Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-02-07, 09:22
Please add an option to disable customized mouse cursors. I didn't notice this at first, but now I'm on a high dpi monitor and the cursor is tiny compared to what I have set in Windows.
Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS
Posted on 2020-02-06, 19:32
The contrast between "blurple" background and white text is too high in my opinion. Make the text less white? just slightly gray. So I went to the old skool color setting, but now the black font is too thin. I don't like the font regardless of colors. On the main page, there's too much space …
Re: Customize Windows XP to look like 95
Posted on 2020-02-06, 19:02
Also the "slow shell" is an IE4+ feature designed for Win95 that's integrated by default on Win98 and after. I remember the "slow shell" on Win95 had some ugly circle design in every folder window, later replaced by clouds in Win98 and squares in WinMe. On a 486 100 Mhz it was noticeably slower …
Re: Running DOS on modern hardware is impossible
Posted on 2019-12-15, 21:56
If this all fails, it would be still possible to use VMs to run DOS semi-natively. As in: DOS can still run "natively" on a virtualized x86 processor, but the rest of the PC environment is emulated/mapped. One can imagine a specialized Linux distro with nothing but QEMU (or something similar) on it …
Re: can't get full screen in dos games
Posted on 2019-12-15, 21:37
Some laptops have the scaling option in BIOS setup. My Toshiba Satellite does.
Re: Recommend me a good 4:3 LCD monitor for hybrid modern/retro usage
Posted on 2019-11-25, 18:38
I'm using dual 2001FP (2x1600x1200). I've heard it's not an ideal monitor for DOS resolutions. I haven't tried real DOS yet on this machine, but all the DOSBox games work well in various resolutions, as well as older 4:3 games for Windows. For newer wide-screen optimized games, I've added 1600x900 …
Re: 35 years of Arctic Sea Ice Age
Posted on 2019-10-04, 20:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtWTZIFgL_w We may guess it was even bigger before Except there's not really a big difference. There's more white color in 1980's than in 2010's, but the overall ice sheet in e.g. April 1984 is almost the same size as in April 2018. So is August 1984 vs August 2018. …
Re: Dos 6 and win98 together
Posted on 2019-09-22, 19:44
Or... you can just use 98. There isn't much that wouldn't work in DOS 7.1
Re: /3GB switch on 32-bit Windows
Posted on 2019-09-03, 22:58
As far as I remember, only Server/Workstation editions of 32-bit Windows ever supported more than 4GB of physical memory. One reason why is that device drivers have to be aware of PAE. Technically, PAE mode is always enabled in 32-bit Windows since Vista I think, but due to faulty drivers issue it …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-08-19, 17:29
I've seen discussion that some drivers (especially Intel graphics) don't work with 32b PAE, but I've had no problems so far in this thing. I'd like to point out that on 32-bit Windows 7 the PAE mode is always enabled (but with a 4 GB limit), so "PAE patch" is to be understood as "patch for PAE", …
Re: /3GB switch on 32-bit Windows
Posted on 2019-08-13, 20:58
All 32-bit programs/processes in Windows (even running in a 64-bit OS flavour) are limited to 2GB user address space. When a program reaches that limit, it gets terminated by the OS. There is no automatic termination by the OS when an application reaches some memory limit. All the OS does is that …
Re: Getting rid of life meter in Gobliiins 1
Posted on 2019-07-28, 10:17
Re: Geforce256 vs Geforce2MX
Posted on 2019-06-27, 16:22
Is there any advantage in GeForce 2MX in terms of supported APIs/effects/shaders?
Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?
Posted on 2019-06-21, 13:41
Maybe not if they are from the same mfg (different versions of drivers from the same GPU mfg will not work together), but from what I am finding, people back in the XP days were indeed running two different brands of video cards in XP at the same time. I remember having Radeon HD3850 (or similar) …
Re: windows 98 se swap file on swap partition?
Posted on 2019-06-20, 18:38
Why not just keep swap on system partition, as is the default?
Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup - theoretically?
Posted on 2019-06-18, 18:25
I'm using Radeon HD7850 on my XP machine. I believe the last Radeon with XP support is HD7870, but I chose 7850 because it was significantly cheaper and not that much slower in benchmarks. How far back does the game compatibility go with that card? I'm not sure how to answer this question because …
Re: Debugging assembly with rhide
Posted on 2019-06-18, 17:07
Few years ago (and I mean like 2 or 3, not 20) there were major changes in DJGPP and GDB (the format of debugging symbols changed, if I remember correctly) so it may well be that Rhide is no longer compatible with current DJGPP and GDB. So you may want to try older versions (before 2015 or so) of …
Re: steam-dos - does it count as DOSBox frontend?
Posted on 2019-05-24, 23:35
dreamer_ wrote: Subversion makes it really inconvenient. You can always use git-svn.
Re: Does anyone else prefer ME over 98?
Posted on 2019-05-12, 17:34
I like Me's look&feel over 98, but from today's perspective of a retro machine I think it's better to use 98SE if you need DOS, and 2K or XP if you don't.
Re: Microwave oven interferes with CRT?!
Posted on 2019-05-12, 17:24
b) CRTs are sensitive to magnetic fields; their flyback units are akin to strong electro magnets I had a CRT so sensitive that it needed degaussing after rotating the monitor by 90 degrees on its stand. My theory was that sudden change of monitor's orientation with respect to Earth's magnet is …
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