Re: PlayStation One controller on windows98

Posted on 2020-12-04, 20:25

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It's much more useful if you link to a product page rather than just an image. https://www.amazon.ca/HDE-Dual-Controller-Ada … r/dp/B01J4JVFXI Includes software for computers running Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista with Direct X 7.0a or above Yes, apparently?

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Re: In-game audio using Daemon Tools with BIN/CUE images

Posted on 2020-12-04, 20:20

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Can you already play sounds in different applications simultaneously? For instance, when you're playing the mounted .cue in Winamp, can you play a sound in Sound Recorder or Media Player? If you can't, then there's really nothing you can do except get a different sound card, or at least a different …

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Re: What is good puzzle design in adventure games?

Posted on 2020-12-04, 20:16

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"Zombie" states, moon logic and pixel hunts cover most of the worst, really. Especially when it looks like you ought to be able to do things a certain way and it's not explicitly clear that the solution in fact lies somewhere else entirely. So, good puzzle designs would be the opposite: puzzles …

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Re: Video Games running with only GDI32.DLL

Posted on 2020-12-03, 21:39

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Discrete_BOB_058 wrote on 2020-12-03, 07:33: Are there any games that can run only on GDI32, instead of using DDraw, D2D, D3D, OGL, Vk? So, pre-DirectX games that don't use WinG? How about Pitfall?

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Re: Win98SE 80GB "disk full" with still 13,8 GB left

Posted on 2020-12-01, 22:26

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There is a limit on the number of files with long names that you can store in the root directory, if that's where you've been dumping your files. If you are trying to copy a file larger than 4 GB, then that may also trigger the error.

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Re: Gravis Stinger Gamepad in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2020-12-01, 19:02

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Ahhh, so that's what it's called! I knew I had seen a serial gamepad at some point during my life, but I completely forgot what it was called and was seriously starting to doubt my memory. (I used to be quite taken with the idea of using something like that a a mouse; software solutions seemed …

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Re: help with soundcard

Posted on 2020-12-01, 18:48

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scroeffie wrote on 2020-12-01, 18:26: thats makes sense to me what you said the audio cable is going from the sounblaster card to the cd rom drive ,but than whats the point of the cd rom isa card ? Because back then some people wanted to have a CD-ROM without also needing a sound card?

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Re: AVOID the GT Software CD release of Corridor 7: Alien Invasion

Posted on 2020-12-01, 16:57

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Oh, right, FormGen was bought by GT. I forgot that step.

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Re: AVOID the GT Software CD release of Corridor 7: Alien Invasion

Posted on 2020-12-01, 02:55

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I didn't know id was licensing out their FPS game engines to 3rd parties even that far back. I think they had a particular arrangement with GT Interactive. They're also the ones who published Keen 6. (GT was bought by Infogrames/Atari, which is why there's no chance we'll be seeing Keen 6 again …

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Re: Installing Win95 on externally connecyed HDD

Posted on 2020-11-30, 18:48

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No all external enclosures (USB, Firewire) are bootable. This depends on the enclosure's chipset AND the system's BIOS AFAIK. The enclosure's chipset should support booting, and the system's BIOS must support booting over the chosen interface (i.e. USB or Firewire). That's true. But you'd also have …

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Re: Retro pre Windows XP(non 16-bit) games which run on Windows 32-bit but not on 64-bit or vice versa

Posted on 2020-11-30, 18:11

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I re tried Zuma Deluxe and Bejeweled 1. Didn't encounter any scaling problem, the desktop automatically scales to 4:3 normally. Oh geez, we had this discussion before. Yes , the game plays at 4:3 no matter what you do, but the filtering gets messed up if you don't change your desktop resolution to …

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Re: Help with Windows 98 MS-DOS Mode!

Posted on 2020-11-30, 17:48

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Horun wrote on 2020-11-30, 05:30: yes some ATX motherboards do not support ps2 keyboard or mouse in true DOS, the BIOS must support DOS mode KB and mouse. I think you mean USB. It's rather unthinkable that a motherboard wouldn't support a PS/2 keyboard in DOS.

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Re: Help with Windows 98 MS-DOS Mode!

Posted on 2020-11-30, 05:12

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republicaog wrote on 2020-11-30, 01:27: I'm using a USB mouse and Keyboard and it works, but if I hold some keys for a certain time, it repeats the keys and make things unplayable. A keyboard is a keyboard. There's really not much you can do about that, except maybe look for a BIOS update – or get …

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Re: Retro pre Windows XP(non 16-bit) games which run on Windows 32-bit but not on 64-bit or vice versa

Posted on 2020-11-29, 22:31

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I mentioned the weird problem with old Popcap games in your other thread. Re: Retail Windows 95-Windows XP(DX1-8.1, Glide, WinG) games which work on Windows 7 and later [User Input is Required] I think I first noticed that when I switched to a 64-bit system, but that's a weird edge case.

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Re: Worst adventure game ever made?

Posted on 2020-11-29, 20:56

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Surely it depends on what your criteria for "bad" is? There are games that might have had a good idea that was poorly implemented, but there are also games that started with a bad idea that was executed with some degree of competence. Consulting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_ …

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Re: DOS and Windows 98 Driver Question

Posted on 2020-11-29, 01:07

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You will need DOS drivers for your CT4760 if you intend to use it in DOS – unless you only want to use it from an MS-DOS prompt while running Windows 98. In any case, I think the DOS drivers are a standard component of the Win9x driver distribution.

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Re: Installing Win95 on externally connecyed HDD

Posted on 2020-11-28, 19:07

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That would require you to get the hard drive recognized in DOS. While there are USB mass storage drivers for DOS, I'm not sure they work well enough to satisfy Windows 95. But even if you could install Windows 95 on the drive, how would you boot from it? You can't boot from another drive, load the …

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Re: Internet Archive

Posted on 2020-11-27, 21:13

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Sorry to burst someone's bubble but the programs on this site should be considered abandonware and should not have support from Dosbox forums as per the rules. Are you seeing a lot of threads here asking for support for programs at the Internet Archive? In fact, there don't seem to be a lot of …

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Re: Retro pre Windows XP(non 16-bit) games which run on Windows 32-bit but not on 64-bit or vice versa

Posted on 2020-11-27, 16:01

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Jo22 wrote on 2020-11-27, 09:09: https://www.toptensoftware.com/win3mu/ That seemed so cool when it was announced, but it looks like the author still isn't offering binaries. But that's a topic for another thread.

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Re: Retro pre Windows XP(non 16-bit) games which run on Windows 32-bit but not on 64-bit or vice versa

Posted on 2020-11-26, 21:33

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I have been watching a lot of retro builds of PCs and those videos tend to prefer 32-bit Windows 10 over 64-bit because of compatibility issues. However I have not seen a single game having this problem with either OS. As your subject line already implies, the advantage is that 32-bit Windows 10 …

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