Re: help getting soundcard (ES1869) working windows 98SE

Posted on 2013-03-11, 19:39

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Problem is however that I can't get sound working properly for some DOS games. Notably commander keen, aladdin&stunts. Tyrian & doom (and windows games) work ok. So what games don't work, exactly? Some games may very well require manual configuration of the IRQ and DMA settings in whatever setup …

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Re: Leading Edge Word Processor hangs DOSBox

Posted on 2013-03-11, 15:14

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This is the same behavior it had when I would try to run it in 98se after booting directly into DOS. It ran fine in 98se when booted normally. Were you using some sort of USB-to-parallel port device at the time? That is something that would definitely only work in 98SE when booted normally but not …

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Re: Windows 3.11 language compatibility

Posted on 2013-03-11, 15:06

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How can I make DOSbox perform config.sys of the guest system? In some cases you can use a command line program like DEVLOAD to load device drivers, making a config.sys completely unnecessary. Otherwise, you will need to boot DOS within DOSBox, as in http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=31838 , for …

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Re: Games you wish you *had* bought

Posted on 2013-03-11, 14:57

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Lately I am kind of regretting not buying Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii. Everyone was raving about it, but it seems it had a very short print run and prices have skyrocketed, with no sign of a reprint in the near future. (Meanwhile, 999 DS, which I ran out and bought when it was still brand new, can …

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Re: Annoying eBay snipers....

Posted on 2013-03-08, 18:23

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Does no one else here routinely bid on items that no one else seems to be interested in? No one bids on my auctions at all. 🙁

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Re: Fullscreen Does Not Fill The Whole Screen With Certain Graphics Cards - Why?

Posted on 2013-03-08, 16:21

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by Jorpho

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There should be options in the ATI and nVidia control panels to control how the screen is scaled. See 4:3 Aspect Ratios and 16:9 monitors and Distortion on 16:10 widescreen . Note that the relevant options may only appear if you're using a DVI connection.

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Re: DOSbox on Gamecube?

Posted on 2013-03-08, 16:17

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by Jorpho

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Holy 7-year bump, Batman! You might be better off looking at the Wii port of DOSBox at this point. I reckon it is supported much better, particularly because you can plug a standard USB keyboard into the Wii.

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Re: Online shop that sells big-box games

Posted on 2013-03-08, 16:08

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Yup, CD Access is the way to go. I'm kind of surprised they're still in business. They must have low overhead costs. Mastertronic , which bought out Sold-Out Software a while ago, is also pretty good in that they offer older stuff with relatively reasonable international shipping. Until GOG finally …

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Re: Old PC socket 7

Posted on 2013-03-08, 16:04

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by Jorpho

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Didn't someone write a "universal" flashing utility at some point? I thought it was called AFLASH, but a Google search just brings up a bunch of links to Asus.

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Re: Yo! Joe!

Posted on 2013-03-07, 18:22

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by Jorpho

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aeronix wrote: I downloaded yo joe 1818k from abandonware. aeronix wrote: The download is from a site other than abandonware. 🙄

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Re: A few questions about DOSBox

Posted on 2013-03-07, 18:18

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by Jorpho

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Basically there are currently 3 builds of DOSBox worth considering: 1. Official DOSBox builds. Stable, and are what bugs should be reported against. They don't get updated terribly often, however. 2. EmuCR SVN builds. These are built from the latest official DOSBox source, with few or no …

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Re: Absolute minimum rig for browsing and such; what do you guys think?

Posted on 2013-03-07, 15:52

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by Jorpho

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GFX support? What do you mean? It was just recently announced that Opera will be dropping its proprietary rendering engine (Presto) and switching to Webkit (the same engine used by Chrome, Safari, Qupzilla, and many other browsers), so there are big changes afoot.

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Re: Annoying eBay snipers....

Posted on 2013-03-07, 15:49

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I've learned to do this because of what several sellers have done to me (or at least, I strongly suspect they did to me.) I now have 5 sellers on my ignore list (I will never buy from them no matter what.) Here is the sequence of events in all 5 cases (complaints filed with eBay with no actions …

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Re: Old PC socket 7

Posted on 2013-03-07, 15:01

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As a bit of history lesson, hard drive sizes were limited at 540MB, 8.4gb, 32gb, 137gb, 2tb. You defiantly need to update the bios. it will ate LEAST let you go up to 32gb. There is no BIOS barrier at 32 GB – or at least, not a common one. http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_drive_size_ …

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Re: Absolute minimum rig for browsing and such; what do you guys think?

Posted on 2013-03-07, 03:50

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by Jorpho

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I'm not really sure where this idea of using Seamonkey 1.x is coming from, as that's a rather ancient browser at this point. Something like Qupzilla or possibly K-Meleon would be a much better idea.

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Re: Long file name support

Posted on 2013-03-07, 03:42

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The batch files are not complex. They do a simple job of piping a long file name into a file named in in 8.3 format, then renaming the actual file to 8.3 so QuickBASIC can open it, and later renaming the file back to LFN fiormat. Exactly. As far as the QuickBASIC program is concerned, the batch …

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Re: Annoying eBay snipers....

Posted on 2013-03-06, 20:16

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It's perfectly fair. You decided on the maximum price you were willing to pay for the item. Someone else decided that he wanted to pay more than that. It's not really someone else's problem if you decide after the fact that you were willing to pay more after all.

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Re: Annoying eBay snipers....

Posted on 2013-03-06, 19:07

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Only two things that you can do: 1. Put in the highest bid you would ever consider as maximum bid. 2. If you can't beat them, join them. Yes, this. If you got sniped and would have paid more if you had the opportunity, why didn't you just put in that amount to begin with? I do not understand. One …

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Re: Steam For Linux: after one month, Linux represents 2.02% of all active users.

Posted on 2013-03-06, 17:40

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by Jorpho

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Holy cow, that's not an image you need to place inline. Also, I'm not sure I see your point..?

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Re: Absolute minimum rig for browsing and such; what do you guys think?

Posted on 2013-03-06, 17:07

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by Jorpho

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I hate colored text. One of these days I am finally going to decommission my 1.13 GHz Celeron. Attempting to get anything done in XP with 512 MB of RAM is just too frustrating these days. It was okay with Windows 2000 (in fact I never recall it being as bad with Windows 2000 as it is with XP, which …

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