Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!
Posted on Yesterday, 08:18
Well, you can run control panel applets directly (joy.cpl, main.cpl, etc.). Plus - System Restore! (yuck)
Re: My P3 Retro DOS PC
Posted on Yesterday, 07:50
Plus, put the CD drivers under a menu option so you only use them if you need them. No, why? What's the purpose other than to waste your time? Is there a single documented case of a CD driver interfering with anything? Seems like only option left is to format disk as FAT16, create a bunch of 2GB …
Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!
Posted on Yesterday, 07:44
kolderman wrote on Yesterday, 06:36: There was a happy consensus that Me sucked. You guys are wrecking it 😁 Wrecking wrong consensuses built on ignorance is one of my top 3 hobbies. 😁
Re: My P3 Retro DOS PC
Posted on 2020-06-04, 18:21
It's extremely unlikely that anything crashes because of Win98 SE DOS , but I have heard that some DOS applications may have issues running of FAT32 partitions. Haven't tested it personally, since my Win98 SE system has FAT16 partitions for the DOS stuff, and only Windows stuff is on FAT32 …
Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy
Posted on 2020-06-03, 09:10
truemaster wrote on 2020-06-03, 07:06: truth to be told aureal and a3d is win9x thing. there no (good) drivers for nt os family. Not even XP?
Re: Tell us about your 3DFX collection
Posted on 2020-06-02, 20:53
I have more than I know what to do with, drop me a note and I'll send you one. I'm sure you would have something I'd be interested in. :) Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. ;) I have no idea what I might have that will interest you, my retro hardware collection is nt nearly as impressive as that of …
Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy
Posted on 2020-06-02, 16:37
Rawit wrote on 2020-06-02, 07:00: I think Dell is still ordering those from Creative or something. Doesn't matter where I look for parts, there is always a Dell version of a Live there. Yeah, I go to the grocery store about once a week. Sometimes they are out of Mac&Cheese, but the Dell SBLive OEM …
Re: Tell us about your 3DFX collection
Posted on 2020-06-02, 16:04
Well, I have a working Voodoo 3 AGP and two faulty Voodoo 3 AGPs. When the good one dies, it will be game over and the PC will have to go to the trash.
Re: In search of two components
Posted on 2020-05-31, 17:37
1. Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 2. Trickier indeed; can't think of one off the top of my head. You really have 4 USB ports on the front panel, and no available headers on the motherboard?
Re: SB 16 & SB AWE64 in same system as means to get around hanging note bug? (i.e. AWE64 as dedicated external MIDI card
Posted on 2020-05-28, 09:05
If already going through the trouble to set up dual sound cards in DOS, I wouldn't use an SB16 + AWE64 (which is essentially two SB16). I would use an AWE64 and some SBPro clone that has a real OPL3 synth and a MIDI out port. This can really cover a lot more ground.
Re: Need to FREE up Conventional memory.
Posted on 2020-05-26, 15:32
I will have to reserve judgment, since my DOS system is currently quarantined away from me at my parents' house, so I cannot test it. However, I would not take what's written at the manual at face value. The Nerdly Pleasures blog clearly talks about CT-VOICE.DRV being a loadable driver and does not …
Re: Need to FREE up Conventional memory.
Posted on 2020-05-26, 14:16
No. It's best to do what I said and remove the useless SB drivers. Some games do need EMS, but I have yet to hear of any that actually need those drivers. Which means, that even if they do exist, there are likely far far fewer of them than games that need EMS. Also, MSCDEX can use EMS to save about …
Re: Need to FREE up Conventional memory.
Posted on 2020-05-26, 08:17
I edited autoexec.bat and config.sys to load everything “high” But it is not enough. How can I fix this so I can play this game ? 1. Remove the Creative drivers (CTMMSYS, CTSBPRO and SBMIDI). 2. Add /E switch to MSCDEX so that part of it loads into EMS. Problem solved. If I'm not mistaken, anything …
Re: What are the last "Windows 7" games?
Posted on 2020-05-25, 05:15
Replace 7 with Vista and 2009 with 2007 and it will still be mostly true. Forwards compatibility is great, but backwards less so: lots of things stopped working on Vista already; not due to graphics APIs most of the time, but simply because Microsoft's tools started targeting Win7 by default, which …
Re: Program Requires MS-DOS Mode
Posted on 2020-05-23, 11:09
Apologies; apparently my memory deceived me. Indeed the "restart in MS-DOS mode" is not available in WinME (without hacking). I rarely used this mode at all (even in 98SE), and somehow I thought it was still around.
Re: Program Requires MS-DOS Mode
Posted on 2020-05-23, 09:03
WinME doesn't lack MS-DOS mode; it just lacks the ability to boot into pure DOS without running Windows first.
Re: Program Requires MS-DOS Mode
Posted on 2020-05-22, 10:31
It just means that it suspects it won't work well. If it works well, just leave it be.
Re: Doom Eternal Released
Posted on 2020-05-20, 20:32
I LOVE Brutal Doom. Sure, it's not authentic, but it's more hardcore, and I think it inspired some features of Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal eg. Glory Kills When I saw the Glory Kills in Doom (2016) I also thought at first they were inspired by Brutal Doom; however, turns out the concept already …
Re: Sound Blaster Settings Keep Changing
Posted on 2020-05-18, 13:43
That working state persists multiple reboots using CTRL-ALT-DEL, but NOT a power down. As soon as I do a power down, CTCM only detects 2 out of 4 devices again (still booting directly from BIOS to DOS mode). Then perhaps it's the BIOS settings. Something either in the IRQ assignment department or …
Re: DOS getting stuck during installation
Posted on 2020-05-18, 06:03
Note that this forum is for old Windows games on *modern* systems. You should ask old hardware and driver/configuration questions in Marvin. https://www.vogons.org/viewforum.php?f=60 Maybe you mean - old *DOS* games on modern systems. At least that's what the forum description says. And maybe it's …
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