Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-05-10, 06:44

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Good job on throwing up a lot of hurdles to make software preservation a hard job, I guess. That's a bit unfair. I explain in the first post why it's done the way it is. It's not for the sake of being obstinate or elitist, it's purely a practical decision to minimise my administrative overhead. …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-05-09, 09:41

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I found a driver CD of a Matrox Millenium II card recently. I don't own such a card so I wanted to throw it out but since I think software preservation is important, I wanted to upload it to Vogons Drivers. This wasn't as easy as it sounds though. You can't create an account there and only request …

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Unisys Aquanta DL / ACER V56LS / ALi Aladdin IV+/ XT PRO chipset drivers

Posted on 2020-05-04, 11:58

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Hi there, I'm fixing up a Unisys Aquanta DL system (it's been stripped and beaten badly.. poor thing) and I've got most of it up and running. Windows 98SE seems to detect the chipset CPU-PCI and PCI-ISA just fine. However, I'm not able to get USB working. This system is a Pentium 200MMX on a Socket …

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Re: DRAM advice for Gravis Ultrasound

Posted on 2020-04-26, 17:52

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Thanks for the help 😀 Much appreciated!

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DRAM advice for Gravis Ultrasound

Posted on 2020-04-26, 15:34

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I'm looking to upgrade the DRAM on my Primax UltraSound Soundstorm Wave. Which is this card: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/UixEDLDeszqIVfeJXpvnhJ_Zf9XUNzD0TcY8lc3sjsXeX353e6P_ObIHievoKiNhEhdw5_KGERrB8Y3HXceBLuWIg3xiArNI0YqpA0cknWGxHq3xxJ2KdqDEW3X2hg6S3sanKDoKTwzhf10ZdPCxJe8w1yt1-_ …

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Re: Which old games would you like to see remastered version of it?

Posted on 2020-04-14, 08:18

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Probably Ultima Underworld 1 and 2. There have been attempts but nothing was ever finished. Also Little Big Adventure 1 and 2. There are also remake projects but never completed. I might actually enjoy a real sequel more than a remake. And Terra Nova. Never saw a remake of that.

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Re: Recommend me some gold old DOS games?

Posted on 2020-03-26, 15:59

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I'll limit myself to naming just one, or else I'll just go on forever.. Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri

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Re: Looking for ensoniq es1370 drivers, win98

Posted on 2020-03-09, 11:36

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Massive thanks to Macrofeet for trying this driver for the CT4700. I've also been searching high and low for hours for drivers that would work on this card! Works perfectly in Windows 98SE!

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MS-DOS Man Midi Channel

Posted on 2020-02-24, 18:21

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Wasn't sure where to post this, but since it's mostly about game music I'll just drop this here. I guess the visitors to this forum might like the antics on my YT channel: I'm uploading soundtracks from various DOS games. Of course a lot of other people have done so in the past, but I'm trying to …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-12-25, 19:11

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This is amazing! Surely want to sign up for one of these once it's done.

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Re: Looking for CD-R writer/burner drives the late 90s

Posted on 2019-11-23, 19:59

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For the curious, I went with the Plextor Plexwriter 8/4/32a. Picked it up for 12 EUR, which is a nice price. It reads newer and older burned CD's and CD-RWs like a champion and my first attempt at burning (ImgBurn on Win95) went perfect. No coasters, yet! :) I set out to get something from the 90s …

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Re: Looking for CD-R writer/burner drives the late 90s

Posted on 2019-11-17, 14:46

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Seems Plextor gets mentioned here a lot and also on a lot of old forum threads. Looks like they had some sort of Holy Grail of CD Burning status back then 😀 Haven't seen anyone complaining about their Plextor drives, and plenty of grieviances about HP, Phillips and Creative..

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Re: Looking for CD-R writer/burner drives the late 90s

Posted on 2019-11-16, 10:19

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Thanks for all the great responses so far. I've been doing some more research into this and it seems that anything before 1998 is very likely to be SCSI. IDE would of course take a lot more processing power from your pc than SCSI, so I guess that makes sense for burning CDs. I have thought about the …

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Re: Looking for CD-R drives from the late 90s

Posted on 2019-11-15, 12:09

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They are quite common so the first place I'd look would be local auction sites. Ebay is super overpriced. I just bought a 8x Goldstar writer for ¢50 and a 2X CD-ROM with ISA controller for $5. Just look at Ebay prices and you'll see what I mean. Every country have their own auction sites. Oh yeah, …

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Looking for CD-R writer/burner drives the late 90s

Posted on 2019-11-15, 10:51

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Hi everyone, I'm looking for an IDE CD-R writer drive that would be age appropriate for my Pentium 233MMX, so 1996-1999. Something along the 2,4 or 8x write speed and doesn't necessarily have to be able to write RW. I'm not interesting in anything external or SCSI. So if you guys have some …

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Re: *START HERE* SoftMPU 1.91 - Software Intelligent MPU-401 Emulator

Posted on 2019-10-15, 13:12

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Is it possible to load softmpu into upper memory? I've set up autoexec to load it high, but mem.exe tells me it has been loaded into conventional memory.

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Re: IBM Diskdrive repair

Posted on 2019-05-23, 06:49

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Not trying to necro my own threads, but I thought this info was relevant enough to add for reference in the future. I always hate it when I search for solutions, then find some thread with someone claiming to have fixed it but not telling how to do it or what the actual issue was... As suspected the …

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Re: IBM Diskdrive repair

Posted on 2019-05-05, 14:01

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I managed to get it to work :D So it turns out this was not a direct hardware problem of the FDD itself, but rather of the whole system. it seems the IBM Model 30 hardware doesn't take kindly to newer MS-DOS versions. I figured that out because (as a last hail Mary) I formated a 720 disk with the …

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IBM Diskdrive repair

Posted on 2019-05-05, 13:02

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I've got an IBM model 30 (8086) with a 720kb 3.5" floppy drive (dfl413c04a). I've seen the drive work once, but since it has not been reading any disks. So I took it apart and cleaned it, but I've hit a roadblock and I'm here for some help. So, the head seems to read just fine, because It can …

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