Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-28, 13:59

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The functional improvements are very much welcomed, but the design is quite an eyesore, even with the "Old Skool" color scheme. Every page still loads as fast for me as the old design did, so it's not as bad as a routine YouTube interface update (and that's saying something when I have a 55 down/10 …

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Re: HIERMA - a WIP Windows 9x installation helper

Posted on 2019-12-17, 01:27

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Beta 1.2 is now available for download. This version provides many bugfixes and features, including network-based copying from your own FTP server, several internal updates to apply like the United States DST update, and a more versatile optional component menu and temporary boot manager installer. …

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Re: Serial & parallel port opening covers

Posted on 2019-10-11, 13:14

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by Orkay

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For starters, you could just slap some strips of electrical tape over them.

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Re: Ryzen 7 most powerful windows 98 computer?

Posted on 2019-10-06, 13:53

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by Orkay

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I'd go with this parts for best comatibility and best parts: - CPU - Pentium III-S Tualatin 1.4GHz with Lin-Lin adapter - Motherboard - Slot1 Asus P3B-F or Socket 370 Abit BX133- RAID - RAM - Micron 143MHz or better of your choice I tried using a 1.4GHz Pentium III on my P3B-F with a PowerLeap …

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Re: HIERMA - a WIP Windows 9x installation helper

Posted on 2019-10-06, 07:12

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It took me a while, as I had to implement yet more bugfixes, add a few optimizations, and prepare the whole thing for GNU GPLv2 compliance, but here it is... this build should be reliable enough that you could carry out an installation of Windows 9x with additional drivers successfully. HIERMA core …

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Re: HIERMA - a WIP Windows 9x installation helper

Posted on 2019-09-29, 01:37

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I can relate to the whole thing about being busy, having worked on practically nothing but this project every day. I wrote the original post when I was a bit tired, and may not have been specific enough about what all I'd provide. The core of Hierma is comprised of a set of scripts and self-made …

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Re: HIERMA - a WIP Windows 9x installation helper

Posted on 2019-09-28, 23:36

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I haven't posted any updates in a month because I thought nobody was interested in this project, but I have been making lots of headway into it, to the point where it can now prepare a hard disk for installing Windows 95 and automatically load new drivers at the user's choice potentially without …

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Re: Dos Menus

Posted on 2019-09-05, 21:23

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The smallest and fastest menu-system I have and probably will use on my A2286 is called "hard-disk-manager" and I found it on my neighbors 8088xt laptop which he had purchased in the us and brought it back to germany. I've got the same program, along with an earlier menu program that I found on …

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Re: WfW 3.11 - how this guy did that?

Posted on 2019-09-05, 20:34

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I took a quick look at the SETRES.EXE program, and there doesn't seem to be a refresh rate selector, though I don't think refresh rate and color/resolution settings are connected. I don't have too much experience with Windows 3.1x, so I can't give a solid answer as to how to set the refresh rate …

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Re: WfW 3.11 - how this guy did that?

Posted on 2019-09-01, 18:37

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It may be trying to use interlacing to achieve a feasible refresh rate, which your LCD probably can't handle. I have several video cards from 1995 and earlier which have a tendency to use interlacing by default at 1024x768 or higher. Any conventional 15" or 17" CRT should work with that, but the …

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Re: HIERMA - a WIP Windows 9x installation helper

Posted on 2019-08-31, 16:40

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by Orkay

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Got you covered.

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Re: HIERMA - a WIP Windows 9x installation helper

Posted on 2019-08-31, 04:53

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I've been having trouble getting the UBCD to install on a number of systems I've tried, including two that somehow failed to detect my IDE CD-ROM drives or assign drive letters because they couldn't find LocateCD.386. The one that did work seemed to freeze the keyboard and mouse regularly, though …

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HIERMA - a WIP Windows 9x installation helper

Posted on 2019-08-30, 03:24

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Preface. For those who want to cut to the chase, you can skip this section, as it just highlights everything that leads up to this project. I'm sure we've all been there - waiting for the brand new disk partition to format, riding through the usual motions of installing Windows 95, scurrying for …

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Re: WfW 3.11 - how this guy did that?

Posted on 2019-08-29, 23:58

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Matrox video cards have very broad driver support, much like 3Com network cards. With the right model, you can load up a driver for Windows 3.1x, Windows NT 3.5x, and even OS/2 from here: https://matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/latest/previous/ If you want a 16MB or 32MB video card working …

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Re: Retro System Not Powering On

Posted on 2019-07-30, 04:14

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I've been using a new CMOS battery, and even tried powering it up without one, no difference. I read in a manual for a similar board that AOpen has implemented a "batteryless" design, where settings could be stored and loaded from an EEPROM instead of the usual battery-powered RAM. This board is in …

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Re: Retro System Not Powering On

Posted on 2019-07-27, 09:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A surefire way to know the state of the motherboard is to plug in a cheap POST diagnostic card, preferably one that allows for connecting an external display. If you see no codes being displayed (the dreaded four hyphens in my picture), that's often a sign the motherboard has failed unless the CPU …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-07-02, 20:15

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Yesterday/today I ran an unattended installation of Windows NT onto an old SCSI Barracuda drive. The ST31250/ST32550 lineup really has a special charm to it, as it sort of bears a resemblance to the 1M Pentium Pro chips. I have a video of the whole process, among several others that I made just for …

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Re: Windows 95 OSR2.5 installation

Posted on 2019-06-29, 22:31

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by Orkay

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Wouldn't just copying the WIN95 folder to the root of C:\ drive be simpler to do ? Just point setup to C:\WIN95 whenever it has a issue with not finding the CD ROM. That works too, a lot of OEMs just conventionally used C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS. Only the .CAB files from the WIN95 directory would be …

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Re: Windows 95 OSR2.5 installation

Posted on 2019-06-29, 06:44

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Absolutely, Windows 95B and 95C always fail to load the default IDE CD-ROM driver in the second phase of Setup for whatever reason. A good place to copy all the files from the CD's WIN95 directory would be in C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS. In theory, you should then be able to run Setup from that …

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Re: Windows 95 OSR2.5 installation

Posted on 2019-06-29, 02:15

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I created and formatted a 40GB FAT32 partition on a 120 or 160GB hard drive just now, and it installed without any issues. Does your partition have anything on it, apart from temporary setup files? Are you able to use the full size of the hard drive in a newer operating system? It's possible that it …

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