Re: Thinkpad T22/T23 S3 Savage IX & SuperSavage

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i have a gateway solo 5300 that has that savage ix gpu and, while metal looks like standard software mode, it performs way faster so, my conclusion is that it works on that chip, but compatibility is way worse than it should. that api was made specifically for savage 3d (excellent), savage4 (good), …

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Re: RapidCAD and Windows 95

Posted on 2021-06-19, 22:20

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i want windows 95 only for curiosity, i don't plan to use it in any way, have better and more powerful machines with windows 95 also,it has better smb support than wfw311

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RapidCAD and Windows 95

Posted on 2021-06-19, 15:39

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Hi, i'm having some problems installing windows 95 on my 386 machine, the setup process locks after I choose the install folder (defaults to c:\windows). i've tried with safe mode install, and with some command line arguments to no avail. In windows 3.11 it works just fine and even i can browse the …

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Re: Samsung Syncmaster 213T - Any good?

Posted on 2021-06-12, 16:38

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by weldum

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it should have a good scaler being a 1600x1200 monitor, very nice for 800x600, the brightness and contrast shouldn't be an issue, but expect washed out black.

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-05-24, 20:21

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SIGIL support is in the to-do list, the problem adding SIGIL support is that it requires uprising some vanilla doom limits, and that makes the executable use more ram memory. ohh i see, i thought the biggest issue was that visplanes limit, but it makes sense as the levels are more complex and …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-05-24, 18:03

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Aaaaand new release!! :D FastDoom 0.8.1 New video modes!! VGA Mode 13h (320x200 256 colors, without page flipping). Same mode as Heretic/Hexen. Only high detail mode is implemented, but it's usually faster than the original Mode Y. Recomended for fast 486 processors and upwards CGA (320x200 4 …

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2021-05-24, 17:52

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Driver support for the different OSs will be annoying. It runs pretty well on Win98- drivers are available for the graphics/sound/network/usb. 2000/XP supposedly work too but I don't have much interest in that really Ndis2 drivers work on MS network client for DOS, I haven't tried the ODI or packet …

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Re: getting bios mouse to work in 98se

Posted on 2021-04-16, 18:22

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by weldum

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yeah i think so, it seems to be extremely crippled for a thin client my other thin client (c7 based) has a full featured bios, even with plug and play support

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Re: getting bios mouse to work in 98se

Posted on 2021-04-14, 00:55

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by weldum

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sorry, I've been busy with work the drivers did install and work okay sadly usb doesn't work, it even doesn't get detected in device manager the board has 2 com headers, I've soldered a couple serial headers but they didn't work, it's simply that windows 98se doesn't detect half of the hardware

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Re: Dxdiag passes everything but says no DirectX features available.

Posted on 2021-03-19, 21:54

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you should try 45.23 at first and go back into older versions, nvidia drivers are optimized better for the current processors in the date of launch, ideally you should use the first driver that supports that gpu, or one a little bit newer.

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Re: getting bios mouse to work in 98se

Posted on 2021-03-18, 00:33

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by weldum

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that's the siv report

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Packard Bell Force 325 add ram

Posted on 2021-03-15, 01:34

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by weldum

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Hi, i have a packard bell force 325 which has currently 4mb of ram, 2mb soldered on board and 2mb in two 1mb simm30 modules. However the motherboard has the markings to solder 4 slots more, making it 8 in total (4 currently populated now) My question is if it would be so simple as to solder a slot …

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Re: getting bios mouse to work in 98se

Posted on 2021-03-07, 17:46

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Unless I read the specs on the Votex86sx wrong it has only USB 2.0 and has 5 serial ports. Checking this: http://www.dmp.com.tw/tech/vortex86sx/ does not list any USB for Win98 driver, only a Win98 NIC driver. My guess is that it will take some major tinkering to get the USB to work under Win98 or …

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Re: getting bios mouse to work in 98se

Posted on 2021-03-07, 16:43

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i'll try, but they seem to be earlier than the native usb drivers for 98se, either way if the device is not detected in device manager, should i force install through the "add new hardware" assistant?

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Re: getting bios mouse to work in 98se

Posted on 2021-03-07, 16:30

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Warlord wrote on 2021-03-07, 16:26: But why not just tell me what chipset it has. well, that's why it has no chipset at all, it's a SoC, everything is on the processor itself, only the ram and the gpu are in different chips. that's why i said it's non-standard...

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Re: getting bios mouse to work in 98se

Posted on 2021-03-07, 16:25

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idk what bios mouse is. Maybe you mean USB Legacy Implementation.... Windows still needs to load a Driver for the mouse for it to work. That is true even if you use a PS2 mouse. Your problem is likely that Windows doesn't see/detect/load and install a driver for the USB controller. So it can't …

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getting bios mouse to work in 98se

Posted on 2021-03-07, 16:12

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hi, i have one of these vortex86sx based thin clients https://i.imgur.com/8Obp5jj.jpg vortex86sx 366mhz 128mb xgi volari z9s 16mb rdc r3060-something fast ethernet nic no serial or ps2 for mouse usb not detected in os (non-standard implementation maybe) i'm trying to get it to play nice with windows …

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Re: Has anyone ever installed windows 7 on a non acpi motherboard? If so how?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 23:39

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you could try, but acpi isn't only a bios thing, the motherboard must support and have all the necessary electronics for it to work clover only "emulates" an uefi environment, so that an os that needs that can boot, or like windows, that needs to be in uefi mode to be able to install it that way

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Re: Has anyone ever installed windows 7 on a non acpi motherboard? If so how?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 23:07

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right, windows xp was the last Microsoft os to support multiple (standard, apm ahci, multiprocessor and so on) hal, whereas in vista and later they only support single and multi processor ahci hal and in 7 is worse still that's not the biggest problem, assuming you can get it to work, you need to …

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Re: Has anyone ever installed windows 7 on a non acpi motherboard? If so how?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 22:41

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i think it's hardcoded to work only on acpi machines, still windows 7 has some problems with pre-pentium pro processors, don't know if is the sp1 that broke compatibility or if it fixes.

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