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Re: I'm really struggling with windows 98

Ah thanks, conclusion is I'm just using too modern hardware. I do recall trying windows 98 on a pentium 3 733mhz, voodoo2 sli and a creative live and I had no issues which confirms the above. Our family PC in 2000 was a Pentium III 733 Mhz, too. It shipped with Windows 98SE, some nvidia graphics …

Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

- Windows 95 (B/C) runs beautifully on Pentium/Pentium II/Pentium III era hardware, it is technically Windows 98 (or Win98 is Win95 with changes) No, it's not, even though it may look indeed that way. Windows 98/SE has an overhauled memory management (in the link it's being explained in detail). …

Re: "Doom" on Intellivision?

in Milliways
@unknown Thanks for the ViC-20 tip. I've found an entry for the game here: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Vicdoom Here's a demoscene production for Intellivision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUx-f686Wg4 It's not faux, according to the comments. The graphic abilities of the '79 Intellivision were not …

Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Hi there. I didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings here, my apologies if I did. 😥 I rather explained my point of view, which isn't necessarily correct. However, I also can't deny what I know/remember from back then. Windows 3.1 and Win32s were available to developers before Windows NT 3.1 and Windows …

Re: "Doom" on Intellivision

in Milliways
You might need to alert that it is an April's fool joke when you post it on any other day... Ah, I see. Thanks! It wasn't obvious to me, really. I'm simply not used to April fools that simple, I guess. Or I simply don't unterstand US humor. 🤷‍♂️ It's a shame the author didn't at least try to work …

Re: The Joy of MMX

MMX as a Matrix Math eXtension was useful for all sorts of DSP applications, I think. Unlike x87, it was using Integer. It was a fine complementary counterpart to x87. Both working together would have been awesome (I'm repeating myself, I know). Being a SIMD, MMX could multiply a set of values …

Re: The Joy of MMX

kolderman wrote on 2023-05-27, 08:15: The joy of disabling the FPU. Yes, sadly. x87 and MMX would have been a nice duo if they could have worked in tandem. Too bad dual-CPU systems didn't support using X87 on one CPU and MMX on the other, simultaneously. That would have been interesting.

Re: Wacky Wheels with higher FPS?

I think the same. Try fixed cycles, maybe. "Auto" uses higher cycles for Protected-Mode stuff, I vaguely remember. Like Windows 3. 1 or DOS games using DOS4GW. Skunny Kart or Whacky Wheels are Real-Mode, though. Maybe with 32-Bit i386 instructions mixed in. Try typing cycles=fixed 9000 at DOSBox …

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