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Re: GOG.com games that work in Win9x/ME with no fuss

Posted on 2017-12-07, 23:14

in Milliways

SImCity 4 should works on win98SE with 256MB RAM, Pentium 4, and decent graphics card that support DirectX 8. But that original CD-Rom releases, not sure if GOG mess that up with patches or something.

Re: Fixing logical bad sectors on floppy disks

Posted on 2017-12-01, 23:34

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

your method somewhat remind me of spinrite but for floppies.

Re: Is Windows 3.1 or Older Necessary?

Posted on 2017-11-21, 07:47

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ Software

Win 95/98 was always better and had pretty much no issues with "win 3.1 era" games. People who still used Win 3.1 over 95 probably had a 386/486 @ 25/33MHz instead of a DX2 or Pentium. Yeah the issue are more likely hardware rather and the OS. I remember win3 games that perfectly playable at 486, …

Re: Need help fitting long command line

Posted on 2017-11-05, 09:17

by Joey_sw

in DOSBox General

isn't it ms-dos limiation on Program Segment Prefix, that it can only accept max 127 characters as parmeters? So most decent compilers would usually work around it by using a text file as replacement for its lenghty parameters option?

Re: Strange CDROM driver (OPTI) - Loads device, does not assign a drive letter via MSCDEX - Stumped

Posted on 2017-10-22, 21:47

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

some cdrom driver may assign its own internal name if user aren't specifying the /D parameter, try checking for its name using "MEM /D".

Re: Any downside to using a DirectX 10 card in a WinXP PC (DirectX 9.0)

Posted on 2017-10-07, 00:13

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yeah, start with older drivers and only upgrade that drivers (incrementally) if you find issues with the games.

Re: Why 7Z not RAR or ZIP?

Posted on 2017-10-01, 04:03

by Joey_sw

in Milliways

Dude, there were many formats, but come on, at least i am A DOS person, so RAR32(3.9) or RAR16(2.50), ARJ, ZIP, ZOO, ACE .... for me thank you :) You forgot LHA :) A friend of mine loves .JAR , but i stick with .RAR. I'm pretty sure that Java JAR (which esssentialy are just standard zip format) are …

Re: DIY: FPGA MDA/EGA/CGA to VGA Converter :D

Posted on 2017-10-01, 03:25

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

retrocanada76 wrote: MDA is on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4NCncDdVf8 Cool!! Since mda port is pin compatible with hercules, how about adding 'color select function' to simulate various monochrome monitor phospor such as green or amber or white?

Re: Exclusive Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and ME Games List

Posted on 2017-09-28, 15:10

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ Software

Which games are these? I do recall one title that had DRM that forced you to keep the CD or it wouldn't load into the game. It was Knight Rider from Davilex. Later I used the CD patch to install directly on the hard drive. I can't recall any hard copy protection CD type games in the 3.X-ME period. …

Re: restrictions of win9x on hdd partitioning?

Posted on 2017-09-22, 04:48

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

"partition(s) must start at the 1st sector of the cylinders/tracks"? I believes there are more rules, but that what i could think of.

Re: Missing volume labels for old software

Posted on 2017-09-22, 03:04

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ Software

Some publisher may used ascii characters that can't be inputted normally by msdos's LABEL command.

Re: Exclusive Windows 3.1, 95, 98, and ME Games List

Posted on 2017-09-18, 11:09

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ Software

Speaking of CD & its driver, i do have games that can easily installed and run on win98, but it would not run when i install it on winXP, its still refuses to run even using win98 compatibility mode. After some searching I need to apply the NoCD cracks/patches to make it run on winXP. Eh, its …

Re: Windows 98 SE installation issue [with SATA controller?]

Posted on 2017-09-18, 10:23

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Stretch wrote: Put the SATA controller to "legacy mode" "compatibility mode" or similar in the BIOS. also known as "IDE mode", which is software compatible with win 98SE. But some bios may provide AHCI mode only, which making it incompatible with win 98SE.

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-09-18, 08:11

by Joey_sw

in Release Announcements

The SF2 for DOS somehow remind me one of SF2 bootlegs for NES, yes its NES not SNES.

Re: Problems instaling W98

Posted on 2017-09-16, 06:43

by Joey_sw

in Marvin \ Software

Yeah, the w98 install must be done within the first 2^28 sectors (thanks to LBA28), and only after applying the LBA28 --> LBA32(?) patch then you can resize the partition using non-destructive partition resizer program such as PowerQuest's Partition Magic.

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-09-10, 04:29

by Joey_sw

in Release Announcements

EDIT: Oh wait, you meant on real hardware. Yeah, a lot of CGA tricks don't work on most actual graphics cards, such as the 160x100 16 colour mode since it's technically a hacked text mode. ;) Yeah, i tried on on real hardware using bootable usb (freedos, with microsoft QBasic program included in it …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-09-10, 02:45

by Joey_sw

in Release Announcements

Also, I wasn't actually aware that the red/cyan/white mode didn't work properly without the machine type being set to CGA. Makes sense, really, just didn't know it. :B Now that you mention it, i just try them on Nvidia GT620, and indeed the cyan/red doesn't works with that stuff it just shows the …

Re: Nvidia global 3D settings override works, per-game doesn't

Posted on 2017-09-08, 01:13

by Joey_sw

in Windows

Some games may uses launcher to load & execute the main code as seperate process, and then promptly removes/exits itself (the launcher) from active process list. That would usually confuses the NVidia 3D settings.