Re: PCI Multi I/O Card, did one ever exist?
Posted on 2021-04-16, 15:32
Some multi I/O PCI cards... - GIGABYTE GA-107 - GIGABYTE GA-108 - SUNIX 5249P - TYAN S1363-004 - TYAN S1366
Re: D865PERL BIOS update ruins frame rate in benchmark
Posted on 2021-04-11, 13:23
Do you miss any BIOS option? I remember having a motherboard (I don't remember if it was my Athlon based QDI or my Athlon 64 one) that deleted some PCI related setting in a BIOS update. On their patch notes, they stated that they had to delete it because it was infringing some patent... I don't …
Re: 2.88MB ED diskette drive troubles
Posted on 2021-04-11, 11:54
vetz wrote on 2021-04-11, 10:49: Could be that these laptop floppy drives is pre-configured to only work with the floppy controller in a Thinkpad. See here: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.h … /m/zun9PhBAnjcJ Or they use ID0 instead of ID1 as most PC floppies...
Re: Win95 Cheat Engine, Gameshark, Action Replay
Posted on 2021-04-11, 11:53
I remember using Magic Trainer Creator 1.27 and TSearch v1.6. One (or both) may do the same things as Cheat Engine, but they ran on older computers.
Re: Creating a CD with freeware DOS games - Any game suggestions?
Posted on 2021-04-10, 11:20
You could get any list of best DOS games, the list of freeware games and keep the games that appears on both lists. At this moment, the only game I can think of is Skyroads. Maybe I could check my DOSBox games and check how many are freeware. (BTW, there are free versions of Shadow Warriors both on …
Re: office suites and business software
Posted on 2021-04-08, 11:52
I miss Works or somethink like that... a stripped down office suite that had only most essential things and ran on really limited resources.
Re: Printer Problems
Posted on 2021-04-01, 08:01
About the Panasonic one: It sounds like a defective cable to me. Check this things: - Most printers have an internal test page, so print it. It should be triggered by powering the printer while a key is held (i.e.: Power + Line Feed), refer to your manual. If that page is fine, the trouble is …
Re: USB Floppy
Posted on 2021-03-31, 09:41
Thanks ! My Dell ones are Labeled "Dell UF0002" with HW ID: USBSTOR\SFloppyNEC_____USB_UF000x______1.50 and NEC_____USB_UF000x______1 and it cannot read any 720k. What exact Hardware ID shows up under Device Manager for yours ? USBSTOR\SFloppyNEC_____USB_UF000x______1.60 USBSTOR\NEC_____USB_UF000x …
Re: Technological critique
Posted on 2021-03-31, 09:33
Even cheap desktop speakers sound good now. Even cheap desktop speakers sound better than LCD ones. I have some cheap Logitech speakers, and although they sound way better than any display mounted ones they still sound worse than my (cheap, about 120€) radio/cd player combo. Surely, they're good …
Re: USB Floppy
Posted on 2021-03-30, 13:49
I also have the same NEC UF0002 (same part number and code). It reads fine 720Kb floppies, although I haven't tried to write them. I wonder why nobody made a USB to floppy converter... all USB floppies I've found have the USB part embedded into the floppy board.
Re: The middle mouse button, was it ever useful?
Posted on 2021-03-26, 16:45
It was your best friend in minesweeper.
Re: USB Floppy
Posted on 2021-03-24, 07:21
Keep on mind that floppy drives were slow, and although some USB disk drives offer some kind of "acceleration" you won't get anything remotely near "pendrive speed". I guess the differences between brands are durability and the ability to read/write 720k disks. On the other side, the worst part is …
Re: Is it possible to force SecuROM DRM on Windows 10?
Posted on 2021-03-21, 13:41
Also, I have the "Rockstar classics" release of GTA2. It doesn't need CDs, but I don't know if it had some other protection.
Re: TOP 100 applications for MS-DOS ? can you share some to the list?
Posted on 2021-03-17, 13:11
Some basic things... - A file manager -> Norton Commander. - A text editor (because EDIT was not present before DOS 5.x, and lacks many capabilities) -> I remember using Boxer. - A picture viewer -> Compushow / SEA / Graphic Workshop. - A variety of compressors -> PKZIP is a must, but I used mostly …
Re: Can't enable AGP Texture Acceleration (98Se)
Posted on 2021-03-11, 06:34
Did you fill up your video card? AFAIR, AGP texturing won't start until your video card RAM is already filled. If textures loaded fits into your texture memory, your video card won't use textures on system memory (which is a good thing, as having textures travelling via AGP will surely kill …
Re: OLD NOT NEW List of Free Games
Posted on 2021-02-22, 14:28
Blizzard recently released the Arcade Collection with The Lost Vikings , Blackthorne and Rock'n'Roll Racing , so I guess those old freebie versions were removed for a reason and are no longer valid. Thanks, I was thinking that my computer was playing tricks on me. I was discussing this with a …
Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2021-02-21, 12:10
I must confess that I miss the forest killing manuals that came with games and, most important, computers. Look at the manual that came with an Amstrad PC1512 (but I remember that it came with more than one manual)... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Amstrad_PC-1512_-_Retrosystems …
Re: Which software to preserve CDs?
Posted on 2021-02-17, 06:40
ImgBurn to turn them into .iso files and everything is fine. No need to use other stupid formats that you need like 4 different programmes to convert over and over to get a format that you can easily use on Windows / DOSBox / etc. In some alternate reality, all CD-ROMs are made strictly following …
Re: Which software to preserve CDs?
Posted on 2021-02-16, 07:02
I've dumped a test CD in MDF/MDS to check some programs, and the results are... - Daemon Tools: My computer had an old version (5.x) and could not make a proper image. It stopped after encountering the first error, and I couldn't find any option to skip errors. I don't if it would work with later …
Re: Which software to preserve CDs?
Posted on 2021-02-13, 18:21
So I guess I'm stuck with mdf/mds. I'll try to dump the same (protected) disc with CDBurnerXP, Daemon Tools and Alcohol 52% FE to check if there are differences between dumps... if I'm able to find a program that can parse MDF/MDS and dump the information about disc layout and wrong sectors. I know …
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