DOS Hardware Compatibility
I have been experimenting with various graphics cards, mainly because I kindly donated my Voodoo 3 3000 and installed my old STB Velocity 4400 TNT based card in its place.
All was ok until I decided to play Toobin' which uses a video mode my TNT card was unable to display - ain't it always the way!!
Make | Model | Chipset | Features | Issues | Driver |
Intel | All Pentium's | n/a | n/a | None | None |
AMD | All K6, Duron & Athlon's | n/a | n/a | None | None |
Standard Joystick | n/a | n/a | 1 axis, 2 button | None | n/a |
Dual Joystick | n/a | n/a | 2 axis, 2 buttons per axis | None | n/a |
4/6/8 button | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
CH | Flightstick Pro | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Wingman | Extreme & Warrior | n/a | n/a | None | n/a |
Microsoft | Sidewinder | n/a | n/a | None | n/a |
Gravis | GamePad Pro & GrIP | n/a | n/a | None | n/a |
SNES Pad | n/a | n/a | Requires Additional Hardware | None | n/a |
PSXLPT Pad | n/a | n/a | Requires Additional Hardware | None | n/a |
N64 Pad | n/a | n/a | Requires Additional Hardware | None | n/a |
C64/Atari/Sinclair pad | n/a | n/a | Requires Additional Hardware | None | n/a |
Digital joystick via Turbografix | n/a | n/a | Requires Additional Hardware | None | n/a |
AC97 sound card built into motherboard | VIA AC97 | VIA AC97 | Go to BIOS. Enable Sound Blaster emulation. Take note of the IO address, IRQ and DMA. After rebooting, in DOS, type SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4, replacing 220 with the address you got, 5 with the IRQ and 1 with the DMA. These are the default settings, so you might not need to change anything. Then select the sound card option 1 | Set in BIOS | |
Creative Labs | PCI 16/64/128 | Ensoniq CS1371 | BIOS Reports "PCI Slow Timing" | C:\[install path]\sbinit.com Needs EMM386.EXE to load |
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Creative Labs | Soundblaster AWE64 (Value) ISA | AWE64 | None | None Required | |
Pine | Crystal 4281 | CS4281 | None | C:\[install path]\cwrdos.exe | |
Make | Model | Chipset | Features | Known Problems | DOS Driver Executable |
3Dfx | Voodoo 3 3000 | 3Dfx 3000 | SVHS TV-out + composite | *16Bit Colour? Yes Divide Error when setting resolution to 320x240 under pure dos. So I have to get into 640x480 stretched mode and it works. | None |
ASUS | V7100 GeForce2 MX (NOT the 'v7100 Magic') w/ 32mb | Nvidia GForce2 MX | SVHS TV-out + composite | *16Bit Colour? No use AdvanceMAME 640x480 seems to be offset to the right about 25% in ArcadeOS and in Mame itself...can't figure out how to correct this. I'm just running all games at 800x600 with stretch turned on | None |
ATI | Xpert 2000 Pro | Rage 128 Pro | TV-OUT AGP | *16Bit Colour? Unknown TV-out is blocked at 50hz, since it's a pal version of the card. Bios can be flashed but it's quite hazardous ... So, TV display is running @50 hz, and the emulation is teared ... Even if the picture quality is good with a S-Video component ... pure DOS does the same ... Not recommended for a TV-out usage (in Europe) No V-Sync / Triplebuffering under MAMEW Not supported by Dos Scitech Display Doctor | None |
ATI | Xpert 2000/Rage Pro | Rage Mobility | Composite TV-out | *16Bit Colour? Unknown Screen goes blank when running pure DOS with TV-out. Pure DOS is only black & white (ntsc?) | None |
NVidia | All TNT based video cards | TNT1, TNT2 & TNT2 Ultra | Any | *16Bit Colour? No - use AdvanceMAME No 1024 Modes | None |
STB | Riva128 | Nvidia Riva 128 | Composite& SVHS TV-out | *16Bit Colour? Yes No 1024 Modes | None |
USB | Not supported without 3rd party commercial drivers | None |