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Re: Throttle DOS machine speed for specific ancient games?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 22:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

116 MHz? Why is that relevant? because you said: My DOS machine's CPU is an AMD-K5-PR166, and although I'm not certain of its exact speed In retrospect, I guess the "PR166" bit could theoretically mean that it runs at 166 MHz, but then again it could just be marketing fluff. At the time, I didn't …

Re: Having a painful time tracking down drivers.

Posted on 2014-08-24, 22:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the motherboard is socket 7, then you can use socket 5 or socket 7 CPUs. The main difference is that Socket 7 supports split voltage (which came in with the Pentium MMX). Socket 5 CPUs - Pentium (P75 or higher), AMD K5, Cyrix 6X86 (NOT L) Socket 7 CPUs - Pentium MMX, AMD K6, Cyrix 6X86L & 6X86MX …

Re: Null Modem Cable between DOS 6.22 machine and Windows 7 machine?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 22:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

mr_bigmouth_502 wrote: I think he meant "PuTTY", this program: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ That seems to help with the WIndows 7 end, thanks!...but now I'm not sure about what to do with the DOS machine.

Re: Throttle DOS machine speed for specific ancient games?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 18:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

...We're still on the subject of "I wanna slow down a machine that might not run Windows 95", right? CHAMP Kong and Mo'Slo would run on DOS 6.22? Additionally, I have no idea what a CPU cache is (plus I don't think the BIOS supports it).

Re: Throttle DOS machine speed for specific ancient games?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 18:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

116 MHz? Why is that relevant?

Re: Having a painful time tracking down drivers.

Posted on 2014-08-24, 15:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In that case you would definitely find something on ebay, although that might not be the cheapest source. Searching for P54C/P55C - cheapest BIN is a P200MMX for 6$ shipped. Trying for plain Pentium On one hand, thanks a lot! OTOH, the cheapest listings don't tell me what's Socket 7 and what's …

Throttle DOS machine speed for specific ancient games?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 15:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1. My DOS machine is capable of running Quake at a fairly decent speed, so the specs are actually kind of impressive. It's running DOS 6.22. 2. "What specific ancient games?" A prime example would be the Donkey Kong PC release in the '80s. Another example (not so ancient) would be the original …

Re: Null Modem Cable between DOS 6.22 machine and Windows 7 machine?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 15:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Depends on what you want to do with it. For just basic serial communications you can use something like putty. The problem you are mentioning may well be windows 7 lack of support for networking and file transfer over serial rather than lack of support of the cable itself 1. "Putty"? 2. Well the …

Re: Null Modem Cable between DOS 6.22 machine and Windows 7 machine?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 15:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

smeezekitty wrote: Windows 7 of course supports null modem cables but doesn't support networks over serial Well alright, but how do I get Windows 7 to be the host computer?

Null Modem Cable between DOS 6.22 machine and Windows 7 machine?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 06:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1. I've heard that Windows 7 doesn't even support null modem cables. Anyone want to contest that? 1.a. My Windows 7 machine's mobo has a serial port, plus I have a USB-to-serial adapter, incase you were wondering "does this noob even have a serial port?". 2. I am by no means an expert on DOS; can …

Re: Having a painful time tracking down drivers.

Posted on 2014-08-19, 23:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I can't seem to find a Pentium 1...anyone know of a good source? Easily available on ebay, but that depends on your country. Where are you located? Availability is different everywhere. I'm in the U.S., on the west coast. Good, and cheap(!), source: http://www.cpu- …

Re: Having a painful time tracking down drivers.

Posted on 2014-08-17, 17:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's a cable that goes from the serial of one PC to the serial of another. You can then use software such as laplink to copy files or play games against each other. Quite a few games had null modem capability built in :) Well that explains it nicely. And with my USB-to-serial adapter (and the …

Re: Having a painful time tracking down drivers.

Posted on 2014-08-16, 17:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why not remove the modem and use a serial null-modem cable in order to play non-IPX network games? I've only heard that term thrown around a few times; what exactly is a "serial null-modem cable"? For networking using DOS or Windows 3.11 and 9x I have good experience with cards that use the Realtek …

Re: Having a painful time tracking down drivers.

Posted on 2014-08-16, 06:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The capacity issue you will have with DOS and most versions of Windows 95 is that they both use the FAT16 filesystem, which is limited to no more than 2GB per partition. So each drive letter will be 2GB at most. Well I managed to partition the 40GB drive into three separate partitions, but …

Re: Having a painful time tracking down drivers.

Posted on 2014-08-15, 22:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

. You could even trying to sell the K5, they are somewhat rare, especially faster ones like the 166. Wait, seriously?...And I'll definitely look into a faster processor, thanks. The Stealth64v+ is not a soundcard, the 3.5mm output is only there to route the audio from the optional mpeg-1 decoder …

Having a painful time tracking down drivers.

Posted on 2014-08-15, 05:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First things first, specs for the target machine: Motherboard: I can't tell, but it seems to have an Intel chipset, and I know for a fact that it has multiple AT slots, at least three PCI slots, four RAM slots, and space for a Slot 7 CPU. CPU: AMD-K5-PR166. Kinda wimpy, but can handle Quake. RAM: 65 …

Re: Add Service Packs to Fresh XP Pro?

Posted on 2014-08-15, 05:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've tried tacking Service Packs onto an XP Pro disk (IIRC the process is called "slipstreaming"), with no success. I'd recommend that you just keep the Service Packs on a separate CD or DVD instead.

Re: Most recent DOS game releases, ever?

Posted on 2014-08-13, 01:58

in Milliways

in Milliways

There is a similar post in WoS. The first question would be what is a DOS game release? I posted Prince of Persia (was bundled with modern PoP games), but perhaps it may not count as a release (is a re-release). Also, there are some programmers/publishers that sells games by mail (physical releases …

Re: Most recent DOS game releases, ever?

Posted on 2014-08-10, 17:00

in Milliways

in Milliways

So apparently the DOS machine has tons of trouble with Gunmetal; I can't get the game to play at anything over 10 or 15 FPS. Oh well.

Re: Most recent DOS game releases, ever?

Posted on 2014-08-10, 00:41

in Milliways

in Milliways

I haven't played the original Liero, but LieroLibre is a lot of fun if you can track down a second player.

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