Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2022-09-30, 12:35

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by leonardo

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USBUPD2 is a critical update to fix a severe memory leak itroduced in USBSUPP and it doesn't run scandisk. Without it the system is unstable but usb flash drives work with 95usbflash11.exe, in fact i copied the update from usb. Thanks for the reminder - if one decides to install USBSUPP, USBUPD2 …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2022-09-30, 06:12

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by leonardo

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Thanks. I found the culprit for this behavior. The maximum size of the HDD, was 127GB, scandiskw needs less than 32GB to work under Windows 95. I made some tests, it runssss! But I have an issue now. I used Ontrack Disk Manager 10.46 to create the partition and now I cannot revert the total size of …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2022-09-29, 07:23

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by leonardo

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Greetings, recently I bought a Tulip Vision Line xd 6/350 and I wanted to give a try the Windows 95 installation, because when this line released in January of 1998, Tulip was using the Windows 95c version and on summer of 1998 switched to Windows 98. I have an issue, I'm using the Windows 95c CD …

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Re: CD-ROM Performance Win 98 and DOS

Posted on 2022-09-26, 14:12

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by leonardo

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I have an annoying issue I have tried to resolve for quite sometime. First I will add no issues during installs, playing music from cd. But when I play a game that has red book audio in it for instance (Quake or Tomb Raider 2). Game loads and plays great until the music being played in game needs …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2022-09-26, 14:04

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by leonardo

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Great news Win9xers! I've been exchanging information with the PuTTY team and it looks like 0.77 will be the first release of PuTTY since 0.65 to work on Windows 95! The WinSock 2 update is required (this is included in the instructions anyway), but no dependency on IE. I just tried to install …

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Re: Strange issue when trying to play Resident Evil on Windows 95

Posted on 2022-09-22, 17:19

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by leonardo

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Hi, I'm new to this community, so if I did anything wrong please let me know, thanks! Long story short, I'm having a strange issue when trying to run resident evil on my Windows95 desktop. If I set display to 640x480 16 bit, then run the game, the computer will black screen and freeze. Any other …

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Re: CD-ROM Performance Win 98 and DOS

Posted on 2022-09-20, 13:48

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by leonardo

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I have an annoying issue I have tried to resolve for quite sometime. First I will add no issues during installs, playing music from cd. But when I play a game that has red book audio in it for instance (Quake or Tomb Raider 2). Game loads and plays great until the music being played in game needs …

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Re: Strange issue when trying to play Resident Evil on Windows 95

Posted on 2022-09-16, 21:24

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by leonardo

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Hi, I'm new to this community, so if I did anything wrong please let me know, thanks! Long story short, I'm having a strange issue when trying to run resident evil on my Windows95 desktop. If I set display to 640x480 16 bit, then run the game, the computer will black screen and freeze. Any other …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-15, 10:15

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by leonardo

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This is an interesting (if recurring discussion). I just thought I'd remind all involved that the original question the OP had was if he'd see a big difference in going from 16MB of RAM to 32MB, mainly while using DOS. The answer to that question seems to be: for DOS gaming not really, and for …

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Re: VIA KT133 and Radeon 9600xt issues

Posted on 2022-09-13, 14:59

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by leonardo

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One obvious tip that I thought I should mention is that you really need to install VIA 4in1 and DirectX before you install any video card drivers. You may already know this, but I thought I'd mention it just to be sure.

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Re: VIA KT133 and Radeon 9600xt issues

Posted on 2022-09-13, 13:28

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by leonardo

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I very recently solved stability issues with a system that's like yours but also different enough that the solution might not apply. I'm using Windows 95, but you may be able to get a solid Windows 98-setup following what I did . Not sure if an older version of 4in1 is necessarily applicable for …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-13, 06:37

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by leonardo

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Jo22 wrote on 2022-09-13, 05:53: If you guys are really into masochism, BDSM or something like that, try.. - a 486DX2-66 - with 16 MB RAM - an 500 MB Seagate ID […] Show full quote If you guys are really into masochism, BDSM or something like that, try.. - a 486DX2-66 - with 16 MB RAM - an 500 MB …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 16:07

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by leonardo

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I hope this is somewhat on topic - this thread is mostly about ~1995 but I have an HP Vectra VL5 which is more of a '97 machine. It came with a 200MHz Pentium MMX and 96MB RAM (6 x 16MB EDO). Due to the 256K COAST module it can only cache 64MB (430HX chipset). I currently run Windows 98 SE on it …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 15:43

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by leonardo

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thats all part of experience that we had back then.. i did read that in dos mode playing doom, that anything above 8mb made no difference.. maybe in windows desktop environment it makes a difference more? thing wont be in windows much ... its primary purpose is 94/95/96 gaming, not sure how much …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 15:37

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by leonardo

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thats all part of experience that we had back then.. i did read that in dos mode playing doom, that anything above 8mb made no difference.. maybe in windows desktop environment it makes a difference more? thing wont be in windows much ... its primary purpose is 94/95/96 gaming, not sure how much …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 13:55

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by leonardo

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hi guys, im in the process of getting together a P120 build and trying to keep it period correct .. its going to be a christmas 1995 very late present.. back then a very nice upper end PC was a 120 (with the 133 being at the top) with 16 mb RAM.. ram was incredibly expensive with 32MB being around …

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Re: My top-build, a parts-surplus proof-of-concept

Posted on 2022-09-10, 10:35

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by leonardo

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I had a similar rig back in the early 2000s, except my GPU was a GeForce 2 MX400. You would probably get slightly better performance with such a period correct Nvidia card and early drivers like 7.76 since they don't have that much CPU overhead. I actually started my tests with an MX400, but it …

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Re: My top-build, a parts-surplus proof-of-concept

Posted on 2022-09-10, 09:31

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by leonardo

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As a sidenote to those who are looking for good optical drives to put into their retro-builds, the Samsung SW-252F has excellent read-performance. I have an older game disc that is in pretty bad shape. It utilizes audio tracks for in-game music, and weaker drives will skip or stutter during playback …

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Re: WIP: My top-build, a proof-of-concept from leftover parts

Posted on 2022-09-08, 14:41

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by leonardo

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Oh yeah, and here's the updated front with the "new" Samsung SW-252F CD-RW drive I got to replace one of the HP ones: underdog_optical-swap.jpg Next I will be closing the case up and seeing if the fan-arrangement is enough to cool the system that it won't go up in smoke, and secondly that I will …

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Re: WIP: My top-build, a proof-of-concept from leftover parts

Posted on 2022-09-08, 14:37

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by leonardo

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I like it :) I at one time build something similar, a 1200MHz Thunderbird (also 12*100MHz) on an ASUS A7V with some spare GF MX card iirc. You didn't add a case exhaust fan? Feel free to add more pics of the insides 🙂 I like it the more I play with it. The Radeon is killing it in Direct3D-mode in …

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