Re: Trying to compile JWLink with DosBox, dos4gw arg list too big

Posted on 2021-04-19, 16:12

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by cprieto

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Thanks @DosFreak, nah, I already tried with different versions and just to make sure, tried to do the same in a physical machine and the same error happens (just in case, the version packed with OpenWatcom 1.9 is DOS4GW 1.97). I will see if I can find a place where I can ask people about this DOS4GW …

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Re: Trying to compile JWLink with DosBox, dos4gw arg list too big

Posted on 2021-04-18, 17:27

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by cprieto

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Thanks @DosFreak, I changed the title because the problem is easily reproducible with DosBox. Any idea what is happening?

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Trying to compile JWLink with DosBox, dos4gw arg list too big

Posted on 2021-04-18, 14:33

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by cprieto

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I am trying to compile JWLink (https://github.com/JWasm/JWlink) in DosBox for DOS, I already have OpenWatcom 1.9 installed and everything was working fine until I got the following error with dos4gw : DOS/4G Protected Mode Run-time Version 2.01a Copyright (c) Tenberry Software, Inc 1996 \watcom\binw …

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Re: PC-Chips M811... is dead?

Posted on 2021-04-10, 09:54

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by cprieto

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Thanks @chrismeyer6 and @majestyk, I measured the voltage of the battery: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=107345 But guess what, I went and got a new battery and replaced it anyway, it works now! In any case, this is a pic of the mobo, thanks a lot for your help folks! https:// …

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PC-Chips M811... is dead?

Posted on 2021-04-09, 17:16

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by cprieto

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A few weeks ago I acquired a old stock M811, in a box, sealed, not touched (even with that "smell of new") and I was planning to use it as a Win2k/XP machine for some retro adventures (yeah, I consider WinXP and 2K old now). The thing is, I connected the motherboard to the PSU, put a Duron 800 chip …

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ABit AB-PT5 CMOS battery?

Posted on 2021-04-07, 14:20

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by cprieto

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I got a ABit AB-PT5 rev 2.11 mobo a few months ago but now I am getting the dreaded error (at boot time): CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded CMOS battery failed Ok, I get it, the battery is dead but where is the battery? I cannot find anything like a battery in the mobo to replace :| Reading the …

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Re: 4GB disk in an old 486?

Posted on 2021-04-05, 13:21

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by cprieto

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Thanks everybody, your answers has been pretty helpful, I was able to use OnTrack Disk Manager to handle a 2GB SD card without problems (I will be using FAT16 for my "experiments"). The only thing I am dealing with are problems related to using a 512MB CF adapter (it works fine with an SD to IDE …

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4GB disk in an old 486?

Posted on 2021-04-04, 20:16

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by cprieto

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I got a nice 486 mobo (OPTi 486WB Mainboard) with an AMI BIOS, this board comes without IDE or FDD controllers so I got a LCS-6624G Winbond ISA controller to connect a floppy disk drive and an SDD IDE card adapter with a 4GB SDD card. The BIOS is kind of old (I think around 1990-92) and I noticed it …

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Re: Creative CT4810 and Windows 3.1x?

Posted on 2021-01-26, 17:51

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by cprieto

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Just in case anyone has the same question as I had, I actually made it work with this driver http://turkeys4me.byethost4.com/programs/index.htm , just download the Creative AudioPCI ens1371/1373 driver Version X and, as in the instructions, just add the following line in the drivers section: [ …

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Re: PCI Sound card for Windows 3.11 & Dos 6.22?

Posted on 2021-01-26, 17:41

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by cprieto

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I know this is a very old thread but I want to report my experiences with some of the info showed here: I own a Creative CT4810, with a much newer chip (CT2518) and I tried the same driver for ES1371 and as many others, it just installs and tells you that it will restart Windows and nothing happens. …

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Creative CT4810 and Windows 3.1x?

Posted on 2021-01-25, 20:37

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by cprieto

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I got my hands in a Creative CT4810 with what I think is a CT2518-DAO, I had been able to make this card work nicely with the same drivers as the Ensoniq AudioPCI in DOS (using the APINIT and APLOAD files) and based in some conversations I found in Vogons (like this one and the links it mentions …

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Re: ES1938 and Windows 3.1?

Posted on 2021-01-24, 12:11

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by cprieto

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Thanks @Srandista, I found the driver in the same place this morning and what about to post asking how can I put it in the vogons drivers database. Thanks!

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ES1938 and Windows 3.1?

Posted on 2021-01-23, 22:44

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by cprieto

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I had been looking for ES1938 drivers for Windows 3.1x and so far I had not been able to find anything in the net, I know they exist (it is listed in the ESS webpage in the wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20020602081322/http://www.esstech.com/techsupp/drivers.shtm#pci but I cannot see …

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Re: Weird black smudges in relative "high" resolutions in Windows 3.1 with a VGA LCD

Posted on 2021-01-21, 19:57

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by cprieto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a new cable, everything works like a charm now! Thanks everybody!

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Re: Weird black smudges in relative "high" resolutions in Windows 3.1 with a VGA LCD

Posted on 2021-01-20, 17:17

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by cprieto

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thanks @dionb and @megatron-uk, I think it could be the cable, it was something I got extremely cheap months ago, I will be ordering a new shorter and more nicer cable to try again. About the resolution, I actually tried with the native resolution for that screen with the MGA (1280x1024) and the …

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Weird black smudges in relative "high" resolutions in Windows 3.1 with a VGA LCD

Posted on 2021-01-20, 15:54

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by cprieto

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Hello everyone... I recently got a new LCD for my retro stuff (19" SyncMaster 940b) and I had been trying a few PCI and AGP video cards and noticed something weird: IMG_20210120_155205.jpg As you may see, there are weird ghost lines and black smudges in the image, the same happens in other parts of …

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Re: Tool to report or check how much VRAM is provided by the video card?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 17:20

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by cprieto

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Thanks @kixs, both DrHard and AIDA are exactly what I needed!

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Tool to report or check how much VRAM is provided by the video card?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 14:44

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by cprieto

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Is out there any command line tool (MSDOS would be fantastic) to report how much Video RAM has my old VGA (PCI/ISA/AGP) video card? I had been looking around and Sysinfo 8 only reports that the video card has more than 256Kb of VRAM. Thanks a lot for any help!

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Re: OS/2, what is "not that fast" enough...

Posted on 2020-12-10, 19:09

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by cprieto

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If anyone is interested, I did a few tests and apparently the fastest CPU you can use (without patching the files) is i486DX2 CPUs, anything faster than that (for example, i486DX4/75) won't boot at all without patching the installation files.

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Re: OS/2, what is "not that fast" enough...

Posted on 2020-12-09, 22:49

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by cprieto

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A little more information about installing OS/2, apparently the versions facing the run problem are 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3 (see http://www.os2museum.com/wp/installing-os2-1-x-in-a-virtualbox-vm/), though it mentions 386 as "fast" in other documents it mentions 486 as well (https://www.os2museum.com/ …

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