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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-26, 21:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well when I run it normally, it cautions that it may hang using EMM386, and does when looking at IRQ/DMA assignments. (That was probably the problem with 5.5.5) So I disabled EMM386, and it complains about running out of memory, or displays "Fatal error, cannot continue" when trying to create a …

Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-26, 20:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mumak wrote on 2020-03-26, 19:53: Bump. Anyone else willing to contribute by testing the latest version and providing results? Any reports are welcome! I'd be happy to, as I recall 5.5.5 wouldn't let me view the IRQs and DMAs on my AMD K6-II machine. Is the program meant to be run from a floppy or …

Re: Ideas for dual-booting 98SE and NT4 on the same drive?

Posted on 2020-03-25, 05:48

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I apologize if I'm too late, but if you're using an SD card for your OSes why not use separate SD cards for each, and use a front panel IDE adapter to physically swap them and use an internal drive for the 'communal' partition? SD to IDE adapters that fit in a 3.5" floppy bay exist, but they're …

Re: No Video from Socket FM2+ Motherboard

Posted on 2020-03-25, 03:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did you try re-seating the memory? I'd try another set before ruling out the CPU.

Re: Where to get standard ATX I/O shields ? (Pentium 1/II/III era)

Posted on 2020-03-25, 00:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you can't find them online, Try an electronics recycling facilty. I work at one and we get old computers in all the time. A metal recycling facility might get them too.

Re: Does anyone use SNESKey? Mine doesn't seem to work.

Posted on 2020-03-25, 00:40

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

My Windows 98 drive failed, waiting on a flash card to IDE converter to arrive before reinstalling. In the meantime; I installed the DOS version of ZSNES since it supports the SNES adapter without needing a driver, but the controller still isn't getting through. I noticed that my motherboard …

Re: Suggest a bootable backup program for an AMD K6-2 based machine?

Posted on 2020-03-24, 16:15

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Not seeing version 8 online, Acronis Support couldn't help either.

Suggest a bootable backup program for an AMD K6-2 based machine?

Posted on 2020-03-24, 14:50

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I would like to make backup images for my retro PC, but none of the current offerings I've tried support such old hardware. I would like the software to boot from a floppy or CD/DVD, and use USB 2.0 drives for saving and restoring images. Thanks in advance.

Re: Does anyone use SNESKey? Mine doesn't seem to work.

Posted on 2020-03-23, 15:11

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

The version I have has a BAT file called GO that loads SNESKey, but otherwise seems identical to yours. This is my first time using the adapter, I ordered it from Raphnet.

Does anyone use SNESKey? Mine doesn't seem to work.

Posted on 2020-03-23, 00:31

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I'm trying to play a game using a SNES controller connected to my parallel port. I've configured the keys I want to match the controller buttons, and I have enough conventional memory to load SNESKey and the game I want to play, but the game doesn't respond to the SNES controller. Does the parallel …

Re: Is there a way to load DOS games into high memory?

Posted on 2020-03-23, 00:23

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I rearranged DOS's Autoexec and Config files and now I have enough memory to load the two programs together in conventional memory. Still, the game crashes sometimes saying it ran out of memory.

Re: Creating DOS 5.25" 360KB media

Posted on 2020-03-22, 03:14

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

One method would be to install DOS on the XT-IDE card, then copy all the files/folders to your main hard drive. If it were me though, I would temporarily connect a larger capacity floppy drive for installing.

Re: Is there a way to load DOS games into high memory?

Posted on 2020-03-21, 23:00

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

derSammler wrote on 2020-03-21, 22:10: There's no issue getting 617 KB or even more. And you can load SNESKey into high memory. Oh good, how can I do that? I did use your suggestions, I also removed the USB lines and commented out the mouse lines. I can post my new files if it will help.

Re: Is there a way to load DOS games into high memory?

Posted on 2020-03-21, 21:44

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Upon further investigation, the issue seems to be that the combination of the two programs are just too large to fit in conventional memory. The game needs 560KB, SNESKey is 57KB, together they equal 617KB out of the 602KB total conventional memory available. Is there a smaller alternative to …

How to optimize autoexec.bat and config.sys?

Posted on 2020-03-16, 19:47

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

While they work, those two files have become a mess on my machine and I want to reorganize them. I'm seeing guides online that tell me what the different functions do, but not how they should be arranged. Also, is it REM or a semicolon that tells DOS to ignore lines in these files? Thank you.

Re: USB storage driver for DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-03-16, 04:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I found a video on Youtube showing how to install a driver using one of the methods I tried before, but it's still not working for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cnTc9mMnpA It seems he only adds two of the three files copied to the C: drive to CONFIG.SYS, and they seem to load on my machine, …

Re: USB storage driver for DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-03-16, 04:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried this? http://bretjohnson.us/ Yes actually, one of his utilities revealed that my USB controller is UHCI, which doesn't seem to be compatible. You sure of that? because the documentation actually states that UHCI (made by intel and VIA) is the *only"compatible controller so far. Mine …

Re: USB storage driver for DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-03-16, 03:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

aha2940 wrote on 2020-03-16, 03:50: Have you tried this? http://bretjohnson.us/ Yes actually, one of his utilities revealed that my USB controller is UHCI, which doesn't seem to be compatible.

Re: Is there a way to load DOS games into high memory?

Posted on 2020-03-15, 23:51

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Wow, that's quite a mess. But anyway: 1. add "HIGHSCAN I=B000-B7FF" after the "RAM" parameter of EMM386 2. remove all "DOS=" lines and just add "DOS=HIGH,UMB" once 3. remove SMARTDRV.EXE 4. use CuteMouse instead of that MOUSE.EXE This should give you about 50-60 kb more conventional memory. Also, …

USB storage drivers that work in DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2020-03-15, 23:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm looking for a way to use a flash stick as a hard drive. I've tried a few drivers (not including that expensive payware one) but the closest I've gotten to success is my USB stick showing up as a network drive. Does anyone have a method that works on their machine? There seems to be several …

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