Re: Muppet Treasure Island on Vista, Uninstalling Drivers

Posted on 2010-12-07, 18:11

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by Jorpho

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What must be the problem is that some file peculiar to this game was damaged when the game crashed, and it isn't deleted on an uninstall of the either the drivers or the game. I can't figure out what this is, though, nor how to fix it. That really sounds pretty unlikely. If you really think it's …

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Re: Muppet Treasure Island on Vista, Uninstalling Drivers

Posted on 2010-12-07, 16:14

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by Jorpho

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in Windows

Perhaps you were running it with Administrator privileges after the first time you installed it, and have subsequently been running it as a regular user? The game might consequently be crashing if it's trying to write to a directory that it doesn't have permission to access, for instance.

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Re: A few Windows XP handy tidbits and tweaks

Posted on 2010-12-06, 23:55

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by Jorpho

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in Milliways

Sound Blaster Live! DevLdr32.exe Removal.txt -------------------------------------------- Removing/disabling "DevLdr32.exe" and "DevCon32.dll", which were older driver files for Windows XP legacy sound support for the Sound Blaster Live!, and were included with the Windows XP installation CD-ROM. …

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Re: Sierras 16 bit Install Programs

Posted on 2010-12-06, 15:18

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by Jorpho

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in Windows

There are "unpackers" for InstallShield and many other popular installers, but I don't know if Sierra uses any of those. If all else fails you can just install the program in a virtual machine, and then (if you don't want to play it in the virtual machine) copy the files back to your Win7 …

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Re: EARLIEST CD-ROM Drives that could Read CD-R's ???

Posted on 2010-12-03, 14:58

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by Jorpho

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I might add that testing old drives at this point might also yield inaccurate results, since it stands to reason that such old equipment might not consistently work as well as it used to, especially if early drive manufacturing techniques were not quite up to snuff. I'm willing to do the work, but I …

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Re: EARLIEST CD-ROM Drives that could Read CD-R's ???

Posted on 2010-12-02, 21:31

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by Jorpho

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I imagine it could depend a lot on the specific drive manufacturer as well as the brand of CD-R and the speed at which it was written, rather than the time of the drive's release. Really, CD drives are quite cheap these days and generally backward-compatible, so what does it matter? If your old …

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Re: Floppy images

Posted on 2010-12-02, 02:21

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by Jorpho

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Actually, if you want to make an image from files, you should be able to do that with Virtual Floppy Drive.

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Re: Using two mice

Posted on 2010-11-29, 19:38

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by Jorpho

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

If you use a serial-to-USB adapter and a serial mouse, you could map the resulting hardware serial port in DOSBox, I think. EDIT: Oops, that's in the megabuild.

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Re: I'm trying to run the simcity2000 demo.

Posted on 2010-11-29, 15:12

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by Jorpho

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Doesn't the game use the same Miles drivers as the other Maxis DOS releases?

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Re: Windows ME

Posted on 2010-11-25, 19:32

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by Jorpho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

keropi wrote: Draw your own conclusions and stop forcing your opinions or theories on others. Likewise, kthx.

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Re: Windows ME

Posted on 2010-11-25, 18:36

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Simply disabling ACPI is not the best solution now, is it? Since when disabling hardware features to make it compatible with software is an acceptable solution? Because ACPI is fairly useless on a desktop PC that you're using for Glide and D3D games, especially if it boots up quickly. The WDM …

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Re: Windows ME

Posted on 2010-11-25, 17:47

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

All right, I will concede on the ACPI support. But my solution to ACPI problems (and I do not doubt that it can cause problems with software that doesn't support it) is to simply disable power management as much as possible. As you can see WDM support is implemented nativelly and not as an add-on …

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Re: Windows ME

Posted on 2010-11-25, 17:13

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I beg your pardon, but yes, I'm generally quite skeptical when someone says "I did this thing to my computer just now and now it works better" without giving time to see if it really does work better over the long term and after a period of typical use. I've made the same mistake myself on numerous …

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Re: Windows ME

Posted on 2010-11-25, 16:33

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

no it is not. the damn thing works better , if you read carefully you will notice that I state it works better for my hardware . Also the "pimping" was just the unofficial service packs in case you are curious about it. Without them a win98SE installation is pretty much crap if you use some "modern …

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Re: Windows ME

Posted on 2010-11-25, 14:55

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Toastytech got Win95 running on a 500 GB hard drive using an update intended for Win98, apparently: http://toastytech.com/guis/miscb2.html I can say that on my TUSL-2 pc , winME behaves better than pimped 98SE... Bit premature to be making sweeping statements like that, no? Maybe your 98SE …

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Re: Windows ME

Posted on 2010-11-24, 17:27

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For one, ME has more in-build drivers (including SB Live!) But what's the point to in-built drivers when there's almost always something more up-to-date available from the manufacturer? in-build support for ZIP files It's a nice extra, but a poor substitute for a proper standalone archiver. (I wish …

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Re: Windows ME

Posted on 2010-11-24, 15:13

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by Jorpho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It was also notably less stable People seem to say this frequently about ME and I've always found it very vague. If it's "less stable" there ought to be a good reason for it. As has been stated, the System Restore stuff was kind of problematic. installed the patches for ME so it supports 1GB of ram …

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Re: Please Help me run a game from a cdrom!!!!

Posted on 2010-11-24, 15:04

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by Jorpho

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Read them again. More carefully. If you still can't figure it out, you'll have to give more details. What operating system are you using? Why are you typing "/pc/cmaze" ? What command are you using to mount the drive? What did you do when you tried to install the game? Details, details...

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Re: VGA woes... possible vga adapter damage?

Posted on 2010-11-24, 15:00

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by Jorpho

in PC Emulation

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This sounds quite a lot like what my old 286 used to do back in the day, some twenty years ago - some programs wouldn't be able to find the right video mode until certain other specific programs were run. I have no idea if the problem was dependent on the monitor, though.

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Re: How do PC evaluation games block you from playing them after the evaluation period?

Posted on 2010-11-23, 21:49

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by Jorpho

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This sort of thing used to bother me because it suggested that the game was leaving something behind on my computer somewhere after being uninstalled.

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