Re: What sorts of software do you remember on windows 95 desktop?

Posted on 2017-07-14, 17:24

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Windows 95 ? Uhm, not so much. I pretty much switched from 3.1 to 98SE/XP. :sweatdrop: And my papa always tried to keep his 95 desktop clean. But if Win95 era (90s era) software on other Windows systems also counts, then I'd say.. WinGIF Factura Graphics Workshop Paintshop Pro VisualBasic 1 to 6 …

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Re: 486 and Roland MT32

Posted on 2017-07-14, 15:55

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Also, do SB16 and newer still support the legacy SB DSP MIDI as well? [..] I think so. At least I can confirm that I once checked a "SoundBlaster-16 MPU" option and it worked, apparently. Port "330" looks dubious, but MPU-401 was listed separately.. See pictures here: http://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: CGA Jam 2017? How did I miss awesome?

Posted on 2017-07-14, 15:22

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Drama writers nolonger use papyrus or parchment, either.. It's just natural that artists use tools they can handle and have at hand. As for me, I'd probably also favor a RAD environment over C++ or assembly. At least for prototyping (a programmers equivalent of sketching). The 8bit people realized …

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Re: 486 and Roland MT32

Posted on 2017-07-14, 02:13

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True. And it was an early card also. At the time of release, its competitors had no MPU-401 at all.

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Re: Something for lovers of bad video cards (youtube)

Posted on 2017-07-14, 01:59

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Hi folks, some time ago I read something interesting about the ViRGE's D3D drivers.. As far as I remember, it was about the fact they were either badly coded and / or the D3D architecure was somewhat less than perfect for the internal workings of the ViRGE. Sorry, can't remember all of the details …

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Re: Working Windows 98 Emulator with 3D-Acceleration?

Posted on 2017-07-14, 00:58

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Why is PCem slow? I have good computer and i can't Emulate Pentium MMX 233. Even sound lagging at Windows startup. Will be PCem always slow? Is there any other Emulator with 3DFX? In DOSBox many Windows 9x games doesn't work. 86Box, a popular PCem fork, has got optimized binaries for certain …

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Re: CGA Jam 2017? How did I miss awesome?

Posted on 2017-07-14, 00:54

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I think that could even be possible, kinda. Some sort of VNC software could help with that. I recall that certain programs like PC Tools' Commute or DESQView/X had such abilities. Maybe its possible to run them in VMs or use the VM's remote desktop functionality. Then all it needs is an 8088- …

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Re: Tulip pc compact 2

Posted on 2017-07-12, 23:21

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Perhaps that's just the way it is ? 15KHz is CGA territory, as we know. For a proper EGA monitor there's nothing wrong with beeing a single frequency device. :) I'd be worse if it was the other way round (It couldn't run EGATrek then). Anyway, there's little I found. Some German magazine archive …

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Re: Newer CRT On Pentium WIN95 PC... Anything I Need To Know?

Posted on 2017-07-12, 15:12

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I have Compaq S710 PE1123 Model CRT Monitor and I plan on getting a used PC with a QDI-P5I430TX-250 model motherboard from about 1998. Would that have a compatible VGA port? Sure, no problem. :) I was thinking of mixing early VGA stuff from the late 80s/early90s with more modern stuff.. Sometimes …

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Re: Newer CRT On Pentium WIN95 PC... Anything I Need To Know?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 22:49

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Who knows ? In case of doubt, someone just makes a basic adapter with RGBHV wiring. As far as I know, there must have been at leat ~four different VGA generations.. http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j379/sekoseko1/vga_pins_zpsdcef2452.jpg Edit: Hm.. Was looking for that chart of mine, but can't …

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Re: Newer CRT On Pentium WIN95 PC... Anything I Need To Know?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 19:50

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Also make sure the pinouts of both the VGA card and the monitor do match. I'm speaking under correction, but I believe the meaning of the extra pins changed over the years. Could quite be possible some of them (DDC, Monitor ID, etc.) are now accidently grounded.

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Re: Problems with Maddog Mcree when playing it on DOS from accessing it from Windows 3.1 on PCem.

Posted on 2017-07-11, 19:08

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Glad you got it working, at least! :) Stutter. Try to enhance the stacks for Windows. Open Config.sys and add stacks=9,512 (or stacks=18,512). Sometimes this will help against all kind of issues, incl. stuttering. Mouse. Maybe using a serial mouse and updating the serial port driver will ease the …

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Re: CGA Jam 2017? How did I miss awesome?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 18:42

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Thank you very much for sharing, liqmat! 😁 There are some really excellent contributions among them..

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Re: What is a 'physical' CPU?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 16:10

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Of couse not. Even the Zilog 80 was superscalar somehow . This AMD guy is probably just one of these marketing people. Maybe he was referring to threads or whatsoever (even that wouldn't have been fully correct, though). Somehow it makes me sad people are nolonger able to distinguish between dual …

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Re: Can Soundblaster 16 work on Windows 3.1 on Standard mode?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 15:12

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Ok can I delete this post now. I'll just wait to get more memory for my DOS/Windows 3.1 computer. How much memory do you have now? AFAIK, enhanced mode should work on machines with as little as 2 Mb of RAM... Yup, though I assume the Creative drivers are too fat to fly. Err, to fit.. :D Anyway, …

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Re: Can Soundblaster 16 work on Windows 3.1 on Standard mode?

Posted on 2017-07-11, 13:39

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Multimedia drivers do not work in standard mode! They do, if the the manufacturer cares about (see SB 1.x drivers). Unfortunately, one like Creative didn't. +386 says the SB16 box.. The MediaVision Pro AudioSpectrum 16, for example, had its drivers fully functional in Standard Mode, too. Same goes …

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Re: How can one attach a SSD to an old PC?

Posted on 2017-07-09, 19:08

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Is it convenient to run, say, Windows 7 on a large CF card? Any drawbacks here? I haven't tried yet. I'd like to know the same. Is the fixed-media bit still a deal breaker for Win NT OSes ? If so, can any of the modern SD card to IDE converters mask this bit, so everything appears as "fixed" to …

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Re: SB 2.0 CT1350 CMS chips dumped

Posted on 2017-07-09, 18:57

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I sucessfully upgraded my early CT1350 some time ago and everything since then works like charm. 😁 But I really wished someone could figure out a solution for the "A" models, nevertheless. These models are by far more available.

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Re: Problems with Maddog Mcree when playing it on DOS from accessing it from Windows 3.1 on PCem.

Posted on 2017-07-09, 18:52

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Oh, I see. I've got a troublesome day and can't concentrate right now. Playing DOS games on Windows 3.1 doesn't work too well, I'm afrad (OS/2 can do it better). Just one more idea: Open PIF editor and change some settings (like execution-> exclusive). Maybe that helps. If not, try some memory …

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Re: Links in Windows 3.1 Guide broken

Posted on 2017-07-09, 18:39

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Thank you. Please never mind. My posts weren't well worded either, I'm afraid. I was just worried about the actuality of the guide in respect of the S3 emulation. That's why I thought it would be a good idea to ask about the right drivers, too. The question about Virge was meant more as a rhetorical …

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