Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2020-03-07, 19:23

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by dr_st

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Looks like it's gonna be a while till I get to my AWE64 system to test on a real system. What I can say is that in DOSBox, Aladdin plays stereo music with SBPro option selected, even if DOSBox itself has sbtype=sb16. But I don't know if DOSBox emulates a real SB16 in this regard.

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Re: The 65MB Win98 ram limit

Posted on 2020-03-07, 10:53

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by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Indeed. Just move your existing Config/Autoexec somewhere out of C:\ and things should work fine. I don't know how you ended up with at Config.sys, but there is nothing useful in it. Windows 98 needs nothing in Config.sys to see all the RAM, because it loads its own HIMEM.SYS automatically and that …

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Re: Request for custom dos Cheat codes

Posted on 2020-03-05, 06:58

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by dr_st

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in DOS

I second Game Wizard 32. Used it quite successfully for a couple of games that had no built-in cheat codes (a long time ago).

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Re: IBM ThinkPad R60 (ATI X1400 vs NVIDIA 6600)

Posted on 2020-03-05, 06:52

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by dr_st

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in Marvin \ Video

I recall playing some nice-looking 3D games up to 2005-2006 on my T60 with T7200/X1400 on high resolution (1400x1050 or 1680x1050) and good framerate. GTA up to San Andreas, Prince of Persia up to The Two Thrones, Chronicles of Riddick (the original one). Actually, Riddick may have been on a T42 …

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Re: The Terrible Teenager Vista Build

Posted on 2020-03-03, 20:26

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by dr_st

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Heck. My first and only Vista PC was built in late 2008 around Intel P45 chipset, a Core 2 QX9650, 4GB RAM, 9600GT and obviously 7200RPM drives. It's been super-fast for its time, and aged remarkably well (RAM was upgraded to 8GB and GPU was replaced with GTX 660 at some point). It lasted for over …

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Re: Best computer for Vogons interaction ?

Posted on 2020-03-03, 17:54

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by dr_st

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

iPad obviously.

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Re: ATI X1400 vs NVIDIA 6600

Posted on 2020-03-03, 17:50

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by dr_st

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For a few years (~2010-14 or so?) there were very few new laptops with better screens than a 15" IPS T60, and through the mid 10's there was still much worse out there that cost a lot more. I would say more late 2007 (when T60 was phased out) to late 2013 (when you started seeing IPS display …

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Re: Google Safe browsing Advisory

Posted on 2020-03-03, 08:39

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by dr_st

in dgVoodoo General

in dgVoodoo General

Oh, I agree that they are all crap. It's been years since I used any AV other than Windows Defender. And even that flags my completely legitimate Windows/Office activators as malicious. :P But there are probably things that are more likely to be triggered. Like, perhaps, non-standard compilers, etc. …

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Re: Google Safe browsing Advisory

Posted on 2020-03-02, 16:13

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by dr_st

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in dgVoodoo General

From reading those links, I think it's more than just being a small developer with a small user base. I can understand that as a small developer, if you get flagged, it's harder to get unflagged. But something must be flagging things in the first place. Or are you suggesting that these AV heuristics …

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Re: Google Safe browsing Advisory

Posted on 2020-03-02, 08:57

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by dr_st

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in dgVoodoo General

Dege, I do want to ask. Developers all over the world use standard Windows APIs, include version numbers in their binaries, and probably uncompressed graphics as resources. What makes your program special that it triggers all these false positives time after time again?

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Re: DOS 6.22 vs DOS7.0 compatibility difference

Posted on 2020-03-01, 13:16

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by dr_st

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in Marvin \ Software

So, you're saying it might be that only my installation of Windows 95 is for some reason prone to this garbage and I was able to run the game without problems in DOS 6.22 and Windows 98SE out of luck? I ran the game back in 2000 and had no this bug, only Windows 95 causes problems, hence my …

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Re: DOS 6.22 vs DOS7.0 compatibility difference

Posted on 2020-03-01, 11:36

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by dr_st

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in Marvin \ Software

There IS difference between DOS 7.0 and 7.1 Windows 95 is built on top of 7.0 and Windows 98 is on top of 7.1 I've set STACKS=8,128 like BioMenace Help file says, but it didn't help. I've played this game back in 2000 on a Windows 98SE machine and never had problems. But I can reproduce this bug …

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Re: ATI X1400 vs NVIDIA 6600

Posted on 2020-02-29, 10:03

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in Marvin \ Video

Because of the popularity of the mod, ready-made units pop up on the Thinkpad enthusiast market every now and then. But in any case, measuring these machines in "dollars" is pointless. Their performance/price ratio is terrible, no matter how you look at it, and they are not about performance at all. …

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Re: ATI X1400 vs NVIDIA 6600

Posted on 2020-02-28, 23:15

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by dr_st

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A T60p is not quite shooting for the moon in this niche. Shooting for the moon is a Frankenpad with high-end T61/R61 guts in a T60/R60/R61 15" shell modded with a T60 IPS screen. 😀

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Re: Windows xp boot removal.

Posted on 2020-02-26, 19:21

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by dr_st

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My guess is that if all you want is just to get Win98 to boot and remove any traces to XP, then SYS C: from a Win98 boot disk should be enough.

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Re: Disappointing Windows XP gaming performance

Posted on 2020-02-24, 19:03

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by dr_st

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

lost77 wrote on 2020-02-24, 16:55: Geforce 6600, maybe similar to 9700 Pro?: Late 2002 6600 series is from Q3-2004, but the plain 6600 is not very capable. The 6600GT with GDDR3 RAM would be clocked faster and perform better, even with lower VRAM size; 6800 would be better still.

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Re: Show us your IBM Compatible PC games collection

Posted on 2020-02-24, 18:57

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by dr_st

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I've added a few more entries to my PC Collections writeup: https://i.postimg.cc/64239577/PCCE_POPS_195857.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/fVQFb4J3/PCCE_POPT_221118.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/87W6RwzF/PCCE_AB3G_190211.jpg and the Russian Collector's Edition write-up: https://i.postimg.cc/qNwn3Yrv/RPCE_POP4_ …

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Re: Dual Boot MS-DOS and Win98SE on SEPARATE DRIVES???

Posted on 2020-02-24, 18:47

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by dr_st

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

The other one is probably CTCM/CTCU because it checks for WINBOOTDIR environment variable. I have a fix for that. In other words, nothing meaningful.

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Re: SBAWE32 Reboots computer when running certain games

Posted on 2020-02-23, 18:59

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by dr_st

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

My Win98SE machine has 256MB RAM and I don't think Jazz Jackrabbit crashes with EMM386 (I definitely don't have that DPMIMEM switch), but it may be affecting some systems and not others. Great find.

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Re: Dual Boot MS-DOS and Win98SE on SEPARATE DRIVES???

Posted on 2020-02-23, 18:54

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by dr_st

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in Marvin \ Software

Can you name specific examples of such SW? You also have to rule out differences in startup files (Config/Autoexec). Or are you saying that they were configured exactly the same way between DOS6 and DOS7 and still some software behaves differently?

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