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quake sound blaster question

Posted on 2012-01-26, 01:11

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I was wondering if someone has a suggestion for me regarding setting up up Quake under DOS on a Sound Blaster 16 It a sound blaster vibra 16. I know - it is a PNP card. I already have the computer set up yo call CTCM in the autoexec.bar file. All the other games for which I can manually set …

Re: pclinux

Posted on 2012-01-18, 12:23

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Yes - it set up a swap partition when it installed. I think one of the reasons it was so slow initially was I had it installed on and old 5400 RPM DMA 33 drive. When I changed it to a newer 7200 RPM DMA 66 drive I noticed a BIG difference (and 768 MB of RAM helps a lot too)

Re: pclinux

Posted on 2012-01-17, 23:34

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Thanks for all the feedback here. I wasn't really looking for advice, just trying to start a general discussion. I actually like PCLinux, I have had better luck with it than any other version I've ever tried. Everything actually works - internet, sound. etc...

what are we using DOS for

Posted on 2012-01-16, 23:53

Quite a few people on here are building DOS machines. What are you using it for? Playing games? I discovered not everything DOS runs under windows 95 or 98. I hit a "glitch" in Terminator Future Shock that I cannot get around on faster machines. I also discovered that some of the programming I was …

pclinux

Posted on 2012-01-15, 19:48

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I am curious - does anyone have any experience with PCLinux? I am running it on an old P3 1100 MHz. I'm running the 2009 version. It's *not* as fast as win98 - I had to max out the RAM to 768 Mb to get any reasonable performance. It also helped a lot when I switched to 7200 RPM DMA 66 hard drive …

Re: dos box completed

Posted on 2012-01-15, 19:34

well I haven't put win 3.1 on it (yet) - if I do it will likely be on another partition I used to have a conner 1275 Mb drive that was in a 486 box, and that was about right for DOS, but it eventually died. (The seagate is a LOT faster anyway) 😁

Re: dos box completed

Posted on 2012-01-15, 13:46

I am not sure I agree on the hard drive - anything over 2-gig and you have to start partitioning, which I don't really like. But it's okay. Like the motherboard, the hard drive never really saw much use either. It very quickly became too small for wn85/98, and has been sitting around for a long time …

Re: dos box completed

Posted on 2012-01-15, 02:05

I found this picture on the internet http://www.frontier-electronics.co.za/images/old_386dx66.jpg The case I have is almost indentical; clearly the same manufacturer This is the board that is in it: http://www.sk.rs/1998/04/sktd05.html Ironically, I've had that computer a long time, but it never saw …

dos box completed

Posted on 2012-01-14, 00:45

I just finished a more "proper" dos box, 1. DTK motherboard with pentium 233 MMX. A little fast for DOS, but more appropriate than the p3 I was using. 2. Seagate ST-6422A drive (6.4 gig). A little big for DOS, but the old 400-Mb conner I was using was too small (and noisy) 3. 64 Gb SDRAM 4.Trident …

Re: If you had to choose....

Posted on 2011-12-03, 01:02

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I would say: 1. A real DOS box - something employing a 486 or slower pentium 2. A windows 98 machine - a k6-2 or (more preferable) a pentium 3 in the 500-1000 MHz range 3. A windows XP box running an Athlon Xp 4. Something modern running Windows 7 - dual core or quad core

Re: Yeah the demise of Seagate!

Posted on 2011-11-06, 18:49

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I once got a Maxtor ~2 gig that failed right away. The replacement failed right away, and although the second replacement was a different model I didn't trust them anymore. No more Maxtor. I had two of the WD BB series drives - both of them failed within a year. No more WD. In the meantime I have a …

Re: Yeah the demise of Seagate!

Posted on 2011-11-05, 20:39

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I think seagate went downhill after they purchased Maxtor. I ever read in some forum somewhere that a seagate employee told someone over the phone they were putting Maxtor parts in their drives and the new ones are junk. I have a whole bunch of st340016A (40-gig) drives still running after 7-8 years …

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