Re: *The big list of 8086 real-mode Windows 3.0 compatible software - please contribute*

Posted on 2021-09-12, 06:20

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by mike_canada

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Isn't there a flavor of (programming language) BASIC that would work for an 8086 processor? Not sure if QuickBasic that comes with MS-DOS 6.22 works with 8086 or if it needs 80286+ processor.

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-09-12, 05:58

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by mike_canada

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I'm running a 32-bit PC with linux and its fast for most things. but some new websites like bestbuy.ca are awfully slow because they load so much javascript junk and other junk in the background. I'm also programming 8-bit 8051-based chips with my 32-bit PC through the parallel port. Yes, I'm one of …

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Re: DosBox Distro - A LiveUSB made simple

Posted on 2021-09-12, 05:38

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by mike_canada

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in DOSBox General

My only thoughts on posting a direct image is whatever size drive I use, that’s the size the user would be stuck with unless they are comfortable with gparted or another partioning utility. Am I wrong? I once made a boot CD that emulates a hard drive. It has a bunch of goodies on it including DOS. …

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Re: How to emulate a dial up connection over IP?

Posted on 2021-09-12, 05:00

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by mike_canada

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Can IPX be encoded using SLIP anyways(like TCP/IP), then just sent/received to/from the router/network broadcast using pcap(by adding the ethernet frame around it)? So archieving IPX without PPP(which seems pretty difficult to implement), using SLIP instead? I managed to do a setup where DOSBOX can …

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Analyzing videos from origin DOS game

Posted on 2021-09-11, 06:16

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by mike_canada

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in DOS

I own Crusader No Remorse and Crusader No regret. When I researched online, I learn that the videos are in jyv1 format which is origin's own rendition of the AVI format. If I try playing them with a standard video player, the audio comes out fine but the video itself looks all sliced up and I can't …

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Re: GA-6BXC Rev 2.0: No POST, No Beeps, What Do

Posted on 2021-09-11, 00:20

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by mike_canada

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you mean boot with the jumper in the reset position? Yes. I've done it with some systems in the past. The screen doesn't do anything and no nothing blows up. I think it is a forced-hard reset. then when I put the jumper back to normal, the system turns on and asks me to enter setup due to cmos …

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Re: GA-6BXC Rev 2.0: No POST, No Beeps, What Do

Posted on 2021-09-09, 04:52

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by mike_canada

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What if you tried the lowest amount of ram of the correct type speed and clock? You may want to look at manuals for your motherboard to determine this. Also, try not adding any extra parts except just what is necessary to make the screen work and the system speaker. Don't connect any drives. Also, …

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networking for dosbox-x over wine on linux

Posted on 2021-09-06, 05:23

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by mike_canada

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I might have found a solution to my woes for windows users. In case anyone needed a refresher, I plan to make a DOS duke nukem commit driver for the original Duke Nukem 3D that would work on all today's networks. I can get the networking to work in pure DOS mode and in DOSBOX under linux. I also use …

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Dos environment on all OS's

Posted on 2021-08-31, 00:49

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by mike_canada

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in DOS

I'm trying to figure out how to setup my linux machine with dos so that people with 64-bit windows can setup their machines with dos with networking with few steps. I can run DOSEMU and DOSBOX with an OS and DOS networking no problem. I looked for settings to enable networking for DOSBOX for windows …

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Limits with CSS in DOS Arachne browser

Posted on 2021-08-16, 03:05

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by mike_canada

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in Marvin \ Software

I'm trying to make a website that will work for everyone including people with very old systems that can use Arachne web browser for DOS to view pages. I'm also trying to condense my HTML code and offload code into stylesheets but despite Arachne 1.70 claiming it would support CSS 1.0 standards, it …

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Re: DOS Packet Driver for Realtek 8168

Posted on 2021-08-16, 03:00

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by mike_canada

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in DOS

Have tried several other packet drivers (8139 and older) but without success. Can ping the outside world but there's not really much else I can do (telnet, ftp, etc) without a functional packet driver. Any suggestions? Have found nothing on the webs on the 8168 (HP ThinClient T420) If pinging the …

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Re: DOS 6.22 partition not booting despite following right steps

Posted on 2021-08-15, 01:57

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by mike_canada

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in Marvin \ Software

SOLVED I had to indicate in my bios which drives it should try to boot from and all this time I only specified USB CD-ROM and I never specified the hard drive.

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Re: DOS 6.22 partition not booting despite following right steps

Posted on 2021-08-15, 00:51

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by mike_canada

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in Marvin \ Software

I have talked to that starman guy (from the links you gave) and he seems to be knowledgeable. Let's hope he can give me an answer to this issue.

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Re: Old TCP/IP networking

Posted on 2021-08-15, 00:32

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by mike_canada

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in PC Emulation

But the key phrase there is "on the same network segment" i.e. a LAN. I'm talking about a WAN, where UDP packets will absolutely get dropped if you spam a bunch of them in quick succession. The same effect DOES happen on a LAN if you send a lot of multicast/broadcast packets, which is also …

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Re: XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-14, 18:25

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by mike_canada

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SOLVED! Turned out that XMSDSK didnt want to work after all. I ended up going for a new ramdisk driver that functions very similar to XMSDSK. It allowed me to allocate a 30MB ramdrive. through autoexec.bat regardless of the status of drive A and B in DOS. That driver is named rdisk and info is here …

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Re: Disabling dos drive A and B

Posted on 2021-08-14, 18:19

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by mike_canada

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in Marvin \ Software

I can't even get virtual box to run on my machine but I think I solved my issue at hand

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Disabling dos drive A and B

Posted on 2021-08-14, 05:21

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by mike_canada

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in Marvin \ Software

Ok, I want to make a test environment on my newer computer where I have the image boot in dosemu. This will save me from constantly wasting time burning the boot CD over and over again for an older computer just to test one line of code. Anyways, anyone reading my XMSDSK story will know I have …

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Re: XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-14, 04:20

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by mike_canada

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These requires USBASPI to be loaded prior according to the first link I posted. I see usbaspi1.sys, usbaspi2.sys, usbaspi3.sys, usbaspi4.sys, and usbaspi5.sys but the description of each one doesn't match the name of my DVD/RW writer. Perhaps there's another ramdrive software that replaces XMSDSK …

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Re: Old TCP/IP networking

Posted on 2021-08-14, 04:13

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by mike_canada

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The advantage with UDP though compared to TCP is very little packet overhead. UDP itself uses 8 bytes and TCP uses more. Now I am able to encapsulate the original game data in a specialized packet so that anyone that does "spamming" won't affect game play maybe with exception of game speed on local …

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Re: Old TCP/IP networking

Posted on 2021-08-14, 01:36

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by mike_canada

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Even though IPX didn't guarantee reliable delivery (same as UDP), in practice it was fairly safe and a lot of games that used it assumed there would be no (or at least very little) packet loss. They also tended to "spam" lots of little packets very frequently without any sort of collation (the sort …

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