Re: Thinking of modifying my rig

Posted on 2017-07-28, 05:18

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by EdmondDantes

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So, I've got one more thing I'd like to ask: I'm thinking I may get an expert to fix the ps/2 ports on the motherboard, but there's still the danger of them just going bad again, so I'm wondering how I can prevent that? Would it be a good idea to get one of those KVM switch thingies even though I ( …

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Re: Thinking of modifying my rig

Posted on 2017-07-27, 05:03

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by EdmondDantes

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Yes, some mice are themselves dual protocol ones and can be used in either PS/2 or DB9 port with just an adapter. Those mice that aren't you need a device that will convert PS/2 mouse data to serial mouse data. Such hobby projects do exist, also here on Vogons. I think I saw the topic about that, …

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Thinking of modifying my rig

Posted on 2017-07-26, 04:50

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by EdmondDantes

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So I've spoken of my "Mazinkaiser" before. In case you never saw those topics, here's what it currently has in it: It's 700mhz AMD chip (I'm not sure which line, I think either Duron or Thunderbird) a pair of 256mb Kingston pc133 ram chips The motherboard (an Epox-8KTA) has like six PCI slots, one …

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Re: Questions and guidance with Voodoo2 and Voodoo3 cards in new system

Posted on 2017-07-25, 03:29

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by EdmondDantes

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I want to add one thing since I'm a Voodoo 3 user and finaggled with Tomb Raider (I have the Gold Edition) couple years ago. With Voodoo 3 you can use its acceleration but I found out it helps to run the game THROUGH WINDOWS and NOT through a pure dos environment. In Dos the game kept locking up on …

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Sound Cards after DOS

Posted on 2017-07-22, 18:55

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by EdmondDantes

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So hey, I've been thinking about building a PC as a companion (and not a replacement) to my current one. This second one (which I intend to call "Gundam" because the first was called Mazinkaiser) is aimed at the transition period where Win98SE was being phased out and XP was becoming the new hotness …

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Re: HELP! Reinstalling Win98SE, getting "Disk I/O Error"

Posted on 2017-07-22, 06:33

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by EdmondDantes

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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! It seems nuking it with DBAN did the trick. I've now got Win98SE installed AND I have the drives partitioned the way I wanted (I'm hoping this means Scandisk and Defrag will work without issue now--at the very least, the Scandisk that runs when you install the OS--which I know …

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Re: HELP! Reinstalling Win98SE, getting "Disk I/O Error"

Posted on 2017-07-21, 07:36

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by EdmondDantes

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Ummm, exactly what partitioning tool are you talking about, KT7AGuy? The only partitioning tool with Win98SE I'm even aware of is fdisk, and the reason I don't use it is because it refuses to see my hard drive as being bigger than 10gb. If there's another one, then none of the readmes or other text …

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Re: HELP! Reinstalling Win98SE, getting "Disk I/O Error"

Posted on 2017-07-21, 06:34

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by EdmondDantes

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The motherboard is an Epox-8KTA (2, possibly) And actually, this is the hard drive I've been using since the PC was built, so I know for a fact it works. There's an entire long sequence of events which led me to this point tho. I better relate a as-condensed-as-possible version. Awhile ago I was …

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Re: Good Mouse & Keyboard for WIN95 PC..

Posted on 2017-07-21, 02:31

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by EdmondDantes

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To me a keyboard is a keyboard is a keyboard. Back in the day I actually had a USB keyboard running through a variety of adapters to fit it into an old-style keyboard port (not ps/2... before that). However one mouse I loved was this thing called the Q500, though not often listed under that name on …

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HELP! Reinstalling Win98SE, getting "Disk I/O Error"

Posted on 2017-07-21, 02:18

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by EdmondDantes

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So here's what's happening. The hard drive is completely blank. It's 80gb, but I used an old Linux (Legacy OS2 Gamer) to format it as a 30gb drive, leaving the rest of the space unallocated, so that scandisk wouldn't be a prissy about it. I make sure to flag the partition as both boot and LBA so dos …

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Re: Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro and DOS compatibility

Posted on 2016-05-02, 23:52

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by EdmondDantes

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How can I find out what kind of SB16 I have?

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Re: Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro and DOS compatibility

Posted on 2016-05-02, 10:06

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by EdmondDantes

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Just responding to say, the OP is not alone in having trouble making the Sidewinder 3D Pro work in DOS. In my case I have a Soundblaster 16 so I always figured it was that, but if someone is having the same issue with a different sound blaster, well... Here was my topic on it: http://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: getting Tomb Raider Gold's Glide support to work with a Voodoo 3?

Posted on 2016-02-02, 09:43

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by EdmondDantes

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You're welcome. One last thing, is it possible to adjust the brightness? A lot of areas seem way too dark... there was one hole I was supposed to jump down to avoid a rock, but I didn't because (in Glide mode) it looked like just a hole of blackness (in software tho I can clearly see the bottom). I …

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Re: getting Tomb Raider Gold's Glide support to work with a Voodoo 3?

Posted on 2016-01-30, 05:51

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by EdmondDantes

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Okay, so here's the results. Going with people's suggestions, I tried the Voodoo Rush patch/executable. I also found reports that the 3dfx executable for Unfinished Business works fine for the expansion, so I set up to test that. I read at places that you need to have the file glide2x.ovl in the …

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getting Tomb Raider Gold's Glide support to work with a Voodoo 3?

Posted on 2016-01-29, 04:51

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by EdmondDantes

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So, A week ago I downloaded some demos of the original Tomb Raider. One of these was supposed to be a 3Dfx version, but it was a DOS executable, which blew my mind as I had never heard of a hardware-accelerated DOS game before. But when I tried to run it, my screen would always go blank and my …

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Re: How to record gameplay footage from Win98SE or older ?!

Posted on 2015-08-25, 04:46

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by EdmondDantes

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Hey man, I bought one of those boxes, and I'm loving it, but I do have one little qualm that maybe you can help me with. With some MS-DOS games, and even the DOS prompt itself, the entire screen does not display on my television. For example in the DOS prompt, I can never see the C:\ part, though I …

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Re: Is there a way to turn multiple CD ISOs into a DVD ISO?

Posted on 2015-04-13, 10:34

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by EdmondDantes

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I was hoping there'd be a "one size fits all" solution to this, but it seems there isn't. I found a thing you can do for Riven, but Timelapse is hard to search for because its title keeps getting me hits for time lapse photography, or recording software that has a time lapse option.... rarely do I …

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Is there a way to turn multiple CD ISOs into a DVD ISO?

Posted on 2015-04-13, 09:01

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by EdmondDantes

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Okay, so situation: I have lots of multi-CD games, of the "you have to switch out the disc" persuasion (Riven, Timelapse, and Blade Runner being some I've run across lately). I've tried simply mounting multiple ISOs using Daemontools, but that doesn't always work. The games seem typically to expect …

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Re: Game has Audio Tracks on CD.....

Posted on 2015-03-25, 17:08

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by EdmondDantes

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I seem to have one disc that won't copy--every program I use stops after five seconds, some with claims of bad sectors. IsoBuster verified that it has some. Since the game in question works fine, I'm suspecting this is the "bad sectors on purpose" copy protection and I'm wondering how to create an …

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Re: Game has Audio Tracks on CD.....

Posted on 2015-03-20, 07:32

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by EdmondDantes

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I actually already use DaemonTools, but I didn't know it could mount Bin and Cue files. Now if only I had a program that could create bin/cue files and 1:1 backups. I've been using an old version of Nero Express but apparently it can't do that. I actually tried to back up one game with audio tracks …

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