Re: Dosbox for Android OS

Posted on 2011-05-24, 13:50

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by Varka

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http://code.google.com/p/andosbox-source/downloads/list I uploaded the source package provided to me by the developer here, and attached it to this post. I make no claims as to whether it will actually compile, I haven't even unrar'd the package since I received it about three weeks ago. It may seem …

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Re: ATi Mach32 VLB VGA card, quick test

Posted on 2011-05-17, 20:00

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by Varka

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As I recall those were TERRIBLE video cards for MS-DOS gaming.

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Re: Dosbox for Android OS

Posted on 2011-05-06, 13:58

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by Varka

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I hope I didn't give the impression of being ungrateful to the primary DosBox developers. Dosbox is absolutely the greatest piece of software I've ever used, and the developer of the Android version, as far as I'm concerned, is riding on the coat-tails of greater men. HOWEVER... I'm also very …

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Re: Dosbox for Android OS

Posted on 2011-05-05, 18:31

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by Varka

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I received my copy of the source code less than an hour after e-mailing the developer with my non-cancelled market order number. As far as I know, that bring him in compliance with the GPL? Also, I don't want to come across as a jerk, but don't ask me for a copy of the sourcecode; the developer has …

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Re: Took an inventory of my parts last night

Posted on 2011-05-04, 18:26

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by Varka

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Pics? I may be able to help identify a couple of your items ;) And some general info:Usually there are somekinds of marks printed on the PCB somewhere. These markings "usually" help to positively identify any given item. And about the memory, when it comes to identifying SDRAM, I'll usually ID the …

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Re: How's this look for a early-2000's WinME box?

Posted on 2011-05-04, 14:49

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by Varka

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I haven't done a DARN thing to it. I installed ME, installed video drivers, that's it. That ME install took about 2x longer than my Windows 7 install on my desktop...

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Re: Took an inventory of my parts last night

Posted on 2011-05-04, 14:38

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by Varka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I forgot one item. A BOSS DS-330 external midi box.

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Took an inventory of my parts last night

Posted on 2011-05-04, 14:28

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by Varka

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Spent a few hours digging through the basement and have a quick inventory: 386dx40 motherboard populated with what should be 4mb of RAM (spent almost $500 on that memory to play Doom.) Unknown Socket 7 motherboard with 3 isa, 4 pci slots, pentium 166 chip. This motherboard has AT-style keyboard …

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How's this look for a early-2000's WinME box?

Posted on 2011-05-04, 14:13

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by Varka

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Have a Compaq 5320 desktop system; pentium 4 1.5ghz, 512mb ram, Geforce 4200ti, on-board AC97 audio. Installed WinME + drivers last night, seems to run like a champ. Will try installing a few games tonight, but I'm pretty optimistic at the moment.

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Re: How to run Stacker V4

Posted on 2011-05-02, 19:26

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by Varka

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I have had some success with a similar problem using VIrtualbox. You can map a physical disk and boot from it.

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Re: Making custom CD/DVD labels

Posted on 2011-05-02, 18:52

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Any burned CD/DVD has a pretty good chance of being unusable in a few years. Generally speaking, when I purchase a new game or CD, I immediately rip it to a disk image of some sort and tuck it away on my file server. I also burn the disk image to a DVD and stick it away in a large CD holder in the …

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Re: Hardware you regret parting with, or you wish didn't die

Posted on 2011-05-02, 17:09

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by Varka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SB Pro 2.0 Tandy 1000sx My first "real" PC (286, 20mb hard drive, 1mb ram, mono VGA monitor) Gravis Ultrasound Max Diamond Monster3d

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Re: Munt Reloaded - Development

Posted on 2011-04-28, 22:17

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by Varka

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Are you positive that's not one of the extra sounds in the CM-32 (or whatever it's called)?

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Re: Macronix Turbo3 video card

Posted on 2011-04-28, 16:24

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by Varka

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http://www.3dfx.cz/rush/rush_8mb.jpg So it looks like the 2d part of the voodoo rush.

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Re: Macronix Turbo3 video card

Posted on 2011-04-28, 11:54

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by Varka

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It looks exactly like this. http://oldpcmuseum.com/images/photoalbum/albu … 69/dsc_0411.jpg That site is russian, so I haven't been able to glean much from it.

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Re: Macronix Turbo3 video card

Posted on 2011-04-27, 17:25

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by Varka

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I've already googled it. Just hits for driver download links and other unrelated video cards.

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Macronix Turbo3 video card

Posted on 2011-04-27, 16:54

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by Varka

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Anybody have any information on this? I just dug it out of my big box of miscellaneous crap. Has two surface-mount RAM sockets, empty.

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Re: Just had my old gaming system come back to me...

Posted on 2011-04-26, 13:23

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by Varka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, docs indicate you may be correct about the unsupported AGP 8x cards. I still haven't fired it up, but I did come across my Geforce 4 4200 TI last night! I'm very pleased with that as well.

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Re: Just had my old gaming system come back to me...

Posted on 2011-04-25, 15:52

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by Varka

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Yeah, that may be the case. I think all of those games run adequately under Wine, so I won't be too disappointed if that's the case...

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Re: Just had my old gaming system come back to me...

Posted on 2011-04-25, 10:25

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by Varka

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Yeah, I'm pretty excited. Motherboard is rev 3.0

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