Re: Warcraft floppy edition : questions

Posted on 2023-08-05, 15:06

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by the3dfxdude

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Perhaps it is an initial localized release by an authorized distributor, Interplay. The stylization of the box is different that what I had, but it is mostly similar to what was originally done by Blizzard. For the floppies, honestly, the disk 1 duplicator likely had a different stack of floppies …

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Re: Super Socket 7 Board not going POST

Posted on 2023-07-31, 21:55

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by the3dfxdude

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The k6-2 non plus at 500mhz is nearly the hottest for it's family. I would add thermal paste. But I would also check the temperatures directly yourself. I don't think that it would be locking only hitting 62 C. Could there be a thermal monitor halting the system? Could it be wrong? It's happened …

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Re: Super Socket 7 Board not going POST

Posted on 2023-07-31, 13:31

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by the3dfxdude

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In a situation like this where you have a configuration where it comes on, and the normal way where it does not, the best thing you can do is just do one very tiny assembly step at a time and then immediately try a power on and see if it works. So first step you can try is very carefully lay the …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2023-07-29, 01:48

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by the3dfxdude

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It's CGA because of the hype around the original PC/XT, and that the IBM schematics are readily available. It's pretty clear from the individual who made it, that is what he wanted to do, recreate something that is basically an XT hardware wise. OPL2 support is much the same way -- hype and plenty …

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Re: Replacing Tantalum (12v/5v rail filters) capacitors with through hole ceramics (not MLCC)?

Posted on 2023-07-25, 16:08

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by the3dfxdude

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is my experience in manufacturing, that generally speaking, the process is the same when it comes to manufacturing the consumer vs military/aero grade parts. It's just the more expensive part sold is tested to more extreme conditions, and produced on the best equipment to get the best yield. No …

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Re: new Windows 2000 fan project writes drivers for modern hardware

Posted on 2023-07-16, 21:24

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by the3dfxdude

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Any hope for WinME support?

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Re: Was there ever really an MS-DOS 6.23, 6.24 or 6.25 or is it an urban myth?

Posted on 2023-07-15, 14:02

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by the3dfxdude

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The funniest thing about it is that the stupid program links to the vogons forum as the (only?) reference to the question, and now since you posted about it, it will have lots more speculation to index, and now the circle is now complete. It got what it wants; more data.

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Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-13, 12:47

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by the3dfxdude

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Is this a 486, and does it have a pnp bios? What is the date on the bios? What are the settings in the bios? And the board model?

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Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-11, 13:02

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by the3dfxdude

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Also, you would know whether or not the sound card is pnp or not. I'm guessing it is not though. How would I know that? Like I said, I assume it isn't PnP because Windows seemed to be oblivious to its existence rather than showing it in Device Manager as an unknown device or as a sort-of-known …

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Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-11, 04:24

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by the3dfxdude

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There should be a sound driver present, otherwise how would a windows application know there is sound? Also, you would know whether or not the sound card is pnp or not. I'm guessing it is not though. What sound card is it? I can totally see that not having a driver present for non-pnp device would …

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Re: Windows 95 keeps "losing" my network card

Posted on 2023-07-10, 14:24

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by the3dfxdude

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Try booting bare DOS without any drivers loaded, run the 3c5x9cfg.exe and seeing what resource settings it wants to use. Then shutdown, remove the card and start Windows 95 and open device manager. Check if there are any cards occupying the resources the 3com wants to use (like IRQ). If something is …

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Re: Period correct 1996 Pentium system

Posted on 2023-07-09, 22:24

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by the3dfxdude

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I could connect CD-ROM-drive to SB32 since it has IDE. But it is a PnP card so I would have to load CD-ROM-drivers with devload on autoexec.bat after initializing the card. That doesn't sound that problematic but I use CALL SNDENV.BAT at the end of autoexec.bat to initialize the sound card. This …

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Re: Seven Kingdoms II: The Frytan Wars - Cannot attach flipping surface error

Posted on 2023-07-01, 16:26

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by the3dfxdude

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Did you go in and set the compatibility settings, as this game is not high DPI aware in the DirectX Version? I'm not sure if dgvoodoo2 will fix this on the fly, as this will be coming through DInput. I'm guessing your desktop is a high DPI screen and the laptop is not. That's not it, unfortunately. …

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Re: Seven Kingdoms II: The Frytan Wars - Cannot attach flipping surface error

Posted on 2023-06-30, 16:22

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by the3dfxdude

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It is v2.10E, the latest version available from GOG. As for what I want to do, the main thing I wanted to see is if dgVoodoo would fix some issues I'm having with the game (such as the game slowing to a crawl when I try do a box select, the game either not registering mouse button presses or …

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Re: Seven Kingdoms II: The Frytan Wars - Cannot attach flipping surface error

Posted on 2023-06-30, 16:07

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by the3dfxdude

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I've already implemented the needed part. The game works, altough it's broken with forced resolution but that's another story and do not make sense for this game. What's forced about the resolution and broken? The game tells the system to go fullscreen exclusive. Next in the game's vga.set_mode(), …

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Re: Seven Kingdoms II: The Frytan Wars - Cannot attach flipping surface error

Posted on 2023-06-27, 04:06

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by the3dfxdude

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What version of the game is this? What features are you trying to get out of wrapping ddraw.dll for this game?

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Re: school text books "Try it in BASIC"

Posted on 2023-06-21, 16:14

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by the3dfxdude

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Probably because BASIC was everywhere... including many home computers which would have been the target of these textbooks (Spectrum/C64 etc). These examples weren't so much trying to teach 'programming' so weren't pushing the boundaries of the language or optimisation, they were more for conveying …

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Re: school text books "Try it in BASIC"

Posted on 2023-06-21, 15:33

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by the3dfxdude

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For the average home computer user, Visual Basic, Turbo Pascal, Turbo Basic cost money. The IBM PC compatible came with PC-BASIC, GW-BASIC, and later QBasic for no additional cost, and Microsoft based BASIC was super common in learning how to use a computer. And early 8bit machines, BASIC was …

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Re: Identifying Turbo XT motherboard

Posted on 2023-06-18, 17:18

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by the3dfxdude

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

People can identify things from the entire board layout or visual looks common to a certain manufacturer. In fact, the BIOS branding can be completely obscure, done by whatever firm bought the thing from Taiwan, and made it their own, but it's really some generic Taiwan board that you can derive the …

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Re: Supress/Bypass "new hardware wizard" on Win9x?

Posted on 2023-06-18, 14:05

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by the3dfxdude

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in Marvin \ Software

Are you launching windows from DOS? How about run a batch script which checks your system and the driver directory, and then merges in reg files and places the files in the correct place, and then launch windows? Then it should never need to install drivers in windows. You'll want to snapshot your …

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