Re: Jazz jackrabbit 1 looking odd on my monitor

Posted on 2024-11-12, 15:25

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by Azarien

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Hmm I suppose it depends on my monitor, but I wonder if I can stretch, squeeze and adjust this thing to appropriately fill the screen, while not having it effect the display in other resolutions which already appear correctly. Will give it a shot tonight. I think part of the tweaked resolution is …

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE dos volume control

Posted on 2024-11-12, 09:48

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by Azarien

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in Marvin \ Sound

https://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=65

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Re: windows 3.11 cant load any program afther changing ram size

Posted on 2024-11-04, 09:21

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by Azarien

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in PC Emulation

Removing the "a" attribute has no purpose if you're going to delete the file anyways.

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Re: What is your personal mouse choice? PS/2 or USB?

Posted on 2024-11-03, 19:09

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by Azarien

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I`ve recently being hit hardly with retro computers bug. I wonder do you have mouse that for you think will work the best for Windows 98/ early XP games?/ My main mouse is Genius NetScroll 220 Laser (PS/2), since about 2010, currently connected to my Ryzen PC running Windows 10. This is my second …

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Re: How do you play your Doom?

Posted on 2024-11-03, 17:17

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by Azarien

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in Windows

Ah-hah. You're right as well. I've just re-installed and loaded it up. Okay, now I just need to figure out what files I need to copy from it. Unless it's just the files from the base folder...? Yes, the whole base folder. You may have to fix the paths in base\master\doomit.cfg to make the Master …

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Re: How do you play your Doom?

Posted on 2024-11-03, 16:47

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by Azarien

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Hmm. Might have to try and find them elsewhere as I have those remasters on Steam, which I had for nothing since owning the originals. Strange that the first Doom isn't listed in my library though. The Steam version of "DOOM + DOOM II" remaster has the originals running under DOSBox, with a nice …

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Re: No DOS files on SD card even though I'm booting from it

Posted on 2024-10-25, 11:30

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by Azarien

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in DOS

The minimal DOS bootable disk has only command.com, io.sys and msdos.sys. The two .sys files are usually hidden, so that normal dir won't show them (try dir /ah ). I don't think your problem with writing floppies is related to how your DOS partition is set up. I haven’t done that yet, and now, …

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Re: Where can I download MS-DOS Editor?

Posted on 2024-10-19, 18:47

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by Azarien

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Errius wrote on 2024-10-18, 20:09: ETA: There's also EDLIN of course, haha Windows 9x doesn't include EDLIN.

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-10-10, 14:31

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by Azarien

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Modern-ish, built my 4th silent mini PC with a J5040-ITX mainboard, works with 32 GB of RAM despite officially supporting 8 GB. The previous three are a J3455-ITX and two Q1900-ITX.

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Re: Windows 9X compatible file managers that work on the latest Windows

Posted on 2024-10-09, 09:14

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by Azarien

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Dos Navigator has also its modern continuation for multiple operating systems (DOS, Windows x86, Windows x64, Linux, etc.) : http://ndn.muxe.com/download/ By the way, the DOS version of NDN is runnable but veeery slooow on my Pentium MMX 233 MHz, making it unusable on real DOS machines (and I can't …

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Re: Windows 9X compatible file managers that work on the latest Windows

Posted on 2024-10-08, 12:03

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by Azarien

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in Windows

The point is to use it to launch InstallShield on games that demand a Windows 9X environment, while the executable file for the InstallShield doesn't apply any compatibility setting on it even when set. I'm not sure I understand this sentence. Do you want to set compatibility settings on a file …

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Re: Jazz Jackrabbit freezes in pure DOS but works in Windows 98

Posted on 2024-09-23, 09:56

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by Azarien

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Boot clean in DOS holding shift down as a test, does it work? Remove/comment things out in config and autoexec to find the culprit. My bet is on the memory manager Yes it works in clean configuration, and now I realized the only thing I need to change is NOEMS to RAM in EMM386 and the game works. …

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Jazz Jackrabbit freezes in pure DOS but works in Windows 98

Posted on 2024-09-22, 10:22

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by Azarien

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in DOS

Jazz Jackrabbit (GOG version) freezes with black screen and blinking cursor on startup. This happens in DOS 7.1 from Windows 98, but the game works fine when run from Windows 98. I tried changing the sound settings, even with no sound but nothing changes. Pentium MMX 233 MHz, AWE 64, TNT2 M64. Most …

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Re: Quake 1.01 very slow and small menus if increasing resolution

Posted on 2024-09-06, 20:49

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by Azarien

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in Marvin \ Software

If you changed the palette to make the game visuals brown, the menu would also become brown and would no longer stand out very well, likely defeating purpose of the whole thing. Unless there was part of the palette which was reserved just for menus. Years ago I modified winquake's software renderer …

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Re: Video TSRs for "modern" AMD Northern Islands graphics?

Posted on 2024-09-06, 14:38

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by Azarien

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in DOS

What I do know but couldn't quote at the moment, is that misc display mode(s) and/or lower resolutions such as 320x200 are "emulation" and/or similar, i.e. the system would output 640x400 instead (?) Weren't 320x200 and such always emulated on VGA by double scanning, such that 320x200 is actually …

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Re: Quake 1.01 very slow and small menus if increasing resolution

Posted on 2024-09-05, 10:07

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by Azarien

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leileilol wrote on 2024-09-05, 06:45: Third-party source ports are all based on a newer codebase (1.09) that removes this brown menu fade and won't exhibit the same behavior. Is there source available of the original effect, so it could be optimized/rewritten as a shader? (without reverse …

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Re: Which TFT with 1080p native resolution also supports 240p DOS VGA output?

Posted on 2024-08-29, 10:48

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by Azarien

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in Marvin \ Video

clb wrote on 2024-08-28, 20:21: Also of note, the regular DOS 80-column OS text prompt was 720x400 pixels in size, not scandoubled. Is a graphics mode 720x400 achievable on a VGA?

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Re: NTLDR missing after copying Win 98 install from one disk to other

Posted on 2024-08-27, 13:22

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by Azarien

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you want rid of 2k and have only 98, then likely fdisk /mbr from a 98 dos bootdisk should fix it. I don't think Win2k is writing a functionally different MBR from Win98. The MBR should be OS-agnostic. What should help is sys c: when booted from Win98 floppy, because the existing boot sector is …

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Re: Crysis (2007) crashes on Windows 10 PCs with newer AMD CPUs

Posted on 2024-08-04, 15:15

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by Azarien

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in Windows

GOG version works out of the box for me, Ryzen 5 3600 + Radeon RX 6600 XT. It crashes because it tries to use 3Dnow! instructions which are no longer supported. Which is the game's fault, not AMD's. Instead of checking for 3dnow support, the game checks whether it is run on an AMD processor. It …

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Re: Quick and easy way to replace MBR?

Posted on 2024-07-28, 08:46

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by Azarien

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in Windows

Disruptor wrote on 2024-07-26, 16:17: And, please never ever create partitions for legacy operating systems with Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 or 11. May I ask why? Two things that come to my mind is inadvertently creating a GPT-partitioned disk, and that annoying 32 GB limit for FAT32 partitions, …

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