Re: What is the funniest error message you have seen on an old PC ?

Posted on 2025-06-12, 22:33

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by Rwolf

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was digging up a retired development system from storage with the intent to check on some old code. To be safe I tried to make a backup of the reference floppies before editing, but always got 'Error 30' after the copy finished. The system manual did not list any error 30, so I started searching …

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Re: Delta Force: Xtreme multiplayer?

Posted on 2025-06-09, 15:56

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I just installed my DF:X game to see if it works, but it seems this game has no standalone LAN option, unlike JO which can use a LAN without the lobby, but DF:X is only multiplayer over internet or LAN by first going through the Novalogic lobby, so I think this is a dead game once that lobby goes …

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Re: Delta Force: Xtreme multiplayer?

Posted on 2025-06-07, 23:42

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Yes, you don't connect through the Novalogic lobby, but connect directly to the servers. (The LAN servers are separate from the Novalogic lobby connected ones, you can only see the LAN hosts.) You do need the IP:s or DNS names for the hosts to add to a host list in the BattleNet app. (The Battle net …

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Re: Delta Force: Xtreme multiplayer?

Posted on 2025-06-06, 16:47

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Novalogic games that have a LAN option can be accessed by tunneling, which is useful when Nova's login servers are down. You still need a LAN server hosted somewhere and some way to connect over internet unless you only play locally. For LAN over the internet, I usually use Blizzard's Battlenet app …

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Re: win16.page - A new site archiving 16-bit Windows freeware/shareware/demos of commercial games (and more!)

Posted on 2025-06-05, 15:27

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For the rather short WinG games list, I can add Coktel Visions 'The Last Dynasty', an adventure with some interspersed space-battles, running on Windows 3.1 - I think this was the first game I encountered with WinG v1.0 included. There are two demos, one non-interactive and one playable: https:// …

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Re: DOSBox Game Launcher (DOSBox Frontend)

Posted on 2025-05-28, 12:56

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by Rwolf

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I've not used the GamesDB myself, but maybe you need to register from their main page first, unless the forum is a separate thing.

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Re: Rare and lost demo/shareware releases wanted list

Posted on 2025-05-21, 22:12

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There is also a 'Mostly Harmless' (Elite mod) for the game Freelancer on Moddb, but that is not for DOS.

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Re: Original IBM CGA card repair

Posted on 2025-05-20, 22:59

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by Rwolf

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Check the signal levels with an analogue scope, if you have one. Sometimes the voltages are not decoded right by these chips, if there are poor solder/wire connections or it could be picking up short spikes/glitches along the signal path. The logic analyzer may show the levels differently than the …

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Re: Need help indentifying 386SX MB

Posted on 2025-05-16, 13:17

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by Rwolf

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It' might be some prototype or clone of Commodore's PC efforts; the layout has some similarities with this motherboard: https://www.commodore-info.com/foto/computer_pc386_25_04.jpg Also I see OSC4 seems to be missing; RAM refresh clock maybe?

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Re: An odd behavior with floppies

Posted on 2025-05-10, 17:09

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does that PC really support 1.44 MB floppies in the BIOS setup? I'm not that sure about these PS/2 models, but I had an external 3.5" drive from IBM in my older IBM-AT which only supported 720kB disks. (DD, not HD)

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Re: Has anyone gotten Privateer 2 "DARKFIX" to work on their Windows 7?

Posted on 2025-05-06, 18:11

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Yes, opengl works as well. (I found the Spoony review of the game accurate...it was long enough ago that I had forgotten most of the bugs.) I saw this old (2023) news from wcnews: https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16325 Even though the corny videos are most of the enjoyment in this game IMO, the …

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Re: Has anyone gotten Privateer 2 "DARKFIX" to work on their Windows 7?

Posted on 2025-05-06, 11:03

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by Rwolf

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It seems I needed to change more things, not just the cycles setting, but also using DDRAW rendering instead of surface rendering. The normal DOSBox seems to also work fine now (with videos&sound) - this with the original striped videos of course, only the fixed Windows version has video smoothed. …

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Re: Has anyone gotten Privateer 2 "DARKFIX" to work on their Windows 7?

Posted on 2025-05-05, 13:52

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Well, I did run the CPU at max cycles in normal DOSbox, v0.74 - that did not help, the videos never passed the splash screen (or the 'Intel Inside' splash, if I forced a pentium cpu type), regardless of the speed. I'll try dosbox-x later, I have it installed but it's not setup for my frontend yet,so …

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Re: Has anyone gotten Privateer 2 "DARKFIX" to work on their Windows 7?

Posted on 2025-05-02, 16:05

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(I know this is a bit necro, but anyway...) I was trying to get my old CD version of Privateer 2 up and running again, and I'm using Win7/64bit for this; in DOSBox my PC was not powerful enough for the intro videos, but with the latest official + the unofficial patch, the game works in Win7 using …

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Re: Can anyone identify this ancient scifi adventure game?

Posted on 2025-04-28, 17:33

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I tried to make a filter on mobygames browser page for this, to me it seems it could be primarily a text-adventure, which sometimes had simple illustrations, depending on the platform. Maybe something like 'Gruds in Space', even though that game does not seem to kill off the player that quickly - if …

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Re: Can anyone identify this ancient scifi adventure game?

Posted on 2025-04-26, 17:29

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A game bundle with four interlinked parody games; 'Imagination' - one of the included titles '2002 - A Very Odd Day in Space' has somewhat similar screenshots like you describe. (Still a longshot). https://www.mobygames.com/game/19586/imagination/

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Re: Can anyone identify this ancient scifi adventure game?

Posted on 2025-04-25, 22:23

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by Rwolf

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Mission Critical? (probably not - it is mouse controlled)

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2025-04-15, 13:43

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by Rwolf

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Well, I'm glad for it, because I had only the earlier release, and got stuck when my guide refused to move on after a long fight/run; a known bug for which the only recourse was to replay the ordeal from start (it autosaves) and hope the bug did not occur again. This bug was claimed to be fixed in …

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Re: Help me identify this 486 system

Posted on 2025-04-13, 21:22

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by Rwolf

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Somewhat similar motherboard layout to this one: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/V/V … 86-ASIC-II.html

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Re: Got a Bargain MT-32 (Firmware 1.07) for $224—But It’s Been Frankensteined into a Server Rack! Help Me Restore It!

Posted on 2025-03-06, 13:38

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by Rwolf

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

There should be the same internals, only another top cover & front panel moved. (right knob slightly smaller I think someone wrote). (Some sellers calls the model 'rare' from what I see. I guess it depends on the use-case what you need.) https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/roland-mt-32-sound- …

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