Early XP Gaming Monitors: CRT, LCD 4:3, or Wide?
Posted on 2016-12-09, 16:56
I have an xp system lying around. So I think I want to make a dedicated early xp rig to add to the basement man cave. Which type of monitor would be best?
Re: What's a good Pentium III Socket 370 Motherboard with 98SE Support?
Posted on 2015-03-07, 04:27
I will try and get that model up here soon. Most likely Monday since I work all weekend. I do not care about the SB Live!, I am not partial to it in any way. I just want something that is not going to be a total pain. My main issue is that i have this unknown motherboard, well, I found the model …
What's a good Pentium III Socket 370 Motherboard with 98SE Support?
Posted on 2015-03-06, 06:46
I am looking into switching up my Window 98 SE rigs components a bit. Right now I have this old XP PC I gutted and threw a soundblaster Live! in and I have a Geforce card in that is overkill. Right now I have a Pentium IV based motherboard of unknown origin. I think it's a Dell. Here is my goal: I …
Re: Cyberpunk games that don't suck?
Posted on 2014-06-20, 16:59
Ahh, I guess that does say cyberpunk.
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-20, 06:51
It works great booting up dos with f8. I got a shareware doom to play with sound and sound fx. Sounds so different than my steam version. I however could not get the mouse to work, and trying to install duke3d looks like I have no cd Rom support. Tried d and e. I have a feeling the mouse should be …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-20, 05:57
Actually I did not realize that. I thought the boot disk just allowed dos to start up. That is nice to know. I will try that method you suggested now. I did get another pc. And I am going to upgrade it and try it out. But I still want to try and get this PC working. Sorry for the confusion earlier …
Re: Cyberpunk games that don't suck?
Posted on 2014-06-20, 05:06
Policenauts was a good game. Not as good as snatcher though. The intro is pretty epic though. I also enjoyed Rise of the Dragon on Sega CD. I wish I had an Amiga though to play that version. Very under-rated game. If you like SHMUPS Progear is awesome. But you must play the Japanese version. Took me …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-20, 04:48
I only have one CD drive. Actually it says on the front of it that it is a dvd drive. I also have a 3.5 floppy drive. Those are the only 2 drives I have installed on this system that can be accessed from the front. The last pic says number of drives = 1. So I do not think it is loading up another cd …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-20, 03:59
OK, I just took some pictures. I will post them below. I do not see anything SoundBlaster related, but I will post them anyway in case it will help. Thanks so much for all your help. I know it must be frustrating at times when things are pretty simple for you. There was one final line of text I …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-19, 20:40
I will check when I get off work tonight. I use a DOS boot disk I made when I built this PC to get into DOS. So I get in pretty easily. Off the top of my head I do not think It says anything. I distinctly remember it saying driver provided by oak technology, bit it says a lot of stuff and it goes …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-19, 04:18
ok, here are the sysconfig and autoexec.bat files I pulled off of DOS. Hopefully this is what You all meant when asking for these. I read in some documentation online that if I have Windows 95/98 that I should configure this through the windows command prompt "sysedit" I loaded that up and took pics …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-18, 03:38
I will be picking up Final Fantasy VII at some point. Never played the PC version but beat the PS1 version a few times. Anyway I'm not going to be too picky. I can always find a way to install it on Windows 7 I'm sure if there's issues. Is this what you are talking about? http://www.amazon.com/ …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-18, 03:07
Just realized I missed everything after the first page. For whatever reason, even though I have notifications set I never receive emails for replies to this topic. So I just get on here when I'm working on my PC. For the record I ditched that SoundBlaster live! SB0 card I got off eBay. I found a …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-18, 01:50
OK, forget all this. I got a old PC today for $15.00 from the local used PC store. It has 2 ISA slots, and I just loaded windows 98SE on it. I have been researching all day regarding good DOS sound cards, mostly been sent back here. But I am still uncertain which to pick up on ebay. Anytime I find a …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-12, 05:45
You looked at something that was "over a page long" and quickly decided that it "seems way over my head" and subsequently were "pretty much giving up on installing anything dos related on this PC". This bodes very, very poorly for the future of this endeavor. It's not going to get much better, you …
Re: Hexen issues in config Win 98SE ERROR KERNEL32.DLL
Posted on 2014-06-12, 01:05
It is a cd version and the paper manual mentions a few installation options, it is not a 3.5 disk. Not sure if hexen ever had had 3.5 release, but its cd for sure.
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-11, 17:42
Yes, this sort of thing is definitely a hassle! So why don't you just use DOSBox? Because I don't really like emulators. I'm obviously not a expert on retro pc's. But when it comes to consoles I know quite a bit. And I know emulators never feel the same. And it's not even about not using a old …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-11, 06:10
Thanks for the info everyone. I don't know what I would do without you all. I am pretty much giving up on installing anything dos related on this PC. It's just too much of a hassle. I think I am going to just use this for windows 95/98 gaming for now and hopefully pick up a decent used pc with a ISA …
Hexen issues in config Win 98SE ERROR KERNEL32.DLL
Posted on 2014-06-11, 05:52
I'm trying to get Hexen (original disc) working in Windows 98SE. It says in the manual it supports direct play and install in windows 95. I understand I should probably be doing this in DOS but I do not have a ISA slot so my PC will not recognize my SoundBlaster Live! card for sound. I did however …
Re: SoundBlaster Live! DOS Driver issue on real PC
Posted on 2014-06-07, 07:01
I would also like to add when I test music card it is saying could not detect FM chip.
Page 4 of 5