Re: 3D print topic?

Posted on 2022-01-04, 16:03

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Ghost town... let's bring this back to life. I thought it died before it took off :) Probably very useful for those with a 3D printer though (I doubt I could afford one even if I had the space :) ) During Black Friday you could a solid 3D printer for €168 (Artillery Genius) so it's really not THAT …

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Re: Pentium 233 MMX, Windows 98, DOS 7.1 and hard drive size limitations

Posted on 2022-01-02, 12:31

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Sweet! I love mine. It is sometimes picky about what slot it’s in. Try slot 1 or two first. 👍 I wanna say that I’ve seen 90 or so MB/sec on a modern pci slot/system. But some systems it is around 40 or so. Hopefully I won't have to do a lot of shifting - I only have 3 PCI slots and the Voodoo2 is …

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Re: Pentium 233 MMX, Windows 98, DOS 7.1 and hard drive size limitations

Posted on 2022-01-01, 19:38

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Not sure🤔 if talking about network card and rom or xt-ide Network cards and roms are cheap. You may wanna invest in a chip programmer though. If you have one of those it’s just so easy to flash roms without having to jump through hoops pop it out, program it, pop it back in all from windows 10 …

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Re: Pentium 233 MMX, Windows 98, DOS 7.1 and hard drive size limitations

Posted on 2022-01-01, 16:50

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https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=84642&p=1020047&hilit=diy%20bios%20bio%20k6#p1020047 You may be able to use a xt-ide to get the drive working?🤔 (same concept as the network rom) But yeah, a pci add in card is faster than any of these options. Personally, I use a 2.5” ssd and a promise …

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Re: Pentium 233 MMX, Windows 98, DOS 7.1 and hard drive size limitations

Posted on 2022-01-01, 13:52

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https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=84642&p=1020047&hilit=diy%20bios%20bio%20k6#p1020047 You may be able to use a xt-ide to get the drive working?🤔 (same concept as the network rom) But yeah, a pci add in card is faster than any of these options. Personally, I use a 2.5” ssd and a promise …

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Re: Pentium 233 MMX, Windows 98, DOS 7.1 and hard drive size limitations

Posted on 2022-01-01, 13:25

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If you have a NIC with an EPROM socket, you can install a Promise DriveMAX ROM which will add BIOS support for drives up to 128GB. I have done this in several of my computers. I've read about that. If I read right you don't even need to use the card - it will enable LBA support just by using your …

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Re: Pentium 233 MMX, Windows 98, DOS 7.1 and hard drive size limitations

Posted on 2022-01-01, 11:29

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OK I'm getting nowhere. I tried every hard drive tool I could find and none worked. EZ-Drive came the closest but a bug in the software meant that while having to enter the partition value, it refused to accept it because the maximum number was more than 5 digits. Plus, the EZ BIOS overlay caused a …

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Re: Pentium 233 MMX, Windows 98, DOS 7.1 and hard drive size limitations

Posted on 2021-12-31, 16:50

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Did you use some additional software to address 32GB? There were tools abailable back in the days from Seagate or Maxtor to circumvent BIOS limitations. https://www.deinmeister.de/e_over8mb.htm For a controller it´s necessary that the used controller chip is supported by both WIN98SE and DOS - …

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Re: Pentium 233 MMX, Windows 98, DOS 7.1 and hard drive size limitations

Posted on 2021-12-31, 16:34

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Would a controller card (with it´s own BIOS) be an option? Well it worked before so I assume it would work again - I recall I probably used a bootable CD tool to do it with ... But with controller card, you mean something like this? https://www.bol.com/be/nl/p/via-vt6421a-pci-2-port-sata-raid-ide- …

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Pentium 233 MMX, Windows 98, DOS 7.1 and hard drive size limitations

Posted on 2021-12-31, 15:37

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OK this is driving me crazy. Here's the situation: I have an IBM PC 330 from 1996 which I've upgraded from a Pentium 150 to a Pentium 233 MMX. The BIOS is IBM BIOS upgraded to the latest version (from 1999). It originally had a 40GB hard drive installed that had 32GB accessible in Windows 98 SE. I …

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Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?

Posted on 2021-12-31, 13:13

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I've done a LOT of testing on many different systems over the past two years using a mix of original & replacement drivers and I found the following: - CTMOUSE is not worth it - way too many games have issues with it: * games not detecting the mouse * game speed being wrong or X/Y axis having …

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Re: Repair SSD drive with Windows 98 installation

Posted on 2021-12-29, 11:25

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Use Super Fdisk and it'll be done in the blink of an eye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5ivV5tyfRs Thanks I'll give it a look! I love bootable CD based tools - means I don't need to take out the drive from the PC. EDIT: nope, while the tool works, it only sees 8GB as well so I'll need to connect …

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Re: Repair SSD drive with Windows 98 installation

Posted on 2021-12-29, 00:19

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If a modern PC can read the SSD, then just copy all the files to another drive. Reformat the SSD, make it bootable with Win98SE and copy all the files back - it should work fine. Yeah that's one option I've considered but from what I read, a damaged Media Descriptor is NOT fixed by a format. I'll …

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Repair SSD drive with Windows 98 installation

Posted on 2021-12-29, 00:09

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I have a Pentium 233 MMX that runs Windows 98 SE using a SSD drive with a 32GB partition. This has worked well for the past two years but while trying to get my Voodoo2 cards to work in SLI, it locked up during installation and now on reboot, it hangs on SCANDISK. SCANDISK seems to be stuck trying …

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DOS boot up splash screen?

Posted on 2021-12-12, 14:53

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My old IBM PCs all have boot splash screens that hide the DOS text while it loads, displaying a logo instead. I quite like this approach so would like to use a similar system for my main "driver": an AT&T 486 DX2 66. I found some programs like "Blackout" but I cannot seem to get them to work with …

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Re: Worth getting a AWE32 CT3910 for €60?

Posted on 2021-12-10, 11:38

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I mean you would get the default 512K sample ROM for AWE32 music option alongside a genuine OPL3 but that's not worth $60 at all. You can buy a YMF71x card + an AWE64 Value for maybe even half that price, stick them both in and get the same thing. Thanks for the info. I have a MT-32 + Sound Canvas …

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Re: Worth getting a AWE32 CT3910 for €60?

Posted on 2021-12-10, 10:30

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appiah4 wrote on 2021-12-10, 10:03: I'd say no. Yeah that was my feeling too - the lack of memory kind or wave board pins means you can't really do much with it that a SB16 can't ... and I just bought a great Sound Blaster 16 (CT2230)

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Worth getting a AWE32 CT3910 for €60?

Posted on 2021-12-10, 07:43

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I find very little about this card on Vogons - it seems similar to most SB16 cards and has OPL3 but has no wavetable header and limited memory so I wonder if it's worth getting for €60?

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2021-11-05, 20:10

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It looks very cool - I don't see CD audio among the options however. I assume that will be supported as well?

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Re: Windows 98: Alcohol 120% vs USB stick FIGHT!

Posted on 2021-10-27, 20:37

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This is why I avoid to install games from a CD drive with letter D. I quickly change CD drive letter to Z after installing Windows 9x to avoid this problem (in device manager, properties of CDROM drive). Well, some games are weird and refuse to play CD audio because for some reason, they look at …

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