Looking for 'Solitaire's Journey' for DOS

Posted on 2010-12-07, 10:05

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by DonutKing

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Hi, As per topic I am looking for the DOS version of Solitaire's Journey by Quantum Quality Productions (QQP). This is NOT a warez request, I am totally willing to pay for a copy. Whether there is some store that still sells them or someone has a second hand copy they a willing to part with. I've …

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Re: Hardware accidents

Posted on 2010-12-07, 00:56

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I also had a case where the PC Speaker cable shorted with something somehow and the insulation melted right up the cable. I don't think we used a speaker in that computer for a while (don't remember if it was the 486DX4 or my PII-450). Yes I've done this too, those little wires have a suprising …

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Re: Newbie

Posted on 2010-12-01, 09:22

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Welcome ! :) Your plan for a SS7 machine sounds good. socket 7 gear is much easier to find these days than 486 or older gear. My suggestion is to look in the 'Marvin' section as there is a lot of discussion about this sort of thing there. Forum user Mau1wurf1977 has a detailed topic on slowing down …

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Re: My classic gaming PCs

Posted on 2010-11-28, 04:44

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Well there were some upgrade processors released. There was the Cyrix 386SLC which will give it a bit of a boost, but I'd imagine it might be hard to track down. There was also the Intel RapidCAD which is basically a 486DX modified to run in 386DX boards, but as far as I'm aware this was only for …

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Re: My classic gaming PCs

Posted on 2010-11-28, 02:49

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I don't think you'll see much benefit at all from the 387SX. The only things I know of that will use it are certain CAD programs and Falcon 3.0. There's not even that many 486 era games that make use of a maths copro.

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Re: Info on SB V16SALT CT2900?

Posted on 2010-11-27, 06:23

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lol.. yeah I've been using it and it seems pretty good, sounds like I expect it too... strange thing this is though if I got into win 3.11 and exit it seems to kill the sound for some reason? The card won't make any noise until I restart the PC. Even if I run diagnose and ctmixer. Using the drivers …

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Re: Help me compile a list of good, reliable 486 motherboards with PCI slots.

Posted on 2010-11-27, 00:22

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I don't think DOS 6.22 will have problems with >4GB drives, but you'll have the limit imposed by the FAT16 filesystem of 2GB per partition. Maybe you'll have problems with 8GB drives, but that comes from the mainboard BIOS limitation, not the OS. I am right ? Not sure exactly... I had one …

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Re: Help me compile a list of good, reliable 486 motherboards with PCI slots.

Posted on 2010-11-26, 21:37

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Here is a good list of PCI socket 3 boards: http://www.redhill.net.au/b/b-96.html As they say on that site, be wary of PCCHIPS fake cache boards. I actually own the M919 and what they say is pretty accurate. Performance is ok but it is prone to errors and lockups. Also with the 8GB disk you may have …

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Re: Joysticks - general advice please

Posted on 2010-11-26, 10:27

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Also, I bought the updated TIE Fighter & X-Wing, for Windows 95. No!!!! Stay away from that one, the CD audio track based music pales in comparison to the dynamic iMUSE MIDI soundtrack of the DOS versions. But the graphics are improved right? And maybe they fixed some other bugs and game play …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-11-26, 02:15

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Well, that would be ideal... but you can do it with any CPU, as long as your cpu and the rest of the system remains consistent across benching runs simply swapping video cards will give you comparable results on the same system. If you start getting identical results with different cards then you …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-11-26, 01:31

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I was referring to the standard mode (from memory 640x400)- in my experience you seem to get wildly varying results simply by swapping videocards. I'm specifically interested in comparing video cards at these sorts of high resolutions (well, high for DOS games anyway 😜 )

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Re: Info on SB V16SALT CT2900?

Posted on 2010-11-26, 01:02

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OK Cool thanks for the info- sounds like the card is a goer )

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-11-25, 22:10

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lol don't go out of your way just for me, I was asking to see if it had been done before and there was a list of results handy... But if you're really keen, main thing it tests is video card performance- so you would stick with the same processor, use the same BIOS settings and leave all your cache …

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Info on SB V16SALT CT2900?

Posted on 2010-11-25, 21:55

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by DonutKing

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Was digging through my sound cards and found a CT2900. On the back it has a sticker saying V16SALT. It has a Vibra 16S chipset. Interesting thing about this is that it appears to have a real OPL chip. But not an OPL3 or 4 as far as I know. The OPL is a YMF289B-S and there is also a Yamaha YAC516-E …

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Re: 3DBENCH CPU Benchmark Database

Posted on 2010-11-25, 21:42

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by DonutKing

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This post is an excellent resource- good work to all who contributed. I'm wondering if anything similar has been done for PCPBench? Main reason I ask is because my 486 is pretty sluggish in SVGA modes and I was looking to replace the S3 805 VLB card with something a bit snappier. I have an old LPX …

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Re: 486DX2 build

Posted on 2010-11-25, 00:26

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Well that's always an option but I'd like to keep it to one for simplicity's sake. All the other drives I have are either 200-400MB or bigger than 3GB. I don't think it will be a problem as I've more or less installed all the games I want to- just depends how big some of these game's save files can …

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Re: How do I test a 486 SX 20 CPU?

Posted on 2010-11-24, 21:44

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The Red Hill Guide suggested that most 486SX-25's were quite happy to run at 33MHz - indeed apparently a lot were illegally remarked and sold as a higher speed part. So I wouldn't be surprised at all if the 486SX-25's were higher speed parts that were binned by Intel to the lower spec. One could …

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Re: 486DX2 build

Posted on 2010-11-24, 04:26

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Well I managed to get this on the internet :) http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn63/dk486/dosbox/IMG_0254.jpg Dug through my pile of stuff and found an ISA Realtek RTL8019 network card (complete with 10base2 BNC connector :P ) I downloaded the Arachne web browser which runs on top of DOS (No …

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Re: The Pentium P54c, the Turbo Buton and the Internal Cache. And Wing Commander I is Happy!

Posted on 2010-11-21, 04:56

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I have found ICE and ICD to be a godsend on my 486DX2. I don't even bother with the turbo button, I just leave it on all the time, and just use a batch file with these utilities to enable/disable internal cache for particular games that need it. Games like Wing Commander, Scorched Earth, Test Drive …

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Re: 486DX2 build

Posted on 2010-11-18, 22:02

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My god, that's the same case my 486DX4-120 from the mid-90s used! Funny, I've had a couple of people say that they had a machine with this case... obviously it was very popular back in the day. The 486 I owned back in the day came in this case except mine was a mini tower and that appears to be a …

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