Re: Here I go! Trying OS/2 for the first time!

Posted on 2016-12-21, 13:10

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Depending on your version of OS/2, it might have support for Windows 3.1 (win16 only,) or it might not have Windows support at all. It will have DOS support, though. Yup. Some Win32 apps will run via Odin, though. I was shocked when it actually ran my copy of Neko Project II.. (^_^) Really, just …

---

Re: Show off your tiny PCs

Posted on 2016-12-20, 08:26

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I don't understand this. OpenGL is nothing more than a standard and is implemented by vendor drivers. This is suggesting that OSX has its own OpenGL driver independent of the vendors driver (its not software rendered is it ? :dead:). If OpenGL functionality works in OSX its because the driver of …

---

Re: Show off your tiny PCs

Posted on 2016-12-19, 19:59

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Or current opengl version on latest osx is outdated.. its not better then situation on linux. There's a reason for that. In macOS, OpenGL is the central graphics foundation (just like GDI used to be in Windows): Everything is running through OpenGL, not just games. Making bigger changes could …

---

Re: FPU 387 questions

Posted on 2016-12-19, 19:38

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It was more specialized being optimized for single precision floating point. https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/chips/weitekmathlow.html "...Some experts believed that the Weitek silicon devices might have been even faster than the Pentium and some of the other more advanced …

---

Re: Memory tester for 8088/8086 systems?

Posted on 2016-12-18, 20:02

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

CheckIt! can also test memory, perhaps it will suffice for that purpose.

---

Re: Needing help with win98se on asus p4p800-e

Posted on 2016-12-18, 04:12

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PhilsComputerLab wrote: I used to use the Genius, but this is the one I recommend now. The adapters for PLC chips come with it, but you can also buy them on eBay. Me, too. It's good to have both, though, incase only one of them supports a specific chip type.. 😀

---

Re: Is it possible to replicate DOS-IN-ROM booting like some Tandy systems use?

Posted on 2016-12-18, 04:03

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like there's a device that should work; M-SYstems "disk on chip" shoudl work in my floppy disk controller's EEPROM slot and give me 16mb of bootable storage. What an interesting solution! Yes, something similar has been done with DOCs, I think. These chips used some kind of bank-switching …

---

Re: Devils canyon win3.1 installation error

Posted on 2016-12-18, 03:38

by

by Jo22

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I had similar issues with IE5 and Windows 3.1. My problem was somehow related to the processor support. No idea if I was running DOSBox or VPC, but changing the CPU type helped (toggling i-VT in VPC, core= dynamic/normal/full in DOSBox). I remember Win32s was also very picky about such stuff when …

---

Re: ET4000 Windows 3.0 640x480x256 and 32k/64k modes failing(on 8086/8088 emulation) due to non-chain-4(ET3000) or various?

Posted on 2016-12-17, 23:45

by

by Jo22

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Also, does WHATVGA work properly with an ET3000 8-bit color on a XT? (I'm using mode 2E 640x480x256 mode afaik). I'm testing the 64K mode of the Sierra Hi-color DAC with that mode. Hi superfury, I tried my ET3000 in my XT machine.. And the good news is: Well, yes, WHATVGA istelf does run on a PC/XT …

---

Re: A problem when trying to install a Living books game on Windows 3.1 on PCem.

Posted on 2016-12-16, 20:20

by

by Jo22

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Another idea, also try to uncheck "Dynamic Recompiler" and load the older himem.sys (just to make sure). To do so just change config.sys to have this line: device=c:\windows\himem.sys. If this doesn't help, change the emulated machine to something more 1994-like, say a 486DX33 or so. My current …

---

Re: Looking to build a very nice Win98/Win95 master system. Need advice.

Posted on 2016-12-16, 01:32

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is there a speed that Win95 will have problems? I have read that Win98 is limited, but I forgot the exact speed. . I think there is, but I'm not really that of a Win9x guru. :sweatdrop: Most systems discussed here are far more advanced to what I had when I used Win98SE on a daily basis (homework, …

---

Re: Replace HDDS with SSDs?

Posted on 2016-12-15, 18:32

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The only problem with using a ssd is win98 writes to the drive a lot and will trash your driver over time [..] MS says that pagefiles are actually just fine for SSDs. ;) Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs? Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of …

---

Re: Issues with Soundblaster not working on DOS-based games.

Posted on 2016-12-15, 16:50

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wonder where i could get a really old machine that has dos-compatible card hmm. Machines with with MediaGX CPU are often SB16 compatible (but don't do Direct3D). Their mainboards were used in internet boxes (set-top), too. Or look for a thin-clint. xjas had success with AdLib support. http://www. …

---

Re: A problem when trying to install a Living books game on Windows 3.1 on PCem.

Posted on 2016-12-14, 12:03

by

by Jo22

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Under Virtual Memory > "New Swapfile Settings". Change "Type:" to "none". No idea it that helps in your case, though. Memory managment in Win 3.1 is quite a bit different to Win9x. For example, I once read the addressing/memory allocation is done in reverse. One goes bottom-up, while the other one …

---

Re: A problem when trying to install a Living books game on Windows 3.1 on PCem.

Posted on 2016-12-13, 19:29

by

by Jo22

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

As the others said. 256MB is a bad idea, since it conflicts with virtual memory. Something like 8 to 64MB is way better. If you really have Windows 3.1 and not WFW 3.11, also try Standard Mode (win /s). Otherwise yu can also try to disable virtual memory (Win32s might require it). It can be disabled …

---

Re: Windows 98 on Virtual PC

Posted on 2016-12-13, 19:22

by

by Jo22

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Hmm.. Try to install the latest DirectX 9 runtime (web installer), it's still beeing updated I think. .. or look for the D3DX9_29_dll_update / D3DX9_30_dll_update package.

---

Re: Need help for my newly acquired 8088

Posted on 2016-12-13, 19:04

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Uhm, okay. I have no idea what causes the issue at the moment. Maybe try checking the cable, there's a nice thread about null-modems (warning, shameless self advertising ahead! ;-) ) http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=50657 And for a quick test of your 8088 machine you can also run MSD in …

---

Re: Replacement for noisey hard drives

Posted on 2016-12-13, 18:00

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ampera, I understand what you mean. At some point upgrading makes no sense anymore, since you end up with something that is similar to an emulation. For example, many C64 users mod/replace their good old (well, old at least) 1541 floppy drives with SD cards. I think this takes away some of the look …

---

SAQ Grimeton Christmas transmission

Posted on 2016-12-13, 03:40

by

by Jo22

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hello everyone, I'm not sure if you're interested, but the machine transmitter SAQ in Grimeton, Sweden, will send out its Christmas greetings soon (on Christmas Eve). In case you don't know what I'm talking about, here's a short and simplified explanation.: SAQ is a historical machine transmitter, …

---

Re: The Tandy 1000 ISA sound card brainstorm thread.

Posted on 2016-12-13, 02:33

by

by Jo22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello everyone, please forgive me for crashing in into this wonderful thread, but just recently I've seen something loosely related to the thread's topic. I've seen a page where someone made a Tandy Sound clone and a hardcore SB replica using TTL chips(!) The page is here , it also has some wiring …

---