Re: DVD video playback on P3 and win98se.

Posted on 2018-12-18, 21:06

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by Jo22

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When we had a Pentium III at home, ~ PowerDVD 3.x or XP was usually bundled with DVD-ROM drives. These older versions should be able to make use of MMX/SSE or the old video decoders built into the then current graphics cards. At the time, VLC was the worst DVD player software I knew. I encountered …

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Re: DOS games and Windows 3.11

Posted on 2018-12-18, 20:28

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yawetaG wrote: There are a few games that were created specifically to run on Windows 3.x, some using the WinG and/or Win32s extensions, but most of those only came about in the period Windows 95 started to replace 3.x. Klick&Play. 1994. *Ahem*.. 😉

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Re: Tandy 1000, Lo-Tech XT/IDE, CF and DOS 3.x

Posted on 2018-12-17, 14:58

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by Jo22

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Is there possibly something else I am missing, or is this a normal limitation? Hard to say. In my place, getting an overpriced Amiga 1000 is easier than getting a Tandy 1000.. :( That's why I am, like some others here are, unable to perform any testing in that regards. Strictly speaking, the Tandy …

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Performance comparison Intel 386DX, Intel RapidCAD, C&T 38600DX, Cyrix 486DLC

Posted on 2018-12-17, 14:48

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As the title says. Just found some ancient, but interesting benchmark / CPU comparison. I found it at this URL , but also added it to this posting. Hope that's okay. While the comparison is really dated (from the Usenet times), it includes the now very rare RapidCAD and C&T 38600DX CPUs. Best …

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Re: Voyager probes 40th anniversary

Posted on 2018-12-15, 09:47

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Sometimes I feel the same. :depressed: *sigh* On the bright side, though, astronautics in itself is still life and sound. New satellites for amateur radio and other services are still being build by students, etc. But yeah, I also miss euphorias of that so called "space age" or what was left of it …

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Re: Voyager probes 40th anniversary

Posted on 2018-12-12, 08:33

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Quick update. News say Voyager 2 now has reached interstellar space. https://www.space.com/42680-voyager-2-reaches … llar-space.html

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Re: Need Help and Advice on my Win 98 HDD Solution

Posted on 2018-12-11, 08:15

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by Jo22

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What would be the overall benefit of the SSHD??? Sorry for delay, stressy days here. :sweatdrop: SSHDs are neat since they include a portion of on-board SLC cache. It's essentially an SSD, but is controlled by the HDD controller as a chache inbehind (ie, not visible to the OS). Size is about 4 to 8 …

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Re: Interlink for DOS

Posted on 2018-12-11, 08:04

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by Jo22

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Hi, just for the curiosity, which kind of computers are intended to be connected to each others ? I have the null-modem dongle which twists the wires so the cable is 100% not the issue. Please check out https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=50657 :) Speed is also not the issue. I never detect a …

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Re: ICQ revival

Posted on 2018-12-09, 16:01

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You guys make me feel young.. 😁 My friends and me used ICQ when Slide-a-lama and video chat were around..

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Re: Need Help and Advice on my Win 98 HDD Solution

Posted on 2018-12-09, 09:41

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by Jo22

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Hi! Welcome to the forums! It's always nice to see a new face here! :) The earlier posters did give some good advices, IMHO. If you like to install a flash medium as a HDD replacement, then that's fine. Just remember a few things: a) FAT/FAT32 can't be aligned to 4K sectors, as NTFS can be. So …

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Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

Posted on 2018-12-09, 09:20

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Thanks for sharing! I already downloaded fullWine3.1-v6.zip .. I'll try it out once I've got a bit of free time for testing..

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Re: How to Low level format XT-BUS (8-bit IDE/OLD XT-IDE) HDD?

Posted on 2018-12-09, 05:20

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Hi, I've found some information on your fixed disk. :) It seems to be a WD93038 series drive with XT-IDE interface. An XT-Bus hard disk, so to say (since IDE drives were originally called AT-Bus HDDs). According to one of the links, there used to be an " IDE SUPERBIOS program for low-level …

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Re: Win95c vs. Win98se for gaming ?

Posted on 2018-12-08, 16:24

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Well, if you disable Active Desktop and the other web integration in Explorer, it's not all that bad really :) If you still think it's too heavy, you can always install the W95 OSR2.2 version of Explorer with 98Lite . It also have some halfway options that still lets you use the W98 Explorer, but …

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Re: Using a modern hard disk in a 486

Posted on 2018-12-08, 10:48

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Or 1023, 15, 63.

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Re: Win95c vs. Win98se for gaming ?

Posted on 2018-12-08, 07:22

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win98 is much better at memory management, any machine with 64mb ram or more should use win98 over 95. Indeed. Some one should assume that older OSes require less than newer ones.. Alas, it isn't always the case. I'm just thinking of Win 3.0 vs Win 3.1.. In a similar way, Win98SE had a lots of …

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Re: 486 DX CPU + 487 FPU in dedicated FPU socket

Posted on 2018-12-06, 07:19

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The Weitek FPUs were available for 386(DX) and 486 mainboards. In essence, these co-processors were memory-mapped devices. This means that they did use memory a memory region (a window) to pass-through the data. In some way or another, this is akin to how Expanded Memory worked. EMM386 had an …

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Re: Question About Hard Drives with Reallocated Sectors

Posted on 2018-12-06, 02:54

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1 of them shows as "good", but when I try to format it in Minitool Partition Wizard, I get a "bad disk" error and it won't format. I could be wrong, but such warning messaages are a bad sign nowadays. Newer IDE hard disks (~ mid-90s+) tended to mask any "bad sectors", i.e. tried to fix them …

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Re: How to increase video memory?

Posted on 2018-12-06, 02:36

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[..] which also prevents the graphics error with the mouse pointer in Windows 3.1. Now that's interesting. I had no clue this was related to video memory size. I also encountered in VPC2007 (16MiB S3). Back in tme I solved this glitchy pointer issue issue by switching between S3 Trio and S3 864 1. …

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Re: Crash and dump in DOS mode

Posted on 2018-12-04, 05:47

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Interesting. Does it also happen if EMM386/QEMM/etc. is not loaded ? :confused: Edit: Maybe unreleated, bui Phil has some Cyrix utilities on his page. Maybe changing cache/register settings helps. His page is available at https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ Edit: Here's the Cyrix part of the page ( …

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Re: Affordable Adlib clone (and low profile friendly)

Posted on 2018-12-03, 23:31

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/CLONE-Creative-Sound-Blater-SB-2-0-CT1350B-8-bit-ISA-soundcard/123371042499?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 That is the card I got. Interesting. It includes a CT1336 chip instead of a CT1336A. Seems like this card could accept a CMS upgrade. :) …

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