Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-07-07, 23:38

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by Shagittarius

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My house was built in the 30s, I'm just a renter and I doubt much has been updated since then. It also started out as a cabin in the woods, and as things evolved so did it. But to speak to your point, when this breaker flips everything in the kitchen and two bedrooms goes out so its way more than 2 …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-07-07, 23:11

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by Shagittarius

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All circuit breakers went >poof< when I tried to start my Soyo 019R1 Ti 486DLC/E system. I hadn't tried it in ages, and when pressing the power button all went dark. I did see the segmented LED light up and show "20", before darkness engulfed the house :) I'll need to change PSU's and hope nothing …

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Re: CF Card Won't Save Partitions on 486

Posted on 2020-07-07, 14:53

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by Shagittarius

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I still believe its a bios problem.

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Re: CF Card Won't Save Partitions on 486

Posted on 2020-07-06, 21:05

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by Shagittarius

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I had the same symptoms when I was trying to use any 2GB+ drives on my IBM 5170. It wasn't until I used an XTIDE bios that I was able to get the changes made in FDisk to stick. Even though you see the geometry available I wouldn't rule out that the bios is still having an issue with the size. Or …

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A2286 Bridgeboard Adventures

Posted on 2020-07-04, 06:03

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by Shagittarius

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I recently got an Amiga 2500 with the intention of replacing my 5170 under my desk with a machine that could be a PC/AT, Mac, and Amiga in a single form factor. I'm having difficulty getting the A2286 to work with PC hardware though. I've tried 3 different VGA boards and they all do the same thing, …

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Re: KQ5 love to crash

Posted on 2020-06-29, 22:19

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by Shagittarius

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I think you have an IRQ conflict with your soundblaster settings, try another IRQ.

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Re: How do I see other partitions on my MSDOS Compact Flash when plugged into my WIN7 card reader?

Posted on 2020-06-29, 17:09

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by Shagittarius

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Yes, I use the last version to support XP, True Image 2019, and it will not perform a volume image backup of the CF drive unfortunately. I am still running 2015 (first version that supports Windows 10). I imagine you are plugging that CF drive into a USB card reader ? Maybe a workaround would be to …

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Re: How do I see other partitions on my MSDOS Compact Flash when plugged into my WIN7 card reader?

Posted on 2020-06-29, 15:23

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by Shagittarius

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Yes, I use the last version to support XP, True Image 2019, and it will not perform a volume image backup of the CF drive unfortunately.

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Re: How do I see other partitions on my MSDOS Compact Flash when plugged into my WIN7 card reader?

Posted on 2020-06-29, 14:56

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by Shagittarius

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Windows 10 will write some volume information on those DOS drives but not enough to even consider it causing a space issue. I just saw this topic but have already been through all this discovery with my CF 5170 machine when attempting to back it up. Only Win 10 saw the additional partitions and it …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2020-06-27, 15:25

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by Shagittarius

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blurks wrote on 2020-06-27, 14:35: appiah4 wrote on 2020-06-26, 20:09: What is Legacy? That coverart looks like a complete ripoff of Alone in the Dark.. That's because it is - minus the rudimentary 3D graphics of course. I would say it's more like a haunted house Eye of the Beholder.

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Re: AdLib vs Game Blaster

Posted on 2020-06-26, 16:37

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by Shagittarius

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Square waves vs Sine waves. Most people prefer sine waves, so do I, it's no wonder CMS died, but at the same time I appreciate when CMS is used properly and sounds good like in the examples above or 'Don't go Alone' as another example.

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Re: KQ5 love to crash

Posted on 2020-06-24, 20:29

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by Shagittarius

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I've never had either of those games crash on me. I can't speak to your specific version but it sounds to me like a sound configuration issue. Were all the test runs installed and configured the same way? If so I would double check my assumptions about IRQ.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-24, 15:06

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by Shagittarius

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Some software requires specific XP service packs. If you intend to use your XP system broadly then you really can't get away without installing the service packs.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-21, 16:28

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by Shagittarius

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Just got a piece of dream hardware for me, an Apollo 1260 @ 80Mhz. Been playing with that for the last day since I got it. Lots of fun! download/file.php?mode=view&id=86454 download/file.php?mode=view&id=86453

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Re: Can't get GOG version of Jade Empire to run in native OS (XP)

Posted on 2020-06-20, 05:25

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by Shagittarius

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Thank you for responding! So the installer actually DOES work on Windows XP just fine but I've also tried installing it on Windows 7 and then copying it over to my XP drive. The issue seems to be that there must be some essential files that are different from the retail release. Does anyone have a …

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Re: Voodoo 4 PCI and an AGP 9800 Pro

Posted on 2020-06-15, 18:15

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by Shagittarius

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-06-15, 17:10: You should be able to run them both at the same time without issues. Back in the 98se days I had two video cards for dual monitors. I have a GeForce 2 ultra ago and a GeForce 2 mx400 pci. Thanks, I'll have to be on the lookout.

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Re: Wich agp videocard?

Posted on 2020-06-15, 16:05

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by Shagittarius

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SOF 2 is a dog of a game, badly optimized CPU/GPU hog.

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Voodoo 4 PCI and an AGP 9800 Pro

Posted on 2020-06-12, 20:23

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by Shagittarius

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Sorry this might be a super obvious question, but would it be possible to run both those cards in the same Win98SE machine? Either as a dual monitor config or as some sort of switcher? I think the answer is no, but wanted to make sure. EDIT: My motherboard allows me to set the primary display card …

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Re: Strange issue with 9700 Pro and AOpen board, no idea where to start.

Posted on 2020-06-12, 16:16

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by Shagittarius

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The 9700 hardware was incompatible with quite a few motherboards. I ran into this at the time when it was released, it wouldn't work with my P4 motherboard , then the 9800 was released which was documented as to having fixes for compatibility with motherboards and that card worked fine in the same …

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Re: XT-IDE BIOS vs SCSI BIOS Problem

Posted on 2020-06-11, 19:56

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by Shagittarius

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I believe I have my XT-IDE on D800h - D9FFh and my SCSI Controller at C800h - CBFFh. I don't know if this will help you I have an adaptec scsi card but i cant remember which it is right now.

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