Re: Will an ISA sound card cripple a p3-700 in windows xp games?

Posted on 2017-04-17, 00:37

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by Jorpho

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There's at least one demo track for the AWE64 composed using the specific sound effects available in the default sound font. It will sound completely wrong on anything else. I can't think of the name at the moment, though. More generally, if I'm not mistaken, a lot of stuff written for OPL3 will …

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Re: Will an ISA sound card cripple a p3-700 in windows xp games?

Posted on 2017-04-16, 18:49

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by Jorpho

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The reason being is there is no DMA on ANY ISA cards. This means no soundfonts that can't fit onto onboard memory, and for quality soundfonts that like Timbres of Heaven http://midkar.com/soundfonts/ that are around 250MB in size, you will never be able to fit that on an ISA card. What if whoever …

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Re: Best PCI graphics card for Windows 98

Posted on 2017-04-15, 16:17

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by Jorpho

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It all depends on what you want to run, what you have access to, and what you're willing to spend. If your old Compaq is just going to go back into a corner and collect dust, then I suggest you just pick any card and be done with it. You'll also need to consider the voltage that the PCI slots on …

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Re: MS Office issue

Posted on 2017-04-15, 16:13

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I agree that it is very strange that you would come to this forum, of all places, for help with Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows 8.1. How did you get here? I might suspect that you have some kind of virus, but I would expect a re-install of Office to fix that. Does this error only appear when you …

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Re: Need helping running windows ME

Posted on 2017-04-15, 16:08

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by Jorpho

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Since "the system runs perfect on windows 2000 and XP", I would not expect a different hard drive to suddenly make Windows ME run better.

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Re: Need helping running windows ME

Posted on 2017-04-15, 05:14

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You may need the Intel Application Accelerator to enable DMA. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/485 … ion-Accelerator I'm not sure that will help with your problem, but it's worth a try.

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Re: Is DGVoodoo 2 supposed to work with 64 bits OS?

Posted on 2017-04-15, 01:11

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DOSBox builds with Voodoo emulation will run as if a Voodoo card was installed. That means Windows will recognize a Voodoo card, and that DirectX drivers for a Voodoo card will work, as well as DOS games that expect a Voodoo card. All the emulation functions independently of whatever is installed on …

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Re: Help making dosbox faster on GPD Win

Posted on 2017-04-14, 06:11

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cyclone3d wrote: Why oh why did they go back to a non-assembler core? Anybody know? Were there bugs in it? cyclone3d wrote: I am betting that is it still not assembler code. Not enough people that are really good enough with assembler to keep up with it. Why oh why.

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Re: HELP! Windows 3.1 stuck in single click navigation.

Posted on 2017-04-14, 06:10

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No idea how it won out over Geowork Ensemble or OS/2 since you had to quit out of it to run any games reliably anyhow whereas in the others you didn't and they were better and easier to use. lol I find it very unlikely that most games would run reliably without exiting Geoworks Ensemble, but then I …

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Re: Replacing VGA port with DVI port?

Posted on 2017-04-14, 02:29

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Yes, that sounds like it's probably a limitation of the video RAM on the graphics card. I think Scitech Display Doctor/UniVBE provides a useful means of finding all the video modes supported by your card. I don't think using True Color would accomplish much in your case.

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Re: Help making dosbox faster on GPD Win

Posted on 2017-04-13, 21:22

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I've just taken a look at the 0.74 source... that is the latest, correct? The last official release was 0.74, but the code in SVN has been extensively revised since then, such that the source for the actual 0.74 release would not be the "latest". As the code has been ported to the Raspberry Pi and …

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Re: Help making dosbox faster on GPD Win

Posted on 2017-04-13, 16:53

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Zaxxon wrote: reading online it seems that some people states that freedos doesn't support midi, other says its virtualbox which doesn't support midi FreeDOS has nothing to do with midi. I think I have indeed read something about VirtualBox not supporting midi, but I forget the details.

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Re: re: about ms version of sim city

Posted on 2017-04-13, 13:39

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I have an other post about the Windows version of SimCity 2k. I got from the store a long time ago. SimCity 2k for windows. The game still works on Win7 Home 32bit except for save a file and load a file. If I hit ether the save or load in the main menu the game drops out to Windows desktop. No …

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Re: Replacing VGA port with DVI port?

Posted on 2017-04-13, 13:37

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enloop wrote: there's been similar feats done with old consoles The only one that comes to mind is the Analogue Nt, which I suspect contains an RGB mod plus a discrete analog-to-digital converter. Modding an old console to natively provide digital video is unlikely.

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Re: Captain Claw crashing to desktop in Windows 95

Posted on 2017-04-13, 13:29

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Do the video cutscenes play normally? Maybe it would be worth trying to install the last Win9x version of the RAD Game Tools (i.e. which includes the latest Bink and Smacker codecs), though I'm not sure what version that would be. It might be worthwhile to try to track down a different version of …

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Re: Best XP Driver for an ATI AIW 9800 Pro

Posted on 2017-04-13, 02:15

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by Jorpho

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Richo wrote: try omegadrivers.net I think that site has been kaput for years now. I'm not sure what the best place is to get the old driver packages.

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Re: "Deactivating" a session on a CD-R (not RW)

Posted on 2017-04-13, 02:14

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I suspect that no matter what you do, the old session will still be discoverable using a tool like ISO Buster. I'm kind of drawing a blank otherwise. I guess you could make a new session that includes a set of files with the same names but zero length, but that won't hide the filenames.

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Re: HELP! Windows 3.1 stuck in single click navigation.

Posted on 2017-04-12, 21:26

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I'm 99% sure this is just a thing with Windows 3.10 There appears to be little basis for that degree of certainty. Anyway, looks like MDGX has a link: http://www.mdgx.com/w31toy.htm ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/softlib/mslfiles/WW0981.EXE I'm not sure if the second link is working right now, but if all …

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Re: which sound card for DOS Glide games?

Posted on 2017-04-12, 20:12

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Is there some reason you are not using Windows 98 SE? One of the major differences is that SE supports WDM drivers, which may make a big difference. If you want to test your other card, my usual recommendation is to try booting a version of Linux off a CD or USB stick. Many versions should already …

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Re: Do MAC edition video cards work on PC's?

Posted on 2017-04-12, 20:07

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by Jorpho

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It's been a while since I've read about it, but I'm pretty sure you need to flash the firmware to get it working.

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