Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-05-06, 22:53

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luckybob wrote: The older I get, the less I like people, and the more I like my dog. not sure how you mean that; also before You people judge him remember that this is what this stupid society does with men;

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Re: Best way to play DOS Games on an old PC witbout using floppy?

Posted on 2017-05-06, 20:31

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not even bad, but the floppy cannot be used via standard floppy controller, needs some weird contraption i guess; the noise isn't there either; i know i know, i want it all..

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-05-06, 18:52

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now i wonder if it's mostly men who downvoted your clip

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-05-06, 18:25

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yes, theres generally more to it, like "he dares to say something i don't approve of, how dare he post without my written consent"; imho ignore it, it's not your task to appease people who don't give a s**t about You;

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Re: Is win2000 as great, as every claims it to be?

Posted on 2017-05-06, 15:02

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so let me ask, would You also say that windows server has a better storage performance than workstation? this definitely holds for xp/2003 imho

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Re: DOS path tracing CPU benchmark

Posted on 2017-05-06, 14:58

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vladstamate wrote: 386DX 40Mhz (with 387): 4758 s. one patient bad boy :> still float is not much use in the software from those days, could this not be done with fixed point math?

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Re: MS Flight Simulatot part s 1 - 4 ?

Posted on 2017-05-06, 13:39

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the problem with most of the wannabe-civilized world is that the term abandonware is not legally present or binding; personally though i believe if a company does not care for cutomer requests for a given product for more than 3 years - its abandonware and the company should loose forever all …

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Re: Best way to play DOS Games on an old PC witbout using floppy?

Posted on 2017-05-06, 03:57

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i wonder if anyone ever makes flash discs may have the shape of a 3.5" diskette and the reader might actually just make similar noises th the real ones :>

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Re: Is win2000 as great, as every claims it to be?

Posted on 2017-05-06, 03:16

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i had an mvp3 back then and it was problematic until i chose one version of the via driver that worked; do you get corruption when copying in rescue mode?

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Re: Is win2000 as great, as every claims it to be?

Posted on 2017-05-06, 02:56

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Oldskoolmaniac wrote: I should also add that 98, ME, XP and 7 have all worked perfectly on this setup. ok, in that case i would say 2k comes with a driver that fscks things up; slipstream newer drivers into the installation media?

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Re: Is win2000 as great, as every claims it to be?

Posted on 2017-05-06, 02:43

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i have never had a similarly nice microstuff os on my computer except maybe server 2k3 also the file copy issue says "hardware"

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Re: ti4200 AGP 4x or 8x or maybe ati 9800 pro?

Posted on 2017-05-01, 15:55

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thank You, but all of these are d3d/ogl; this does imho not show how agp helps with fast DOS... 🙁

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Re: ti4200 AGP 4x or 8x or maybe ati 9800 pro?

Posted on 2017-05-01, 14:36

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if agp 4 and 8 perform the same, then what is it that stops the scaling in DOS high resolutions?

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Re: Industrial Engineering Station - Advant Station 130 - Pentium 1 - Giant Laptop

Posted on 2017-05-01, 10:37

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what do You change in kernel to accomplish this?

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Re: ti4200 AGP 4x or 8x or maybe ati 9800 pro?

Posted on 2017-04-30, 20:15

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can You for comparison try one or two of these under win 9x?

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Re: ti4200 AGP 4x or 8x or maybe ati 9800 pro?

Posted on 2017-04-30, 18:54

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this was pure DOS? any tools used? i wonder why the numbers are so low on a 2.5 Ghz machine

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Re: A P4 Rambus system, by AzzKickr

Posted on 2017-04-30, 18:06

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another driver maybe?

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Re: A P4 Rambus system, by AzzKickr

Posted on 2017-04-30, 17:50

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agp problems? software issues? can You try with some older linux live thing if other systems work well? also: http://kmeleonbrowser.org/

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Re: Can you still write general purpose assembly programs on modern OSes?

Posted on 2017-04-26, 22:16

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i must say thats actually unexpectedly huge... i had trouble making more than 10kb in one program when i was learning asm, it just took ages to type all that. i guess someones a geek here or there is something in there linked statically;

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Re: Can you still write general purpose assembly programs on modern OSes?

Posted on 2017-04-26, 21:56

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assembly requires tons of lines of code, the resulting binary however might be quite small

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