Re: MS-DOS 7 vs 6 - Are there incompatibilities to know about?

Posted on Today, 02:39

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by Gmlb256

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Hm, not sure. I vaguely remember VSHARE from WfW 3.11. The same problem applies to VSHARE because it doesn't work on MS-DOS 7.1 due to kernel incompatibility according to the W3XSTART readme, that's one of the reasons why I don't recommend Windows 3.x in that case. Finding an implementation of …

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Re: MS-DOS 7 vs 6 - Are there incompatibilities to know about?

Posted on Today, 00:47

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by Gmlb256

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+As mentioned in my other post :) From programs.txt: " Share.exe no longer works in MS-DOS mode To support FAT32, SHARE support has been disabled in the real-mode MS-DOS kernel (sharing support is still provided under protected-mode Windows 98). " In the whole world, I'm almost the only person who …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI Issue

Posted on Today, 00:25

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by Gmlb256

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Are you sure that the sli cable brings any voltage that could damage the card? I'm not sure but the floppy drives get the voltage from the berg connector, as the voodoo get the voltage from pci connectors. I think so too and I sincerely doubt that the author of the thread could damage the card in …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI Issue

Posted on Yesterday, 20:15

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by Gmlb256

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Yeah, I've tested the card by itself and it's detected but won't work. I don't want to return it if it's probably my fault. Guess that's what I get for being to excited and not paying attention to what I'm doing... Ok, I assumed that you didn't tested without using the floppy cable. :P Using the …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI Issue

Posted on Yesterday, 18:59

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by Gmlb256

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I don't use SLI with Voodoo2 but try testing both cards separately to see if they are working fine.

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Re: drive c does not contain a valid fat partition even after using Fdisk

Posted on Yesterday, 17:00

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by Gmlb256

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You didn't mention which was the capacity size of that SD card. I have to admit that I am too retarded to ever have managed to put a partition table onto a SD card using an OS from Redmond. Just put the SD card into a modern computer, boot a Linux live CD, set up the partitions and format them (yes, …

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on Yesterday, 15:00

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by Gmlb256

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There are complimentary like 3rd party boot loading managers that can manipulate an co exist with himem and there are alternatives to emm386 basically moving away from microsoft to boot microsoft. I know about third party boot loaders and expanded memory managers (which I don't recommend except …

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on Yesterday, 14:38

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by Gmlb256

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The Win Me dos patch I used (lost it) well its one of those fiddle around replace stuff manually. Windows XP has a bootable floppy option with a hybrid Me dos with himem built in. I manually replaced my 98se DOS boot sector to load this floppy from hard disk instead it never plays up and doesn't …

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Re: How much is it worth? (Vintage 98 System)

Posted on Yesterday, 14:24

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by Gmlb256

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melbar wrote on Yesterday, 08:21: But actually, it is wrong to say you will need 3x times more power... That was dormcat who said that, not me. 😉

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Re: 86box_3.0 / PCem17 - Please help getting a win98 system running for playing old adventure games. (Sound Lag / Speed)

Posted on Yesterday, 14:14

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by Gmlb256

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Basically I would say any game you get off Gog or Steam that is not dos, I would use this "patch" but if you are using original disks, you still need a way to run the install or know how to arrange the datafiles on your drive so the game runs. A decent amount of DOS games from GOG or Steam are …

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Re: How much is it worth? (Vintage 98 System)

Posted on Yesterday, 05:09

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by Gmlb256

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TDP of Pentium III 1400S : 32.2W TDP of a P4-2800 (Northwood, not Prescott) : 68.4W --> 68.4 / 32.2 = 2.12 At least double the power consumption. For a valid answer, i would measure the system with a power meter anyway. TDP is meant for cooling systems and can be quite arbitrary. NetBurst was …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on Yesterday, 02:58

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by Gmlb256

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But then again I haven't really cleaned up id's code (apart from removal of the WOLFHACK 386 stuff), so we'll see. Besides, I don't know what else to add at this point -- I've been playing the game as it is now and thoroughly enjoying it. :D That WOLFHACK stuff was the unused textured floor/ceiling …

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Re: Adlib Tracker II Crashes on Startup + Wolf3D Issues

Posted on 2021-10-17, 22:20

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by Gmlb256

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Mmm, AT2 has another program that is only used for music playback called ADT2PLAY and starts in text mode by default. That one requires using command-line switches for loading a file and the /latency parameter since it doesn't use the INI file.

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Re: Adlib Tracker II Crashes on Startup + Wolf3D Issues

Posted on 2021-10-17, 21:11

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by Gmlb256

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Thank you, I corrected the BLASTER variables and set DOS= to put it in high memory as well, and now the conventional memory bar is completely free in Wolf3D. You're welcome! Setting the blaster variables didn't fix Wolf3D though, so I'm not sure what's going on with that. I'm going to try …

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Re: Adlib Tracker II Crashes on Startup + Wolf3D Issues

Posted on 2021-10-17, 20:43

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by Gmlb256

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Ok, but you still have to fix the BLASTER environment variable. SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 H5 P330 T6 This one is that you will be using for that SB16 sound card. On CONFIG.SYS use DOS=HIGH,UMB instead as HIGH will move some parts of MS-DOS into HMA (not UMB), giving you a bit of conventional memory. …

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Re: Adlib Tracker II Crashes on Startup + Wolf3D Issues

Posted on 2021-10-17, 19:24

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by Gmlb256

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On AT2 did you edit the ADTRACK2.INI file and set opl_latency to 1? I had issues with opl_latency=0, but in my case the program didn't crash and it was on a faster computer. Apart from this, the Vibra16S is a PnP card and you need to get CTCM for initialization in DOS or MS-DOS mode. Besides, the …

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Re: EAX Audio Card Options for Dual Boot Win XP/ WIn 7?

Posted on 2021-10-17, 18:38

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by Gmlb256

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Alchemy is more of a wrapper than emulation, at least if Creative's FAQ is to be believed. It translates DirectSound3D into OpenAL calls, which supposedly still results in hardware accelerated 3D audio. For Creative there are two different OpenAL implementations depending of the sound card which …

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Re: New DOS EGA / VGA / VESA / Glide game in 2021: Dzzee (now also with Win32 OpenGL/Glide version)

Posted on 2021-10-17, 16:29

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by Gmlb256

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About the resolutions: Sure, why not. Attached the two Glide builds (DOS/Windows) that now accept as command-line arguments either "1024x768", "800x600, "640x480" or "320x240" (defaulting to 640x480). You can either type these in the command line or create a batch file: dzew3dfx 1024x768 Or for the …

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Re: K6-2+ Questions

Posted on 2021-10-16, 22:41

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by Gmlb256

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LubieCipy wrote on 2021-10-16, 22:16: What's yours point? Will AoE run faster on K6+ CPU's or what? In that case I just pointing out that there are more 2D Windows games than you think. 😉 Age of Empires games runs fine on both K6plus and P6 based CPUs.

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Re: MS-DOS 7 vs 6 - Are there incompatibilities to know about?

Posted on 2021-10-16, 19:17

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by Gmlb256

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Only problems are applications that are coded to check for dos7.1 and stop running like creative CTCM,CTCU (because they think you are running it from win9x). SETVER (included on a normal Windows 9x installation) can be used to get around the version check of several programs and for CTCM/CTCU …

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