Re: PCMCIA USB 1.0/2.0 usable in DOS?

Posted on 2019-06-07, 17:34

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Get a PCMCIA compactflash adaptor. I would prefer to not use CF for transferring data to the system, the hard drive itself though will be CF in the future. The Panasonic USB drivers have worked for me on various Intel chipsets. Not sure about PCMCIA adapters though. Accessing network shares via DOS …

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PCMCIA USB 1.0/2.0 usable in DOS?

Posted on 2019-06-07, 15:32

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Hi there! I haven't been on VOGONS in a long while, but in the time that I have been gone I acquired a new toy. A Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT! Unfortunately, it seems that either my USB Floppy Drive for my modern PC or the laptop drive is going out (or alternatively, every single floppy disk I have …

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Re: Windows 98 on CF?

Posted on 2017-06-12, 22:11

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Do you all think that 512MB of RAM is enough with Windows 98 to disable the swap file and not see notable performance hits? I'm not going to be playing many "newer" games, mostly late-era DOS games and some early 3D stuff. The newest stuff would be Shogo on low settings, using the early Lithtech …

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Re: Windows 98 on CF?

Posted on 2017-06-12, 03:03

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Thank you guys for the input. I'm ordering a few CF adapters for my rigs in the next couple of days, including my 5400 LTE laptop that I'm going to do a restoration of! I'll be very interested in seeing how long these last, considering I do intend on using these gaming rigs quite a lot once I have …

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Re: Windows 98 on CF?

Posted on 2017-06-09, 22:13

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Not exactly an expert here, but if you have sufficient RAM memory available- how about creating a virtual drive in RAM and assigning that as a temporary swap file? Windows will recreate the swap file each boot and your read writes to the CF will be kept to a minimum. As to the overall feasibility …

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Windows 98 on CF?

Posted on 2017-06-09, 21:47

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Hello fellow retro enthusiasts! I've got a question that I can't find a super clear answer on that I was hoping someone here would be able to assist with :) I have a Windows 98 PC that has a currently dying hard drive. It's started locking up again, and it is annoying me to the point that I'm …

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Re: Compaq LTE 5400 Restoration Project

Posted on 2017-05-12, 19:41

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Thanks! I will keep your suggestions in mind, and thanks for the link I'll definitely have to put that on when I get this project rolling 😀 the laptop has unfortunately seen better days, but I'm hoping this project will make it shine again!

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Compaq LTE 5400 Restoration Project

Posted on 2017-05-12, 06:57

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Hello all! I have been away from the forums for a while, mostly because I haven't been dabbling much in retro hardware but instead in Linux projects. However, my love for retro had a major resurgence when I bought some pretty cool boxed games, and so I picked up a project I'd started a while ago but …

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Interesting Hardware - 256MB Disk On Chip

Posted on 2017-01-26, 00:10

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Hey Marvin vogons members! So today my dad and I were looking through his cabinet, checking out his retro storage mediums like 8" floppies and zip drives. That's when he handed me something I'd never seen before. This is a disk on chip, which connects to an IDE drive. I haven't researched it or …

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Sound Blaster 16 PnP in Win98 DOS Mode?

Posted on 2017-01-25, 07:03

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Hey guys, yet another problem I'm having with my rig! I've detailed this in a thread a while ago and didn't want to bump that one in fear of breaking any rules, but I'd gone missing from VOGONS for a while after getting tired of the problems this computer was having. Now that I've got The Beast 2.0 …

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Re: Recommend me some parts?

Posted on 2017-01-25, 06:59

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by UltimaPlayer12

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I want to say something that I don't know if anyone else here has repeated, but with Socket 7 and Super Socket 7 builds you have to be careful about hard drive size. I don't know the range of storage my motherboard can support, but I have the Asus P5A in my K6-III 450MHz build and right now I have a …

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Re: My Win98 Gaming Build

Posted on 2017-01-22, 07:42

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Right, so I moved the beast into a new case with a new PSU. Still keeping that vintage look, don't worry! The GPU is installed, no lockups, I can play Shogo on medium detail, Max Payne on mostly low detail with medium textures, Age of Empires II runs flawlessly, and I have yet to test some of my …

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Re: EZ-Drive Dynamic Drive Overlay

Posted on 2017-01-21, 23:47

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by UltimaPlayer12

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I don't know what version of EZ-Drive you guys have in comparison to this, but I found a floppy while digging through my dad's old files that shipped with his WD drive. This one claims to support FAT32, so maybe it could be of use to you all. I made the dump with WinImage, so if you want to write …

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Re: Win98: more than one video card

Posted on 2017-01-21, 20:21

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by UltimaPlayer12

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How it appears "don't play well"? And why to plug two same cards? I don't need it )))))))))))))) Why? What's the goal? Two cards from separate manufacturers don't work well together because of different drivers needing to load. It's that simple. They just don't like each other, even on modern …

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Re: Win98: more than one video card

Posted on 2017-01-21, 17:22

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by UltimaPlayer12

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If you're running two separate GPUs that are not of the same manufacturer, you're going to have problems. This is even a thing to this day. If you are dead set on running two GPUs, get two of the same exact cards and go from there. Windows 98 is probably capable of doing that, but two separate 3D …

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Re: Need For Speed 3 "You Do Not have a DirectX Capable Graphics Card" Win98

Posted on 2017-01-21, 17:03

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Found the patch: http://veg.by/en/projects/nfs3/ Was running it on a modern machine, Windows 10 with Intel graphics and it worked great. Thank you Phil, I will definitely try that once I get my computer running again! I got Large Drive support enabled, now I just have to make it actually work with …

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Re: EZ-Drive Dynamic Drive Overlay

Posted on 2017-01-21, 16:10

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by UltimaPlayer12

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I don't know what version of EZ-Drive you guys have in comparison to this, but I found a floppy while digging through my dad's old files that shipped with his WD drive. This one claims to support FAT32, so maybe it could be of use to you all. I made the dump with WinImage, so if you want to write it …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2017-01-20, 12:24

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Once I get my rig back up and running I intend on enjoying the following in their original glory: Sim City Quake Doom 2 using Doom95 Kings Quest Need For Speed 3 Driver The Oregon Trail (Have NEVER played this but I am so excited to have found a DOS CD for it!) Shogo (Childhood favorite game) Max …

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Re: Need For Speed 3 "You Do Not have a DirectX Capable Graphics Card" Win98

Posted on 2017-01-20, 12:20

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by UltimaPlayer12

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:D Some of these NFS games have portable patches. You basically copy folders from the CD onto the hard drive. Then copy the patch over, and the game then runs directly from the folder and is fully patched. But I'm not sure if it was Porsche, Road Challenge or this one. Once I get it back up and …

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Re: Need For Speed 3 "You Do Not have a DirectX Capable Graphics Card" Win98

Posted on 2017-01-20, 12:04

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by UltimaPlayer12

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Have you patched it? There might be a "modern patch" or something like that. I was just about to do that, and then the 20GB hard drive I had set up on my bench died. So... I grabbed a different drive and I'm in the process of re-installing again... I've done this too many times lately, it's almost …

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