Re: What games do actually run on a 80286 with 16Mhz?

Posted on 2021-10-25, 14:31

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by Roger Wilco

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks to all for the answers!! Nice to read about your experiences with the 286s. Now I am really looking forward buying the machine 😁 rmay635703 wrote on 2021-10-22, 14:03: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_ZEWvokp3o That's the computer in question. <3

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Re: What games do actually run on a 80286 with 16Mhz?

Posted on 2021-10-20, 23:52

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by Roger Wilco

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think most 1992 games would be fine.... Thanks for your answer. I cant play with slow fps, so I would never play anything like X-Wing on a system like that. It allready was like that for me back in the days, I preferred low detail with full fps a lot over full graphics with low fps... But I would …

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What games do actually run on a 80286 with 16Mhz?

Posted on 2021-10-20, 23:01

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by Roger Wilco

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Hello Vogons, I found the first PC I ever saw and played games with on the Internet....my beloved uncles old highscreen, a 286, 16 Mhz, I guess 1MB of RAM. Seeing a picture of this model allready was super flashy, as I couldn't remember, how it looked. I am now thinking of buying it for about 150 …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! Drive in MSDOS

Posted on 2021-09-27, 22:10

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by Roger Wilco

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That was me, didn't know whether you were using two sound cards or not. I apologize for the inconvenience. It was about a mixer software for SB Live! and Audigy for DOS and they don't need the drivers (which requires EMM) to work. Cool, I will definitely try this out, thanks a lot. An SB16 would be …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! Drive in MSDOS

Posted on 2021-09-27, 16:25

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by Roger Wilco

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I didn't try it in pure DOS, but the SB Live 5.1 and SB Audigy 1 both need to run some init process with the Live Drive. My use case was tapping into the additional pins for the external IO bracket at the back to connect an MX-300's SPDIF out pins to the Live drive so I could have both EAX and A3D …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! Drive in MSDOS

Posted on 2021-09-27, 16:20

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by Roger Wilco

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Ydee wrote on 2021-09-26, 12:04: I don't have SB Live! drive in DOS, but can't set it in SBEMIXER.EXE? http://index-of.co.uk/Hardware/MANUAL000010556.pdf I have tried it and the other little programs, too, there is no option for the drive, I also can't see it in the manual.

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Sound Blaster Live! Drive in MSDOS

Posted on 2021-09-26, 09:18

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by Roger Wilco

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Oi Vogons, I recently purchased a Sound Blaster Live! Platinum package, to finally get hold of that nice drive with headphone jack on the front. The card number is SB0060 and the drive is SB0010C...the 5.1 version. But when loading the driver (sbeinit) in DOS, the drive shuts off and everything …

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Best network cards for MSDOS / Win98

Posted on 2021-06-18, 07:45

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by Roger Wilco

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello Vogons, after years, I have my setup of old computers ready and want to make my first LAN party ("first" after quite some time ;-) ). The computers are from around 1998 - 2000, running MSDOS or optionally Win98. I am using Soundblasters, Voodoo graphics, ... you name it. Now I am missing the …

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Memory management / cwsdpmi kills sound driver (MS-DOS 7.1)

Posted on 2020-10-19, 08:13

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by Roger Wilco

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Cheers Vogons, I am currently configuring an arcade cabinet, running Ms-Dos, with several frontends and emulators, and a jukebox program. All these different options can be accessed with an old school text menu. The problem: everything runs fine and stable after a fresh reboot, but when I run …

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Re: Freedos vs Dos 6.22

Posted on 2019-11-08, 18:48

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by Roger Wilco

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I am using this in an Arcade Machine that runs dmame. It's been a while I did some things with that apart from playing, but iirc, you can also install from USB sticks. But you have to mount the stick during boot, its not hot plugable while the machine is on. edit: it just came to my mind, that I am …

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Re: DOSBox in fullscreen disables second monitor

Posted on 2019-09-05, 22:27

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by Roger Wilco

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I had similar issues when connecting a CRT to my laptop, for the good old brain melt. It took a while to figure out, how to get the fullscreen dosbox working on the CRT. No problems with window mode. I tried a LOT of settings, in both Linux and Dosbox, but the fullscreen always appeared on the main …

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Re: Impulse Tracker 2.14 and SB16 (DOSBox 0.74-2)

Posted on 2019-06-04, 09:56

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by Roger Wilco

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btw. - you might be interested in this: http://schismtracker.org/

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Re: Impulse Tracker 2.14 and SB16 (DOSBox 0.74-2)

Posted on 2019-06-04, 01:42

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by Roger Wilco

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Yes, it is working. Tried with normal Dosbox v0.74 and IT 2.14. Running latest stable Debian.

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 15:11

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by Roger Wilco

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OP allready knew about choice having more than 10 possiblities. It's a quite lengthy discussion in the reddit link posted. It's all a little confusing, tbh. So I suggested using Freedos, as set / p offers more freedom and OP allready seemed to know at least something about it. For whatever that …

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 00:37

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by Roger Wilco

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Mount Freedos folder, RUN COMMAND there, run your bat file.

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 00:33

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by Roger Wilco

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Its simple. Download Freedos. Mount the folder containing Freedos, so that you can see it in Dosbox. Start the command.com of Freedos in Dosbox by typing command in the Freedos folder. You will see "FreeCom version 0.84.." and so on written there. That's your new freedos shell. All is the same as …

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 00:20

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by Roger Wilco

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You run the Freedos shell inside Dosbox, then you can start your bat file with set /p working in Dosbox.

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 00:13

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by Roger Wilco

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I wrote a lot of batch files as well and set/p works with Freedos, I just checked. Download it and start a shell in Dosbox by typing command in the Freedos folder. @echo off echo Please choose an option echo. echo 1. echo 2. echo 3. echo. set /p choice=Your choice? if '%choice%'=='1' goto 1 if '% …

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-19, 23:42

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by Roger Wilco

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Have you tried with Freedos shell? http://www.freedos.org/ set /p should work to some extend, iirc.

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-03-19, 03:45

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by Roger Wilco

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Success :blush: Just in case, another Debian noob reads this: I had to: apt install libsdl1.2-dev Then I ran across the ....mt32... error discussed a few pages back during make. Installing Scummvm didn't fix it. I had to install these two debs libmt32emu-2.3.0.deb libmt32emu-dev-2.3.0.deb from here: …

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