Re: What should I load my 486 Win95 setup with?

Posted on 2017-01-03, 09:23

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by Ampera

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Nah, I want it to be a true windows game. I already have a PC-DOS install on another drive. And thanks for the suggestion Phil, but when I looked up top 50 PC games 1995 or 1997 I only got listings for all time PC games. Thanks for the idea tho.

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What should I load my 486 NT 3.1 setup with?

Posted on 2017-01-03, 07:22

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by Ampera

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Looking for ideas of what games I should throw on. I have a load of the SIM series games, and I have Doom and Duke Nukem on my PC-DOS install. I also got CIV and a neat little German edutainment game about the human body (That I had for ages)

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Re: Best/cheapest way to read a bunch of old Apple (or Mac) formatted floppies?

Posted on 2017-01-03, 04:26

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by Ampera

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Because ISA was useless right around the time the early 486 chips came about. That's why the whole stopgap VLB thing came into play. 16bit x 4.77 mhz means it's less than 1/12th as fast as PCI, and IRQ issues are common.

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Re: A problem when installing Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS

Posted on 2017-01-03, 04:23

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by Ampera

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DOSfan1994 wrote: Does PC-DOS have FAT32? PC-DOS 7.1 does, but it was never given a full commercial release. But as we said, DOS is heavily reliant on the 1024 cyl and 2GB cap for almost every single program. Windows 3.1 will not be able to take advantage of the additional space.

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Re: Ati Rage XL Question

Posted on 2017-01-03, 03:00

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by Ampera

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Yeah its really strange becauase they dont come in genuine looking boxes, more generic like. Maybe they still use for servers and they still produce them. Ebay and Aliexpress are full of new ones. I have an S3 64v 1mb but it wont run windows 98 in 16million colours, it goes all funny and freezes as …

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Re: AT PSU extra connection? IBM PS/1 2155

Posted on 2017-01-03, 02:58

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by Ampera

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NEVER trust colours. It's a lot easier and cheaper to just test it than to be wrong and have a boned machine. It's even cheaper to go out and BUY a dinky little multimeter and measure it than it is to loose an IBM PS/1. 120USD is more than 20 bucks.

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Re: Do you ever

Posted on 2017-01-03, 02:40

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by Ampera

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I take a nap. 🤣 Yea, I have stared hours into the abyss that is Solitaire. It's the receptionist's best friend.

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Re: A problem when installing Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS

Posted on 2017-01-03, 02:36

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by Ampera

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What version of DOS should I use if I don't want the included memory management if I want to use Windows 3.1 on FAT 32? This sentence does not make grammatical sense. If this is about http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=51268&p=549499 again, then your problem arose because you were trying to …

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Re: Best/cheapest way to read a bunch of old Apple (or Mac) formatted floppies?

Posted on 2017-01-03, 01:34

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by Ampera

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Errius wrote: xjas wrote: (Note: OSX broke floppy support around 10.5 or 10.6 - I've corrupted many disks with a USB drive on my 10.8 Macbook Pro. But *reading* them is usually fine.) That's evil. I hope MS doesn't pull a similar stunt someday. They did. With drivers. Which they changed AGAIN.

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Re: A problem when installing Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS

Posted on 2017-01-03, 01:33

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by Ampera

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Dmetsys wrote: You can BARELY run Windows 95 on a 386DX, even though it's listed as the minimum requirement for doing so. The DX4-100 is a perfectly fine DOS chip. Even some of the P5 chips were still good for DOS. You CAN run Windows 95 on a DX4-100, and I do run it, but I also run PC-DOS 2000.

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Re: AT PSU extra connection? IBM PS/1 2155

Posted on 2017-01-03, 00:16

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by Ampera

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Couldn't that be just the capacitors getting old ? My 8088 became unstable after a few minutes running, and I had to wait for a while before it stops crashing. Changed the capacitors : rock stable. I ran it for hours without any problems. Same thing with my pcchips 486 (no it was not due to the …

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Re: A problem when installing Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS

Posted on 2017-01-03, 00:15

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by Ampera

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I don't think I have seen a DOS/Windows 3.1 machine that had a hard drive with over 500MB in storage capacity, mostly due to BIOS C/H/S limitations. I'm a purist myself, and would only use MS-DOS if I wanted a proper Windows 3.1 build. Your porking at one. Lol, I have a 486 DX4-100 build with 2GB …

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Re: AT PSU extra connection? IBM PS/1 2155

Posted on 2017-01-03, 00:00

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by Ampera

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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You could take a multi-meter to the cables, check the connection voltage, and wire your own connection to it, remember to save the connectors so you can still use them,

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Re: A problem when installing Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS

Posted on 2017-01-02, 23:30

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by Ampera

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I don't think I have seen a DOS/Windows 3.1 machine that had a hard drive with over 500MB in storage capacity, mostly due to BIOS C/H/S limitations. I'm a purist myself, and would only use MS-DOS if I wanted a proper Windows 3.1 build. Your porking at one. Lol, I have a 486 DX4-100 build with 2GB …

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Re: Best/cheapest way to read a bunch of old Apple (or Mac) formatted floppies?

Posted on 2017-01-02, 19:09

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by Ampera

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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You could try reading them on an IBM/PC system, Linux normally has good luck reading them. For Macs, the cheapest one off the block that still works is your best bet. Freecycle might be your friend here if there is one set up in your area.

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Re: I can't find a CD Boot floppy.

Posted on 2017-01-02, 18:58

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by Ampera

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Yea, thanks. I need to try some of these out, I'll get back when I have the time.

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Re: A problem when installing Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS

Posted on 2017-01-02, 18:57

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by Ampera

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MS-DOS 7.1 from the China DOS union is definitely an option. Its origins are a complete mystery. I sure wouldn't consider it an option. FreeDOS is an option, but it has the disappointment of being not retro. Personally I take qualm with this, I prefer period accuracy vs. modern convenience The …

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Re: I can't find a CD Boot floppy.

Posted on 2017-01-02, 18:54

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by Ampera

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Just use the 98se floppy to boot to dos and load the cdrom driver (this goes automatically). From the dos command promt you can start whatever .exe to start from your cd/dvd. it's that simple or am i missing something in your question? It doesn't boot El Torito. If I were to put DSL on there it …

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Re: Found the original sale pamphlet for my first computer

Posted on 2017-01-02, 17:44

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by Ampera

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I swear I must have some of my first computing boxes around. I ironically first started with retro computing where I had an Athlon XP+ system, 486 SX 25 system, and a G3 PPC system (I still have all but the SX-25) My first modern computer was a dual core A4 FM1 chip which is still in use somewhere …

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Re: I can't find a CD Boot floppy.

Posted on 2017-01-02, 12:29

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by Ampera

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meljor wrote: Just grab the 98se oem from this site: http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Exactly how do I boot using it? It's fine when installing Windows, but other operating systems that don't have a DOS setup binary on the disc I am not sure how to boot from.

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