Re: What's everyone up to on this Friday Night?
Posted on 2006-11-23, 17:29
... and it was 1985...
Re: How (in)compatible MS-DOS 7 is?
Posted on 2006-11-23, 17:25
Exactly. This is also a chance to leave out some of the memory hogging TSRs that are installed by default when using the Creative installer, but are not really needed in games. So the only apps won't run on MS-DOS 7 is a shitty installer by Creative Labs. Good news indeed! :D EMM386 is basically …
Re: List of Voodoo1-only games? (early GLide games?)
Posted on 2006-11-23, 17:14
Update! update! I just browsed my old TXT archives and guess what I found? A complete list of 3dfx environment variables!! :D Here's one that could be useful for ratfink (3dfx games that just don't work with SLI): FX_GLIDE_NUM_TMU OS: all HW: dual-TMU cards (Voodoo2, Avenger, Napalm) Desc: force …
Re: How (in)compatible MS-DOS 7 is?
Posted on 2006-11-23, 16:29
On my DOS machine I use MS-DOS 7 without any problems. Granted, I play all DOS games released before 1995 in DOSBox, with the exception of System Shock. So you play System Shock with MS-DOS 7, without problem? By the way, what CPU are you using? Is there any known compatibility problems of using …
Re: GeForce 6800 SLI works on Windows 98?
Posted on 2006-11-23, 16:24
I am not sure what it is that you thing won't run on newer motherboards. I have MS-DOS, Windows 95 OSR2, and Windows 98 running happily on my nForce2 chipset. I imagine you at least have a couple of unidentified devices in Device Manager. How mobo-dependent an 6800 SLI solution is? Suppose I'm …
Re: List of Voodoo1-only games? (early GLide games?)
Posted on 2006-11-23, 16:22
Not a chance, V5 is radically different from the previous generations...it's probably not even possible to make those games work with V2, and that one is very close to V1. I guess we should wait for ratfink, though. If he's successful in making his Voodoo2 resembles Voodoo1 (the GLide environment …
Re: How (in)compatible MS-DOS 7 is?
Posted on 2006-11-23, 05:02
The only program that refused to work with MS-DOS 7.10 was Creative's DOS/Win3.11 installer for their SB16/AWE32 card. It assumes you are running it in a Win95 shell and quits with an error message. But in order to install SB16/AWE32 in DOS, we don't really need the Creative installer, do we? I …
Re: List of Voodoo1-only games? (early GLide games?)
Posted on 2006-11-23, 04:49
It depends on the game. If the game has glide statically linked, then it will only work with Voodoo1 (because this was usually some old glide version). If it uses glide2x.ovl, then it might be possible to make it work by changing the glide2x.ovl to one that supports v5... How about environment …
How (in)compatible MS-DOS 7 is?
Posted on 2006-11-22, 17:00
I think it's quite conventional wisdom that when building a pure DOS gaming platform, the DOS to be used is DOS 6.22. What I'm talking here is MS-DOS 7.10; the DOS that comes with Windows 98. See, it is possible to boot Win98 in "pure DOS mode", which is DOS 7.10. The question is why not using it …
Re: List of Voodoo1-only games? (early GLide games?)
Posted on 2006-11-22, 16:04
i dont think you wil ever get a v5 to work with the early dos games that controlled the card directly like ef2000 its just too different from a voodoo1 "controlling the card directly"? You mean --unlike 3dfx DOS games like Tomb Raider or Carmageddon , the game does not use DOS GLide? (I mean, DOS …
Re: GeForce 6800 SLI works on Windows 98?
Posted on 2006-11-22, 16:00
By the way, I also wonder: does Windows 98 need driver to run on a particular motherboard? I thought motherboard driver (or is it chipset driver?) is something that started from Windows XP. Nope. There's a Windows 98 "Chipset ID utility" for Win9x available on Intel's website, and I've seen similar …
Re: Help with building retro PC
Posted on 2006-11-22, 15:56
StickByDos wrote: Confilct between ISA and PCI sound cards can be a driver problem But in general, that should be okay, right?
Re: Help with building retro PC
Posted on 2006-11-22, 06:19
It can get tricky trying to get an optimal DOS and 9x box. I'd suggest not mixing PCI and ISA audio. Hold on. This is interesting. I mean, why? Correct me if I'm wrong, and frankly I haven't ever tried it myself, but I alwasy thought, in a DOS/Win9x dual-boot environment, PCI sound card and ISA …
Re: What's everyone up to on this Friday Night?
Posted on 2006-11-22, 05:59
MiniMax wrote: Old school multiplayer gaming for me would be difficult. That would involve purchasing a Data General MV/10000 with AOS/VS as the operating system and 2 or more Dasher DG210 terminals. A what?
Re: GeForce 6800 SLI works on Windows 98?
Posted on 2006-11-20, 04:06
Update: a friend on TR said that 6800 SLI on Windows 98 should be possible, as long as I could find a PCI Express motherboard with Windows 98 driver. Any suggestion? By the way, I also wonder: does Windows 98 need driver to run on a particular motherboard? I thought motherboard driver (or is it …
GeForce 6800 SLI works on Windows 98?
Posted on 2006-11-19, 15:28
One thing I like about GeForce 6800 is that it works with Windows 98, so I (at least theoritically) can play old, Windows 98-only games with all the glory of 6800 (AA, AF, etc). However, a friend told me that Windows 98 does NOT support PCI Express, so a 6800 SLI is impossible in Win 98. At most, I …
Re: What's everyone up to on this Friday Night?
Posted on 2006-11-18, 13:22
Multiplayer old school games? Makes me wonder: what's the earliest game that includes multiplayer? I guess it's not something can be done easily in DOS, and chances the only protocol supported is IPX.
Re: List of Voodoo1-only games? (early GLide games?)
Posted on 2006-11-18, 13:05
I have a feeling these environment variables made no difference to my problem, but I gave up for a while. It looks to me as though the variables in the list are for the Voodoo 1, not the Voodoo 2 - for example: SST_TMUMEM_SIZE=2 should maybe be: SSTV2_TMU_MEMSIZE=2 Maybe will try this later. …
Re: 286 + coprocessor 287 + 32MB ram!
Posted on 2006-11-18, 13:03
The 286 CPU can only address 16MB directly. So the expansion card uses a small portion of that address space to map in parts of its 32MB memory. The disadvantage is the expansion cards run at ISA bus speed whereas the memory bus of a 286 could already be faster. Running emm386 on a 286 is a bit …
Re: 286 + coprocessor 287 + 32MB ram!
Posted on 2006-11-17, 03:39
robertmo wrote: I will add that my machine has 32 MB of switchable EMS/extended memory You mean the hardware EMS (memory expansion card?), so you don't need EMM386 or the likes to use expanded memory? 😳
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