Re: PCI Soundblaster card for DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2015-09-29, 14:11

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by chinny22

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Not that I want to discourage setting up dos. All PC's should use dos! but you also have the option of playing dos games from within Win9x. if you want the easy way out. Most early PCI cards had good Win9x "legacy drivers" for dos gaming and a P3 should have plenty of power to play without dropping …

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Re: Ideas for Future 6.22 DOS Build

Posted on 2015-09-29, 13:29

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by chinny22

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Like everyone is saying it really depends on what era games you want to play. I'd also list what you got lying around and may work just as well, quick example is say a fast CD drive with a slowdown util

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Re: Compaq Cntura 4xx laptop keyboard bug ... please help !

Posted on 2015-09-29, 13:19

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by chinny22

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So if when playing doom the arrow keys work, ctrl works, shift works by themselves just not when you press all of them at the same time correct? This is a limit of the keyboard and very common http://blog.controlspace.org/2010/08/n-key-rollover-what-it-is-and-how-to.html Lucky it is easy to fix! …

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Re: Surviving the late 90's without 3Dfx

Posted on 2015-09-29, 12:46

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by chinny22

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Surprised how many people are similar to me and had a 486 up till 98! After that I got a Gateway P2 400 where my friend recommended paying the extra for 16MB TNT. I remember him showing me his Voodoo with a passthough cable and thinking it was messy! NFS3 was my big 3d game and the TNT was up to the …

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Re: My Pentium IV Rocket Build

Posted on 2015-09-29, 12:39

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by chinny22

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The case is interesting with the hot plug style drive bays. If you really want to make it a rocket, install Window 98 and make it scream 😀

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Re: If I was looking for a clean install of DOS, what would I buy

Posted on 2015-09-11, 17:43

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by chinny22

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Until recently you could download 6.22 Upgrade from Microsoft. It was called MSDos6UP.exe or something similar. These didn't boot though (I'm not home so cant check but it would be easy to find) Just to be absolutely clear, you can install Upgrade on a freshly formatted disk, Setup will complete …

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Re: No reset button on PC case, should I add it?

Posted on 2015-09-11, 17:14

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by chinny22

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Just wanted to check, does the motherboard have headers for a reset switch?

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Re: It's 286 time!

Posted on 2015-09-11, 14:42

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by chinny22

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I know what you mean about the Gotek. Have one on all my PC's and love it accept the 486 I grew up with, it just doesn't look/sound right. But as you have 2 FDD drive bays, its defiantly the easiest option. What I'm doing with my 486 now is the Original HDD as the Primary and CF card as slave. I …

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Re: Toshiba has dropped online support for old Libretto laptops :(

Posted on 2015-09-03, 12:02

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by chinny22

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Since last year or so a lot of old hardware/software is disappearing from web sites. Stuff that's been around for decades. I'm blaming the fact that everything is being redesigned portable devices and guess it makes things cheaper/easier to not bother with out of date stuff. Even a lot of the old …

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Re: running a pIII cpu/mobo for windows 3.1?

Posted on 2015-09-03, 11:48

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by chinny22

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As above, Win3x isn't an OS outright its just a shell. As long as dos runs your safe. For some of the "enhanced" features. - Graphics wise on Nvida site of things you can go as far as TNT2 officially, their maybe hacks to go later? - 32bit disk access is down to the HDD manufacture and doubt you …

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Re: What Piece of PC Hardware Have You Owned Longest

Posted on 2015-09-02, 13:17

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by chinny22

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LOVE the matching cases pewpewpew! You just need the desktop version if there is one? How did you manage to get them? Oldest hardware I own is the Osborne 486 http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=42212 But that's was the family PC so would be a bit of hardware for that. 16MB stick of ram or …

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Re: Dualschutes: Why have SSE when you can have twice the MMX?

Posted on 2015-09-01, 13:59

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by chinny22

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At least its just the disk and not the motherboard, much easier to fix! Agree with the PCI card as Win2k is the OS. My favourite is the Audigy 2 ZS, although its not going to be a massive difference to the 5.1, Naturally there is nothing stopping you from duel booting, My P2B-DS duel boots between …

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Re: Suntac 286 saved from the dump (now with pictures!)

Posted on 2015-09-01, 12:59

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by chinny22

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Shame, but at lest you will have saved some of it, not scrapped the entire thing like the person before

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Re: Not for the faint of heart: computer recycling documentary

Posted on 2015-09-01, 12:57

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by chinny22

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While sad, I prefer it to get recycled then in the landfill where a lot still ends up I'm sure, and most of the stuff being recycled would have gone, people would have still thrown it out. Its no different to old cars, antiques, etc. Everything goes through the cycle of being in fashion, out of …

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Re: "New" lot of Creative cards - help me decide which ones to use in builds.

Posted on 2015-09-01, 12:38

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by chinny22

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In real world terms a card with a Vibra chip means you loose the ability to adjust treble and Bass on the card itself. Not a problem if you can do this with your speakers. Also can sound a bit cleaner, again doubt you will notice unless you have real good hearing. So the CT3930 is a SB32 not a AWE32 …

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Re: Booting Dos from floppy questions

Posted on 2015-08-29, 20:37

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by chinny22

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Bit lost? Title says booting dos from floppy so am I right in thinking Windows is installed on C:\ and your using the floppy to bypass the GUI? You can try Path=c:\ (wherever your system files are, usually c;\windows\command) in fact you can run the files direct from there, no need to have them on …

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Re: The Nostalgia Bug

Posted on 2015-08-29, 20:23

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by chinny22

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Think its always been a way to escape back to "when things were simple" My father got a slot car set in his 40's. I remember granddad reliving the "good old days"

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Re: CDROM on Compaq Presario CDS 520

Posted on 2015-08-28, 16:14

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by chinny22

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If the cable is going to your HDD first then you can be confident its using a standard IDE interface. I doubt if anyone ever integrated more then the sound component of a card into a motherboard, just doesn't make economic sense. (The motherboard will already have a IDE controller chip, why pay to …

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Re: CDROM on Compaq Presario CDS 520

Posted on 2015-08-28, 12:14

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by chinny22

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BIOS doesn't care about makes, speed, etc. Just as long as the secondary channel is set to say auto rather then disabled you should be fine and this should be fine as you are swapping out drive. IDE drives are pretty generic in dos as well, although there is the rare drive that don't like generic …

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Re: 3DFX Voodoo 2 in modern computers

Posted on 2015-08-28, 12:02

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by chinny22

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I ran this test a while back should give you an idea of temperatures the cards normally run at on a fast pre P4 machine (at which point bad things are supposed to happen) http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=34641 I'd say if it runs significantly hotter see if you can cool it down to similar temps …

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