Re: Which TFT with 1080p native resolution also supports 240p DOS VGA output?

Posted on 2024-08-29, 10:48

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clb wrote on 2024-08-28, 20:21: Also of note, the regular DOS 80-column OS text prompt was 720x400 pixels in size, not scandoubled. Is a graphics mode 720x400 achievable on a VGA?

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Re: NTLDR missing after copying Win 98 install from one disk to other

Posted on 2024-08-27, 13:22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you want rid of 2k and have only 98, then likely fdisk /mbr from a 98 dos bootdisk should fix it. I don't think Win2k is writing a functionally different MBR from Win98. The MBR should be OS-agnostic. What should help is sys c: when booted from Win98 floppy, because the existing boot sector is …

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Re: Crysis (2007) crashes on Windows 10 PCs with newer AMD CPUs

Posted on 2024-08-04, 15:15

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GOG version works out of the box for me, Ryzen 5 3600 + Radeon RX 6600 XT. It crashes because it tries to use 3Dnow! instructions which are no longer supported. Which is the game's fault, not AMD's. Instead of checking for 3dnow support, the game checks whether it is run on an AMD processor. It …

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Re: Quick and easy way to replace MBR?

Posted on 2024-07-28, 08:46

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Disruptor wrote on 2024-07-26, 16:17: And, please never ever create partitions for legacy operating systems with Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 or 11. May I ask why? Two things that come to my mind is inadvertently creating a GPT-partitioned disk, and that annoying 32 GB limit for FAT32 partitions, …

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Re: MIDI/MP3 player for Win98SE?

Posted on 2024-07-26, 14:55

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chinny22 wrote on 2024-07-26, 04:19: Winamp 2.95 is the last version of the "classic" Winamp everyone remembers and loved Winamp 3 still supports Win98 but was a complete and unpopular redesign. And then Winamp 5 is 3+2 so you can pretend it's still good old Winamp 2 (but won't run on 98, I think)

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Re: A JIT Compiler for DOSBOX?

Posted on 2024-07-16, 12:50

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Still, 100 times slower seems like huge overhead…

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Re: Memory error in DOS

Posted on 2024-07-04, 15:09

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by Azarien

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add EMM386.EXE to config.sys and load the drivers high. IIRC, DOS has a program called MEMMAKER.EXE that will do these for you. I heard Win98 comes with this program, but it's not automatically installed. A good manual configuration on Win98 (no fiddling with memory offsets, just regular stuff like …

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Re: Lotus 3 game won't start under real DOS

Posted on 2024-06-30, 20:50

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Atr3ju wrote on 2024-06-30, 19:44: first i must throttle cpu speed to some 100 MHz. Down from what?

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Re: Internet Browser for Windows XP no sse2

Posted on 2024-06-28, 09:53

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Um, does it even make sense without SSE2/SSE3 anymore? 🤔 If you ask for "making sense" then you should also question using XP, and old hardware in general. It's convenient when you can just open a browser on your retro PC and download some driver or an update than to do it on modern PC and trasfer …

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Re: Pentium II, DOS, & the USB Mouse and Keyboard

Posted on 2024-06-27, 07:34

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auron wrote on 2024-06-27, 01:28: if you can't get it to work at all, but insist on using usb, the workaround would be to run win98se instead of dos - that would let you use your usb devices out of the box in dos programs. My workaround is to use a separate mouse, and a PS/2 at that. Not ideal but …

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Re: How to make serial to ps2 port work on keyboard ?

Posted on 2024-06-24, 11:12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Boohyaka wrote on 2024-06-24, 11:11: Yep you need a "dumb" adapter like this: Actually OP needs it the other way.

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Re: How to make serial to ps2 port work on keyboard ?

Posted on 2024-06-24, 11:08

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by Azarien

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That DIN keyboard port is electrically identical to PS/2 keyboard port. All you need is a passive adapter, e.g. https://aliexpress.com/item/1005006023953506.html

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2024-06-16, 08:44

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I semi-bricked my KT133 (socket A) mainboard with a BIOS update. There were no issues before, but now there's 50% chance of system starting up, DMA mode doesn't work at all and there are random BSODs and freezes. Backup BIOS file is corrupted for some reason and there's no trace of BIOS version with …

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Re: What codecs does MPC-HC provide?

Posted on 2024-06-05, 14:26

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by Azarien

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in Windows

Open settings, internal filters.

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Re: Installing windows 10 22H2 on non UEFI motherboard

Posted on 2024-06-01, 10:14

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by Azarien

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in Windows

Try using an SD card reader. I have a Core 2 Quad machine (BIOS only) that for some reason has trouble booting from USB sticks. But when I use an SD card and a reader it boots fine.

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Re: Should I upgrade SB Live to Audigy or X-Fi on WinXP build?

Posted on 2024-05-28, 06:54

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by Azarien

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Thanks for the answers. I will look for an X-Fi then. I'm not too much concerned about performance of this particular build, because if anything runs too slow it will probably run fine on the next PC that I have in storage (a Core 2 Quad), which I may setup one day.

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Should I upgrade SB Live to Audigy or X-Fi on WinXP build?

Posted on 2024-05-27, 19:41

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by Azarien

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Recently I built a 2003/2004-ish WinXP machine, and I used an SB Live because that's what I had laying around, but I wonder if there's any benefit in upgrading to Audigy or X-Fi. Would a later EAX version make any audible difference, especially in games that would run on this PC? mb: ASRock K7VT4A …

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Re: Internet Archive down

Posted on 2024-05-27, 19:27

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in Milliways

Works for me now…

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Re: DOS 4.0 from source to system

Posted on 2024-05-22, 08:26

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It seems that this guy had a similar problem, he used a real MS-DOS 4 floppy to get correct boot sector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6F0EdyulA

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Re: Cirrus Logic GD5434 PCI -Expanding VRAM to enable 64bit memory bus

Posted on 2024-05-14, 08:35

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by Azarien

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-Am I wrong to expect a performance increase with 2MB for this card? I'm not sure you'll get performance increase, but the list of available resolutions will be larger. With only 1 MB you can get 640x480 in 24-bit color, but 800x600 only in 16-bit color, and 1024x768 only in 256 colors. 2 MB gives …

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