Re: Ratty build for self amusement, Dustin the DOStin....

Posted on 2021-07-17, 21:09

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So here's some beginnings... Got the mobo thrown precisely into the tin for the pic, the panel to the left I'm thinking of making the front panel out of. To the right there is an old disused docking station, that I'm thinking of robbing of it's section of ports there and wiring all those to headers, …

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Re: Windows 98-MS-DOS: can i choose DosBox instead MS-DOS Mode?

Posted on 2021-07-17, 18:16

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No, it runs within windows or linux, it's not a standalone operating system replacement.

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Re: Windows 98-MS-DOS: can i choose DosBox instead MS-DOS Mode?

Posted on 2021-07-17, 18:02

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by BitWrangler

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There are versions of DOSbox that can be run on Windows 98, yes. Note however that it entirely emulates the CPU so you'll get a 10th of your system CPU speed.

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Re: POST fails with defaults loaded

Posted on 2021-07-17, 17:55

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Is it running a PIII Tualatin with 133 bus and trying to run the PC100 at 133?

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-17, 15:54

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by BitWrangler

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That's only in the virtualised address space, when it's TLB translated to physical it uses bottom up. Otherwise, since the 32bit address space is 4GB, you'd need cache for a whole 4GB of RAM

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Re: DOSBox Game Launcher (DOSBox Frontend)

Posted on 2021-07-17, 15:40

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Hi Ronald, just wanted to say thank you very much for all your hard work on DBGL, it's great to just drop on my modern boxes and have an instant DOS game fix, no hassle. I particularly appreciate that it has the same interface between multi versions of windows and linux, so it's all works the same …

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Re: CP/M device files

Posted on 2021-07-17, 15:13

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So if you've got a low density 5.25 drive on a DOS machine, you wanna look for a package called 22DISK or 22DSK which is the disk interpreter package for the 22Nice CP/M emulator that can read Kaypro disks. It may "sorta" work on 1.2MB for reading them, but only the 360K can write to them reliably. …

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-17, 14:30

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by BitWrangler

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It doesn't really slow down the system, unless you give yourself a 64MB RAMdrive in the lower half and run everything higher... Your game that only needed 32MB will only need 32MB and run in the cached portion. However, you try multitasking in windows and have a lot running and you'll fall out of …

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Re: A "broad spectrum" 90s build?

Posted on 2021-07-17, 14:21

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The aztech problem back in the day was that their cards seemed significantly different from each other but they'd not update their documentation and drivers so you'd get in a mess trying to figure out what exactly to run and configure to get the best out of your card. I found mine sounded great if …

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Re: 1996 "Workstation," Build Ideas?

Posted on 2021-07-17, 13:22

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Here's a good read, December 96 edition of PC Mag, editorial on 6th page down (page 4) goes into state of CPU performance in 96 then they review fastest systems available in the year from page 100 (gonna be P 102 in the scan) https://books.google.ca/books?id=m4OknWEkpB4C&printsec=frontcover#v= …

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Re: Old Hardware that does't work or plays up in FreeDos and how can we fix it if possible.

Posted on 2021-07-17, 13:04

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by BitWrangler

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah maybe I'm stating it wrong, like DOS will boot, but you'd got no DMA in 16 bit mode

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Re: Old Hardware that does't work or plays up in FreeDos and how can we fix it if possible.

Posted on 2021-07-17, 05:41

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by BitWrangler

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I wish I could remember more details was mentioned on the hardware sites in the day, can't think of search terms that get anything sensible out of google at the moment, it's getting worse. Not sure who it was that started it, Soyo or Shuttle maybe, there was some discontent about it, maybe market …

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Re: Super XT, planning, teaser, hopefully eventually a build thread...

Posted on 2021-07-17, 04:07

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Riiight, that's maybe what made me think "same chip" some linux driver discussion in the 90s when I was thinking of using it in a linux box. Funnily enough what killed that adventure was not the crappiness of the card, but the discovery that the external CD ROM drive I picked up for what should have …

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Ratty build for self amusement, Dustin the DOStin....

Posted on 2021-07-17, 03:42

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by BitWrangler

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Hi folks, Things are coming together for a later "DOS" but extending into early 9x capabilities build. Apologies to anyone actually named Dustin btw. In some respects, this is a "dream rig" in that since I first started messing with PCs in the 90s, I've always wanted to put a machine into a small …

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Re: 1996 "Workstation," Build Ideas?

Posted on 2021-07-17, 02:14

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by BitWrangler

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What about if we mention kibo does that still work?

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Re: Old Hardware that does't work or plays up in FreeDos and how can we fix it possible.

Posted on 2021-07-17, 00:18

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by BitWrangler

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A few years into the noughties, you started to see boards saying Win98 or higher required... this wasn't "we're only going to provide drivers for 98 up" this was MS-DOS 6.22, PC-DOS 7 etc will not boot on this system. I believe it was something to do with resource management and allocation and the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-16, 23:59

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by BitWrangler

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It's gonna be '95 or later due to the Win95 keys, and XT/AT switchables were pretty much done by then... and the telltale thing is that they have a switch on them.

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Re: Very old Linux native games on modern Linux

Posted on 2021-07-16, 22:55

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Is it gonna be a 64bit vs 32bit problem now though, as far as I know any *buntu after 19 is 64bit only.

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-16, 22:45

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by BitWrangler

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If you read the whole reason behind AGP it's because PCI can't load textures in real time from system RAM and GPU onboard RAM is too small.... well GPU onboard RAM just kept getting bigger on the high end to accommodate more and more and larger textures. Games tended to optimise for the available …

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Re: 1996 "Workstation," Build Ideas?

Posted on 2021-07-16, 21:24

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DEC Alpha.... nah they're more ridiculous on eBay than PPros. BUT keep ears to the ground in local IT circles and you can score stuff like that for negative two or three hundred bucks as long as you turn up in a box van and take the whole lot (They pay you)

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