Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2022-02-16, 15:42

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by vorvek

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I've recently joined this quest, not realising that there isn't such an easy access solution. Bought a couple of CYP products and an OSSC so far and not happy with the gaps in workable resolutions. My OSSC digitizes any VGA input under 1920x1200 I've ever thrown at it. What gaps have you found? …

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Re: New sold Hardware Solution that support capture of the BIOS/ Boot process from VGA output

Posted on 2022-02-15, 15:51

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by vorvek

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Modern capture solutions are digital, so you'll need a way to digitise the output of your 286 or 386. I use an OSSC and a Magewell Pro Capture 4k HDMI, and have no issues capturing anything, be it 70hz or weird resolutions. It's an expensive solution, but previous Magewell cards would work the same, …

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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by vorvek

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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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