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Re: Rendition Verite Thread

Posted on 2016-05-17, 13:25

I'm still hoping for more Hercules Thriller Conspiracy fun, like if there was a demo which showed off the Fujitsu chip or something 😀

Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-05-17, 13:10

by Stiletto

in Milliways

leileilol wrote: Nope it's not even on mobygames Maybe that's why the game stalled the last time? 😀

Re: Windows 95B

Posted on 2016-05-17, 13:09

by Stiletto

in DOSBox General

gdjacobs wrote: Did any DOS game use the printer for music output? That's the only use I can think of. There were a few that would print high scores or something.

Interesting recent OS2Museum posts

Posted on 2016-05-16, 19:51

by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Digging into WaveBlaster connectors: Can A DB-50XG Talk: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/can-a-db-50xg-talk/ http://www.os2museum.com/wp/deeper-into-wave-blaster/ The Wave Blaster II Does Talk: http://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-wave-blaster-ii-does-talk/ Any Soundscape VIVO Fans Here: (partial source code …

Re: My Cyrix 5x86 systems : 120MHz vs 133MHz

Posted on 2016-05-16, 19:36

by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also can someone please Identify this Matrox card? It's the only photo I have and I cant make out the writing on the chip. The date printed on the board (1995) would suggest its a Matrox Millenium card but I'm not 100%. Compaq Spare # 137897-001 indicates it's a Compaq QVision 2000+, aka Matrox …

Re: Dual Booting Windows 98 and DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2016-05-16, 05:43

by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Moved to Marvin.

Re: Old shareware compilation CDs - is anybody besides me interested in this?

Posted on 2016-05-15, 17:05

by Stiletto

in DOS

I think archive.org has a big collection of these, if I recall correctly.

Re: SoftDX is under development

Posted on 2016-05-15, 12:59

by Stiletto

in Release Announcements

Split off discussion.

Re: 808x and prefetch

Posted on 2016-05-15, 06:20

by Stiletto

in PC Emulation

90% of the time, the way MAME is developed: emulate along until you hit unemulated opcodes or something and the emulation goes off into the weeds. Implement what's missing. Continue testing. 10% of the time, the way MAME is developed: carefully read all specifications and create one whole emulation …

Re: Gamepad/Joysticks on vintage hardware

Posted on 2016-05-15, 06:13

by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Moved to Marvin (though I accidentally left a shadow thread in DOS, whoops)

Re: Windows 95B

Posted on 2016-05-14, 14:42

by Stiletto

in DOSBox General

Moved to DOSBox forum. Good luck! 😀

Re: Other hobbies?

Posted on 2016-05-14, 02:48

by Stiletto

in Milliways

MusicallyInspired wrote: custom lightsabers Ahahaha I could talk your ears off about that...

Re: Roland SC-88 repair

Posted on 2016-05-13, 22:23

by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Could try this but honestly I've never had much luck trying something like this, especially considering the datecodes are bullshit. http://www.ic2ic.com/search.jsp?sSearchWord=UPD65622GF-138-3B9&prefix=U http://www.icbaibai.com/search.jsp?sSearchWord=UPD65622GF-138-3B9&prefix=U uPD65622 series is a …

Re: How different is Windows 9x from NT? Are they not the same?

Posted on 2016-05-13, 12:09

by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The fact that this forum thread exists at all is rather hilarious to me, no offense to notsofossil but VOGONS exists primarily because things were so different between NT 4 / Win2K / WinXP and DOS / Win9x that people needed to make all sorts of compatibility patches, shims, locate obscure registry …