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Re: Old computer game forensics

Hmm.. my time in elementary spanned late 80s to late 90s and there were a couple of different machines during that time including 3.1 later on (I think WFW). I remember number munchers from almost Kindergarten but I was part of the "catholic separate school board" in Toronto Canada. Now... don't get …

Old computer game forensics

I tried in vain to find an old computer game I used to play in school so I figured I'd change my tactics to just trying to figure out what type of machine I used to use back then and scouring the available games of the time. I think it was about 1990 or so that I have the strongest memories of …

Re: Looking to tax the mach64 a little more

I'm just going by what the wiki says, which is rather extensive for this card: "The chip also had driver support for Microsoft Direct3D and Reality Lab, QuickDraw 3D Rave, Criterion RenderWare, and Argonaut BRender. OpenGL drivers are available for the professional 3D and CAD community and Heidi …

Re: Looking to tax the mach64 a little more

That wouldn't surprise me. IIRC, OpenGL was far more advanced than DX at that time so maybe the drivers were harder to get working properly. The card supposedly supported other APIs, even the super FX chip on the SNES I thought and AutoCAD as well. Is there any working evidence of some of these …

Looking to tax the mach64 a little more

Seeing as the 3dRage II is nothing more than a glorified 2d chip with some 3d features stapled on, I figured the responsible thing to do as a retro hardware aficionado is to force it to do things that it was only supposed to be capable of on paper. To that end, I've installed several DX5 games on …

Incoming looks broken at the load screen

I'm trying to get my P133 machine to run incoming, which is a bit sketch as it is, I know... min requirements and all, but I have plenty of RAM and the 3dRageII has DX5 support and runs other DX5 games so based on past experience, I feel like this should work. The games installs and runs fine but at …

Re: LAN or TCP/IP with Win 3.11 (NOT WFW)

Windows networking isn't that reliable, best syntax to use is the ip address. Early windows doesn't allow you to browse the network so you need to map a drive to \\192.168.0.1\Shared (amusing that is the IP address of the other PC and Shared is the folder shared out. This will work Win9x without …

Re: LAN or TCP/IP with Win 3.11 (NOT WFW)

Update: I got TCP/IP working. Actually the DHCP program in mTCP helped me identify what my correct local IP was. Then my internet browsers just started to work, so that's done now. I believe the easiest way for somebody else to succeed would be: 1) Download the packet driver for your card (may be …

Re: LAN or TCP/IP with Win 3.11 (NOT WFW)

Thank you very much. That is a wealth of information. I have had PARTIAL success. I was able to figure out to modify my autoexec to FIRST load the packet driver PKT8000.COM at interrupt vector 0x60. SECOND I loaded the WINPKT.COM driver at the same vector and that worked. Then I went into windows …

Re: LAN or TCP/IP with Win 3.11 (NOT WFW)

Anything that's well documented is a good thing. I feel a bit stupid if I'm missing this stuff but I did spend 6 hrs last night just doing research and trial and error trying to get it to work so I must have been barking up the wrong tree: 386DX-40 (@33MHz) 387 coprocessor 8MB RAM SCSI 2GB HDD (IRQ …

LAN or TCP/IP with Win 3.11 (NOT WFW)

I have been told that it is possible to get both lan and internet working on 3.11 even though it wasn't built with that in mind. I have set up the DOS network already and installed trumpet winsock on windows. Despite this however I'm neither able to get simply lan functionality nor can I get the …

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