On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 04:28:45PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
> Of course there might be a few games which do use
> acceleration features of the card, but for my first
> PCI card, it was only the game which came bundled
> with it :-)
It actually depends on requirements; to me for most cases that (lo
Hi!
> Of course PCI bus is much faster, still even 16-bit ISA cards, if one uses
> good quality graphics adaptor, is "fast enough" for DOS applications.
Not really. DOS does not normally use the acceleration of
"good quality". For example I once tried fractals on a 75 MHz
computer and found out
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:11:33AM +0200, Eric Auer wrote:
> Is that with EMM386 NOEMS option? I expect EMS 3.2 to
> be rarely necessary and with NOEMS you can still use
> EMS 4.0 which people often forget. With 64k extra UMB.
I didn't write down the particular results and conditions - just noted
Hi!
> - the newer the mobo, the more likely it can use some part of "conventional
> memory" (first 640 KB) for its own purposes, like my ASRock mentioned in
> that other thread
For example for SATA controllers or USB.
> - the newer the motherboard, the more likely it'll offer less and less
