Friday, October 25, 2019

Power Macintosh 6100 DOS Compatible De-turbo Tool

I wrote a simple tool for the Apple DOS Compatible card for PowerMacintosh 6100. It allows you to enable/disable Turbo mode and adjust the de-turbo speed and disable cache to run software that doesn't run on a 486.

I tested it with Monkey Island EGA, Loom EGA and LucasFilm Night Shift, none of which run on a 486 66Mhz while using Adlib sound. All are working with this tool.

It should work on any 486 board with a CHIPS 84032 and 84035 chipset. Tested in MAME/MESS with AMI BIOS clone 486/66 Mhz and on a genuine Apple DOS Compatible card.

Source and binary are on Bitbucket.

Friday, September 6, 2019

Power Macintosh 6100 DOS Compatible Drivers

These are drivers and software for using the DOS Compatibility card installed in some Power Macintosh 6100 machines. It has a genuine Intel 486 DX/2 66, Creative Vibra16 with real OPL3 and a really awful CHIPS 82C450 VGA chip. Performance is good enough to play Doom in DOS and Windows 3.1 works just fine though screen refreshes can be slow.

I had a hell of a time finding the VGA drivers for Windows 3.1. Thanks to a friend for their hard work I have them now and so do you.

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Chips & Technologies 82C450 Windows 3.0/3.1 Driver

Supports up to 800x600 16-colors or 640x480 256-colors

Link

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Creative Vibra16 Driver

Link

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pcSetup 2

Macintosh side software for using the DOS Compatibility card.
Drivers for NETWORK, PRINT, and CDROM are on the PC_Compatibility disks included at the same link.

Link


Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Deemo - Unlock Songs HOWTO

This came up on YouTube, thought I'd share. I found this because I just don't play enough to unlock everything but I wanted to try all the songs. It works like this:

  1. Edit /data/data/com.rayark.pluto/shared_prefs/com.rayark.pluto.xml 
  2. Change the line that looks like float name="TreeHeight" value="0" to float name="TreeHeight" value="50"
  3. Play for a while, every time you clear a song, a new one will unlock. The newer songs in Deemo 2.0 are on scrolls in some of the rooms, you have to go find them.
  4. After you've got all the songs you can edit another line in the xml. float name="Ladder" value="0" to float name="Ladder" value="1.0"
  5. Now you can go play the end in the Ladder room and unlock the last songs this way.

Check out these screenshots for a little detail.



Monday, March 9, 2015

Sunday, March 8, 2015

HP Envizex II Netstation

Just sharing this because it was balls hard to find since HP doesn't provide it anymore and these units are EOL. Netstation B.09.11

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Cytus 5.0 Hidden Song Access

First Gate - Overdrive
* tap the title
Slit
* swipe across the slit in the logo
  - there are two here. From top right to bottom left and from top left to bottom right. 

thats all of them.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Wipeout Fusion Again

Lost all the source for my Fusion stuff quite a while back so I rewrote the filesystem browser in C#. It doesn't support file replacement yet, but that should come pretty easily. More to come.

https://github.com/neko68k/FusionTool