Re: Amstrad Mega PC

Posted on 2020-07-20, 21:34

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You're welcome! ^^ I wish you the very best for the upgrade. A chip capable of acceleration/colour conversion/scaling would be quite nice on Windows. However, in case it's not possible.. QuickTime 2.x can also use DCI if the driver supports it. 🙂 Display Control Interface was essentially Windows 3. …

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Re: Format floppy disks

Posted on 2020-07-20, 20:47

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The track 0 its a pain in the as.. I second this. My workaround was to use WinImage and rewrite a blank disk image/DOS 6 Installation disk image to the damaged disk. This overwrote the full disk and made it usable again. Anyway, it's just a temporary solution. Alternatively, I also used PC-Tools 7 …

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Re: Expanded memory setting hangs (Phil's ms-dos starter pack)

Posted on 2020-07-19, 17:00

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Hi! I think the same. If the issue persists, you can also try QEMM 7 or 8. It's more recent and aware of Pentium CPUs (VME etc) and PCI bus, too. Another program like this was 386MAX, by the way. Anyway, it's just an idea. If you're doing things manually anyway, you can also try using Himem.sys and …

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Re: CDrom + Soundcard Kits from the 90s, anyone got one?

Posted on 2020-07-18, 20:51

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has anyone in the forum kept a kit like those in the box? it would be nice to look at some pictures. Here you go. 😁 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=63199 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=695703#p695703 There used to be normal PAS16 Kits, too. As for the games.. I used to have got …

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Re: Amstrad Mega PC

Posted on 2020-07-18, 20:30

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Actually the acceleration for windows is an important improvement, since it may mean that games such as the first version of Myst should ok on win3.1 - that in itself would be a big achievement 👍 The bios sticker is a nice touch - it looks so original you can't tell its a new chip !! Can't wait to …

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2020-07-18, 07:47

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Woa, thank you very much for your kind words and your understanding! ^^ I was hoping that there's a little bit of interest here on the platform still, mainly because of curiosity and history. Though the quality of these ancient emulators is -ahem- questionable, I totally agree. :sweatdrop: They are …

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Re: Help with flashing a S3 Virge GX PCI card BIOS

Posted on 2020-07-17, 04:02

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Programming an EEPROM or Flash chip is easy nowadays. All you need is a TL866 or similar cheap programmer (G540 etc), a blank EPROM / One Time Programmable ROM (EPROM without window) / Flash Chip. If you are unsure, get a cheap UV eraser box from China and use traditional UV erasable EPROMs (27c512 …

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Re: VirtualBox and sound on Win3.1

Posted on 2020-07-16, 21:37

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You're welcome! I'm glad it worked! ^^

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Re: Help with flashing a S3 Virge GX PCI card BIOS

Posted on 2020-07-16, 21:33

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Programming an EEPROM or Flash chip is easy nowadays. All you need is a TL866 or similar cheap programmer (G540 etc), a blank EPROM / One Time Programmable ROM (EPROM without window) / Flash Chip. If you are unsure, get a cheap UV eraser box from China and use traditional UV erasable EPROMs (27c512 …

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Re: VirtualBox and sound on Win3.1

Posted on 2020-07-16, 11:28

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Hi, you can try to enable SB16 emulation and use the built-in SB 1.5 drivers. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a97MvRIX8Bk Alternatively, you can also try out the SB16 drivers. You find some at vogonsdrivers.com. Good luck! 😀

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2020-07-16, 01:14

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Okay then. I'll attach a stripped down compilation that contains free and shareware versions. Without the runtimes (WinG, Win32s, VB Runtimes) and PD sample games that were originally included. Have fun! 😀 PS: The complete set of files for PC64 can be found here.

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Re: Good gamepad games for a 386 DOS system

Posted on 2020-07-15, 15:10

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Champ Kong? It also supports game pads on parallel port, I remember. Edit: Also interesting.: Jill of Jungle, Vinyl Goddess from Mars, Skyroads, MegaMan X, Jetpack, Jazz Jackrabbit,..

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 13:33

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[As I said before, it was easier and had more sense to not support Win16. At 386/486 time, most emulators struggled to achieve 100% speed (without 100% accuracy) on that CPUs, and Windows could only make things slower. OTOH, some emulators (for microcontrollers) were more usable on Win16... but …

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2020-07-15, 03:12

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Hi everyone, Is there any interest still in emulators on Win16 platform in this new decade? Or in other words, are some of you interested in actually using them on retro PCs? 😀

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Re: Browsing a harddisk under DOS without using BIOS routines (INT13H)

Posted on 2020-07-14, 23:52

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Is there any known DOS utility that doesn't use INT13H to access a disk allowing one to browse its files without said HDD to be seen/declared in the BIOS? Well, most DOS programs call DOS int21h to access a disk - which in turn calls int13h mainly.. Some disk utilities like DEFRAG ((MS, Symantec), …

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Re: Why do look old PC games so low-res?

Posted on 2020-07-14, 17:42

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Thanks so far everyone! 🙂 I guess it's because of the comb filters and analogue anti-aliasing that made the TV games look less pixelated also. And the smaller "sprites" or tiles. Black-White TVs had a very soft image, for example, almost organic. Some ZX81 games looked cleaner than some CGA/MCGA …

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Re: Problems installing Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 4

Posted on 2020-07-14, 15:55

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You're welcome! 🙂 Some Win 3.1 drivers can be found at: https://remember.the-aero.org/speaker/index.htm

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-07-14, 15:51

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That "olivetti"-mode is supported on the PC-Card on my MegaSTE :) I am using it for Windows on the Atari. That's really cool! Do you mind testing that game on it? Please?? 😁 Currently, I can only use my Raspberry Pi 4 and some old laptops. If only PCem ran on the Pi (can't get it to compile myself …

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Re: Make a blank HDD bootable?

Posted on 2020-07-14, 15:45

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Cool, glad you got it working! 😎 The active partition thing was important, sorry for not mentioning that. I guess we simply assumed that FDISK took care of that. :sweatdrop: Ps: If you're interested, you can also install KernelEx which somewhat adds W2k/XP application compatibility to Win98/Me. Also …

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

Posted on 2020-07-14, 15:37

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I'm not entirely sure, but I believe it also can be played offline. With much less detailed maps.. Yup. And probably the detail level will not be that good to be worth the price of the game to play offline. And these maps will be huge, storage is not cheap these days either. GTA V for example is …

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