Re: A couple of questions on ISA sound cards...

Posted on 2012-07-27, 23:43

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by Jorpho

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A Dos 6.22 boot disk won't let you access an fat32 partition though. So not quite sure if that will help him out. Oh, right, I forgot about that. DRFAT32 or something similar would have to be included on the boot disk if the hard drive has no FAT16 partitions. ...This is getting a little convoluted …

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Re: The Toy Shop (1986) - invalid directory

Posted on 2012-07-27, 15:14

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by Jorpho

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I thought the only disk image of The Toy Shop floating around there was unfortunately corrupted?

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Re: Partitioning and formatting - disk issues

Posted on 2012-07-27, 13:32

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by Jorpho

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4 GB is so tiny that it shouldn't be causing any problems, though. (I understood MS-DOS started running into problems around 8 GB.) Oh, one more thing, Mr. Bestemor: why create a primary partition and an extended partition with two logical partitions, when you can just create three primary …

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Re: turbo cad can't print in dosbox

Posted on 2012-07-26, 21:30

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by Jorpho

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If you want to print, you will need the Megabuild version of DOSBox.

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Re: A couple of questions on ISA sound cards...

Posted on 2012-07-26, 16:06

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by Jorpho

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Just get a floppy disk that boots into DOS 6.22, of course. It is easy to find an appropriate downloadable floppy disk image. Once the driver download has been unpacked, you won't need DOS 6.22 anymore.

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Re: The Hilariously Misidentified Hardware Thread

Posted on 2012-07-26, 15:08

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by Jorpho

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m1919 wrote: The AMD Pentium 3 board. It even comes with a Pentium 3! That's not something Gateway actually put together, is it? (Also, is there any Slot 1 processor that really requires such a massive heatsink? Considering it's taller than the processor itself, it seems a little useless.)

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Re: A couple of questions on ISA sound cards...

Posted on 2012-07-26, 15:03

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by Jorpho

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Put "DEVICE=C:\windows\setver.exe" in your config.sys, and then type "setver sbbasic.exe 6.22" at the command line. That fools all programs with that name into thinking it's DOS version 6.22. For some reason when I try to run ctcu.exe I always get "ctcu cannot be run under win95 or win3.1 dos box" …

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Re: Partitioning and formatting - disk issues

Posted on 2012-07-26, 14:57

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by Jorpho

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I never partition drives, destined for a DOS machine, outside of that machine. I agree, this seems like a reasonable approach. Alternatively, you might try Norton GDisk, which works in plain DOS. I think it might even be legal to download from somewhere or other. Also, you didn't say that you …

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Re: Win98 Shut Down Freeze

Posted on 2012-07-26, 01:36

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Locks up just as soon as I hit Start->Turn Off Computer. The screen sort of greys out and no shutdown options can be selected. Well, the most famous Windows 98 shutdown bug appears at the "Please Wait" screen as I mentioned before. You're evidently experiencing something quite different, I'd say – …

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Re: Problem with start of game

Posted on 2012-07-25, 17:40

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by Jorpho

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That is not my question. If you download the Windows version of DOSBox from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/files/dosbox/0.74/DOSBox0.74-win32-installer.exe/download , can you run the game in the Windows version of DOSBox ? This is not the same thing as running the game under Windows or …

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Re: List of 3D accelerated games that make direct hardware calls

Posted on 2012-07-25, 16:52

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by Jorpho

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Final Fantasy VII was always a Windows game and there were never any static linked Windows games. There were a demo that was Glide only, but on release it had changed to Direct3D. I thought the Direct3D support was only added by a patch ostensibly for Riva TNT cards. The original release had a very …

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Re: Problem with start of game

Posted on 2012-07-25, 16:50

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by Jorpho

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uuu0767 wrote: In Windows all works Do you mean it works when run from a Windows command prompt, or do you mean it works when you run it under DOSBox for Windows?

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Re: Problem with start of game

Posted on 2012-07-25, 15:48

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by Jorpho

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Why not see if the game runs on an ordinary Windows PC using the official DOSBox first? It might be a DPMI thing again, but it's pointless to speculate without knowing what the game does in official DOSBox.

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Re: Win98 Shut Down Freeze

Posted on 2012-07-25, 15:45

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

At what point is it freezing? At the "Please Wait" screen before the final shutdown, or earlier? Disabling Advanced Power Management in your BIOS might be a good idea. (APM always seemed to only cause problems.)

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Re: List of 3D accelerated games that make direct hardware calls

Posted on 2012-07-25, 15:38

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by Jorpho

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How about the unpatched Final Fantasy VII?

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Re: Connect to BBSes with DOS dial-up software

Posted on 2012-07-24, 20:19

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by Jorpho

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May I politely suggest adding your findings to the thread you already started rather than bumping something ten months old? Also, DOSBox 0.72 is ancient and there is very little reason you should be using that instead of 0.74.

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Re: Terra Nova... "cannot find movies" error

Posted on 2012-07-24, 20:15

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by Jorpho

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lermpy wrote: I barely know what I'm doing. lermpy wrote: Pretty sure I've got that part down. Jorpho wrote: What exactly are you typing!?

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Re: Is the old stuff still worth learning?

Posted on 2012-07-24, 20:13

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by Jorpho

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And what did you have in mind?

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Re: Terra Nova... "cannot find movies" error

Posted on 2012-07-24, 17:55

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by Jorpho

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I've directed Dosbox to the folder What exactly are you typing!? If you have the game's files as they were on the original CD-ROM, then you will have to mount the folder containing said files as if it was a CD-ROM, and mount another empty directory into which the game will be installed – like it …

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Re: What do you recommend for avi to mpeg1 converter under dos(box)?

Posted on 2012-07-24, 15:40

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by Jorpho

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Besides, there are other ways to view AVI files in DOS, like http://multimediaware.com/qv/ . I think there's a DOS port of MPlayer, too.

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