Re: School me on graphics card RAM upgrades

Posted on 2014-07-10, 16:47

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Unclear if this generation of cards did anything clever with extra memory Until now I thought that resolution/color setting is just a matter of memory and drivers. Are we sure that it's not a matter of available drivers and that really some cards can't output (by design restrictions) every possible …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2014-07-06, 16:15

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Put it in perspective, 5.25" become obsolete around what 1990? 88?, 25 years ago and consider that you could still buy a mainstream pc with a 1.44MB disk less than 10 years of course so of course its fair to assume a high price for that kind of drive. New pc's were sold until the mid 90's that …

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Re: Voodoo 2 graphic artifacts.

Posted on 2014-07-06, 08:17

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I remember having the same issues with artifact in Colin McRae. It's a game I like a lot and I've played it throughout the years in many different configurations and hardware, artifacts problems were definitely there in some cases. Never figured out why. Also I believe that this game doesn't even …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2014-07-06, 08:02

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I recently searched for a normal, HD 5.25" drive for a pc on EU ebay. Nothing rare like a DD drive but I got the same impression. I was expecting many results and only got a few with what I consider as crazy prices. I wish I could find one at a total of $20, the cheapest I found was double that, …

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Re: help for a first timer

Posted on 2014-06-28, 21:10

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As already mentioned by Matth79, a config -set "dos ems=off" before running the game executable is enough for me. Of course you can always set it in your config file.

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Re: Tandy 1000sx XT-CF Help me get over 32MB Limit.

Posted on 2014-06-24, 16:05

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As an initial approach and before trying weird dos versions I would go for a vanilla, official 3.3. I'm not at all familiar with what restricitions 3.2 might have, moreover the tandy version. What I can confirm (having done it recently on an XT with XT-CF, otherwise I wouldn't be so confident about …

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Re: nGlide

Posted on 2014-06-24, 09:16

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Thank you all for the replies, they certainly made everything clear.

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Re: Tandy 1000sx XT-CF Help me get over 32MB Limit.

Posted on 2014-06-24, 09:12

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fact 1: dos <=3.3 will only handle 32 mb partitions fact 2: you should be able using it to define more than one of those (up to 8 if i remember correctly?) An advice that only comes out of personal experience with CF's & XT-CF on such machines: try to partition the cf from scratch ON the machine you …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-06-22, 15:22

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Hey, this filler is amazing, it brought back many images long forgotten! In my opinion, this could have been a full and lengthy episode with some additional games. Or maybe it's just me having played too many lame windows 3.1 games 😀

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Re: nGlide

Posted on 2014-06-20, 13:41

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Not 100% on topic but I didn't find any more suitable thread to ask: The compatibility list, lists all the glide games? I'm interested in finding all dos glide games, so I thought of checking the compatibility list and filter all those for dos. Does this list cover what I'm looking for or I have to …

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Re: 386SX with 8 and 386DX with 12 SIMM slots?

Posted on 2014-06-12, 08:55

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As already mentioned, 8 slots for an sx isn't that uncommon, I even own one myself. But the 12 slots are another story. Aren't those slots for two different kind of simms? If this is the case I'd bet that you should choose (via a jumper or something) which memory type to have enabled, rendering it a …

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Re: Dos Problems - Crashing

Posted on 2014-06-11, 06:06

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Try running something more primitive just to make sure that something IS working in DOS. When you say you can't run anything in DOS, you mean not even dos's editor for example?

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-06-10, 16:10

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Calvero wrote: The Apogee Legacy #20 - Joe Siegler: Your post made me discover those amazing interviews I wasn't aware of until now, thanks! 😀

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Re: Problem with not recognizing hdd

Posted on 2014-06-03, 07:37

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I don't know if size is an issue, it is possible of course, but have a look at the bottom of the disk. There is no chance whatsoever for a common IDE drive not to have a way of selecting master/slave. I'd put my money on small jumpers on the pcb side of it ;) Their existence doesn't necessarily mean …

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Re: 3dfx hardware: worth the money?

Posted on 2014-06-01, 11:40

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Correct me if I'm wrong but I have the impression that among all other things already mentioned running a game with a real 3dfx card offers a unique appearance, the graphics that only with a voodoo one can experience (as long as it supports it). For me it's not about performance, framerate or …

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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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