Re: Can't get this old edutainment game (JumpStart Advanced Kindergarten) to run on Windows 10
Posted on 2020-02-21, 22:59
If all else fails, you can use a virtual machine. Or maybe BoxedWine would be worth a try?
Re: CGA "optimal" palette (fantasy)
Posted on 2020-02-20, 20:38
I figured cyan and magenta were chosen because they had a good contrast on amber/green/monochrome screens. (I have no idea if that's actually the case, though.) One variant that I personally experimented with a while ago is a text mode with 40 by 100 characters cells of 8 by 2 pixels, each. With …
Re: Win9x game compatibility.
Posted on 2020-02-20, 17:00
Edit: The official DirectX Redist. for both Win9X/XP is from 2004. After this one is installed, you can upgrade up to version 2008 (on Win Me). So Windows ME can run a newer version of DirectX than 98SE? I didn't know that. That implies that there are games that run under ME that do not run under …
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-02-18, 16:27
It hardly seems worth mentioning, but the original release of Final Fantasy VII had a rather infamous crash bug in XP and later releases – it would try to access a particular segment of RAM at a certain point in the game (probably to set a random number seed?) and Windows didn't like that at all. …
Re: Shapeshifter on Amiga?
Posted on 2020-02-18, 02:45
And what classic Mac would it be emulating? I'm not sure how far work on Shapeshifter proceeded, or if it got the same amount of attention that Basilisk II received. But ultimately it would definitely be one of the 68k Macs – the high-end would be a Quadra running OS 8.1. Anything else would be PPC …
Re: Problematic Windows games list
Posted on 2020-02-17, 16:34
It hardly seems worth mentioning, but the original release of Final Fantasy VII had a rather infamous crash bug in XP and later releases – it would try to access a particular segment of RAM at a certain point in the game (probably to set a random number seed?) and Windows didn't like that at all. …
Re: Help installing AWE 32 drivers
Posted on 2020-02-17, 15:51
When I press the Any key, the install will skip to the next step, continuing just fine, overwriting windows drivers... And buggering up my windows install so that it crashes upon boot into windows. I can't imagine what it might be overwriting in your Windows directory that would cause such a severe …
Re: Cpu slow down to run "96" app
Posted on 2020-02-17, 15:46
Got no runtime errors & seemed like it ran ok but it did not remove the copyright, Sierra games are tough! To be clear, did you try entering a blank answer in response to the question? If Neverlock didn't work, there has surely got to be some kind of fix out there somewhere, or at least a manual …
Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever
Posted on 2020-02-17, 02:47
I would be tempted to suggest checking the power supply if all other avenues of inquiry have been exhausted. The lovely repeating problem of Explorer freezing if I move, copy, or delete a lot of files (seems to be a fault of IE6). This is indeed a very well-established problem with IE6. Solutions …
Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever
Posted on 2020-02-16, 21:44
I would be tempted to suggest checking the power supply if all other avenues of inquiry have been exhausted. The lovely repeating problem of Explorer freezing if I move, copy, or delete a lot of files (seems to be a fault of IE6). This is indeed a very well-established problem with IE6. Solutions …
Re: How to install WDM driver on W98
Posted on 2020-02-16, 20:49
You install it with the installation program, just like any other driver. But WDM support was only introduced in Win98 SE, so if you are running Win98 first edition, that option will not be available.
Re: Cpu slow down to run "96" app
Posted on 2020-02-13, 17:45
The common fix for Runtime 200 errors is to patch the executable. There are many patchers available for this since it's just a matter of replacing one particular hex string with a different hex string. (XVI32 includes a macro for it.) ...Of course, Runtime 202 might be a completely different thing …
Re: Converting CDs to CD images that defeat copy protection
Posted on 2020-02-13, 16:58
Dochartaigh wrote on 2020-02-13, 15:43: There's a ton of posts about this on this forum and others with no 100% solution. Short of patching the code (see for example https://web.archive.org/web/20151027064859/ht … 01_archive.html ), there's really no option aside from swapping the drive letters.
Re: Help requested from fellow ATI All-In-Wonder/PRO (Rage/Rage Pro) Owners
Posted on 2020-02-13, 03:13
...Actually, now that I think about it again, there was an occasion when I was trying to get my AIW Pro to do TV-out, and it refused to do it at boot until I finally gave up, plugged in a monitor, and enabled TV-out in Windows. Then it would do TV-out at boot. I can't recall any details like if it …
Re: Converting an SB-AWE-64 into an AWE-64-Gold ?
Posted on 2020-02-12, 21:59
Is there a way to add RCA ports to a Sound Blaster AWE 64 so it will work like an AWE64 Gold ? Can one just use a 3.5mm to RCA adapter to add RCA ports ? The image you posted isn't a 3.5 mm to RCA adapter, but is there some reason you wouldn't expect that to work..? In theory the advantage to …
Re: Converting CDs to CD images that defeat copy protection
Posted on 2020-02-12, 21:57
I can clone a CD/DVD in half an hour in Windows 10 using all sorts of software but the few tools I used in WIndows 98 are veeeeery slow. As in 10 hours to rip one CD slow. Isn't the problem that many of these copy protection methods use bad sectors that the drive will repeatedly try to read? How do …
Re: Help requested from fellow ATI All-In-Wonder/PRO (Rage/Rage Pro) Owners
Posted on 2020-02-12, 21:51
appiah4 wrote on 2020-02-12, 20:24: That page is the video out pinout.. This page? The one titled "ATI All-In-Wonder input from S-Video / composite Video / Audio cable pinout" ?
Re: Help requested from fellow ATI All-In-Wonder/PRO (Rage/Rage Pro) Owners
Posted on 2020-02-12, 17:00
I definitely remember getting TV-out on boot from my AIW Pro. Isn't that page you linked to the pinout for video-in? The pinout for video-out might be different.
Re: create cd images
Posted on 2020-02-11, 20:26
When you say you get an image from the Internet that works, are you referring to the image for a game that you couldn't get working when you created the image yourself? Assuming your image has the same files in the same layout, then the only obvious parameter is the volume label.
Re: Clipper - "Out of space for VM swap file"
Posted on 2020-02-11, 20:24
DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION Try vDosPlus and see if that works.
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