Re: Turbo Pascal :-)
Posted on 2007-12-13, 16:12
eL_PuSHeR wrote: Why do you want to use DOSBox to run TP? I think it should work using the NTVDM. Don't you need the patch to fix the Runtime Error 200 problem?
Re: best way to use legacy apps?
Posted on 2007-12-13, 16:06
Dos 7.x from Win98 is very bad. After long searching I found a dos driver for soundblaster (the virtual sound card). But this one doesn`t install because dos is newer then 6.22. One solitary experience is very poor justification for declaring anything to be "very bad". The old Sound Blaster DOS …
Re: The High-Speed Retro PC - There's Trouble in Paradise
Posted on 2007-12-13, 16:03
leileilol wrote: It has horrible support via a TSR though. In most games (like Sierra games) you will not get PCM sound. At all. Plus its provided FM emulation sounds horrible and is slow. Have you found this to be the case with all models of SoundBlaster Live? My Live 5.1 behaves quite nicely.
Re: Internet in Windows 3.11
Posted on 2007-11-20, 17:25
Is there a Firefox that will run under Windows 3.11 (or at least with Win32s installed) ? I'm pretty sure there's an old version of Opera out there that might also work, but it will probably have the shareware limitation attached.
Re: Win 98SE and 5.1 speaker kit
Posted on 2007-11-20, 16:35
Maybe the CT AudioHQ speaker test is using some kind of equalizer preset that WinBench, WinDVD, etc.isn't using?
Re: Final Fantasy 8 and ugly black boxes
Posted on 2007-11-14, 17:27
I played through this just a little while ago, though I was using my AGP ATI 9600XT and Windows 98SE. Anyway, there's a modification or two for this game that purports to enhance the music. Perhaps one of them might help?
Re: Downloading old games and copyright
Posted on 2007-11-14, 17:17
"Emulators of old games using eg Flash Player" ? There is no such thing, if I am not mistaken. There are remakes of old games written in Flash, but those are not emulators.
Re: Looking to get into it
Posted on 2007-11-01, 19:01
Yeah, but the Mac version has a certain charm that the PC version, with its garishly colored images, sort of lacks.
Re: Looking to get into it
Posted on 2007-11-01, 15:00
http://www.mini-itx.com/ has a bunch of projects in which people have replaced the guts of some old computer with a modern PC while leaving the functionality of the keyboard intact. Looks like no one has done that with an Apple II just yet, though. I don't recall that any of the MECC games used " …
Re: WPDOS5.1 + TSRs + DOSBox + WindowsXP + Mapped Network Drives issues
Posted on 2007-10-28, 22:27
A fine site, that one. I was just going to recommend it. I was also going to suggest Bochs, but there's no way you're going to be able to access the network shares from within Bochs. I don't suppose WP5.1+ or WP6 are out of the question? It sounds to me like the real issue should be finding out what …
Re: GK2 CD Unreadable?
Posted on 2007-10-27, 17:34
Actually, HFVExplorer would be the way to go. It offers more flexibility than ISOBuster does in some situations, as I recall. (At least, it's been recommended for extracting the data from Macintosh versions of Lucasarts games for usage with ScummVM.) Of course, if you actually intend to do something …
Re: Looking to get into it
Posted on 2007-10-27, 17:05
so I figure there's something to it I try to keep an open mind, but I find that I cannot fathom any way in which the typical computer user could find an Apple II to resemble a Macintosh. (The only exception would be the IIgs and GS/OS, but I've never encountered anyone who used that back in the day …
Re: Looking to get into it
Posted on 2007-10-22, 19:27
The Apple II was a very different machine from the Macintosh. Perhaps you are thinking of the old MECC software? I unfortunately can't find a good reference for them on hand, but they're very well-known. It really was quite marvelous, the range of topics their software covered. I'm sure some have …
Re: Alias
Posted on 2007-10-21, 15:37
jamyskis wrote: I don't think it's a codec problem, as I had this issue before and I can't remember how I fixed it. Maybe you fixed it by installing a codec. 😜 But if you're sure that has nothing to do with it, I once fixed a similar problem long ago by re-installing Windows Media Player.
Re: PCEm. Another PC emulator.
Posted on 2007-10-21, 15:30
Never much cared for Winimage, what with it being shareware. Fortunately, there is one freeware alternative: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013937/editd … sk/index_e.html
Re: Problem with ps2 mice on 486/100 pc...
Posted on 2007-10-21, 15:28
Next step is to decrypt the 10-pin ps2 mobo connector. I found the power/ground lines and the ps2 mice get power. Next I found the 2 other tracks, data and clock... but in vain... connecting the mouse there kill the keyboard or makes it produce irrelevant characters... I tried wiring one of those …
Re: fat16 vs fat32
Posted on 2007-10-14, 14:28
There are DOS drivers that allow FAT32 access. I seem to recall that the DRFAT32 driver from DR-DOS works well enough with MS-DOS 6.22. And I for one am still not convinced that there's much of a reason to chose Win95b over Win98 (or at least Win98 with 98lite installed).
Re: DOS CD Drivers
Posted on 2007-09-23, 16:49
Actually, there are a couple of alternatives to the Oak Technologies driver that take up less RAM. http://www.mdgx.com/newtip1.htm#CDROM4 Some of them can be used with DRVLOAD or CTLOAD (or a similar utility) that allows them to be loaded from autoexec.bat instead of config.sys. http://www.mdgx.com/ …
Re: sound blaster emulation in dos
Posted on 2007-09-23, 15:34
The question is absurd. If your sound hardware has DOS drivers, it will probably already be useable as a Sound Blaster card by DOS applications. If your sound hardware does not have DOS drivers, separate "Sound Blaster emulation" would be useless.
Re: end of my rope...
Posted on 2007-09-17, 15:45
Are you sure the connector is still good? Sometimes you can test those by sticking pins or wires into the appropriate holes and using an ohmmeter to check if they're actually connected to the other end. Otherwise, and I guess this is a long shot, but if it's not the motherboard and if it's not the …
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