Re: Windows 95 won't load and just crashes :(

Posted on 2018-06-13, 15:47

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by Jo22

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Ah, I see. Maybe it helps to solve things in a Windows 3.1 style manner. It's been a while, but I believe Windows 95 still has win.com, so the bootlog feature is still there: When the Win95's DOS foundation is booting, press F8 to get to the menu. Select Command line only (DOS7.x), switch to the …

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Re: Sound Blaster 2.0 project & IRQ from OPL2

Posted on 2018-06-13, 10:52

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by Jo22

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Me, too. I really like the design of LABS' prototype (visually has a bit of that charming 60's/70's flair). It's true to the tradition of the do-it-youself scene (PCB looks like a precious vintage item to me), despite beeing very clean looking at the same time (soldered traces, lots of surface for …

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Re: Windows 95 won't load and just crashes :(

Posted on 2018-06-13, 08:46

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by Jo22

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In situations like this (moving Win9x from one system to another) I often tried to start in safe mode, go to system/device manager and delete all device driers with yellowed marks. Sometimes, that even worked and Win9x started up in normal mode again (and reinstalled drivers for all system devices). …

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Re: Win98 e dos drivers for this audio card

Posted on 2018-06-12, 13:54

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by Jo22

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DOS drivers ? Yes. Win98 drivers ? I guess so (never tried them). Re: Pure DOS gaming system with 100% digital audio output

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Re: Norton Commander 4.x and 5.0: a few questions

Posted on 2018-06-12, 13:23

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by Jo22

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I'm curious, how does speed affect NC4/5 ? 😕 I have been using NC 1.x for ages and never encountered any speed issues. The fastest system I had it running on (natively) was a Pentium IV at ~3GHz.

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Re: Windows 3.11 Long File name patch ?

Posted on 2018-06-12, 06:57

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by Jo22

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Update. I have no wish to inflame matters further, but I think I've found what I was talking about earlier.. The program is/was called "LFN(TM) (Long File Names for Windows)".

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Re: 486 DX4-100 CPU benchmark the same as DX2-66

Posted on 2018-06-11, 10:55

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by Jo22

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Interesting. I never used Symantec Sysinfo, but Central Point Sysinfo (SI,"System Information"). I wonder how the Symantec Sysinfo works. Did this happen with other CPUs before ? Does the cache or turbo button make anything different ?

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Re: Was it common to use a hintbook in 90s?

Posted on 2018-06-10, 22:13

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by Jo22

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In the early 90s mostly all video games (even console adventures) came with a hint line you could call and a human would tell you how to get past where you were stuck for an exorbitant fee. I knew people who would call these lines. I had a few. I also did read those help file/hintbook files found …

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Re: DOS 7.1 mount NAS share

Posted on 2018-06-10, 22:04

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by Jo22

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Your idea sounds interesting! :) I haven't done things like this for a while, so I can't answer your questions. However, for the case it doesn't work, there's also a workaround: You can run a Raspberry Pi as a "bridge between worlds". The Linux Samba clients can usually understand both the new and …

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Re: Norton Commander 4.x and 5.0: a few questions

Posted on 2018-06-10, 21:51

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by Jo22

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I STILL extensively use the NC text editor even today on my Android tablet and modern PCs. So, my workaround was to simply use NC50's text file editor, simply copying and overwriting the files "NCEDIT.EXE" and "NCEDIT.MSG" in my NC55 installation with the older NC5 versions of the files. Similar …

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Re: Win3mu Soon OpenSource

Posted on 2018-06-10, 14:54

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by Jo22

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Wow, thanks for the information! That's good news! 😀

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Re: Wanted Diskette Drivers for OTIVGA OTI067 card

Posted on 2018-06-10, 14:51

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by Jo22

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Hi, have a look at ftp://retronn.de/driver/oak/oti067/disk1/ Thats a server by another vogons member, I believe. Good luck! 😀

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Re: Ideal 'steps' for old Windows compatibility

Posted on 2018-06-10, 04:30

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by Jo22

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Some other pros of XP are it's good DirectDraw and DirectSound/DirectMusic support. 😀 - You can enjoy EAX and A3D (if the soundcard supports it) and install SoftSynths like SYXG50 and Roland VSC (Virtual Sound Canvas; emulates SC-55).

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Re: Recreated two Windows 3.0 Wallpapers!

Posted on 2018-06-10, 04:23

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by Jo22

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Or 216 colour, which is the next lower colour depth (according to XnView). Windows 3.1 reserved some colours for its own use, if memory serves.

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Re: Best total diagnostic tool for dos/windows

Posted on 2018-06-10, 04:19

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by Jo22

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Hmm. weird. Sorry that it doesn't work. :( I used to use Dr. Hardware (DOS) back in the 90s. Sure, it had lots of windows popping up.. But that that was okay for me, since I used it occasionally only. Alternatively, you can also give CheckIt! a try. It's a classic. :) Besides the popular DOS …

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Re: Windows 1.0 (one-dot-zero)

Posted on 2018-06-10, 04:13

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Hi Jens, you're welcome. I'm glad it works now! 😀 Best regards, Jo22

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Re: Art of CGA

Posted on 2018-06-10, 04:05

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by Jo22

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Hello, I am the author of this program. I create it for make my CGA intro called CGA Dots . :happy: Hey, that's cool! :cool: Nice to meet you! Your program helped me a lot in converting pictures when I put together that little CGA viewer for dr.zeissler. :) By coincidence, I recorded a quick video …

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Re: FlashFloppy, an open source firmware for Gotek drives

Posted on 2018-06-10, 03:50

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by Jo22

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In addition, there's also "FAT Sorter", a utility for Windows. It will sort files in a specific order on a FAT medium. FlashFloppy also supports normal FAT (FAT12/16B), I believe, since that's what my 64MiB pen drive currently uses.

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Re: Sound Blaster 2.0 project & IRQ from OPL2

Posted on 2018-06-09, 19:13

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by Jo22

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Thanks for your input, Jo22! Making the card also PAS-compatible...got to think about it) Great post on OPL2/DAC level balance by the way. I just added simple 2-channel analog mixer to the output circuit to manually control the levels of DAC and OPL2, just 2 pots instead of 1 on ISA bracket. I …

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Re: Space Quest 3 MPU-401 problem?

Posted on 2018-06-09, 18:54

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by Jo22

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At least the original SB16 models should be compatible to the old DSP-driven SB-MIDI interface. As 5u3 posted years ago, there's a driver package for Sierra games. It will work with the old SB-MIDI interface (but maybe not w/ SB clones). The only downside is, that it may interfere with sample …

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