Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2023-05-19, 21:32

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@rasteri @Nachtrave @Muon @Paul_V So I did some hacks to rloew's IOS.VXD and ESDI_506.PDR and I've gotten rid of the yellow exclamation mark in device manager. 20230519_180956_WEECEE_no_yellow_exclamation.jpg Still not sure if these hacked files are actually working though, can you guys do some …

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Re: Win98SE, looking for background task of swapping mounted virtual CDs

Posted on 2023-05-18, 00:58

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Is this the Windows version of the game? Are you using the DirectX player beta for the game? Although I can certainly provide these details, it doesn't change the end goal of being able to run no-focus-grabbing background tasks, that could be useful in many other contexts. It's the DOS version of …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2023-05-18, 00:42

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Duffman wrote on 2023-05-18, 00:40: What tool are you using to measure MB/s? Windows 10 file copying dialog and my experience and memory about previous times when I copied large files.

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Win98SE, looking for background task of swapping mounted virtual CDs

Posted on 2023-05-17, 23:33

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Here's what I work with: Win98SE running inside a weeCee ( https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=80651 ) DAEMON Tools 3.47 a script.bat file that does 2 steps: -unmount drive 0's mounted CD image -mount a specific CD image contents of the bat file: "c:\program files\d-tools\daemon.exe" - …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2023-05-17, 23:19

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I tried adding that binary key, value 01, had to create the key since it wasn't present. Tried copying a multi-gig file through a network shared (on my weeCee win98se, sent from modern win10 machine) and the same behavior happens. Goes up to 1MB/s for a sec or two, throttles back down to 0 for …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2023-02-09, 20:34

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no news good news?!?

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-01-23, 14:04

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I made a Sing Along program in C for my old Mac Plus of a pretty retro song (The Last Unicorn (1982)) ✅THINK C was used (1990ish) ✅Studio Session was used (1986) ✅Apple discouraged alternate buffer hack was used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSOBp2aMJh

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2023-01-14, 14:14

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It's obviously not a BIOS setting. I set it up the same way as with version 0.3, which I have at home, and it works great. But version 0.4 refuses the SD Card. I still have the SOM304RD52VINE1. I've checked the paths, resistors and haven't found a problem. I kept with https://workspace.circuitmaker …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2023-01-04, 22:21

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rasteri wrote on 2023-01-04, 20:57: In my tests Windows 95 had the same slow transfer rate as 98. Windows ME had a much faster rate. It's worth a throwaway uSD card, as long as it plays Gabriel Knight III I'm good

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2023-01-04, 20:12

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.........Windows ME?

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2023-01-04, 18:07

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I'm starting to think I might want to just build a Win95 OSR2 build in a card, just accepting that Win98 is a dead end. Will it make me avoid all that noise? I think the games I care to run on this thing might be all compatible. I don't really care about Starcraft, or near that era on my WeeCee. I …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-12-27, 23:19

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I honestly haven't encountered any hard lockups during file transfers, can you send me one of your files that is known to consistently cause a hard lockup? maybe it's my BIOS settings? here's what I've changed Plug and Play OS: YES IRQ 5 Reserved for ISA Sound. ATA(PI) 80-Pin IDE Cable Detection: …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-12-21, 23:16

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where do you normally notice the slowdowns? 20221221_142836_weecee_ide.jpg No slowdowns at all under DOS, even when I transfer a mass amount of files through mtcp's ftpsrv. However, under win98se and transfering large files like CD ISOs or higher is when I notice the alternance between copying …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-12-21, 02:05

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I've purchased a StarTech.com VGA2HDPRO2 VGA scaler. Hopefully it arrives quickly and works for the WeeCee. This one didn't work for me with the WeeCee https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07CTHPVB5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This one did https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/ …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-11-20, 14:06

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Vridek wrote on 2022-11-19, 17:14: 2. When copying files the system (Windows 98 SE) can freeze for a few seconds, it's a strange behavior. Does this happen to anyone else? Yeah, it happens to all of us. A good dozen solutions have been tried but they've all failed.

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-11-12, 19:35

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I found a Feb 2022 backup and tried to rewrite that image back to my card. Same symptoms. It's time to remove that pesky polyfuse, it's probably tripping. This is what I used earlier this year. 1.8A trip fuse. https://www.mouser.ca/ProductDetail/576-0603L100SLYR Edit: Oh. I removed the Cr2330 …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-11-12, 14:24

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by Mu0n

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@rasteri @nachtrave Have either of you tried rloew's 1TB patch? there are a bunch of thing it fixes according to it's HISTORY.TXT https://rloewelectronics.com/distribute/TBPLUS/3.0/TBPLUS/HISTORY.TXT things like - IO.SYS updated for INT 2136 Large Cluster Fix Corrected Interrupt Handling when …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-31, 12:13

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I tried to install it and Windows would not accept it no matter what I tried. I went into the devices themselves in the device list and tried to force a driver update. I tried installing the .inf file directly. It tells me the driver can't be used for them.

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-09, 18:34

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by Mu0n

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NachtRave: it was a joke, I lean way more on the nap side than on the logic analyzer side, I also don't have the dough to reserve for that. I just bought a mac color classic from Japan, I gotta take it easy now. 640K! I also see similar results in MSDOS 6.22 (I never use Windows 98's dos 7) in terms …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2022-05-04, 15:18

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by Mu0n

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alright. time to buy a logic analyzer and SCIENCE the SHIT out of all the address and data pins and rewrite the BIOS or something or take a nap.

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