Re: Is it normal for a FIC PA-2013's graphic drivers to break because of a Bios Update on Windows 95?

Posted on 2016-10-11, 12:15

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Most probably updating the BIOS also changed some settings. No, it's not of course normal a BIOS update to break anything else, as long as the settings remain the same

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-07, 15:50

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...AFAIK it's the only, or one of the few, red sound card.... Nothing to do with the GUS itself or about posting photos without description, only about red sound card PCBs: It's not ;) Of course you can't mistake them for a GUS, but many-many ESS and OPTi cards came in red PCB. For some reason it …

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Re: Schneider Euro PC

Posted on 2016-10-07, 12:45

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I doubt it to be honest, but I hope somebody proves me wrong. The original floppies that came with Euro PC/PCII/XT don't contain anything like that, then again the Schneiders have a BIOS so they might thought it wan't necessary to include it.

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Re: Looking for ATI Small Wonder software/utilities disk

Posted on 2016-10-06, 16:12

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...aaand the ATI disk I had memories of, just as I was starting to believe I'm getting too old and loosing it, revealed itself. It was lying under our eyes all this time. This is the full/ATI branded Graphics Solution disk from 1987, as found at minuszerodegrees.net (a site of amazing content I must …

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Re: Jackal CGA

Posted on 2016-10-02, 14:40

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As with the rest of Konami's games of that era, the game does start in CGA by just running the executable, unless you specify with an "e" parameter that you want EGA. The same applies for eg. Rush 'n Attack (aka Green Beret). I don't know what's happening with your copy(?) though. Here's the manual: …

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Re: Which old hard drives were high or low end?

Posted on 2016-09-29, 16:27

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Just a comment about the Quantum Fireball 6.4GB (and only that capacity model): Although sold/reviewed/received as an excellent and premium drive, it was the main reason Quantum is no more. Just guaranteed to fail, although excellent while working. This does not apply for the rest of Fireball series …

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Re: Iomega ZIP drive - format disk in DOS?

Posted on 2016-09-20, 17:27

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OK, revisiting this since I may not have made my intentions clear enough. DOS' format apparently is a quick format, finishes in 1". Except from the fact that the manual itself discourages its use unless a long format from the Iomega tools has been made on the disk (then its OK to use it -I find no …

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Re: Pipeline Burst Cache (Pentium COASt Module era)

Posted on 2016-09-19, 15:57

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Typically a P75 is sufficient to play a 128 kBit/s MP3. Typically we started collecting and playing 128kbps MP3s on 486 DX2/4s and Winamp, but we weren't doing anything else at the same time, not even moving the mouse :lol: You would move the mouse to prevent the screensaver for appearing and you …

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Re: Release: RATillery, an artillery game for PC

Posted on 2016-09-19, 15:51

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Well the game does not do anything special and uses the BIOS to set a standard video mode. So I would have expected this to work... But just now I had a quick look at how SIMCGA works and I think this can be explained. The game waits for vsync by polling port 3DAh, however it seems that on a …

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Re: i486 DX2 66 vs Am486 DX2 66 and the winner is...

Posted on 2016-09-19, 15:07

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All that is left is to repeat the same benchmarks a number of times, so you get min/max/average scores, giving you an idea of the margin of error. So true, I was about to comment this until I read your post. Let me add another parameter in the discussion: How do we know that in the Quake demo the …

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Re: Asus P5A rev 1.04 with AMD K6-III+

Posted on 2016-09-15, 18:32

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First of all I'm sorry in advance if I'm not getting something obvious here, but my tip is to run the CPU at 4x100 instead of 5.5x100. Unless that was just some typo 😉

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Re: Iomega ZIP drive - format disk in DOS?

Posted on 2016-09-15, 15:24

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Really, you can format ZIP disks with the classic DOS format.com? That's excellent news, I always thought a specific format tool from Iomega was needed. I kinda feel stupid now. (elianda, I do admire your sarcasm level 😉 )

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Iomega ZIP drive - format disk in DOS?

Posted on 2016-09-15, 14:59

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Hi all, Recently I got my hands on some internal ZIP drives and a couple of diskettes. Unfortunately the disks are those initially "MAC formatted". Now I do remember using the Windows tools to format such disks in the past, but I'm going to use the drives on pure DOS systems. The question: Is there …

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Re: Release: RATillery, an artillery game for PC

Posted on 2016-09-15, 14:47

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I tried it on an XT with a Hercules clone + SIMCGA, with no luck. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it should work like that and of course I can always run it in dosbox, just hoped to spend some time on the real thing with a new XT/DOS game once more. Ended up playing it on dosbox for quite some …

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Re: Software for Windows 98

Posted on 2016-09-11, 09:31

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I didn't have any luck with CPCDiskXP on clean Win98. Which is bad since my main desktop doesn't have a "real" floppy and my retro pcs don't go higher that Win98. If you need an alternative, instead of creating something specifically to be able to run CPCDiskXP, I'm using CPDWrite (DOS)

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-09-09, 17:23

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SKARDAVNELNATE wrote: Gemini000, did your website disappear? I'm sure it's not, but yes it's certainly down right now.

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Re: Whats a good format to have music in?

Posted on 2016-09-07, 06:03

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I don't hear a difference in mp3 320kbps 16 Bit 48kHz vs. flac 1411kbps 16 Bit 44kHz at all and have a good sound system now. May I ask what's the sound system you're listening to? Simple curiosity because a lot people reply here saying the same, but I'm guessing they just don't own appropriate …

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Re: Microsoft MSE 'killed' on Windows XP, temp fix available

Posted on 2016-09-05, 10:46

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Let me get this straight: They didn't just leave our old and unsupported systems alone, but they did update them, only to destroy something that was working?

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Re: What happens if you connect the battery header backwards?

Posted on 2016-09-04, 15:51

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...or because a 3V CR2032 is not enough voltage (original battery is a 3.6V lithium barrel) I've never encountered a single board that can't keep it's settings when fed with 3V instead of 3.6, so I wouldn't worry about that. The problem is the barrel batteries are rechargeable Are batteries meant …

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Re: What happens if you connect the battery header backwards?

Posted on 2016-09-04, 10:09

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einr wrote: ...or because a 3V CR2032 is not enough voltage (original battery is a 3.6V lithium barrel) I've never encountered a single board that can't keep it's settings when fed with 3V instead of 3.6, so I wouldn't worry about that.

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