Re: Is there a wireless gamepad adapter (DB-15)?

Posted on 2020-05-02, 10:41

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by dosfriend

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The idea was using Game Port so you could use it in DOS, W95/98, etc without needing a specific driver. So I think the best would be to use one of those 8bitdo SNES receivers, because they already allow pairing to (according to their website): 8BitDo controllers and arcade sticks (excluding 2.4G …

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Is there a wireless gamepad adapter (DB-15)?

Posted on 2020-04-28, 13:58

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by dosfriend

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Hello, Is there any Wireless DB-15 gamepad out there? Would be great to have a Bluetooth Wireless receiver to DB-15 gameoport and use any Bluetooth compatible gamepad. There are 8bitdo SNES receivers, maybe they would work with a SNES controller to DB-15 adapter (if that exists).

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Re: Dell Dimension 486 SX/25 Compact Flash HDD

Posted on 2020-04-25, 13:53

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Thanks for your replies! :) - Controller card or IDE port on mobo? - If IDE port ->tried working HDD bigger than 540Mb? (to discard BIOS limitation) - CF2IDE adaptor working on different machine? - IDE port on mobo. 1992 Phoenix bios. - Unfortunately I Don't have a working IDE HDD > 540Mb and < 2GB. …

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Dell Dimension 486 SX/25 Compact Flash HDD

Posted on 2020-04-24, 12:36

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by dosfriend

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Recently I got a Dell Dimension 486 SX/25. I really like this computer and it works great (at its low speed). Would like to put a 2GB CF card to replace the mechanical HDD. When I boot the machine up, it doesnt detect the HDD. BIOS HDD setting is on "Auto". Is there any way to use a CF card on this …

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SimTower not working with Nvidia RIVA 128

Posted on 2020-04-21, 16:12

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I am trying to get SimTower to work with a P266MMX & Windows 3.1 and is not working fine with Nvidia RIVA 128 graphics card. After the video test it shows this warning message: [ The display driver on this system does not appear to support the functionality that SimTower requires. If you continue, …

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Carmageddon system requirements

Posted on 2017-07-14, 10:20

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Hello! I just got my hands over the Splat Pack edition of this classic. I remember playing it on my 486 back in the day, but I would like to play it in the best way possible (lores software rendering preferred). Seems to be too slow even for P233-MMX & Geforce 128, I would like to try it into my P3- …

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Re: PS/2 to Microsoft Serialmouse Adapter Converter

Posted on 2017-03-02, 13:01

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by dosfriend

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I would like to take 2 adapters, if they are still available 😀

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486 PS/2 Mouse freeze

Posted on 2017-01-28, 20:37

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Hi all! After many time having random freezes on my Asus SP3 motherboard, I was able to track down the problem to the PS/2 mouse. If I plug in a PS/2 mouse and use MS Mouse or CTMOUSE DOS drivers, games will lock up at some point. Using a serial mouse on COM1 solves the issue, but I need the PS/2 …

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Re: ET4000 Windows refresh rate

Posted on 2017-01-03, 11:05

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I couldn't find any Windows or DOS utility to set this, but finally I was able to increase the refresh rate up to 100Hz, and now I'm using VESA 72Hz. Just add this to system.ini file (800x600@72Hz): [Hercules] fsResource=off fsResolution=off DISPMODE=800,600,8,800,600 BigMap=0 pd_runm=0 DM1=800,600 …

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Re: ET4000 Windows refresh rate

Posted on 2016-12-05, 12:17

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Was able to set refresh rate to 90Hz for DOS games using SETCRT Hercules util, but sadly that doesn't change it for windows.

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ET4000 Windows refresh rate

Posted on 2016-12-05, 07:51

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Just put a new card on my 5x86 rig: Hercules Dynamite VLB 2MB, which uses a TSENG ET4000 chip. I was wondering if there is a way to increase the monitor refresh rate on Win3.x, since I can't find the option. Now is set at 800x600 @60Hz which is a bit annoying (my monitor supports up to 150Hz on this …

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Re: DOTT talkie freeze

Posted on 2016-10-07, 20:38

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You are right, DOTT seems to access IRQ 7 somehow even if it's set to 5 on setup or by command argument. Even leaving GUS uninitialized the freeze will come sooner or later in the game 🙁

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Re: DOTT talkie freeze

Posted on 2016-09-30, 15:47

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Thanks for your reply 😀 Have EMS memory enabled but just tried with NOEMS parameter. It certainly needs EMS because it complains with the message you pointed out. I am running DOS 7 with EMM386 & HIMEM. Crashes with EMS and without, as long as I keep the speech enabled.

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DOTT talkie freeze

Posted on 2016-09-24, 07:16

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My 5x86 133 machine was working great and stable until I've decided to give the talkie version of Day of the tentacle a try. It will freeze randomly at some point while playing but the music will continue playing until I reboot. Maybe is sound related because it seems that if I disable speech the …

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Re: Video issue with Q3A

Posted on 2016-03-28, 09:46

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Finally! I was able to find the source of the 1FPS problem :) It seems that the RAM was not 100% compatible with the board, although it passed Memtest without any complains. I removed 2x 512MB sticks and it's working great at the moment. 1024MB is an overkill for W9x but I was planning to dual boot …

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Re: Video issue with Q3A

Posted on 2016-03-27, 08:13

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by dosfriend

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I would like to avoid alternative engines, as I'm trying to keep the game closest to original. Tried with r_glDriver nvopengl but the game crashes at launch.

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Re: Video issue with Q3A

Posted on 2016-03-26, 20:26

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by dosfriend

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Placed a 0kb glide3x.dll file near Q3 exec but it didn't do anything. No error is shown so I think it isn't switching to glide renderer. Instead it uses opengl32 (Nvidia card) but at 1FPS so I must kill the process and reboot.

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Re: Video issue with Q3A

Posted on 2016-03-25, 16:02

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Thanks for your reply leileilol :) I've tried to set r_maskMiniDriver 1 on q3 cfg but couldn't see any improvement. Also tried to set it to 0 or launch the game with "quake3.exe +set r_glDriver opengl32" as you pointed out on some other thread. So this is the process I'm repeating over and over: 1/ …

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Re: Video issue with Q3A

Posted on 2016-03-24, 09:16

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Tried using 3D control center, but it won't allow me to change the current D3D device, changes between secondary and primary aren't keeping. There should be something really wrong with my setup. If I remove 3DFX drivers, the game works just great using 4600. As soon as I install the voodoo drivers, …

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Video issue with Q3A

Posted on 2016-03-23, 13:10

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My W98 system has dual cards on it: Voodoo2 SLI and GF4600, using 77.72 for Nvidia and 3.02.02 for 3DFX. I would like to run Q3 Arena with the GF card. It works fine but as soon as I change any option on game's video preferences, the GL driver changes from "default" to "voodoo" and I can't change it …

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