Re: Old harddrives -- any love?
Posted on 2014-09-13, 21:14
Simpler to have mirrored drives from the outset.
Re: Old harddrives -- any love?
Posted on 2014-09-13, 20:17
Spending an afternoon setting up an OS and then having the HD die is annoying. If you must use old drives then some sort of RAID arrangement is recommended.
Re: PC XT clone (10MHz, VGA, CF card)
Posted on 2014-09-12, 21:48
What was gaming on the Hercules like? Running DOSbox in Herc mode makes my eyes water...
Re: Dumpster diving!
Posted on 2014-09-12, 21:38
Has anyone been in trouble with the law for 'stealing' trash? I think you can extract gold and other valuable materials from old computer components, so I'd expect the recycling companies to strongly oppose retro gaming geeks making off with "their" stuff.
Re: What were your first computer(s)?
Posted on 2014-09-12, 21:33
I wish I remembered the specs of the beige box we owned in the 1990s. I think it was a 100MHz 486DX2. Unfortunately back then I didn't pay attention to these things.
Re: Let's tune my two 486s !
Posted on 2014-09-12, 21:12
Synoptic wrote: HDD : Irrelevant, I don't want to tune that. IBM DTLA 3070XX are the notorious Deathstars. I'm surprised yours has lasted this long. Edit: Ok, I read it wrong, that's not the installed drive.
Re: Computer with lots of serial ports
Posted on 2014-09-12, 20:45
I'm not sure, but I think it came from a hospital, so the blood analysis thing sounds probable.
Computer with lots of serial ports
Posted on 2014-09-12, 19:56
I just picked up an old machine which has 8 serial ports installed (RJ-11 connectors). I'm wondering why it would need so many. What might this computer have been used for?
Re: 2 Players via Net
Posted on 2014-09-12, 08:50
It would be a headache but could probably be done. You would have two identical instances of the game running on two separate-but-linked DOSboxes, so that when Player 1 presses a key, this is virtually 'pressed' on Player 2's game as well, and vice-versa.
Re: Warcraft 2 and Windows 7: Best Config
Posted on 2014-09-12, 02:30
I tried the DOS version. It's basically the same, but the interface is more annoying to use because familiar keystrokes/commands are missing: CTRL-number/number to create/select unit groups, and CTRL-unit or doubleclick-unit to select all similar units Also there's no food/upkeep display at the top …
DOS anti-virus programs
Posted on 2014-09-11, 22:53
What anti-virus programs did folks use back in the day? Our computer used a DOS version of F-Prot. I think this is what my dad used at work and he installed it on the home computer as well. I don't think it ever caught an actual virus, but did constantly complain about the FACE.COM joke program that …
Re: Struggling with Outrun and Tandy in DOSBox
Posted on 2014-09-11, 19:59
Oh yes, Tandy didn't support VGA graphics, which would have been a problem. I don't think that's possible unless the game was written to support it. Was it common for Tandy owners to have VGA cards in their machines? If this was a common configuration then some games might have supported it.
Re: Crazy system requirements for its time
Posted on 2014-09-11, 14:54
I received a free copy of Giants with my GeForce3 card
Re: Struggling with Outrun and Tandy in DOSBox
Posted on 2014-09-11, 13:10
Congrats. Tandy owners were really spoiled in the 1980s.
Re: Warcraft: Orcs & Humans - Macintosh Version
Posted on 2014-09-10, 23:38
Since there are rumors floating around about the Macintosh verion being slightly revamped from its MS-DOS counterpart, I would like to try out the Mac version of the game. Haven't played either version long, but one immediately apparent difference is that the Mac version has spoken campaign …
Re: Struggling with Outrun and Tandy in DOSBox
Posted on 2014-09-10, 21:33
Just default settings + 'tandy' option. I was having problems as well until I reset settings to default, and also disabled running the autoexec.bat file which was loading junk I didn't need into memory. This was with plain vanilla 0.74. I assume that these files are identical OUTCGA.EXE = CHEVY.PES …
Re: Struggling with Outrun and Tandy in DOSBox
Posted on 2014-09-10, 20:45
My version sounds like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrpPW0X2vc8
Re: dosbox edit command
Posted on 2014-09-10, 20:16
Is it possible to paste clipboard text into DOSbox? I was trying to do this yesterday but couldn't figure out how.
Re: Struggling with Outrun and Tandy in DOSBox
Posted on 2014-09-10, 20:02
Googling this Hercules problem brought me right back to this forum: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=34135#p287536 OutRun also works fine with hercules graphics, but as with TD2 you may be trying to run the EGA/VGA executable because you have an incomplete copy. There should be an OUTRUN.EXE …
Re: Old Blizzard games on Classic OS
Posted on 2014-09-10, 17:50
Can a mod move it to the right place? I also got hold of a copy of the original WarCraft game. It reminded me of SimCity, particularly the road-building aspect. Think of SimCity but with Orcs smashing up your city instead of Godzilla. And does anyone play WC2 multiplayer? The B.net channels are …
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