Re: Socket 478 P4 and DOS.
Posted on 2025-04-18, 21:10
Hey there! Sorry, I've been busy and a new child is almost here, I'm still wandering around this situation, looking to upgrade the soundcard soon. 😀 Thanks a lot for every tip and help.
Re: Socket 478 P4 and DOS.
Posted on 2025-01-11, 10:36
What throttle programs could I use with my chipset? Seems like throttle ain't compatible.. 🙁 My board doesn't have ISA slots saddly, what are my other options?
Re: Socket 478 P4 and DOS.
Posted on 2025-01-10, 17:39
For now the onboard one, which is: Realtek ALC201A (AC’97 Audio CODEC) I can buy a soundcard soon thought, what one should I buy? I had a Soundblaster x16 back then.
Socket 478 P4 and DOS.
Posted on 2025-01-10, 17:19
Hey there good people! I've been debating whether or not to start a new project and build a Socket 7 machine for my older games, DOOM, Ultima, those older fellas. At the moment I have my trusty socket 478 P4 1.7ghz with 256mb RAM and my trusty(for now?) Soltek Intel 845 (Brookdale) board and my RIVA …
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-08, 10:01
Harry Potter wrote on 2024-11-07, 23:42: Thank you. It's a good price 😀 , but I need to ask my mother to get it for me, as I'm not in charge of my finances. They work well, Exult and ScummVM seem a bit better, so far. Going to try my BIOS settings, what about the config.sys from FILES=38 to 40?
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-07, 20:54
Dominus wrote on 2024-11-07, 16:31: The RAM is the problem with U8 as mentioned by someone else. 63MB max U7 gave me a config.sys files=38 instead of 40 error aswell, been a while... Can't remember how to make it work though. 😀 The U8 ram thing, how can I lower it, configuration wise, without …
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-07, 16:01
U7 runs but, no sound whatsoever, I have onboard sound with my sovtek board, what should I choose in the install config? 😀 U8 still nothing, it's being mean!
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-07, 10:09
Never managed to get Ultima 8 running on computers with more than 64 MB of RAM. Other than that, it never gave me any trouble to speak of. You could try using himem.sys/emm386.exe from older versions of DOS (5.0?) that only addresses smaller amounts of memory. Might also be an idea to try with a …
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-06, 20:04
Dominus wrote on 2024-11-06, 19:47: For your Windows 89 machine try these patches I mentioned in my first post. Will do, will let you know feedback, thanks a lot! 😀
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-06, 19:44
I‘d recommend using a modern operating system. I don‘t think there is a ScummVM version for Windows 9x that had U8 support and Exult has had many improvements (especially crash improvements) since the last Win9x compatible version Oh, so I will try on my modern one, so for my 98 machine I'm kind of …
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-06, 19:32
Hmm, for games like these you are better off playing them in pure DOS not in a Windows dos prompt, IMO. But as I'm one of the developers of Exult and of Pentagram (Ultima 8 engine) before it became part of ScummVM, I really need to urge you to try out Exult for Ultima VII and ScummVM for Ultima 8 …
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-06, 19:24
There is a patch by Dragon Baroque for both U7 and U8 to play them in Windows 9x. The reason to do this these days is beyond me, though :) https://reconstruction.voyd.net/index.php?event=project&typeKeyword=upgrades ("Ultima 7 Complete Upgrade" has U7Win9x) and https://reconstruction.voyd.net/index …
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-06, 19:17
DosFreak wrote on 2024-11-06, 19:06: Any reason not to use Exult and ScummVM? Both work on 9x. You'd probably need to use an older ver of Exult, mabye. I know as of 2017 I was able to get Exult working on NT 3.51 so you wouldn't have to go back to far if you had to. Got to check those out, I don't …
Re: Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-06, 19:02
Ultima 7 is one of the fussiest games to get running. Both 7 & 8 were released before Windows 95. The games use their own memory managers and need custom startup configs to be able to run. You'll also run into the issue where Ultima 7 is unplayable due to your CPU's speed. Damn! Any way to get them …
Ultima 7 and 8 won't work on 98SE machine.
Posted on 2024-11-06, 17:33
Hey there, I can't get these two working for the life of me, it starts Windows in MS-DOS mode but only give me the "Avatar go to rest" and then Abnormal Termination... Any ideas? :) I have a p4 with 256mb of RAM and Windows 98SE installed, my soundcard is integrated on my Sovtek board, nothing …
Riva TNT2 m64 problems with some games.
Posted on 2024-10-25, 09:11
Hey there! :) I got my Win98SE machine up and running yesterday (thanks everyone for all the help on my old topic by the way) but today I'm experiencing some problems in some games/situations, For example, in Simcity 3000 the menu is flickering a lot, same in Deus EX (menu), if I play KKND2, for …
Re: Socket 478 - Advice needed.
Posted on 2024-10-24, 18:49
It's working! After formatting everything and starting from 0, Basically had to install to D: instead of C: where I did the sys, weird! Play time!
Re: Socket 478 - Advice needed.
Posted on 2024-10-24, 13:49
Damn, now everytime I install Windows it goes well, first boot it fails, saying that it cannot load KRNL386.EXE, access denied. Any clues? Have already formatted and installed and the same happened. 🙁
Re: Socket 478 - Advice needed.
Posted on 2024-10-24, 10:25
Just had success, it seems. I connected the hdd to my new machine and, with my dvd-drive I booted the 98se disk and did fdisk and then format c: /s and now the HDD can boot already. I'm going to connect it to the old rig and install Windows from inside, the setup is inside the D: drive. I will give …
Re: Socket 478 - Advice needed.
Posted on 2024-10-24, 07:04
Yes you can use a WinME bootdisk to run WinME, it wont matter your going to install WIn98 later Although fdisk is used to create the partitions if your keeping the existing 32GB partitions you'll probably not need fdisk at all. However you'll need a win98 bootdisk when you want to run the sys …
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