Re: Making Windows 3.11 work in DOS7.10 (patches inside)

Posted on 2012-04-01, 16:29

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by keropi

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yes you are right about the w3start patch, it's used to run win3x not install it... anyways the FAT32 problem is there and is known for a long time... maybe AdamP your 3.x partition was a small one (~2-8GB?) and that's why you did not get it....?

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Re: Techpowerup (GPU-Z) site busted?

Posted on 2012-04-01, 09:58

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by keropi

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April's fool ?

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Making Windows 3.11 work in DOS7.10 (patches inside)

Posted on 2012-03-31, 13:05

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Hello! I had a blast making win3.11 working fine with DOS7.10 (win98SE dos with FAT32 partition) , so I am sharing my experience :blush: 1st problem: DOS7.10 IO.SYS needs to be patched so that windows 3.x can be installed. This can be done with Ralf Buschmann's OSR2fix package, the program needed is …

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Re: Technically impressive FM synth music

Posted on 2012-03-31, 09:29

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just look at some megadrive/genesis games, opl2 is very nice in capable hands

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Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2012-03-30, 08:21

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by keropi

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I need to report that riva128/TNT agp/pci cards do not play very well in 3.11 when you have installed the nvidia driver. You get awesome speed BUT you also get awesome craches, gpf faults and some rare hard freezings. 🙁 sad but true. In DOS/9x the cards work perfect.

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Re: Archive.org CD collections

Posted on 2012-03-29, 17:59

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My personal opinion on Jason Scott is that he is doing a service to humanity. The cd.textfiles archive is a pure treasure to anyone interested in computing history. Many things would be lost without him archiving and offering them to the public and I really like the guy and his style 😀

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Re: Near-retro noisy box.

Posted on 2012-03-29, 08:19

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yeah, because ddr3 is cheap I currently have 16GB in my 2600K box... just get all sticks at once so they are the same lot/specs/model and you are set. Also to comment on the topic, even a small airflow will do wonders in temp control. All these years, every "silent/fanless" gpu I bought for me or a …

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Re: What kind of card is this?

Posted on 2012-03-28, 11:03

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if I am not mistaken that card is an interface for a bus mouse ... so without a bus mouse (bus being the name of the interfacing protocol 🤣) it is useless AFAIK

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-03-28, 06:27

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so much love in this thread.... I hope a mod can take all this love and put it in a special place soon, it's too much to handle 🤣

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Re: Showing off some hardware I picked up recently

Posted on 2012-03-28, 06:17

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a cache controller with a 286 on it? heh that's strange, the most usual thing to find is a cpu/controller that has a way different architecture than the target system....

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-03-27, 22:53

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I bet it's faster (how much is a mystery though), IMHO it would be easier for the hardware designers to make a custom/direct connection to the vga part than making an interface to simulate a 2nd pci card for the pcx2 and transfer data twice pcx2->bus->vga ...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-03-27, 22:24

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just won a P5BV3+ Rev.C mobo for 1eur on eBay... I hope the seller sends it 🤣

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Re: Polygures - a new DOS game 16 years in NON-development

Posted on 2012-03-27, 18:41

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I tried the demo, shapes take some time to get used to but it's ok... do tell here when this will be available 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-03-27, 10:35

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by keropi

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nice card this Covox... I am curious about the Speech Thing compatibility, please report back DK 😀

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Re: SB 2.0 CT1350 CMS chips dumped

Posted on 2012-03-27, 06:31

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nope, not yet... I assume Chuck(G) hasn't look at it yet, he has some more work before that... and personally I am not bugging him about that since there is no real hurry and he is infact doing a favor to the community :) If it wasn't for him then noone would have a clone chip :D so let him take his …

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Re: Identifying 486 mobo, possibly fake cache chips

Posted on 2012-03-26, 17:06

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by keropi

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🤣 @ the write-back marking on the "cache" 🤣

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Re: Has anyone seen this Roland daughtercard before? Not dialup friendly.

Posted on 2012-03-26, 08:10

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@ratfink: I believe the 18bit "sound rendering" the db does gets lost once it is connected to a sb...

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Re: Has anyone seen this Roland daughtercard before? Not dialup friendly.

Posted on 2012-03-25, 20:38

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by keropi

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it's an SCB-7 , a General Midi daughterboard, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_SC-7

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Re: My Epson EL2 286 w/Photos

Posted on 2012-03-25, 10:39

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by keropi

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interesting... too much custom made, looks like an industrial/controller pc converted to desktop or something

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Re: Sound Blaster CT1350B

Posted on 2012-03-24, 07:33

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^ True but I have seen ATX1.0 psus that don't have the -5v line (mainly cheap ones that came with pre-built systems, plenty of them here...) It would worth checking this also just to rule out possibilities....

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