Re: Compact Flash Card Help (sorry, I've looked and looked)

Posted on 2020-05-31, 18:26

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one way to format a CF card with fat16 is with virtual pc 2004. (not 2004 sp1) It allows real disk access as well as virtual. load up a virtual machine with dos connect it to the cf card format away and it will boot on a physical machine at post. But that means using windows xp i would assume. Not …

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-05-30, 12:02

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Managed to get 12 Mb worth of SIMMs for the 386 by Samsung. Now waiting for them to arrive... If all goes well, it will have 16 Mb. Speaking of which, I'm calling that rig "it" because I don't have a name for it yet. P2 is, for obvious reasons, called "Shaman", while his younger sister (a modern …

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Re: WebOne - proxy for old browsers to make them Web 2.0-capable

Posted on 2020-05-29, 14:38

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in Release Announcements

can it be chained? well i have some ideas anyhow. What I'd like to do is chain it from TOR > WebOne > LAN A plugin model would be useful for the development of anti adware, spyware, banners Etc to improve retro performance with features i'd like to see are alternatives of Peerblock (which has a …

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Re: Currently no emulators for?

Posted on 2020-05-28, 20:44

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leileilol wrote on 2018-03-10, 13:09: Old satellite reciever boxes. MPEG2 patent's gone, so those boxes could probably get emulated and fed a faux signal of like a twitch stream or something else made of MPEG2 Now THAT is a idea especially for the environment A+

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Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2020-05-28, 20:03

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in Marvin \ Video

You could always go for a radeon 7000 pci, since you only have pci slots - I have one here I keep to test things with, it has DVI and VGA out and is PCI is why it works so well for a tester card. They can be had dirt cheap all day long on ebay. http://compare.ebay.com/like/310385591118?var=lv<yp= …

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-05-28, 19:31

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by zapbuzz

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Managed to get 12 Mb worth of SIMMs for the 386 by Samsung. Now waiting for them to arrive... If all goes well, it will have 16 Mb. Speaking of which, I'm calling that rig "it" because I don't have a name for it yet. P2 is, for obvious reasons, called "Shaman", while his younger sister (a modern …

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Re: 1998 Build - Pentium 2 - Fujitsu / Siemens T-Bird

Posted on 2020-05-28, 19:28

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in Marvin \ System Specs

it was hard to tell the bios of older systems i remember also some flash roms wouldn't update too even with the motherboard ID off the motherboard

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Re: I'd like to create a cd with all the useful programs/bench tools/general tools

Posted on 2020-05-27, 01:14

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in Marvin \ Software

A windows 98se msdos cdrom i have for windows install has buit in boot but when boots it takes drive a: that stuffs up floppy creation on real floppy drive anyone suffered? a solution???

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Re: Games to play on a socket 7 machine with SiS 6326 graphics.

Posted on 2020-05-25, 13:37

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in Marvin \ Video

I had a SiS 2mb pci gpu. I found out its BIOS was updated and a newer bios loadable by TSR in dos on bootup. What I did was interesting. The actual BIOS TSR was just a bios attached to a terminate stay resident executable and I didn't have anything to re-program the GPU bios. Didn't like the idea of …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-05-25, 00:31

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in Marvin \ Sound

Has there been any success getting a quality driver port to linux for this card to play dos games in dos box? or even play midi in linux? According to this YMF7X4 XG wavetable is implemented in software, which is likely proprietary to Yamaha . I would not expect it ever be implemented in Linux . …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-05-22, 08:05

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in Marvin \ Sound

Has there been any success getting a quality driver port to linux for this card to play dos games in dos box? or even play midi in linux?

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Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!

Posted on 2020-05-21, 11:56

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in Marvin \ Software

Thanks for the info. I suppose the only limit of these Win9x o.s. still remains their usability online if there're no browsers that support new SSL security pages and most sites even with the great 2010 (if we consider how much later is from Win9x o.s.) Opera versions maybe could someway "work" but …

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Re: Asrock FM2A55M-DGS unknown broken component

Posted on 2020-05-21, 07:49

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, It's a long time I've this mainboard (FM2A55M-DGS rev 1.02) and never understood why it could not post; I tried cpu, rams, a new bios eeprom and at the end it became a personal quest to try understand the problem. At the end I think I found it: close to the ATX connector there's this component …

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Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!

Posted on 2020-05-21, 06:47

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in Marvin \ Software

Interesting, thanks. I didn't know this story. But at the end the system.ini tweak is enough? Anyway it would not solve the errors during the boot installation of the o.s. when more than 512MB but anyway it'd be a good thing for a multi o.s. machine that run the same amount of ram without changing …

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Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!

Posted on 2020-05-20, 10:00

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But didn't it have the same 512MB ram limitation of the cache of previous Win9x? I always used it with 512MB for that reason cause I never liked the many unofficial tweaks for the ram problem cause I don't know how stable they are. There was apparently a vendor Microsoft listened to that allowed 2G …

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Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!

Posted on 2020-05-18, 20:32

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in Marvin \ Software

There are things I like about windows Millennium I'd like to share. More memory capacity - I have run it on a 2GB RAM system; I have patched it to support up to 4gb. Updated file system features - FDISK FORMAT can see larger disks, windows defrag fastest out of all windows 9x editions. UPNP - …

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Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!

Posted on 2020-05-18, 09:41

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in Marvin \ Software

There are things I like about windows Millennium I'd like to share. More memory capacity - I have run it on a 2GB RAM system; I have patched it to support up to 4gb. Updated file system features - FDISK FORMAT can see larger disks, windows defrag fastest out of all windows 9x editions. UPNP - Easily …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-05-18, 02:41

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in Marvin \ Sound

Here is a link to a little video I made awhile ago with my ymf724 I had the Y-XG100 plus sequencer play it then I put it through winamp with milkdrop visualization its pretty sweet https://archive.org/details/colourfulmedley I was so happy to get this for $15 in auction it serves as a great DOS game …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-05-17, 03:56

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it sounds great on my home HIFI with 4 speaker setup however if i enable 3d sound it won't let me record it thus I will need another sound card to patch it into to record 4 track audio in windows 98se so what I need to know is, what is the maximum attachment size of this forum as i can probably …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2020-05-17, 03:47

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in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

it sounds great on my home HIFI with 4 speaker setup however if i enable 3d sound it won't let me record it thus I will need another sound card to patch it into to record 4 track audio in windows 98se so what I need to know is, what is the maximum attachment size of this forum as i can probably …

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