Re: PLOP Boot manager+DOS+WIN98+Win ME
Posted on 2020-04-27, 13:48
Sadly I've never tried it with VM
Re: My Humble Youtube Channel, mostly pickups and repairs
Posted on 2017-07-22, 18:40
My latest video is up, I think you guys might like it it's a lovely 386 with a TI 486DLC I recently decided to change the way I do and edit my videos this is an experiment and I need everyone's honest opinion on what you think aswell as some advice. PS Or you can just watch and enjoy some very early …
Re: My Humble Youtube Channel, mostly pickups and repairs
Posted on 2017-04-08, 17:50
It's been a long time since I posted on here and a lot of new videos everyone can enjoy Decided to recap my Gigabyte GA-6OXT ,and stream the progress, https://youtu.be/HBISXpV3PcM Also be sure to look at this PC dedicated playlist , I will be sorting my videos and add a lot more into the playlist …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-08, 17:46
Decided to recap my Gigabyte GA-6OXT ,and stream the progress, https://youtu.be/HBISXpV3PcM
Re: Backing up DOS era CD-ROM games?
Posted on 2017-01-06, 18:11
No , sorry I miss worded that, the fact that when you try and emulated a CD-Rom drive (Fakecd for dos or daemontools etc.. for windows for instance) it cant play back the audio tracks, this made a lot of games unplayable without a burnt disk and CD writers was extremely expensive aswell as the media …
Re: Blood in DOS 6.22
Posted on 2017-01-06, 13:28
I never got Blood working on my V1 back in the day, as the 3DFX patch only works on Version 1.0 of blood and every version Ive owned was higher than that, have you checked your version numbers, maybe your experiencing a similar problem. Edit: NV see you got it sorted :) maybe Ill try a different …
Re: Backing up DOS era CD-ROM games?
Posted on 2017-01-06, 13:21
The only CD based copy protection I can remember from the dos days was the fact that a lot of games checked the CD Label , if the Label didnt match you would get the dreaded "Insert disc" screen, FakeCD even had the ability to clone the label, but just like today the biggest problem with emulating a …
Re: Acclaim Entertainment computers recovered from Brooklyn warehouse
Posted on 2017-01-06, 13:11
You might want to make a post over assemblergames, there is a good chance that some one there also bought a few computers or cds when acclaim shut down.
Re: Gigabyte 6VXD7- valuable?
Posted on 2017-01-06, 07:35
I have a local person with one of these willing to sell, but first I want to ask the forum if this board has any noted problems. Via 133A chipset- I think that's a good one, or is it the one that has problems with SB Live cards? I'll google this myself, but can it take Tualatins? That'd be a heck …
Re: Retro LAN gaming over the internet, how do I do it?
Posted on 2016-10-24, 05:27
Here is how I would have done it: You will need 2x DDWRT compatible routers with wan ports and at least one spare lan port, you can use Mikrotik as well but it is much more troublesome to setup. Install DDWRT onto both routers , and configure it to use internet via DHCP over the wan port,add a DHCP …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-09-30, 10:51
So I have run into the issue that on an ebay auction, I have received an important part less than was advertised in the listing. Now I messaged the seller and they claim that the item missing was never advertised as included. HOWEVER!!! The missing item was included in the title advertisement and …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-09-22, 07:32
I generally have no interest in AGP video cards w/o win98 drivers, so when I was looking for 7xxx cards, I settled for a pair of XFX 7950GT EE. Payed 20$ for them and they run great. I'm not running them passive tough - a 120mm fan blows in between both cards, otherwise they go over 80c. http://i. …
Re: ReelMagic MPEG Decoder running Return to Zork
Posted on 2016-09-16, 06:15
Here we go, Return to Zork Reelmagic version intro. I didn't bother to set my mixer here with the SB Pro card so its in mono and no thunder sound effect at Infocom logo but meh.... Captured this in DOS on my 33mhz 486DLC rig with my DVI2PCIe card. https://youtu.be/-qvPQrtgUKk Thanks that looks …
Re: Doom 4
Posted on 2016-09-02, 10:17
For a modern shooter it was pretty darn good , but it doesnt hold a candle to its former self, Doom 2 was and still is Dooms peak. The problem I had with it was the closed arena shooting got extremely long in the tooth midway trough the game, what made Doom 2 so great was the fact that if you ran …
Re: I have an idea... Oh boy.
Posted on 2016-08-31, 07:39
Considering that we have the schematic you might aswell add a internal mixer to mix in sound effects from a second sound card 😀 Something like: http://www.electroschematics.com/544/3-channel-audio-mixer/
Re: Tried 3 systems, can't get 98 or ME Stable
Posted on 2016-08-16, 06:58
An other thing to try is to do a clean install of windows 9x and immediately afterwords (no drivers) run prime95 for a few hours, wait a day or two and try again, if it fails its something to do with hardware, if not it could be software or drivers. When is the instability occurring? What software …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-08-15, 11:21
I have found 3 broken drives already, what do you guys do with those? Just throw em out? Rip out the magnets? Any fun experiments? I just Run HDD Regenerator from within hirens, sometimes you can get lucky and its just a few bad sectors, so far its saved atleast two of 120GB HDDs , the ones it …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-08-15, 10:31
Spent the entire day rediong the win95 and win98 installs on the P3 V2Sli rig, the Windows 95 setup went corrupt after updating the display drivers too high, my own fault that I made worse trying to figure out why the newer drivers didnt work, the Win98 install had a horrid bug after installing …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-08-14, 18:42
Spent the entire day rediong the win95 and win98 installs on the P3 V2Sli rig, the Windows 95 setup went corrupt after updating the display drivers too high, my own fault that I made worse trying to figure out why the newer drivers didnt work, the Win98 install had a horrid bug after installing …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-08-03, 06:20
The BIOS works perfectly now with a 20gig hard drive now that I have cleared the CMOS 😀
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