Re: Speeding up formatting FAT32

Posted on 2018-04-14, 10:02

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by Licentious Howler

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Ah, now I see why I never used format.com--it's all coming back to me... it's pure command-line goodness and I was too dumb to figure it out lol. Pretty sure there wasn't anything about it in the documentation for this PC and my usual "just type 'help'" didn't do anything that time. At least now I …

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Re: Speeding up formatting FAT32

Posted on 2018-04-13, 20:46

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by Licentious Howler

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Well, I certainly may have been doing something wrong, but from what I have tried, my Windows 98SE disc (that I inherited from my father's box of PC stuff) doesn't have utilities to manage partitions on it--it just points you to fdisk to wipe the partitions and make fresh ones, which doesn't take …

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Re: Speeding up formatting FAT32

Posted on 2018-04-13, 19:38

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by Licentious Howler

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WTF THERE'S A /Q PARAMETER uuuuuurrrrrghh. How did I not know about that... -_- I think I'll check out Hiren's Boot CD even if that's plenty fast for my needs in the end though, lol. As many niche projects as I tend to undertake, there's bound to be something helpful for me in there. Thanks for the …

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Speeding up formatting FAT32

Posted on 2018-04-13, 18:34

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by Licentious Howler

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I have an old Pentium III machine with a ~128 GB IDE HDD (7,200 RPM). Up until now, I had been using fdisk+Windows 98SE installer to format a FAT32 partition which has worked fine and will continue to do so even thought the actual formatting process is quite long (just under 1 hour)... But I'm doing …

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Re: Mouse Polling Rate in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2016-10-13, 08:16

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by Licentious Howler

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My apologies for misunderstanding you, Deksor. I see now that PS/2 rate is a program. I'm still not entirely sure how I never managed to find it in searching though... Thanks for the recommendation, all of you, it did exactly what I needed it to. In fact, I'm surprised how easy it is to feel the …

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Re: Mouse Polling Rate in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2016-10-12, 09:51

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by Licentious Howler

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Why are you using a PCI USB 2.0 card instead of the on-board USB ports? With a mouse it is unlikely you will have any advantage from the higher speed USB 2.0 offers.... Thanks for the reply, you two. This is actually a safeguard--the motherboard was manufactured ~1999, and has two USB 1.1 ports. I …

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Mouse Polling Rate in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2016-10-12, 07:16

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by Licentious Howler

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For both USB or PS/2--specifically, how to modify them. I use a Microsoft Intellimouse 1.1 Optical (USB), and have tried both the straight USB connection, and a passive USB>PS/2 adapter. Under Windows XP (32-bit) on this same set of hardware, there are two utilities I have found that allow me to …

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Re: VirtualMIDISynth and Windows 10

Posted on 2016-04-07, 04:43

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by Licentious Howler

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I've never had that box be anything but grey on Windows 8.1, and I presume 10 would be extremely similar (I can't get updates working yet, so I can't test on 10), so you can try this workaround that I've always used... maybe it'll solve the problem, or maybe Windows updates will kill it either way: …

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Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2015-09-07, 17:40

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by Licentious Howler

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Alright, I goofed. I should have noticed these options those old posts highlighted (and I did to a degree): And last but not least, you can quite easily use latest ALChemy versions with the stuff I or MST posted. With this, you already cover 98% of games more or less. But the problem was I …

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Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2015-09-05, 16:47

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I took some photos as evidence. EAX and virtualisation works. But on GOG, this is greyed out... Aw man, you did all that for the sake of posterity... pictures and everything! Thank you! Well that's great to hear that it's possible to have 1.3 and EAX simultaneously! Now the question is how to get …

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Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2015-09-05, 08:36

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I have all three version, Steam, GOG and retail. I never played on pre-1.3 but Steam and GOG are 1.3 anyway, so I can tell you that, all version to 1.3: Steam: You can tick the EAX box and then tick the second box next to it. Retail: You can tick the EAX box and then tick the second box next to it. …

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Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2015-09-05, 07:30

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The first Splinter Cell? When I mucked around with the different versions, I found that the GOG version had EAX completely disabled, meaning you physically couldn't enable it. The Steam, and retail version, had a working EAX button. That doesn't seem to be 100% true--while I don't own a Steam …

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Re: What are the best console emulators out there?

Posted on 2015-09-05, 04:37

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by Licentious Howler

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Desmume already has resolution scaling implemented in recent revisions. The fork's no longer neccessary. oh... This is embarrassing... Uh, how long ago was that added, I wonder...? (Man, I really don't play DS games at all I guess.) Furthermore, I really hope they added the feature because they …

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Re: What are the best console emulators out there?

Posted on 2015-09-04, 07:50

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by Licentious Howler

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If anybody wants a good recommendation for Nintendo DS emulators, obviously DeSmuME is the logical choice, but I really can't help but recommend the x432r fork even if it won't get as many updates as the main emulator, because this fork lets you upscale the native resolution and apply Anti-Aliasing. …

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Re: Emulating EAX on any onboard sound hardware?

Posted on 2015-09-04, 05:55

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by Licentious Howler

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So, I've read through the thread (and the woefully sparse info online), but it seems like the answer to this question is more or less "You sort of need to buy a Creative product to get EAX working." Is that about right? Under Windows 8.1 with a Sound Blaster Z (and a dormant Realtek audio driver and …

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Re: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow

Posted on 2015-09-03, 16:42

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Komat's wrapper crashes for me almost all the time under Windows XP when I get to the main menu. No such problem in Windows 7. But I'm not gonna use the wrapper if it completely cripples my game under XP. Any insight on this? Or even a fix? Game just quits to desktop. But it doesn't happen *all* …

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Re: So I made a legacy 98SE PC, nothing too special...

Posted on 2014-01-24, 20:33

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by Licentious Howler

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zstandig wrote: Sorry for a belated reply, but this is good info to work with for sure--you know your stuff! Didn't even consider USB card, and the RAM upgrade is helpful too. Heck, pretty much everything you said here is, thanks!

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Re: So I made a legacy 98SE PC, nothing too special...

Posted on 2014-01-22, 04:33

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by Licentious Howler

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Since it's a TV PC I would throw in a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 in there.... that has Svideo out and has sharper TV output than the Rage128 and the compatibility is much larger (at the expense of 32-bit color and high textures - both which aren't THAT discernable on a 480i display). However on some EGA/VGA …

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So I made a legacy 98SE PC, nothing too special...

Posted on 2014-01-21, 23:52

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by Licentious Howler

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My father had an old Pentium III and several spare parts in his basement for quite a time, just collecting cigarette-tainted dust, and it occurred to me--why not make something of it? Well, it was a learning process for sure, and I had to wipe the hard drive once, but it's done and good. Images of …

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Re: SNK S3 Graphics Card Question

Posted on 2014-01-16, 05:48

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by Licentious Howler

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What an interesting find, whatever this thing was supposed to be used for, and especially that it seems to function as a normal VGA card for you. Also: http://reeseriverson.com/rriverson/pics/IMG_2543-800px.jpg […] Show full quote Jesus that's enough connectors for any task but washing your dishes! …

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