Re: How much slower and resource intensive is Windows 98SE vs Windows 95C?

Posted on 2020-06-23, 11:08

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Windows 95 supports USB flash drives, too, using this driver available on Toastytech: http://toastytech.com/files/cruzerwin95.html This is a very interesting proof of concept scenario, but seriously.. Win 95 ? It's really dated. :dead: Wouldn't it make more sense you just use Win98SE with 98Lite ? …

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Re: Mouse Serial VS Mouse PS/2

Posted on 2020-06-21, 04:13

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COM ports take IRQs too . COM ports *could* technically share IRQs, though, so *if* you had two COM ports installed, a third or fourth wouldn't take up any extra IRQ. :D A popular configuration was like this: COM1/COM3= IRQ 4, COM2/COM4= IRQ3 https://www.brainbell.com/tutors/A+/Hardware/COM_and_ …

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Re: Newly made ISA CL-GD5434

Posted on 2020-06-21, 03:59

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I doubt any accelerator card works on a 286 - except ATI/S3 with integrated 8514A drivers and not their own drivers. ATI Mach8 and Mach32 do work with 8514/A drivers, and such drivers are already provided with Windows 2.11 - so I guess totally 286-compatible. S3 chipsets, however, don't work as …

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Re: Your oldest favorite computer game?

Posted on 2020-06-20, 07:33

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I'm not exactly sure which my oldest favorite game really is, but it's perhaps among those, I suppose: Chess88 (PC, 1984) MZ-80K Schach (a German game of chess; Sharp MZ, ~1979-83) Defender ( vid #2 ) (Sharp MZ, 1981) Sky Jinks (Atari 2600, 1982) Starflight (PC, 1986) Edit: @RacoonRider Thank you …

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Re: Terminals, Terminal Emulators, Thin clients and seriel/parrallel file transfer and communication.

Posted on 2020-06-20, 06:49

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Terminal emulators I've are are Banana.com (bcom) for Dos. GeoComm for GeoWorks. The default Win 3.1 and the one provided in PSF WinWorks 2.0 Cool. I often use the Windows 2.x Terminal . It can establish a Computer-Computer link, too. Let us hear see what you've used in the past. Looking foward to …

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Re: Mouse Serial VS Mouse PS/2

Posted on 2020-06-20, 03:53

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PS/2 mice are inferior sometimes, but that's because of the PS/2 ports and the odd data format. In RS-232 mode, attached to a COM port, they should be fine. Jumpy PS/2 mouse in Enhanced mode Windows 3.x http://www.os2museum.com/wp/jumpy-ps2-mouse-i … de-windows-3-x/

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Re: Dos floppy installation problem

Posted on 2020-06-18, 20:52

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I got somehow to get the files into the main dos directory manually even if the disk are really full of tracks problems.. :( I installed one of the lightest cdrom drivers but even without anything else but himem, I got 530Kb of conventional free memory.. I don't understand why so low? Anyway are …

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Re: SimTower on Windows 3.1, setup ran out of memory.

Posted on 2020-06-18, 20:34

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BUFFERS=40,0 ? :confused: I heard that SmartDrive can be used as a substitute, but always had buffers enabled, too. I'd also add STACKS=9,256 or STACKS=18,512 to config.sys and see if makes any change. If nothing works, you can give WfW 3.11 a try, too. It has its own replacement for share.exe, for …

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Re: Newbie Questions about Sound Blaster Compatible Cards

Posted on 2020-06-18, 09:22

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ALS-100/ALS-100+ and CMI CMI8738/9739 are also worth a try, if you can find them cheap (say 5€ to 10€). They don't do any wavetable, but have okay-ish FM support and some have Waveblaster headers so they can be connected to affordable MIDI daughtercards like the Dreamblasters. Bolded by me: These …

