Sounds like Rogue Squadron!

It's all about ISA clock (I can damn near run it at 14MHz stably on that system) and ensuring that you copy the XT-IDE rom to ram - if you're using an IDE rom replacement of course (otherwise any bios based disk access has to go over the ISA bus to access the routines in the ROM chip)! No such …

My goodness, that is awesome. I'm heartened to see some crossing over between my interests of retro computing and history&architecture, wow! I had the good fortune to visit Damascus in 2009 and would love to see it again!

Very nice - thanks for taking us through!

Are not movies supposed to be about entertainment and distraction from this screwed up world we now inhabit? Seems more and more it's more about powerful messages, equal rep, female empowerment and other political overtones. When you enlist someone to direct say the movie Eternals or the She Hulk …

Golly that is awesome. Well arranged, solid looking, and well framed. I think I could even convince my wife to like something like that!

I took apart the (dead) battery that came with my recently purchased Dell Inspiron 3000 (a P2-266 machine). It's so old it was still "made in Canada" :D Unfortunately, the cells in the pack were packed _very_ tight, glued together, and connected with a thin metal strip that's "welded" on to the …

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ripsaw8080 wrote on 2022-11-03, 14:46: Nox - Westwood gave it a lot of atmosphere despite an isometric view. Morrowind plus addons - I can't be the only one that was impressed. Morrowind, heck yes, that's my answer to this thread!

I'm sorry to bump an old thread, but the fact that it had no replies made me feel a little sad, especially considering the background story to your post. First of all, I am sorry for your loss. It was truly moving to read, and I can imagine the machine's connection to your grandfather makes it an …

Indeed very strange behavior of the sound card for not disconnecting the speakers when line out is connected, but then I have seen a few laptops that behaved this way. Sometimes they just had a separate mixer channel for speakers and it might just be the matter of finding a proper mixer utility for …

I've never used JWASM but some things that come to mind: - doesn't the 'Reg8' parameter need some kind of affix? Like "@Reg8"? I seem to remember this from old TASM days. - are you defining the macro in keeping with JWASM's manual? See the example in section 3.17 of the link you posted. - the error …

Thanks totoro! The "walking PC catalogue" thing definitely resonates, hahaha. These days I couldn't even name a modern processor! I had to stop writing last night because I was getting too tired (having kids = no sleep...), so I'll devote a few more words to the Dell Inspiron 3000. It is a snappy …

Right, my first “proper” post here. Having replied to a few topics in the past week, I’ve decided to make a proper introduction and show you my current retro project. Long post ahead - apologies in advance! I was born in 1984. When I was eight, my parents got me and my little brother a NES for …

If it's okay I'd like to piggyback on to this thread with the following: I have a machine that has a weird dual boot setup, with Windows 98 and "wary puppy Linux" set up using GRUB. I actually like this combination as Linux makes it easier to do certain things on the windows partition, like copy zip …

I certainly hope that's not the case , but companies have done stupider things. Maybe there's a way of spoofing the exe via disassembly or hex editing? I'm certain it's fairly easy to bypass the check that throws up the initial MsgBox shown. I've certainly done things like that before with little …

I would say that most of those possible expansions don't "enable" more games to be played, but maybe I'm biased as I don't expect to be able to play X-Wing without a proper joystick :) I'm with you on this! Got a P2 Dell laptop the other day specifically because it came with the port replicator …

We all drifted apart when the internet took off and people graduated and moved away. That part is sad. I am doing all of this work to recreate the 90's with hardware and furniture, and none of my old friends will ever see it. Oh man, I feel your pain. I've also slowly been moving back into 90s PC …