Re: Farting CD music in DOSBox

Posted on 2016-06-18, 21:43

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by Jorpho

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There is no reason to expect a USB CD-ROM drive to behave any differently. The problem is happening even using imgmount in DOSBox and accordingly is completely independent of your CD-ROM hardware. As Dominus suggested, "something is not right with your machine it seems". Like I said before, you …

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Re: What is this problematic motherboard?

Posted on 2016-06-17, 18:27

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by Jorpho

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The PCB number in the lower left is a clue. http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25078 But yes, motherboards do not start without a CPU.

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Re: Whats The Best Audio Card for Win98SE (Please No Creative)

Posted on 2016-06-17, 18:15

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by Jorpho

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Oldskoolmaniac wrote: My cpu is a 800mhz slot A Athlon with 768mb of ram Unless you take the proper precautions, Windows 98 is inherently unstable with more than 512 MB of RAM, and getting a non-Creative sound card will not help you at all.

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Re: Whats The Best Audio Card for Win98SE (Please No Creative)

Posted on 2016-06-17, 01:20

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by Jorpho

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You're not providing any indication of what has made you so upset, but I can tell you that if you're looking for DOS support for a PCI sound card, then there is no reason to expect non-Creative cards to work any better.

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Re: Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 scroll

Posted on 2016-06-15, 19:24

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by Jorpho

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I've never heard of anyone trying to fix scrolling and framerate issues in DOSBox by changing the refresh rate or custom resolution. I wouldn't expect a CRT or TFT to make any difference either. Whatever the problem is, it's probably something else. Are you saying the GOG version has exactly the …

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Re: Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 scroll

Posted on 2016-06-15, 18:05

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by Jorpho

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The only other thing I can think of is to change the machine type – maybe vesa_oldvbe or vesa_nolfb . A cputype of 486_slow or pentium_slow might be worth trying too. If you want to do some experimenting, I notice GOG is selling MK 1+2+3 (they're the DOS versions) for two bucks at the moment.

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Re: Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 scroll

Posted on 2016-06-15, 17:07

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by Jorpho

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theelf wrote: The scroll and framerate is very bad, not like in real DOS Are you sure the version you are trying to run is the same version you once ran in DOS? According to Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port) there are at least several different versions of MK1.

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Re: Pentium II 450 and Voodoo cards

Posted on 2016-06-15, 13:17

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by Jorpho

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I really don't know how to tell you "what my point is" any better than I can now. I'm sorry. Your question was whether it was a good idea to put a Voodoo5 in a Pentium II 450. If there is something specific you want to accomplish, then whatever it is, there are probably other, cheaper ways of doing …

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Re: Cyberman + Dosbox

Posted on 2016-06-15, 04:33

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by Jorpho

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You should be warned that even with a PCI RS232 card you still might not get this item working in DOSBox, but you'd definitely have better chances than with a USB to RS232 adapter. Looks like Newegg has one at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124104&cm_re=pci_serial_card-_-15 …

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Re: Pentium II 450 and Voodoo cards

Posted on 2016-06-15, 04:24

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by Jorpho

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My point is to recreate the old days. Did you have a Voodoo5 in the old days? No one was buying that kind of hardware because they wanted smoother DVD playback, I can tell you that much for certain. If that is the standard by which you are determining your need for a Voodoo5, then that is a highly …

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Re: Pentium II 450 and Voodoo cards

Posted on 2016-06-14, 22:18

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Since when are the Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena games not 3DFX supported? I did not mean they were made by 3DFX. There might be 3DFX versions of them out there (I'm not sure offhand), but it is also possible to run them without a 3DFX card. I don't know why you think I wouldn't want to …

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Re: Ls120 disk not working on 9x and dos

Posted on 2016-06-14, 21:22

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by Jorpho

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Didn't you just start a thread about this? Booting from a ls120 drive?

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Re: Farting CD music in DOSBox

Posted on 2016-06-14, 19:48

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by Jorpho

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Needless to say, this is not a problem anyone else seems to have. Perhaps you have something running in Windows that does some sort of post-processing on your audio? Does it make a difference if you use speakers or headphones to listen? At this point I might be inclined to suggest booting up with a …

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Re: Wierd problem with locomotion on windows 98

Posted on 2016-06-14, 16:16

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by Jorpho

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Problems like this often occur if the drive (virtual or otherwise) using the disk is not the last drive letter. I think there is an example at http://www.play-old-pc-games.com/2015/02/10/w … shadows-empire/ .

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Re: Most useless/undesirable piece of vintage computer hardware

Posted on 2016-06-14, 15:30

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by Jorpho

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Also, I've got a USB to USB cable. It was used to transfer files between two computers, but I'm afraid that it's not supported in later Windows. Yes, there are "USB bridge" cables that have a bunch of extra circuitry in the middle. (I'm not sure what driver support is like for those.) But there are …

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Re: Cyberman + Dosbox

Posted on 2016-06-14, 13:33

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by Jorpho

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USB to RS232 adapters are very unreliable; generally onboard serial ports or PCI serial cards are the way to go. If you still have a Win9x machine kicking around I would suggest first verifying that the USB to RS232 adapter works with your Cyberman there.

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Re: Pentium II 450 and Voodoo cards

Posted on 2016-06-14, 13:24

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Well the usual Unreal Tournament/Quake III Arena glide type stuff. I never played any of those games before, mainly games like Baldur's Gate II, Age of Empires, or Thief II. I was wondering how future proof the Pentium II was for 9x gaming. There's no reason at all to run any of those in Win9x on a …

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Re: Pentium II 450 and Voodoo cards

Posted on 2016-06-14, 04:57

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by Jorpho

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Well the usual Unreal Tournament/Quake III Arena glide type stuff. I never played any of those games before, mainly games like Baldur's Gate II, Age of Empires, or Thief II. I was wondering how future proof the Pentium II was for 9x gaming. There's no reason at all to run any of those in Win9x on a …

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Re: Most useless/undesirable piece of vintage computer hardware

Posted on 2016-06-14, 01:55

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by Jorpho

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I finally found a piece of hardware that can use a male-A-to-male-A USB cable: an extremely crappy-looking cooling pad that probably can't effectively cool anything. Otherwise, I would not have expected to ever find something that could ever use such a fundamentally useless cable, despite the fact …

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Re: Pentium II 450 and Voodoo cards

Posted on 2016-06-14, 01:51

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by Jorpho

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What exactly would you want to run? Anything that can take real advantage of a Voodoo5 would probably run much better on a faster system.

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