Re: Sound Blaster CT2950 makes farting noises...

Posted on 2016-06-04, 06:53

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by Jorpho

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Elia1995 wrote: it doesn't do that when I plug it into my oldschool / secondary PC speakers If this is truly the case, then whatever the problem is, it is probably pointless trying to solve the problem on your Olivetti. There is probably something related to how you are recording the audio in …

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Re: Why are old PCs considered lame and boring?

Posted on 2016-06-03, 18:20

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by Jorpho

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An Amiga is a relic of a bygone era, the likes of which have not been produced in many years. An old PC is just an old PC, which changed incrementally year after year and is not immediately recognizable as all that different from anything you can buy today. Of course, as we all know, it is quite …

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-03, 16:35

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by Jorpho

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As far as I know it's a shell-exclusive thing. I've never used it much myself, nor have I read stories of people having problems with it.

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Re: Updates for 9x and other old OS.

Posted on 2016-06-03, 15:36

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by Jorpho

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mdgx is already very comprehensive. What more do you want? I like http://www.autopatcher.net/ which downloads the updates directly from Microsoft, but they don't support anything older than XP. (Apparently many old XP downloads are already being removed from the Microsoft website.)

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Re: Batch programming in DosBox

Posted on 2016-06-03, 15:33

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by Jorpho

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I am trying to write my own files to adjust the DB settings, from inside. I think a better question is: are you sure you can do this in DOSBox, and are you sure the the way you're trying to do it is the best way of doing it in DOSBox? In any case, if you want to do strange things with batch files, …

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Re: Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap - HD Remake

Posted on 2016-06-03, 13:11

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Yes, by all accounts the original was a truly excellent game (and one I never got around to playing). I will definitely be buying this when it turns up in a Humble sale and will fondly regard its name in my Steam inventory – assuming it actually gets released and they don't manage to botch it …

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Re: I can't always boot Windows 3.1 on my 80486SX2 Olivetti PC

Posted on 2016-06-02, 20:04

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by Jorpho

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(Strange, I thought VDMSound was the only one of this kind..) SoundFX 2000 used to be a rather expensive commercial product and hence was easy to ignore since VDMSound was free. Neither is particularly useful anymore. I though they were using FreeCOM, their own creation. There's nothing that says …

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Re: You are Empty

Posted on 2016-06-02, 19:10

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by Jorpho

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Maybe Nvidia or Windows is trying to apply a bad fix. What if you rename the exe used to run the game? (That is, if it's "emtpy.exe", try changing it to "empty1.exe".)

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Re: I need Help installing 3DFX

Posted on 2016-06-02, 15:27

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by Jorpho

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Where do you get old versions of DOSBox Daum, anyway? There seems to be general consensus that the latest builds are broken (though I'm not exactly clear how or why).

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Re: I can't always boot Windows 3.1 on my 80486SX2 Olivetti PC

Posted on 2016-06-02, 14:47

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I've never really trusted Memmaker. And yes, I did REM SMARTDRV in autoexec and config, I have no idea why it's still there !!! Well, you'll just have to figure that out on your own, then, because it's definitely there, and no one here knows exactly everything you've been doing. Maybe it's in one of …

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Re: I can't always boot Windows 3.1 on my 80486SX2 Olivetti PC

Posted on 2016-06-02, 13:23

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I also need to fix my conventional memory issues that appeared today: Let's be clear: things do not normally just "appear". Often, when things go wrong, it is a direct result of something else being changed, though it is of course sometimes very surprising to see what seemingly-unrelated things can …

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Re: I need Help installing 3DFX

Posted on 2016-06-02, 13:15

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Except you also need a build of DOSBox with the Glide patch, and at this point we have no idea what Mr. Sodaddict is doing.

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Re: Sound Blaster CT2950 makes farting noises...

Posted on 2016-06-01, 22:34

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by Jorpho

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but it does that when I plug it in my main PC's Line In to record the sounds when I have to record videos. Are you sure you're using Line In and not the microphone port (often colored pink)? Because the microphone port often has a separate "microphone boost" setting. (I suppose it might even be …

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Re: I can't always boot Windows 3.1 on my 80486SX2 Olivetti PC

Posted on 2016-06-01, 22:26

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by Jorpho

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DR DOS had an issue with a Windows 3.1 beta or -more correctly- Windows 3.1 beta had an issue with DR DOS. ;-) There was once this story about a piece of code in Win 3.1 beta which caused an "error" on DR DOS. It -uhm- magically disappeared from the final version of Windows 3.1. So there shouldn't …

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Re: I can't always boot Windows 3.1 on my 80486SX2 Olivetti PC

Posted on 2016-06-01, 18:27

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It happens if I try to use the external CD drive after I close Windows 3.1, I can't even reload the ASPI_CD driver because it says it's already mounted... :blah: Was it doing this before? @Jorpho Thanks for that link you showed us. It's quite interesting but I don't know what to make of it. The …

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Re: Hocus Pocus, the AWE32 PnP doesn't go.

Posted on 2016-06-01, 17:03

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Earlier you wrote: This happens with this game only, others work perfectly with sound effects and music at the same time. So what were you doing before? The manual ( http://files.mpoli.fi/drivers_1/SND/AWE64G/WIN95/AWEUTIL.TXT ) suggests you may need to use the /em switch together with the /u switch …

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Re: I can't always boot Windows 3.1 on my 80486SX2 Olivetti PC

Posted on 2016-06-01, 04:24

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by Jorpho

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It's clearly not a major hardware/software/installation problem, considering that it runs after running Doom 2. Did you consider asking Google already? One of the first hits is https://winworldpc.com/winboards/viewtopic.php?t=613 , which suggests this problem is not unknown with DOS 7x and Windows …

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Re: What would you build if you want the best of both worlds?

Posted on 2016-06-01, 01:09

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by Jorpho

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Anyway if you wanted a system that could play every game from 1989 to let's say 2002 with out any emulators what would you build? I would argue: why would you want to agonize over perfecting this mythical beast when you could spend your time doing something like, say, actually playing those games ? …

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Re: DOS games from Steam

Posted on 2016-06-01, 00:55

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by Jorpho

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I understand the version used with Wasteland is heavily modified to permit display of the texts you'd normally have to look up separately.

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Re: Jetfighter IV Fortress America

Posted on 2016-05-31, 19:46

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Nothing at good ol' http://www.patches-scrolls.de/ , then? Sometimes you can use a dead link at http://www.archive.org , even if it's for a downloadable file (unless it was stored on an FTP server). Did you try that?

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