Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2020-10-24, 11:36
Sounds promising! I'll do some benchmarks with the same system again 😀
Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App
Posted on 2020-10-21, 10:21
It seems DBGL uses a '100% Java' database engine called hsqldb. Making an external conversion tool for it shouldn't be difficult, but integrating it into a Visual Basic for DOS program would be... challenging. I'll try to wrap up the tool I made somewhere this week, so you can use it or use it as a …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-10-18, 12:20
I finally found a working PC Card wireless adapter and software combination that works with WPA-PSK on Windows 98 SE. The winning combination is a 3Com 3CRWE154G72 with McAfee Wireless Security 4.1. 3Com's own wireless monitor refused to find my access points, even though it found the ones of my …
Re: Adventure games for beginners
Posted on 2020-10-13, 10:53
I remember Flight of the Amazon Queen and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis being very comfortable to play. Full Throttle was also okay, except you have to remember that the real time action sequences are also puzzles. Those gave me the biggest problems. I never played them seriously but the …
Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App
Posted on 2020-10-12, 17:26
I made a Python script to populate the Launchbox.txt file. I can polish it a bit and share it. It works by comparing what's already in the file and the contents of a games directory (C:\Games in my case) and guesses what the game and setup executables are (which works better than I expected). Then …
Re: HP Jornada 680E: opening up the bottom / accessing the system board
Posted on 2020-10-12, 17:05
Well, I found a small strip of copper-looking tape under the keyboard and below it I there seems to be the bottom of a screw. My guess is that it is the other end of the 'VCI logo screw' because it's in the same position of the device. I will wait a bit longer in the hope someone with experience …
Re: HP Jornada 680E: opening up the bottom / accessing the system board
Posted on 2020-10-12, 08:19
Thanks! There seems to be a screw hole around the place of the 'VCI' logo but I'm not sure how he got to that screw, and if there was a screw or if it's just a hole. But I can take look under the keyboard to see if I can see anything and below the plastic cover under the keyboard. Maybe the screw is …
HP Jornada 680E: opening up the bottom / accessing the system board
Posted on 2020-10-10, 13:12
I recently got a hold of 2 HP Jornada 680Es. They both work but on one of them some pins on the PC card connector are bent. I'm trying to get it open in an attempt to straighten the pins. I got the entire edge loose (wasn't easy) but it's like there is one more screw in the middle of the device …
Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors
Posted on 2020-10-07, 09:40
They are. Although the Sony's anti-reflective coating is a bit scratched. Not much of an issue when you use it. That coating had "gone off" in a NOS Sony screen I found a while back - darkened the whole image. I painstakingly cleaned it all off and the image was nice and bright, but the tube was …
Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?
Posted on 2020-10-05, 09:54
I find it interesting with these kinds of games that it's often easy to tell what country are from. I didn't read your line about it being in German only but one look at a screenshot and it was "Aha, Germany"
Re: I made a miniature IBM PC
Posted on 2020-10-03, 16:24
ajacocks wrote on 2020-10-03, 14:44: A pair of Micro SD card readers might be the right scale. - Alex Huh, neat idea. If I will get this 3D printed I might paint or draw over some SD cards in a floppy disk look 😁
Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App
Posted on 2020-09-30, 16:03
Better yet; is anyone interested in the source code? If there's interest, I'd be willing to Github it. Hi Jason, did you ever got around to publishing the source somewhere? If putting it up on GitHub is too much work, would you mind just posting it as an attachment here? In that case you wouldn't …
Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it
Posted on 2020-09-28, 09:34
Ah, I'm glad I'm not alone in disliking him. I wish I had a way to block his channel altogether but YouTube keeps recommending them for some reason. Man, what a waste of this machine. I guess "props" to him for daring to display his carelessness to the public?
Re: Windows XP Updates?
Posted on 2020-09-27, 11:00
Huh? That is a surprise
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-09-25, 18:30
I was happily enjoying my new(ish) ESS AudioDrive ES1868F when I decided to play an old favorite of mine, Xargon. I was immediately startled by how damned loud the music was! I quickly turned the speakers down and shock turned to despair when I realized how distorted the audio was... did I just …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-09-18, 14:34
I bought a Creative Sound Blaster 2.0 (CT1350B rev 4) for a very reasonable price, and with it I finally got all the retro hardware back that we used to have at my parents' house and (for reasons I still don't understand) went to a landfill. The card works well because sounds the same as many other …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-09-17, 12:51
I bought a Creative Sound Blaster 2.0 (CT1350B rev 4) for a very reasonable price, and with it I finally got all the retro hardware back that we used to have at my parents' house and (for reasons I still don't understand) went to a landfill. The card works well because sounds the same as many other …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-09-16, 10:44
Bah, I seem to be having some really bad luck lately. I missed playing SC3000, so decided to install it on my Pentium 4 system. Put the CD in the drive, closed the door, and somehow the CD shifted in the tray and got stuck between the door and the drive. The disc was slightly scratched. The game …
Re: Setup for recording (DOS) audio
Posted on 2020-09-13, 19:26
Thanks for the information and links everyone. I'm going to dive into the different options and see what's available (and affordable) around here 😀
Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support
Posted on 2020-09-12, 22:22
Very nice, congratulations! I am a bit confused about the PCMIDI addon. How do things work if you have 2 MPU devices active at the same time? Is it meant for composing music using MIDI?
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