Re: Blood lagging on MS-DOS 6.22 with Celeron Coppermine CPU

Posted on 2017-04-09, 19:16

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I only have this stick of SDRAM I didn't know it was possible to use a 512 MB SDRAM stick on any Coppermine-compatible chipset. Anyway, I think the versions of EMM386 and HIMEM included with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 were inherently limited to 64 MB. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=41557 …

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Re: which sound card for DOS Glide games?

Posted on 2017-04-09, 05:50

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by Jorpho

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Kamerat wrote: Yes, none of Creative's card's ever used DDMA. The TSR of the Live! still need some spesific functions of the chipset enabled which seems to have gone on Intel's PCIe based chipsets and all nVidia and AMD chipsets. I thought those "specific functions" were the same as DDMA. I guess …

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Re: Newbie installing DOS for the first time: Where is "COMMAND"?

Posted on 2017-04-09, 04:30

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Be careful, Windows 9x is hazardous for backing up and restoring floppies, because it modifies the boot sector without permission. Seriously, better use Windows 3.1 and WinImage 3.0 for that purpose or a real Operating System, like Windows NT/2000/XP/.. I don't want to know how many disks were …

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Re: FrankenDOS?

Posted on 2017-04-09, 01:25

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Gosh. What a strange design decision. I suppose that means that if you delete a file that has a long file name, you'll end up with an "orphaned" long file name entry, too.

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Re: Heroes of Might and Magic --in some systems you get CD audio music, in some others you don't

Posted on 2017-04-08, 04:30

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Perhaps the game uses a faulty method of trying to decide which drive letter has the CD music, and your Athlon just happens to have everything set up right? One hard drive on C, one CD drive on D, and no other letters?

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Re: Voodoo1/2 will it work with onboard graphics?

Posted on 2017-04-08, 04:24

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kenrouholo wrote: For a splitter, wouldn't you want to look for the opposite, one with 2 male plugs? Like the ordinary passthrough cable, the splitter has one male connector and one female connector; that's all you really need. You wouldn't want to connect both female ends of the splitter at the …

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Re: Database/records of old benchmarks?

Posted on 2017-04-08, 04:14

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by Jorpho

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I don't think those type of results are what I'm looking for. I need raw data on specific calculations/whatever action that is being executed and I really don't care for the games' performance but for the CPU itself, max overclock w/ a stability level, etc- if I'm making any sense. ...Not so much, …

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Re: Database/records of old benchmarks?

Posted on 2017-04-07, 18:49

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by Jorpho

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archive.org ought to cover a decent span of 1995 to 2006, and there's plenty of stuff from that time that never went offline. The old VGA charts from Tom's Hardware, for example. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/vga-charts-iii,730.html The main purpose for this is to have a place where you can …

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Re: which sound card for DOS Glide games?

Posted on 2017-04-07, 18:42

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Kamerat wrote: Live! uses a TSR to emulate the ISA DMA functions. Only 440BX/ZX of Intel's Pentium III chipsets supported DDMA. But you would need the same TSR even if you were using one of those chipsets. And there are plenty of chipsets for which that TSR won't work at all.

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Re: which sound card for DOS Glide games?

Posted on 2017-04-07, 17:55

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Kamerat wrote: For the ΥΑΜΑΗΑ WF-192XG make sure to download a driver with the DSDMA TSR included, looks like your motherboard lacks a PC/PCI connector and the chipset doesn't do DDMA. I thought all Pentium III chipsets had that capability. Otherwise, wouldn't it be completely impossible to use an …

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Re: Newbie installing DOS for the first time: Where is "COMMAND"?

Posted on 2017-04-07, 16:52

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by Jorpho

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Why not create a Win9x, 2k, or XP boot floppy directly from Windows using the Windows floppy format utility, boot the PC onto which you want to install MS-DOS with that (it should create a RAM drive with all required utilities), and do a base format of the hard disk and create a bootable FAT16 …

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Re: Voodoo1/2 will it work with onboard graphics?

Posted on 2017-04-07, 15:11

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You can even do without the pass-through cable if you don't mind manually changing the card that your monitor is plugged into every time you start using your Voodoo card. (Or you can get a VGA switch box.)

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Re: Newbie installing DOS for the first time: Where is "COMMAND"?

Posted on 2017-04-07, 04:27

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If an imaging utility won't work, I'm not sure how you can make a bootable MS-DOS 6.22 floppy with your USB floppy drive. Extracting the files from the image and copying them to the disk will certainly not suffice.

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Re: microsoft applocale I can't find it anywhere

Posted on 2017-04-06, 04:37

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Gee, it has become hard to find. That's upsetting. But I like a challenge. Google for "apploc.msi" (with the quotes) and a bunch of hits turn up, including http://www.filewatcher.com/m/apploc.msi.1295360-0.html .

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Re: Turrican II Difficulties

Posted on 2017-04-06, 02:27

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I know this problem has been brought up several times in the past, but I've never understood any of the solutions people have offered. Rather than waste time writing a new explanation of something you don't understand, perhaps you can bring up an example of something you've seen that you don't …

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Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter

Posted on 2017-04-05, 15:11

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by Jorpho

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It would be cheaper if the components could be ordered separately and obliging the end-user to solder it together, wouldn't it?

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Re: Gamepad for DOS: Gravis Gamepad Pro or MS Sidewinder Gamepad with 3rd party DOS driver

Posted on 2017-04-04, 22:52

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by Jorpho

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Gravis made DOS drivers Gamepads and joysticks do not generally require drivers. The reason the DOS drivers for the Sidewinders exist is because by default the Sidewinders use digital signals that are incompatible with what DOS games generally expect. If I'm not mistaken, Gravis gamepads were …

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Re: Help Building DOSBox - Win10 & VS2017

Posted on 2017-04-04, 03:49

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by Jorpho

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https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Building_DOSBox_w … _C_2008_Express ?

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Re: Screamer on Win XP help.

Posted on 2017-04-03, 17:26

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by Jorpho

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Not yet though, it's got no internet connection so I can put DOSbox on a USB stick and slap it on the dell yes? Indeed, much like any other program. You can even run DOSBox from the USB stick directly, if you like. I did use it for my Win10 machine but like the older hardware. For a DOS game, most …

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Re: Screamer on Win XP help.

Posted on 2017-04-03, 16:50

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by Jorpho

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Screamer is somewhat notoriously difficult to get running. XP in particular puts significant restrictions on the ability of DOS programs to directly access the video hardware and trying to change around your video hardware will probably not help much. Have you not tried DOSBox?

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