SAW Mod BIOS

Posted on 2024-04-18, 03:04

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, I've made a BIOS mod for the SOYO 4SAW. It adds lots of setup options and pushes this board to what it's capable of (I was able to go from 1340 to 1250 realtics in DOOM with it). Get it here: https://github.com/oerg866/TRW-BiosMods/tree/main/SOYO_4SAW There are also lots of scripts in there …

Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2024-04-08, 10:58

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, it's me again. Has anyone had issues with the PS/2 mouse (with this modification) not working in Windows 98 but working without issues in DOS?

Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2024-03-27, 06:47

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The BIOS modification for the PW4 is now available on TheRetroWeb: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/abit-ab-pw4#bios Includes other nice features such as proper AMD 5x86 support 😀

Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2024-03-25, 05:21

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/965548579001360414/1221677096867205191/image.png?ex=66137275&is=6600fd75&hm=e2b3119015ac25f2abb336a0cb890472a14845c100301c993f57aca7a862ea88& https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/965548579001360414/1221675913272627270/image.png?ex=6613715b&is=6600fc5b&hm= …

Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2024-03-24, 06:29

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can probably locate a BIOS from another motherboard which is based on the same chipset as yours and use it instead. Slight problem: The PW4 is one of two known motherboards to use the Winbond Symphony Wagner chipset, the other one being a DataExpert LPX board for which there is no BIOS dump 😁

Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2024-03-23, 21:43

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've found a BIOS that has it and I've also checked the leaked AWARD source code, confirming my suspicion: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/965548579001360414/1221212811003170836/image.png?ex=6611c20f&is=65ff4d0f&hm=e76bcccd96dcb52c7f466ed5d20162bddba32bd2db023557d1218fdc3b605cfe& The BIOS was …

Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2024-03-23, 20:40

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've thrown the BIOS in IDA and I think I found the int15h handler for it, and part of it looks like this: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/965548579001360414/1221183772792459334/image.png?ex=6611a703&is=65ff3203&hm=6604330d11c3defc8d3eb00201da95466eb559c55228b391fa051668b3e14bec& It has the …

Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2024-03-23, 18:23

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not sure what you're referring to -- a bit in the CMOS memory or what do you mean?

Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2024-03-23, 17:51

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting developments: * Built another mod pcb with a MEGAKEY2. * Same symptom. * Tried this PCB on antoher board (SOYO 025L) + DX4-100 * Without BIOS mod + PS2SUPPC: Can't find mouse and hangs afterwards * Without BIOS mod + PS2SUPPC + slowed down CPU (no cache) : PS/2 support enabled, CTMouse …

Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

Posted on 2024-03-23, 02:23

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, I'm trying this as well, I built the interposer as per maxtherabbit's design. * Motherboard is an ABIT PW4 with the Winbond Symphony Wagner chipset * Original KBC is a Winbond 83C42. * I replaced the KBC with a HT6542 from a dead board * I have wired up IRQ12 to the ISA slot * I have used …

Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2024-01-29, 17:47

by Oerg866

in Release Announcements

Here someone claims to have fixed some bugs and made ethersrv more portable: https://gitlab.com/mortmann/etherdfs https://gitlab.com/mortmann/ethersrv Seems like creating merge requests seems to be considered old-fashioned nowerdays, unfortunately. It's severely inconvenient when we're used to the …

Re: Easier way to install Win 9x ??

Posted on 2024-01-23, 14:04

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, this is a solved problem and has been for a while. Check this out: https://github.com/oerg866/win98-quickinstall DM me for links to reference images.

Re: win32s-compatible (win3.1) Putty 0.76 port

Posted on 2023-12-10, 21:15

by Oerg866

in Release Announcements

this is severely underrated and a most excellent piece of software. thank you for your efforts!

Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2023-10-31, 09:29

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Has it ever occurred to you that you *are* one? I have to rethink my using your website as my first "go to" if you cannot update your info AND this board should have been on updated your website long ago... sigh And to think you all asked us other members here for help as you built the website... …

Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2023-10-31, 00:26

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I absolutely love The Retro Web. I use it almost daily. I've also submitted ROM dumps. That said, I agree with the criticisms that the project operates as a black box. Doing submissions through Discord is bonkers. It's possible to love and respect something, yet have criticisms about it. I wouldn't …

Re: [CLOSED] The Retro Web submissions thread: suggest edits and/or add new boards here

Posted on 2023-10-28, 11:42

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The TRW staff are always happy about contributions and corrections. However you must know, we all have day jobs and private lives. We work for nothing, and yet we added over 3000 boards in the last few months regardless. People like evasive are practically working nonstop of going through tons and …

Re: The Retro Web submissions thread: suggest edits and/or add new boards here

Posted on 2023-10-28, 09:21

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So what happened to "theretroweb" in last few months? If one looks at a https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/fic-va-503 it is missing most of the important info (cpu clock speed only 50 and 66 when we know it does way more than that) and cpu's ?? Just read any of the manuals linked. I have to …

Re: Need a bios file for a Geforce 4 Ti4200 8x AGP card

Posted on 2023-10-12, 03:25

by Oerg866

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://whitebunny.net/* Here's a fairly complete crawl of the old whitebunny website with a lot of the BIOS files intact. Somebody should probably crawl that.

Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2023-08-14, 05:29

by Oerg866

in Release Announcements

Might also be interesting to look at how other projects solve this issue (DOSBOX, DOSEmu...) since they are obviously confronted with the same problem. The project that put most likely most energy into this issue is samba. Indeed. It works remarkably well with DOS/3.xx/95/98 clients. Just verified …

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Re: Native PS/2 mouse implementation for 386/486 boards using the keyboard controller

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Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Re: [CLOSED] The Retro Web submissions thread: suggest edits and/or add new boards here

Re: The Retro Web submissions thread: suggest edits and/or add new boards here

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS