Re: Windows 3.11 and a Nvidia FX3500 card - how to get 32k, 64k, or 16M color support?

Posted on 2023-11-05, 17:49

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by sneeker

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Ive got a quadro 280 working in windows 3.11 which is a little older (fx 5200 spec) but only in 256 colours using this driver, tried googling for it to provide a link but two of the links I tried didnt work. Theres no proper drivers for anything newer then a tnt2 by nvidia for win 3.x, it would be a …

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Re: Insufficient power delivery on the Asus TX97 Socket 7 board?

Posted on 2023-10-27, 23:02

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ive got an Asus Sp97-v which is a cheaper sis based socket 7 board that also has the same power delivery comments made for it, came with a p233mmx that I guess has been there since it was new, Ive had it a 262mhz for 2 years without issues.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-10-27, 20:17

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mini discs where semi popular here in the uk in the mid 90's as they was smaller then a cd player but better then a walkman (in theory) so quite a few people had them at college for their bus journeys to and from college. I stuck with a walkman until I got an mp3 player in the early 00's

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Re: Pentium MMX 233 aiming for the stars!

Posted on 2023-10-17, 17:52

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in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Been playing around with my windows 95 P233MMx today, its an Asus SP97-v with the video disabled, 64mb of edo, windows 95 osr 2.5 and a pci nvidia quadro 280, which the drivers see as a fx5200. Motherboard only has jumper settings for upto 75mhz, I have got a modded bios installed from 2002 that is …

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Re: Hostage: The Rescue Mission

Posted on 2023-10-08, 19:22

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Had a feeling it sounded familier, its called hostages in europe. I played it on the amiga back in the day, you could try running the amiga version under winuae, Ive ran it on a real A1200 with whdload and it was fine, even with an 040 and Workbench 3.2On the Amiga it came out when an A500 was the …

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Re: Mame, so it begins.......

Posted on 2023-10-04, 16:06

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Been playing around with Mame for 20ish years, never built a cab or anything but used quite a few front ends with it as well. Ive just always used a Hori Ps3 stick that Ive had years, have a couple of other sticks like the namco ps1 stick and an official ps1 stick as well, the namco is easily the …

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Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support

Posted on 2023-09-27, 23:06

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in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Ive used a virge dx but my p233 currently has a pci quadro 280, so basically an fx5200. Ive got windows 3.11 in 1280x1024 in true colour, works fine under windows 95 as well. So you should be ok with a geforce 2 using the driver from https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=62185 as I think thats the …

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Re: C64 fans seem to me more passionate and committed than retro-computing fans

Posted on 2023-09-26, 21:07

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in Milliways

in Milliways

I think in general, as a scene commodore's have more people around them then retro pc's. Im not much of an 8 bit commodore fan, but theres c64 motherboards, replacements for the sid chip, numourus floppy drive replacements, new cases have been made and thats just the stuff off the top of my head, …

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Re: Was there ever really an MS-DOS 6.23, 6.24 or 6.25 or is it an urban myth?

Posted on 2023-07-29, 00:01

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in Marvin \ Software

After a bit of searching I found it.. Dos 7.0 Beta on Blobby 14 I must of tried this one back in the day I think on my 486. Its on the archive.

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Re: Was there ever really an MS-DOS 6.23, 6.24 or 6.25 or is it an urban myth?

Posted on 2023-07-15, 14:25

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by sneeker

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in Marvin \ Software

I dont think there was officially any newer then 6.22, but Im pretty sure there was a version of 7.0 without windows 95 floating around in around 1994 that was on a few pirate cd's around that time.

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Re: CD/DVD

Posted on 2023-06-23, 15:17

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in Milliways

Hundreds of cd's in the last few months, I picked up a load of blank media a while ago, mainly Philips and Imation cd's. Burnt them all at 8x or 16x on my modernish pc. Found so many things I used to use back in the day and put them all onto my p233, its probably better set up software wise then my …

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Re: ISO on\for DOS?

Posted on 2023-06-16, 15:19

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Having less then 500kb base memory should be easy to sort, even with mscdex loaded I managed to get 627k of base memory with keyboard/mouse/cd/soudblaster drivers all loaded, you should manage to get high 500k's of base memory available for dos software. Whats you config.sys/autoexec.bat look like? …

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Re: When buying a 486 motherboard back in the day. What accessories came with it?

Posted on 2023-06-09, 00:23

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by sneeker

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think my 486 was just a motherboard, an anti static bag, and a manual in a box, later I got a Vesa Isa and Pci board 2nd hand and I think it just had onboard ide. It wasnt until I got my pentium I had on board serial and parrallel, ide etc.

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Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?

Posted on 2023-05-20, 23:31

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by sneeker

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in Marvin \ Software

Why are you using drivespace at all? drive space is chaep so using compression is pretty pointless nowerdays, especially as you can use fat32 with win98se. Im running win95 osr2 dos on my p233 and have dos high,umb in config.sys. also try a program called umbpci which gives a bit more memory and …

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Re: Macintosh LC III+ VS Performa 476

Posted on 2023-05-18, 15:30

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by sneeker

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

An 040 is noticably quicker, On my Amiga 1200, I went from a 40mhz 030 with really fast ram, to a 33,hz 040 with normal 60ns edo and its 2-3x faster depending on what your doing, ram access is slower but you dont really notice. Lack of an FPU would make a differance oer a full 040, but as you dont …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-05-14, 18:26

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by sneeker

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They will be ide, I think the Mitsumi Fx400 onwards where all ide, just the single speed and 2x where mitsumi interfaces, Toshiba are all ide from memory, I had a 6x one back in the day. Creative branded wise the Panasonic 562/563 where a Panasonic, but again once they did 4x they became ide. I had …

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Re: Netwoking on a Windows 98 PC - Security concerns

Posted on 2023-05-08, 23:20

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by sneeker

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not done it with my retro pc yet running windows 95, but my amiga1200 is networked, and from that I just ftp to my desktop. Seems the simplest way and I will probably be doing the same from my retro pc in the next week or so when I get a long enough cable.

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Re: Partition visibility in DOS

Posted on 2023-04-23, 22:28

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in Marvin \ Software

Windows 95 can be fat32, osr2 onwards brought fat32 but that was oem only at the time. So a dos 6.22 boot disk wouldnt work. I tried the same earlier as I have win95 and win3.11 on the same drive, both run fine only problem Im finding is the awedrivers for win3.11 wont install because its dos 7.1, …

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Spoof Dos version? AWE64 Driver issues for Windows 3.1.

Posted on 2023-04-23, 21:55

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by sneeker

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in Marvin \ Software

Ive been setting up a p233mmx, s3 virge and Sb AWE64 Value with windows 95, windows 3.11 and Windows 95 dos 7. I have all 3 installed and running, the problem I am having is with the Windows 3.1 software for the AWE64. The driver cd that is available on the internet archive supposedly works with …

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Re: Best way to split Win 98 HDD if using DOS as well

Posted on 2023-04-21, 22:28

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by sneeker

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ive just used the whole disk as fat32 and boot into the windows dos. Installing 6.22 would limit me to 2gb partitions. with a bit of messing around, you can even get windows 3.1 installed under dos 7.x and run that from dos.

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