Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!

Posted on 2021-06-17, 02:24

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in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

WinMe sucked on 98SE hardware because everyone had 98SE hardware. 98SE hardware didn't get Me qualified drivers and most pcs were everyday half way through lifecycle stuff. Skipping the 9x era into 2000 - 2007 hardware was the golden era for all win 9x like pentium 4 cpu's They had the unqualified …

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Re: Win9x Quick Slipstreaming Utility

Posted on 2021-06-14, 06:19

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i think the best way to patch 98se and millennium is the batch file example of autopatcher '97 if someone made an updated 98se version with the now R.I.P. R. Loew patches and a version for millennium that would be compatible with oem and retail versions.

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Re: Windows 98 "setup theme" on Windows 98, is that a thing ?

Posted on 2021-06-11, 18:00

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looking for a corner of windowblind themes can't find it 😀

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Re: Fastest pc you have win98 on? (besides emulation)

Posted on 2021-06-03, 03:38

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

3.2ghz pentium 4 socket 478 Prescott 128mb agp 8x ATI/AMD chip based gamebuster GPU (passive cooled) Biostar P4TSV motherboard 2gb pc133 gaming SDRAM (running without paging thanks to public release of R. Loew's patch) 1 tb 7200 RPM SATA running with R. Loew native SATA patch (formatted fat32 single …

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Re: Like Abit VP6 but with 2 ISA slots

Posted on 2021-05-27, 15:46

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They are so old its best to be happy with what you can have as stock because they are old and wouldn't last long modded. I had read countless old threads about my property lasting only a year with tullatins and a bios microcode update being designed for coppermines . A lot of money for a mod of …

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Re: Generic Win98SE Installation & Setup Guide

Posted on 2021-05-22, 15:19

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in Marvin \ Software

I choose Acrobat 5 for two reasons: 1- It's more lightweight than 6, as you mentioned. 2- I do it out of habit. You're right that Sumatra and/or Foxit are probably better choices. I'll look into this later to find what the final Win98SE versions for those are. IE6 SP1 in Win98SE is pointless. As …

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Re: Software for Windows 98

Posted on 2021-05-22, 15:00

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DosFreak wrote on 2016-09-13, 12:18: The below are what I tested back in 2011. Possibly the latest vers work fine with kernelex. […] Show full quote The below are what I tested back in 2011. Possibly the latest vers work fine with kernelex. Gimp 2.6.7 with kernelex Gimp 2.2.17 without Kernelex …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-05-20, 14:44

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

i like those massive 10 bay towers room to breathe and RAID 😀

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Re: Far Cry poor performance WinXP SP3

Posted on 2021-05-20, 14:37

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in Marvin \ Software

SATA disks are faster with text mode drivers installed and a RAID setup for most mid to high end XP games works a treat. Stuff SSD's though cf and tf card adapters don't need trimming.

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2021-05-20, 14:31

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in Marvin \ Software

well, i have vanilla editions of windows xp home oem and pro retail on offer that run on pc's up till 2014 that has everything included thanks to volunteer efforts is that a worthy mention as retro yet? i don't include keys btw.... no posi terminal stuff or web 2.0 included just everything official …

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Re: ABIT VP6 (VIA Apollo Pro 133A)

Posted on 2021-05-13, 04:05

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not finished but working like new. Installing stuff today then zip ties and ribbon cable tucking. The GPU is aN ATI 128mb 8x AGP runs ok in AGP 2X mode motherboard does support 4x sideband. Photo is not recent but its the same unit looking like it did 🤣

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Re: ABIT VP6 (VIA Apollo Pro 133A)

Posted on 2021-05-13, 02:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

2gb PC133 DIMM one printed side ram for games. (LOWEST LATENCY) Settled on windows xp pro. Best for Soundblaster support with a soundfont loader app. Did have a SATA SSD but I don't think it even needs it as much as a P4 i have ready to run. Found a 13 year old, new old stock ATX beige tower. Gots …

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Re: Essential Windows 98SE software and tweaks?

Posted on 2021-05-11, 13:01

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by zapbuzz

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in Marvin \ Software

for extra bling there was windowblinds for 9x and lots of taskbar skins that also covered the start menu flashget download accelerator is still available from CNET can use its site explorer on public FTP

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Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support

Posted on 2021-04-19, 15:26

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in Marvin \ Video

oh windows 3.1? .... Tseng, cirrus logic, trident and maybe SiS and prolly mostly never heard of PCI such as win 9x never heard of PCIe given the scarce supply of 3.x hardware an xp machine with virtual pc 2004 1st edition perhaps it has drivers? snappy hypervisor for windows only.... direct access …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2021-04-19, 13:56

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Well, I have dual p3 @1ghz coppermine system with up to 4x agp (sideband) i gots a radeon sapphire HDMI X1600 DOESN'T hdmi do audio? I will assume best under 2k or xp if it does with this genre *anyhow* I'll post a pic when finished

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Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2021-04-19, 13:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

considering how rare old cpu's are i could never overclock unless it was to stablize clock + power rails and usually thats PSU cause instead (re capping is tedious)

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2021-04-19, 13:05

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll just add everything USB2 on the PCI bus VIA chip based no problems for me 5x86 and up. However slowdowns on 33mhz PCI bus but not on 66mhz Thus if the system has only 33mhz PCI bus your best stuck with USB 1 but USB1 is still useful for usb mouse and keyboard

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Re: Best Midi Player For Dos And Windows

Posted on 2021-04-19, 12:56

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by zapbuzz

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in Marvin \ Sound

for win9x I'd recommend Yamaha softsynth XG100plus installs a software driver and provides a player including mixer and an instrument changing feature that can change on - the-fly as music plays; haven't seen a live instrument changer ever that didn't lag and yamaha nailed it nicely!

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Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2020-12-23, 04:22

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Hi. I have used the 64bit version of the midi player and I like it. I am an old fan of XGEDIT 95 and am waiting for someone to create a successor inspired by it. I use windows 10 with VirtualMIDISynth to load my soundfonts one of which is a Yamaha soundfont. unfortunately xgedit 95 crashes.

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Re: pendrive with exFAT in Win98

Posted on 2020-12-20, 21:02

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the very first introduction of exfat had built in backwards compatibility with fat32 systems. However you couldn't write a file over 4tb in dos windows nor use disk and defrag utilities on exfat partitions. That patch on xp was replaced and there were patches for vista+ the original has since …

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