Re: Maxing out Win95 conventional memory

Posted on Yesterday, 19:48

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If you want UMBs but not EMS, EMM386.EXE can take a NOEMS switch. I have UMBPCI on my Win98SE tower and can try to look for the proper switch there if you want. I used to use QEMM on a DOS laptop, but it broke. I think I still have it and a manual in my downloads folder. Should I try to look through …

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Winn11/64: Scmpoo didn't work: need to try him/her and Catz on Win98SE!

Posted on Yesterday, 19:34

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Hi! I'm at my mother's house now. :) I recently tried to install Scmpoo at least once on two different 64-bit computers, but he/she didn't install. I need to try him/her and Catz on my Win98SE tower there. I'm saying because I have a little worm on those computers, and he wants a little buddy. BTW, …

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Re: Win98SE: constant exception 0Es opening folders?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:23

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I have good news! I'm back at my mother's house since this morning, and I finally got my Win98SE tower to work. :) I looked into its config files to disable everything but HIMEM.SYS and found something new: a line for setver.sys. Disabling everything got Windows to install, and reenabling everything …

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Re: Maxing out Win95 conventional memory

Posted on Yesterday, 18:54

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Oh. Sorry! 🙁

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Win3.1 under DOSBox: compressed floppies?

Posted on 2025-03-21, 10:58

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Hi! I have a Win3.1 install under DOSBox on two 64-bit Windows laptops and like using floppies. I'm wondering if I can compress floppies for use there or have a drive mounted in DOSBox before it is available. I really don't want to upgrade to DOSBox-X, but if I must, I must.

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Re: Maxing out Win95 conventional memory

Posted on 2025-03-19, 10:55

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Try EMSMagic! https://www.emsmagic.com/.

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DOSBox-X: fire button doesn't work properly in some games: suspect Alt key not registering

Posted on 2025-03-18, 23:27

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Hi! I tried some DOS games at my day program on DOSBox-X today but wasn't able to use the fire button on them. I almost never used a joystick on PCs so emulate one using the keyboard. I believe it's because DOSBox-X doesn't tell the emulation that the Alt key was pressed. I can use the standard …

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Pursue SGOS?

Posted on 2025-03-10, 12:16

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Hi! A long time ago, I thought to produce a semi-DOS-like OS for the PC called SGOS. That's short for Simple Game Operating System. It was to provide the support needed to better host games. It would support things like "sprites," backgrounds, music and sound effects. Its main menu would analyze the …

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Re: OT and Obsolete: Better text compression?

Posted on 2025-03-09, 09:57

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Good news: I finally gained some ground with text compression! :D It turns out that I was using the wrong technique to get the tokens. I'm currently only collecting the results after tokenization and before my other techniques. There, I gained 2.1% yesterday evening. I still have a lot of work to do …

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Re: Getting files transfered with serial port

Posted on 2025-03-06, 18:56

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I had a similar problem: I had a DOS laptop at my mother's house that had no hard drive, so I used a network software to simulate some hard drives via a connection to another computer, and at the time, I was using NSLAN to provide the connection. You can find it at http://www.retroarchive.org/garbo/ …

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Re: OT and Obsolete: Better text compression?

Posted on 2025-03-01, 21:59

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I will post some of my code now, in the hopes that somebody here can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Following are the code for my modified version of Toldo's technique that parses the words: unsigned parsetokens1main (void) { unsigned i, j, k, l, m, n; unsigned curstrlen, curtoklen, assuspc; unsigned …

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Re: OT and Obsolete: Better text compression?

Posted on 2025-03-01, 18:57

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Good news: over the course of today, I gained a little more than 40 bytes compressibility in one of my versions of PrintTok2: it is the one based on Toldo's design. However, it's still not doing all that well: on 1,370 bytes of text compiled, I'm getting 654 bytes compressed, while Deflate (zip …

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Re: What Is Your Favorite Operating System(opinion poll):

Posted on 2025-02-27, 12:58

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I personally also prefer Win7 over Win11: I find it to have a better and more functional GUI: it looks better and has more color options and functionality. I like the Start menu there and also like the Explorer's Recent Folders and Last Searches features. The only major problem is that the Command …

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Re: OT and Obsolete: Better text compression?

Posted on 2025-02-27, 11:14

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I have several versions of PrintTok2, including one that uses a modified version of the 5 bits method you specified. I also have a couple that favor more-often-occurring letters. I have the text adventure's text mostly ready for compression but had to manually decompress it, as I was using PrintTok1 …

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Re: OT and Obsolete: Better text compression?

Posted on 2025-02-27, 00:24

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I took a better look at PrintTok2's output earlier today and confirmed that the tokens gathered in Pass 1 are realistic, but, after sort, I'm getting very few tokens. :( Every tweak I applied to the sort function, even when they gave more tokens, cost me in overall compressibility. I really don't …

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Re: Win98SE: constant exception 0Es opening folders?

Posted on 2025-02-22, 19:03

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I'm mainly good with the software of the computer but not the hardware. 🙁 Maybe I should try eBay for a good motherboard. I'm familiar with FDISK and FORMAT and am willing to stuff the computer myself. I just need the hard drive installed, and all the other parts of my computer are working.

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Re: Win98SE: constant exception 0Es opening folders?

Posted on 2025-02-22, 17:40

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myne: Can QEMM's MANIFEST scan memory? I have that. 😀 cyclone3d: I don't have access to the computer's inners, but, as it is a Pentium 4 computer, its power supply should be pretty new.

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Re: Win98SE: constant exception 0Es opening folders?

Posted on 2025-02-22, 16:33

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I'm at my mother's house right now and have been trying to reinstall Windows. Right now, after I enter the product key, I get an error about msgsrv32 producing an illegal operation then a fatal exception 0D. I really want this computer, as there are some things I want to do on it.

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Re: Boppin' game music off-game?

Posted on 2025-02-20, 21:18

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You're right, and I did think of that but don't want to hang in there for three to four minutes waiting for the song to finish for each song. BTW, I grabbed a few screenshots from DOSBox-X and want to capture some more. Is anybody here interested in these as wallpaper? I also have some C64, NES, …

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Re: Boppin' game music off-game?

Posted on 2025-02-20, 20:37

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Is there a way to download and listen to the Sound Blaster/AdLib versions? I admit that the MIDI version is more realistic but prefer the original versions of the music. I only get download links for the MIDI versions. 🙁

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