Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)

Posted on 2015-01-02, 18:20

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but still with perfect DOS compatibility, PnP ISA slots with DMA I disagree there. Because the CPU is so fast, there's quite a bit of software that fails. Not all ISA devices will work for that reason either, even in Windows. I had trouble with a real Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 card in my Pentium II 350 …

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Re: Modern sound cards, what's all the fuss?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 15:30

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I can still pass through inputs in Windows 8.1 it's called "Listen to this Device". In newer Windows this is an 'active' monitoring thing though. It even works across devices. So I can monitor a USB audio interface on a PCI soundcard for example. Windows just forwards the data from one device to …

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Re: Modern sound cards, what's all the fuss?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 14:48

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I'm pretty sure that most semi-pro sound cards with ASIO drivers can sort things like recording from multiple inputs at the same time mostly in hardware, disregarding what limitations Windows might impose. I haven't actually tried doing recently, but I'm almost 100% certain that my DMX 6Fire USB …

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Re: Modern sound cards, what's all the fuss?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 14:45

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Yeah, sorry, was a bit lazy with the reading there. Well, I've personally ran Windows 7 SP1 32-Bit on an AMD Sempron 3000+, 2Gb RAM, Radeon X800 XL system and it works, albeit a bit laggy. I'm pretty sure it will run on like a fast Socket 370 or Athlon XP system. Sure, the OS will work, but …

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Re: Modern sound cards, what's all the fuss?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 14:30

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Your processor needs the SSE2 instruction set as well as PAE support, which is not required for Windows 7. As I say, a Pentium 4 or Athlon64 will fit that requirement. Which is early 2000s technology. So I wonder what machines he runs Windows 7 on then? Although older machines can theoretically run …

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Re: Modern sound cards, what's all the fuss?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 14:01

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Can't speak for Windows 8 because I don't own anything that meets the minimum spec for it. How is that, since the minimum spec for Windows 8 is virtually identical to that of Windows 7? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#Hardware_compatibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8#Hardware_ …

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Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)

Posted on 2015-01-02, 13:15

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Dialling back ~10 years to own a computer in the S478 era is definitely going to feel retro. Well, I'm not sure about that... Especially if you just run Windows 7 on it or such. Then it'd just feel exactly the same as a new machine, only slower. If you missed out on Windows XP, then perhaps running …

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Re: Old Finnish dos game

Posted on 2015-01-02, 13:07

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Does someone happen to know how to make this sigma in dosbox? Normal alt + something commands haven't worked so far. Copy-paste from Microsoft Word didn't work either. You probably need to select the proper codepage. MS-DOS predates unicode and all those fancy character sets. By default it starts …

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Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)

Posted on 2015-01-02, 10:24

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Isn't it the same as with other things though? Like with cars or guitars for example... Stuff from a certain era is sought-after, because it is unique, different, historically relevant etc. In my view, PCs from the 478/775 era are just the same as the ones we use today, just a bit slower. I don't …

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Re: Old Laser 486 - Treasure or Trash?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 09:16

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Runicen wrote: ATX power supplies that can be adapted to work with AT motherboards? Any ATX power supply can be adapted to work with an AT motherboard afaik, using a cable like this: http://www.atxpowersupplies.com/ATX-to-AT-Converter.php

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Re: A modern DOS Quake engine by Qbism

Posted on 2015-01-02, 08:05

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The Descent code wouldn't be very useful anyway due to a license conflict IIRC. Well no, but the code can be studied, and might give some 'inpsiration' for making the Quake-renderer faster on 486. But I think with two simple changes you should already get quite far: 1) Make the rasterizer perform …

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Re: A modern DOS Quake engine by Qbism

Posted on 2015-01-01, 11:27

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Second of all, I think that it would be an interesting project (that I would start if I had the time and/or skill) to try to write a quake engine specifically optimized for the 486. I'd really like to see this. Here's some nice inspiration to get you going with someone doing an excellent job at ' …

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Re: Donkey.NET

Posted on 2014-12-31, 18:03

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I have given this game a quick look, and the problem seems to be that it relies on dx8vb.dll, which is not included with Windows Vista or newer. There are also a few pretty nasty bugs in the code. The most important bug is that it tries to run the rendering in a separate thread. This means that a …

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Re: Quick way to tell if a 486 board supports Pentium OD?

Posted on 2014-12-31, 11:11

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There is one way: If the board has a large socket (with more openings than the 486 has pins) it might support POD. Otherwise, it definitely won't :) Yes, operative word being 'might'... I have one board where my Pentium Overdrive fits, but it doesn't work properly. It works fine in a more modern …

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Re: Are there any games that are incompatible with newer versions of DOS?

Posted on 2014-12-31, 07:58

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I don't consider DOS 7 a proper DOS, since it is not a standalone OS, but rather the DOS-portion of Win 9x. Because of this, it requires quite a bit more memory than standalone versions of DOS, and I have run into some problems because of that. It is physically impossible to free up enough …

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Re: MS DOS for XT computer / other stuff

Posted on 2014-12-30, 22:47

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Scali wrote: I believe there is also a key-combination to switch the speed, but I don't know it offhand. I have the original manual though, so I can look it up tonight. The key combination is alt+left shift+right shift, by the way.

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Re: MS DOS for XT computer / other stuff

Posted on 2014-12-30, 17:53

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I found multiple versions of DOS 3.21 (for different systems). I would still like the image, maybe one of those is the one you have. Here are the two Philips floppies that came with my machine: http://bohemiq.scali.eu.org/PhilipsP3105 They also include things for the ATi Small Wonder video card. …

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Re: re: MFC42.DLL (on windows 95)

Posted on 2014-12-30, 16:06

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chrisNova777 wrote: http://www.1st-technologies.com/files/vc6redi … t_download/file could this be it? I already linked that one above, I think that's the one yes 😀 Else I can look up my VC++ 6.0 CD when I get home.

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Re: MS DOS for XT computer / other stuff

Posted on 2014-12-30, 15:57

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Also, do you have DIP Switch information? And a manual maybe? I do, but it's in Dutch (the MS-DOS is also a Dutch version, now that I think about it). There's only a few DIP switches on the motherboard though, so I can just translate for you, I suppose.

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Re: GTX 660 memory arrangement

Posted on 2014-12-30, 15:52

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Thanks, so it doesn't put the whole card in 64-bit mode when memory usage crosses 1.5 GB? I've read the whole article before but it's not really clear on if the "worst case scenario" applies to the whole card or just the last 512 MB of memory. From what I understand, it interleaves the memory …

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