Re: Windows 95 *actual* minimum system requirements?

Posted on 2019-03-12, 17:34

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I've run Windows 95 on 386SX 20MHz, 8MB ram and some random 512k videocard on a 99MB HDD. It was awfully slow, but it worked. We had a Am386SX 25MHz (the 16-bit data bus one), 4MB RAM and an Oak videocard. We tried the Chicago pre-release, and it took more than a day just to install. My older …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-07, 20:01

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Reading the reddit thread reminded me of how I had to do enable mono playback in Winamp to be able to play MP3s on my Am486-DX4 oc'ed to 120MHz, otherwise playback would skip every now and then. That also meant it was listening to music and nothing else. Now, if I reeeally felt like pumping up the …

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Re: AMD 486 dx4 100Mhz thoughts

Posted on 2019-03-06, 19:23

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Reading the reddit thread reminded me of how I had to do enable mono playback in Winamp to be able to play MP3s on my Am486-DX4 oc'ed to 120MHz, otherwise playback would skip every now and then. That also meant it was listening to music and nothing else. Now, if I reeeally felt like pumping up the …

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Re: How to get AWE32's wavetable working in DOS?

Posted on 2019-03-01, 17:13

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ Sound

This only works on real-mode games. Any game with a DOS extender (like DOS4gw) will crash as soon as it tries to playback music.

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Re: Getting GLQuake running in DOS

Posted on 2019-02-27, 16:20

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ Software

I think GLQuake is windows only? https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/GLQuake

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Re: Party like it's 1999 with a 6x86

Posted on 2019-01-16, 13:10

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I had a 486 DX4 oclked to 120mhz for most of 1999. As others have said, it's what hardware you had then that matters. Later that year I got an Athlon 550 and a TNT2.... and that changed everything 😀

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Re: Dual boot setup question: Win98SE and Win2K

Posted on 2018-12-13, 15:04

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

dionb wrote: oeuvre wrote: C0deHunter likes his file systems like his women... FAT and 32 Very fortunate for the women in question he doesn't like ReiserFS 😈 I spilled my coffee. Cheers to you 😀

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Re: Pentium Pro hardware lot inventory. Pics for kicks.

Posted on 2018-12-12, 18:11

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

NSFW 😀

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Re: Any list of laptops with GeForce 2Go/ATi Mobility and support 98SE?

Posted on 2018-12-07, 15:41

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ Video

The Compaq Evo in my signature has one, and I'm running ME on it so I'm sure you could run 98SE if you'd like, but the lack of a Sound Blaster-compatible audio codec makes it useless for real-mode DOS gaming.

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Re: Acer Travelmate 603TER - great retrogaming laptop, but how to replace CMOS battery?

Posted on 2018-11-19, 23:07

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So it turns out it was actually under the system board...

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Re: Acer Travelmate 603TER - great retrogaming laptop, but how to replace CMOS battery?

Posted on 2018-11-19, 14:51

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/53771/replacement+of+cmos+battery+in+an+Acer+Travelmate+600 Maybe it's the same for the 600 series? Spot on, my dear friend! I recognize this board is the same as mine from what I could disassemble so far. Thank you SO much! :) I'll probably make a post dedicated …

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Acer Travelmate 603TER - great retrogaming laptop, but how to replace CMOS battery?

Posted on 2018-11-18, 22:34

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've recently bought an Acer Travelmate 603TER laptop- it's got a PIII 700, 256mb of SDRAM, the original 11Gb hard-disk (no bad blocks, surprisingly), and comes with the ESS-Solo1 onboard audio chip, even though being PCI, has great compatibility under real-mode DOS. All is fine and dandy, however, …

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Re: Pinball Fantasies no-scroll patch for dosbox 0.65

Posted on 2018-11-02, 23:07

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by bregolin

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Just wanted to say this patch is awesome! Thank you felipe.sanches and sirlee for the patch and the compiled Windows binary 😀

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Re: Trying to install an old game in DOSBox (Win10 system)

Posted on 2018-06-18, 18:50

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by bregolin

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Check this out: http://www.toptensoftware.com/win3mu/ - I've read it on another thread here, and this may solve your problem.

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Re: How do I screen record with Windows 95?

Posted on 2018-06-18, 18:48

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by bregolin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There used to be an old screen capture software called HyperCam- though I don't think it would be capable of capturing full screen gameplay footage, but one could try 😀

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Re: Speed-sensitive problem with DOOM benchmark

Posted on 2018-06-06, 17:33

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ Software

Wow. Ok. I have seen this before, I think I was running it on a 486 as well; back then we had an AM486 DX4-100 overclocked to 120MHz, and I *think* it was an UCM chipset as well, though I don't recall anything else from this set up as it's long gone. But the commom links are AMD and UMC chipset. We …

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Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS

Posted on 2018-05-24, 16:58

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'm just posting to wish a happy 10 year threadversary 😀

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Re: Anyone in Brazil/Brasil help me out?

Posted on 2018-05-04, 15:23

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by bregolin

in Milliways

in Milliways

If I can't get a hold of the seller (or he get a hold of me, thats a better description), then I would love for you to be the "middle man". I've been searching forever for a boxed Mach32 EISA for my EISA machine. I finally found a Compaq Qvision 1280/E, and now the Mach32 EISA is eyeing at me from …

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Re: Anyone in Brazil/Brasil help me out?

Posted on 2018-05-04, 15:21

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by bregolin

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I don't really like the public message system. A few years ago I wanted to buy M919 cache modules from the same site. I got help from a Vogons member but in the end he bought the modules and kept them for himself :lol: And my M919 board is still without the cache :( So unfortunate... hopefully he's …

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Re: Anyone in Brazil/Brasil help me out?

Posted on 2018-05-03, 22:33

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by bregolin

in Milliways

in Milliways

Also, if the seller is willing to, they can ship it out to you independently from the Mercado Livre (Entrega a combinar com o vendedor - Delivery of the item to be arranged between buyer and seller, outside of the platform), and you can pay for the item using your international credit card, and the …

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