Re: Local Salvation Army "does not carry old computers" because...
Posted on 2019-09-21, 18:16
sounds like something an employee dreamed up and got spun into a local legend, probably 100% not a real policy driver
Re: GRUB4DOS help needed to boot NT4 from DOS
Posted on 2019-09-21, 04:12
The patched NTDETECT.com file is all that is needed for PS/2 mouse support on my SXL2 system within NT4.0 and NT 3.51. I really appreciate your help here. I have put away the serial mouse. There is a catch though, it doesn't work on NT4 when I've setup the CPU registers via cyrix.exe. The system …
Re: Win3.1 SVGA mode on 19" LCD ?
Posted on 2019-09-21, 04:08
Most early SVGA cards will output resolutions above 640x480 in interlaced modes by default for compatibility with primitive VGA displays. LCD monitors will not display interlaced modes correctly. Look for jumpers or a manufacturer-specific utility for your video card to set the modes. For example on …
Re: GRUB4DOS help needed to boot NT4 from DOS
Posted on 2019-09-20, 13:14
NTDETECT.COM is 26,800 bytes in size with a date of October 14, 1996, 1:38:00 AM Try to patch these five bytes. It should cause NTDETECT to always detect a PS/2 mouse. I tested this on my NT4 laptop with (normally working) built-in PS/2 trackpad and it continued to work there at least. what was the …
Re: Recommended DOS Replacements
Posted on 2019-09-20, 03:11
He seems mad
Re: GRUB4DOS help needed to boot NT4 from DOS
Posted on 2019-09-19, 22:25
Caluser2000 wrote: maxtherabbit wrote: Serial mouses suck Well that was insightful. The 1990 MS seral mice a very nice to use. be honest with yourself, using a ball mouse is utterly miserable after using an optical one
Re: P-III only stable with In-order Queue Depth=1 - 440BX Tualatin slotket mod
Posted on 2019-09-19, 19:33
This may not be related, but on my Tyan Tiger 100 dual slot 1 BX board, I was never able to get 1GHz copper mines stable with IOQD of 4. All slower CPUs would work with IOQD 4 just fine. Turned out to be the 1GHz cumines were simply drawing too much current and exceeding the VRMs' ratings by like …
Re: GRUB4DOS help needed to boot NT4 from DOS
Posted on 2019-09-19, 19:30
Serial mouses suck
Re: Best RAM upgrade ideas for IBM 5150?
Posted on 2019-09-19, 03:05
lo-tech 1MB RAM card if you want modern, you can even buy the blank PCB and assemble it yourself if you're so inclined it will round out your 640kB base as well as give you as many UMBs to play with as you have address space for, which is rad. Only thing is the edge connector is not hard gold or …
Re: GRUB4DOS help needed to boot NT4 from DOS
Posted on 2019-09-18, 23:54
maybe rio444 would be kind enough to build a special version of the ps2 supplement for you that doesn't set interrupt vectors The feeling I get from rio444 is that he doesn't have further interest updating in the ps2suppc patch. it would be a trivial task, since I assume he still has the source …
Re: GRUB4DOS help needed to boot NT4 from DOS
Posted on 2019-09-18, 13:11
You cannot call a DOS batch file from the NT boot menu
Re: GRUB4DOS help needed to boot NT4 from DOS
Posted on 2019-09-18, 12:33
maybe rio444 would be kind enough to build a special version of the ps2 supplement for you that doesn't set interrupt vectors
Re: IDE docks that work with old HDDs
Posted on 2019-09-17, 18:20
the problem with most USB to IDE adapters is they only support LBA addressing, not CHS so any drives that are super old like <2GB and don't support LBA will not work at all
Re: Boxed Original AdLib
Posted on 2019-09-17, 13:58
for anyone with even casual familiarity with FM chips, the sound alone would have been an obvious tell
Re: Windows 3.11 / MS-DOS filesharing
Posted on 2019-09-17, 13:53
I seem to remember IPX/SPX in early versions of windows not working unless you specified a (matching) network ID to all clients in the protocol settings Thanks for the tip ... but I'm not seeing a network ID option in the ipx/spx settings. (I do see frametype, max connections, max sockets, ....) I …
Re: GRUB4DOS help needed to boot NT4 from DOS
Posted on 2019-09-17, 02:46
Thank you. Attached is the result. Did I type it in correctly? Grub_config.jpg Grub_config_result.jpg well it's working insofar that it is executing the bootsector on your NT4 partition - but the NT boot strap cannot find NTLDR, which I suspect is because it's not on the first HDD I think for this …
Re: SSD Overprovisioning on Win9x
Posted on 2019-09-17, 02:11
over provisioning is effective because it allows the firmware level wear-leveling to work, the system OS doesn't need to "see" the rest of the drive for the firmware to utilize it
Re: Boxed Original AdLib
Posted on 2019-09-17, 01:35
the defacing of the OPL2 still cracks me up like who were they fooling
Re: Windows 3.11 / MS-DOS filesharing
Posted on 2019-09-17, 00:55
I seem to remember IPX/SPX in early versions of windows not working unless you specified a (matching) network ID to all clients in the protocol settings
Re: Quad Pentium 3 Xeons/eight Pentium 3 Xeon benchmarks???
Posted on 2019-09-17, 00:18
you are making my dual coppermine build feel very inadequate right now bro
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