Fallout Tactics in XP

Posted on 2008-11-08, 01:56

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Greetings, I'm trying to run the 3CD original release of Fallout Tactics in Windows XP, but it crashes at startup" --------------------------- Fallout: Tactics (TM): BOS.exe - Application Error --------------------------- The instruction at "0x7c911ec3" referenced memory at "0x0323842a". The memory …

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Re: South Park in windows XP

Posted on 2008-10-05, 23:45

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Greetings, South Park will not run on my desktop computer, but it will run on my laptop. Both systems have WindowsXP. The game crashes (I think) at the point where it tries to identify the video card and provide a choice regarding which driver to use (software, hardware, etc.) Since the laptop has a …

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Re: very bad disc problem

Posted on 2008-08-11, 00:45

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Great, well have fun!

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Re: very bad disc problem

Posted on 2008-08-10, 01:24

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Do you mean like a velour brush, or maybe a spray, or liquid? So do you think the problem with your disc was that it was dirty?

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Re: very bad disc problem

Posted on 2008-08-09, 22:55

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Congratulations! Was this a CD cleaner pad or perhaps a cleaning solution product? I've seen several products claiming to fix CD skipping, but I would guess not all of them actually work. While you have a working CD, you might want to try and make a backup copy or image.

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Re: very bad disc problem

Posted on 2008-08-09, 00:52

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Making an image of the disk does not mean taking a picture of it. While not necessarily legal or allowed by the game publisher, there are programs that allow making a copy of a CD or DVD on the hard disk - this is called a disk image. The same, or other programs are used to then mount the disk image …

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Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS

Posted on 2008-08-05, 11:20

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Yeah, unfortunately this thread was placed here by accident before the new forum was opened. Definitely my bad. I personally think the Vortex2 is an amazing card for Windows games, and works fine for many DOS games, but it does have a hefty memory footprint for legacy drivers. I could not get it to …

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Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS

Posted on 2008-08-05, 05:31

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Yes, I think the SETUPDS.EXE is necessary, but only to configure or activate the card. I don't think that this is a driver that (more importantly) uses memory needed by games. According to the datasheet for the YMF724 and YMF754: "Legacy Audio block supports FM synthesizer, Sound Blaster Pro, MPU401 …

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Re: Real Roland MT-32 on a Modern System?

Posted on 2008-08-01, 20:31

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At this point I'm probably going to have to resort to using the USB MIDI adapter, for the main reason being that my X-Fi card does not have a gameport on it. As for USB MIDI adapters and where to buy them...are they seriously $60-80? I really don't have that kind of money right now, being out of a …

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Re: Real Roland MT-32 on a Modern System?

Posted on 2008-08-01, 20:15

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Would an external MIDI device work in DOS, given that the sound card (the one with gameport adapter) is PCI? It should work if the PCI card has DOS drivers or some equivalent. Aureal Vortex2 have DOS drivers, as to many of the later Sound Blaster PCI cards and I'm sure other brands as well. The …

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Re: Real Roland MT-32 on a Modern System?

Posted on 2008-08-01, 07:37

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Yours could also be a lot better than the USB adapter on eBay for $12.50. I think I paid more like $60-80 for the one I got for my brother's computer. The Gameport MIDI adapter is much simpler though, and shouldn't require drivers or circuitry, so it is harder to mess that up.

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Re: Real Roland MT-32 on a Modern System?

Posted on 2008-08-01, 07:21

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I think that the name of this forum is intended to be consistent with the themes of this wonderful site (VOGONS). I suppose that it could be renamed to "Old PC Hardware", but that isn't very interesting IMHO. Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_the_Paranoid_Android For that matter, you …

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Re: OPL FM Polyphony - What's the deal?

Posted on 2008-07-29, 23:24

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Hmmm... The game I was testing with was Dungeon Master II. I'm not sure there will be a problem with all games, since it will depend on the density of the music. I'll have to think of a painless way to record game audio, and would have to re-assemble one of the systems with onboard YMF sound.

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OPL FM Polyphony - What's the deal?

Posted on 2008-07-29, 22:30

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Greetings, I've got a few different sound cards that have OPL-3 FM synthesis, but there seems to be some variation in polyphony. Specifically, on some cards the notes get cut off while music is playing, but not on others. One type of card, Sound Blaster Pro 2 has YMF262 OPL-3 FM synthesis, but notes …

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Re: Graphics card BIOS - some are updateable, others not.

Posted on 2008-07-28, 10:25

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At one point, I bought a PCI Voodoo5 5500 from a bargain bin, but it turned out to be have a Mac bios. I was able to flash it with the PC bios to make it work for me. I think that's the only time I've ever noticed a firmware change for a video card that I owned. Does the Matrox get some benefit from …

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Re: Good ISA sound cards seem to be thin on the ground these days!

Posted on 2008-07-10, 08:23

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I think this forum is needed, but sorry for misunderstanding the description portion. I think i also saw lots of hardware discussion here so I assumed it was the correct place.

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Re: Good ISA sound cards seem to be thin on the ground these days!

Posted on 2008-07-09, 02:53

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I personally misinterpreted the forum description to mean: Emulation of old PCs PC hardware PC peripherals rather than the intended: Emulation of old PCs Emulation of old PC hardware Emulation of old PC peripherals It does seem that a dedicated forum related to old PCs and hardware would be useful …

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Re: Monster3D 3Dfx Voodoo1 on 1ghz system hangs

Posted on 2008-07-02, 08:54

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I probably have Jedi Knight here somewhere, but it is apparently not a 3Dfx Glide game, but rather a Direct3D game: "JK supports Direct3D hardware-acceleration only; proprietary rendering application programming interfaces from the game's era like 3Dfx's Glide are not supported" This could indicate …

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Re: Motherboard recommendation S370, 133mhz RAM, ISA, for PIII 1ghz

Posted on 2008-07-02, 07:40

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What chipset do you require, or is this not important? If you don't mind using the VIA Apollo chipset, I have used a lot of socket 370 QDI Advance boards. They do a very fast one called Advance 10T, which is able to support an Intel Tuatulin CPU. It has just 1 ISA slot, can support pc-133 RAM, has …

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Re: Motherboard recommendation S370, 133mhz RAM, ISA, for PIII 1ghz

Posted on 2008-07-02, 07:33

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ASUS CUBX-E. Meets all your requirements, have 2 ISA slots. Only tualatin core processors require special adapter or handmade fix with this board. Is this a board with unofficial support for 133mhz FSB? The manual and specs that I could find say 100mhz. There is a jumper block combination for …

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