Re: AT Keyboard to PS/2

Posted on 2014-05-30, 13:36

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I've never come across a single din keyboard not working with a simple din->ps/2 adaptor. I assume you've already tried connecting a normal ps/2 keyboard to that port, just to make sure nothing else is wrong? If you have, then you have a keyboard with a very unique personality there :) (which might …

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Re: Troubleshooting a Win 98SE OEM Box

Posted on 2014-05-24, 14:26

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My main question is whether the power supply should turn on if the only things I have connected to the motherboard are the ATX power connector and the front panel power switch/LED connector. No drives are connected, and there are no cards in the slot. I just want to power up the unit to BIOS using …

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Re: Help with DOS 6.22

Posted on 2014-05-14, 05:32

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Artex wrote: "Banana" is just the device name for the CD-ROM. I believe some of the boot disks at bootdisk.com use this name instead of "CDROM," etc. Correct, which also means that these disks don't contain the original/untouched dos 6.22 as the original poster might be thinking

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Re: Minor (or major) injuries from gaming or building/using computer...?

Posted on 2014-05-13, 16:39

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Apart from standars cuts on cases while sitting cards etc that is already heavily mentioned, I can only remember of one other nightmare (I was working as a last-cog technician back then) : Early dram memory modules, still coexisiting with simms, that were ment to to be fitted on first socket 7 m/b's …

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Re: Stuff you did with the PC's at school

Posted on 2014-05-13, 12:57

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Since we didn't have any computers at school, this is a classical prank that children used to do TO ME when windows had become a standard (after 1995). I was working at one of those little local computer all-in-one stores that was also providing some computer classes for little children. They used …

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Re: CF Card Issues on a 386

Posted on 2014-05-13, 08:49

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Glad to hear this 😀 Now if only somebody could explain it...In my mind I'm starting to believe that there is something going on with the way cf cards/modern hard disks report their characteristics and how those old BIOS's try to access them, but I cannot back it up with with data.

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Re: CF Card Issues on a 386

Posted on 2014-05-12, 14:54

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Had the exact same symptoms myself. Tried to recognize the card in another computer as suggested earlier in this thread, but still. What solved it was installing a disk manager. I know, the cards you're using are within the theoretical limits and it shouldn't be necessary, but it seems that for …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-05-11, 18:29

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Hi Chris, you are aware that there are some older episodes that don't play, right? (“Sorry, we're unable to play this episode” message). I don't know if these videos have been intentionally taken down or if it’s a temporary problem of the video hoster, just though to mention it. For example as I …

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Re: The Old Classic Not Enough Memory Error

Posted on 2014-05-11, 14:02

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Can you tell us which program you're trying to run on what computer/environment? Also I think it would help showing both your config.sys & autoexec.bat in order to get some optimization advice.

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Re: MS-DOS 6.22 Memory Optimizations (Conventional free: 643.600 (629K))

Posted on 2014-05-05, 08:03

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1) Weird, there seems to be some inconsistency between documentation and comments. Obviously what you did and quoted is the correct one since it's working :) 2) Ah OK, so this is DOSMAX's job.. I didn't know that files-stacks-etc size affects and can be seen in the size of MSDOS. That's really …

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Re: MS-DOS 6.22 Memory Optimizations (Conventional free: 643.600 (629K))

Posted on 2014-05-04, 16:56

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Thanks for this, great info! I have some points for discussion/clarification, not necessarily for your post but for this thread in general: 1) In hiram's documentation and site, for example http://www.mdgx.com/umb.htm#HIR it is stated in bold that HIMEM.SYS must be loaded BEFORE the UMBPCI.SYS line. …

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Re: QuickBASIC in DOSBOX

Posted on 2014-05-03, 15:08

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Could you give us the actual code you have (either attached file or just the listing) in order to replicate the problem? At first me too didn't think that the problem was dosbox related, I imagined some error in your program, but stating that it only happens when running the same code from within …

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Re: I need help running Jazz Jackrabbit

Posted on 2014-05-01, 18:03

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I probably shouldn't even reply to this since it doesn't seem you did anything of what was proposed above. Anyway, you're not going to get any solution to your "problem". A simple 10" google search confirms above posts and reveals that this is not a problem, the game IS designed this way. Knowing …

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Re: Windows 3.x specific games

Posted on 2014-05-01, 14:46

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I'd add Bermuda Syndrome (1995), underrated IMO. Does run in Win95, but also 3.x I'm not sure if it counts for your search since it wasn't originally released only for 3.x, but most of 3.x games could run anyway in Win95

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Re: OK...this is annoying....hmmm

Posted on 2014-04-28, 15:34

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A very very long and probably worthless shot, but is there a chance to run it with the reduced RAM (i.e if only the RAM got ripped off and nothing else is damaged)? Nvidia partners slapping different amount of RAM for a particular GPU, there being no separate video bios or driver for each such …

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Re: Protac AV202P3 - Can anybody tell me *anything* about this card and how to get it working?

Posted on 2014-04-27, 17:26

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Pictures don't help at all, but I think I remember that those cards where known as "master boomer". Since there are no better answers, have a look at http://museum.ttrk.ee/th99/i/P-R/51311.htm to see if the layout matches that of your card, I can't really judge by the blurry and small pictures of …

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Re: List of Black CRT's

Posted on 2014-04-17, 17:50

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I'm aware of Nec's AccuSync 70-BK (BK for black I suppose...)

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Re: Booting a 486 from floppy of an image

Posted on 2014-04-14, 16:20

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That's excellent, it means you just have to create a proper win95 boot floppy image and nothing else is wrong. Start with WinImage 😉

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Re: Booting a 486 from floppy of an image

Posted on 2014-04-14, 15:04

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Yeah, this is why i'm asking. Make sure that you use something like winimage to "write" the image on the floppy, not just transfer the files. You can ensure that the floppy is correctrly written if you actually try to boot from it in virtualbox. Not the image file as you've already done, the actual …

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Re: Booting a 486 from floppy of an image

Posted on 2014-04-13, 18:48

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1) Can the 486 boot from any other floppy disk? 2) How do you "expand" the image to the disk?

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