Re: Is it possible to have HDMI output in DOS 6.22?

Posted on Yesterday, 05:54

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by LSS10999

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Heyho! I have been ponderng for a while on how to best have an output to HDMI without paying hundreds of euros for converters. After I stumbled over several issues with my old 486 idea, I referred back to my Pentium 2, running on a PC100 BXcel Board, which features AGP. Now I was thinking...AGP …

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Re: my compact flash experience is a dud

Posted on 2022-05-24, 15:45

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by LSS10999

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I've several Sandisk CF cards that, while work fine behind a USB CF reader, exhibit all kinds of issues when connected with a CF-IDE adapter. Good to know about Sandisk cards. Sorry to hear that you had issues. Were they just "Sandisk" or were they "Sandisk Extreme Pro"? Just wanted to take a …

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Re: my compact flash experience is a dud

Posted on 2022-05-24, 01:03

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by LSS10999

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For some SanDisk cards there's a tool to make them appear as fixed disks. https://ozgurkazancci.com/down/set-compact-flash-true-ide-mode%20%28fixed%20disk%29.txt http://www.floutsch.com/pub/download/ATCFWCHG.COM That doesn't work with recent Sandisk cards anymore, not to mention Sandisk crippled …

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Re: Audigy RX on Win XP

Posted on 2022-05-24, 00:23

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by LSS10999

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Private_Ops wrote on 2022-05-23, 22:03: Has anyone used the Audigy RX (5) with windows XP? I see the daniel K drivers state support for SP3. Haven't tried, but theoretically what applies to Audigy 4 should apply to Audigy 5/RX as the latter is mostly Audigy 4 behind a PCIe bridge.

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Re: PCI-X Compatible Sound Cards

Posted on 2022-05-23, 06:06

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paradigital wrote on 2022-05-23, 05:55: If the image is indicative of the actual card, that’s PCIe (4x) not PCI-X. I think that picture is a placeholder. The picture looks like some kind of PCIe x4 network card.

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Re: PCI-X Compatible Sound Cards

Posted on 2022-05-23, 02:20

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There is apparently a Dell PCI-X SoundBlaster card, in the X-Fi family, but I can't confirm it's authenticity and I don't understand why Dell would ever request such a product from Creative Labs. https://jbsdevices.com/item/dell-0ct602-network-adapter?catchall&gclid= …

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Re: A free/open-source hex comparision tool

Posted on 2022-05-20, 02:23

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For now as I mentioned I would like to compare files. Hopefully what you mentioned has a Windows equivalent because it becomes difficult to access good internet to download stuff at my workplace. VBinDiff , like others have said, is a good choice. I always use that to compare binaries and it has …

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Re: The most powerful Windows 2000 GPU?

Posted on 2022-05-18, 10:13

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I haven't tested it myself but if you plan to use the Extended Kernel by blackwingcat you might be able to try some modded nVidia drivers which will hopefully allow you to use some better video cards on Win2K.

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Re: EMS memory mystery ?

Posted on 2022-05-17, 05:25

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You need to check the amount of available upper memory. Older system is more likely to have more free UMB room than newer one. EMS requires a contiguous 64KB of UMB for its page frame which will be deducted from your available upper memory. Looks like your remaining upper memory is too low to hold …

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Re: Windows games on reactos.

Posted on 2022-05-17, 01:58

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ReactOS aims to be 100% compatible with Windows, doesn't it? Is it planned to have any advantages over Windows (other than presumably ReactOS being free to the end user), such as running faster, or better compatibility options for backwards compatibility? It hasn't reached either of them. It slowly …

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Re: Any notable unofficial DOS conversions of games?

Posted on 2022-05-13, 06:48

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Originally I started a thread asking about a game called Space Fox but seeing this one I think it's better I move it here. All I could find is an Apple IIgs version made by Seven Hills Software. Some gameplay videos about the Apple IIgs version are also available. I once had the demo/shareware DOS …

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Re: Converting cue/bin to iso, how to?

Posted on 2022-05-10, 01:30

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by LSS10999

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so the only way is to burn it right? With Windows there are some virtual disc software that can mount BIN/CUE in its entirety, so you can access the image's data content as well as audio tracks (by software/game or media player). I think WinCDEmu can do that. With Linux (WSL probably also counts) I …

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Re: 775 and ISA

Posted on 2022-05-07, 06:44

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Heres a thought... since industrial boards are so expensive, and likely dont have support for an FDC on ISA, could a PCI or PCIe to ISA adapter be made? I know modern systems can run SSDs through PCIe, but could I run an FDC using an adapter? Costronic had some PCI-ISA adapters, though without any …

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Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI problems

Posted on 2022-05-07, 03:29

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Ensoniq AudioPCI (and later Creative ones) need MS EMM386 to work under DOS (other EMM386 may not work correctly with it). There's actually another hidden requirement for AudioPCI's DOS TSR, that your system must have enough free area in the first 4MB of system memory . When I tried using an ES1370 …

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Re: my compact flash experience is a dud

Posted on 2022-05-06, 16:19

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by LSS10999

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There's a high chance that your CF card is being configured as Removable and it will appear to Windows as a Removable disk even when you connect it directly to IDE or using PCMCIA adapter. A few years ago I tried experimenting with them as substitutes to mechanical HDDs for some use cases, as I …

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Re: Nec PC-9821 support and compatibility

Posted on 2022-04-28, 08:50

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by LSS10999

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Windows has a hardware abstraction layer. Hence there is an enormous category of software for which the underlying architecture does not matter. From what I know NEC98 (PC-98) is not binary compatible with I386 despite using similar CPUs. I think HAL is to generalize APIs meant to access low-level …

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Re: Nec PC-9821 support and compatibility

Posted on 2022-04-27, 00:39

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by LSS10999

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What do you mean by standard x86? (NEC) PC-98 is certainly not the same as (IBM) PC-AT. But x86 is common to both. Yeah, PC-98 use x86 CPUs like others, but the system architecture is very different that you can't just run I386 software as-is, and NEC98 software won't run as-is on standard I386 PCs …

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Re: Nec PC-9821 support and compatibility

Posted on 2022-04-26, 03:14

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by LSS10999

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The keyboard is not compatible with PC keyboards, and it uses MS bus mouse, but you can install English Windows on a PC-98. Win 2000 was the last one with PC-98 support; it was dropped in Win XP. AFAIK PC98 family is not entirely the same as standard x86. Some Japanese Win2K discs appear to have a …

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Re: Can you emulate a Nvidia on a vm?

Posted on 2022-04-15, 02:53

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by LSS10999

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Was thinking about playing games in a vm but need a graphics card driver. Maybe if nouveau works in Linux maybe it can be emulated in virtual box VMware/VBox don't "emulate" video cards from other manufacturers. You're probably talking about GPU passthrough which is way too complicated. If you're …

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Re: Can't get any PCI DOS compatibles soundcards to work on ASUS P4R8L (Ati)

Posted on 2022-04-08, 07:18

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by LSS10999

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Without knowing for certain, I'd bet my life savings on it being the chipset. With nForce chipsets of the same era, they don't support the features necessary to run the TSRs which emulate DMA which DOS games rely on for digital audio. Any P4 motherboard with an Intel chipset (i845, i865) will be a …

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