Re: linux help

Posted on 2024-09-06, 17:30

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i will say that normal dosbox runs games better than dosbox-x in my experience on my netbook, might try again and play with settings and tweak in future but for linux, web browsing isn't as a deal breaker but would be handy to save sneakerneting but if that need to be done then that no issue either. …

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Re: linux help

Posted on 2024-09-03, 19:39

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I wonder if there are many who agree. Is browsing the web among the most hardware-intensive tasks you can do on a modern computer? Browsing the web and other web-adjacent things, e.g. electron apps, absolutely. Look at the memory usage of web browser tabs and electron apps. Biggest reason a …

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Re: linux help

Posted on 2024-09-03, 19:35

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i have thought using freedos with netbook with sbemu and will look into that aswell

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Re: linux help

Posted on 2024-09-03, 19:32

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I suggest Linux Mint. It's easy to get into, has less problems operating and has the familiar Windows feel. Plus the forum community is quite helpful and friendly. Though, I did see problems installing on some machines, but generally it just works. Once you are familiar with the Linux ecosystem, …

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Re: linux help

Posted on 2024-09-02, 21:25

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i think this where i got lost as there is so many different versions of linux and looking for something that is lightwight, run smooth and fast ish but also modern ish where it still supported and easy update-able also looking to be geared towards gaming and wanting to doing on either my netbook or …

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Re: linux help

Posted on 2024-09-02, 21:01

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i think this where i got lost as there is so many different versions of linux and looking for something that is lightwight, run smooth and fast ish but also modern ish where it still supported and easy update-able also looking to be geared towards gaming and wanting to doing on either my netbook or …

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linux help

Posted on 2024-09-02, 18:07

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hello all i don't where this would go as i can not see a linux part of this website i am a complete beginner to linux and never used it before, i am aware there is loads of linux distros but looking to try and also if there is any that noob, beginner friendly . also look for a distro or two to run a …

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Re: is there a modern dosbox Frontend - Netbook

Posted on 2024-09-02, 17:57

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thank you and i will look into this, just to bad my netbook doesn't support boot from sd card as it has an sd card slot but it does support usb booting.

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Re: is there a modern dosbox Frontend - Netbook

Posted on 2024-08-20, 18:00

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A CPU like that is always going to be sluggish with DOSBox, regardless of which version you use. ok ok, thanks for letting me know and i have tried a few games already and run fine and smoothly when compare to my 486 pc i would use freedos on this netbook but i don't think realtek sound chip is …

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Re: is there a modern dosbox Frontend - Netbook

Posted on 2024-08-20, 17:58

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Not sure what you're actually asking for but: Use the latest version of the official version of DOSBox from sourceforge with an older version of DBGL that works with the version of Java that works on XP with either the last official working version of Oracle Java for XP or the last version of …

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is there a modern dosbox Frontend - Netbook

Posted on 2024-08-20, 14:46

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Hello all I have a netbook - Samsung NP NC-10 Specs CPU - Intel Atom @1.6ghz Graphics - Intel GMA 950 OS - Windows XP Home RAM - 2Gb HDD - 128GB SSD i was wondering if there is a modem dosbox frontend that is maintained that will run smoothly within these specs and on XP i did try dosbox-x, which …

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Re: Super Socket 7 Build - My "new" Windows 95 Build

Posted on 2023-09-03, 08:40

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This thread made me remember my AT case with a Socket 7 board that had a Pentium 200 MMX CPU in it. Unfortunately it broke down and I got rid of it way before I got the "retro hardware" bug. The case was somewhat similar to this one, but if you asked me what motherboard was in it, I wouldn't …

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Re: Super Socket 7 Build - My "new" Windows 95 Build

Posted on 2023-09-02, 17:31

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So you've finally decided to have a stronger CPU (I remember that you've asked for something faster than V1 and TNT2 M64 for your P233). Good choice. Have you noticed any issues with TNT? Some people says that AGP cards cause often troubles on SS7 ALI/VIA mobos. i did have to downgrade the clock …

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Re: Super Socket 7 Build - My "new" Windows 95 Build

Posted on 2023-09-02, 13:54

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-09-02, 13:40: Setting the display to the actual MHz was a nice touch! did that takes lots of trial and error, or did you find some documentation? thank you and it was trial and error and moving the jumpers around until it said the actual mhz, took about 5 mins 😀

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Super Socket 7 Build - My "new" Windows 95 Build

Posted on 2023-09-02, 13:30

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This is the new version of "my first vintage pc build (Win95)" after building my 486 build and slowly realised that that my original win95 build was basically the best it was gonna be and pretty much a more powerful version of my 486 build and deciding to upgrade the mobo/cpu etc and have something …

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Re: imac g3 - extended time manager

Posted on 2023-08-16, 15:52

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CrFr wrote on 2023-08-15, 19:41: I tried that game on my beige G3 233MHz tower with OS 9.2.2 and it ran just fine. So the OS version can't be the problem. thank you, at least is not an os issue, one ruled out 😀

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Re: imac g3 - extended time manager

Posted on 2023-08-15, 18:40

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Time Manager The Time Manager provides millisecond and microsecond timing facilities for Mac OS based computers. It was discovered that the Extended Time Manager was not drift free when used to scheduling regular interrupts for periods beyond 24 days. This condition has been corrected, and the …

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imac g3 - extended time manager

Posted on 2023-08-15, 12:48

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hello all i know the it says this for old pc hareware but hoping someone could help i have an old imac g3 (early 2001) model with mac os 9.2.2 i am been trying to some old games but the is one that i can not get working on imac g3 the game is are you afraid of the dark the tale of orpheo's curse the …

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Re: Asus USB/MIR

Posted on 2023-07-24, 14:46

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Got the USB/MIR 1.11 board and modded it. As expected, it works perfectly. Only did PS/2 since I got no use for IR, and no way to test it :) - Prepared the board by removing solder from the holes that were going to be populated. Used regular solder wick and some additional flux. - Bridged the L2 …

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Re: Asus USB/MIR

Posted on 2023-07-20, 13:02

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by Robhalfordfan

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thank you to everyone for advice and helping and maybe a small future project :D hopefully hear back from kaputnik and see how his theory goes :D Got the USB/MIR 1.11 board and modded it. As expected, it works perfectly. Only did PS/2 since I got no use for IR, and no way to test it :) - Prepared …

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