Re: Win 3.1 Insufficient Memory Using Win or WinExit.exe

Posted on 2017-03-05, 21:05

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by Jorpho

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Can you duplicate the problem with the latest Windows version of DOSBox? Also, did you set up this Windows 3.1 installation yourself? (What is windows.bat ?) I don't think anyone has mentioned using 1MBFort here before.

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Re: Trying to remember an old game that I can't find

Posted on 2017-03-05, 19:25

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by Jorpho

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

My first thought was one of the Dr. Brain games, but nothing appropriate comes up. So my second guess is one of the Super Solvers games, but it doesn't look like Gizmos & Gadgets, or Challenge of the Ancient Empires.

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Re: Video Recommendations for DOS and Win98 Gaming

Posted on 2017-03-05, 19:11

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by Jorpho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

GiSWiG wrote: So I did pick up a few more PCs and parts (we have classifieds at work). Jorpho wrote: If your answer is "Everything!" then I guarantee you will spend far more time building computers and looking for parts and mucking with configurations than you will ever spend actually playing games …

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Re: windows 95 components

Posted on 2017-03-05, 19:08

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by Jorpho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

im just wondering what video card + other components to use for easy compatibility... It depends what you want to do. If all else fails, just about anything can use the default Windows VGA driver. Are you going to be playing games? heres the device in question: http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/ …

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Re: Battle For Naboo- No Sound in XP?

Posted on 2017-03-04, 20:46

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by Jorpho

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in Windows

The desktop-freezing thing is strange. Perhaps it would work better if you used a utility that sets the affinity before the process is launched? I forget what the optimal way of doing that is. A moment of Googling suggests http://www.adsciengineering.com/StartAffinity/ and https://www. …

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Re: Battle For Naboo- No Sound in XP?

Posted on 2017-03-04, 19:01

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by Jorpho

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in Windows

Have you tried dgVoodoo? (Yes, it would be strange for the graphics drivers to be interfering with sound playback, but I have seen something like that happen before.) I've tried disabling a core in the task manager, but it just freezes the whole desktop. You mean by setting the affinity for the …

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Re: Ok UMB and PFS problem

Posted on 2017-03-03, 19:19

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by Jorpho

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

To be clear, it seems to me the issue here is not "how to get more upper memory in DOSBox", but "what are you doing differently under Windows 7 that is preventing the program from working like it does in XP". I just goto the folder and Launch the executable from dosbox with xp and 7 pro This is …

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Re: Video Recommendations for DOS and Win98 Gaming

Posted on 2017-03-03, 18:43

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by Jorpho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

and more accurate DOS play than DOSBox. Is there something you have found particularly inaccurate in DOSBox? If that is your goal then you should plan your system accordingly. but there are plenty Win98 that don't work on XP. Again, is there something specific you have in mind? Things are getting …

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Re: Video Recommendations for DOS and Win98 Gaming

Posted on 2017-03-03, 17:17

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Where would, if applicable, a Soundblaster Extigy fall in to all this? It might do good for 98 games and I can pass any other soundcard like SB16/AWE through it. I guess there might be some scenarios in which that might make sense, but I have a hard time conceiving of them. As always, it depends on …

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Re: How can you tell if the data in memory is an image?

Posted on 2017-03-03, 14:54

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by Jorpho

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in Milliways

TrID might work, though you would have to save the "byte stream" to a file first, and you might need significant quantities of data. http://mark0.net/soft-trid-e.html

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Re: Amazon Trail 1 (CD version) - Windows ME

Posted on 2017-03-03, 14:51

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by Jorpho

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Perhaps there's something Microsoft changed in Windows ME that breaks Win3.1 compatibility? It still remains that the games run correctly the first time. I tried to look up a video and found https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpGigpKE03A . I think it is very significant that at the end of the MECC …

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Re: One Must Fall on Nvidia Shield

Posted on 2017-03-02, 21:47

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by Jorpho

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

DOSBox Turbo and other Android ports are not supported here. I think you will find the game works just fine in the Windows version of DOSBox if properly installed from a reliable download.

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Re: Needing help with WinME

Posted on 2017-03-02, 05:05

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ Software

Oldskoolmaniac wrote: Ive tried the patches from MDGx and still nothing, maybe im grabbing the wrong thing? We can't very well know if you don't say what specific things you've grabbed, now can we..?

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Re: Ok UMB and PFS problem

Posted on 2017-03-02, 02:20

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by Jorpho

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

yes it works in XP stock no mods / I thought xp was different it had a config.sys and autoexec.bat file you could tweak I will ask them to check the mem levels in the XP machine. while in dosbox however I'm going to take them in a different direction This is unclear. Are you using the Windows XP …

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Re: How much memory?

Posted on 2017-03-02, 00:36

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by Jorpho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Those 486 boards can sometimes be very picky about what combinations of SIMMs they will accept. You might have to take into consideration what is available to you.

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Re: PCem or VMware?

Posted on 2017-03-01, 15:57

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by Jorpho

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in PC Emulation

It depends on what exactly you want to do. If you want an answer, perhaps you should state what old Windows games you want to run. Do you have something that requires a Pentium II for some reason? Or are you just throwing out random questions with no regard for the answers?

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Re: windows 3.11 share drive problems

Posted on 2017-03-01, 04:04

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by Jorpho

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watlers_world wrote: Windows 10 is still sold by Microsoft. MS Tech support should be able to provide you with full help and support. Come on, seriously? Windows 3.x is not sold by Microsoft anymore and they couldn't care less if you're trying to connect a Windows 3.x computer to a Windows 10 …

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Re: Ok UMB and PFS problem

Posted on 2017-03-01, 00:24

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by Jorpho

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in DOSBox General

I'm running dosbox now the "SVM" version, the computer that made the larger file is an XP machine running dosbox as well. So, does that mean you are able to open this file in PFS in DOSBox on this XP machine where the file was made? Because DOSBox will run exactly the same on any computer on which …

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Re: Disney Hercules Action Game (CDDA W10 position issue)

Posted on 2017-02-28, 22:26

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by Jorpho

in Windows

in Windows

Some people have had better luck using ogg-winmm with the "SOTE fix".

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Re: Ok UMB and PFS problem

Posted on 2017-02-28, 22:23

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by Jorpho

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I have it working on 7pro and 10pro and yes he's going to use it. I think you misunderstood my question. Do you mean you have this DOS program running in Windows 7 and Windows 10 without DOSBox? You say that "the biggest file he has is 204kb". Where did this file come from? Was that file made when …

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