Re: Help identify this 286 motherboard

Posted on 2021-10-02, 21:50

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by wbahnassi

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mR_Slug wrote on 2021-10-02, 19:11: Can we use your image on our site? Ultimate Hardware 19 now has close to 9000 motherboards. Sure no problem. I can try to take better or detailed pics if needed also.

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Re: Help identify this 286 motherboard

Posted on 2021-10-01, 23:35

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by wbahnassi

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Ok a few more pics around the buzzer and the P8/P9 power connector: https://i.ibb.co/db7Jjsr/20211001-183341.jpg https://i.ibb.co/RbNjwSs/20211001-192609.jpg https://i.ibb.co/C0dy3ZG/20211001-183419.jpg I don't see where it says Philips P3345, but looks like Mr.Slug's link is indeed showing the …

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Help identify this 286 motherboard

Posted on 2021-10-01, 15:32

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by wbahnassi

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Hi, I'm looking for your help identifying this 286 motherboard I recently found. Hoping I can find the manuals for it to know what are its jumpers and the range of processor speeds it accepts. It's currently missing the CPU, but I ordered a Harris 16MHz 286 CPU as it seems this mobo is configured …

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Re: Quitting Ocean Games

Posted on 2021-09-29, 00:14

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by wbahnassi

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Yeah. It must be the multiplatform thing.. that and lazy programming 😅 Btw, Ctrl/Alt-Z didn't work either. Not surprised 🙃

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Quitting Ocean Games

Posted on 2021-09-27, 22:02

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by wbahnassi

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So it seems that all Ocean-published games I'm playing lack an exit to DOS mechanism. I mean I tried many things: Ctrl/Alt-C Ctrl/Alt-X Ctrl/Alt-Q Ctrl+Alt+Del Ctrl+Alt+Esc Ctrl-Break Ctrl/Alt-Esc Ctrl/Alt F1-F12 Couldn't get any to work. I'm playing WWF European Rampage and RoboCop 3D. Both don't …

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Re: PC speaker activity inhibits keyboard input

Posted on 2021-08-18, 14:47

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by wbahnassi

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Thanks! That was indeed the culprit. Using a PS2 keyboard instead of the USB one solved it. Thanks a lot!

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PC speaker activity inhibits keyboard input

Posted on 2021-08-17, 13:44

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by wbahnassi

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I have this weird issue in my DOS build. Everytime the PC speaker is outputting sound, my keyboard seems to stop receiving input. For example, playing Keen1, as you're having a long fall you cant control the character anymore until the fall sound stops.. same if there are many enemies shooting, you …

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Re: Old Sierra games, text corruption.

Posted on 2021-07-15, 09:02

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by wbahnassi

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Sorry to bring up this old thread again. I just want to add that -s -v caused the garbled text to become a wall of solid black on my setup. Is this related to the VGA card itself now or is it strictly the motherboard chipset/BIOS? I have a Voodoo3 PCI on an Intel X58 motherboard chipset. I was …

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Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

Posted on 2021-05-25, 22:03

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by wbahnassi

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Manhattan Missions has some very nice VGA artwork. Very moody and full of nice smooth gradients.

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Re: Games that don't run properly on faster CPUs

Posted on 2021-05-17, 11:42

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by wbahnassi

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Testing on my Intel Xeon 2.35GHz (HP Z400 workstation): Nova 9 is unwinnable on fast machines. The simulation becomes very smooth which is really nice, but you lose height when doing jumps. This prevents you from getting to the win teleporter to the last level, not to mention a few opportunities to …

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Re: Looking for Elvira 2 Disk 3 image

Posted on 2021-04-25, 23:50

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by wbahnassi

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Just to update. I got the copy from eBay, and found two things; * Disk 4 is bad, but I don't care because my original is still good.. but... * This is a different version of the game with the black screen installer. Mine has a more modern blue screen installer. The disk contents are quite different …

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Re: Looking for Elvira 2 Disk 3 image

Posted on 2021-01-10, 15:07

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by wbahnassi

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Found a guy selling the same disks on eBay so I ordered them. He says "tested" so hopefully disk 3 at least works.

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Re: Looking for Elvira 2 Disk 3 image

Posted on 2021-01-09, 18:04

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by wbahnassi

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The best I could achieve is the listing of contents of the three archives on the disk using 7zip. LHA/LHarc were unable to extract the information at all in DOS. I'm pretty sure the contents listed by 7zip are truncated too for PC8.LZH and PC9.LZH. The only file that copied successfully from the …

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Re: Looking for Elvira 2 Disk 3 image

Posted on 2021-01-09, 00:31

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by wbahnassi

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BardBun wrote on 2021-01-08, 17:32: If you haven't already, you should start creating image files of all of your diskettes before they all start becoming faulty. Yup. Started on this too late unfortunately, but now I'm active on it.

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Re: Looking for Elvira 2 Disk 3 image

Posted on 2021-01-09, 00:30

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by wbahnassi

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I made lzh (lharc.exe in MS-DOS) archives with english version vga files. Dont compare the sizes of lzh archives, just try it. Vydricak The installer took the files fine. Hopefully those VGAs are the same ones my disk 3 had. I also tried a few online versions and compared their files to mine, and …

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Re: Looking for Elvira 2 Disk 3 image

Posted on 2021-01-08, 16:16

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by wbahnassi

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Thank you. Those are almost ok. The sizes don't quite match my English version. I put them on the disk and the installer didn't complain, which means the game will run, but I might be surprised at some point in the game with Spanish text in some scene or something 😅 I'm attaching the comparison …

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Re: Looking for Elvira 2 Disk 3 image

Posted on 2021-01-08, 14:19

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by wbahnassi

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Thank you. So far I haven't received any matching copy, nor was I able to find such an image at the usual sites. I'm attaching a directory listing of the disk (yes, it still reads the directory properly). 20210108_090618.jpg Pay attention to the size of the files. The file names may match files from …

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Looking for Elvira 2 Disk 3 image

Posted on 2021-01-08, 05:59

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by wbahnassi

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Hi all, I'm looking for an image of Disk 3 of Elvira II Jaws of Cerberus (original English). This is the less-common 720k 3.5" DD version (it has 5 disks in total). My original disk has developed bad sectors and it won't read anymore unfortunately. Hopefully someone has it. Thank you all! 20210108_ …

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Re: Terminator 2029 installer reboot

Posted on 2021-01-03, 12:58

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by wbahnassi

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Interesting. So like touch memory at some single location, wait a bit, then assume the whole cacheline is fetched, then write something on the same location bypassing the cache somehow, while whatever you read within the cacheline will be served from the cache? I'm interested to learn what would be …

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Re: Terminator 2029 installer reboot

Posted on 2021-01-03, 01:20

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by wbahnassi

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Yes it works perfectly thank you! Any known references/documentation on these 386 prefetch instructions? Maybe a patch or something can be made to NOOP those instructions? Cheers!

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