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SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 Ah, the memories...

by pimlottc 12y ago

raverbashing 12y ago
Of course if it was on IRQ 12 half of the games wouldn't work (long story, and yes, due to another x86 quirk)
- sanoli 12y ago
  Oh man, those IRQ nightmares! Please don't mention those extended memory settings or I will go into my basement to look for my MEMMAKER notes on how to (maybe) get a game going...
  - sp332 12y ago
    Just boot one in your browser! https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games Yes these are real copies of MS-DOS games running in MS-DOS in a JS emulator in your browser. Some of them have crack screens, but some of them are running from magnetic maps of the disk, with original copy protection schemes intact.
  - nickdude 12y ago
    I once accidentally set the same IRQ for my Serial mouse and modem...The modem would only respond to commands while moving the mouse...good times.
- TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
  Elaborate on said quirk?
noipv4 12y ago
did you load himem.sys? how about emm386.exe? does your sound card have an OPL3 or the OPL4 MIDI chip? Does your trident VESA card on the ISA slot have 1MB VRAM? stacker, drivespace or doublespace? choices! I just bought me a Seagate medalist 1-Gigabyte hard drive. Should I make it a master or a slave on the ATA bus? Make sure the Turbo button is pressed, if Doom is slow to load!
- davesque 12y ago
  1 Gigabyte? Try 20 Megs...if that.
malkia 12y ago
QEMM! Protected Mode! Unreal Mode! TSR! Ralph Brown's Interrupt List! Oh man! Had so much with my friends while in high-school trying to figure out what kind of weird graphics mode this cool game called "Scorched Earth" used... It wasn't 320x200 :)
- schoen 12y ago
  "From Hell's heart I stab at thee..."
- dandrews 12y ago
  That's "Ralf"! http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/
- vgabios 12y ago
  Mode X and related: programming VGA registers to do what int 10h mode 13h didn't offer. Bonus points for flipping video pages or cycling the palette as to not cause tearing.
recondite 12y ago
Oh man, my fondest early memories with computers was modifying the autoexec.bat and config.sys files so I could play DOS games. I can only describe the feeling of finally figuring it out and getting a certain game to work as pure joy. Conversely, the feeling when I changed something incorrectly (without backups of the original file, of course) and the system error'd out during boot - sheer panic.
emmanueloga_ 12y ago
dos4gw.exe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G univbe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE oh my!

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 Ah, the memories...

raverbashing 12y ago

Of course if it was on IRQ 12 half of the games wouldn't work (long story, and yes, due to another x86 quirk)

sanoli 12y ago
Oh man, those IRQ nightmares! Please don't mention those extended memory settings or I will go into my basement to look for my MEMMAKER notes on how to (maybe) get a game going...
- sp332 12y ago
  Just boot one in your browser! https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games Yes these are real copies of MS-DOS games running in MS-DOS in a JS emulator in your browser. Some of them have crack screens, but some of them are running from magnetic maps of the disk, with original copy protection schemes intact.
- nickdude 12y ago
  I once accidentally set the same IRQ for my Serial mouse and modem...The modem would only respond to commands while moving the mouse...good times.
TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
Elaborate on said quirk?

noipv4 12y ago

did you load himem.sys? how about emm386.exe? does your sound card have an OPL3 or the OPL4 MIDI chip? Does your trident VESA card on the ISA slot have 1MB VRAM? stacker, drivespace or doublespace? choices! I just bought me a Seagate medalist 1-Gigabyte hard drive. Should I make it a master or a slave on the ATA bus? Make sure the Turbo button is pressed, if Doom is slow to load!

davesque 12y ago
1 Gigabyte? Try 20 Megs...if that.

malkia 12y ago

QEMM! Protected Mode! Unreal Mode! TSR! Ralph Brown's Interrupt List! Oh man! Had so much with my friends while in high-school trying to figure out what kind of weird graphics mode this cool game called "Scorched Earth" used... It wasn't 320x200 :)

schoen 12y ago
"From Hell's heart I stab at thee..."
dandrews 12y ago
That's "Ralf"! http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/
vgabios 12y ago
Mode X and related: programming VGA registers to do what int 10h mode 13h didn't offer. Bonus points for flipping video pages or cycling the palette as to not cause tearing.

recondite 12y ago

Oh man, my fondest early memories with computers was modifying the autoexec.bat and config.sys files so I could play DOS games. I can only describe the feeling of finally figuring it out and getting a certain game to work as pure joy. Conversely, the feeling when I changed something incorrectly (without backups of the original file, of course) and the system error'd out during boot - sheer panic.

emmanueloga_ 12y ago

dos4gw.exe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/4G univbe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniVBE oh my!