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Re: Asking Help for Games on Windows 8

Posted on 2013-08-29, 20:11

in Windows
Many of the loudest complaints about Windows 8 are concerned with the interface. Internally, I understand it is not particularly different from Windows 7. Yes drivers etc will be up to date You are talking about multiple different games which might very well have multiple different problems. You may …

Re: Asking Help for Games on Windows 8

Posted on 2013-08-29, 16:41

in Windows
Are your video card drivers up to date? What sort of video card do you have, anyway? I know there's a patch for Syberia that you can probably get from http://www.patches-scrolls.de/ , and the same probably goes for The Longest Journey. Not sure about the others. You should probably check the GOG …

Re: Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-29, 15:34

However, Windows 3.11 in DOSBOX cannot access the shares on Windows 7. It says simply, "This server does not support listing of shared resources" - odd! Are you running any firewall software? Even with the standard Windows firewall, you may need to manually open the ports that NetBIOS over TCP/IP …

Re: Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-29, 13:31

I booted WFWG on DOSBOX and then started a Windows 98 VM in Virtual PC 2007 and I was able to play MS Hearts against myself, (ha) and this just over TCP/IP - so the ability is there, I just can't understand why anything more modern, like 7 or 8, can't "see" the DOSBOX VM because TCP/IP is obviously …

Re: Mig Alley - MFC Application error?

Posted on 2013-08-29, 05:35

in Windows
FYI, .NET is not backwards-compatible, so if it was a .NET problem, you'd be better off installing .NET 1.x and/or 2.x. However, from the look of things, .NET was released some time after the game came out. There's probably some missing DLL or another - maybe one of the Visual C++ runtimes, perhaps. …

Re: Registry keys to determine what D3D\OpenGL to use?

Posted on 2013-08-28, 20:16

in Windows
I thought the only way to get a program to use Voodoo OpenGL (if it doesn't explicitly support it already) is to put a copy of 3dfxvgl.dll in the game's directory and rename it to opengl32.dll. As for D3D, there's a program called 3D Control Center that might work. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic. …

Re: Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-28, 19:00

I fired up 3.11 in MS Virtual PC 2007 and the two File Managers can see the shares! So seems networking is working to an extent. Yes, that's a good sign (if I read you correctly). Are you using Windows for Workgroups with the TCP/IP stack installed? I've speculated that one quick-and-dirty way to …

Re: Windows 3.11 - grab an IP address, how?

Posted on 2013-08-28, 18:32

Windows Networking has changed just a teensy bit between Windows 3.x and Windows 7. At the very least, you'll need to explicitly enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP in Windows 7. You might just want to dispense with Windows Networking entirely and use, say, SSH instead. There are tiny portable SFTP servers …

Re: Web browsing on 3.11 = NIGHTMARE

Posted on 2013-08-28, 05:43

in Windows
swaaye wrote: Can anything useful be done with NT 3.51? What browsers can you run on NT 4? NT 3.51 can actually run Office 97, if that means anything. http://toastytech.com/guis/nt3513.html

Re: mount a dir as read only

Posted on 2013-08-28, 00:24

"-freesize 0" will probably stop some things, but it probably won't stop everything. (I see no reason why it would stop a program from overwriting existing files, for instance.) "-t cdrom" might do the trick, but your best solution might be to change the read-only attributes (or their security …

Re: The Manhole CD

Posted on 2013-08-26, 16:39

I wonder if it's some weird bug in the SDL CD-ROM handling? That would affect both ScummVM and DOSBox, wouldn't it? I suppose one test would be to edit the CUE file to indicate fewer tracks.

Re: Help with old foreign (Chinese) game on Windows 7

Posted on 2013-08-26, 02:40

in Windows
KidTrix wrote: NOTE: When I was trying to install it normally, it said that it can't be installed because I don't have a 16-bit system or something along those lines. Before you try anything else, check out the fixes at http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10988 .

Re: Web browsing on 3.11 = NIGHTMARE

Posted on 2013-08-25, 22:41

in Windows
As far as security is concerned, I meant viruses designed to execute on old operating systems and browsers that won't run on later software because whatever holes they exploited have been patched. There are still a lot of machines out there running Win3.x or Win9x because the software they need to …

Re: Web browsing on 3.11 = NIGHTMARE

Posted on 2013-08-25, 17:24

in Windows
I remember running Netscape 2.x under Windows 3.x back in the day, and it was anguish. Netscape in general was anguish, actually. ("Document: Done! Document: Done!") I wouldn't browse the web with Windows 3.1 anyway. It's not going to be secure and not many sites will render properly unless they are …

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