Windows 2.03 genius mouse

Posted on 2020-03-24, 09:25

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by FrankDM

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Hello. I am trying to get my genious mouse working on win 2.03. I added the genious.com mouse driver to my autoexec and it works fine in DOS 3.20. However I see no option to enable the mouse in the windows control.exe. This isnt to hard in Win3.1 but here is a different story. Can I actually do this …

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Re: Valuation of old hardware

Posted on 2020-02-19, 15:24

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by FrankDM

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Dominus wrote on 2020-02-15, 19:00: If you look at ebay, you need to use the advanced search and look for SOLD pieces. This tells you the prices people are actually buying at, not those the sellers hope to get 😉 This is good advice. Thanks!

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Re: Valuation of old hardware

Posted on 2020-02-13, 15:26

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by FrankDM

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Insurance companies will want to know the value of something before they will insure it. An older piece of hardware might be dismissed out of hand as “worthless” unless he owner can demonstrate a bona fide market for such retro hardware as collectibles. I guess in this case an accredited expert's …

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Star trek a final unity

Posted on 2020-02-13, 06:28

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by FrankDM

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I am trying to get this to run.. no success.. I cannot use the installer as it does not detect my cdrom at all and does not allow me to install. This is not in dosbox but on a win98se system in dos mode. I did load a cdrom driver. I think it is just to fast?? Also tried installing the game on a full …

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Sound Blaster 128 and SBLive

Posted on 2020-02-10, 17:15

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by FrankDM

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I have both of these and wanted to use one of them for dos gaming. Now the 128 is the oldest so figured to use that one but it is not detected in any game. Are these cards to new already? This is in pure dos 6.22. Not dos mode from a 9x install.

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Does this crt work for a500?

Posted on 2020-02-09, 14:17

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by FrankDM

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Hello My amiga monitor died. Now it used to be connected through a 9 pin RGB cable to the monitor using a 9 pin connector. I can get this monitor cheap. I only have this picture. Will it work? I think i see a 9pin connection but not sure if that is what I need...

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Old Apple RGB to 9pin "VGA"

Posted on 2020-01-13, 18:46

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by FrankDM

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My Commodore RGB monitor does not work anymore. I have been looking for a replacement but its all very expensive. Then an idea came to mind. I have 2 old but functional applecolor RGB monitors. I know you cannot just use a standard vga monitor (at least not without using a middle piece of hardware) …

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Re: Why is Windows install ScanDisk lying about an error on my HDD?

Posted on 2020-01-12, 18:22

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by FrankDM

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I haven't been able to try any of the other suggestions yet but the mobo is an MSI 865PE Neo 2 and HDD is a 250GB split into in 3 partitions (111GB max) running on SATA. Just for the record, since no one mentioned it so far: you can not use Win9x on hard disks larger than 128 GB ! It doesn't matter …

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Re: Unidentified System (Graduate)

Posted on 2020-01-08, 21:41

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by FrankDM

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That's an XT clone all right :) What I can tell about the cards: - the first card (closest to the drives) is an I/O + floppy controller. - second card has a "104866" part number. That implies a Xebec 1210C MFM HDD controller. - third card is a memory card. Can't make out chips on it or on …

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Monitor issue

Posted on 2020-01-08, 21:37

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by FrankDM

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My one and only Commodore 9pin RGB monitor decided to call it a day a while back. All it does when it gets power now is make a "never ending humming sound" and no display at all.. is there any hope for the monitor or should I bin it? I heard that opening one of these can be dangerous because of …

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Retrobrighting

Posted on 2020-01-08, 20:36

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by FrankDM

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I am a bit unsure on this subject. I read around and as far as I understand there are two methods (one involving putting your stuff in the sun and another with uv light). I also noticed there is a lot of divide on the topic as people are very pro or against it. I never done it, but I am wondering if …

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Re: Unidentified System (Graduate)

Posted on 2020-01-08, 16:01

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by FrankDM

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Can you take a picture looking straight down on the motherboard ? It appears to be an XT computer with a Memory card, SCSI card and drive or ESDI card and drive, floppy card and drive plus CGA or EGA vid card but really hard to tell w/o a better picture. added: Nice ! Not sure if this is what you …

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Unidentified System (Graduate)

Posted on 2020-01-07, 21:41

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by FrankDM

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I got this system today but I am unsure what it is exactly. The company name was "Graduate" which is a bad word for doing research on... I included two pictures. Everything seems to be in order on the inside, I can't boot the system as it requires a 9pin monitor which I don't have (anymore after the …

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Re: Amstrad mega pc

Posted on 2020-01-07, 19:39

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by FrankDM

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Lucky you. Photos? here you go, I also have the system after years of searching for a complete setup :D "Your Software" launches Counterpoint frontend for DOS programs http://i.imgur.com/2eQYa8Pl.jpg so the system came with DOS5 , windows 3.0 (or 3.1 I am not sure) and some dos gui frontends - no …

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Re: Amstrad mega pc

Posted on 2020-01-07, 18:09

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by FrankDM

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Since the launch of the updated forums, everyone seems to ignore the basic rules it seems. Please do not ask where to download DOS or any other OS. Asking for or sharing abandonware is not allowed here. Anyway, from what I know, it was shipped with MS-DOS 5.0 and Counterpoint, which was the GUI. …

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Amstrad mega pc

Posted on 2020-01-07, 17:38

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by FrankDM

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Today I obtained an Amstrad Mega PC. It is a 386 that also allows you to play megadrive games. Now the wiki mentions it runs dos 5.0 and something called "amstrad desktop". Does anyone know which os this runs? I find no information on this.. there is something called the "amstrad os" but i am unsure …

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Floppy drive pins

Posted on 2020-01-05, 21:20

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by FrankDM

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Hello I was looking at some of my floppy drive pins at the back for data transfer and noticed that I have 3 different configurations... why? Do all of these work on everything? Image: https://ibb.co/6ZmrFm1 Just thought this was weird...

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Re: Apple Rhaspsody display

Posted on 2020-01-03, 07:45

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by FrankDM

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jtchip wrote on 2020-01-03, 01:48: Which operating system? There is a Win9x driver here http://vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid=37. The Apple Rhapsody RD2 OS at WinWorldPC. I can try that Win9x driver but I have my fears..

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Apple Rhapsody display

Posted on 2020-01-03, 01:29

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by FrankDM

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Hey all I installed the Rhapsody DR2 on a old thinclient and got it to boot fine. However I have no display driver. I am using the SCGA generic one included which gives me 800x600 in black and white. I'd like to get to 1024x768 with at least 16 colors. The wyse winterm wt9455xl thin client I use has …

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Wyse Winterm driving me crazy

Posted on 2020-01-02, 01:39

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by FrankDM

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Hello So I have a few of these really old Wyse Winterm 9455xl thin client machines. I wanted to have some fun with them and install some OS's that are a little different than the usual Windows or Dos. To that end I figured I do one with Ubuntu (Lucid as these machines do not support the cmov command …

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