Re: Restoring screen resolution after full-screen mode
Posted on 2022-05-22, 14:09
fullresolution=desktop is more convenient as it means "use current desktop resolution whatever it happens to be"
Re: looking for cheap stereo soundbar for my old rigs
Posted on 2022-05-16, 12:15
ildonaldo wrote on 2022-05-12, 19:19: I've already got a DELL Soundbar for my AX510 monitor and you are right about the sound, but it won't fit with my retro monitor with 4:3 monitor ratio - sorry, but also a "no go" for retro computing 😉 By the way, AX510 is compatible with 2001FP which is a 4:3 …
Re: DOS file size limit
Posted on 2022-05-15, 11:46
However DOS 7.1 does NOT support fileseeks or work with files in excess of (2GB-1) because of the awful longint *signed* filesize limitation. I've been trying to find a version of DOS -- *any* version which does allow *unsigned* longint fileseeks and native support for such files of up to (4GB -1) …
Re: Cirrius logic cl-gd5428 ram upgrade.
Posted on 2022-05-15, 11:01
A 66MHz 486 is extremely borderline for decoding MP3 files at the full 44kHz stereo rate. Conventional wisdom is that for full-rate MP3 decoding, a 100MHz 486 processor is recommended. I don't think it's enough. I was able to play mp3s at mono 44 kHz *or* stereo 22 kHz, but not stereo 44 kHz. Using …
Re: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 VirgeDX / OPTi 82C930 / AWE64
Posted on 2022-05-11, 16:15
Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-06-15, 18:09: This one works perfectly, allowing 800x600 with 24-bit colors. Not sure if there are any Win 3.11 programs that can actually use that color depth Paintbrush 😀
Re: C&C on a 233MMX runs poorly
Posted on 2022-05-07, 21:44
here's a video of starcraft running on a 486SX-25 with 32 mb RAM under win2k , the performance really seems incredible for such a system in my opinion. This looks impressive but below my playability tolerance :) I played Starcraft on a 486 DX4 100 MHz and it was a bit sluggish but very playable. On …
Re: 1MB Video RAM upgrade - are they all standard?
Posted on 2022-05-07, 14:25
I want to put in an extra 1MB (2x512KB) into my IBM PC 330 onboard S3 Trio 64 graphics card - are they all pretty much generic so if it looks like it'll fit then it'll probably work? There is more than one type of them, back in the day I tried to buy additional RAM to my CL-GD5446 (if I remember …
Re: Floppy Drive capability question.
Posted on 2022-04-27, 20:51
Deunan wrote on 2022-04-27, 20:39: * DD 3.5" PC drives are rare, and the floppies even more so Not that rare. A lot of mice or Ethernet cards came with DD floppies with drivers, even when HD floppies were otherwise ubiquitous.
Re: D201GLY2 audio not cooperating under win98se
Posted on 2022-04-17, 11:28
As noted in the original post the graphic driver does indeed have a problem regarding OpenGL support in Windows 98 however its worth mentioning that GLInfo does actually detect a SiS Xabre OpenGL ICD dll and reports extensions ver 1.4 support so it may be a Quake2-specific issue. For the record the …
Re: 4:3 vs. 5:4
Posted on 2022-04-17, 11:09
I guess the years with 16:9 monitor just made it hard to get used to 5:4 again. I remember going back to 4:3 after years of using 16:10 and 16:9 was very weird at the beginning. Nowadays I don't really care much as I regularly use monitors with different AR: dual 4:3 for home PC, a single 16:10 for …
Re: 4:3 vs. 5:4
Posted on 2022-04-16, 23:11
I bought recently 3 20'' inch monitors, 1600x1200. There are many available where I live, paid cca 40 EURO for each of them. I am currently thinking of buying the 4th one, a DELL 2007FP as I am quite sure that these monitors will disappear from the market in the future and the LCD backlights will …
Re: 4:3 vs. 5:4
Posted on 2022-04-16, 23:02
It's still mystifying to me they didn't at least define 1280x960 as a supported resolution. We could have had pixel perfect scaling, but instead we get messy, blurry upscaling and squashed aspect ratios. I remember I used 1280x960 and 1152x864 on my last CRT. So 4:3 resolutions close to 1280x1024 …
Re: Program too big to fit in memory error
Posted on 2022-04-14, 09:03
Re: Dual-booting DOS 6.22 FAT32 & Win98SE FAT32 On Same HDD?
Posted on 2022-03-22, 23:51
gn0me wrote on 2022-03-22, 22:24: Thread resurrection, apologies. I ran into this issue and when using DOS 7.x, some applications identify it as running Win9x and thus won’t complete the install process. SETVER the installer and it should work...
Re: Outlook Express 6 in 2022
Posted on 2022-03-16, 16:16
About Outlook Express 6... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/are-there-any-ppc-email-clients-which-will-be-able-to-continue-using-gmail-after-30-may-2022.2337982/ Not even Outlook 2016? I think I'll consider gradually retiring GMail as my main account because of their hostility towards e-mail …
Re: PS/2 Keyboard for 5 Pin DIN?
Posted on 2022-03-12, 17:33
mouse port (also a mini-DIN) To this day I cannot remember which one (green or purple) is mouse and which is keyboard. I wish those two ports were interchangeable (i.e. mouse vs keyboard autodetection) like USB. A mini-DIN connector (although a 9 pin version) is also used for volume controllers in …
Re: Freedos 1.3
Posted on 2022-03-10, 19:36
Basically, with UEFI the machine boots in 32 or 64 bit mode and has to do Virtual 86 mode to run 16 bit code, which as we all know always works perfectly on all the CPUs from the last decade (sarcasm) So what, small dev team is like "Yah, we'll take this on and handle 1000s of support requests on …
Re: Outlook Express 6 in 2022
Posted on 2022-03-10, 17:15
I don't think it's possible at all considering changes to SSL and TLS encryption over the years and retirement of older versions... You can't use OE6 directly with most e-mail providers anymore due to old unsupported encryption. However, I did have a working setup once, using a Raspberry Pi with …
Re: Can't copy jazzjackrabbit in dos 6.22
Posted on 2022-03-06, 16:02
Use Necromancer's Dos Navigator for example...
Re: AWE CT3900 Win XP SP2
Posted on 2022-03-05, 14:22
Never tried installing AWE32 in WinXP, but you may try a simple external sound mixer which should just do the job without need for any driver hacking…
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