Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-02-24, 12:52

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by flightjunkie

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Ok. Lets take things one by one. Non-USB joysticks/gamepads aren't designed for hot-plugging and should be added manually in "Gaming Options". I assume you mean "game controllers". I tried that, but I get an error that Game port or gameport drivers are missing. Note that I got 3 different game ports …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-02-23, 14:36

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For starters lets get the non-working DOS games out of the way. They work on DOSbox, so I decided to quit trying to make them work. So you went to get Advance 10T (a pretty rare ISA/Tualatin board) and not only not use it with a proper ISA sound card but eventually just run dosbox there..? Where is …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-02-23, 11:13

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So I feel like there needs to be a bit of a continuation on this thread, since not everything got sorted. If anything, I got a couple more headaches popping up. For starters lets get the non-working DOS games out of the way. They work on DOSbox, so I decided to quit trying to make them work. In …

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If you get an error trying to install daemon tools 3.47 on old windows, try this!

Posted on 2023-02-20, 17:59

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by flightjunkie

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I was getting an error about the installer not being able to install the package or whatever, I can't remember the error exactly, when trying to install Daemon tools on my win98 rig. The solution was simple. Install windows installer 2.0 You can get it here. https://archive.org/details/instmsi

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-26, 20:35

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by flightjunkie

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About the free drive space issues - Try a smaller drive, or at least making a smaller partition. 80 gigs is way larger that games from that time ever had reason to expect to deal with, so their free space check routines may handle them incorrectly (and, for example, overflow). I switched to a 6gb …

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Re: Jane's AH-64d issue with helicopter sound

Posted on 2023-01-26, 15:14

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by flightjunkie

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Just chiming in to say that now that I tried the game in original DOS it still does the same sound bug. So, it is not an issue with DOSbox, but with the game.

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-26, 12:33

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P.S: I need to find patches for Jane's longbow as it has a very annoying bug with the sound, among other things. I could only find 1.04f but it won't install as it is asking 1.03f to be installed before.(might get gold at some point, but the original is the one I had. That's why I went with it). 1. …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-26, 12:32

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by flightjunkie

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I'd actually install the ISA card now. The SB Pro or Vibra is probably the easiest starter card as creative is the defacto card of this era. Unlike the Live dos drivers, ISA cards don't need memory managers running so that should sort your USNF issue. Plus the cards resources (IRQ, DMA) should …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-25, 20:59

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by flightjunkie

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So a quick update to get ahead of ya for descent 2. I installed the 1.2 patch and it seems it has fixed the issue.

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Re: How much of your retro hardware do you actually use?

Posted on 2023-01-25, 17:12

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Alot of us started by wanting to build a PC to play a certain games then discovered building the PC itself was more fun and find excuses to build more. Right now I have 12 game PC's ready to go. Starting with a 486 running Dos6 though to a Win7 Socket 1366. All PC's have something unique to them, …

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Re: How much of your retro hardware do you actually use?

Posted on 2023-01-25, 13:37

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I build 3 XP machines in hopes that there are people who are looking to play games that do not run on modern systems well(or at all) or who're looking for that authentic retro XPrience, to buy them. They are currently sitting under my desk. I build a proper win98 machine which I am currently …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-24, 20:12

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About the free drive space issues - Try a smaller drive, or at least making a smaller partition. 80 gigs is way larger that games from that time ever had reason to expect to deal with, so their free space check routines may handle them incorrectly (and, for example, overflow). What would be an …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-24, 07:41

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So I got good news, bad news, and I got worse news. Good news is that thanks to Phil's solution, I got both CD and mouse working in dos. After that I tried running games directly through dos. US navy fighters run without a hitch, and same goes with Longbow which gave me no files and buffers error …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-23, 17:47

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by flightjunkie

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Seems that the OP isn't familiar with DOS. "Restart in MS-DOS Mode" from the shutdown screen only executes the DOSSTART.BAT, located in C:\WINDOWS and doesn't run CONFIG.SYS nor AUTOEXEC.BAT. For something friendlier to beginners, I recommend Phil's MS-DOS Mode Super Easy . Lastly, get an ISA sound …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-23, 17:07

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by flightjunkie

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Seems that the OP isn't familiar with DOS. "Restart in MS-DOS Mode" from the shutdown screen only executes the DOSSTART.BAT, located in C:\WINDOWS and doesn't run CONFIG.SYS nor AUTOEXEC.BAT. For something friendlier to beginners, I recommend Phil's MS-DOS Mode Super Easy . Lastly, get an ISA sound …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-23, 14:52

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by flightjunkie

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> My specs are in my signature. Some people don't care for, and disable, signatures - so they don't see those specs. Also, you might later update your sig, which could make earlier questions referencing them nonsensical to read. Just include all important stuff in the post itself. Treat it as self …

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-23, 12:28

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by flightjunkie

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chinny22 wrote on 2023-01-23, 12:16: How are you booting into dos? Boot disk, Shortcut on desktop, Restart in dos mode from Shutdown screen? From Shutdown screen.

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Re: Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-23, 10:57

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by flightjunkie

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Damn! I guess It must be my luck. Got US navy fighters Gold today. It installed fine, but I can't run it. If I try to run it from windows I get a blank DOS screen with the blinking thing where you type, in the corner. If I try to run it through dos directly, it asks me for the CD.

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Windows 98 SE build: A series of unfortunate technical issues

Posted on 2023-01-22, 09:58

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Oh boy. This went worse than I expected. So, in my first proper windows 98 SE build, I am faced with a string of issues with sound and individual games(all of which are DOS, as windows games run fine so far) My specs are as follows Motherboard-QDI advanced 10t CPU-Pentium III 1000mhz GPU-3dfx …

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Re: Installed windows 98 se......where are the wallpapers?

Posted on 2023-01-20, 17:15

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by flightjunkie

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chinny22 wrote on 2023-01-20, 09:59: One of the fun things is relearning all this, It's surprising how much you forget but also how much you do remember Heh. You can say that again.

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