Re: Working game only works by dragging over dosbox.exe
Posted on Today, 02:35
You have to mount the directory holding the game's files.
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on Yesterday, 22:10
A new for me annoying problem. If I click on "New Posts" it shows the new posts, but after reading a few of them, clicking to the next page says nothing found. Or, if I went to page 3 of 3, then clicked on the browsers "back" button, suddenly there's nothing there. It seems to give less than a …
Re: How to fit 4 minutes of video onto a standard 3.5" floppy disk?
Posted on 2024-10-03, 19:32
H265 has no hope of being decoded in realtime on a win98/XP era machine. You're going to want to look for 256-color (paletted) codecs.
Re: Requesting assistance with an ISA Controller card and a 386
Posted on 2024-10-01, 21:08
That's not an IO pin, it's one of the power traces. I hope you had the bracked properly installed in the machine and not lying down flat on a metal surface...
Re: Requesting assistance with an ISA Controller card and a 386
Posted on 2024-10-01, 16:45
It should go: FDD connector on card <-- no twist --> middle connector/drive B <-- twist --> end connector/drive A.
Re: Dosbox Odd RGame Results Windows v Mac OS
Posted on 2024-10-01, 16:42
programmed in Quick Basic There's the reason. Quick Basic does all basic math operations in a very inefficient way - everything is done using the x87 FPU. This can be a bit problematic to emulate from both a hardware and OS standpoint, so unless DOSBox can directly pass operations through to a …
Re: Requesting assistance with an ISA Controller card and a 386
Posted on 2024-10-01, 16:12
Can you show a full picture of the floppy cable? I suspect you have the wrong end connected to the card, the twist should be between the two drive connectors (unless there is only one drive connector on the cable).
Re: AI Generated Wallpapers Representing Retro Computing
Posted on 2024-09-30, 13:06
doshea wrote on 2024-09-30, 04:29: I wonder if the AI imagines that blue is the correct colour for a screen because we all take lots of photos of blue screens of death? 🤣 "Retro" = C64 = blue basic screen...
Re: Rare hole in one of the wires of an IDE cable... is this a deffect or something made with a purpose?
Posted on 2024-09-23, 16:06
No, it's just a broken image.
Re: Rare hole in one of the wires of an IDE cable... is this a deffect or something made with a purpose?
Posted on 2024-09-23, 15:43
Picture isn't loading, but I'm guessing it's an 80-wire cable? They have an intentional break in one of the lines between the host end (that plugs into the motherboard) and the first drive connector.
Re: Minimum hardware to get Netflix working, needs SSSE3? SSE4x? 2024 browser???
Posted on 2024-09-21, 10:19
marxveix wrote on 2024-09-21, 10:00: Xiaomi Tv Box S 2 Gen for 40+ eur, it has Google TV and Netflix certificate For that price you can buy a chromecast and skip dealing with aliexpress.
Re: Minimum hardware to get Netflix working, needs SSSE3? SSE4x? 2024 browser???
Posted on 2024-09-20, 19:48
20 euro android tv boxes can playback netflix, even my old raspberry pi 3 did it at up to 720p, but i recommend something faster than that. Tanix TX2 https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005006806473197.html? Tanix W2 https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005004493874115.html? Those aren't proper Android TV …
Re: Setting up a 500 GB IDE drive in the P2B-DS BIOS
Posted on 2024-09-17, 14:06
Then that's as big as it's going to get. Set it to LBA mode and enjoy.
Re: Setting up a 500 GB IDE drive in the P2B-DS BIOS
Posted on 2024-09-17, 13:53
Just use the BIOS auto-detect feature?
Re: DOs to win32/64 cross compiler - is it possible?
Posted on 2024-09-16, 14:35
Well, for one reason - speed. The old 8086 code, was compiled for the few 16 bit regs of the 8086, with a not very optimal compiler (ie turbo C) against recompiling with modern optimization and register sets, etc. Which DOSBox already does - taking advantage of the extra registers available on the …
Re: DOs to win32/64 cross compiler - is it possible?
Posted on 2024-09-16, 13:23
Why though, when you could just use DOSBox? It already has the recompiler part built in, and anything that was originally written for DOS is going to be blazing fast in comparison on current CPUs even with the emulation layer.
Re: windows 98: how install Height Definition Audio?
Posted on 2024-09-15, 03:37
if a windows 98 compatible sound card is not possible use one of these usb ones, i have one and it works in 98 and also a dos window in dos you get sound effects but no music, also its a C-Media, an 8738 if i remember right. they are sold under different brand names, i think mines a startech. …
Re: Repairing a 486 DX
Posted on 2024-09-14, 16:41
Oh dear, what has happened here? Let's go back to this photo : the RAM is in the correct slots, except the third chip isn't properly seated - looking at the bottom half you can see it isn't aligned correctly in the slot. But then a few posts later, in the next photo : the RAM is all now in the wrong …
Re: PUTTING A HEATSINK WITH FAN ON A 486 DX 33 MHz
Posted on 2024-09-14, 06:51
No.
Re: CD-Audio stopping after a first song or just a bit later or looping the same song
Posted on 2024-09-13, 08:50
If they can play audio via the port on the back they should work. Newer drives removed that ability completely.
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