Re: DRDOS 7 won't work on my Tandy 1000TL
Posted on 2017-01-04, 16:29
That's strange. Are you sure your floppies aren't going bad? My only suggestion would be to check the CMOS battery.
Re: Is Windows pointless on a 486?
Posted on 2017-01-04, 14:18
I can BLOW Duke 3D out of the water with 320x400 res mode (I think it's 640x400 interlaced). Some people would insist that it is pointless to run Duke 3D at such a low resolution. BTW, there is a DOS version of the game, which would probably crash less than the 3.x version. Are you sure about that? …
Re: Tell me this Vogons Wiki information about Voodoo 2 is false...
Posted on 2017-01-04, 05:38
A few of us on falconfly theorized a way to get 2 voodoo5500 to work in sli. People on 3dfxzone rigged up the banshee to work in sli too I tried Googling for these wonders and didn't get very far. I found some information that you can use Voodoo 2 as a primary 3D device. http://www.3dgw.com/ …
Re: What should I load my 486 Win95 setup with?
Posted on 2017-01-04, 04:37
Yea that's exactly what I am doing. CDs take a long time to burn, and I couldn't use one anyways since NT 3.1 insists on using a SCSI CD drive. The entry at http://www.os2museum.com/wp/installing-windows-nt-3-x-in-virtualbox/ suggests you can use DOS with a CD-ROM driver and then run the DOS-based …
Re: Win95 Optiplex GS+ Build, needing help & opinions
Posted on 2017-01-03, 23:22
I would expect so, yes. I'm sure if you look hard enough, you can find a PCI video card that won't work in DOS mode or that will cause other problems. (There are plenty of cards that require FIX8X14 for some applications, but that's a trivial fix.) EDIT: Found http://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/ …
Re: What should I load my 486 NT 3.1 setup with?
Posted on 2017-01-03, 22:56
candle_86 wrote: nothing that requires DirectX, NT doesn't support DirectX remember that DirectX 3 is supported in NT4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT_4.0#Features But it is most certainly not supported by NT3.1 (and probably not NT3.5).
Re: Win95 Optiplex GS+ Build, needing help & opinions
Posted on 2017-01-03, 22:49
If those games run fine on your "4 different 98 builds", the same video card hardware will work just as well in this machine, I would think. Doom and Wolfenstein, at least, are not at all picky. I was reading that ntfs is possible in 95. but the program from sysinternals does not work even though …
Re: Win95 Optiplex GS+ Build, needing help & opinions
Posted on 2017-01-03, 21:30
so suggestion on games are welcomed. Then the next obvious question is, "What kind of games do you like?" There is not much that is quite like SimCity 2000. If you have "4 different 98 builds" then I guess you can run some of the games you were using on those..? As for the CDdrive i like the clean …
Re: Win95 Optiplex GS+ Build, needing help & opinions
Posted on 2017-01-03, 20:48
What software and tweaks would you guys recommend that is also essential? Is there any programs like ccleaner or NTFS reader for 95? At the risk of sounding like a broken record: it depends on what exactly you want to do. If you will be reading NTFS-formatted disks, then an NTFS reader is essential …
Re: Windows 95 Dos window video problem
Posted on 2017-01-03, 19:51
If you're running a DOS game, I would not expect the Windows drivers for the Voodoo card to make any difference.
Re: Best/cheapest way to read a bunch of old Apple (or Mac) formatted floppies?
Posted on 2017-01-03, 19:16
AFAIK, the problem really is more recently produced floppy disk drives (last 10-15 years). Older floppy disk drives made in the 1980s-90s can usually read and write single and double density floppies and also non-standard formats using special utilities or drivers, but the support required was …
Re: What should I load my 486 Win95 setup with?
Posted on 2017-01-03, 19:02
Yea, I'm throwing NT 3.1 on there, might up it to 3.5. I think that's a bit more 486 friendly. Further suggestions? If you can't think of anything to do with it, and if it's going to be astoundingly difficult, perhaps you should reconsider doing it at all..? Or is that just crazy talk? I sure can't …
Re: Require-Once DOS Batch Script
Posted on 2017-01-03, 17:15
In theory, as long as you're running something that is visible with "mem /c", you could do something like this by using the DOS "FIND" command. Something like Copy code to clipboard 1 MEM /C|FIND "s3vbe" & IF ERRORLEVEL 1 ( 2 C:\DOS\DRIVERS\S3VBE20 /INSTALL 3 ) 4 DUKE3D.EXE But I'm not sure if I …
Re: Best/cheapest way to read a bunch of old Apple (or Mac) formatted floppies?
Posted on 2017-01-03, 14:42
I've only used it with 1.4MB disks though, I have no Mac-formatted 800K disks to try with it. Standard PC floppy hardware is fundamentally incapable of reading 800K Mac floppies. The same applies to Amiga floppies. There is a program called DISK2FDI which exploits a "feature" of systems with two …
Re: A problem when installing Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS
Posted on 2017-01-03, 14:25
Ok just having for an emulator for PCem to reach 512 MB for their next release. I have already explained to you that there is practically nothing you can do with Windows 3.1 that will ever require anywhere near 512 MB of RAM. This is a fundamental limitation of Windows 3.1 and of vintage computers …
Re: Do you ever
Posted on 2017-01-03, 01:55
Re: A problem when installing Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS
Posted on 2017-01-03, 01:49
What version of DOS should I use if I don't want the included memory management if I want to use Windows 3.1 on FAT 32? This sentence does not make grammatical sense. If this is about http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=51268&p=549499 again, then your problem arose because you were trying to …
Re: A problem when installing Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS
Posted on 2017-01-02, 18:06
MS-DOS 7.1 from the China DOS union is definitely an option. Its origins are a complete mystery. I sure wouldn't consider it an option. FreeDOS is an option, but it has the disappointment of being not retro. Personally I take qualm with this, I prefer period accuracy vs. modern convenience The …
Re: Installing Windows 98SE on Dell Latitude D600
Posted on 2017-01-02, 04:20
I install the Ethernet driver WIN98 takes at least a minute and a half to startup. Any ideas? If you do not have anything plugged into the Ethernet port, then it is looking for a network and eventually timing out, if I'm not mistaken. The easiest solution would be to simply keep the Ethernet card …
Re: Windows 95 Dos window video problem
Posted on 2017-01-01, 19:41
Ampera wrote: Try OS/2 Warp 4. It has joystick and DOS in window support, possibly better than that of Windows. Unless there are drivers available for this specific digital joystick (which seems very unlikely), I doubt that will be helpful.
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