Windows 98 Mouse Cursor in the center of screen during gameplay

Posted on 2020-07-26, 19:37

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by vorvek

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I have a Pentium III machine with a Riva TNT2 Ultra that works alright with Windows 98SE. It doesn't give me many headaches, except for the fact that while playing Dungeon Keeper 2 every time there's a resolution switch (going to the menu, watching a cutscene), there's a high chance that I'll get …

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Re: AWE64 with External MIDI

Posted on 2020-06-04, 15:41

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I'll add another thing that might be helpful and makes me think it's not just a matter of the MIDI output being silenced; I'm using MDF to change presets in Midi Player 5 and according to the computer with the AWE64 in it, the 5 bytes are being sent. However, the computer where I have Midi Player 5 …

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AWE64 with External MIDI

Posted on 2020-06-04, 15:36

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I've been trying to get external MIDI to work with an AWE64 value (CT4520) for hours. I had a non-PNP SB16 card in this system with an ESS AudioDrive that I was using as a MIDI port, but this configuration gave me some problems in W95, so I moved to a single AWE64 Value. I don't care too much about …

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Re: Screen calibration under DOS

Posted on 2020-02-29, 15:54

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by vorvek

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I ended up using CheckIt, but this look more like what I had in mind. Thanks!

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Screen calibration under DOS

Posted on 2020-02-26, 09:52

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I used to have a program that had several test patterns in a few VGA modes including text mode that was very helpful for calibrating the OSSC I'm using to digitize the VGA output of my retro computers. I can't seem to find it anymore; I was pretty sure I got it from Vogons, but searching yields …

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Re: What are these pins for?

Posted on 2020-02-19, 15:45

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Ah, cool, so it will work without the need to plug anything there. I know the drive is not very fast, but I was going to throw it in a 486. It should be fast enough for 1990-1994 DOS, I'd hope! I also have a 1GB Samsung drive, but that one feels a bit less interesting. The computer came with a 125MB …

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What are these pins for?

Posted on 2020-02-19, 01:56

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Hello, I have a Conner CFS425A hard drive I want to install in one of my machines and it has these three pins in the back of which I don't know the function. https://i.imgur.com/vWNK2mC.jpg At first I thought they would be related to channel select, but that's done with these other pins at the front …

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Re: AGP vs PCIe

Posted on 2020-02-03, 14:15

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by vorvek

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Nice. That's what I wanted to know. Thank you.

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Re: AGP vs PCIe

Posted on 2020-02-03, 13:55

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by vorvek

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So there are some features that AGP has that games can use that they won't use if I go PCIe. Are these performance related, as in, will I be missing out some graphics stuff if I go PCIe?

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-02-03, 13:42

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Almoststew1990 wrote on 2020-02-01, 20:12: Does anyone know a way to screen capture on XP? I tried OBS but it wanted to use DX10 and needed Vista or greater for that. I'm currently trying Afterburner... Maybe try OBS Classic? OBS Studio came out way later.

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Re: AGP vs PCIe

Posted on 2020-02-03, 13:35

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So PCIe and AGP are only a matter of performance? I'm not trying to run Windows 9x anymore in this machine, I just don't want to find out that some game used some AGP specific thing that will make it not display correctly with a PCIe card. I don't recall this ever happening to me back in the day, …

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AGP vs PCIe

Posted on 2020-02-03, 12:45

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So, I've recently built an early Windows XP machine that originally I was going to have dual booting with Windows Me. This last part didn't work out, but since I have already a few other machines running Windows 95 and Windows 98 it doesn't matter too much. Anyway, the motherboard I'm using has both …

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Re: Shutting down computer after installing a network card

Posted on 2020-01-23, 15:50

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Interesting! I'll check that out when I get home.

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Re: Shutting down computer after installing a network card

Posted on 2020-01-22, 18:32

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The w95 machine is already using an Intel NIC 😔

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Re: Shutting down computer after installing a network card

Posted on 2020-01-22, 11:53

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I never solved this problem with W98 patches in the day, but the workaround was remove inactive network cards. Shutdown didn't hang if the box was connected to a live network. But they are connected to my home network :\ As I said, W98 might be working fine now, and the first few times where it …

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Re: Shutting down computer after installing a network card

Posted on 2020-01-22, 11:10

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Deksor wrote on 2020-01-18, 14:04: Which brand made your NICs ? D-Link 530tx in the W98 machine and Intel Pro 100S in the W95 machine. The W98 computer seems to be behaving a bit better, however.

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Re: Shutting down computer after installing a network card

Posted on 2020-01-18, 01:31

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by vorvek

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Most of the patches seem to be for W98; do those work for W95 as well?

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Shutting down computer after installing a network card

Posted on 2020-01-17, 20:48

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by vorvek

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Hello friends. I've recently installed a bunch of network cards in my old PCs setting up a subnet for them to share files easily. While overall I'm very happy with the results, trying to shut down the W95 and W98 has become a nightmare, particularly the former. Both computers will kind of "hang" …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-01-14, 15:08

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Hello guys ! I've buy myself a VGA2USB (the red one) lately, and for some reason, I can't acquire more than 14fps ... I'm making my tests on machine equipped with a Matrox Mystique, and the VGA2USB is connected to an USB3.0 port on my PC (Windows 7 64b, Core i5 6600 + 16Gb + Geforce 1080, might do …

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Re: Your favorite Floppy software for modern OSs?

Posted on 2020-01-12, 03:06

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by vorvek

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Rawwrite seems to work quite well. Nice!

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