There is no gameport option in the bios.

Hey there everyone! I've been dinking around with my lovely toshiba laptop, and I've rediscovered how capable of a Dos/win9x machine this thing is. It has a quality TFT screen, the (imo) wonderful ESS688 sound card, and I've rarely run into a problem using it (with the exception a faulty backlight …

I'm not overly concerned about composite out. I plan on purchasing a MCE2VGA, and unless I completely misunderstood, that can handle the composite mode from CGA. Do the wonder cards handle cga on a hardware level, thus giving 100% compatibility? I'm not familiar with that series. As for …

Hey all. I'm planning out another build, this time aiming for a 8088 or 286. My goal is maximum compatibility (so something with a turbo would clearly be ideal!), but I've gotten a little stuck on the graphics card options. I know EGA will support many CGA games, but not all. So...Is it possible to …

Took a while, and it was definitely tedious, but I used the find function in regedit to track down every entry pointing to "D:\" and edited them all to "C:\" All fixed now! Thanks for the help. 😀

Weird. Well, the next thing I'd suggest is searching the registry for any appearances of D:\WINDOWS , to spot any possible redirects / leftovers. Oh man, search the registry! Why didn't I think of that. Gonna check that when I'm home. I imagine if I find enteries, I can just edit them to c:\windows …

Try this: Explorer --> View --> Folder Options --> File Types Select "Text Document" or any other file for which Notepad is the default program. Edit --> In "Actions" listbox choose "open" --> Edit The full path of the application should appear in the window that pops up. Could it by chance point …

Is the problem just with notepad, or all the built-in Windows applications? Check C:\MSDOS.SYS and make sure that WinDir, WinBootDir and HostWinBootDrv are set correctly under [Paths] at the top of the file. Wordpad seems to work okay, so as far as I can tell it's just notepad. Since I posted, I …

Btw, just to stick a fork in this one. Other problems started cropping up, and then I got this awful beep that wouldn't go away and nothing worked. Dead mobo, swapped it out and I'm back in good shape. 😀

So I've got a sort of weird one here, and I'm really scratching my head. I've looked everywhere, and I just can seem to find an answer. Once upon I time, windows was indeed installed on drive D, but that was many in place reinstalls ago, many hardware changes ago. Mostly, everything works stellar, …

Could it be a dead CMOS battery? Have you tried replacing it? Mine has one of those annoying Dallas RTC modules... But yes I checked it, and it's not dead. I recently went through something similar (although it was manifesting as hard drive errors), and figured out my PSU was dying. Sadly i fear …

Hello all, thanks in advance for any assitance. I have a nice little P100 build that I've been using for a few years to play DOS games and some early windows games. Recently, my OS stopped functioning, so I attempted to reinstall. The install repetedly failed with errors pointing to bad ram. …