Re: trouble getting thin client to run as inteded
Posted on 2019-04-18, 01:19
Have you run something like memtest? I find it odd you had trouble with dos based games without some sort of real hardware issue.
Re: Hyped for my new 98/XP computer!
Posted on 2019-04-17, 14:04
I would just drop XP from your plans, not much outside the Win98 era would run well on even the fastest PCI GPU’s (gt430/520/610) and even the you have the headaches of separate cards for each OS.
Re: DX4 VLB FPS comparison, the fastest VLB video card in DOS
Posted on 2019-04-16, 22:18
My first time seeing this thread, great benchmarking comparisons. I find it a little sad that the clear fastest DOS card is a 1mb card, although I guess 800x600x64k was still acceptable for Win3.11 at the time. I probably still would have went for a 2mb card even if I had been aware of this …
Re: Mortal Kombat 1 (1992) reimagined as a 3D game!
Posted on 2019-04-16, 11:50
I’m not sure what it would do for gameplay, but that 3D fatality is interesting.
Re: Rendition Verite Thread
Posted on 2019-04-15, 19:28
Through a happy accident I just acquired a Diamond Stealth II S220 V2100 4MB PCI. Does Vquake require Windows? Is there a legal place to download Vquake?
Re: Choosing a primary GPU within DOS
Posted on 2019-04-15, 17:12
Configure the DOS videocard as the primary in bios? I’ve never seen a bios that actually lets you pick between various PCI cards but it would probably default to the pci videocard in the first slot.
Re: 90’s graphics cards
Posted on 2019-04-13, 18:31
From what I understand Win98 can’t support two different GPU simultaneously. Best case scenario, you will be disabling one in Device Manager and rebooting to switch active GPUs. I can imagine headaches with driver issues and the bios needing to a identifying primary GPU (are both cards PCI?).
Re: Story time: Retro AIO Experiment - A Success... Until it failed.
Posted on 2019-04-12, 19:00
I feel your pain, it looked pretty good. What were your plans for the radiator? I would think painting that beige without severely impacting it's cooling potential might be tough.
Re: Ideas to Create Installation GUI Screen for DOS Floppy Disk Games?
Posted on 2019-04-10, 01:28
Disclaimer- it wasn't me who necroposted! *Points at Suppawer* EDIT: just realized the first post is from 2013 :dead: In any case, I still would like to find that "Instalit" software! ... The best one I can remember is a tool called Instalit , it was used to create the DOS installers for Creative …
Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 2 8MB - which S7 CPU?
Posted on 2019-04-09, 14:31
Since you already have a Pentium 200 MMX, I'd go with that.
Re: Trying to get ESS 1868F working on DOS and Win98SE
Posted on 2019-04-09, 11:36
Have you tried switching ISA slots?
Re: Have you ever get mocked if you use Windows Vista?
Posted on 2019-04-08, 00:34
I've done a little teasing, my fiance still has a laptop running Vista. I've upgraded it to it's full potential so that it's still barely usable for modern tasks but it does struggle with things like 1080p youtube. To be fair I don't think Win7/8/10 would help it enough to bother with the upgrade. I …
Re: Trio64+ V + PowerVR or Matrox Millennium
Posted on 2019-04-07, 10:23
I’m curious, what are the other specs of this Packard Bell? I’m going to guess something like Pentium 166 based on other parts you’ve mentioned. Only because I wouldn't want to recommend using the PowerVR on a 486 class machine. That said I would totally go the PowerVR route.
Re: All Claimed! Hardware Giveaway (10zig 56xx Thin Clients)
Posted on 2019-04-06, 00:18
It was mostly a note for myself when reviewing this thread later.
Re: All Claimed! Hardware Giveaway (10zig 56xx Thin Clients)
Posted on 2019-04-05, 15:26
So I've seen another fix I need to implement, I've known that when using the usb drive from flash storage, if the usb drive is particularly slow dosbox wont start before the monitoring script does. Basically the monitoring script thinks you exited dosbox and shuts the system down. Seems that this …
Re: Is this drive usable? IDE PATA 1.8"
Posted on 2019-04-05, 13:19
Edit - Damn basically said same thing as post above me. Not sure your intentions for the drive, but I think some of these 1.8” hard drives only spin at 4200 rpm making them painfully slow as a host drive for modern operating systems. I’d guess DOS/Win3.1 or Win95 might be ok, but beyond that I bet …
Re: Can we please put the muzzle on Muz?
Posted on 2019-04-04, 03:30
I think sometimes you guys overreact to Muz. Occasionally I have found him posting about something that interests me, only to see the thread locked before any real discussion can begin. Is it really that difficult ignore his posts?
Re: After you die, who inherits your computer?
Posted on 2019-04-02, 11:48
I’m guessing 1-800-GOT-JUNK will get most of my stuff. I don’t have many family or friends that share my interest in computer hardware.
Re: Matrox G450 can't do full screen MS-DOS Prompts?
Posted on 2019-04-01, 11:06
I think it’s likely that the G450 is trying to use a refresh rate your monitor doesn’t support at whatever resolution a full screen command prompt is. (720x400?). You will probably need to use regedit or a 3rd party utilitly like powerstrip to customize the refresh rate at that resolution.
Re: Close DOSBox Status Window
Posted on 2019-04-01, 01:52
For the DosBox Windows status window, have you tried the command line -noconsole to get rid of it completely?
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