Re: Legal status of Darkstone

Posted on 2012-03-14, 22:10

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you can't really convince anyone in those situations, either they respect copyright laws or not, my advice would be not to bother with it really... let them decide for themselves and save yourself from some trolling/flaming 🤣

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Another 486ish build

Posted on 2012-03-14, 19:49

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Hiya! thought I shared some pics of the 486 machine that returned to me after a loan to a friend... Several years ago I got lucky and got gifted this awesome AT case: http://i44.tinypic.com/2mw740j.jpg The case is very clean and white, almost scratch-free and heavy yellowing exists only on the right …

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Re: (Ebay)US International postage prices?

Posted on 2012-03-14, 11:07

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most of the US sellers I've dealt with were more than happy to offer a (simpler) cheaper shipping service provided you don't care about insurance... just ask!

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Re: SiS 85C496 mobo, UMB driver?

Posted on 2012-03-14, 11:06

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yes, they are an absolute MUST HAVE in cases you need an environment without EMS... I gave a shot with my PS1/pro machine, none of the utils work on it though... uram complains it can't detect the chipset ... forcing it just hangs the machine.... no biggie though as I don't have a cdrom on this …

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Re: SiS 85C496 mobo, UMB driver?

Posted on 2012-03-14, 08:36

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SUCCESS!!! the old 1998 URAM works perfect! thanks 5u3 that noticed that :blush: , I freed ~147kb of UMB on my mobo, more than triple of what I need :blush: this is turning a nice 5x86 machine, got UMB working, ftp server working... :sweatdrop: I will attach here the 5.8.1998 version of URAM for …

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Re: 486 resurrection

Posted on 2012-03-14, 07:50

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iulianv wrote: What is so special about the HOT-591P? I was asked to make an offer for one some time ago, but I preferred to stick to my MS-5184 (1MB of cache, FSB up to 133)... nothing really, I just like it ... 😁

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Re: Jill of the Jungle Sound Effects

Posted on 2012-03-14, 07:49

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so it's a plain old incompatibility problem... but it's so strange that a 486 has this...

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Re: SiS 85C496 mobo, UMB driver?

Posted on 2012-03-13, 22:39

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sidenote: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/util_e.html hosts a full package of URAM 5.8.1998

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Re: 486 resurrection

Posted on 2012-03-13, 22:33

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... I see what you did there with them bold letters 🤣 😁 welcome to VOGONS aacheron !!!!

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Re: SiS 85C496 mobo, UMB driver?

Posted on 2012-03-13, 20:27

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ah thanks 5u3, I will try it tomorrow at my office where the machine is 😀 do you also load UMB.SYS as well to get the ram allocated?

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Re: Jill of the Jungle Sound Effects

Posted on 2012-03-13, 17:29

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really? buffers? man, each day it's learning something new...!

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Re: I'm building a Socket 7 PC

Posted on 2012-03-13, 14:11

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by keropi

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^ agreed 101%

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Re: SiS 85C496 mobo, UMB driver?

Posted on 2012-03-13, 11:22

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edit: images links edited to remove clutter yeah AFAIK QEMM puts the machine in V86 mode too @5u3: I did try URAM, all I get it doing is report some stuff but does not really make any UMB blocks available... here is what it displays on boot (I got it use c800-e000 just to be safe): http://i125. …

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SiS 85C496 mobo, UMB driver?

Posted on 2012-03-13, 10:15

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Hiya!!! I've been messing with my SY-4SAW2 mobo (sis 85x496 based with an AM5x86/133 cpu and 64MB of ram) and I wanted to enable UMB support in configurations without EMM386... I have tried DOSMAX, HIRAM, RDOSUMB and none work :dead: , DOSMAX says there are no pages for it, HIRAM that the chipset is …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2012-03-13, 09:31

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meh, I deleted my previous post (although ProfessorProfessorson quoted it) in good faith that this fees discussion ends since it is irrelevant to the topic... eBay might have other "rules" worldwide, or have events or even allowing you some free listings if you are not a scarce seller... don't know …

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Re: Need help building dos/win95 games machine...please!

Posted on 2012-03-13, 08:11

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by keropi

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voodoo2's don't care about the cpu's fsb (or the cpu itself for that matter...) they just work and with a better cpu you will see smoother gameplay and perhaps you can pump the game's quality settings if any...

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2012-03-13, 07:24

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by keropi

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you can relist for as long as you want on eBay, you only get charged when the item sales If you are not a power seller then typically you are going to be stuck with a initial listing fee for both the auction and the BIN price regardless of if the item sales, unless they run a special, which they do …

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Re: I'm building a Socket 7 PC

Posted on 2012-03-12, 23:36

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seems a nice start for a nice system 😀 keep us informed!

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Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2012-03-12, 23:20

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I've always wanted to ask... is it plagues with scrolling bugs like the ET4000? IIRC I had a couple of ET4000's and they were horrible in games like Keen4 LOL or messed up gfx in Jazz Jackrabbit, are these fixed? (or am I completely wrong and thinking of another card? it could be the case since I no …

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Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2012-03-12, 23:15

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Don't worry about DOS support with a riva128... it is almost excellent! there are no scrolling bugs, modex works fine and the BIOS is VBE3.0 so there is no need to load any tsr at all, svga stuff just work :) I rank it the same as a S3 card for DOS in terms of compatibility (way faster though) I can …

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