Grandcheapskate
Veteran Member
Hi Guys,
I have two 386-33DX machines using the same motherboard and using the same type expansion cards. They are basically identical.
Each one has an IBM 8 bit sound card with the joystick port disabled. They also have an Addison 8 bit game card which has two game ports. The Addison card comes with a driver (GCARD) which is loaded and can (supposedly) detect the speed of your CPU (up to 80 MHz) and adjust itself as necessary. Or you can specify the speed of your CPU on the GCARD command line.
What I find is the card does not detect the correct CPU speed and it gives different values on each machine. One machine is usually detected at 45 MHz and the other shows 80 MHz. So instead of relying on the auto detection, I specify the CPU speed manually. The speed level can be 1-16 with level 10 (supposedly about 33 MHz) and level 16 for 80 MHz.
I am using the old Apogee game Major Stryker as my test game. I have tried using level 10 but when I go to the game menu, the selection bar scrolls up and down the menu really fast making it nearly impossible to get the selection I want. Only on level 16 does the selection bar hold steady.
Without getting further into this, does anyone have experiance with these game cards and are they more trouble than they are worth?
Thanks...Joe
I have two 386-33DX machines using the same motherboard and using the same type expansion cards. They are basically identical.
Each one has an IBM 8 bit sound card with the joystick port disabled. They also have an Addison 8 bit game card which has two game ports. The Addison card comes with a driver (GCARD) which is loaded and can (supposedly) detect the speed of your CPU (up to 80 MHz) and adjust itself as necessary. Or you can specify the speed of your CPU on the GCARD command line.
What I find is the card does not detect the correct CPU speed and it gives different values on each machine. One machine is usually detected at 45 MHz and the other shows 80 MHz. So instead of relying on the auto detection, I specify the CPU speed manually. The speed level can be 1-16 with level 10 (supposedly about 33 MHz) and level 16 for 80 MHz.
I am using the old Apogee game Major Stryker as my test game. I have tried using level 10 but when I go to the game menu, the selection bar scrolls up and down the menu really fast making it nearly impossible to get the selection I want. Only on level 16 does the selection bar hold steady.
Without getting further into this, does anyone have experiance with these game cards and are they more trouble than they are worth?
Thanks...Joe
