Ess Allegro Duke Nukem
ES1868 is basically a more integrated evolution of ES1688; the IDE controller and PnP functionality have been integrated to the chip, and it also supports spatializing 3D technology that may or may not be on your card. You will find resources on the internet (appearing to have originated from our own gerwin ) that clain ES1688 is half duplex but it is not, at least not according to its spec sheet (ES688 certainly is half duplex though).
They both have the same implementation of ESFM so sound the same. The drivers for ES1688 and ES1868 are not the same though, the mixer etc. For one won't configure the other.Feel free to compare the product sheets yourself:ES688:ES1688:ES1868:As for which one is more silent - that depends wholly on the card.
Quality made ancient ES688/1688 cards are cleaner and much more pleasant to the ear than late 90s OEM junk ES18xx cards in my experience even though the more integrated card should have much less noise. As for which one is more silent - that depends wholly on the card. Quality made ancient ES688/1688 cards are cleaner and much more pleasant to the ear than late 90s OEM junk ES18xx cards in my experience even though the more integrated card should have much less noise.ES18xx cards are mostly super cheap production, with bare minimum of capacitors and SMD elements. On ES1869 cards they even removed oscillator.To be fair they were made for use at a time motherboards were much better about voltage and current regulation but yeah they are often pretty barebones. I have this card for example:Almost no filtering despite having an FM receiver? Needless to say I never used it. The plain 1868 version is hardly better.But go back in time a bit and better 1868 cards do show up.I use this last one in my P133 and it is very very clean.For whatever reason 1898 seems to have replaced 1869 as a compatible chip and 1898 cards I have (such as the one below with the curious model number MF-1869) are built and sound much better than the crappily built 1869 cards.
(I'll periodically upload things as I come across them)(TODO: Floppy imaging software. Some of the archives are.img files. Star wars knights of the old republic gameplay. Image CDs that have TCP/IP for Windows 3.11, and other setup disks I don't have digital versions of.)The whole reason I started this place ages ago was so that I could submit links with bookmarks or downloads to stuff so I could easily find it later.
Since it's been like 5 years, I figured I'd post an aggregated refresher with a bunch of assorted things for you folks.The drivers won't be of much use for DOSBox or similar, but DOSSHELL is a very handy alternative to X-Tree Gold (which was the one of the most popular gui's back in the day). It should be included in the 6.22 extras disk, but I included a zip of all the files separately just in case.There's an endless supply of things I can dredge up, but here are some important things.Excuse the formatting. I'm new here. GAMES.I realize that most of these games can be found on abandonware sites nowadays. The reason I'm uploading them personally is because they have particular meaning to me in some way.
That 286 floppy I've had since I was a kid, and I've carried it with me faithfully over the years. I lost some data on it at once point, but everything I recovered I was able to archive.
Mar 31, 2018 - Illuminess Millennium Ball. ORA Adagio Allegro Arioso Beethoven Bijou Cantilne Cavatine. 3D Realms Duke Nukem Wolfenstein. A Duke Nukem movie can only work if they do make Duke look like a idiot who learns his lesson. A movie based entirely around the games would be boring, and Duke would be insufferable. Focus on the side characters and Duke as more comedic.
It was kind of my kickstarter into what got me into this whole retro-pc mess. UTILITIES.
DRIVERS. Some of you might remember the Daum builds as the best version of DosBox, and to my knowledge they're still the only ones with working, configurable CRT shaders outside of the DosBox core in Retroarch. Unfortunately, a year or two back a Windows update broke the version of SDL they were compiled against, which made mouse input jump all over the screen, making them useless for anything that couldn't be played with nothing but keyboard and/or game controller input.Well, I've got good news: I was fiddling around with various builds the other day because the one I was using was giving me joystick problems, and I decided to try it in Daum, which not only got my joystick working, but the mouse was working too! Looks like at some point in the last couple of years, Microsoft has quietly fixed whatever it was they did that broke the older builds of SDL, so mouse input works in Daum again! I have a Toshiba T3100e that I use for some light DOS gaming, nothing serious just casual.
Duke Nukem Forever
I like games like Oregon Trail or the Zork series, but wondering if I can get recommendations for any games that work on this platform:286 cpu5mb ram (upgraded from 1mb)Monochrome screenCGA onlyPC-Speaker onlyNo Mouse (can get one, just haven't yet)I have browsed online, and most of the 'Best DOS games' lists rely on colours, 386+, VGA, and mouse support. I can / have played some in Dosbox, but I have a fondness for this machine so I'd like to find more I can play.Thanks:). My friend said it's called Full Bug, and was a top down game like Bomberman. The main characters looked like pom poms with 2 big feet and eyes, in the multiplayer mode you could be purple, orange, green and another colour.
Duke Nukem 1991
You drop bombs, in vs you have to kill the other person and in co-op you have to clear the map and kill the enemies who were slugs. Apparently the game studio was called Bullfrog but this game isn't on the list of games they made, so it probably wasn't actually called Full BugWouldn't be surprised if it didn't actually exist but just posting on the off chance someone knows it as we have been looking for a while with no luck, thanks:).
Duke Nukem Original
I have somewhat figured out a way to use Thunar, a file manager for GNU/Linux, to have an 'Open With' sort of menu item when right-clicking a file for use with a DOS application using DOSBox.