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Re: Going absolutely mental trying to install Windows ME

Posted on Yesterday, 23:51

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

But the BIOS reports it as 16GB The BIOS is Phoenix v4 Release 6 on a BX440 motherboard. ... The number one rule to achieve compatibility is to partition and format the drive in the target system with the utilities made for the OS you are going to use. But the problem was that when I tried to do …

Re: Going absolutely mental trying to install Windows ME

Posted on Yesterday, 21:11

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Maybe I need another installation media, anybody can recommend one? Also I would not discard the problem being partly the CF adapter, it is one of those piece of shit cheap ones. I don't see why I would need to enable LBA for a drive smaller than 128GB though. I don't know how the drive would …

Re: Going absolutely mental trying to install Windows ME

Posted on Yesterday, 17:47

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

In any event, it's a compatibility issue with the CF card or size outside the OS. ME itself should have no trouble going up to the typical LBA limit of the day of 137GB, and even that, might be surpassable. So since you are not even able to enable LBA (bad sign) you got a bad CF adapter or bad BIOS, …

Re: Game Performance Single vs. Multiplayer

Posted on Yesterday, 15:37

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Given you are saying you are playing over a fast LAN, and the constraints of the time, DirectPlay was written in the era of modems and internet and single core. I've worked in code written around that, and it probably just assumed that there is a maximum theoretical framerate anyway over DirectPlay …

Re: Two 486 boards and can't get either going.

Posted on 2025-06-13, 13:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

These two things are common issues with 486 systems. I'm mentioning these based on what you are saying about the Micronics board, but one these issues can be affecting either. 1) Most 486 systems have a turbo function. Make sure you are engaging turbo mode 2) Most 486 systems cannot accept EDO 72pin …

Re: Wondering Why Win 9.x Slows with Updates

Posted on 2025-06-12, 20:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Basically, I want a ISO of Win98SE with all the performance, internet access , USB support available(2.+), without all the unnecessary stuff. I will not need to play old school videos. But I do want ALL sound options that do not slow boot and win mouse responsiveness. I very welcome some replies. …

Re: Suggestions on video cards to go in my PCs?

Posted on 2025-05-28, 04:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for your detailed reply! Definitely a lot to think about. I'm willing to save up money for something decent so I wouldn't consider money being an objection. I think I'll add what's currently in the machines as you ask, and I'll also include the third machine I already have because I think it …

Re: Games with low requirements compared to the CPU run at above 90% CPU usage

Posted on 2025-05-24, 14:37

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Since you are using an old laptop (but much newer CPU than the game is designed for) and old OS, you could switch to a better OS. But I suppose, look at this for some ideas: http://www.benchtest.com/cooler.html That page was talking about overclocking, but maybe it could help a little idling the CPU …

Re: NVPlay: Raw hardware programming for early NVidia GPUs (plus Riva 128 emulation for 86Box)

Posted on 2025-05-23, 17:33

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Have you looked at the XFree86 3.3.2 (2d) and Utah-GLX (3d) drivers for NV3? Nvidia wrote open source drivers to these cards for X, and one day infamously patched to obfuscate them (seems like they ran it through the preprocessor and committed that), and later went fully closed source. The XF3.3.2 …

Re: Found old MS flight sim - single 720k 3.5" diskette - 1987

Posted on 2025-05-19, 21:44

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I would think that Microsoft provided the game on 720k 3.5" to support PS/2 just like they were already doing for their other software. People that documented the media options probably just didn't have a copy in their hand. Perhaps mobygames is wrong, and Dave has the 1998 release on 3.5".

Re: End of 10

Posted on 2025-05-16, 20:18

in Milliways

in Milliways

BTW? I'm GNU/Linux user since Fedora Core2/3 (yes, I remember FC3) so literally for years now. And I find sudden interest into GNU/Linux (or any other Open-Source OS ) from general public bizarre. Yeah I suppose its weird. It's almost as if everyone is anticipating the impending doom to the way …

Re: End of 10

Posted on 2025-05-16, 02:19

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'm guessing almost all new machines are sold with SSDs now, and have no idea how Win11 acts. It's slower than I remember Win10 being, and that was slow. I can say that Linux Mint seems fine - Linux updates all the time, almost daily, yet it handles it all ok on quite constrained systems with HDDs …

Re: End of 10

Posted on 2025-05-14, 21:12

in Milliways

in Milliways

So, I did run into a real world case of this just gaming. I tried to play an older game, Harvest: Massive Encounter. It apparently had a Linux native version. It attempted to install a batch of binaries that were no longer supported in Mint 22.1, and so it completely failed to run. It actually …

Re: End of 10

Posted on 2025-05-10, 00:37

in Milliways

in Milliways

To me the main barrier for Linux adoption is backwards compatibility with older games and availability of newer games. If developers switch to Linux as the main game platform at some point I already maintain vintage machine for old OSes, so what's one more for "modern" software. For the first time …

Re: Matrox G450 PCI

Posted on 2025-05-07, 13:19

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

G450 is slow for Windows gaming, GeForceMX 440-460 is much better, FX5500 is ok too. If G450 is slow then ATi Rage XL (Rage Pro) is what? I use Rage3 cards for older Win9x d3d/ogl/3dcif games + voodoo add card for glide. Well, for late 90s games, GF4 MX440+, FX5500 (2002-2004), are in a different …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

Posted on 2025-05-01, 16:51

in Milliways

in Milliways

So I think there is alot of potential for breakage from the reasons discussed. However, the nice thing about Linux, and other systems that are open source, is that the old versions are not simply just going away, and anyone can make whatever changes they want. You don't have that with closed source …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

Posted on 2025-05-01, 00:13

in Milliways

in Milliways

Probably true. On other hand, if not for sake of old hardware, then what's Linux actually good for? It's not the only *nix system out there is. I don't think there are any other mainstream *nix out there, so... All my life, I saw the main use case of Linux to rescue/recycle old hardware. Linux when …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

Posted on 2025-04-29, 03:29

in Milliways

in Milliways

What's also interesting, the chipset logic in modern intel motherboards, IME, seems to use a 486/586 core in the "Quark" component. Here, a modified Minix 3 is run, if memory serves. https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2018/6/1520827829694087 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark https://en. …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

Posted on 2025-04-29, 03:02

in Milliways

in Milliways

Right. Though It's also removing support for CPUs without built-in x87 FPU, I think. Such as 486SX, 486DLC, NexGen Nx586 etc. Considering that even Windows 3.x has an FPU emulator makes this look a bit surreal. Right, I'd agree on surreal on Linux's x86 roots only to a point. There are other …

Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

Posted on 2025-04-29, 02:55

in Milliways

in Milliways

If Wikipedia is to be believed, the first generation Cyrix 6x86 fits a Socket 7 (and might therefore be considered Pentium-class) but only implements the 486 instruction set and advertises itself as a 486, so it might be such a processor. Probably. I'm not going to look it up, but the Cyrix 6x86 …

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