PCem

Of your list, 1 is a bug which I can not reproduce, 2,3 and 4 are features that will not be added during feature freeze.

Is the RAM not counting after a soft reboot (via CTRL-ALT-DEL or Windows 9x restart) normal? In previous versions, when either of these resets were performed, the BIOS RAM counting would occur like it does on a cold boot or a hard reset. (Issue shows on Shuttle HOT-557). Yes, that's totally normal.

You can try being even vaguely polite.

Please?

Timer bug.

Why are you resurrecting a thread from nearly a year ago?

Fixed in rev 1546.

Aladdin demo (XMS error, fine on Winchip interpreter) Not able to reproduce this. At what point are you seeing the error - during loading? During gameplay? Grand Theft Auto demo (Freezes at level load) This looks to be UNIVBE related. Need to check on real hardware, this may be an incompatibility b...

That's a pretty vague error message.

The configure script in the bitbucket repo is usually out of date. Always run autoreconf on any checkout.

BoisterousSleet75 wrote: ↑

Sun 22 Mar, 2020 2:30 am

Sorry for asking this, Is the "Video BIOS messages not showing up on startup before BIOS POST screen" bug going to be fixed?

No, because the fix will have a negative impact on compatibility in other areas and that's a problem I don't want to be trying to detangle right now.

I'll update this post with any results posted to this thread. (Last update - 22/03/2020 22:30 GMT+0) Working : MS-DOS 3.30 Acer 386SX25/N, i386SX/25, built-in video AMA-932J, i386SX/16, built-in video AMI 286 clone, 286/12, ATI VGA Edge-16 AMI 386DX clone, Am386DX/40, Trident TVGA8900D AMI 386SX clo...

Fixed in rev 1545.

Hey, COVID-19 is affecting _everything_ these days. Don't worry, I haven't contracted it. But work has had me working from home for the last week (and for the foreseeable future), and I've funnily enough noticed that after spending all day in my study at my computer doing paid work, I don't have a l...

The EMU8000 may be able to handle those amounts, but you can't fit them to an AWE32. And PCem is specifically emulating an AWE32, not an AWE64 or some generic EMU8000 card.

Committed at rev 1538.

Committed at revs 1535-1537. I did change the Itautec machine to use the same CPU selection as the existing Zappa board in the end; after all, the user might have upgraded the CPU!

Final question! You've limited the CPUs on the Itautec to P75, 90 and 120. Is there actually some kind of hardware limitation here, or are these just the CPUs this particular model was sold with?

Committed at rev 1534. I've marked the AZT1605 as DEVICE_NOT_WORKING due to the DOS issues, this will prevent it from showing in release builds but will still be available for dev builds.

For the video cards, I'd suggest removing those changes for now. I can have a think on how to handle that for v17.

The rest of the patch looks good for me. Are you okay with me committing with the video changes taken out?

Committed at rev 1532.

Committed at rev 1531.

dns2kv2 wrote: ↑

Mon 09 Mar, 2020 5:54 pm

Patch available only to those interested. No more public release.

This forum is for posting new patches. If you're not posting a patch then it doesn't really belong here!

We are now feature frozen. I will hopefully get through the patch backlog this week then start the testing process.

Yes, I'd suggest removing the red options. If setup can reprogram the EEPROM, then we could always supply a default image.

Looks good in general. A couple of questions though : - Do you know / can you check what SuperIO chip the Hyundai machine is using? The BIOS has configuration options for serial/parallel/floppy/IDE which suggests there is a SuperIO on board, but there isn't one mentioned in the patch. - You've added...

You could try using a virtual drive like Daemon Tools to see if that performs any better.

What are you using for CD support - the built-in ISO loader? A virtual CD drive? God forbid, a real CD drive? Basically your top two screenshots confirm PCem is massively slowing down, and if it's not actually using CPU time then it's probably blocked on IO, and CD emulation is a not infrequent caus...

Committed at rev 1526. I also ported it to Advanced/EV (not that the BIOS for that board shows the CPU speed!), and fixed the keyboard detection above 100 MHz.

It's not 100% the same machine (GDC 212M vs GT212), but the Goldstar machine Greatpsycho just added is probably pretty similar to this ad. Someone is clearly having fun with DTP, does it really matter if you can read the text or not?