Re: OS/2 hangs during boot

Posted on 2015-11-22, 15:35

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Got any other equipment? Maybe a ZIP drive? Only floppy and IDE CD drive. I remeber having trouble with Warp 3 refusing to boot due to a newer CD-drive. Had to install it using an older ASUS CD-ROM from 1999 and replace the IBMIDECD.FLT with newer and better drivers by Daniella Egbert. Will the …

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Re: OS/2 hangs during boot

Posted on 2015-11-20, 13:47

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RacoonRider wrote: Got any other equipment? Maybe a ZIP drive? Only floppy and IDE CD drive.

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Re: OS/2 hangs during boot

Posted on 2015-11-20, 12:34

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So I removed I2OSOSM.ADD from CONFIG.SYS and it hangs at next driver: IBMINT13.I13. Then I removed IBMINT13.I13 and it hangs on IBMIDECD.FLT. So I removed IBMIDECD.FTL and it hangs on XDFLOPPY.FLT... All these drivers seem to be related to storage (I2OSOSM being "ISO Storage and Transportation …

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Re: OS/2 hangs during boot

Posted on 2015-11-16, 15:28

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Select Alt-F2 when you see the OS/2 boot blob top left. That'll show you whats loading and where the hang up is. Alt-F1 will give you a menu selection. See if it boots to the command prompt. It hangs while loading I2OSOSM.ADD. The hard drive is too large. Out of the box, Warp 4 could only support …

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Re: OS/2 hangs during boot

Posted on 2015-11-15, 20:55

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How does the BIOS settings look? Check if "Memmory hole" is enabled and "Boot to Os/2" is enabled. I don't have "Boot to OS/2" setting in my BIOS but have "OS/2 Onboard Memory > 64M". Already tried with that setting enabled/disabled and also every memory hole setting possible. Does not make any …

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Re: OS/2 hangs during boot

Posted on 2015-11-15, 17:10

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brostenen wrote: Did you get to the GUI-Installer? It sounds to me, like a sort of hardware related issue. Perhaps removing the V2? It hangs while booting the GUI installer. Removing both Voodoo2 and SB16 did not help.

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OS/2 hangs during boot

Posted on 2015-11-15, 13:05

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So I'm trying to install OS/2 Warp 4.x on a blank 40GB IDE HDD. First stage of installation (that blue text-mode setup booted from the CD) goes fine. I create a 500MB-ish HPFS volume and install to it, but then when the installer reboots the machine and the newly installed OS/2 starts to boot it …

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Re: Planning a retro PC build

Posted on 2015-03-13, 00:03

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A 486DX4 100 MHz which I use to play all my pre 1994 DOS games on (mostly my MT-32 era titles and earlier). A 486-class computer is on my list once I move to a bigger appartment. No space right now. :angry: Anyway, further down the path I encountered another problem: It appears that finding a …

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Re: Planning a retro PC build

Posted on 2015-03-11, 18:20

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HDD-wise I'm a fan of 2.5" notebook HDDs with a converter, they run very cool and quiet. On the other hand HDD noise is also part of the fun. I'm still trying to decide on the storage. I'm planning to multiboot several classic OSes (DOS, Win98SE, old Linux, maybe OS/2 or BeOS). I'm leaning towards …

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Re: Planning a retro PC build

Posted on 2015-03-11, 09:14

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LCDs tend to treat any standard graphics mode below 640x480 and the regular text modes as 720x400 and scale them. It usually looks ugly but it should work. Fingers crossed then! I recently changed from LCD to a 17" CRT to a 21" CRT. It's night and day. CRT takes up more room, but WOW, it's worth it …

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Re: Planning a retro PC build

Posted on 2015-03-11, 00:04

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Thanks JayCeeBee! Just bought TX97-XE with Pentium MMX 233Mhz off ebay for ~$50. Currently have: The CPU and mainboard mentioned above 2x Voodoo 2 12MB for SLI setup SB16 CT2950 Realtek RTL8139D Total cost so far: about $160. Will soon get S3 Virge DX 4MB for free from a friend! Still need to get …

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Re: Planning a retro PC build

Posted on 2015-03-10, 10:27

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Thanks for all the suggestions guys. While I generally think that Mode 13h (320x200) is "enough for everybody" (tm) you convinced me that having an additional accelerator would be beneficial. Right now my hardware of choice is as follows: P200MMX or P233MMX (I really want a pre-P2 era CPU) S3 Virge …

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Planning a retro PC build

Posted on 2015-03-08, 21:46

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Hi. I need some advice on my upcoming retro PC build, especially on how much processing power do I actually need. I'm planning to run mostly early to mid 90s DOS games and some antiquated Linux distros from late 90s. My target is as follows: Quake 1 should run smoothly (30-50fps) Ideally the …

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Re: GAME IDEA: Contemporary, oldschool (DOOM 1&2-like) FPP shooter

Posted on 2012-10-05, 16:26

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: So you see, I believe the reason people stick with old games it not for nostalgia's sake alone; it is because there are kinds of gameplay that just don't exist anymore today. THIS, EXACTLY THIS! One of my main reasons to start this project to be honest. 😀

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Re: GAME IDEA: Contemporary, oldschool (DOOM 1&2-like) FPP shooter

Posted on 2012-10-05, 16:22

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I am genuinely curious as to what sort of assumptions you think are immutably inherent to the engine. 2D top-down (non FPP) levels? Custom full-screen shaders for various post-processing? A different (simplified) model of networking for 2 player co-op? Playing MOD/XM files as music? I'm no expert …

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Re: GAME IDEA: Contemporary, oldschool (DOOM 1&2-like) FPP shooter

Posted on 2012-10-05, 13:53

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So... What is it that can't be accomplished using mods to the Quake engine? I'd like to have 100% creative freedom when it comes to code and not be constrained by idTech assumptions about gameplay etc. Also I have far more experience in generic game programming using OpenGL than writing Quake mods. …

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Re: GAME IDEA: Contemporary, oldschool (DOOM 1&2-like) FPP shooter

Posted on 2012-10-05, 07:32

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I have one suggestion that you look at the Drakan games, the first one if you have played it then you will get what I am hinting at when it comes to geometry. I haven't played it but I'll definitely take a look! Sorry to be a negative nelly but creating a game from scratch is a HUGE amount of work …

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GAME IDEA: Contemporary, oldschool (DOOM 1&2-like) FPP shooter

Posted on 2012-10-03, 16:14

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I'm a big fan of oldschool FPP shooters like DOOM 1&2 or Duke Nukem 3D. Atmospheric pseudo-3D graphics, very arcade gameplay, almost no storyline - just perfect! :) Being a passionate programmer interested in game development I have an idea for a project to create a truly oldschool FPP shooter: …

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Re: Dedicated IPXNET server.

Posted on 2010-01-01, 14:34

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OK guys I'm back. Been quite busy lately so didn't have time to reply. @CodeJunkie: DosBox uses UDP for it's IPX tunneling. UDP is connectionless protocol so nothing need to be closed. It's a bit strange tho why dosbox on windows stops accepting new connections. Also, great idea with that website! …

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Dedicated IPXNET server.

Posted on 2009-10-01, 18:16

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Hello everybody! As I'm new here, first I want to thank all DosBox developers. You're doing a great job! Now to the point. Well dosbox's IPX tunneling via ipxnet works great but it requires one machine to act as a server. Many people are behind NAT and don't know how or are unable to open …

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