First post, by VenomSpark
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hi guys 😀
Sorry if i sound dope or stupid, but i consider this site the best for old hardware crazy oldmans like us 😜 I just have three questions, and I hope someone can help me somehow, im really getting rusty these times (duh).
1) Just try to help with good answers please ♥ and not like "why you would use that \ you can buy another one" ecc. about this one: I have a Radeon 9200SE, AGP version (in waiting can get other in future). By far is working good, despite ATI under Dos and retro games were not the best. My question is, running some games i get the error "No supported SuperVGA chip detected!" (sort of). I am not good with VESA story, i know this card have VESA 2.0, and some games runs okay at higher resolution (800x600 on DN3D, for example.) but there are some games that gives me this error. I tried UNIVESA but it just don't recognize any SVGA chip. There is a way to make it recognizible? a sort of emulation\driver or third party program? I know this card is too "modern" (lol) for DOS ages, indeed I had a S3 Savage 4 and a Rage IIc and they were working perfectly being correctly recognized, which of course don't happens on the 9200. Thanks!
2) A more complicated question: there is a way to boot into "pure dos" with Windows 98SE in an easy way? any boot disk (i have a working floppy drive and lot of empty floppies, in case) or something? Because by far the only way I do for boot into a "pure" DOS is press F8 before W98 bootscreen, and use "step by step", by only say no to HIMEM.SYS (otherwise i can't use JEMMEX, needed for SB16 emulation driver load on my SoundBlaster LIVE!) and say no also to "load WIN?", because after that it works flawlessy, but is just a loss of time to press all that Y,Y,Y,Y. I know that you can also press F5 (i think) and get into a instant dos session, but you have to load any TSR manually, which is even worse than the step by step mode.
3) Maybe less complicated: I have two HDD in my retropc: one with WIN98 SE, the other with WIN2000. I have done a lot of dual or trial booting in the past, but only on modern machines. The question is: how can i make a boot choice option when i start up the pc? if there is one, of course. For now the temporary trick (like the pure dos boot above), is to press ESC during the POST, and a radical boot menu appears so i can choose which HDD to boot, but sometimes i forgot to press it, or it takes more try to enable as not everytime works, so that i have to reset with ctrl+alt+canc for try again. Would be nice a simple screen when i can choose between 98 & 2000.
That's it, thanks for any answer and as always sorry for my dumbness, thanks for your help, and forgive my bad english 😁