Re: Windows NT4 PCI board I/O Memory conflict with GPU

Posted on 2025-04-21, 16:29

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Its been a long time, maybe you've tried this too. And this might break things in 98.... Have you tried turning off the "Plug and Play OS installed" option in the BIOS? That might make NT4 honour the BIOS settings for memory space. But it might break 98, or shift the problem to 98. Moving cards …

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Re: NTLDR missing after copying Win 98 install from one disk to other

Posted on 2024-08-28, 11:53

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Ah, I see where I was a bit wrong, the sys command ..."will install a boot sector capable of booting the operating system into the first logical sector of the volume." from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYS_(command)?useskin=vector I thought sys.com only copied the right files to the destination …

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Re: NTLDR missing after copying Win 98 install from one disk to other

Posted on 2024-08-27, 13:12

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If you want rid of 2k and have only 98, then likely fdisk /mbr from a 98 dos bootdisk should fix it. As ever, don't take as gospel someone saying to do fdisk stuff off the web. I think at worst this will make your non-booting system not boot, so a net gain of zero 😀

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2024-08-23, 15:12

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Imagine going to the movies to watch whatever the latest blockbuster flick is, and at the end the movie stops, and whoever doesn't pay the extra money to see the ending is asked to leave. lmao. One of the things that put me off the movie biz is shitty film making, and they for years have done a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-16, 16:59

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Yeah but hear me out... blinky lights. lol Tell me about it :) When I got ISDN with a PCI terminal adapter card, I enabled some little network status widget on NT4. Maybe it was a small piece of freeware? Software TX/RX boxes on screen, because I longed for the warming flicker of the fire USR 56K. …

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Re: Network connection over serial port and pppd

Posted on 2024-08-15, 16:48

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In and of themselves each command won't do much, but they will all be needed. The commands set up the network interface, tell the computer to allow packets to be passed between network interfaces, and then set up the Linux firewall to do network address translation. Personally I would not use NAT, …

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Re: Network connection over serial port and pppd

Posted on 2024-08-15, 01:28

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I've used this command in Raspberry Pi OS to start pppd: pppd ttyUSB0 57600 local lock passive proxyarp defaultroute noauth persist mtu 576 192.168.0.161:192.168.0.162 . Bit of a skim of it, and a look at man pppd, and that "defaultroute" I wonder about: defaultroute Add a default route to the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-08-13, 20:10

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PcBytes wrote on 2024-08-13, 16:30: If you mean the disc brand, nope. It had a weird Raxon brand on it. Was saying CDR without saying CDR 😀 I knew what your FCKGW... meant, and that was funny.

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Re: Which is the best Windows 2000 version should I install?

Posted on 2024-08-13, 16:17

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Win2k had service packs, but there was different versions in another way: different products. There is the desktop/workstation version, Professional. And then 3 different server versions. I ran 2kPro back in the day on my desktop and gaming machine, and at some point put 2k server on my desktop PC. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-08-13, 15:57

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PcBytes wrote on 2024-08-13, 14:57: Dumpster dived and found a legendary XP copy. Why is it legendary you may ask? FCKGW should tell ya enough 😁 Published by Verbatim, I assume 😀

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Re: How Do I Get PCEm To Boot Silently On A Small SBC Linux Device?

Posted on 2024-08-07, 23:46

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You have to have an OS to host the application, so there is no not booting Linux. You can hide it a bit, and then use other minimal software and customisations to fake 95 on a Pi..... You can make the kernel quiet, so there isn't text spewed to the screen at boot. You could even make the kernel …

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Re: AI users?

Posted on 2024-08-06, 15:33

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TheChexWarrior wrote on 2024-08-06, 13:37: Yeah Im an AI enthousiaste guy, me and my close friends. https://youtu.be/SPAM_VIDEO_ID?si=SPAM_CHANNEL_ID vogons forums wrote: Your mute list has been updated.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-04, 17:20

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pc.jpg Had my eye on the left PC someone had listed a while for £10. Was in his area yesterday so decided to go get it on the way back - no specs listed but thought it might be Socket 370 from the pics provided. Went to his garage to get it where I noticed the right one as well which he didn't have …

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Re: Obscure old woofers don't work

Posted on 2024-08-04, 00:20

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Cheers and congratulations! Perhaps these aren't bad, I'm just getting sick of all retro hardware fighting back since last month. Unstable mainboards, fried ps/2 ports, toasty PSU's... Anyhow. 12V is output? Oh my. I used it as input, but the thing powers up regardless :D Says only "12V DC" on the …

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Re: Has anyone archived no-CD for old games?

Posted on 2024-08-02, 15:20

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IMHO there are purposeful false positives. Effectively that. Imagine MegaCorp Security Suite v23.45 decides any file that might remove CD checks from EA games, and any keygens for desktop software made by Adobe, is "potentially unwanted". When the shareholders of EA and Adobe are a lot of the same …

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Re: Win98SE tower/Parallel Zip100 drive: fed up with slow performance!

Posted on 2024-07-28, 22:24

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I can't post on the forums the file IomegaWare 2.2.1 for win32.exe (though I likely renamed the file to that, decades ago), but I have test installed the package in a 98 VM. Once installed, in the Iomega start menu group, is Parallel Port Accelerator. Have you not got that? When I installed the " …

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Re: Win98SE tower/Parallel Zip100 drive: fed up with slow performance!

Posted on 2024-07-28, 21:20

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IOWare9x.zip's readme.txt's section on parallel port speed: If the computer has a bi-directional parallel port, the Zip drive can be set to use a mode which provides data transfer speeds of 6MB to 17MB per minute, depending on the computer's processor speed. (If you are not sure whether your …

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Re: Win98SE tower/Parallel Zip100 drive: fed up with slow performance!

Posted on 2024-07-28, 17:15

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Good, if you are stuck still, there's what I wrote in the meantime...... A while back I dumped all my old CDRs to the NAS, and I have some Iomega stuff: IomegaWare 2.2.1 for win32.exe IomegaWare Software Version 1.0 - ioware9x.zip Iomega Zip Tools.zip - Dos, 3.11, 95 and NT, in a readme "Zip Tools …

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Re: Win98SE tower/Parallel Zip100 drive: fed up with slow performance!

Posted on 2024-07-28, 16:40

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I wasn't imagining things! Once again, after a drive letter can be reliably created and maintained, use the Parallel Port Accelerator program (PPAOPT.EXE) to accelerate the port. http://www.troubleshooters.com/tfresh95/zipdrive.htm There's the program name you need, PPAOPT.EXE.

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Re: Win98SE tower/Parallel Zip100 drive: fed up with slow performance!

Posted on 2024-07-28, 16:32

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progman.exe: Where can I get such an accelerator program? IIRC it was part of the Iomega tools or software. I also had a 3.5" Iomega floppy, and I think there was a program on that along side drivers. There might not have been a specific program, but maybe a button somewhere in some Iomega thing. …

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