Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-08, 11:26

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I'm just waiting for this type of thing to happen in other areas, perhaps like modern cars with software that suddenly is 'unsupported', and then not allowed to be on the road because of percieved 'security issues'. Maybe it's a wet dream for any car manufacturer to link ownership of a car to …

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Re: Jane's AH-64d issue with helicopter sound

Posted on 2023-02-24, 11:49

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What version of the game are you using? It could be you need to find a patch - searching for patches for the Janes AH-64D game indicates the latest patch was v1.08 - this was addressing some engine sound issues specifically. The main v1.08 patches are different for different language versions too, …

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Re: restoring old floppy and cd drives

Posted on 2022-11-06, 15:11

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by Rwolf

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I had one CD with a cracked small nylon gear; it was pressed onto the axle and with time it eventually failed, splitting open between two cogs. Got a replacement from a scrapped drive with same gear size. (An attempt at gluing the original didn't help, as the stress made it crack open again when …

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Re: HDD Led activity on DOS

Posted on 2022-11-06, 14:32

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by Rwolf

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Maybe too little ram, constant swapping - esp if DOS is launched from within windows? Alternately some file compression on the partition in windows that takes place in the background?

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Re: IBM PS/2 Model 70 won't keep configuration, help?

Posted on 2021-11-23, 14:35

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by Rwolf

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Same situation with the SRAM & Vcc? (Since that is where the BIOS settings would be stored) Looks like a bog-standard 2kbyte chip, never seen one break, but who knows?

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Re: IBM PS/2 Model 70 won't keep configuration, help?

Posted on 2021-11-22, 23:03

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by Rwolf

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Trace corrosion as mentioned was present, might cause voltage drops/breaks from the battery to the chips needing it, so maybe check all affected lines/solder points inbetween?

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Re: Roland LAPC-I

Posted on 2021-11-19, 15:10

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by Rwolf

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Jeez...my unicorn needs to be taken out of the stable I guess, haven't used it in ages.

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Re: HP 386 motherboard and what to do with it.

Posted on 2021-06-11, 20:17

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by Rwolf

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It could be one of the early HP Vectra series, based what could be the mobo part number: D2360 - seen on label & copper screen. http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=221 (I have a similar model in that series, but with the CPU & memory on a plugin board, so it is not identical. I did find a …

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Re: Need help reviving this Socket 7 Motherboard

Posted on 2021-06-09, 22:28

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by Rwolf

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Yes, unfortunately some (cheapo fan versions) were unreliable, after some years the fan started wobbling and could get stuck when the washer holding it in place failed. I saw a fair number of those on blades that failed when the fan tried to pull itself off the shaft.

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Re: Need help reviving this Socket 7 Motherboard

Posted on 2021-06-09, 21:00

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by Rwolf

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Intel CPU:s (in my experience) have OK thermal protection, a Pentium would normally just shut down when overheating, but it definitely needs a fan to run, yes. That heatsink looks intended to have a fan mounted, though some cases can have ducts to direct airflow from a system fan over the cpu, and …

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Re: Joystick calibration issues

Posted on 2021-06-01, 15:25

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by Rwolf

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The emulation core stuff: I copied this from the help file in the 'D-Fend Reloaded' frontend; it is a setting in the CPU panel, and then found in the [CPU] section in the DOSBox 'yourgame.conf' file specific for your game as 'core=normal' if specifically selected (default is 'auto' which equals to ' …

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Re: Joystick calibration issues

Posted on 2021-05-30, 22:23

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Well, I've not been 'infected' by Win10 yet, but there seems to be some hidden controls for calibrating it; e.g. this steam discussion describes how to get access to stick calibration and specifically deadzone setup might affect the drifting issue. https://steamcommunity.com/app/359320/discussions …

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Re: is there a way i can determine is a file is faulty or just has some old copy protection on it? - regarding Falcon di

Posted on 2021-05-29, 21:54

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That looks wierd...it's been long since I looked at assembler code now, but you have a stack overflow, and there are no segments setup yet, all are zero. This game was for 8086 I read, the next version FalconAT for 80286, but lowest DOSbox machine type is 386 I think? Maybe some quirky 8086 init …

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Re: City Beneath the Surface

Posted on 2019-03-09, 16:05

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As a side-note, LOADFIX is something I have trouble using in the D-Fend Reloaded frontend; if I enable it I get an 'illegal command' when the game executable is launched using the normal script; I can launch it ok from the command prompt and then the game, but it seems it is not recognized (as an …

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Re: Star Trek A Final Unity - Mouse and sound issue

Posted on 2019-01-27, 17:57

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by Rwolf

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I just tried this game in DosBox, and for me it works fine, no mouse/sound problems (other than some minor skips when loading new dialogue, then background sounds stops temporarily, could probably be fixed by increasing cpu cycles.) My sound settings are the same as 'ash403638'; using dosbox 0.74 …

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Re: Star Trek A Final Unity - Mouse and sound issue

Posted on 2019-01-25, 22:40

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by Rwolf

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Are you using identical dma channels? Normally DOS used low dma 1-3 and high dma 5-7 for the SB-16 depending on what other hardware was in your computer. (I have the game somewhere in storage, but I have not tried it in DOSbox, so I hope this is the problem. If not I can dig it out to try.)

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Re: [Solved] Sound Canvas support in Wolfsbane

Posted on 2018-10-03, 21:02

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Odd...I had that game once, maybe I can find it again and check it out. edit: I located my old backup, and checked it out - it only supports Soundblaster series (type1,2,3,4 - Soundblaster, Soundblaster 2, Soundblaster Pro, Soundblaster 16), Adlib, PC speaker, and a Soundblaster clone: Media Vision …

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Re: Terra Nova Strike Force Centauri setup

Posted on 2018-06-14, 12:51

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by Rwolf

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The GM midi switch to Roland SSC-1 is described in the readme.txt on the CD: 4) If you select General MIDI in the Choose New Card menu, the display in the lower left will read "Roland SCC1". Don't worry. This is supposed to happen. Also the hires mode is described in the readme, you might need more …

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Re: Tie Fighter: Defender of the Empire bug

Posted on 2018-05-26, 15:51

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by Rwolf

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It turns out the three mentioned files are not the only ones that were affected - it seems the addon installer compares the date of each file with whatever is in the update archive before copying over it, and there were other files like STRINGS.DAT and a mix of resource files also being updated this …

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Re: Tie Fighter: Defender of the Empire bug

Posted on 2018-05-12, 13:32

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by Rwolf

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Very interesting, thanks for taking the effort of digging into this. I'll see if I can extract the proper files for the update from the DotE floppies and replace the older ones manually. Thanks for the suggestion. Yes, the Missile Boat should not be available without a proper career, which is one of …

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