Re: Serious error installing Windows 98SE.

Posted on 2012-07-03, 18:22

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by Shagittarius

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Additional Info: I've tried setting the drive manually in the Bios to LBA and Large but it doesn't help anything. The bios sees everything correctly, hell even win98se recovery disc formats is to its full capacity. Im thinking about putting it back in the old machine that i originally set it up on …

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Serious error installing Windows 98SE.

Posted on 2012-07-03, 17:50

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by Shagittarius

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So I'm having a problem with my 160GB drive when attempting to install windows 98SE. I've been skipping the scandisk portion because it always finds problems with the drive about the space reported. When windows 98 starts to copy files i get a message that: A serious error has occured while writing …

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Re: Discworld installing and shortcuts, please help!

Posted on 2012-06-27, 16:20

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by Shagittarius

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This might help you. http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/DOSBoxShortcuts

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Re: Graphics card investments over the years

Posted on 2012-06-23, 08:32

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by Shagittarius

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Voodoo 2 Voodoo 3 Geforce 2 Ultra Geforce 3 Ultra Radeon 9800 Xt Radeon X800 Xt PE Geforce 8800 Gtx Geforce 280 x2 Geforce 580 Geforce 690 I might not have got all the models abbreviations correct but I think I did. I think I had the perfect upgrade path. I believe those were the top cards of their …

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Re: Syndicate (the original) and general midi

Posted on 2012-04-30, 18:01

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by Shagittarius

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Mobygames says it only supports Soundblaster: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/syndicate/techinfo

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Re: Your First PC Gaming Experience

Posted on 2012-04-12, 21:33

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by Shagittarius

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My first PC gaming experience was probably playing the first Wizardry on the Apple II in the library at my elementary school. For some reason at the time my public school tended to get all the latest games. My father was the PE teacher so I often got to school hours early and had nothing to do. So …

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Re: Legend of Kyrandia : Hand of Fate - Crash issue

Posted on 2012-04-12, 04:04

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Plus, IIRC, "The Hand of Fate" official patch was released. Try it. Haha, it was all my fault as usual, though thanks for all the help it led me to the issue. I must have installed the floppy version previously at some point to the same directory. When I ran the patch it told me that a file was …

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Re: Legend of Kyrandia : Hand of Fate - Crash issue

Posted on 2012-04-11, 20:22

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by Shagittarius

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Hmm...it is an image. I will try the original CD and if that works I'll try to make another image. Good thought, thanks.

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Legend of Kyrandia : Hand of Fate - Crash issue

Posted on 2012-04-11, 03:23

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by Shagittarius

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I searched the forums and found lots of topics but none with the exact problem I'm having. I'm running the CD-ROM version. Using .74 the game crashes shortly after I pick 'Start a new game' or 'Load a Saved game'. Depending on the sound setup I choose I either get a crash to dos with Ansi characters …

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Re: NVidia Riva TNT2 or ATI Rage 128?

Posted on 2012-04-02, 22:52

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by Shagittarius

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My experience with the Rage family is that they have terrible dithering effects on surfaces. Is this just the games I've played or did I have an old 16 bit color only board? I've never had a good opinion of the Rage series.

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Re: Worlds of Xeen dilemma (CD-ROM millenium edition)

Posted on 2012-03-26, 18:01

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by Shagittarius

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Can you post a saved game right outside the tower, I'd like to give this a try as well.

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Re: Making DOS game cd's out of gog downloads?

Posted on 2012-03-19, 18:48

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I think gog just has an iso image of the original disk that they mount when you play their distributions. They dont name them ISO they use their own extension but they just mount them in DOSBOX like you would an ISO. Just look at the config to see which files they are mounting and I bet you can burn …

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Re: Old games, old gamer, new computer

Posted on 2012-03-05, 18:03

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by Shagittarius

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I've used flash drives through USB with the free Virtualbox distro. I've also run both Alice, and Soldier of Fortune 2 through the Direct X addons they offer for virtualbox. It all worked pretty well for that stuff.

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Re: X-Com: UFO Defense installation issue

Posted on 2012-02-27, 18:41

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by Shagittarius

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Does the Direct to Drive version use DosBox to run the games? If so it probably installed its own instance and you'll need to configure it to use your setup properly.

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Re: Star Wars Tie Fighter: bad floppy disk set...

Posted on 2012-02-05, 02:56

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by Shagittarius

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Sure, I have the whole site saved but the software would be really outdated. You would probably be better off with just the PAR files and the batch file with the settings i used to create them. Im certainly willing to share whatever, minus the user accounts obviously.

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Re: Star Wars Tie Fighter: bad floppy disk set...

Posted on 2012-02-03, 18:32

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by Shagittarius

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This reminds me, it's a shame that Disk Recovery PAR archive never worked out. I was sad to take the site down after running it for 2 years but there was never any interest. Perhaps if the process had been wrapped up in a nice executable style backup with some sort of auto submission people would …

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Re: What to do?

Posted on 2012-01-29, 04:40

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by Shagittarius

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Confirm the second disc is lost.

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Re: ATI/AMD and older Windows games in general.

Posted on 2012-01-25, 16:50

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by Shagittarius

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Having tried many of the generations of ATI cards as well as NVidia boards I believe the only ATI hardware better than NVidia hardware was from the 9800 - X800. Anything other than that Nvidia stuff has always been more stable/compatible. Basically for me I just make sure Nvidia didn't screw up this …

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Re: Full Screen Video Issue

Posted on 2012-01-04, 23:05

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by Shagittarius

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It looks like the 3850 is 8X only, I'd need a 4X card. =( Thanks for the suggestions! EDIT : Ooops looks liek that was bad info it appears the 3850 is a 4X/8X! Interesting it appears that the onboard audio may be on an AGP bus as well and cause issues with running these boards unless the HD audio is …

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Re: Full Screen Video Issue

Posted on 2012-01-04, 23:04

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by Shagittarius

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DosFreak wrote: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?It … N82E16814161337 Works fine on an Athlon XP 2800+ Probly not worth spending the money tho. Unfortunately I need a single slot solution for the shuttle as the AGP slot is on the outside edge. Thanks for your help though.

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