Re: How do you encode Cinepak AVIs that can be played from at least a 4x CD-ROM drive?

Posted on 2020-04-03, 18:51

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How do you record your CDs? CDs recorded at high speeds on modern drives can fail in older equipment. I'd recommend to write CDs at the slower speed available.

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-04-03, 05:46

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Steam Pinball FX3 (+ some tables) --------------- Can not locate Epic Free Bundle. Can you provide a link? Thanks. I've found it, it seems to be a DLC for Paladins.

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Re: Issues with MSDOS 3.3, Lo-Tech IDE adapter, and partitioning

Posted on 2020-04-03, 05:11

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Compaq had DOS 3.31a, that included support for bigger partitions.

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Re: How did people draw on their PCs in the 80s and the 90s?

Posted on 2020-03-30, 05:33

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I remember some architects using graphic tablet from early 90's, those tablets were A3 or A2 sized. They usually had overlays with an area reserved for most usual commands on the top of the tablet, so they could select it without changing from tablet to keyboard/mouse. Also they came with pens and a …

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Re: Windows 3.1 / 9x games that require Quicktime

Posted on 2020-03-19, 15:32

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"Kama Sutra: Manara". I'm testing it on DOSBox... the requirements says it needs Windows 95, but it works fine in Windows 3.1 (I don't know if Win32s is required). It requires a 256 colour mode (no more, no less) to work.

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Re: [Pics are welcome] What are the rarest or the most obscure games in your possession?

Posted on 2020-03-16, 16:29

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Well, some rare games I own... - I bought Operation: Inner Space. Not a rare title, but I guess I'm one of the few that bought it on Spain. - "El juego del Kamasutra" (Milo Manara). Known in US as Kama Sutra: Manara, I've got the spanish version. Maybe it was not advertised/reviewed in mainstream …

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Looking for a bomb defusal game

Posted on 2020-03-16, 16:20

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To make thins worse, I DO have that game on Steam but I don't know where to find it. Some time ago, I acquired (I don't remember if I bought it on a bundle or got it as a freebie) a short game, that was not from any well known publisher nor a particulary good one. It was a short game, because I got …

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Re: USB storage driver for DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-03-16, 16:10

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As not all drivers works with all computers, I'd try to try either: - The boot disk from Puppy Linux. - Hiren's Boot CD. They include plenty of drivers, and menu driven selection of drivers. So, you can boot from one of those and try one by one every driver until you found which one will work with …

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Re: Request for custom dos Cheat codes

Posted on 2020-03-05, 07:36

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dr_st wrote on 2020-03-05, 06:58: I second Game Wizard 32. Used it quite successfully for a couple of games that had no built-in cheat codes (a long time ago). Not to mention that, in some cases, you can save a "snapshot" of your game and continue playing at that point.

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Re: Redneck Rampage fond memories

Posted on 2020-02-20, 18:38

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Not so fond memories here... I've tried a few times to play through this game and I've never finished it. - It gives me motion sickness. It doesn't matter if I play it on a 486 or an Athlon, or even if I play it using the source port. It's strange, because I've played through Duke Nukem 3D and …

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Re: Running without chipset drivers

Posted on 2020-02-18, 06:14

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It depends (mostly) on your OS (the drivers that came integrated with it). Without motherboard drivers, I've seen: - Some devices not working (USB/Network/Sound). - OS unable to install or boot from hard disk (when transitioning from IDE to SATA). - Some devices acting slower (i.e.: IDE devices …

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Re: Weird unknown Xebec ISA card?

Posted on 2020-02-17, 16:49

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I don't remember where, but I've seen a photo of an old (maybe MFM) HDD with a board attached to it. The board was actually the HDD controller, connected to the HDD with two floppy-like wires. It allowed to have a simpler controller on the computer (much like IDE and SATA), and connecting different …

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Re: How to: Imaging/cloning a harddrive, using Linux only....

Posted on 2020-02-16, 18:21

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I'd use clonezilla to do disk imaging if your computer supports it (and I'd try older versions if modern ones are not supported). Clonezilla will try to copy only data used in filesystems (using less space), have more compression options (again, less space) and it can resize the filesystems if you …

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Re: Creative's intended market for 16 bit audio?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 10:04

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When SB 16 came out it was in 1992 which was still mostly DOS era games, thereby breaking SB Pro 2 backward compatibility SB16 was almost fully compatible with earlier Sound Blasters, it only extended Sound Blaster capabilities (like SB Pro extended SB 1.0). The only thing that couldn't do was CMS …

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Re: Game keys for free

Posted on 2020-02-09, 11:19

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I've updated the game list, removing some games and adding others.

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-02-08, 08:42

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Ghost's DJs on Steam. A game inspired on Ghosts'n'goblins... it does have some playability issues but it's free!

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Re: How to (manually) align a FAT filesystem?

Posted on 2020-02-06, 15:32

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I guess someone has to differ between physical and logical sector sizes. Ideally, both overlap each others seamlessly. Yup, I missed the "logical" bit. In any case, you can take two approach to partition alignment: using clusters multiple of 4K (in HDDs that uses 4K sectors, in flash media it …

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Re: How to (manually) align a FAT filesystem?

Posted on 2020-02-05, 06:25

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So since I don't have access to a Linux system to format with, I tried things like GParted (which 3x different versions or GParted wouldn't boot on my 3x different P3 systems...) and other bootable CD solutions, and even software which is compatible in Windows7/8/10 (like EaseUS PartitionGuru I …

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Re: Looking for a EDOS installation disk.

Posted on 2020-02-04, 07:21

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Maybe your disk label is wrong? Some installers identified their disks via dummy files and/or the label on disk. Use the LABEL command to change it.

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Re: How to (manually) align a FAT filesystem?

Posted on 2020-02-04, 06:17

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Keep also in mind that in FAT/FAT32 partitions the file clusters begin right after the FAT table(s), whose size is not a nice round cluster number. From mkfs.vfat (Linux) manpage: ... OPTIONS -a Normally, for any filesystem except very small ones, mkfs.fat will align all the data structures to …

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