Re: Best method for developing GUI apps for Windows 3.1

Posted on 2019-06-01, 16:12

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Yes, I was fully aware of this. Just mentioned it for the sake of completeness. Of course, I omitted that fact intentionally. You are right, Borland Pascal 7 had an ability to create Win16 executables. But the code editor and debugger were dos applications. The Pascal system was really fast. That's …

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Re: Test suite for Win32s?

Posted on 2019-05-31, 11:48

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What do you mean by saying "test suite"?

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Re: Best method for developing GUI apps for Windows 3.1

Posted on 2019-05-31, 11:11

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@up - op wants to create applications for Windows - not text mode DOS. That's why TurboPascal and BASIC/Fortran are useless. However there is another alternative - Borland Turbo Pascal for Windows - but he needs to learn Windows API and the IDE had no debugger support. But thats also a good solution …

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Re: Best method for developing GUI apps for Windows 3.1

Posted on 2019-05-31, 07:39

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The languages I am familiar with are C, C++, and BASIC. Back in the time C and C++ were the main languages used to write desktop applications (and web didn't exist). You have to learn Windows API. It is not WYSIWYG of course, but excluding Delphi and VisualBasic there is no other way.

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Re: Anyone owner of ZIDA 4DPS? Need capacitor values

Posted on 2019-05-29, 09:29

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Thanks, I will put 10 pf then. And the battery is CR 2032 - right? I'm missing battery as well - the original has leaked long time ago. That's why I'm trying to repair the board now. The transistor TIP32C near CPU socket was broken as well 😀

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Re: Anyone owner of ZIDA 4DPS? Need capacitor values

Posted on 2019-05-29, 06:08

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Thermalwrong wrote: I just checked on mine and they seem to read 0.080 nf, so maybe 80pf? Hi, thanks! Did you checked using digital multimeter? What are the labels on the capacitors?

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Anyone owner of ZIDA 4DPS? Need capacitor values

Posted on 2019-05-28, 18:09

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Hi, i need the capacitor values. There are two small ceramic capacitors on the left. I need the codes of them. My motherboard is missing them. Please take a look at the picture. Thanks!

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Looking for N341256P-15 SRAM

Posted on 2019-05-25, 19:39

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Hi guys, do you know where I can buy N341256P-15 chip or alternative? This is tag ram in my ZIDA 4DPS motherboard. Does anybody knows what alternative chips I can use? I got 4 x UM61512AK-15 which is 64K X 8 BIT sram memory and I want to combine this chip with my 4 x sram chips. Thanks for advice.

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Re: ebay NOS dual pentium pro build

Posted on 2019-05-24, 09:27

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Nice! How much did you pay for that?

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Re: IDE Card Question

Posted on 2019-04-13, 07:25

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Hi, sorry for digging such an old thread, but I got the same controller with Panasonic CR-562-B drive. And the drive is not detected by default Win 98 SE boot floppy. Do I need to set up anything else? Load some special drivers?

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Re: Pentium 100/98Mb/Voodoo and HalfLife: amazing

Posted on 2019-04-12, 17:48

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Riva TNT is still way more powerful than ATI Rage 😀 No compare.

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Re: Pentium 100/98Mb/Voodoo and HalfLife: amazing

Posted on 2019-04-12, 11:07

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That's cool but Riva TNT is waaaayyy more powerful card than VooDoo...

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Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 2 8MB - which S7 CPU?

Posted on 2019-04-12, 11:03

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If someone wants the best integer performance with such a mainboard, then a Cyrix 6x86MII-PR366 is the way to go. 4x66 = 266MHz and it's unbeatable. Are you sure? Even K6-II 450 MHz would be beaten? I can't believe 😵

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Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 2 8MB - which S7 CPU?

Posted on 2019-04-12, 07:53

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Thanks. I will stick with Voodoo 2 on this computer. Also I plan to put 233 MMX in it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-10, 18:02

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Today I received an old Optimus PC. It ought to be 486, but someone has replaced the motherboard and here it is: The Socket 7 with Pentium 75 :D I got this for an equivalent of 5 $ (31 $ incl shipping...). https://i.imgur.com/VhrXKki.jpg https://i.imgur.com/lEl7QHI.jpg https://i.imgur.com/hlCey60. …

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Re: AMD K6-2 equivalent to pentium......

Posted on 2019-04-10, 17:46

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That's just my opinion, but: -AMD K6-2 233 MHz is equivalent to which pentium? => Pentium 200 -AMD K6-2 500 MHz is equivalent to which pentium? => Pentium II 400 -AMD K6-2 PLUS 500 MHz is equivalent to which pentium? => Pentium II 450 -AMD K6-3 400 MHz is equivalent to which pentium? => Pentium II …

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Re: Hyped for my new 98/XP computer!

Posted on 2019-04-10, 17:44

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I'm also wondering: why GeForce 6200. And PCI ?! 😁 I had this card back in the day, it was horrible experience. 64 bit bus,slow as hell. I would give a chance to GeForce 6600 or even 6800.

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Re: My Socket 7 Build

Posted on 2019-04-10, 17:38

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Nice build. This is some real and serious use - programming and exploring the limits of the hardware. Cool 😁

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Re: Hyped for my new 98/XP computer!

Posted on 2019-04-10, 17:32

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Yeah, that's your decision. It will eventually work like I said. My approach is to make the feelings as much real as it could be back in the time. That's why i prefer not overpowered builds. 😊

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Re: Ideas to Create Installation GUI Screen for DOS Floppy Disk Games?

Posted on 2019-04-10, 17:24

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Back in the time when my primary box was a pentium MMX @ 200 MHz I really wanted to write the same kind of application as the OP is wanting. But I had no programming experience (almost) and after couple tries with Turbo Pascal 7.0 I gave up. Today I could write this kind of stuff but have no time :( …

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