Re: Toshiba Tecra 720CDT = Great DOS Gaming Laptop
Posted on 2016-11-06, 05:52
Why the heck IS the turbo function key a faucet, anyway? Doesn't make a single lick of sense.
Re: Any Turtle Beach Multisound Classic owners?
Posted on 2016-11-06, 05:46
I own one. Edit: It was a lucky, lucky find for five bucks at a recycle center. My boss was impressed; she told me "wow, only people with a lot of money had those. The rest of us had to make do with Sound Blasters." :-D Knew I'd got something good because SB's are still really good cards, and she …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2016-11-06, 04:13
😲 😲 😲 Wish I had that kind of money. You gonna pair it with a GTX 1080 or something? 🤣 Edit: I'm stupid. The RX480. Duh. Just didn't read your post 😒
Re: VOGONS Driver Library
Posted on 2016-11-06, 02:57
Gramatically incorrect person wrote: TRIDENT VGA ADAPTER'S Times don't change. On the other hand, you would never see this sort of thing in 1887.
Re: identify 486 motherboard
Posted on 2016-11-06, 02:54
Also, your image is broken.
Re: Lowest system you tried for everyday main PC
Posted on 2016-11-05, 19:00
Yes! Precisely. I wish software developers' philosophy would go something like this: "Develop on a Pentium III and make it do everything you wanted it to do, and fast. Only if there's absolutely no way you can make it work without better hardware do you upgrade your development system. Only after …
Re: old video formats for pentium 1
Posted on 2016-11-05, 18:40
We should note that QuickView plays sound in videos about a half step or so sharp.
Re: Lowest system you tried for everyday main PC
Posted on 2016-11-05, 18:33
Before I went to college, the machine I used most was my Pentium/133 desktop in my room. Since all I did on it was word processing, listening to music, and games (I really don't play much of anything except DOS games), it's perfectly sufficient for everything. I also had a dot matrix printer hooked …
Re: Website Check
Posted on 2016-11-04, 18:04
Loads for me. Looks shady.
Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards
Posted on 2016-11-03, 23:52
Well, you know, for the T30 I personally would really recommend keeping it as a Windows 98 machine. DOS is really for Pentium I/II/III stuff, with real DOS sound cards. The Pentium 4 is way, way overkill for DOS. I would look for a Pentium I laptop if you want pure DOS, if I were you. Edit: Wow, …
Re: The curse of retro computing.
Posted on 2016-11-03, 19:03
Well, this is interesting. I always accept requests to work on people's computers, simply because I enjoy it so much. I spent the entire summer this year working at a local computer shop doing pretty much nothing but scrubbing viruses, reinstalling OS's, and fixing registry errors, and I enjoyed …
Re: Toshiba Satellite 330CDT
Posted on 2016-11-02, 14:52
It's the function key with the water faucet on it. No idea why.
Re: Toshiba Satellite 330CDT
Posted on 2016-11-02, 04:07
That's a great machine. I have the 460CDT, which is basically the same thing with a 166MHz MMX and no floppy drive, just CD. I've been very pleased with it for all the reasons you stated above.
Re: Possible to have 4 different windows installs on the same drive?
Posted on 2016-11-01, 20:31
https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-microSD-Memory-SDC-2GB/dp/B0015R2NUW/ref=sr_1_14?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1478032181&sr=1-14&keywords=2gb+sd+card Get three of these. This would be far, far easier than trying to install four separate Windows installations on a 4GB card, where you'd quickly run out …
Re: Full throttle directory 3d
Posted on 2016-10-31, 23:06
Instead of addressing your firefighting I will try to help you with your question: Could you post your DOSBox config file? That might shed some light on this. Perhaps also your full system specs instead of just "Good PC Intel core 7 .quadro card ...16giga of ram" ?
Re: How do you increase the resolution?
Posted on 2016-10-31, 22:58
What I ultimately want to do is open and run some rather old VB3 programs I wrote about 20 years ago. I've managed to get that far but the programs assume a resolution of 800 x 600 so, as it currently stands, you only get to see the top left corner of the applications' screens. I assume you're …
Re: Cursor doesn't move in "real" Windows 3.11
Posted on 2016-10-31, 19:29
By running SETUP from C:\WINDOWS, you should get this: Here you can select your mouse type. I wonder why it's not giving you this?
Re: Cursor doesn't move in "real" Windows 3.11
Posted on 2016-10-31, 17:23
Funny. It should take you to a screen where you can select your hardware configuration.
Re: Cursor doesn't move in "real" Windows 3.11
Posted on 2016-10-31, 17:12
Run C:\WINDOWS\SETUP and select your mouse from the list.
Re: Brutal Doom 64 released for Halloween
Posted on 2016-10-31, 05:48
Blurgh
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