Re: 3DFX HammerHead is it good ?

Posted on 2017-03-16, 16:31

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It uses MIDI port. Usually that is referred to as the "gameport" or "joystick port". Most pre-USB gamepads use that, if you're not familiar with it; it is found on most ISA and PCI Sound Blaster cards. Generally they are not usable on Windows Vista or later without a gameport-to-USB adapter (and …

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Re: How to get Sound in Dos Games on windows 98

Posted on 2017-03-16, 15:08

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by Jorpho

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my resourses only says interrupt request 11 and input/output 2400-24ff What do you mean by your "resources"? And what sort of changes have you made to your "auto bat" file? If you have "tried different drivers" then at this point it could very well be that something has become hopelessly messed up …

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Re: How to get Sound in Dos Games on windows 98

Posted on 2017-03-16, 13:45

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by Jorpho

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Have you tried selecting Sound Blaster Pro instead of Sound Blaster 16?

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Re: Compaq Evo N600c for DOS/Win.9x gaming

Posted on 2017-03-16, 13:43

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by Jorpho

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Perhaps we should keep replies to the other thread you started, especially since you apparently got the drivers installed after all. Re: Compaq Evo N600c for DOS/Win.9x gaming

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Re: Wolfenstein 3D memory problem

Posted on 2017-03-16, 13:37

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No, I think a P3 is pretty old at this point. It would be pretty questionable to get Wolfenstein 3D running on anything newer, at least. Back to the matter at hand: how much RAM do you have in this system? Did you try HIMEMX? (Did you miss my post entirely..?)

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Re: Can't run Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel

Posted on 2017-03-16, 04:12

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I have no idea what you're trying to do. Follow the 60 Seconds Guide. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=8933 Specifically, take note that you should mount the same folder as drive C both when you install the game and when you want to run the game after installing it. Also, if you downloaded …

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Re: Good software for testing floppies in Dos?

Posted on 2017-03-15, 22:16

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Is there some problem with Scandisk? The alternative would be Chkdsk, specifically with the /r switch. Offhand I'm not sure if that still works in Windows 7 for checking floppies. There are various other programs such as Norton Disk Doctor, but offhand I cannot recall any particular freeware …

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Artistic depiction of "Verschlimmbessern"

Posted on 2017-03-15, 16:26

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Saw this at BoingBoing today. Verschlimmbessern (German): To accidentally make something worse in the process of attempting to mend or improve it. Multiple applications around computers, cake baking and relationships. See the second image from the bottom. http://www.vaitkute.com/#/new-gallery-1/

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Re: !! Full Throttle now on GOG !!

Posted on 2017-03-15, 04:43

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Like Day of the Tentacle, this is getting a Remastered edition that probably won't use DOSBox or be particularly compatible with ScummVM. I understood that the DOTT remaster pretty much just had better-quality audio (from the original sources) and graphics smoothed out by some filter or another. I'd …

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Re: Good emulators in DOS

Posted on 2017-03-15, 04:34

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While I can understand that the need for excessive accuracy might be questionable, I think it nonetheless remains that unusually low accuracy of the sort you'd likely get from an ancient DOS emulator is also not particularly desirable. This gives me another idea - Wouldn't it be cool if someone …

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Re: VM for my grandmother

Posted on 2017-03-15, 04:27

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If you can somehow get your sewing app working in an older version of XP or "XP Mode" (which is an SP2 image) SP2 image? That's news to me. What gave you that idea? https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/e77c837d-bf4b-4a3a-a33b-a85d1a52008f/can-windows-7-xp-mode-install-xp-sp2- …

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Re: FrankenDOS?

Posted on 2017-03-14, 22:03

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I'm not clear as to what exactly you would do with QBASIC. I mean, it's fine for dabbling in programming, but for that purpose I'd rather use Python. But EDIT.COM requires QBASIC.EXE, so you'd need to have it around anyway if you're using EDIT.COM. There's probably a better alternative to EDIT.COM …

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Re: DOSBox Feature Request Thread

Posted on 2017-03-14, 18:41

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Does anyone know what needs to be implemented or faked in order to support GameWizard32's save state feature? I know there is a save-state patch in a few non-official builds but it is pretty buggy, and downstream apps like Dosbox on mobile devices can't benefit from it easily. The first page of …

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Re: do not sell dosbox to any company!

Posted on 2017-03-13, 20:20

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by Jorpho

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Also, 0.74 was released six years ago and if any such "selling" was going to happen, it would have happened already.

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Re: Wolfenstein 3D memory problem

Posted on 2017-03-12, 15:55

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How much RAM do you have installed in this computer? I seem to recall that the Win9x version of HIMEM supports a larger amount of RAM (i.e. it can create more extended memory) than the MS-DOS version – possibly too much RAM for Wolfenstein to handle. That's my best guess, anyway. http://www.msfn.org …

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Re: Your old CD-ROMs are probably rotting

Posted on 2017-03-12, 02:33

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Jade Falcon wrote: But you can reflow it by heating the disk wile spinning it. Have you tried this yourself..?

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Re: It's always nice getting something working.

Posted on 2017-03-11, 14:56

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Perhaps if you have questions about a Macintosh, you should put "iMac G3" in the subject line of your thread. Or post in the Macintosh forum. So, what do I do with it? Stick it in a corner and let it gather dust. :lol: It seems to me most of the vaguely-interesting stuff was exclusive to OS 9 and …

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Re: Weird Boot Issue

Posted on 2017-03-10, 19:06

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buckeye wrote: Gonna have to hunt down a "power switch button/cable" to plug into the board. All you need to do is touch the two power switch pins with a paper clip (or anything else conductive you might have kicking around).

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Re: Microsoft sidewinder gamepad on windows 98

Posted on 2017-03-10, 19:03

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by Jorpho

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Why not provide a link so that people might avoid repeating themselves? Microsoft Sidewinder 3d pro on windows 98

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Re: Croc not playing music

Posted on 2017-03-09, 05:25

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by Jorpho

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There's some rambling about Croc 2 at http://punkrockhacker.blogspot.ca/2014_06_01_archive.html that may be applicable here. Do other audio CDs play properly? Do you have more than one optical drive? Are you running Daemon Tools?

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