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[win98]

Hang on I broke the power supply in my 486 by overloading it make it 5 for me.

[Grinder]

Duuude.
I think I have another problem here - I want a KVM for my Mac and DOS PC. Thing is, the Dos PC will most likely only accept PS/2 input - Is there any KVM switches for USB and PS/2?

[win98]

Hey guys I might be able to pick up a 150mhz free in a few months.

[Grinder]

Sweet - where?

[win98]

Mums old friends place.
It is like
pentinum or amd 150mhz
32mb ram
24x cd-rom (these specs may not be right since the only one that i know is 150mhz I have top guess others
2mb video
2gb hdd
Awhile ago she borrowed my win98se upgrade disk to upgrade from win95 halfway through setup is installing files it froze now it is hjalf win95 and 98. If I get it I will reformat.
EDIT:It may not happen but I wanted to post to tell the news.

[natas]

Dunno it's of interest any more; if not simply ignore.

If you're building or buying a system for DOS to play old games you don't need sound card drivers. To get any game sound running your sound card or onboard sound simply has to be soundblaster compatible and/or adlib compatible (most soundcards are both). The games only have to be told the port address (most 220), the IRQ (most 7) and the DMA port (most 1) to run with full sound support.

Some games need drivers to use the sound card, these drivers are delivered with the game and you have only to tell the game which of them to use.

You could get problems with some weird graphics cards (mostly on laptops). Nearly every vga card supports 320x200x256, Thats vga standard. Higher resolutions are mostly only available if the graphics card is vesa compatible. If the graphics card is not vesa compatible you can often make it compatible to vesa by loading a TSR vesa driver like UNIBVE. This driver is freely available on the net.

Everything should be fine now ...

[win98]

Thats good but it still is better to have drivers loaded to make at easier when you load on games.

[Grinder]

Originally posted by natas@Apr 18 2006, 09:35 PM
Dunno it's of interest any more; if not simply ignore.

If you're building or buying a system for DOS to play old games you don't need sound card drivers. To get any game sound running your sound card or onboard sound simply has to be soundblaster compatible and/or adlib compatible (most soundcards are both). The games only have to be told the port address (most 220), the IRQ (most 7) and the DMA port (most 1) to run with full sound support.

Some games need drivers to use the sound card, these drivers are delivered with the game and you have only to tell the game which of them to use.

You could get problems with some weird graphics cards (mostly on laptops). Nearly every vga card supports 320x200x256, Thats vga standard. Higher resolutions are mostly only available if the graphics card is vesa compatible. If the graphics card is not vesa compatible you can often make it compatible to vesa by loading a TSR vesa driver like UNIBVE. This driver is freely available on the net.

Everything should be fine now ...

I'm dealing with the graphics thing right now. I have this game that I'm trying to run in VESA mode (the low-res graphics suck), but DosBOX doesn't have a particular graphics card.

[natas]

Originally posted by Grinder@Apr 19 2006, 12:01 AM
I'm dealing with the graphics thing right now. I have this game that I'm trying to run in VESA mode (the low-res graphics suck), but DosBOX doesn't have a particular graphics card.

As far as i know DOSBOX emulates an IBM compatible DOS computer. The graphics card has a BIOS, like the computer itself. This graphic card BIOS is mirrored on a specific address in computers memory. Your DOSBOX should emulate such a graphics BIOS also, maybe the emulated graphics BIOS is not f.ex. VESA 2.0 compatible. The VESA driver I named emulates a vesa compatible graphics BIOS.

You could give it a try. You will then be running an emulated graphics BIOS on an emulator. More than a system crash can't happen to you.

[Grinder]

The thing is, all I need is the name of the graphics card DosBOX is emulating. The game has drivers for all the major cards of that time, but I have no idea which to choose.