Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-09-05, 04:23

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by Joey_sw

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Gemini000 wrote: Ancient DOS Games Episode 221 - Lords of the Realm is online! i found out that it dos version under DOSBox are a lot stable than its windows version. Sure i'd lose the voice acting, but its a lot better than my Core2Duo (E7500) winxp system became sluggish when i alt-tab during the …

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Re: List of gaems that benefit from SMARTDRV?

Posted on 2017-09-03, 09:06

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by Joey_sw

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In my experiences, when installing the first Red Alert and its expansion it would finished much quicker, if I enabled the smartdrive for the CD-ROM drives beforehand.

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Re: XT Keyboards - any suggestions?

Posted on 2017-09-01, 03:55

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by Joey_sw

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i do curious if adapter for XT Keyboard <--> AT Keyboard was ever made?

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Re: What's the deal with the Pentium Pro?

Posted on 2017-08-27, 13:04

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by Joey_sw

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Pentium Pro was the first of its family that offers the PAE features, which such feature's existence was ignored by most chipset makers & OS vendors for a few years.

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Re: Was AC'97 Support on DOS ever figured out?

Posted on 2017-08-27, 03:37

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by Joey_sw

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When AC97 was first announced i thought it would became VESA-ish for soundcard, but after a few months i come to realization that i've thought it wrong.

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Re: Wait--There's a serial mouse that DOESN'T need a special mousepad?

Posted on 2017-08-24, 08:59

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by Joey_sw

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With ball mice, cleaning the ball, and its contact dials are a must. With optical mice sometimes its requires a 'mousepad' to works properly even with more modern one. i still found that optical mice doesn't perform well on shiny surfaces, temporary workaround which i often did is use put a sheet of …

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Re: Am I the only one here who spams sound cards in retro builds for extra IDE slots?

Posted on 2017-08-22, 05:25

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by Joey_sw

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... i remember there was stuff that called 'daisy-chain' HDD ...

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Re: Has anyone Edited BIOS splash screen?

Posted on 2017-08-21, 07:11

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by Joey_sw

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I did mine years ago, it was Pentium4 asus motherboard. I done it with official tools that i downloaded from asus websites.

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Re: No joystick game port on my soundcard, what do?

Posted on 2017-08-19, 00:37

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by Joey_sw

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so are there expansion cards for just game port? Yes there are, in fact it was the way for IBM PC compatible pre-soundblaster able to use joystick. Creative was simply integrating pre-existing seperate options (IDE expansion for CD-ROM, gameport) into their soundcard which make their soundblaster …

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Re: Nero 6 (Win98SE) not ripping CDs its ripped before. Weird

Posted on 2017-08-17, 03:49

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by Joey_sw

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For troubleshooting purposes, how about using other CD-Rom imaging software such as CloneCD or Alcohol 52%? Would they also failed?

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Re: OPL2LPT

Posted on 2017-08-16, 00:30

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by Joey_sw

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My experience with USB parallel ports is that they are only suitable for connecting actual printers, not real-time bit-bang GPIO hobby projects. That was at least the situation over 10 years ago, it might have changed since as both drivers get more features and hobbyist programmers get smarter …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-08-12, 19:48

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by Joey_sw

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Other powerups that haven't mentioned but i have encounter it on NES version of Arkanoid, is an "electric-field guard". When you collect that powerups, an electric-like 'wave' would appear at the same height as your Vaus from left to right, and it would deflect the ball even if the Vaus aren't in …

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Re: Intel's dirty strategies

Posted on 2017-07-27, 23:47

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by Joey_sw

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While i mostly agree that what Intel have been doing aren't quite ethical, i do however disagree on the view about intel's complier. Those complier were made by intel, and naturally produces the optimized machine code for intel's CPUs, intel are not under any obligation to do the same optimization …

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Re: Do you reformat preformatted floppies?

Posted on 2017-07-24, 23:11

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by Joey_sw

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kaputnik wrote: Always reformatting any floppy before putting them to use, just to make sure they work. It doesn't take all that long, and it can save you from some disappointment. Excatly, and avoid 'quick-format' if the quality of floppies are questionable.

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Re: WinGroove lives again (in soundfont form)

Posted on 2017-07-23, 10:52

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by Joey_sw

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There are 10 drumsets in WinGroove, you can check that by enabling the "Instruments Window" in its settings. Standard Kit 1 Standard Kit 2 Room Kit Power Kit Electric Kit 808 Kit Dance Kit Jazz Kit Brush Kit Orchestra Kit

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Re: PCem + S3D, or probably DOSBox-x + S3D

Posted on 2017-07-22, 21:50

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by Joey_sw

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S3 ViRGE, i actually have one that, and its marketting claim vs its real performace that make doubting the whole 'graphics hardware accelerator thing', until 3DFx Voodoo proves me wrong.

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Re: BOOT & IMGBOOT - Wat are their purpose if you cannot boot DosBox from a USB/SD?

Posted on 2017-07-22, 21:24

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by Joey_sw

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Most software that creates a imagefiles would usually also spit out the image supposedly geomety, but... there case where such geometry aren't adhere to IBM PC's Int 13h specification/limitation. - Can only have max 63 sectors per cylinder, - Can only have max 1024 cylinders per head, - Can only …

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Re: BOOT & IMGBOOT - Wat are their purpose if you cannot boot DosBox from a USB/SD?

Posted on 2017-07-22, 06:37

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by Joey_sw

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which why you need to specify parameter about the image's "geometry".

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Re: What AMD processors did beat their Intel counterparts?

Posted on 2017-07-14, 06:55

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by Joey_sw

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My personal belief that IBM PC won the market thanks to Lotus 1-2-3, other similar software competitors/solutions for non-IBM architecture computers was kinda sucks.

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Re: Gameboy to Parallel producing vertical lines

Posted on 2017-07-04, 23:44

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by Joey_sw

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ControlSet001 Fiddling directly with ControlSet### aren't recommended. Use the "CurrentControlSet" instead.

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