Re: Replace floppy drive with a ZIP drive

Posted on 2016-09-12, 14:55

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by Jorpho

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Much easier and faster than using the old parallel external drive that was our FIRST foray into ZIP disks back on the old Packard Bell Windows 95 days. I even remember we chained a scanner off of that, then hooked a printer up to THAT. LOL And they all worked! Wouldn't that have been a SCSI …

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Re: Software for Windows 98

Posted on 2016-09-12, 14:53

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Well, the FMVs refused to run, period. Nothing I did solved the problem, short of a wipe and reload of Windows 98. I remember having a similar problem. It was just a matter of having the right codec. Installing the latest version of Media Player 6 did the trick for some reason. Not sure why the …

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Re: Replace floppy drive with a ZIP drive

Posted on 2016-09-12, 13:45

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by Jorpho

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computergeek92 wrote: Where a ZIP disk can be formatted to floppy formats No, definitely not. (That would be an extraordinary waste of a ZIP disk.) Back in the day there was something called Norton Zip Rescue that could be used to make bootable Zip disks, as I vaguely recall.

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Re: Software for Windows 98

Posted on 2016-09-12, 13:41

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Third, DX9c sometimes requires files not present in win98, causing some anomalies (take this with a grain of salt, I've yet to experience such problems). If that was the case, there would surely be a bazillion reports of that problem by now, and another bazillion repetitions of the same old fix …

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Re: Windows 95 Pentium Build

Posted on 2016-09-12, 03:29

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FFXIhealer wrote: the Matrox card did get a bit warm to the touch, unusual for a card operating in simple VGA mode. Not sure why that's unusual..? Cards are supposed to get warm – and you're not normally supposed to touch them. 😉

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Re: Software for Windows 98

Posted on 2016-09-11, 16:32

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About office suites: I didn't include any office suite because my goal was having a light system. You want a "light system" with Gimp, Abiword, Gnumeric, and an EPROM burner, but an office suite is going too far..? OpenOffice 2.4.2 is the latest version supported, and any LibreOffice requires …

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Re: Help me find the best easy to use hard drive cloning software

Posted on 2016-09-11, 16:28

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It would be easier for me to find good cloning software because some of the drives have bad sectors and I don't want them to fail while I take off the files. I don't follow the logic here. Cloning is a more intensive process and probably more likely to cause a drive to fail than "taking off the …

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Re: Windows 95 Pentium Build

Posted on 2016-09-11, 16:21

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If I HAD DOS, I'd think about using it. When Mr. clueless1 refers to "running DOS 7", I believe he is referring to DOS "as a component of either Windows 98 or Windows 95", as you have already stated. (And there's always FreeDOS. Nothing really wrong with FreeDOS, though the documentation leaves …

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Re: Software for Windows 98

Posted on 2016-09-11, 03:47

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This thread contained a link to https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=59559 , which suggests that Sumatra 2.2.1 supported Win98. Not too much else of interest in there application-wise, though, except for OpenOffice 3.2.1.

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Re: Mortal Kombat 3 slow on Shao Kahn

Posted on 2016-09-11, 03:43

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I think GOG still offers the DOS version of MK3. Perhaps you should check in the forums there? https://www.gog.com/game/mortal_kombat_123 Of course, if you are using an illegal copy downloaded from who-knows-where, it's not unthinkable that you're encountering some devilish copy protection check. …

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Re: Will DOSBox help me?

Posted on 2016-09-10, 22:25

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they found an adaptor that fits the plug on the keyboard, and would plug into a standard USB port on a computer. It is quite difficult to begin to suggest anything without knowing more about this specific "plug on the keyboard". If it is a serial-to-USB cable (or RS232-to-USB, as it may be called), …

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Re: Interplay IPs for sale

Posted on 2016-09-10, 18:57

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Yep, saw this news a couple of days ago. I can't help but think of how Ultima turned into "Lord of Ultima" and "Ultima Forever". And then there's the mess with Dungeon Keeper. I am not hopeful about anything good coming of this.

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Re: Something causing DOSBox to not work correctly.

Posted on 2016-09-10, 18:46

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If that doesn't work, try changing the line "output=surface" in your DOSBox.conf to "output=openglnb", or one of the other options. You can access DOSBox.conf via the "DOSBox 0.74 Options" in your Start menu.

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Re: ZOOL 2 on DOSBOX jams

Posted on 2016-09-10, 16:28

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I don't really understand what you are trying to say. As discussed in the 60 Seconds Guide, you have to mount the directories the same way both before and after installation. If you mounted C:\GAMES as drive C when you installed the game, then you have to keep mounting C:\GAMES as drive C (and not …

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Re: CD Dos games that uses midi as music?

Posted on 2016-09-10, 16:24

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Lemmings 3D would play CD audio during the levels, but use MIDI everywhere else.

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Re: ZOOL 2 on DOSBOX jams

Posted on 2016-09-09, 20:37

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The word you're looking for is "freezes". It's difficult to provide assistance without more details about what you are doing. Did you follow the 60 Seconds Guide? http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=8933 You should also try an SVN build of DOSBox, as there have been many fixes made since 0.74 …

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Re: No voice on CD games like DOTT... Please help!

Posted on 2016-09-09, 14:41

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Are you getting sound in any other games?

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Re: Whats an audigy like in dos apps?

Posted on 2016-09-09, 14:31

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|I know that AC97, live and the audigy have dos support. There is no universal "AC97" DOS driver, if I'm not mistaken. If a motherboard supported AC97, it would only be usable in DOS if the motherboard manufacturer provided DOS drivers for the motherboard. Just wondering how they work and if it …

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Re: who framed roger rabbit - cga version problem

Posted on 2016-09-08, 16:06

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by Jorpho

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Did you install this game from the original floppies? Freezing with a black screen after the first level sounds like the sort of thing that would be triggered by a copy protection check, or at least by corrupted files. If you are using the latest SVN Daum version, then it is kind of broken and you …

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Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going

Posted on 2016-09-08, 14:37

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keenmaster486 wrote: I've thought about that a lot. Maybe the core engine could be programmed in optimized 8088 assembler, with the rest of the code in C so as to better facilitate future development? May I suggest that you have spectacularly unrealistic ideas about the difficulties involved here?

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