My main PC is a desktop system (Core i7-5820K, 32GB of RAM, 2TB of SSD - 1 SATA, 1 NVMe, GeForce GTX 980Ti) running Windows 10 that I built a couple years ago. I also have a Surface Pro that I use from time to time. I don't use my retro PCs for any 'productive' work beyond my retro development …

Nice avatar! LOL I agree with 8MB being just right. It runs everything I expect a 486DX2 PC to run. My friend still has the default 4 MB of RAM in his 425, but he doesn't have an Overdrive 486 installed, and runs the on board 25 MHz SX. So that makes sense. Strangely, I've got a Pentium MMX 133 (?) …

That retro game, Paku Paku, was also made by its auhor with the help of TP7 (that cheater! ;) ) But yeah, TP is a fine piece of software. Personally, I grew up with v3 and v6. Version 3 was also popular on non-PC platforms, I remember. It was recently given free for CP/M-80, or so I heard (better …

Nothing particularly exciting lately. Yeserday, I stopped at a local old electronics/gadget store and picked up a couple soundcards (a non-OEM Sound Blaster Live! and a Sound Blaster PCI 512) for $5. I didn't know which I wanted to use in the Pentium III system I was downgrading to Win98SE. I ended …

I do have a bunch of games installed on my retro computers, but I barely play them, heh. My real interest in retro computers is in re-immersing myself in era-appropriate development tools. For me this is mostly Watcom C / Tasm and more recently Turbo Pascal. As a kid I was self taught, starting …

So I actually went ahead and did the downgrade I originally planned. There's a local store that specializes in selling old, weird gizmos and electronics down the road from where I work, and I bought a non-Dell SB Live! from them for $5. (They also had a very sweet full-tower 486DX2-66 for sale, but …

Your username definitely checks out. If it were me, I'd probably be swimming through it, Scrooge McDuck style. That being said, I'll be definitely keeping an eye on this thread (I'd jump in on liqmat's Discord, but sadly I don't have enough post history here to PM yet). I've always had a thing for …

My retro PCs don't actually have very many games on them (my Pentium III system has Diablo 2 and Darkstone installed, and my 486 has Ultima 7 on it). The bulk of the software I have installed are development tools (compilers, editors, etc.) since my main area of interest is retroprogramming more …

I haven't gotten up to it yet, but this afternoon I was planning on taking my Pentium III PC and downgrading it from Windows XP to Windows 98SE since I plan to use it in real DOS more than I planned. My main issue is going to be the sound card. I'm currently using one of those not-so-great Dell OEM …

I've finished setting up a Linux box running Linux Mint 19 and decided to try DBGL with my DOSbox installation. Sadly, it's not working. Here's the error messages I get: Launching DBGL using 64-Bit VM 10.0.1 on Linux v4.15.0-20-genericamd64, HSQL Database Engine 1.8.1.3WARNING: An illegal reflective …

The most popular things: Games (DOS games and especially early Win95/98/XP games that are problematic to run any other way) Connecting to BBSes (via telnet over Ethernet or via some kind of terminal program and a serial solution) Retroprogramming - writing old games and software. This is mainly what …

Yes, it's evil hard - like I said, it's an early prototype and I was just playing around with ball physics. The plan is to use a more 'normal' level as a first level and progress to harder stages later. As for the MOVEIT issue, the problem was git and line endings. DOS is really picky and git …

I'd like to see this too. I have projects I'm working on and wouldn't mind tossing progress updates up somewhere, but there's not really a good place here to post those types of things.

I compiled it with TP 7.1 and get a title screen, but from what I can tell no gameplay has been implemented yet. Correct? No, there's a game there, but apparently there's obviously a bug too. :) I keep the git repo and the DOSBox areas separate from each other and it's possible that a file is …

I compiled it with TP 7.1 and get a title screen, but from what I can tell no gameplay has been implemented yet. Correct? No, there's a game there, but apparently there's obviously a bug too. :) I keep the git repo and the DOSBox areas separate from each other and it's possible that a file is …

I don't have binaries but I can throw some together. Otherwise, if you have DOSBox and Turbo Pascal installed, then running make.bat from the MOVEIT directory should work. Which version of Turbo Pascal do you recommend? There're versions from 1.x to 7.x and 1.x (Windows). I use version 7. I haven't …

I took the opportunity to test out a DOS game that I've been working on (a Sokoban clone that uses the CGA 160x100 16-color graphics mode) on the 486. Any release info on this? Always game for a new game especially in that graphics mode. The project is actually open source and you can grab the …

Yesterday I set my 3 retro PCs back up again (a 486, a Pentium MMX and a Pentium 3 system) after having used the space to refurbish an Amiga 2000 that I picked up for cheap a few months ago. Everything is set up to share a common keyboard (AT-style), mouse (Microsoft mouse with both serial and PS/2 …