Re: Dual-booting DOS 6.22 FAT32 & Win98SE FAT32 On Same HDD?

Posted on 2022-03-22, 23:51

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gn0me wrote on 2022-03-22, 22:24: Thread resurrection, apologies. I ran into this issue and when using DOS 7.x, some applications identify it as running Win9x and thus won’t complete the install process. SETVER the installer and it should work...

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Re: Outlook Express 6 in 2022

Posted on 2022-03-16, 16:16

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About Outlook Express 6... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/are-there-any-ppc-email-clients-which-will-be-able-to-continue-using-gmail-after-30-may-2022.2337982/ Not even Outlook 2016? I think I'll consider gradually retiring GMail as my main account because of their hostility towards e-mail …

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Re: PS/2 Keyboard for 5 Pin DIN?

Posted on 2022-03-12, 17:33

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mouse port (also a mini-DIN) To this day I cannot remember which one (green or purple) is mouse and which is keyboard. I wish those two ports were interchangeable (i.e. mouse vs keyboard autodetection) like USB. A mini-DIN connector (although a 9 pin version) is also used for volume controllers in …

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Re: Freedos 1.3

Posted on 2022-03-10, 19:36

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Basically, with UEFI the machine boots in 32 or 64 bit mode and has to do Virtual 86 mode to run 16 bit code, which as we all know always works perfectly on all the CPUs from the last decade (sarcasm) So what, small dev team is like "Yah, we'll take this on and handle 1000s of support requests on …

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Re: Outlook Express 6 in 2022

Posted on 2022-03-10, 17:15

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I don't think it's possible at all considering changes to SSL and TLS encryption over the years and retirement of older versions... You can't use OE6 directly with most e-mail providers anymore due to old unsupported encryption. However, I did have a working setup once, using a Raspberry Pi with …

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Re: Can't copy jazzjackrabbit in dos 6.22

Posted on 2022-03-06, 16:02

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Use Necromancer's Dos Navigator for example...

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Re: AWE CT3900 Win XP SP2

Posted on 2022-03-05, 14:22

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Never tried installing AWE32 in WinXP, but you may try a simple external sound mixer which should just do the job without need for any driver hacking…

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Re: Best PCI Sound card for a Pentium Pro Server

Posted on 2022-03-04, 05:52

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Windows XP knows if CPU has internal multi-threading or not, because Pentium 4 had Hyper-Threading technology, but still identified as dual-core. But Windows 2000 Professional can't discern between physical and logical threads and won't fully support Core 2 Quad. Why wouldn't it? Core 2 Quad does …

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Re: MiniGL Specification

Posted on 2022-02-24, 08:13

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It didn't have to be this way. All John Carmack had to do was publish that objdump output, call it MiniGL 1.0 and slap his formal blessing on it. Maybe he didn't want to limit the standard to his (current) needs? As you said, OpenGL was the standard, even if there are some questionable things in …

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Re: MiniGL Specification

Posted on 2022-02-22, 19:43

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MiniGL is not an official specification the way OpenGL is. It's just a subset of OpenGL 1.1 defined as "whatever is needed to make GLQuake (or other supported game) to run because we don't feel like writing a complete OpenGL driver". What parts of OpenGL are actually used by GLQuake can be …

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Re: Windows 11 has been released

Posted on 2022-02-20, 18:51

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I'm going to stick with Windows 10 until its end of support. And then we'll see.

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2022-02-19, 22:18

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songo wrote on 2022-02-19, 21:13: I cannot run 3dfx-patched version of Blood 1 on DosBox-X. I have the same problem. Other games work but Blood always says that it cannot load DLL.

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Re: Intersecting straight lines in American McGee's Alice

Posted on 2022-02-10, 19:20

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This is such a minor glitch (appearing only in menus, loading screen and in-game subtitles frame) that I found not worth the trouble. I live with the lines.

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Re: Raspberry Pi gets 64-Bit OS support officially

Posted on 2022-02-03, 15:04

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But is it any faster? If not then I don't see any other reason to switch to 64 bits, at least for now.

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Re: Strange problem with Windows 9x "gray colors"

Posted on 2022-02-02, 09:25

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I'd try setting the color theme to something completely different and then back to default one.

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Re: No music or sound in Ultimate Doom on Win98SE?!

Posted on 2022-02-01, 22:58

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All PCI sound cards in general, and SB0220 in particular, are problematic under DOS. This thread may be of some help: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=48474 Is your problem specific to Doom, or any DOS game? Choose music sound card >> Select MIDI Port General MIDI with port 330 "should" …

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Re: Grand Theft Auto 1 - How to launch in DirectX mode in Windows

Posted on 2022-01-28, 18:55

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The Voodoo card doesn't use Direct X, but rather it's own Glide API. If I recall correctly you have to load the special 3dfx version executable to play the 3fdx version. I can't find a 3dfx patch/executable for win anywhere, googled several hours :( Forget Windows, run the DOS version :) In my copy …

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Re: new old computers

Posted on 2022-01-26, 10:22

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Your core 2 duo/quad. Atom such and such. Your socket 1366/115n xeon appurtenance. How do you feel about them? Most of us have 1 or more (or many more, you little hoarding so-and-so) hanging around. My main PC, which I'm using right now, is a Q9550, 8 GB RAM, HD7850. Good for web browsing, watching …

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Re: i need midi volume control, what midi synthesizers do you recommand?

Posted on 2022-01-21, 11:47

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What Windows version do you have?

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Re: i need midi volume control, what midi synthesizers do you recommand?

Posted on 2022-01-20, 17:56

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the other one was this CoolSoft_VirtualMIDISynth_2.12.4 win10.exe, is this reliable? Last time I tried... - it worked - didn't have any ads, I think (but please download from CoolSoft's official site, not from some generic sofware download site) - it sounded noticeably different and inferior to …

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