Re: PC shuts down after 30 seconds - 1 minute
Posted on Yesterday, 12:25
Disconnect all the front panel switches, leds & speaker and try it once by shorting the power switch pins, just to rule this possibility out.
Re: What Files Should be Backup from OEM 95/98 OS Before Clean Install
Posted on 2023-06-02, 09:04
Maybe the OEM logo and info in the System's properties?
Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?
Posted on 2023-05-29, 09:27
The engine might be "time-bombed". From acknex.exe: Time restricted - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION 4.0H alpha Mar 28 1999 Excellent find! Who knows what happened with this weird game, it only gets weirder. Could it be that they missed removing the restriction before the release? Is the release a hurried …
Re: Help Needed - Seagate ST07A/ST08A controller card?
Posted on 2023-05-29, 08:35
Correct it should be straightforward. The controller isn't supposed to have any difference from any other IDE controller out there, in theory of course.
Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?
Posted on 2023-05-29, 08:28
Some important information: The game needs to be run with a date and time before June 1st 1999, 00:00. And the game was released September 1999? What were the devs testing on, dead clock hardware? I only tried an "early enough to be safe" 1999 date and wrote that the game runs with it, but tested …
Re: Help Needed - Seagate ST07A/ST08A controller card?
Posted on 2023-05-28, 16:38
No you can use any brand, it's a normal IDE HDD controller. Yours is the ST08A btw, the difference between ST07A and ST08A is the floppy controller.
Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?
Posted on 2023-05-27, 14:10
Just set the system date to something earlier like 1999 and you'll be surprised 😉 What a terrible little game, I love these oddities. (PIII 1.2Ghz, 128MB RAM, Voodoo3 2000, Win98SE) Filename IMG_20230527_170810.jpg File size 250.07 KiB Views 293 views
Re: Wacky Wheels with higher FPS?
Posted on 2023-05-27, 13:17
I think that's not what Good_Punk ask guys. The frame rate is locked to a quite low value so once you reach that you can't go smoother regardless of dosbox cycles or real hardware power.
Re: I got defeated by a case
Posted on 2023-05-27, 06:03
I don't know how relevant this is for your case (pun intended!), but I was puzzled once by a... broken switch, a stuck reset switch. Of course this can only be a possibility to consider if you are not connecting the switches when outside of the case but you are connecting them when inside it. And …
Re: VLB Video Cards for DOS Gaming?
Posted on 2023-05-26, 16:08
An ISA VGA will hold back a DX2, I'd go for a VLB. The Cirrus Logic is an all-arounder so if you can get it cheap then why not.
Re: I got defeated by a case
Posted on 2023-05-26, 08:28
I don't know how relevant this is for your case (pun intended!), but I was puzzled once by a... broken switch, a stuck reset switch. Of course this can only be a possibility to consider if you are not connecting the switches when outside of the case but you are connecting them when inside it.
Re: I got defeated by a case
Posted on 2023-05-25, 10:37
I'd suggest putting your mobo+tray on your workbench and having the combo lean against a wall or something and then powering it up and see if it still works or then doesn't work. Don't need to have any PCI/AGP cards in for this test, just the basics (CPU + mem). I thought similarly, he can try with …
Re: PicoMEM : Pi Pico on ISA, with full Memory and I/O bus access
Posted on 2023-05-24, 14:43
FreddyV wrote on 2023-05-24, 07:16: No reaction even here... Just another point of view, many people don't even understand what this card does/can do. I'm starting to understand something by reading the discussion as it unfolds, so don't assume nobody cares. Maybe it's too awesome!
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-05-23, 07:40
I think it might be a custom faceplate for some OEM though, fairly sure I have JU-475 or two, and think they've just got the flat matte black faceplates. I might have a beige beige one (i.e. that almost sandstone beige, not off white greige or yellowed.) Spot on I'd say, specifically it appears to …
Re: HP RP5800 GPU help needed!
Posted on 2023-05-22, 17:08
Oh, and this fellow got some similar Radeon hd card to work with the rp5800 semmingly with no problem https://youtu.be/Wl0Ahf3yDok The "similar" card is a 6350 which is a 19W card, if i'm not mistaken yours is 60W. So not that similar. Did you check the manual? I did, it says that it supports max …
Re: HP RP5800 GPU help needed!
Posted on 2023-05-22, 15:18
Make sure the power supply is enough. The card isn't power-hungry but, assuming you mean 5800 S FF, these came with a 240W PSU. It's marginal and possibly not enough. I can't find any information about a TFF 5800, only SFF, but if it exists the PSU might be even less watts. Edit: on second thought …
Re: CD Audio with Slim Optical Drives?
Posted on 2023-05-21, 13:46
I think that this is solely an OS thing and not related to the type of drive (well except of course that some drives don't offer the option for S/PDIF) Since Windows ME the default is digital audio going through the bus. In Windows 98, the turning point, the default was S/PDIF but there is the …
Re: Are prices for retro hardware slowly coming down?
Posted on 2023-05-21, 13:30
My observations are exactly the opposite: sought after items have reached crazy prices and that brought new people into the market, trying to sell common stuff they had stored as garbage for "rare vintage" prices. Which has risen prices for things they were priced reasonably until now. Another …
Re: General doubt on PC games that use CD audio
Posted on 2023-05-21, 08:30
Isn't it exactly like a hifi cd player? It needs a moment to reposition and start reading from a different place (the beginning of the current track or the beginning of the next track), you can hear it happening. It's true that this time is different between devices but never zero. I have little …
Re: Pentium - Hard disk size - DOS /Game required space
Posted on 2023-05-20, 18:26
ok, but does the bios see the 20gb as 8gb and won't let me use them? I thought if he wasn't compatible he wouldn't see the disc at all. Because the BIOS doesn't detect the disk as 8GB, ...By doing various combinations in the IBM disk between 15/16 Head the bios manages to see an 8GB... you somehow …
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