Re: Pre-1999 games that support 32-bit 3D rendering?
Posted on 2020-02-15, 11:50
Hi, does "32-Bit" in the title refer to the bith depth or 32-Bit x86 code ? 😕
Re: Getting CF card Formatted
Posted on 2020-02-15, 11:21
try an fdisk /mbr or this utility https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/WipeDisk before attempting to partition and format the card I second that. Spur0Kill (S0KILL) is a similar utility, it also clears track 0 and any partition information that follows. If you wish, it can wipe a whole disk, also: …
Re: Any ISA sound card sound as good as the Gravis Ultrasound ?
Posted on 2020-02-15, 01:11
What to avoid: - SB 2.0 - yes, it's one of the worst cards, yours probably isn't broken - other 8-bit cards - some of them may have decent SNR when playing FM, but 8-bit DAC is inevitably noisy - early SB 16 What is worth trying: - late SB 16, based on Vibra - single chip solution usually helps …
Re: Building and installing XT-IDE-CF-OPTIMA in an Amstrad PC1640
Posted on 2020-02-14, 21:21
Looks interesting! Thanks for the video! 😀
Re: Discwashers (tape deck care sets) - any experience ?
Posted on 2020-02-14, 20:42
Re: Voyager probes 40th anniversary
Posted on 2020-02-14, 20:03
Tiny update. February 14th 2020 (news): 30 years ago, Voyager 1 took a picture of „ Pale Blue Dot “, earth, in a distance of 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles). Sources: https://earthsky.org/space/february-14-1990-pale-blue-dot-image-voyager https://www.space.com/pale-blue-dot-voyager-1-photo- …
Re: Need information about this terminal(?)
Posted on 2020-02-14, 17:44
It looks like a BNC connector, maybe intended for video in/out. The large connector in the middle might be a big RS232 connector, DB-25, maybe. That DB-25 connector is obviously for the keyboard, as it has the matching connector. I'd assume the BNC connector is 10BASE Ethernet, or maybe ARCnet. …
Re: Star trek a final unity
Posted on 2020-02-14, 13:14
I've played A Final Unity since about the mid-90s and never encountered major issues (though I admit, the game/installer wasn't 100% bug-free, either). Sure, it ran slow during the 3D space combat scenes on my 486DLC-40 system with 387 co-processor and the VGA graphics required a good card and VBE …
Re: Can you run DOSBox in Windows 98 (NOT run Win98 in DOSbox!)
Posted on 2020-02-13, 23:57
Hello, I've got an related question to "Can you run DOSBox in Windows 98".. Do the known builds of DOSBox take care of 4KiB alignment out-of-the-box or do they plan to do so in the future ? If so this would be neat, so they could benefit from Win98's CacheMap feature.. https://www.techrepublic.com/ …
Re: Need information about this terminal(?)
Posted on 2020-02-13, 23:23
interesting, because while the screen looked 70-ish the keyboard keys distinctly seemed older to me ^^ I even started searching for pre 70s stuff because of that. I've also noticed that the keyboard has QWERTZ layout, so it might originate from Germany. Another thing that took my interest was the …
Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread
Posted on 2020-02-13, 04:49
What is the best Virus scanner for DOS ? Not sure, but probably anything was better than what shipped with DOS. ;) I believe I used Carmel Turbo Antivirus (TNT) in the 90s (knew 853 viruses). Another cool one was on a shareware CD-ROM and had a cool virus database, with lots of background …
Re: Help Flashing XTIDE Universal bios
Posted on 2020-02-13, 04:32
Kids, XTIDE Universal BIOS is great, but it's not the only solution in town. ;) IDE Enhancer cards with their own Option-ROM existed years before XTIDE development had even started. These looked like this -> https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=559691#p559691 Search for "LBA-Enhancer-Card" to get …
Re: Best imaging software for old operating systems
Posted on 2020-02-13, 04:22
windows 2000 - acronis true image 10 w/bart's pe builder, has a few different boot and recovery options to run from windows or other bootable environment. also useful if you need to above) - macrium reflect . whatever the latest version is. still runs on xp. love those guys. I'm speaking under …
Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?
Posted on 2020-02-12, 13:12
I second that. VGA clone cards were almost all SVGA cards from the start, since even after the VGA release in '87, when many EGA clones started to feature 800x600 pels resolution as an optional feature. To give an example, the Paradise Professional VGA (PVGA1A) and Video 7 VEGA. On the otherhand, …
Re: Connecting old machines to the internet: dispelling the superstition
Posted on 2020-02-11, 20:11
Then there's the Flash problem...which you can better just not install as each version has tons of security issues, no matter the OS. I've pretty much killed it (Flash) from all the machines I use regularly. I was never a fan of Flash, never. When I started my career as a web designer, I had a lot …
Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.
Posted on 2020-02-10, 14:21
I'm also impressed by 86Box/PCem and I think there is still a lot of room for improvement also. Like FPU or serial port support, just to name two examples that come to mind. (And last but not least, V20/V30/186 support for XT machine types, heh. 😉 )
Re: Help Flashing XTIDE Universal bios
Posted on 2020-02-09, 01:06
In order for Windows 9x to show 32bit access for the drives, you need to select one of the 47 pre-defined drives or put in any random CHS values in the "Custom Drive Size" in your BIOS. If you don't, the esdi_506 driver won't load and reverts to compatibility mode. I second that. There once was …
Re: What is the name of this 'futuristic' racing game?
Posted on 2020-02-08, 22:45
Zone Raiders ? https://www.mobygames.com/game/zone-raiders/screenshots There also was a beta/prototype version without weaponery, ads and opponents, I remember. just you, the night and foggy bridges in the sky. I wished I had kept a backup..
Re: Voyager probes 40th anniversary
Posted on 2020-02-08, 15:37
Thanks for the replies, folks! 😀 February 3rd, 2020: According to some Austrian news page, Voyager 2 is operating normal again. Englisch translation available here.
Re: 8088/XT build advice
Posted on 2020-02-08, 12:33
[..] back then CGA was used mainly with RGB monitors, not with NTSC color TV sets that hardly could display 80 columns text. Interesting. That's why I love vogons forums. You always learn something new. I was under the impression that CGA color-wise was such an eye cancer that people back then …
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