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Re: Original IBM EGA card repair thread

Using EGA on that PC requires a specific BIOS version; dated 10/27/82 There is a note about a bug in this BIOS with under-populated RAM banks which can cause the beeps, at the very bottom of the page: https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5150/misc/5150_motherboard_switch_settings.htm But I guess you …

Re: Original IBM EGA card repair thread

It could be the Network card has a simplified IO address decoder, there is sometimes not a full address decoder implemented in the hardware, so extra address ranges could be overlapping without being properly documented - I've seen that on some boards. Any known conflicts could perhaps be found on …

Re: Original IBM EGA card repair thread

There are some switches you must set on both the PC & XT system board when using the EGA on the older systems. Page 79 in the link below. https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/oa/OA%20-%20IBM%20Enhanced%20Graphics%20Adapter.pdf (Memories...that EGA card was ordered with the first IBM/AT @6MHz , no less, …

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

in Milliways
Odd...the Ubi Connect I have has been working for me so far - updated today & still seems ok; I know it claims to require Win8 now, but for my Win7/64 it still works somehow. (I do expect it and all other game portals to drop Win7/8/9/etc eventually, but then I haven't purchased a game needing these …

Re: Fax Modem Software

WinFax seems to have been popular back in the day; I'm not sure that can be found nowadays. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFax Or you can look in Simtels archives, they have some free software for faxing: http://www.lanet.lv/simtel.net/win95/fax.html (I had thought the fax was a long dead item, …

Re: dgVoodoo2 for Windows Vista?

Maybe entirely unrelated, and I'm not sure which of the SC games included it was now, but back in the day I bought a "splinter cell trilogy" bundle, and one of the games refused to run on my then top-of-the-line XP64 system; I think it was something related to the DRM that differed between the three …

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

in Milliways
I guess it depends on the method Steam uses to identfy the O/S? There may be actual functionality missing or changed in an older O/S that Steam needs to use, so that would have to be re-implemented separately. Equally, missing obsoleted functions may also stop older games running on a new O/S. Some …

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