Re: Voyager probes 40th anniversary
Posted on 2018-12-12, 08:33
Quick update. News say Voyager 2 now has reached interstellar space. https://www.space.com/42680-voyager-2-reaches … llar-space.html
Re: Need Help and Advice on my Win 98 HDD Solution
Posted on 2018-12-11, 08:15
What would be the overall benefit of the SSHD??? Sorry for delay, stressy days here. :sweatdrop: SSHDs are neat since they include a portion of on-board SLC cache. It's essentially an SSD, but is controlled by the HDD controller as a chache inbehind (ie, not visible to the OS). Size is about 4 to 8 …
Re: Interlink for DOS
Posted on 2018-12-11, 08:04
Hi, just for the curiosity, which kind of computers are intended to be connected to each others ? I have the null-modem dongle which twists the wires so the cable is 100% not the issue. Please check out https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=50657 :) Speed is also not the issue. I never detect a …
Re: ICQ revival
Posted on 2018-12-09, 16:01
You guys make me feel young.. 😁 My friends and me used ICQ when Slide-a-lama and video chat were around..
Re: Need Help and Advice on my Win 98 HDD Solution
Posted on 2018-12-09, 09:41
Hi! Welcome to the forums! It's always nice to see a new face here! :) The earlier posters did give some good advices, IMHO. If you like to install a flash medium as a HDD replacement, then that's fine. Just remember a few things: a) FAT/FAT32 can't be aligned to 4K sectors, as NTFS can be. So …
Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)
Posted on 2018-12-09, 09:20
Thanks for sharing! I already downloaded fullWine3.1-v6.zip .. I'll try it out once I've got a bit of free time for testing..
Re: How to Low level format XT-BUS (8-bit IDE/OLD XT-IDE) HDD?
Posted on 2018-12-09, 05:20
Hi, I've found some information on your fixed disk. :) It seems to be a WD93038 series drive with XT-IDE interface. An XT-Bus hard disk, so to say (since IDE drives were originally called AT-Bus HDDs). According to one of the links, there used to be an " IDE SUPERBIOS program for low-level …
Re: Win95c vs. Win98se for gaming ?
Posted on 2018-12-08, 16:24
Well, if you disable Active Desktop and the other web integration in Explorer, it's not all that bad really :) If you still think it's too heavy, you can always install the W95 OSR2.2 version of Explorer with 98Lite . It also have some halfway options that still lets you use the W98 Explorer, but …
Re: Using a modern hard disk in a 486
Posted on 2018-12-08, 10:48
Or 1023, 15, 63.
Re: Win95c vs. Win98se for gaming ?
Posted on 2018-12-08, 07:22
win98 is much better at memory management, any machine with 64mb ram or more should use win98 over 95. Indeed. Some one should assume that older OSes require less than newer ones.. Alas, it isn't always the case. I'm just thinking of Win 3.0 vs Win 3.1.. In a similar way, Win98SE had a lots of …
Re: 486 DX CPU + 487 FPU in dedicated FPU socket
Posted on 2018-12-06, 07:19
The Weitek FPUs were available for 386(DX) and 486 mainboards. In essence, these co-processors were memory-mapped devices. This means that they did use memory a memory region (a window) to pass-through the data. In some way or another, this is akin to how Expanded Memory worked. EMM386 had an …
Re: Question About Hard Drives with Reallocated Sectors
Posted on 2018-12-06, 02:54
1 of them shows as "good", but when I try to format it in Minitool Partition Wizard, I get a "bad disk" error and it won't format. I could be wrong, but such warning messaages are a bad sign nowadays. Newer IDE hard disks (~ mid-90s+) tended to mask any "bad sectors", i.e. tried to fix them …
Re: How to increase video memory?
Posted on 2018-12-06, 02:36
[..] which also prevents the graphics error with the mouse pointer in Windows 3.1. Now that's interesting. I had no clue this was related to video memory size. I also encountered in VPC2007 (16MiB S3). Back in tme I solved this glitchy pointer issue issue by switching between S3 Trio and S3 864 1. …
Re: Crash and dump in DOS mode
Posted on 2018-12-04, 05:47
Interesting. Does it also happen if EMM386/QEMM/etc. is not loaded ? :confused: Edit: Maybe unreleated, bui Phil has some Cyrix utilities on his page. Maybe changing cache/register settings helps. His page is available at https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ Edit: Here's the Cyrix part of the page ( …
Re: Affordable Adlib clone (and low profile friendly)
Posted on 2018-12-03, 23:31
https://www.ebay.com/itm/CLONE-Creative-Sound-Blater-SB-2-0-CT1350B-8-bit-ISA-soundcard/123371042499?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 That is the card I got. Interesting. It includes a CT1336 chip instead of a CT1336A. Seems like this card could accept a CMS upgrade. :) …
Re: When ISA vga card speed matters?
Posted on 2018-12-03, 00:54
Beware. there are different models of the Trident cards. Not alll of them are equally poor. While the 9000 rather was slow perhaps and a low-cost design (I never really got them to work), the 8900 models were quite different in performance. One of them, the 8900D(?), was on par with the Et4000 or so …
Re: The worst sounding hard drive I've ever heard
Posted on 2018-12-02, 01:58
I agree with the other users, that hard disk drive doesn't sound too healthy. :( I'm speaking under correction, but maybe the manufacturer's tools may help to "fix" the drive (low-level format, bad sector marking, etc.). To me, it sounds like the drive is either loosing track/is misaligned or is set …
Re: Old feature phones / smartphones
Posted on 2018-12-02, 01:26
but I cannot use them for anything, even emergency telephone service as US carriers eliminated the 2G/EDGE network to make more space for LTE. Oh dear. I had no idea it looks so dark for ol' GSM (and alikes) around the world. Still using my phone from ~95/96 here, and thought that being able to do …
Re: Testing MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 MPU401 Hanging Notes
Posted on 2018-12-02, 00:59
If anyone has experienced these issues with a PAS16 in the past, I'd just like to know in what games and under what circumstances they experienced issues. Hmm.. I was a long time user of the PAS16, but had no MIDI synth back in the day, sorry. :( Anyway, I vaguely believe to remember that the PAS16 …
Re: Legend Gateway and Gateway II: Homeworld will not run
Posted on 2018-12-02, 00:46
realnc wrote: Have you ran INSTALL.EXE? What does it say? I wonder the same. Also, what does GATEWAY.BAT contain ? It should include something like "GATE VGA BLASTER 7 220 MT32 2 330" (for example). It's also possible that it contains just a part of it ("GATE EGA" for example).
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