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Re: Win16/DOSBox?

Posted on 2011-10-06, 22:46

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

It works in DOSBox, but anything that needs SHARE.EXE (Office comes to mind as well as anything using Win32s) isn't going to work. I find that pretty disappointing because it's ALMOST the perfect replacement for an old PC. Virtual PC works, but the SB16 OPL emulation is absolutely atrocious (a real …

Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2011-10-04, 20:11

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hey, this is possibly a little bit off track from what you guys are doing in this thread but I thought it was the best place to put it. I thought you'd all enjoy it since we're all sound card nuts. :P I've been working on a project of my own-- recording MIDI music playback from various devices. …

Re: Posting from 1996 system!

Posted on 2011-09-17, 13:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

Last fall I got a P133, 16MB RAM, WFWG 3.11 machine online. I actually managed to use IE 5 to get on Facebook (mobile version works, though it is a formatting nightmare), update my status, and upload a screenshot of what I was doing. I couldn't believe it worked... would never want to do it …

Re: 486 motherboard

Posted on 2011-09-06, 11:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For future reference, what would be a good board to consider? I almost thought about getting this one (although the bid is far too high now)

Re: Windows 95 Realtek RTL8139C network driver problems

Posted on 2011-09-06, 01:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have one of these cards and I can't get it to work in anything at all. Detected fine by all OSes I've tried (Win95, 98, XP) but won't talk to anything else on the network. It's probably just a dead card, though.

Re: Anyone Play minecraft?

Posted on 2011-08-10, 22:38

in Milliways

in Milliways

Minecraft is pretty much my favorite modern game. I'm running a server as well, although it is private because some idiotic little kids liked to target it a while back. Dumped lava and destroyed everything, so I had to restore from a backup a few times and got annoyed, so I just set up a white list …

Re: This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver

Posted on 2011-08-09, 17:40

in Milliways

in Milliways

Ah, my bad. I just went by whatever Wikipedia told me. If it's from 1995, I wonder then if this screensaver is actually a 16-bit one. Depends on when it came out in the year, I imagine.

Re: This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver

Posted on 2011-08-09, 16:51

in Milliways

in Milliways

Nope. I just booted my old Powerbook G3 which had AD on it, and the Artist module just takes existing images and filters them gradually. It doesn't draw from scratch. It looks to me like the only way to find this (barring somebody actually having it on them) is going to be blindly running into it …

Re: This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver

Posted on 2011-08-09, 01:04

in Milliways

in Milliways

I don't think that is it; the screensaver had no "pointer" (pencil or whatever) of any kind and did not take images from the hard drive like Auto Draw does, as far as I remember (it would actually draw certain parts like a background and then draw over to make other parts, and you can't "make up" …

This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver

Posted on 2011-08-08, 19:58

in Milliways

in Milliways

A strange request, perhaps, but that's what I do best. Back around 2002/2003, when I was in elementary school, I would visit a friend's house. In a back room where we usually hung out his family's old PC sat around. It was some sort of full-tower Gateway, which I believed looked a lot like this one …

Re: Rage 128 GL AIW PCI

Posted on 2011-08-08, 18:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Rage 128 GL (though AGP and not an All in Wonder) and I've had nothing but performance issues with it. Can't figure out why but everything 3D performs terribly. Hell, UT99 was faster in software mode than even hardware mode at 640x480, all lowest graphics settings. Thus, I hope that card …

Re: Out of topic : Name of cartoon series with farm animals within Loony Toons?

Posted on 2011-07-27, 04:35

in Milliways

in Milliways

Foghorn Leghorn! Not my favorite of all of the Looney Tunes stuff but still good.

Re: Windows NT 4.0

Posted on 2011-07-24, 18:55

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

What would be the latest era of hardware generally supporting nt4... p3 and early athlon? PS. I just shifted a hard drive from a bx-based dual celeron system to a tualatin on a via board. Surprised me, nt4 booted fine. Not having the arcane knowledge, I'd assumed that like 2000 it would take it's …

Re: Ethernet on Windows 95 problems

Posted on 2011-07-10, 04:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a Realtek 8139 that had the same issue. I'd plug it right into my ethernet switch and it would never get an IP address even though every other machine could. Tried it in a few different computers, a few different OSes, and it turned out the card was dead. Very frustrating.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-07-07, 23:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Alright. Got it. Sorry about the confusion, I haven't worked with external devices like this often. Also, it seems this could be a lucky motherboard score. I was looking up more stuff about the sound that's integrated on it, and played around a bit, and it seems to have an OPL3 synth! I did not see …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-07-07, 21:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, the confusion can continue. I am totally sure it is a parallel zip drive. The writing on the back shows a printer icon, not the SCSI logo as SCSI drives apparently have. And to make things worse the parallel zip drives are Apparently SCSI drives that convert internally. I decided to attach …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-07-07, 03:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I emergency-fixed my girlfriend's dad's laser printer at his business and he gave me a bunch of old computer stuff from storage in return. Among the fun stuff: -Zip100 drive (Parallel) -HP Colorado T1000e Travan tape drive (no idea where I'm going to get tapes for this, but it's a fun novelty to …

Re: AFCM (age, first computer, milestones)

Posted on 2011-06-28, 23:27

in Milliways

in Milliways

1. 18 2. Well, the first PC I owned was a Gateway G6-450 (PII/450, 64MB RAM, 14.4GB hard drive, STB Velocity-- I believe Riva TNT based graphics card, Win98 FE) that was bought in 1999. I was a Mac owner before then, with my family buying a Macintosh Performa 600 (68030/32, 4MB RAM, 160MB HDD, …

Re: Intel vs AMD? Or should I say Intel and AMD?

Posted on 2011-06-24, 16:42

in Milliways

in Milliways

I built my current system a year ago around a Core i7-930. I was deciding between this and whatever the high-end AMD 6-core processor was at the time-- I forget-- but I chose the i7 because I don't use a large number of heavily multithreaded applications and the i7 offered better performance per …

Re: Widescreen resolution Windows 95

Posted on 2011-06-12, 12:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are some notes on this page about running a Voodoo5 in widescreen resolutions like 1440x900 and 1680x1050 on Windows 95, which seems to require manually programming them into the registry. I don't really know much about how this works, but it may be possible to find the timings needed for …

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