Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-07-28, 07:12

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Has anyone got one, and if so are you enjoying it? Is this going to be a fun machine that we can talk about for many years, with fun 8-bit ISA card developments? Or is it going to disappear? I don't own one so this is nothing more than my opinion without facts to back it up: being a one man project …

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Re: Disable sound in DOS?

Posted on 2023-07-27, 07:03

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If you generally don't want the speaker you can unplug it from most motherboards. Also search if the game has any command-line parameters to start without sound.

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Re: What's the best way to archive floppies under win98 or DOS?

Posted on 2023-07-26, 16:28

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There is no "best" way, it depends on the floppies and what you are trying to achieve. Assuming that 1) the disks don't have copy protection 2) you want to create simple image files readable by most other software 3) using a tool that runs on old windows or DOS, basically any disk imaging utility …

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Re: vogons search engine bug

Posted on 2023-07-26, 11:15

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Have you noticed that the "missing" threads are spelled wrongly with only 1 "o"? So term "dgvoodoo" doesn't match, although wip should dgVodooo 2.7.x and related WIP versions (2) dgVodooo 2.8.x and related WIP versions

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Re: vogons search engine bug

Posted on 2023-07-26, 08:37

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robertmo wrote on 2023-07-26, 04:00: it has something to do with threads editing or the 3-letter "wip" term. Try to search just for wip in topic titles, nothing logical is returned. Whereas if you search just for dgvoodoo the threads in question are included.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-07-25, 07:56

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Made some low budget ISA clock frequency counter cards. Ha! Really nice, is it some published project or did you do it yourself? Tell us more, I needed exactly this in the past and couldn't find anything similar. It looks like a generic frequency counter kit PCB grafted onto what I think is a …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-07-24, 14:55

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Dorunkāku wrote on 2023-07-24, 12:31: Made some low budget ISA clock frequency counter cards. Ha! Really nice, is it some published project or did you do it yourself? Tell us more, I needed exactly this in the past and couldn't find anything similar. Edit: thanks for the edit and further …

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Re: The Cycles (1989) game music on Roland MT-32

Posted on 2023-07-24, 09:01

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Many people know very well that cycles never had Roland music and just didn't want to engage in whatever game you were playing. The lack of any post in this thread should have made it obvious.

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Re: Create better compression?

Posted on 2023-07-23, 08:54

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So you are developing not just one but some compression techniques that are not just doing better but much better that 7zip? On real data? Honestly I very much doubt this. I'll be very happy to be proved wrong though and salute a new Galileo 😉

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Re: Is this a replica? Sid Meier's Pirates! game in ebay

Posted on 2023-07-19, 13:06

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ldeveraux wrote on 2023-07-19, 12:42: Strange that I couldn't find this release on Mobygames though... Not really, mobygames still has a lot of things missing and some errors too. I don't complain, it may not be perfect but it's the best reference I know.

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Re: Is this a replica? Sid Meier's Pirates! game in ebay

Posted on 2023-07-19, 06:33

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Filename Untitled.png File size 71.34 KiB Views 813 views ...and that's why posting good photos is important and can get answers 😉

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Re: Drive Issues with a C&T BIOS

Posted on 2023-07-19, 06:29

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You can also try some Dynamic Drive Overlay (DDO) software eg. EZ-Drive, they usually do the job.

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Re: Pentium 3 1 GHz Tualatin or P3 1 GHZ Coppermine for Voodoo 3 200 agp card

Posted on 2023-07-19, 06:21

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You don't need a Tualatin, but if you end up getting one just for the sake of it I've noticed that motherboards that don't support the top-of-the-line Tualatin CPUs and/or don't have ISA slots are considerably cheaper that others.

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Re: Is this a replica? Sid Meier's Pirates! game in ebay

Posted on 2023-07-18, 16:17

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There is absolutely no way that the 1987 release was on a HD disk. I don't know and can't tell if this is an original disk from some other release, but it's not from 1987. What's the formatted capacity? If it's 1.44 computers listed as compatible wouldn't even be able to read it. Also did you buy …

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Re: Looking to buy a garden strimmer, and weed killer.

Posted on 2023-07-17, 18:46

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I don't know of any pet-friendly herbicide, do they even exist? And what does pet friendly mean, they can lick it for example? I doubt. Roundup is commonly used, spraying 4 times/year controls unwanted vegetation. But although I haven't seen anything dead yet and after a day it's safe to use the …

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Re: 386 and Compact Flash Woes

Posted on 2023-07-17, 08:13

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Some ideas: -try to hold shift down while booting to boot clean -does the system boot from a floppy that has a config similar to that of your CF (himem, emm386, .sys drivers...)? I'm thinking memory issues or instabilities irrelevant to the CF card.

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Re: Was there ever really an MS-DOS 6.23, 6.24 or 6.25 or is it an urban myth?

Posted on 2023-07-15, 14:32

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And then there is Google's Bard, it starts well and... Humanity is safe. These things do not even make a good joke yet. Filename Capture.PNG File size 37.99 KiB Views 2524 views

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-07-15, 09:55

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Since I was a kid I was attracted to the video cards bios messages during startup, especially the colourful ones. Always tried to read them before they disappear and frustrated with early LCD screens that couldn't sync on time. I considered them part of the computer's "character" or "personality" if …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2023-07-14, 12:37

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JustJulião wrote on 2023-07-14, 12:31: Your YT channel gave me lots of ideas of games to test ! Thank you ! Is yours at stock speed ? You did quote him saying it's "modified and overclocked" 😀

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Re: w i n d o w s

Posted on 2023-07-13, 20:02

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And to ask one new question, does anybody know if there where any Intel P35/ICH9 Chipset Drivers for anything older than win2000? Because I found nothin on my search, but I would be interested (mainly for win98🙃🙃) Maybe the thread title was written with spaces between letters, did you try that? ( …

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