Good news. Using XUBDisk, I was able to successfully boot from the Compact Flash card. I wrote the XUBDisk image to a 1.44 mb floppy, and booted from that. As it was booting, I pressed the A key so that it would then boot from the floppy, and swapped the XUBDisk with my disk that has the MS-DOS …

Thanks to all for the replies. wow a 6 or 8Mhz 386 ? ok kidding aside... I think you are in for an uphill battle with that Dell and a 512MB CF unless you use an XT-IDE bios. In 1988 biggest IDE drives were barely 40Mb iirc How are you setting the C/H/S in that Dell ? For the 256 MB card, I'm using …

I am trying to get a Compact Flash IDE interface working on my Dell 316SX. I first tried with a 512 MB CF card. Was able to use fdisk to create the partition, and then format the CF card and copy the system files. After doing this, I was able to use "dir" to display the directory of files on the CF …

In the Doom 2 manual, it specifically says "Do not use disk caching programs like SMARTDRV". I am running the game on an AMD K6/2 350 system which is at least 4 years newer than Doom 2. I would expect that the hard disk would be up to the task of running the game smoothly. Did you know something …

Thank you for your response. I tried adding SMARTDRV to the AUTOEXEC.BAT, and that seems to have made a difference in the loading issues. Sorry for posting in the wrong forum.

When I run Doom 2 in MS-DOS mode on my Windows 98SE PC, it hangs for about 30 seconds during loading on the part that says "Init DOOM refresh daemon". During gameplay, the disk icon shows up fairly frequently, and the game will stutter or pause for a brief moment when this happens. The strange thing …

Thank you for the response. It looks like the Masterpiece Edition is pretty cheap on eBay. I'll try that direction.

Does anyone have experience with running the original release of Myst on Windows 98 (second edition)? The version I have is the Windows 3.1/MPC version. When I try to run it, I get an illegal operation blue screen. I tried installing a newer version of Quicktime than what came with the game, but it …

I think that I have used this joystick in this PC in the past to play X-WIng, but I could be wrong. If I try to test the joystick plugged into the gameport in Windows 98 in the game controllers Control Panel, none of the buttons even respond. If it was a speed issue, I'm not sure if that would …

I am trying to use a flightstick in DOS connected to the gameport input on my Compaq Presario. It is not responding correctly. For example, in Wolfenstein 3D, it continuously acts like the escape key is being pressed (not that I am trying to play Wolf 3D with a flightstick). In other games where you …

When using the tv2x, tv3x, scan2x, or scan3x scalers for 320x200 games, if I set aspect = true, the scanlines are not even. If I set aspect = false, it looks fine. I assuming this has something to with the way things are scaled. Is there any way get even scanlines with the corrected aspect ratio?

CodeJunkie: Can you provide more information about how you set up the custom resolutions? I tried setting up a 640x400 resolution, but the image shows up letterboxed. Did you set the timing to automatic or manual? You mentioned using driver 301.42. I am on version 311.06. Did you have issues with …

I have a circa 1998 Compaq Presario 5150. This computer has no internal speaker. I looked all over the motherboard for a connector labeled SPKR, but couldn't find one. I did find something that looks like a connector that has four pins with one of the pins missing. So, I bought a piezo type buzzer …

Is there any way to avoid the tearing when using opengl. I would like to use opengl so that I can use the scalers without a huge performance penalty?

I am using the OS X version of DOSBox. When I change the output method to opengl, I get lots of tearing, but when I use the output method of surface, there is no visible tearing. I run DOSBox in windowed mode. The game that I have been using to test is Wolfenstein 3d, but it is not exclusive to that …