Re: "386-LCD" portable unable to POST; continuous beep; no video
Posted on 2020-05-07, 03:21
Have you tried a different RAM chip that is confirmed to be working somewhere else?
Re: Question related to memory management under DOS
Posted on 2020-05-07, 00:57
@kolderman I think you were making a confusion between "address space" and "memory". Bringing in 386 MMU into the discussion did not help because the point to discuss was physical address space or physical memory. What the OP asked was essentially what happened to the physical memory underneath the …
Re: Retro rigs - suggestions for new builds
Posted on 2020-05-07, 00:48
I would strongly recommend changes your builds to: 1) Win98 (which covers DOS better than pure DOS does) (SS7 is fine) 2) WinXP (s775 is best) Bridging Win98/WinXP is difficult and results in less than ideal builds, and Win98 is the best DOS gaming setup you can get. A MMX233 or a K6+ are both …
Re: Does a Voodoo Banshee Need a Driver For Dos
Posted on 2020-05-07, 00:38
Hey, tonite is my night I think. I downloaded 3d blaster Voodoo Banshee driver, took the .ovl file and put in the GTA root directory and in the SET directory in my DOS system (C:\dos) and finally IT WORK!!! Smooth in 800x600x16, OMG I am in heaven! Before with my AMD K6-2+ 450MHZ I was playable on …
Re: Question related to memory management under DOS
Posted on 2020-05-06, 23:32
LED's and resistors are not the same as CPU architecture. And you specifically asked about the physical ram, here it is again: > What about the 640KB-1MB region in the physical RAM stick ? Is it lost (not usable ? ) The answer is yes, in most cases, that physical RAM is not addressable (some special …
Re: Question related to memory management under DOS
Posted on 2020-05-06, 22:54
Thanks all for replies. @kolderman : what you said does not seems to match with others. You are probably talking about later computers (like 486 and more). I guess DOSBox do not care about remapping that area as well since the total amount of free memory is usually not an issue in DOSBox (unlike …
Re: Question related to memory management under DOS
Posted on 2020-05-06, 22:18
> What about the 640KB-1MB region in the physical RAM stick ? Is it lost (not usable ? ) Yes, it is lost physically. The memory controller does not map any address to those physical regions of ram. Logically however, if the CPU is in protected mode, or virtual mode, the logical addresses between …
Re: Industrial grade CompactFlash Recommendation
Posted on 2020-05-06, 21:01
I notice now you said Windows 2000 as well...I tend to run it on 160GB plain old hdds...personally I would not run NT
Re: Industrial grade CompactFlash Recommendation
Posted on 2020-05-06, 20:57
I don't recommend cf/sd for win98 at all. Use a 120gb ssd. Save them for pure dos. Can you please recommend a good/compatible IDE to SATA adapter then? Thanks. I only use one kind - pic below. No IDE cable required, just plug in and connect to ssd with sata cable. Some people reckon these red ones …
Re: What kind of a build does a Voodoo Rush make sense in?
Posted on 2020-05-06, 10:38
A troll PC or none.
Re: Attempting to Run - Heroes of Might and Magic II - The Succession Wars Deluxe Edition
Posted on 2020-05-06, 00:39
I use a dosbox frontend that takes care of the details. Not sure if one exists for Mac but it makes life easier.
Re: Attempting to Run - Heroes of Might and Magic II - The Succession Wars Deluxe Edition
Posted on 2020-05-05, 22:04
Mounting a CD means you tell DOSBOX to make one of those .cue files appears as a CDROM to DOS at a location like "D:", aka the mount point.
Re: Industrial grade CompactFlash Recommendation
Posted on 2020-05-05, 08:06
I don't recommend cf/sd for win98 at all. Use a 120gb ssd. Save them for pure dos.
Re: What games for a 286-6
Posted on 2020-05-05, 02:54
80s games. Early Sierra titles in EGA. Gold Box d&d games. Text adventures (Zorks). Most of your games are mid 90s and will not run.
Re: Good 4:3 LCD Monitor
Posted on 2020-05-05, 02:27
ruthan wrote on 2020-05-05, 01:45: Real and available 4:3 monitors are small, is there some 24+ LCD with which can force 4:3 mode for everything and simply dont run as wide screen in any case? I believe most new widescreen lcds do this. But I never would, it just looks wrong.
Re: What's wrong with all these sound cards???
Posted on 2020-05-05, 02:25
I thought Keen was pc speaker.
Re: Good 4:3 LCD Monitor
Posted on 2020-05-05, 00:36
Does anyone game on 15" anymore? Even for retro games.
Re: Going SAS for storage - downsides?
Posted on 2020-05-04, 11:24
They are cheap because no company would buy used drives, and hardly anyone else uses SAS drives. I would stay away from any kind of RAID though apart from plain old mirroring,p.
Re: 19" 5:4 vs 20" 4:3 -- which LCD would you choose?
Posted on 2020-05-04, 11:20
This is Lands of Lore. I did not have text during the Intro, just speech, so I took this photo of the character screen which has some text. The aspect seems fine to me, which is not surprising as 320x200 is a 4:3 display resolution. Excellent, thanks. Indeed it looks like there is no distorsion ( …
Re: Pentium II/III VS K6-III+
Posted on 2020-05-04, 11:11
Try Wing Commander 1 on the 486. Or 2001 games on your p3.
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