Re: My NEW new build, more advice needed

Posted on 2016-06-18, 18:44

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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A pentium 75 - 100 mhz range is more then enough to play dos games like on a 486 class machine. These cpus would normally be to slow if you want to build a low class windows 95 machine.. For this windows 95 machine a pentium 133 mhz should recommended. OK, well, good, since it's pure DOS and right …

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Re: What are the best Pentium 1/MMX notebooks?

Posted on 2016-06-18, 18:34

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by keenmaster486

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDT. Specs: Pentium MMX 166 MHz C&T 55554 video 800x600 display with scaling 64MB RAM Also has one USB port, useful for file transfer and joysticks. Runs DOS dual boot with Win98. It works great for any and all DOS games, and can be slowed down for older games with …

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Re: ReactOS

Posted on 2016-06-15, 04:14

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by keenmaster486

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mrau wrote: i suggest playing with grenades instead - lower chance of it blowing in yer face keep this satan away from physical disks holding important data Ahem. From experience, I agree with this, albeit in less flaming terms.

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Re: My NEW new build, more advice needed

Posted on 2016-06-12, 18:02

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by keenmaster486

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Right now I'm trying to set up a network card. I tried a D-Link DFE-530TX+ and a 3COM930TX and both the drivers say the cards are not present or not installed, even though they are definitely installed in PCI slot #2. What gives? Do I need to set something in the BIOS to make them work? I know for a …

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Re: Hocus Pocus, the AWE32 PnP doesn't go.

Posted on 2016-06-10, 23:33

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by keenmaster486

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Pretty sure Hocus Pocus is real mode. But I have tried a billion real mode games and programs with it; they don't work either. Usually they sort of work, and then crash sometime later.

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Re: My NEW new build, more advice needed

Posted on 2016-06-10, 19:31

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by keenmaster486

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AWE is AWE, not MIDI. It only works for games that directly support the AWE chip. For real MIDI you have 2 options: 1. external box through MPU401 or compatible interface (e.g. sound card MIDI/joystick connector) 2. hardware wavetable connected to the waveblaster header on sound card Hmm... the …

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Re: Hocus Pocus, the AWE32 PnP doesn't go.

Posted on 2016-06-10, 15:56

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by keenmaster486

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No idea. You're doing the command right though, as far as I know. That's how I did it and I got the same results. Apparently AWEUTIL is generally known to be crap.

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Re: Hocus Pocus, the AWE32 PnP doesn't go.

Posted on 2016-06-10, 14:05

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by keenmaster486

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From the "Apogee FAQ:" "Note on Hocus Pocus: This game was made when there were only four possible parameters for the BLASTER environment variable (A, I, D, and T). Due to the way the game parses the variable, the game probably won't work correctly unless the BLASTER environment variable ONLY has …

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Re: My NEW new build, more advice needed

Posted on 2016-06-10, 13:56

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by keenmaster486

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Have you set the BIOS to auto-detect the IDE devices, or are you manually specifying CD-ROM, etc? I've seen manual selections cause really weird problems before. Yes, everything's auto detect right now. I have to run the auto-detection from the BIOS setup screen, which is then saved in the CMOS. It …

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Re: My NEW new build, more advice needed

Posted on 2016-06-10, 04:10

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by keenmaster486

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1. Pentium 75? 90? Perhaps a 133? 2. Probably not great. An S3 card or Mach64 would probably be loads better. IIRC Trident cards of this period were slow and didn't always work right. 3. It's faster, noisier, and these days can be less reliable than good ol' IDE, and as always loads more expensive. …

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Re: That was creepy.... :/

Posted on 2016-06-09, 04:36

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by keenmaster486

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It means the Borg have assimilated your computer, and it's time to run and hide. Protect yourself with sledge hammers and soda pop if necessary. 🤣 Can you replicate the beeps at all?

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My NEW new build, more advice needed

Posted on 2016-06-09, 04:24

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by keenmaster486

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

*Sigh*. I'm abandoning that planned Slot 1 build I was going to do in favor of something else, since I can only have one retro computer right now. There's really no reason for me to have a good Windows 98, 3D accelerated, etc. machine since all of my Windows 98 games run just fine on my main modern …

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Re: Redstar 3.0 North Korea's Operating System

Posted on 2016-06-09, 03:40

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by keenmaster486

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Oh, come on. Just install it in the corner where the hidden cameras can't see! 🤣

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Re: The 486DX 33 MHZ Retro Gamer - Or The Adventure Games MIDI Master

Posted on 2016-06-07, 22:22

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by keenmaster486

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Wow, that's a very nice-looking build. Well done. I wish I had the time and money to make builds like that... sigh. And I see you've been made a mod, Phil! Congrats, you've earned it for a long time now.

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Re: What is it?

Posted on 2016-06-07, 15:10

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by keenmaster486

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Well! That clears it up. Thanks! That's pretty cool. Anyone else have something?

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What is it?

Posted on 2016-06-07, 14:33

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by keenmaster486

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I think it's time we had a thread for unidentified, abnormal, or otherwise strange hardware. (unless there already is such a thread, in which case I'm just a numbskull) So here's one for you which I picked up at a recycle center, in the bottom of a large bin full of motherboards: There's a …

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Re: Entirely irrelevant discussion: PCKF and KEEN:MODDING are down for the 493rd time

Posted on 2016-06-05, 18:08

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by keenmaster486

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Yeah, I made a thread about this over there and it seems that whenever adurdin changes something on his servers, which serve other sites than PCKF and Keen:Modding (I think), then something goes wrong. But that's just a vague notion that I got, and I can't go back to the PCKF to check that thread …

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Starting a DOS/Win98 build, advice needed

Posted on 2016-06-05, 03:36

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by keenmaster486

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Hi everyone, I'm starting a new build! (cue fanfares) Yaay! Woohoo! Ahem. My main criterion is capability: it should run EGA/VGA era DOS games (basically everything from 1990 on) perfectly and late 90's Windows games (e.g. Combat Flight Simulator 1 & 2) reasonably well. So I need everyone's advice …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2016-06-04, 19:58

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by keenmaster486

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English has become the language of commerce, in the same way that Greek was the common language in the ancient world (the reason the New Testament was written in Greek), and Latin a little later on. However, I don't see how making everyone learn and speak English would be very cost-effective.

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Re: I need Help installing 3DFX

Posted on 2016-06-03, 15:27

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by keenmaster486

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Either we have forgotten about the OP, or he has forgotten about us 🤣

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