Re: DOSbox for Wii

Posted on 2017-12-14, 20:08

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by notsofossil

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That's a shame, the Wii makes a great rombox on top of its native Wii and Gamecube support. Yeah, I'm a console peasant. I realize one could just hook up a PC (even an old one) to a TV, but it's the all-in-one aspect of the Wii that makes it appealing. Besides, it's meant for TV use, PCs generally …

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DOSbox for Wii

Posted on 2017-12-14, 18:49

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by notsofossil

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Anyone else try out DOSbox on the Wii? For a PowerPC game console emulating a 386-ish x86 PC, it runs pretty well. Most 2D games run at full speed, sometimes there's a little stutter in the sound with the odd game. Wolfenstein 3D runs nearly at full speed. Even Alone in the Dark runs fast enough to …

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Re: CF2IDE Disk Failures?

Posted on 2017-12-08, 05:19

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by notsofossil

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Sandisk Ultra or anything 266x and higher should be good for DOS. I like Sandisk Extreme for Windows. I know, they don't do fixed disk mode, but Win9x and WinNT up to XP don't seem to care if you install in the right way.

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Re: CF2IDE Disk Failures?

Posted on 2017-12-08, 04:51

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by notsofossil

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I think the issue is your CF card. You need a high quality one by Sandisk or Kingston. The low end/no-name ones are really hit or miss. I have a brand-less 1GB card that is crazy fast, another that is 4GB and it is slow. The average CF2IDE adapter is a purely passive adapter, there's no logic …

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Re: WfW 3.11 ok on Pentium?

Posted on 2017-12-07, 04:24

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by notsofossil

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My laptop is an IBM Thinkpad i1400, or some number close to that. I think there are Win3.11 drivers for it, at least for some devices. I wonder if I could boot a CF card from the PCMCIA slots, that would be more convenient than removing the keyboard and swapping cards. Right now the laptop has a 5GB …

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WfW 3.11 ok on Pentium?

Posted on 2017-12-06, 05:11

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by notsofossil

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I didn't know where exactly to ask this question, so I guess here is close enough. I would love to have a Windows 3.11 setup on a real PC, problem is I don't have anything older than a Pentium 1 laptop. I'm told Windows 3.11 isn't ideal for Pentium and newer. Maybe Pentium would be ok anyway? …

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Re: DVD Player for Windows98 that uses hardware MPEG-2 decoder?

Posted on 2017-11-29, 08:01

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by notsofossil

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I have an ATi Rage II+DVD card, what DVD software is compatible with it?

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Re: CF card booting - removable disk and Win7

Posted on 2017-11-29, 06:40

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by notsofossil

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Ok so apparently this Kingston CF card does in fact switch to fixed disk when installed in an IDE interface. Hopefully at 266x it's not too slow.

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CF card booting - removable disk and Win7

Posted on 2017-11-28, 07:33

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by notsofossil

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I'm hoping maybe you guys have had better luck with recent CF cards, namely ones from Sandisk. Also kingston apparently. I have become a huge fan of fast Compact Flash cards as a cheap SSD solution on older machines with IDE. Only problem is they all seem to be set to removable disk. I have yet to …

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Re: Jedi Knight DFII crashes after a few levels

Posted on 2017-11-21, 00:42

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I didn't realize there was a latest patch. I do like using a CD crack though. Maybe that's a factor? The game crashes in Win98SE on a PC of these specs: AMD K6-2 400MHz Voodoo 1 and ATi Rage II+ SB16 And in ME on a PC like this: Pentium M 1.4GHz ATi Radeon 7500 And XP on a PC of these specs: Pentium …

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Jedi Knight DFII crashes after a few levels

Posted on 2017-11-20, 19:17

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by notsofossil

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Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (original game, not the Steam version) Windows 98, ME, XP, doesn't seem to matter Software renderer, Hardware accelerator, backbuffer in system memory, doesn't seem to matter I don't remember Jedi Knight doing this but it seems no matter what I do, after completing a few …

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Re: OS/2 Warp 4

Posted on 2017-11-20, 18:57

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Oh yeah, forgot about the limited drivers. I guess I would still need to dedicate an IBM system to OS/2. I take it OS/2 didn't have driver support for things like Voodoo cards? Or ATi video cards? Windows 9x covers a lot of my needs but I've always been curious about the other OSes of the day, like …

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OS/2 Warp 4

Posted on 2017-11-20, 17:37

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I am curious about OS/2 Warp 4. Anyone here use it before? What are the steps to installation? Any good software or games available? I've heard OS/2 has built-in Win16 support, how good is it? If I were to use OS/2 Warp 4, I'd like it to be paired with Windows 98 and 2000. Is it possible to triple …

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Re: Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 - A Great OS for Retro Gaming

Posted on 2017-08-11, 15:58

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by notsofossil

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Using an old XP SP2 install is not the same thing as using the product key sticker to install a fresh XP SP2 setup. Ideally you'll need a plain XP SP2 OEM install CD, but vendor-specific versions are ok if they match the vendor on the product key sticker, I've done that for an HP and a Dell in the …

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Re: Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 - A Great OS for Retro Gaming

Posted on 2017-08-08, 20:47

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by notsofossil

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I use a Windows XP Service Pack 2 OEM install CD, first of all. I don't think Retail would work. I have tried Product Keys from Dell, IBM, Lenovo, HP, Compaq and probably a couple others, those old XP SP2 keys always work. For a long time, internet activation still worked. Lately though, it hasn't …

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Re: Story behind your avatar?

Posted on 2017-08-07, 14:54

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by notsofossil

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Moss from The IT Crowd TV show.

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Re: Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 - A Great OS for Retro Gaming

Posted on 2017-08-07, 05:56

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by notsofossil

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Assuming you ever bought a PC that came with a Windows XP license. I skipped straight from Windows ME to building my own PCs and buying my own OS licenses to go with them, and never affixing the sticker. And then I started buying Macs. And now I don't have any money, but my computers are fast …

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Re: Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 - A Great OS for Retro Gaming

Posted on 2017-08-06, 01:42

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by notsofossil

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I still say the best legal option is to install Windows XP SP2 using the product key that is likely placed on your laptop/OEM desktop somewhere. SP2 is a lot lighter than SP3 so it's better for gaming than internet usage.

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Re: Last PC games supporting Windows 9x?

Posted on 2017-08-02, 18:55

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by notsofossil

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The Sims 2: Apartment Life (2008) - Windows 98SE/ME (according to the back cover) (Off-topic comment @ the OP) I can help you with the Dell Inspiron 8x00 driver guide since I've gotten 98SE and ME working on them before. Wow, that might take the cake for most recent Windows 9x game. I had been …

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Re: It was the Battery!

Posted on 2017-08-02, 18:50

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by notsofossil

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe this is why I so often had problems with my older desktops not recognizing IDE drives under odd circumstances.

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