Re: My P3 Retro DOS PC
Posted on Yesterday, 21:28
I have heard that maybe some Yamaha PCI cards have good compatibility, but I have no personal experience with them.
Re: Good DOS WYSIWYG word processor?
Posted on Yesterday, 21:26
Caluser2000 wrote on Yesterday, 20:55: Have you started your own yet? The request was pretty much a pipe dream in the first place. I'd love to, if I can find the time =)
Re: My P3 Retro DOS PC
Posted on Yesterday, 20:08
Your mod players sound bad because not many PCI sound cards work well with DOS. You have to have drivers to provide emulation of an ISA sound card, which causes problems. What you need is a real ISA sound card, but your motherboard doesn't have an ISA slot.
Re: Good DOS WYSIWYG word processor?
Posted on Yesterday, 20:06
Very interesting. Cool program, but it is quite slow, unfortunately.
Re: My P3 Retro DOS PC
Posted on Yesterday, 19:17
I would suggest getting rid of DOSLFN unless you really need it. Plus, put the CD drivers under a menu option so you only use them if you need them.
Re: My P3 Retro DOS PC
Posted on Yesterday, 16:21
If your motherboard has an ISA slot, then definitely use an ISA sound card. You won't lose anything in Windows 98, and DOS will work much better. Look for Sound Blaster 16, Yamaha YMF, ESS, etc. For the CPU being too fast, some games can be patched to fix this (e.g. Jazz Jackrabbit). For memory …
Re: My P3 Retro DOS PC
Posted on Yesterday, 15:36
Your incompatibilities are common with later PIII machines such as this one. Probably most of them are due to memory management though, or the CPU being too fast for certain games, or the sound card not being ISA.
How far could I push a dual Slot 1 motherboard?
Posted on 2020-06-03, 20:44
I have a dual Slot 1 motherboard from an old Dell Poweredge server. I think it might be interesting to see how far I can push it in terms of performance. Perhaps I get some Slotket adapters to put some 1.4 GHz Tualatins in there. Maybe a PCI SATA card with an SSD would be nice, and maybe USB 3 too. …
Re: Dosbox 0.75?
Posted on 2020-05-21, 16:31
This might be the longest we have ever gone without a new thread on 0.75.
Re: DOS icing on the cake
Posted on 2020-05-19, 15:50
My usual thing is my personal custom install (this is for 386+ machines): MS-DOS 7.1 DOS folder with all the usual utilities and stuff, plus: FDISK from FreeDOS (appears identical, but less limited than original FDISK) JEMMEX CTMOUSE CONFIG.SYS with a menu containing various memory management …
Re: Model M keyboard with PC/AT instead of (stock) Model F: strange issue
Posted on 2020-05-12, 18:55
Do a pull up resistors mod on the clock and data line inside the keyboard. What exactly do you mean by this? I cannot find any information about this mod on the web. Maybe the BIOS is too old for the Model M ( doesn't support the newer scancodes ) ? Perhaps. But I don't necessarily want to modify …
Model M keyboard with PC/AT instead of (stock) Model F: strange issue
Posted on 2020-05-11, 14:51
My PC/AT originally came with a Model F keyboard. I've been using it with that since I got it. But I also own a Model M keyboard, from the PS/2 era. I have a PS/2 to AT adapter so I thought what the heck, I'll try hooking this up to the AT. So far it works great, with one exception. The arrow keys …
Retro videoconferencing experiments thread
Posted on 2020-05-05, 17:21
This thread is a place people can share tips and tricks for doing video or voice communcations on retro systems. So far I have experimented with Microsoft NetMeeting on the Windows 9x and XP platforms. For the uninitiated, MS NetMeeting is a fully fledged videoconferencing program distributed by …
Re: What games for a 286-6
Posted on 2020-05-05, 15:36
You could even run Wolfenstein 3D on it but it will be absurdly slow. I know because I've tried 🤣.
Re: WebOne - proxy for old browsers to make them Web 2.0-capable
Posted on 2020-04-28, 13:58
ATauenis, I'm curious, what are the prerequisites (on the client side) for using the YouTube conversion parts of WebOne? I want to try to use it on my retro machines, but I'm not sure how that's supposed to work.
Re: Cleaning off disintegrating rubber feet from laptop.
Posted on 2020-04-27, 17:54
Goo Gone
Re: Windows 3.11 vs. Windows 95
Posted on 2020-04-21, 16:55
Windows 95 will be suboptimal with only 16 MB of RAM. Yes it will work but you'll wish you had more; it'll basically become a single-tasking OS if you don't want to use your swapfile all the time.
Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread
Posted on 2020-04-12, 14:16
@keenmaster486: I remembered the struggle we had to get Outlook to work, and I found something, there's a special version of Outlook 97 for Windows 3.1, but that was made for MS exchange server, unfortunately. Ah yes, I remember seeing that too. I think the only viable solution for this is to set …
Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga
Posted on 2020-04-11, 18:52
The Thinkpad 701C has arrived. I'm working on it now. First impressions: hardware is good. Very compatible with DOS games, at least the ones I've tried. Windows 3.1 is working splendidly. Battery needs rebuilt (currently in progress). The RAM stick in it is intermittent, may need replacing. Rubber …
Re: How do I buy activate Windows XP in 2020?
Posted on 2020-04-09, 23:39
(¬‿¬)
Page 1 of 102