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Re: How were old games made

Posted on 2020-06-18, 09:04

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At some point, development of SNES games was also done on Macintoshes, I believe. As an evidence, there's at least a Nintendo emulator for the platform (Silhouette). https://www.zophar.net/macintosh/snes/silhouette.html https://archive.org/details/silhouette-snes-mac-dev-kit Anyway, game developers …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-06-18, 07:08

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Am I the only one who hates the turbo boost/core "feature"? It just seems like a convenient way for AMD and Intel to obscure the true thermal characteristics of their crappy CPUs. Sometimes I feel like my systems are going to burst into flames if they run turbo mode too long. After 40 odd years of …

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Re: Can’t boot DOS at all (Presario 425)

Posted on 2020-06-18, 06:44

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This Compaq seems to have 2 ISA slots, which it seems are usually equipped with a network card and a soundcard.. http://eintr.net/systems/compaq/presario433/index.html Wouldn't it the best to just use XTIDE Universal BIOS then ? This would avoid the need to ever enter Compaq BIOS again and would …

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Re: NEC PC-9801 no sound ?

Posted on 2020-06-18, 06:33

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Hi! Your game seems to be using FM, the OPNA sound device (aka FM-86), more precisely. Some links for other vogons users, so they can learn about this game (Flame Zapper Kotsujin).. :) https://www.zophar.net/music/pc-9801/flame-zapper-kotsujin http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/flame-zapper-kotsujin/ …

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Re: 14" Packard Bell CRT Brightness and Alignment Issues

Posted on 2020-06-18, 06:21

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I'm speaking under correction here, so please don't take that at face value, but.. These old monitors, - I once had a similar one by IBM (PS/2 line) -, are not multisync but rather single-frequency. That means, they are aligned for a single frequency. If you prefer running in 800x600, you can do …

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Re: Quality speakers set. Especially low frequencies and mids.

Posted on 2020-06-18, 05:51

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Without taking up tons of space, and hard of hearing does not allow me to pick good one without your help. Natural sounds I heard like at musical threatre I really enjoyed that much before but with speakers I had before did not reproduce too well. Not the the logitech, creative models for example. …

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Re: On track vs XT ide

Posted on 2020-06-18, 05:37

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I prefer XTIDE Universal BIOS or the IDE Enhancer's BIOS, since they also work with non-WinDOS operating systems. Anyway.. EZ-Drive or On-Track come in handy on laptops, since integrating XTIDE Universal BIOS into their BIOS chips is quite a challenge. Edit: On some systems, mainly with ancient 286 …

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Re: Dos floppy installation problem

Posted on 2020-06-18, 05:16

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Hi, I have a genuine floppy version of Dos 6.20 with original papers and box and I was expecting it may be so old to have problem reading it. The first two floppies I got somehow after many times to install while the third disk seems in bad shape and at the end of the installation I've to leave …

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Re: Newbie Questions about Sound Blaster Compatible Cards

Posted on 2020-06-18, 03:21

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Under pure DOS, there is no wavetable, however an external MIDI device can be connected to the gameport. To be honest, I have no idea what that means. What implications does a missing wavetable have? Does it just miss additional instruments which you can add on top on other cards? Or does it …

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Re: Worth Getting a 286 or 386 DX 40 or just using a K6-III?

Posted on 2020-06-16, 19:35

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I believe fast 286/386 PCs are good for demoscene productions or speed sensitive programs also. Both CPU generations have the advantage that they are close relatives and very compatible to the orginal 80x86 instruction set. And, since they have no on-board cache, are compatible with self-modifying …

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Re: Using old sound cards like Sound Blaster 16,AWE32, Gravis Ultrasound on Windows NT

Posted on 2020-06-16, 17:25

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I think the same. Starting with Vista, ISA support was pretty much removed except for a sub-set of ISA-PnP (in order to support system devices on LPC bus, such as temp sensors). Drivers for Sound Blaster 16, MPU-401 and Gameport also were victims of this removal (support for DirectMusic/DirectSound …

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