Re: ATi Rage 128 Pro on Windows 98

Posted on 2020-11-25, 23:38

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All, Thanks so much for the help and suggestions. I'm working through them sequentially. First thing I did was install a newer version of DirectX straight of the original Call of Duty CD. I've now got DX 9.0b (which I'm surprised works on this card), but things seem to work now, I can run 3Dmark 99 …

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Re: ATi Rage 128 Pro on Windows 98

Posted on 2020-11-24, 22:22

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by JayAlien

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6.1a - I believe this is the version that comes standard with Win98SE

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ATi Rage 128 Pro on Windows 98

Posted on 2020-11-24, 21:30

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Hi, I added a Rage128 Pro to a windows 98 PC and I'm having all sorts of troubles. Main issue is when trying to launch 3Dmark 99, it tells me 'no 3d hardware detected' dxdiag (DX6.1a) lets me run direct draw tests, but not direct 3d. I'm on my 3rd reinstall of windows, as the drivers (from the AMD …

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Re: The Secret of Monkey Island CD version - no audio

Posted on 2020-11-20, 00:59

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by JayAlien

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Thanks for the info, I just confirmed that putting this in a Win98 PC with CD audio cable connected, I am getting music. What's odd is the parameters for sound cards are still listed, throwing me off. Now if someone was feeling generous about disk images on my other thread , I'd be able to play the …

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Re: The Secret of Monkey Island CD version - no audio

Posted on 2020-11-18, 15:27

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by JayAlien

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Not my disk, but my disk looks like this: Thanks, J

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The Secret of Monkey Island CD version - no audio

Posted on 2020-11-18, 14:56

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Hi All, I’ve been wanting to play The Secret of Monkey Island, but my floppy disks are corrupt as mentioned on another thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=77558 I’ve been unable to source disk images, and I purchased the VGA version on CD as a result. Note, original hardware …

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Re: Help with disk images

Posted on 2020-11-18, 14:45

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by JayAlien

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I should note that the disks say VGA, and there is a VGA option from Monkey ? but this is a 16 color version of the game. no, simply not the case. Thanks, J

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Re: Help with disk images

Posted on 2020-11-11, 23:43

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by JayAlien

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Robin4 wrote on 2020-11-09, 23:09: Never read of write on very old floppy disks. Best is the archive them directly with an archive program for diskettes. Yes, most of my floppy disks are archived, but not these. Shame I was looking for a 30th anniversary playthrough. J

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Re: Help with disk images

Posted on 2020-11-09, 19:36

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by JayAlien

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Hi Jo22, thanks for the reply, my copy is the English VGA version. I'm annoyed at myself for not making my own images before the disks corrupted 🙁 J

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Help with disk images

Posted on 2020-11-09, 18:37

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by JayAlien

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Hi All, My MI1 disks have become corrupt, is anyone willing to send me disk images. I have originals, not looking for something I didn't buy (see image below). Thanks, J

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Re: Win98SE and AMD K-6-II speed check

Posted on 2020-10-15, 16:09

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by JayAlien

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Melbar, thanks a lot for spending this time on this, this is so helpful. It looks like moving from a 400Mhz CPU to 550Mhz is netting almost twice the framerate. It's easy to forget the pace of change between about 1995 and 2005 in terms of processor speed and what they could achieve. A new CPU one …

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Re: Win98SE and AMD K-6-II speed check

Posted on 2020-10-15, 01:39

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by JayAlien

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That chart is quite telling. Perhaps I'm expecting too much, it might be time to replace with a Pentium 2 or Pentium 3 system, maybe P3 @ 1000Mhz.

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Re: Win98SE and AMD K-6-II speed check

Posted on 2020-10-14, 20:55

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by JayAlien

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The motherboard is an ASUS P5S-VM, however it's one of the HP ones, I don't think I have all the BIOS options available to me. It looks like the chipset is SiS530/5595. What prompted my initial post, was I'd just installed System Shock 2, which looking at the recommended specs should be easily …

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Win98SE and AMD K-6-II speed check

Posted on 2020-10-14, 01:56

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by JayAlien

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Hi All, I have an 'early' Win98 build with the following specs: Win98SE SBLive!/AWE64 Voodoo 3 3000 256mb ram AMD K6-II 400Mhz ASUS P5S-VM I had initially built this with a Pentium 233 MMX to roughly equate to a PC I had around this time period (only with way more RAM, I had 32-64Mb back in the day …

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Re: Bioshock with EAX

Posted on 2020-04-23, 22:10

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by JayAlien

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Does Bioshock 2 (boxed retail) suffer from the same broken DRM?

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Re: Bioshock with EAX

Posted on 2020-03-08, 18:25

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by JayAlien

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So I got a little further, I extracted the .gz file and placed the bioshock.exe in the folder. When I run this, I'm now prompted for my serial number, but it's telling me it's incorrect. I'm not sure if this is still trying to ping the 2k servers at this point.

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Re: Bioshock with EAX

Posted on 2020-03-04, 15:15

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by JayAlien

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Thanks all for the info, I'll try out some of these suggestions when I have some time at the weekend. J

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Bioshock with EAX

Posted on 2020-03-03, 21:35

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by JayAlien

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Hi All, I'm wondering if someone can help me with this. What I'm trying to do: Play Bioshock with EAX What I have: An XP PC with an x-fi sound card. A retail boxed version of Bioshock. A Steam version of Bioshock I can't install from the retail version as the installer does a 2K games server check, …

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Re: Later Sierra games - DOS 6.22

Posted on 2019-12-20, 14:55

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by JayAlien

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I didn't fully re-install, I ran setup from the windows directory and changed the driver from svga to vga, and it wouldn't boot (I get the splash screen however). I put it back to svga and still no boot...

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Re: Later Sierra games - DOS 6.22

Posted on 2019-12-20, 02:47

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by JayAlien

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OK an update. I got hold of an S3 Virge DX and installed it. It seems GK1 now runs in VESA mode, though I'm not sure I can see the difference. Phantasmagoria runs OK now IF i select general MIDI, won't start if I select the MT-32 audio. I'm going to stick with the S3. Windows 3.11 still won't boot …

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