Re: Dedicated Windows XP build

Posted on 2018-01-11, 07:29

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Technicality may matter or may not. Whether "piracy" is wrong is a long and never-ending debate into which we should not go here, but VOGONS does have a rule against discussing pirated software, no matter whether you have some license or not. That everyone has an XP license is both true and untrue. …

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Re: Dedicated Windows XP build

Posted on 2018-01-10, 22:37

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Nice build to waste on something like XP, and a pirated version of it, to be sure. 😎 Is this 'Black edition' 64-bit, or does it not include SP2, or has a hack that allows >4GB RAM to be used?

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Re: Enhancement: Mount drive but block \WINDOWS ??

Posted on 2018-01-10, 18:39

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It's one of these situations where I really agree with both sides. There is no logical reason to mount the root of the system drive in DOSBox; but I think that it should not be blocked. 😀

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Re: Enhancement: Mount drive but block \WINDOWS ??

Posted on 2018-01-10, 05:35

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Yeah, I agree. It needs to be controllable, or at least detect that it is mounting the root of the system drive (not any drive). I can, in principle, dedicate a whole partition to DOSBox.

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Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2018-01-09, 20:19

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Probably true. My K6 system is on its second (or third) board, but it has this same board for, I dunno, 12-13 out of it's almost 18 years of existence? Probably the only reason it still works is because it's barely used.

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Re: Enhancement: Mount drive but block \WINDOWS ??

Posted on 2018-01-09, 20:16

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Is it possible to modify the MOUNT command so that it includes a -nowindir option? That would let you mount the C: (or any other) drive, but make the \WINDOWS directory invisible to DOSBox. You'd also want to make sure to hide Program Files (32 and 64 bit versions), ProgramData, Users and all the …

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Re: hardware needed to cover all DOS games?

Posted on 2018-01-09, 20:13

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yeah, it's true that its simpler, cheaper and more space efficient, but if I haven't seen the game run on real hardware first, I wouldn't know if the emulation is 100% accurate to the real thing or not 1. As a gamer, knowing if it's 100% accurate or not is not something that you should care about. …

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Re: hardware needed to cover all DOS games?

Posted on 2018-01-09, 19:04

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I'd like to try them out on real hardware first, then compare that to emulators like dosbox and pcem to see just how accurate emulation is, and maybe sell the real hardware if Im satisfied with the emulation. It makes more sense to start with the emulation, which is far simpler, and only head …

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Re: DOS, how to set up from floppy?

Posted on 2018-01-07, 20:14

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I'm gonna have to remind myself to check all this next time I'm near my Win98 machine. 😀

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Re: DOS, how to set up from floppy?

Posted on 2018-01-07, 19:01

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I never had any real-mode driver (mouse, CDROM) actually break anything in Windows. As for slowing it down - that may be interesting. Has this ever been benchmarked/documented? Is the driver still active when Windows loads? Won't the Windows driver take over? By what process can the real-mode driver …

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Re: Windows ME build

Posted on 2018-01-07, 18:54

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It's gonna be like taking some aspects of 98SE and some aspects of 2000. The best of both worlds or worst of both worlds? You decide. 😀

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Re: DOS, how to set up from floppy?

Posted on 2018-01-07, 18:44

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derSammler wrote: Get CuteMouse (http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/) and just call it from the DOS command prompt. You can also add it to autoexec.bat, but I wouldn't recommend having it loaded when you start Windows 98. Why?

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Re: DOS drivers in win98, installation

Posted on 2018-01-07, 14:08

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Do you know how to do it in DOS 6.22? Then you know how to do it in the DOS mode of Win98. (hint: exactly the same way)

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Re: DOS, how to set up from floppy?

Posted on 2018-01-06, 19:13

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Forget DOS 6.22. Completely. Just set BootGUI=0 in MSDOS.SYS of Win98 on your hard drive, and it will boot to 'clean DOS' every time. Then if you want to run Windows, you just enter the WIN command. That's it.

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Re: MELTDOWN and SPECTRE vulnerabilities and older hardware?

Posted on 2018-01-06, 15:54

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Hmm... It's 1-0 to you, I guess. 🤣

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Re: MELTDOWN and SPECTRE vulnerabilities and older hardware?

Posted on 2018-01-06, 14:28

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This is the dumbest thread in the history of the universe. A bunch of people with no clue and no ability to grasp the technical details compete with each other on who will spread more FUD garbage. And the few folks, who actually can understand the details, tag along for the fun of it.

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Re: I'm a daddy...

Posted on 2018-01-05, 16:08

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A society/culture has no future if it does not generally regard as failures, assign very low social status to, and regard with great suspicion, childless men and women over a certain age. This has got to be one of the most idiotic things I've read in a while. I'm not downplaying the importance of …

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Re: I'm a daddy...

Posted on 2018-01-04, 17:56

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You know, I don't typically respond in threads about kids, pregnancy, parenthood, etc. But, hey, it's VOGONS! But seeing feipoa's misery outpour (which I can completely understand even though I don't feel the same), I thought to try to balance it out. What experience (my own, of my friends, my …

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Re: Super socket 7 and AGP cards

Posted on 2018-01-03, 19:54

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by dr_st

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What exactly are the issues you experience with SBLive? I used to have one installed in my VIA-based SS7 board, and don't recall anything particularly terrible.

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Re: P4P800 End of Win98 Support Build

Posted on 2018-01-03, 11:33

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Nice build. The P4P800-E is one of the nicest Socket 478 boards in terms of features and expandability. 750W seems quite an overkill for this system, but since you got them on sale, there's no reason not to use them. Why do you need all those old IDE drives? I would at least lose the 60Gig one, so …

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