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

Posted on 2018-06-15, 15:03

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by Dracolich

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In my 233MMX rig I replaced my [noisy] 2.6GB Fujitsu hdd with a IDE - CF adapter, mounted in a 2.5" - 3.5" bay adapter leaving the front panel open for easy swapping. I have CF cards now with DOS 7.1+WfW 3.11, FreeDOS 1.0, and OS/2 Warp 4.52. In MS-DOS I setup half of my 128MB SDRAM as an XMSDSK ram …

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No beeps from internal speaker but computer works

Posted on 2018-06-15, 14:34

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by Dracolich

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I can't seem to find anything on the 'net about this. Plenty of resources about no beeps on a computer that doesn't work, but that's not my question. My computer works fine, except the internal speaker does not beep during POST and in software that plays through the speaker. I tried reversing the …

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Re: Norton Commander 4.x and 5.0: a few questions

Posted on 2018-06-15, 14:13

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by Dracolich

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I just found yesterday that NC doesn't like some XMS managers. I was trying a couple of the popular alternatives to optimize the conventional ram on my MMX rig. I was just about to settle on QHIMEM and had it going, happy with the mem /c/p output; but when I started NC 5.5 to view a file it spit an …

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Re: I'm Looking for a List of Software That Can Make a Full Disk Backup of Windows 98 SE and XP that Runs on Modern OSes

Posted on 2018-06-15, 13:59

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by Dracolich

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Not sure if any Windows backup programs create images that are compatible with other tools. All of the ones I have tried in the past (many years ago) saved to proprietary formats. IMO this limits your options with the backup image. After I found dd I didn't need anything else. :P DD backups are very …

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

Posted on 2018-06-13, 20:57

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by Dracolich

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Added a StarTech 5.25" drive bay for 3.5" hard drives in my Pentium 4 machine, so, when I eventually start making periodic backups of my retro gaming machines' hard drives, I can easily do so. :) I like those! I have two in my main rig - one for 3.5" and one for 2.5" :happy: I've spent a lot of …

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Re: DOS 7.1 mount NAS share

Posted on 2018-06-12, 03:56

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by Dracolich

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I got it wotking without using a bridge. I was missing the Microsoft Network Client for DOS. The drivers consume 135-140k conventional ram, and tcptsr alone uses 79k! Can some of them be removed from autoexec? Now for the iso files i plan to use i will have to rename them in 8.3 format 😀

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Re: DOS 7.1 mount NAS share

Posted on 2018-06-11, 02:49

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by Dracolich

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Thanks, Jo22. I'll try using a Pi. I have one that's up 24/7 running RetroPie and mounts the same nas share because my game roms are also on it. 😀

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DOS 7.1 mount NAS share

Posted on 2018-06-10, 15:07

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by Dracolich

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I've been searching for a while if and how this can be done. I have a hard drive attached to my router, and this drive contains backup images of all my software floppies and CDs. On my Win7 and Win9x machines I use DaemonTools to mount the images. In DOS there is SHSUCD that can do the same. My DOS …

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Re: I'm Looking for a List of Software That Can Make a Full Disk Backup of Windows 98 SE and XP that Runs on Modern OSes

Posted on 2018-06-10, 14:51

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by Dracolich

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In your OP you say your main system already has Linux Mint so you already have dd. There is also a variant called ddrescue which has extra ability to detect bad sectors and attempt to recover the data or skip the sector. Normal dd stops if it encounters an unreadable sector. As a long-time Linux …

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Re: Norton Commander 4.x and 5.0: a few questions

Posted on 2018-06-10, 14:41

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by Dracolich

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I haven't used 4.x or 5.0, but I've been using version 5.5 for many months now with no similar crashing. I use it in DOSBox, a Sempron Win98 rig and an MMX DOS 7.1 rig. I use NC like I use Midnight Commander in Linux - a lot - for viewing, editing, copying, moving and renaming. When you "disabled" …

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Re: PnP Sound Blasters not detected on i430TX

Posted on 2018-06-07, 16:06

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by Dracolich

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It's been a while but I want to drop an update. I've tried a few more times to get the AWE64 working on my QDI board to no avail. I've tried every DOS/Win 3.x driver I can find, including the CTCM and CTCU modified to remove a windows check. None work and most times CTCM freezes the pc, and CTCM /T …

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Re: Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI

Posted on 2018-05-31, 12:56

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by Dracolich

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I know this is an old thread but it has helped me a lot with my own card and I feel I should share my own experience on this topic. I put a SB PCI128, CT4700 with 5507 chip, into my Win98 box. It has a Biostar M7VIG400 which has no ISA slots thus it can only use a PCI sound card. I got it to work in …

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Re: Win9x DOS mode and 120GB

Posted on 2018-05-27, 12:45

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by Dracolich

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@keenmaster486: I use normal AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, no different than back in the 90s. The only thing I've done differently recently is HIMEMX :) @derSlammler: yeah, it's a Biostar M7VIG 400. It has the IDE stuff and I checked the settings, made sure secondary is enabled, UDMA is enabled, etc. …

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Win9x DOS mode and 120GB

Posted on 2018-05-27, 00:37

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by Dracolich

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I can't seem to find anything that sounds like my question. I see plenty of threads about a hdd not appearing in Windows 98; however my problem is that the hdd does appear in Win98 but not in DOS mode before Windows is loaded. This evening I found that the PS/2 keyboard on my 233MMX rig died so I am …

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Re: Windows 98se widescreen resolutions

Posted on 2018-05-11, 13:03

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by Dracolich

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Thanks, guys. Yep, works great! Added Powerstrip to my collection of Win9x software. 😀

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Windows 98se widescreen resolutions

Posted on 2018-05-09, 23:24

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by Dracolich

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I have Win98se working nicely on a 2GHz AthlonXP with 2GB RAM (1.5GB ramdrive using HIMEMX and XMSDSK). It has a Diamond Radeon 9250 PCI 256MB video card using the ATI software version 8.03.98.3-050117a. The monitor is a 19 inch Vizio HDTV capable of 1366x768. In later Windows versions and my main …

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Re: What Stupid Thing Have You Done Recently with Your Retro Gaming Machine?

Posted on 2018-05-09, 23:03

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by Dracolich

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This is a fun topic and I've been building/modding PCs since my family's first Packard Bell 486SX. So I've seen and done a lot of things... In my 233MMX I replaced the primary slave with a CF->IDE adapter and installed a couple of OSs on CF cards. DOS/Win3.11 works great and works with the 18GB …

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Re: OS/2 Warp 4.52 hanging during boot

Posted on 2018-04-20, 00:42

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by Dracolich

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I managed to find a 1GB Compact Flash and transferred my OS/2 image from the SD to the CF. Warp boots happily on this CF card 😀 Thanks, Jo22, for your ideas eventually leading me in the right direction.

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Re: OS/2 Warp 4.52 hanging during boot

Posted on 2018-04-14, 23:35

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by Dracolich

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Thanks again, Jo22. You give me some new ideas. Today I tested a theory regarding disk geometry. In the BIOS I specified the geometry and set to NORMAL then did a clean install. It won't even begin to boot on NORMAL, only on LBA, then on LBA the same problem occurs. The box my CF-IDE adapter came in …

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Re: OS/2 Warp 4.52 hanging during boot

Posted on 2018-04-13, 20:51

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by Dracolich

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Thank you, Jo22. Those are interesting ideas. I did not REM the driver in config.sys since, as posted in the other thread, it did not solve his similar problem. (c) is interesting. I could try to boot from the floppy to do chkdsk. My OS/2 is installed as a single HPFS partition. (d) is a lot like …

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