Re: WinGroove lives again (in soundfont form)

Posted on 2023-12-05, 13:19

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Just in case anybody wants to check out the other WinGroove versions like "wg0a4_e.exe" - WinGroove version 0.A4 Beta-2, get them here: https://patpend.net/ftp/emulators/wave/ By the way, the registration data from version 0.9E is still valid in 0.A4 Beta-2.

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Re: Big Box PC Games – Show and Tell

Posted on 2023-11-14, 12:19

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One can be confused since Keen 4 and 5 is included in the very same big box. There is no box titled "secret of the oracle", hence the commitment. Keen 4 = Secret of the Oeacle Keen 5 = The Armageddon Machine Keen 4+ 5 = "Goodbye Galaxy"

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Re: Big Box PC Games – Show and Tell

Posted on 2023-11-13, 12:41

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To me it will always be "Commander Keen 4 - Goodbye Galaxy". https://www.creopard.de/uploads/images/tipps-tricks/keen-4-big-box.png Getting the purchasable full versions of Commander Keen in the early 90s was difficult for me and other kids living in Germany, as these titles could be ordered only in …

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Re: DreamBlaster X16 + X16GS Release

Posted on 2023-09-29, 08:20

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You may also try a different USB cable. (Some of the cheaper ones nowadays only have the power lines connected, but not the data lines)

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Re: Energy efficient old hardware for win98

Posted on 2023-07-13, 18:02

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-07-13, 12:38: Some Athlon XP CPUs can be underclocked to very low power... Regarding Athlon XP: There was a tool back in the days called "S2kCtl" https://web.archive.org/web/20070209083504/ht … targaz0r.nm.ru/ that perfomed a bus disconnect which greatly reduced the …

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Re: PS2TOSERIAL : Connecting a PS/2 mouse to the serial port

Posted on 2023-06-23, 17:26

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Has anyone tried to use a USB/PS2 adapter and a USB mouse with this? It is getting increasingly difficult to find PS2 optical mice.. Yes, but you need an optical USB mouse that still supports the PS2 protocol internally https://youtube.com/shorts/zV8uoAQW6NI And https://youtu.be/1UNOzkzLU_w [List …

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Re: List of USB Mice that support PS/2 adapters, and PS/2 mice that support serial?

Posted on 2023-04-11, 07:01

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USB Mice that DO work with PS/2 adapters: - Microsoft IntelliMouse "Classic" (balled - not produced anymore) - Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical (not produced anymore) - Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000 (not produced anymore) - Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse (produced 2021) USB Mice that DON'T work …

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Re: 3 Com 3C509 vs RTL 8019AS ISA Ethernet

Posted on 2023-03-20, 19:40

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The throughput of the 3c509 in comparison to the 8019AS is way better (measured in DOS on a 486). You can easily compare that if you setup the mTCP FTP server and perform some file transfers.

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Re: win95 network activity Indicator icon?

Posted on 2023-03-15, 06:31

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The animated icon above might have been the dial-up netwotk indicator back in the days. I recognizer that one as well. However, there exists a tool called "iptest" that acts as LAN network indicator (like in the XP days): https://msfn.org/board/topic/131700-tihiys-tools/ Here's a screenshot of the …

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Re: R.I.P. Sound Blaster Audigy 2zs

Posted on 2023-02-23, 08:11

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What about the "Audigy Support Pack 8.1" from https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/ ? It's stated that it should work in Windows 10/11 as well: Audigy Support Pack 8.1 - For Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / 11 (32 / 64-bit) - Supports the following Audigy models (Retail/OEM): Audigy, Audigy 2, …

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Re: Optical serial mouse?

Posted on 2023-02-21, 19:23

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If you want to give one of these PS2 to serial adapters a try, you could find a selection of optical USB mice tested here: https://youtu.be/1UNOzkzLU_w

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Re: Win98 large file copy freeze, filezilla stuck at 100%

Posted on 2023-02-20, 13:56

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Since you'll reinstall anyways, you can also give this a try: https://msfn.org/board/topic/84451-98-fe-98-s … shell32dll-fix/

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Re: Win98 large file copy freeze, filezilla stuck at 100%

Posted on 2023-02-20, 13:31

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You may also like to avoid installing IE6 and take IE5.5 SP2 in favour. But if you must, replace IE6 versions of the files browseui.dll & browselc.dll with their IE5.5 SP2 counterparts: http://www.frankprovo.com/win98ie6filesproblem.htm https://www.creopard.de/2020/06/Windows-98-mit-Internet- …

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Re: Win98 large file copy freeze, filezilla stuck at 100%

Posted on 2023-02-19, 21:16

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You could try to play with the timeout settings in Filezilla, see last answer in this thread: https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/53656

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Re: Moving from PCem/86Box to Virtual PC (IMG to VHD conversion)

Posted on 2023-02-19, 20:20

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Thanks for preserving and bringing this little gem to our attention.

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Re: Very low volume output with the DreamBlaster X2GS Waveblaster card

Posted on 2023-02-09, 10:42

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What happens if you use UNISOUND.EXE for initializing the ESS card and set the volume there with the "/VF" parameter to "99"? /VFnn Set FM/Synth/WT Volume level to 'nn' % (00-99)

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Re: Anyone know of a DOS Utility to disable Level 2 cache on 430TX chipset?

Posted on 2023-02-06, 19:47

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At first I thought of "setmul" but then found this L2 cache is not on the CPU and in many Socket 7 boards cache amount can only be set by jumpers not through BIOS or other CPU registers. In these cases the L2 cache switches are useless. If you use a CPU with onboard L2 cache such as the K6-22+ on …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

Posted on 2023-02-06, 19:37

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@alec_v did you also try address 168 and/or IRQ 10 on the ESS? The IDE interface can be configured to run at I/O address 168h or 1E8h, and use IRQ 10, 11 or 12. https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/ess.php

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Re: Resizing photos by typing in pixels x pixels program?

Posted on 2023-02-04, 12:33

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All my machines run "IrfanView" for almost 20 years now.

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Re: World Wide Web support in Win 98SE & ME in 2023

Posted on 2023-01-31, 08:02

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Please advise, I don’t know why Google stopped connecting. http://www.google.com should work right out of the box still using IE6 and Windows 98. However, clicking on any search result none of the sites will be working, as you will be redirected from HTTP to HTTPS. (Nowadays HTTPS won't work any …

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