Re: Pentium Pro with ISA graphica card… inusable?

Posted on Today, 13:36

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I can find a nice SBC with Pentium Pro 200 to fit in my amiga 2000, the inly problem is that the only graphic card i can fir will be a ISA card… that make the Pentium Pro inusable in mid DOS gaming?? Not unusable for DOS gaming but the experience isn't ideal because of the bottleneck of an ISA …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on Today, 12:44

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Quick update. Found something online, I'd like to share it before I forget about it. Off-topic, but has anyone else reviewed the MT-DOS 4.0 documentation from the “Ozzie drop”? It’s very clear MT-DOS 4.0 was the predecessor to OS/2 1.0. But in an even more bizarre fashion, MT-DOS 4.0 seems to have …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on Today, 09:42

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Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 is being used for the underlying OS, mostly just for the near-instantaneous TaskMgr (switching) functionality it provides to GeoWorks Ensemble. DR-DOS' HIMEM.SYS also natively leverages the 64K of upper-memory being provided by the MicroRAM as XMS, with which most of DOS is …

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Re: Pentium Pro with ISA graphica card… inusable?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:04

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ISA is fine for typical 320x200 games (that's 320x200 pixels, by 1 byte per pixel, for a high refresh game like Doom lets say 30fps = just shy of 2mbytes/sec), but anything 640x400 (four times the bandwidth of 320x200 at the same frame rate) or above is going to have it's performance crippled by …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on Yesterday, 09:37

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But is the NC still running and updating its screen while windowed? Or is it frozen? That's a good question, really. A lot of people seem to question DESQView's multitasking capabilities in this regards. On the other hand, though, what about BBS operators that had run multiple copies of their BBS …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on Yesterday, 05:32

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Quick update. I've tried Norton Commander 1.02 on DESQView 2.x (PCem/XT 286/VGA). I can re-size the fullscreen application, so it becomes windowed. (I can even move around inside the window to choose my viewport.) What's interesting, though, the cursor in Norton Commander keeps blinking. Normally, …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on Yesterday, 04:40

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There's no windows on that video, only full-screen. Any task swapper can do it, eg. DOS Shell. No, no it isn't. There's no window, right. I didn't link a video to DESQview here. Should have been more clear about this. :sweatdrop: A video about DESQView can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/ …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on 2024-05-31, 21:55

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Anyway, it worked as expected, I guess. BIOS output only. Drat! 😾 Of course - these are the limitations of virtualization in Real mode. Though programs like DesqView and PC-MOS/386 somehow managed to run Norton Commander in a window or a virtual console. Norton Commander did direct writes, too, …

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Re: MT-32 is no longer receiving data

Posted on 2024-05-31, 16:51

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I would definitely use a Roland USB MIDI cable or other non-cheap one (assuming you are using such a one currently). Other most obvious troubleshoot which is mentioned already is MIDI Out cable needs to go into MIDI In. If it isn't, that would result in what you describe, MIDI cable seeing data ( …

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2024-05-31, 06:50

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The EmbOS project is great, but since I have an English Web.it, but it's an embedded system, do you have any idea how I'd possibly go about trying to extract the OS & applications so I could contribute to the project, or recreate in a virtual system? Hi there, I'm sorry for the delay. I'm just here …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on 2024-05-31, 06:19

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I don't know about Clipper, but TP/BP allows to choose direct or BIOS text output. Try something like: uses Crt; begin DirectVideo := True; WriteLn('I can write directly to the video memory...'); DirectVideo := False; WriteLn('...but I can also do it via BIOS!'); end. Hi there! I did give your …

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Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?

Posted on 2024-05-30, 19:26

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^Maybe, though the experience with my classmates was different, sadly. They thought killing was cool. When that Iraq war was current in 2000s, they had showed little to no empathy and instead enjoyed talking about guns and killing and stuff. They didn't really differentiate games (CS 1.6 etc) from …

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Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?

Posted on 2024-05-30, 16:48

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For instance, Amiga couldn't keep up with DOS's 256-color VGA graphics with Roland MT-32 sounds in games like King's Quest V. I always see this as the benchmark that killed Amiga. I think not yet... Yes, KQ5 was originally for PC, Amiga port was later and worse - but at that time it was still …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on 2024-05-30, 15:52

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Quick update. Just stumbled upon an interesting YouTube video about OS/2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcqSPG1Duag It seems to be a '92 "product information" from IBM Germany. The narrator sounds like it's from the 80s, though. The narrative voice essentially says that DOS used to be the dominant …

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Re: Will WinXP *run* on a 486?

Posted on 2024-05-30, 14:51

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Quick update. Meanwhile since this thread was opened years ago, a programmer had successfully patched Windows XP to run on i486. It's being mentioned over here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=100751 Anyway, just thought I should mention it here, so forum visitors are made aware of …

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Re: Sound+FM=Freeze System

Posted on 2024-05-30, 13:22

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He gets a hang with the exact characeterstics as me. FM+Digital freezes some games, but FM only is ok. So we're against a design flaw here, and now I'm wondering if the on-board sound chip has anything to do with it. Though I'm jumpering it off in my case and I don't load its PCI drivers of course. …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2024-05-29, 23:55

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It's not historical and it's not like you have anything near a real XT machine in either look, feel or hardware anyway. The whole thing confuses me. Hi there, I'm afraid I'm not very good at wording, but I'll try to summarize. As far as I understand, the project has its origin in the model making …

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Re: Willow - Windows 3.0 Real Mode applications on OS/2 1.x and up (and stuff)

Posted on 2024-05-29, 08:44

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Quick update. Did experiment a little bit with productivity software on Windows 2.03. To my surprise, Clipper did actually run in such a limited environment. Both programs are from 1987, by the way. What didn't work was text output of the compiled executable. Or so it seems. There was a blinking …

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Re: MT-32 is no longer receiving data

Posted on 2024-05-29, 03:48

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If anyone has bumped across this and has any ideas, please let me know. Otherwise, I see a lot of emulation in my future. Oh, well. If you have a retro rig, you can still use an Raspberry w/ mt32-pi software in place of your real MT-32. I do that, too and I'm quite happy with it. I do use my real …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2024-05-29, 02:10

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[..] I know this firsthand because I was also a digital dictionary gamer when I was a middle school student. here is part of that story: Chinese Dreams of Electric Words: https://chaoyangtrap.house/s02-episode-9-china-dreams-of-electric-words/ Thanks, pengan. This was very informative and …

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