Re: What 3.5 inch floppy drive is works with all 3.5 inch disks?

Posted on 2018-01-16, 08:41

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jheronimus wrote: I heard about older USB drives being better than the devices you can still find for sale new. I have two nearly no-name drives by Gembird and TEAC [..] Is that a TEAC model FD-05PUB, by any chance ?

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Re: 8086 clones with more than 1MiB of addressable RAM ?

Posted on 2018-01-16, 05:47

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Hello reenigne, thank you very much for your reply! And your explanation, of course. I did not know such tricks existed. Seems like the 808x still holds a few surprises for us.. :) As for the KP1810BM86M, I do not really know anything about it, either (hence the thread). Perhaps that soviet chip …

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Re: Amstrad 1512 XT - 8088 CPU w/ 640Kb RAM upgrade

Posted on 2018-01-16, 04:21

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Cool machine! 😎 Long long ago, my father had got the Schneider version of it (he upgraded from 8086 to NEC V30).

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Re: packardbell 3.5 floppy problem

Posted on 2018-01-16, 04:12

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Hmm. Do the lights on the floppy drive light up and did you run CheckIt! on that system ? Maybe the DMA controller is having trouble. The Floppy Disk Controller uses DMA2/IRQ6. Also make sure things like EMM386 or UMBPCI are not running while you are testing. (It is unlikely, but sometimes a too …

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8086 clones with more than 1MiB of addressable RAM ?

Posted on 2018-01-15, 04:07

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Good morning, It is well know that the intel 8086 series can only address 1MiB of RAM, due to the limitation of 20 external address lines. But what about clones ? According to an entry at cpu-collection.de, some flavors of the KP1810BM86M can address up to 4MiB of RAM, due to 22 address lines. There …

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Re: Weird issue, S7 resets on startup but not in safe mode, even with different HDD.

Posted on 2018-01-15, 01:34

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Hi, I also have got a GA-mainboard ( GA-586S ) which does not like Win98 so much. If it is not a hardware bug, maybe it helps to update the BIOS. Or to reset the CMOS settings to default. Or maybe it is just related to the PCI/Legacy ISA settings in the CMOS setup (Sound Blaster needs IRQ5/7, DMA1, …

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Re: 3DO Blaster usage

Posted on 2018-01-14, 23:34

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Hi, only know the 3DO cards by name, never used one before. However, I have seen a youtube video about it quite some time ago. :) Interestingly, there is a 3DO software shown that runs on Windows 3.1.. If the PC is running Win9x, maybe that is the issue ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2CzI3qoci8 …

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RE:birth sound hardware

Posted on 2018-01-14, 01:06

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Hello everyone, While browsing the web, I just found something interesting and thought myself it would be nice to share it with you, :) It is a blog entry / article about a motherboard for multiple tone generators from popular platforms, such as PC, PC-98 and C64. It is from 2015 so it is not new, …

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Western Digital WD90C33 backwards compatibility ?

Posted on 2018-01-13, 08:59

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Hello and good morning, I have just seen a WD30C33-based graphics card on eBay and I am quite surprised now. Previously, I had no idea that these existed at all. Not only I thought that the 90C31 was the last one in the series, but I also had no clue that Paradise/WD ever made VLB cards (I knew of …

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Re: Whoops.. Need another DB9 female port

Posted on 2018-01-13, 03:02

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Hi, this reminds me of an older thread. :) http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=50657 As another last ditch, my case has a male DB9 port on with a 10 pin connector for the controller card, I tried connecting that up to one of the serial headers on my controller card and re-enabling com2, but …

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Re: Starting PC with DOSBOX instead of Windows 7

Posted on 2018-01-12, 21:58

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That is a good idea and certainly works for OP RabidClarkian. Unfortunately, it is not certain if that works for his father, as well. Parents can be, eh, very stubborn sometimes. Haha. :sweatdrop: They often insist in having things working the way they want or how they used to. If all goes wrong, a …

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Re: Windows 3.11 FWG Compaq NIC 3123 Drivers

Posted on 2018-01-12, 16:42

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Hi, yes, TCP/IP support was optional. Back then, IPX/SPX and SMB via NetBIOS were more popular. TCP/IP-32 (tcp32b.exe) can be found here: http://win31.de/esoft.htm

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Re: So what's possible to do with this computer ?

Posted on 2018-01-12, 08:32

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There is another, user-related compatibility issue.. FreeDOS is in English language. 😉 (Ok,to be fair, there was a localisation project. But MS-/PC-DOS has always been more complete in comparison. Even though early versions used some funny language at times.)

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Re: Starting PC with DOSBOX instead of Windows 7

Posted on 2018-01-12, 02:01

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Hello, here are some more ideas: You can also run Win98 or FreeDOS from an SD* or CF card, if the computer has got a card reader installed. The BIOS of a PC from year 2000 onwards should handle it like an USB hard drive and then will provide int13h support for it. Problem is the installation, though …

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Re: Windows 3.11 FWG Compaq NIC 3123 Drivers

Posted on 2018-01-12, 01:12

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Hi, found some NDIS2 drivers at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp13501-14000/sp13947.txt Direct link is ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp13501-14000/sp13947.exe Also have a look at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp10501-11000/sp10873.txt Softpaq SP10873 (sp10873.exe) was the last one to mention WfW 3.11. …

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Re: Pixel art / paint software for dos/win 3.11

Posted on 2018-01-10, 04:33

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Helloooooo I've been doing a lot of pixel art for my projects using a version of paint shop pro on my 9x rig. Issue I'm having is that I'm making these for programs running in mode 13h (VGA 320x200 @256 color) which is not square, which is resulting in minor aggravation due to the change in aspect. …

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Re: Win 3.1 utilities - WINCMD 1.4, instant exit?

Posted on 2018-01-08, 08:55

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Hmm. I've got several versions of WinCLI and WinDOS.. But WinCMD 0.9 is the only version of WINCMD that I have found, sorry. 🙁

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Re: DOS, how to set up from floppy?

Posted on 2018-01-07, 19:38

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These are interesting thoughts, I must say.. Windows 9x has it's own, seamless mouse driver which can be used in windowed DOS sessions. I haven't checked if CuteMouse gets in the way with that, but it could be possible that Windows uses the mouse driver that was in use first (CuteMouse, in that case …

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Re: Media Vision Pro Audio Studio 16 strange behavior

Posted on 2018-01-07, 11:17

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I agree with badmojo. The fast sound effect is said to often occur if the -5v line is missing. Also, in case you'r wondering, the default settings for PAS16's DAC are : Port 388h IRQ 10 DMA 3 Thunderboard is at Port 220h, IRQ 5*, DMA 1 FM is mainly at 388/389h (SB2.x had OPL2 also at 228h/229h) ( …

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Re: DOS, how to set up from floppy?

Posted on 2018-01-06, 23:47

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I have an idea but I have no idea how to do it. Now I have win98SE on HDD and DOS6.22 of floppy (on USB in gotek) and my question is, how to make DOS to see HDD and CD drive? It's been a while since I did such things, so I can't give any advice how to add DOS subsequently. It's important, however, …

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