Re: Worst hacks or bodges you've perpetrated?

Posted on 2018-10-12, 21:18

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Software solution, and this is one of those best/worst ideas... This one time I was working at this locally owned computer store at the mall back in the early days of this forum. And this lady kept bringing her computer in with viruses she got through web surfing. Which is fine, virus removal was …

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Re: No Mouse in "pure" DOS Mode (Win98SE)

Posted on 2018-10-10, 01:32

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Moved.

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Re: Possiblility for optical drive emulator (hardware DTLite)?

Posted on 2018-10-08, 18:26

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by Stiletto

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I prefer to overengineer solutions, but my analysis: I think part of the problem is that there's no single, widely-adopted CD image format that purports to cover every weird disc format, offset, filesystem, audio channel, sector, sub-channel, copy protection, and other data stream from a CD or DVD. …

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Re: I love finding hard rubbish PCs! S370, 486 and P133!

Posted on 2018-10-08, 01:12

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Butler2679 wrote: Sadly the images aren't loading. No problems here.

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Re: Possiblility for optical drive emulator (hardware DTLite)?

Posted on 2018-10-07, 01:14

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by Stiletto

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in PC Emulation

Related: Hardware CD Emulator

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D over floppies

Posted on 2018-10-07, 00:50

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ Software

Moved.

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Re: Vertical aspect stretch on VGA DOS laptop

Posted on 2018-10-04, 01:22

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by Stiletto

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Moved to Marvin -> Video.

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Re: Recommendation for GLIDE wrappers fo win 98SE

Posted on 2018-09-29, 15:12

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by Stiletto

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dgVoodoo 1.x series should also technically work (earlier ones are DX7, latest ones in that series are DX9), as well as OpenGlide. See here for a bunch to experiment with: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/wrappers/files/Glide/

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-09-29, 04:20

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

jxalex wrote: 2. Some old datasheet book acquisition and referencing. 😀 If unscanned, please consider either a. scanning yourself or b. contributing it to Bitsavers.org when done. 😀

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Re: Where my memory is going ? Low conventional memory

Posted on 2018-09-26, 16:10

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Moved.

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Re: Continuous random beeping when using EMM386.exe on dos 6.2

Posted on 2018-09-26, 16:09

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Moved.

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Re: Nvidia GeForce FX 5900XT + nGlide vs. Voodoo3 3000 with a 800Mhz or Greater Pentium 3

Posted on 2018-09-25, 04:06

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by Stiletto

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Well there are more Glide wrappers but those are the most capable. There is one specifically for Diablo 2. http://www.svenswrapper.de/english/ Other Glide wrapper curiosities that come to mind are "Unified", made by Creative for their TNT2 cards. There was a RRedline to Glide wrapper called BigRed …

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Re: Create a LAN between modern laptop and old beauties

Posted on 2018-09-19, 14:42

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by Stiletto

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in Milliways

Moved to Milliways, I guess.

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Re: Absurd prices for vintage hardware?

Posted on 2018-09-19, 14:40

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've seen a request to lock this thread so I guess I'll lock it. 😀

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Re: VCOM System Commander (OS Multi-Boot)

Posted on 2018-09-18, 20:43

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ Software

Cleaned up thread.

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Re: CR-563 and CR-563-B cd rom drive

Posted on 2018-09-18, 20:35

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Moved to Marvin -> General Old Hardware.

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Re: Building SOCKET 7 machine with MSI 5124

Posted on 2018-09-18, 20:33

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

EDIT: By the way, can I ask the administrator to change this thread topic to "building SOCKET 7 machine with MSI 5124" ? This is going to be more generic thread for this motherboard. I think it will be nicer instead of creating separate thread for each issue. Thanks. I'm not an administrator, I'm a …

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Re: Sound Canvas General MIDI low sound output

Posted on 2018-09-18, 20:29

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by Stiletto

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Moved to Marvin -> Sound.

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Re: How does one simply get the username changed on here?

Posted on 2018-09-13, 05:52

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by Stiletto

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in Milliways

Talk to Qbix, maybe he can help. Mods cannot...

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Re: Warhammer: Dark Omen Freezing on Voodoo II!!

Posted on 2018-09-13, 05:50

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Moved.

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