That's really weird. Last I checked, all those games ran fine on this box.

I tried to start Warcraft 2 but it runs jerky on my PC. But the Sound works fine. The Units are RUNNING and then standing and running and standing..........

Unregistered, need more information. Can't help you with that little tidbit.

I have a feeling Edeldeb can be right about that. Why should a new card support such old games... Hehe...

Maybe I should get some old PCI card to use for those games. 😁

Well anyway, I'll find out sooner or later when I have DOS/Win3/9x installed on this computer in a multiboot configuration. 😀

Dave

You're not seriously going to do that!??

Which of the two things? 😀

Snover wrote:

Dave, there are no "uncommon" resolutions.

Wouldn't be so quick to say this. Your VALID RESOLUTIONS seems correct but I would never exclude the possibility of some bizarre, undocumented resolution. Also, don't forget the hacks and cheats some programmers used to code. Some of these made (some) CGA screen displays incompatible with any EGA PC (or beyond).

Sometimes, it allowed programmers to create 16-color (Tweaked CGA) games for the PC back in _1984_ . Examples, "ICON: The Quest For The Ring" and "Seven Spirits Of Ra". Both should run properly on modern PC. Now THAT's good coding.

Dave wrote:

Which of the two things? 😀

If you're talking multi-boot, a Win9x/XP setup seems the best possible combination. You would have DOS (v7.x), FAT32 (presuming you're not using the very 1st version of Win95), and another version of Windows for older Windows titles that don't behave under XP.

You can have more OS's than that, but remember that the more you pile on, the greater the risk...

Sure, it may be a little risky. But no worries... It seems like I'm going to buy a second HDD on which I can experiment with things... So no big worries, I think. 😀

Dave

I was refrerring to the DOS/Win3.

I'm probably going to do it, yes. 😀

Alright, no need to call for an ambulance, I'm just fine, and I know what I'm doing hehe. I don't see the problem with it though, seems like you must have jumped off your chair when you heard of it. 😀

Clarification: either DOS or Win9x... Win3x is not of any use of course.

Dave

Win9x has newer version of DOS -- 7 and 8, consecutively between 95 and 98. So I'd go with it.

Nitpick: Not quite.

MS-DOS 7.0 is included in Windows 95.

MS-DOS 7.1 is included in Windows 95 OSR2+, Windows 98, and Windows 98 SE.

MS-DOS 8.0 is included in Windows ME, although booting straight into DOS was removed by Microsoft; you'd have to use one of the known patches which Colin mentioned in another thread:
http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/
http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/a_dos_me/

😀

Don't mind my inaccuracies. Aside from sleeping from 3PM to 9PM, then spending the whole night trying to get stuff done, it's been a while since I've used Win9x and I have a particularily bad memory. (Blame school.)

Where can I find that patch you mentioned for Jazz Jackrabbit? I couldn't find it on their site - looks like they no longer support old games, so when would they even have MADE a patch that's meant for faster PCs? 😕

dyinginformant wrote:

I couldn't find it on their site - looks like they no longer support old games, so when would they even have MADE a patch that's meant for faster PCs?

Found this fansite:
http://studwww.ira.uka.de/~s_arent/epic/Classics.htm

It's in German, so unless you know German use the "Language Tools" at http://www.google.com

From a quick check, it appears he used the TPPATCH, but even that can't handle 500MHz AMD or higher, so he used Mo'Slo on top of that. Might check this later, running real low on sleep.

Instead of tppatch, use ctbppat -
showthread.php?s=&threadid=93

I'm sensing that soon I'm going to need to add a link to Deep Thought at the top of every page.

Snover wrote:

That's really odd, Dave. I've played Jazz Jackrabbit just fine on my box.
Perhaps you should get the patch from Epic that fixes the 200 runtime error instead of using tppatch (or related utility).

This is what I am talking about. However, if he meant the ctbppat thing that you gave me a link to, than that will do just fine.

I said that? T'ch, I was tired.
I meant CTBPPAT.

Oh, and Nicht, "just to be nitpicky," (hehe) I wasn't the one that referred those links.