Although this is already marked as [SOLVED] I'd like to point out that FreeBSD still supports MFM drives (and loads of other older hardware) in its current releases: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/compatibility-drives.html Generally they are less aggressive than Linux …

Canon PowerShot A85...which failed with the "separating" CCD issue affecting those cameras - the solder used was bad quality, and after a few years the CCD would break away from the print. Showed up as rainbow colors on the display and tilting the camera in a certain way would resolve it for a while …

Aren't they just stainless steel Torx screws?

Are you trying Microsoft's mouse driver for one of their proprietary (IntelliPoint) serial mouses instead of the proper driver for your non-Microsoft serial mouse? Based on the error message I'd say so... Another possibility is that the mouse is finicky about your COM ports speed settings.

I can confirm that Windows Media Player for Windows 98 mentions DVD playback in the help files, but it can't actually play back DVDs. Never managed to get it to work.

Looking at the labels on the backplane, two LPT ports and four COM ports (half of which on an expansion card), LAN card, VGA. Based on the weird lip on the case, might it have been screwed to the bottom of a desk? Then I would think it was used in some professional environment where the drives, …

FaSMaN wrote: I agree with Jheronimus , lots of them have been patched. A SB 128 is still a PCI card, I highly recommend a 16-bit card, like a Sound Blaster 16. Any AudioPCI-based card will work fine with most DOS games under Windows 98SE.

I am looking for several lightweight DVD softwares for my Pentium II 450 with 128MB ram. I test installed Win2k on it before and used VLC without trouble but I need something for Win95. It would be sweet if there is one to work on slower computers such as the Pentium 133... They had to have good …

Well, looks like Boris has decided that there won't be a Brexit after all: Boris Johnson says the UK will continue to "intensify" cooperation with the EU and tells his fellow Leave supporters they must accept the 52-48 referendum win was "not entirely overwhelming". The pro-Leave campaign head, says …

Anyway, outputting from the gameport or not, using the "general MIDI" option I don't hear any music. Have you tried the other 3.5 mm outputs on the soundcard? Also, try running a DOS game (e.g. SimCity 2000 MS-DOS*) directly from Windows 98 with MIDI enabled in the game settings. If that works, …

I had a look at the original card, and it is a STB Velocity 128 AGP (rev. B) with 4 MB RAM and only VGA-out (never do things from memory... 😵 ). Interestingly, it has a Gateway-badged BIOS chip (version 1.6, dated Oct. 28, 1997).

The M64 card comes out of a disastrous PC purchase I did in 2001 (had a system built by a system builder shop recommended by friends, turned out to be a complete mess that ate hard disks at a rate of 1 every three months and BSOD'ed under load :/ ) Its 32Mb of RAM were a great improvement over the …

My 'current' PC is a 12 year old Dell Dimension 4200: - Mini-tower case (very noisy when using an optical drive) - Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz - 1Gb RAM - 2x 80Gb PATA harddisk, Windows XP Home SP3/Free-BSD 9.3 dual boot - LG DVD-ROM drive - OEM DVD writer (don't know what make, don't care, I never use it) - …

Here's a pic of my retro gaming rig, which is mostly original. Gateway 2000 G6-266: - Gateway 2000 tower case. For a case from 1998 this thing is great. Sound-proofed, easy access and easy to work on, no sharp corners. My only complaint is that it's a bit tight behind the CD-ROM drives. - Pentium II …

A working Amstrad PCW-8512 (formerly my dad's) with all manuals and a lot of software and 3" discs :depressed: + various 486 parts (incl. some Cyrix CPU's) that I still had around 2005 as a student while living with my parents, and we had to move to a smaller place that supposedly didn't have room …

Hello, just registered, and want to give some information on using a AudioPCI with Windows XP. Recently I picked up a Creative Labs AudioPCI (1370 chip), because I was looking for a really cheap sound card to replace the awful AC'97 on-board sound in my Dell Dimension 4200 and already own a Ensoniq …