So I've done a 360, having to change the soundcard for the sake of a funky bios I'm not going to do. I've reverted to the most recent Gateway bios, which is 1.00.10 BROT.
Decided to go with a 4GB SD card, which is large for this system. Reinstalling Win 98 again.
I found this ISA RealMagic EM8010 mpeg decoder card and randomly I stumbled upon the correct cable! 👍
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I've just got to give it a quick clean and also sort out the bracket.
Now where I'm struggling:
I know the Interrupt is 9 and the Base I/O port of the soundcard is 1200, I cannot for the life of me get the soundcard to work in pure MS-DOS, frustrating:
So I've done a 360, having to change the soundcard for the sake of a funky bios I'm not going to do. I've reverted to the most recent Gateway bios, which is 1.00.10 BROT.
Decided to go with a 4GB SD card, which is large for this system. Reinstalling Win 98 again.
Dell Latitude CPi D300XT (Pentium II)
8MB Wavetables added, I've configured Duke 3D inside Windows to use Soundblaster for SFX, General Midi for Music, works (didn't before the reinstall).
Now where I'm struggling:
I know the Interrupt is 9 and the Base I/O port of the soundcard is 1200, I cannot for the life of me get the soundcard to work in pure MS-DOS, frustrating:
The Windows 98 install went well, the system somehow feels faster with the new bios, I've installed the Soundblaster PCI 128 drivers and have the legacy sound all setup in Windows.
8MB Wavetables added, I've configured Duke 3D inside Windows to use Soundblaster for SFX, General Midi for Music, works (didn't before the reinstall).
I tested the games I installed yesterday, although the sound works fine in windows, in MS-DOS mode I've got issues. I've read that Mr. BIOS doesn't properly support PnP, but I'm not 100% sure. I'm doing a fresh install from scratch on a 32GB SD to IDE. We'll see 🤔
The Windows 98 install went well, the system somehow feels faster with the new bios, I've installed the Soundblaster PCI 128 drivers and have the legacy sound all setup in Windows.
The first positive is that it now hasn't got the harddrive size limitation of 8GB. I've resized this install with PM8 and I can now use the whole 80GB.
I tested the games I installed yesterday, although the sound works fine in windows, in MS-DOS mode I've got issues. I've read that Mr. BIOS doesn't properly support PnP, but I'm not 100% sure. I'm doing a fresh install from scratch on a 32GB SD to IDE. We'll see 🤔
Here's the options I now have, although I have lost the ability to boot from CD, not the end of the world, but we'll see if everything is ok and functional.
The first positive is that it now hasn't got the harddrive size limitation of 8GB. I've resized this install with PM8 and I can now use the whole 80GB.
Success! MR BIOS posts!
Here's the options I now have, although I have lost the ability to boot from CD, not the end of the world, but we'll see if everything is ok and functional.
So I found out that a MR BIOS is available for this board, but the bios chip is soldered so it's a little scary! I'm doing it! 😬
Success! MR BIOS posts!
Gammitin (Ben) 💾