Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-06, 03:00

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by Jorpho

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Could you place the page file/virtual memory stuff in the ramdisk and thus effectively get more memory? I was just thinking the same thing. It wouldn't be more memory of course it would just be a really really fast page file. It will still copy data from the page file to memory and back again which …

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Re: No redbook audio in wmp, and more

Posted on 2016-10-06, 02:57

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by Jorpho

in Windows

in Windows

If you enable digital audio playback for the CD-ROM drive (it's in one of the Sound or Multimedia control panels), then the data will be played through the appropriate Windows audio device.

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Re: Doom - Dosbox - Boom

Posted on 2016-10-06, 02:55

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by Jorpho

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Why use DOSBox at all, when there are surely a multitude of other Doom ports for Windows that work just as well and probably also implement 2xsai?

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Re: I have CPU emu question.

Posted on 2016-10-06, 02:54

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by Jorpho

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Suffice to say, if there was some easy solution to this problem, someone would have implemented it long ago and it would be readily available in many forms by now.

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Re: The old Windows 98 Memory question... Solution whit RamDisk?

Posted on 2016-10-05, 22:35

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by Jorpho

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I doubt it, because you'd have to somehow initialize the ramdrive and keep it there before Windows actually booted all the way, which means you have to do it from DOS, which means you're going to probably have weird issues with it in Windows itself. Not at all. You can add the relevant settings in …

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Re: I have CPU emu question.

Posted on 2016-10-05, 22:26

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by Jorpho

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It might be technically possible (or not - you need to read the Intel and AMD manuals to figure out) to switch the processor from long mode to 16-bit mode on the fly to execute 16-bit code natively. Or use some virtualization extensions. There's this proof of concept: https://github.com/leecher1337 …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded and games on two different disks

Posted on 2016-10-04, 22:19

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by Jorpho

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And some error occurs anyway... I don't remember the exact message, can't test it now, but anyway my D-Fend Reloaded is not in English. I can't imagine what you expect anyone to do with this non-information. You can always just ditch D-Fend Reloaded and do things the old-fashioned way. It's not …

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Re: High End 486 vs Pentium

Posted on 2016-10-04, 16:29

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by Jorpho

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Rhuwyn wrote: I can't frankly think of anything which is why I am asking. Well, that's just it, isn't it? Even if there is something out there somewhere (and there probably is), there's no point in worrying about it if you have no intention of ever running it.

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Re: Dosbox Win95 - disk size 2GB limit hack?

Posted on 2016-10-04, 14:48

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by Jorpho

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I find the existence of vDosPlus to be very encouraging – a derivative of DOSBox with its own specific goals and patches applied. There's no reason someone couldn't make a similar build of DOSBox specifically directed towards running Windows 95 – except for the fact that it apparently will never …

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Re: Slowing down a P6: Can I get a cliffsnotes for what's up here?

Posted on 2016-10-04, 14:40

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by Jorpho

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How about Throttle? http://www.oldskool.org/pc/throttle/DOS/

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Re: Dosbox Win95 - disk size 2GB limit hack?

Posted on 2016-10-03, 18:35

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by Jorpho

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gulikoza wrote: There's literally no way Win9x could run off host mounted directory as DosFreak said. Well, you could conceivably write something that effectively copies the host-mounted directory into a temporary disk image – but that would get ugly and kludgy.

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Re: What scientific calculator simulator do you use?

Posted on 2016-10-03, 16:39

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by Jorpho

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I liked the XP Powercalc, but apparently it is not so easy to install in Windows 7.

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Re: Dosbox Win95 - disk size 2GB limit hack?

Posted on 2016-10-03, 16:07

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by Jorpho

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DosFreak wrote: There is no reason to have file system access similar to how DOSBox currently does it for Windows 9x in DOSBox. Sure there is – manipulating disk images is awkward and inconvenient. (Unless maybe if you pay for Winimage, which unfortunately isn't free.)

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Re: USB keyboard / mouse in DOS?

Posted on 2016-10-03, 04:49

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by Jorpho

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I have one of these VIA USB PCI cards from ebay too but the PC will not boot because it has some IRQ conflict with the VGA card (or existing USB implementation) on any of the PCI slot. The USB on-board already takes some IRQ and I can't even disable it in the bios (absolutely nothing related to the …

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Re: Anyone familiar with Epiphany web browser?

Posted on 2016-10-03, 04:41

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by Jorpho

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According to Wikipedia, it's actually based on "WebkitGTK+" now – so closer to Safari than Firefox. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_(web_browser)

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Re: Anyone familiar with Epiphany web browser?

Posted on 2016-10-03, 02:31

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by Jorpho

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If you need such a detailed response, shouldn't you seek out, y'know, an Epiphany (or an ElementaryOS) web forum?

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Re: Dosbox Win95 - disk size 2GB limit hack?

Posted on 2016-10-03, 02:26

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by Jorpho

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As far as i understand these bochs images is not possible, because this image is one 1 file in dosbox until i boot it and after boot it doesnt see any other dosbox folder of drive, so its not possible, how mounted 2 images, or you would need, mount bochs image inside booted Win95 image. Your posts …

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Re: USB keyboard / mouse in DOS?

Posted on 2016-10-03, 02:14

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by Jorpho

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Not quite, Jorpho. If your card is UHCI compliant, here are some pretty nifty drivers that work with anything from flash drives to joysticks to keyboards and mice. They even support hotswapping. Well, well. My stars! I can't recall hearing about that before and apparently it's been around for six …

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Re: i downloaded warcraft 2 from my abandonware and there's one small problem

Posted on 2016-10-03, 02:09

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by Jorpho

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It adds a whole other level of civility and respect to everything and it's reflective of the general spirit of this community. Let's not go nuts here. as soon as my mouse gets to a side of the screen it almost instantly takes me to the other side of the map. I started typing into Google and it …

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Re: USB keyboard / mouse in DOS?

Posted on 2016-10-02, 15:47

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by Jorpho

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There appears to be some Panasonic driver that works in DOS but I'm not sure what hardware it is compatible with. That is strictly for hard drives. You will never get a USB mouse working in DOS, even if you get a PCI-USB card.

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