Re: How can I measure FPS in Windows 98 on a virtual machine?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 08:48

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I guess there are two different types of FPS you could measure. You could run a game that shows its FPS, but that just indicates how frequently it's able to update the virtual screen, which I assume is not what you're after. I assume what you want is actually a measure of how often the hypervisor - …

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Re: Is anyone involving PCAnywhere in their setup?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 08:41

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Glancing at a manual, seems when 4.x was released they didn't expect anyone to have a home network, it's all, your network admin should have taken care of this, your admin should have done that. So not clear on if it's easy to set up with something like netware lite off DRDOS disks or similar for …

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Re: 2M on Win98SE: disabling virtual floppy driver?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 08:05

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I would have assumed that if you simply installed the driver from CONFIG.SYS, Windows would see that the interrupt (number 13h I assume) was hooked and disable 32-bit disk access, but I don't recall if that's actually how it works.

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Re: best version of Office to learn

Posted on 2024-03-03, 10:54

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I think it's okay to use old versions of Office at home, but in a workplace with people who aren't tech gurus but rather are the type of people who are likely to open an attachment in an email without checking who it's from, you're asking for trouble if you run versions of Office that no longer get …

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Re: keep pressed keyboard keys

Posted on 2024-03-03, 08:02

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I searched for a while to try to determine whether there was a distinction between a continuous keypress and successive, very short interval keypresses in the context of Windows and I could not find any information that even mentioned a continuous keypress. At this point, I am not sure that there …

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Re: 32-bit OS that will run best on 8MB 386sx-16

Posted on 2024-03-02, 11:40

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You're on a forum full of nerds into historical computer hardware. You don't need to write a novel explaining this like you're talking to your mom. We all know this stuff. Oh well, I appreciate some of your posts Jo22. Sometimes I might not need to be convinced of whatever point it is that you're …

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Re: keep pressed keyboard keys

Posted on 2024-03-02, 10:05

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That script looks like it hits the "a" key as many times as it can for 10 seconds, rather than toggling it on and off based on the user hitting a key. I think it would take some work to make it read a key and then repeat that key until the key is hit again, which I assume is what the OP wanted? Also …

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Re: eBay sellers can effortlessly delete their negative feedback

Posted on 2024-03-02, 01:55

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So for example a seller on eBay has intentionally ripped me off by removing a label from an item and describing it wrong, has then argued with me about it, argued with eBay about it after I disputed it, and even refused to comply with eBay's direct requests to them. The last thing I want to do after …

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Re: When did Unreal Tournament multiplayer get so "difficult"?

Posted on 2024-03-02, 01:41

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Some of the people you're playing against may have been playing UT99 for a quarter of a century! :D They say that if you practice anything for X amount of time you can become an expert, and I can't remember what X is but it was only a few years, not 25. There are probably almost no new players …

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Re: 32-bit OS that will run best on 8MB 386sx-16

Posted on 2024-03-02, 00:41

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Not really. Except in the most earliest kernels, linux could not boot with only 2MB. I think they ended up hardcoding a check for 2MB minimum. The "hangs" and "crashes" wasn't because linux was unstable, but that was the sign you ran out of memory at boot, which is pretty easy at 4MB due to all the …

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Re: Custom Installer for programs/drivers under MS-DOS?

Posted on 2024-03-02, 00:38

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Glad to hear the link seems useful! You could also have a look in other Simtel CDs on that site (at least the DOS ones) since sometimes they didn't keep around older tools (there's only such much they can fit on a CD) and newer isn't always better. e.g. there seem to be some other tools here: …

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Re: Dual boot with Win 95 Dos and Win 3.11

Posted on 2024-03-02, 00:18

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Hi.. I couldnt find a Win 95 upgrade with osr 2 or above.. only osr1.. I think by "with OSR1" you mean "with SP1"? I think they're equivalent though, and yeah, you can't go beyond SP1 with the retail (non-OEM) Windows 95 using the normal install methods of anything released by Microsoft, from what …

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Re: Dual boot with Win 95 Dos and Win 3.11

Posted on 2024-03-01, 11:16

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If you install Windows 3.1, then Windows 95 Upgrade (the retail product, not OEM like OSR1 or OSR2) you don't need to run any third-party utilities to get dual boot to work. I guess you don't get FAT32 that way, but you probably don't need it for your 800MB HDD. I'm not sure if you can get USB …

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Re: Custom Installer for programs/drivers under MS-DOS?

Posted on 2024-03-01, 11:09

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Here are some old tools for creating installers in DOS, some are freeware and some are probably shareware: http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simtel0101/simtel/install/00_index.htm I remember I used some shareware or freeware tool back in the early-to-mid '90s but I probably have no way of figuring out …

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Re: 32-bit OS that will run best on 8MB 386sx-16

Posted on 2024-03-01, 07:48

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Regarding Linux, apologies if any of this has already been mentioned: For what it's worth slakinst/SLAKWARE.FAQ from CD 1 of the InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource August 1995 says: Also, I've noticed that most of the reports of kernel panics and system hangs have come from people with 4MB. If …

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Re: mTCP NetDrive: network attached storage for DOS 2.0 or better

Posted on 2024-02-21, 01:04

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What I used to use for working with disk images under Windows was mtools running under Cygwin. mtools is a collection of command-line tools, so you'd create a configuration file which says x: is a particular partition in a particular image file, and then type "mdir x:". If I recall correctly, with …

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Re: How to make DOS 6.22 - Windows 95 OSR2 dual boot on 2 different partition or drive?

Posted on 2024-02-20, 08:03

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I'm sure 95 had the option to boot "Previous version of MS-DOS" in its own boot options menu for that situation. I'm not sure if OSR2 ripped that out for the sake of FAT32 It still had it, but it didn't work - Q155364/KB155364 says: After starting your previous operating system (by pressing F4 when …

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Re: Adventures with Windows 3.0

Posted on 2024-01-15, 05:01

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Higher color depths means Program Manager .GRP files will get larger because they store the icons, and there's a limit on the size (probably 64KiB but I forget), so basically higher color depths means less icons per group. At least this affects 3.1x so I assume it affects 3.0 too! .FON font files …

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Re: Inufuto's IBM-PC homebrew games

Posted on 2024-01-13, 07:18

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Some boot loaders like SYSLINUX and I think GRUB - or at least GRUB4DOS - can load a disk image into RAM and then boot from it. I'm not sure if any of those boot loaders support 8088 though, and in any case I suppose you don't have RAM to spare? 🙁

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Re: Developing for Windows 98 and up?

Posted on 2024-01-13, 07:08

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My recollection is that Windows 8.1 broke the ability to run Visual C++ 6, which would be annoying if you wanted to do some build/debug cycles on a newer OS. Perhaps that got fixed or someone found a workaround. I've heard good things about Borland C++ Builder. I haven't used it much myself but it …

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