Re: Galaxy Word Processor 3.0

Posted on 2025-01-02, 10:57

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https://www.vogons.org/ucp.php?mode=terms Donate commercially unavailable copyrighted works of historical interest to the Internet Archive If you do don't [...] hint on how to acquire it. So am I reading this right, simply stating "I have followed the rules and donated [the work] to the Internet …

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Re: Running pinball dreams on older hardware issues

Posted on 2024-12-31, 13:52

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by elszgensa

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Iirc some of these DOS pinball titles sometimes did weird stuff with their video output. I'm totally just guessing but maybe it's iterating through video modes trying to find one capable of doing... something ... before eventually timing out and falling back to a lowest common denominator one? Have …

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Re: New project : MixerBay - audio mixer for the 3.5" drive bay

Posted on 2024-12-30, 17:08

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by elszgensa

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My immediate suggestion would be to replace the 3.5mm internal jacks with 4-pin headers instead. Pretty much my first though. Either that, or at least include the necessary footprints and offer a version with the jacks kept unpopulated. Definitely gotta have a beige panel as an option. Or some …

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Re: Help finding drivers for a webcam.

Posted on 2024-12-30, 10:39

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by elszgensa

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Vendor ID 0x0957 is "Agilent Technologies, Inc." (which seems a bit odd since they mostly do lab measuring equipment? But maybe that's just a name clash); I haven' found a direct match for Product ID 0x0201, but its neighbours 0x0200 and 0x0202 are both used for an "E-Video DC-350 Camera", so that's …

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Re: Carmageddon 1, CD music not playing?

Posted on 2024-12-28, 21:38

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by elszgensa

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Are you running the game in true DOS, or within Windows? PCGW mentions that "On Windows, CD music might not play correctly".

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Re: Patched Windows games from GOG on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-12-27, 17:26

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by elszgensa

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So there may be some... I for one can't say I've run into any of those yet, so my point of needing to examine them closer still stands.

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Re: Patched Windows games from GOG on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-12-27, 17:19

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by elszgensa

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Also since the GOG store version breaks compatibility with the original OS then as far as the DMCA is concerned it's allowed. (gog galaxy dependency) Nope. Galaxy is entirely optional, you're free to ignore it and manually download the installers from the website instead, so this is not a blanket …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-12-27, 12:31

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by elszgensa

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The notices are sounding ominous, "back up your files now!" like they are gonna disable Win 10 Maybe not the entire OS, but I wouldn't be surprised if they shut down access to services like OneDrive because "this is [now] an insecure device" or whatever - and seeing how they pushed and tricked …

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Re: Patched Windows games from GOG on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-12-27, 11:37

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by elszgensa

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Yep that would be the cause. There's multiple ways to hook CD audio redirection into a program. The most common two are to drop an override .dll in the same dir as the exe, with the same name as a dll that that exe already loads; or, patch the exe to load a differently named dll. If you see a "winmm …

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Re: trigger ATX psu with an AT switch

Posted on 2024-12-24, 23:31

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by elszgensa

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Here's an idea: Leave the power switch disconnected and use Reset for power instead. One of them would've ended up unused anyways - might as well use the one that gives you the least amount of trouble. Just hook it up to the mainboard where the ATX momentary power button would've gone, and that's …

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Re: trigger ATX psu with an AT switch

Posted on 2024-12-24, 14:31

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by elszgensa

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I might've made a boo-boo earlier. The ATX push buttons are momentary, but get connected to a pin header on the mainboard, not the PSU. The power signal pins on the ATX connector (which are probably what you saw getting paperclipped) stay shortened until the mobo decides to release them. So if you …

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Re: trigger ATX psu with an AT switch

Posted on 2024-12-24, 13:40

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by elszgensa

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Technically possible, though not in the way you're probably thinking of. To start an ATX PSU you need to momentarily short two pins, while an AT style switch closes the connection permanently. If you're okay with flipping the switch to on and then immediately back to off again to turn the machine on …

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Re: Windows 10 (general use and browsing) is it better to have a CPU with more cores or more MHz?

Posted on 2024-12-23, 09:50

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by elszgensa

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The Win 10 2019 LTSC has extended support thru January 2029....so there are still Win10 options....fwiw Just don't count on third party apps continuing to receive updates built to run on those. Many devs don't care, so like many times before, once Visual Studio stops targeting an older system by …

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Re: Crusader: No Remorse (demo) not rendering background graphics?

Posted on 2024-12-22, 20:24

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by elszgensa

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I know you only mentioned DOS and no Windows of any sort, but just in case you do try run it from within Windows: Don't. This is a very picky title. Does Ultima 8, which is on the same engine, show a similar issue? Maybe there's a fix for that one that's applicable to you.

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Re: Windows 10 (general use and browsing) is it better to have a CPU with more cores or more MHz?

Posted on 2024-12-22, 18:37

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by elszgensa

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Not sure whether the BIOS checks that... but assuming it doesn't and simply lets you go over the board's power budget, then the most likely issue I'd expect to encounter would be for the VRMs to give out under load, leading to voltage sag, leading to an unstable system.

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Re: Windows 10 (general use and browsing) is it better to have a CPU with more cores or more MHz?

Posted on 2024-12-22, 12:27

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by elszgensa

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I won't comment on that because I don't know which other CPUs your board might take, nor the specs of them, nor what your exact workload is (your post included "etc." which from my experience most of the time does a lot of heavy lifting), nor do I have time to look into all of that. What you …

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Re: Necroware Dallas chip, which one?

Posted on 2024-12-22, 12:09

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by elszgensa

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SO/SSOP-24 refer the package size of the clock IC used on (the underside of) the adapter pcb - meaning you don't need to care unless you want to build your own.

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Re: Windows 10 (general use and browsing) is it better to have a CPU with more cores or more MHz?

Posted on 2024-12-22, 10:49

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by elszgensa

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ah, i see the mhz myth is still alive and well. > file management cpu doesn't matter > browsing internet pages browsers don't multithread the work that they do for a single page all that well. that means single tab = faster single core performance beneficial; the more tabs you work with …

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Re: Is there a really easy way to run old games, without learning and remembering their installation nuances?

Posted on 2024-12-20, 23:29

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by elszgensa

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It's wild that we now have a nother generation of gamers who have only known installerless games and find the concept of running 'setup' unthinkable and too difficult to learn. FTFY, because I don't recall seeing a lot of installers/setups on earlier machines like e.g. the C64 either. Shit used to …

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Re: Is there a really easy way to run old games, without learning and remembering their installation nuances?

Posted on 2024-12-20, 18:59

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by elszgensa

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As easy as 1, 2, 3: - Insert CD - Install and set up (only gotta do this once) - Run game All that extra virtual CD stuff is entirely on you. Don't like it, don't do it (or do it in a different way). And as for editing, there should be a pen to the top right of each post. But maybe that only shows …

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