Re: PayPal takes your money

Posted on 2020-10-09, 07:01

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Add to that their commonly known scummy practices of currency conversion (which is set to allow PP to automatically steal... I mean "convert" the amount instead of letting the credit card do it, and they make it hard to find the way to change it). Yeah, but you only need to do this once and then it …

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Re: [DOS6.22][AWE64] Crazy Drake's sounds cut off after 2 seconds

Posted on 2020-10-09, 06:52

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First i didn't find aweutil anywhere so i downloaded it and put it in the sb16 folder. I called it in the autoexec.bat but i got an error - ERR012: AWE32 initialization failed. Maybe I am missing something ? It probably means that you have installed the wrong drivers. AWEUTIL must be part of any …

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Re: PayPal takes your money

Posted on 2020-10-08, 19:09

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There are some updated agreements circulated which have this clause. https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/ua/pdf/GB/en/ua-121620-v2.pdf Here it's A3.13. It says "may". It says explicitly that "the inactivity fee will be the lesser of the fee listed below or the remaining balance in your account …

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Re: [DOS6.22][AWE64] Crazy Drake's sounds cut off after 2 seconds

Posted on 2020-10-08, 17:34

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Did the driver install package put the lines related to sound in your startup files or did you edit them manually? I can point out the following: You're missing a call to AWEUTIL /S in AUTOEXEC.BAT, which is required to get any kind of music working. Digital audio should probably work with these …

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Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-10-08, 17:17

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The computer survived and the postman didn't?

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-08, 11:32

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by dr_st

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According to the manual, SNDINIT /B initializes the device using the values specified in the SOUND16.CFG configuration file. So one should be able simply keep multiple copies of the config file and use some batch file to move them around and run SNDINIT /B based on whatever config they want.

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Re: Moderator "It's not okay to bump a thread that's been dead without any new replies for 12 years."

Posted on 2020-10-08, 11:27

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shock__ wrote on 2020-10-08, 08:30: Every thread that hasn't had replies in 2 years has this reminder: "NOTE: This thread has been dormant for over two years..." Yeah, I too know some forums which are like that. I like it.

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Re: Moderator "It's not okay to bump a thread that's been dead without any new replies for 12 years."

Posted on 2020-10-08, 08:10

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There's some times where i've linked a previous old thread for reference on a new member's thread and that linked old thread would be bumped with a duplicate post, so I don't even do that anymore. Yep, it's probably better to just quote without a link. :) Thanks to search engines, though, I think …

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Re: [DOS6.22][AWE64] Crazy Drake's sounds cut off after 2 seconds

Posted on 2020-10-08, 07:59

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Phil's boot menu presets are largely unnecessary. The "extended+expanded+cdrom+mouse" is what works with 99% of the games. But just having them there doesn't hurt either. Please post your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat. There are some specific things you need to run during startup to initialize the …

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-08, 07:49

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Thank you for sharing this, dionb. I think that it's pretty much the ideal solution that enaiel will find at this point, considering the budget. If I needed another retro system or didn't already have an Audician32 + Dreamblaster S1 for my setup, I'd get one of those OPTi930 myself. They are even …

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-07, 16:10

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Exactly, it's not really so complicated, but when you define a specific budget that's quite low for the given market, then it gets complicated. Since it's unlikely you get a "steal" on an OPL3-equipped early AWE32, your best bet is to choose between an AWE64 Value and the aforementioned OPTi 930 ( …

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Re: Moderator "It's not okay to bump a thread that's been dead without any new replies for 12 years."

Posted on 2020-10-07, 08:01

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"It's not okay to bump a thread that's been dead without any new replies for 12 years." If you have something to say about that thread? It depends on the nature of the thread as well as the nature of the new reply. A 12-year old thread can have lots of information that is outdated, irrelevant and …

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-07, 04:29

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Onboard wavetable means that it can work as a General Midi device? If so, then for that purpose it's just as compatible as an AWE, because I'm not sure I know any DOS games that have AWE Synth support, but not General Midi support. Then it's all a matter of the quality of the wavetable. cyclone3d, …

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-06, 07:06

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dionb wrote on 2020-10-05, 23:00: If you really want to go AWE, I'd sooner recommend a CT3900 or similar early AWE32 They are harder to find and usually way more expensive than an AWE64 Value. Although the Values have been going up in price too.

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Re: Windows XP on SD card

Posted on 2020-10-05, 21:35

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If one has a different (non-SD) drive, then one can just run WinXP from that drive. The thing is that IDE hard drives are becoming scarce, which is why CF/SD cards (with the appropriate IDE adapters) are a popular solution for retro PCs.

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-05, 13:00

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PCI sound solutions for DOS are not a good idea, unless you have one of those rare boards with SB-Link. Maybe you should rethink your hard $20 limit for a sound card. Not suggesting that you "go nuts" and spend $100, but if you see that extending the budget even to $30 will suddenly give you many …

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-02, 19:26

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Have fun! Personally I would save up for a voodoo3 agp and a yamaha ymf719 isa sound card and throw win98 on there too. Thanks. Is a 3dfx card really required for DOS games? The list of DOS Glide Games seems pretty small, and the cheapest voodoo card I can find is a Banshee for $50. For DOS, no, …

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Re: I made a miniature IBM PC

Posted on 2020-10-01, 18:51

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This is absolutely awesome. It should be on a shelf running demos all day.

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Re: Is it possible to get ansi.sys working as in normal dos Config.sys file?

Posted on 2020-10-01, 04:55

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Yeah, it became obvious it's a DOSBOX question just posted in the wrong forum. :) The question is - is it possible to run some stubborn programs that insist on looking for a particular device driver in RAM, even though it is not actually needed because DOSBOX already provides said functionality. The …

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Re: Windows XP PC that I built today.

Posted on 2020-09-27, 11:14

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This is a nice build. Useful and not over the top. Not sure it's fair calling StarForce malware. :P It's just a driver, albeit one that can render your system unbootable if an incompatible version is installed. Apparently some users were complaining that its presence may trigger repeated errors on …

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