Re: SSD Woes On Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-06-15, 12:17

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by ktorpil

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My PATA SSD arrived today and after cloning the HDD I can say that it works perfectly. That is, if there is no other thing connected to the same IDE channel. Well, damn. I have built the thing neatly with 1 IDE cable going to the HDDs and another to the disc drives so I'm going to have to look for …

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Re: SSD Woes On Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-06-06, 10:58

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by ktorpil

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My PATA SSD arrived today and after cloning the HDD I can say that it works perfectly. That is, if there is no other thing connected to the same IDE channel. Well, damn. I have built the thing neatly with 1 IDE cable going to the HDDs and another to the disc drives so I'm going to have to look for a …

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Re: A worthy Voodoo 5 Replacement ?

Posted on 2020-05-11, 07:50

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by ktorpil

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Probably the PowerVR Kyro: - 3dfx's old rival - Came out in 2000 so still period correct - Like V5, it can't do DX7 stuff but can do other novel features no game cares about. - Tailored for 16-bit stuff with the postprocess dither with internal 24/32bit color buffers, slightly similar to Voodoo's …

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Re: SSD Woes On Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-05-11, 07:31

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by ktorpil

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

candle_86 wrote on 2020-05-11, 02:10: Why SSD I've noticed modern single platter 80gb drives made around 2010 are saturating my ide controller anyway. Random access

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Re: A worthy Voodoo 5 Replacement ?

Posted on 2020-05-10, 21:12

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by ktorpil

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in Marvin \ Video

Of course I bought the Voodoo cards just for glide. I didn't know nglide worked in Windows 98. Well I just checked and I have directX 8 on the machine. Nglide requires 9 right? I don't want to install it so that's gg. Geforce 2 GTS seems good. But a 4 MX is obviously much easier to find. Even though …

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Re: SSD Woes On Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-05-10, 21:03

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by ktorpil

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Like I said I have high hopes for the IDE SSD I bought ( https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32860675035.h … .28a24c4dRlbAcc ) Will update once it arrives.

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SSD Woes On Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-05-09, 22:24

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by ktorpil

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For the love of god my retro build (signature) just doesn't want to run on an SSD. First I tried a SATA to IDE adapter. Didn't work at all. Then I bought a PCI SATA card. Well, windows sometimes hangs at boot. Very poor performance with random lockups if it works at all. So I gave up and still using …

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A worthy Voodoo 5 Replacement ?

Posted on 2020-05-09, 22:09

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by ktorpil

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hi all. I'm looking around for 3dfx voodoo cards every once in a while and I'm seeing a steady rise in prices which makes me worry a lot. Right now my voodoo 5 works great with a couple of 90mm fans but I'm terrified of what would happen if it died. I mean, I have a Voodoo 3 3000 lying around but …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2009-10-30, 13:02

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by ktorpil

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

There are no conflicts if that's what you mean. Do you want me to write the IRQs for each device?

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2009-10-27, 11:17

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by ktorpil

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Why is it on IRQ10, anyway? Do you have many other devices installed on this computer? If you never intend to print, for example, you can probably disable the onboard parallel port in the BIOS and free up IRQ7. If you're not using a modem or a serial mouse, you can disable the onboard serial ports, …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2009-10-26, 20:04

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by ktorpil

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in Marvin \ Sound

Same thing happens when I set it to NO. I'm using the onboard IDE controller...

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2009-10-26, 18:02

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by ktorpil

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I reverted the IRQ to automatic, PnP OS is already on, nothing has changed..

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2009-10-26, 16:15

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by ktorpil

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in Marvin \ Sound

Work was coming down on me like a thousand demons on that "Doom" poster so I didn't have a chance to use the P3 much. Finally this weekend I fired it up. First thing I noticed was while sfx was working well with DOS games, music didn't came at all. I meddled with some ctsyn.ini settings and such to …

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Re: Backup Software For Windows 98 SE?

Posted on 2009-10-25, 18:54

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by ktorpil

in Windows

in Windows

After looking for them for hours, I finally gave up and decided to use an IDE to USB adapter to hook the HDD to my main PC and backup from there...

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Backup Software For Windows 98 SE?

Posted on 2009-10-25, 14:33

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by ktorpil

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in Windows

I have a nice thing going on with my retrogaming rig, but I want to backup the main drive in case something went wrong (very old hardware and OS indeed). So I tried windows' own but obviously it can't create a backup image of the main drive in another drive because of the filesize limit (4GB) of …

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Re: Alternative Carmageddon 3dfx patch

Posted on 2009-10-24, 14:24

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by ktorpil

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in GliDOS General

I used to run this by double clicking Hires.exe fine. After installing the patch and clicking Carmav.exe the game ui flickers terribly. Now Hires and Carma.exe crash too. Oh btw I'm running the game on native DOS (Win98SE)

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2009-10-05, 21:25

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by ktorpil

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in Marvin \ Sound

I still haven't installed these drivers. Aside from uninstalling the old ones via program add/remove, what do I need to do more? A registry clean? Maybe delete the directories and autoexec.bat entries I made for the DOS drivers?

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2009-10-05, 07:40

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by ktorpil

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in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah, and remember that demo which showcased EAX? Walking around in some creepy environments and hearing simulated stuff for the first time was way cool. Also the two videos in which Starcraft and Thief: The Dark project were shown and advertised "as EAX capable" (which they weren't and are not) ? …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! DOS Drivers

Posted on 2009-10-04, 20:23

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by ktorpil

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

RoyBatty wrote: as for win98 disc emulation software, daemon tools 3.47 should work. Easy to find. And freeware. D/L ing now, thanks!

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Re: Retrogaming PC Suggestions

Posted on 2009-10-04, 20:18

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by ktorpil

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in PC Emulation

Davros wrote: ms ff joystick software + patch for via chipsets http://web.archive.org/web/20030417193215/www … r/downloads.asp I've been away for a while and couldn't see your reply but thanks anyway 😀 Also my SideWinder FF2 died. I was sure of it. No driver/software issues.

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