A good KVM with serial mouse input?

Posted on 2025-06-11, 21:16

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by kikendo

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I am looking to get a KVM but the catch is that I need to connect a serial trackball to it. I mostly see PS/2 connectors for both keyboard and mice. Does such a thing exist? Alternatively, are there adapters to use serial mice on PS/2 ports? All the info I find is to go the other way around (and I …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-06-11, 21:07

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by kikendo

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Yeah sorry, I promise I'll get to it soon(ish) if only what passes for life would stop getting in the way :) Apart from my modern printer / flatbed combo, the only scanners I have left are the Logitech ScanMan Color and their later PageScan USB. No worries! I just bought a Scanman Color 2000 myself …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-06-09, 14:53

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by kikendo

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I'll be checking mine in the next day or two, so will throw it on a 9x test rig and report back. Have you made any progress with this? in the meantime, I couldn't control myself and ordered another scanner 🤣 it's not as pretty, but it may be a bit easier to get working with my rig, especially …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-06-03, 14:45

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by kikendo

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I was looking again at this problem and realize by staring at this pic I posted befiore: https://i.imgur.com/NslGEjJ.jpeg Besides the wrong green color all over, there's a lot of weird patterning going on, on parts that are supposed to be a flat color, like the background. Maybe the scanner is …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-23, 20:42

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by kikendo

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Pretty sure this woks fine on some flavour of Win 9x...checked my archives and I can still see my scanner program group from Jan 96 (long since stopped using 3.x by then) with links to the FotoTouch Color (ftcolor.exe) and FTGRAY (touch.exe) apps. I'll be checking mine in the next day or two, so …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-16, 13:30

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by kikendo

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I'm surprised, as well. I once had a similar handy scanner by Mustek. It had shipped Windows 3.1 drivers that still worked on 98SE and XP (!) That's very interesting, because Windows XP runs everything 16-Bit in NTVDM/WoW. Only explanation that comes to mind is that TWAIN drivers are no real " …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-16, 13:11

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by kikendo

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This is all great info, who would have thought it could be so problematic. I am not entirely sure, though, that my Pentium III machine will be able to run Windows 3.11 though. My other option is a PII, so I am shit out of luck. I have long gotten rid of my 386 machines. Need to see how to figure …

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Re: PII-450 vs PIII-550, which would you keep?

Posted on 2025-05-16, 12:59

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by kikendo

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I guess both CPUs are SLOT-1. Swap the 450 for 550 and you're set. Better CPU and two ISA slots. From my testing the new machine these days, there are a lot of games that work way too fast on the 550. I haven't been able to test pure DOS mode yet because I ran into a sound config issue, but I …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-16, 00:15

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by kikendo

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OK, but supposedly, Windows 9x is supported, so why would Logitech release drivers that don't work correctly on Windows 9x? I don't have a Windows 3.11 setup to test now, but if I wanted to use Windows 3.11, I wouldn't be here. I downloaded a DOS driver from the links posted above but I have no …

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SB16 emulation for DOS on Live! stopped working out of nowhere

Posted on 2025-05-16, 00:13

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by kikendo

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I don't know what happened but the SB16 emulation for DOS on my Windows 98 setup just stopped working. I get a "run-time error R6000" and SBEINIT will not work. I tried using SBESET and changing values, always the same result. It works fine in a DOS box under Windows 98.

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-14, 21:25

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by kikendo

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Jo22 wrote on 2025-05-14, 19:36: Tip: As a workaround, try Windows 3.1x. 😀 And use 16 or 256c display driver. Windows for Workgroups has Super VGA drivers and they work as intended, although them being unaccelerated. What does that have to do with the scanner acquiring images wrongly?

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Re: PII-450 vs PIII-550, which would you keep?

Posted on 2025-05-14, 19:34

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by kikendo

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If you really have to choose, keep the p2-450. This cpu stands for the final pentium 2, the highest clocked and fastest available. It has cost somebody a little fortune. The p3-550 isn't top notch in its generation, thats the 600. So less speciaal. Besides, both are basically the same cpu …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-14, 19:20

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by kikendo

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Thanks to Horun's help, I managed to get this working without ruining my (new) Windows 98 installation! However I think the scanner is broken, the images look all green and weird. https://i.imgur.com/NslGEjJ.jpeg Seems like I have been sold a dud, maybe I can get another one, but this time, I'd get …

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Re: PII-450 vs PIII-550, which would you keep?

Posted on 2025-05-14, 13:27

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by kikendo

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DOS games from about 1993 and onward. Speed sensitive games in that era tend to be the exception not the rule. Exactyl, these are the games I like and play, I don't really ever play anything older. The only exception which I can never get to run, is wing Commander, that game is really picky about …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-14, 13:16

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by kikendo

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This is all excellent info. Thank you! I just wrecked my Windows 98 install after installing the fucking 16 bit drivers 🤣 so after I manage to install Windows again (it's giving me an unusually hard time on this machine!) I will try these solutions and report back. This morning I was thinking that I …

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Re: Horizontal (brightness?) bleeding on Nvidia TNT2 64

Posted on 2025-05-14, 13:13

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by kikendo

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A general consensus is that the DAC is dying or just degraded severely enough, so high amount of sharp transitions like on the contrast B/W text makes it unable to keep up the steady levels, and it dips below the reference values. It gets the most ugly when a checkerboard pattern is shown, like …

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Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-13, 23:04

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by kikendo

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I got a Logitech Scanman Color with its own ISA card interface, and I am unable to get it work with the included software that I got with it , which is clearly made for Windows 3.x Does anyone know if this beast has drivers made specifically for Windows 9x? Or has any idea how to get this working …

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Re: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Sound Blaster Live! cards (version 3.1)

Posted on 2025-05-13, 21:23

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by kikendo

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Anybody that could help setting the MS-DOS emnulation up? Seems like my system hangs when loading the DOS driver for the SB-16 emulator. I don't have anything on IRQ5 that could conflict, that I know of. I tried turning off and on the PnP OS option form my BIOS I do have an Ultra-ATA PCI card …

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Re: PII-450 vs PIII-550, which would you keep?

Posted on 2025-05-13, 19:20

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by kikendo

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Personally, I tend to favor DOS gaming and multi-ISA sound card setups. So my preference is for the 450 with dual ISA cards. But that's just me, you may feel differently. This is kind of where I am at because although I have machines that are far better for DOS gaming (slower Pentium class), I have …

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Re: Horizontal (brightness?) bleeding on Nvidia TNT2 64

Posted on 2025-05-13, 19:18

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by kikendo

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OK it is definitely the card, took an ATI Rage Pro and stuck it into the machine and the problem is gone. So what could it be? Bad capacitors? Is it worth repairing? It's just a Vanta after all (I may even have another one lying around).

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