Re: List of DOS Games won't start in DOS

Posted on 2018-07-24, 02:53

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by duralisis

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Any of you have this problem? The game won't start all in DOS. Machine is Pentium 3, 65MB of RAM, OS is Windows 95 OSR. Wing Commander 3 VESA DRIVER Present -- SVGA Possible . . . . . (Don't start) Wing Commander 4 (Film freeze sometimes, CD-ROM drive struts) Jane's USNF UNSF had a patch that …

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Re: Pentium 3 Build - Video Card Choice

Posted on 2017-10-25, 00:13

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by duralisis

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It's practically a GF2 MX anyway, so yes. Also similar in performance to a GF 256 DDR.

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Re: Geforce2 and FX not working?

Posted on 2017-10-25, 00:08

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by duralisis

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Find a copy of Via 4 in 1 v4.42 and install them first. This is probably the MWQ bug and your register is not set properly. 4.42 always set it. I would always do this on a fresh install of my KT133a even if using newer drivers, otherwise no games or acceleration would work.

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Re: Some questions re. CD-ROM Audio Cables..

Posted on 2017-05-31, 01:39

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by duralisis

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In general a WDM driver is required. Some sound cards label these as the "Windows ME" driver in regards to 9x support. You just tick a box in your Multimedia settings for the CD drive. But a YMF-724 works with the 1040 VXD drivers and digital audio extraction for certain things (Daemons Tools); so …

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Re: Duke3D SB16 emulation issues.

Posted on 2017-05-31, 01:34

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To OP: Had the same issues with an SB PCI512 (similar to the Live! Value) and DOS emulation. It was never fully fixed to my knowledge. The SB16 emulation included in the Live! drivers is basically the same as the PCI512's and I've tried various driver repacks over the years. X-Wing and Duke3D both …

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Re: SB CT2940 with OPL?

Posted on 2017-05-31, 01:11

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I'm looking at my true OPL 2940 right now (CT2943, not A2) and it looks identical. The YMF-289B-S chip is just to the right of the blue capacitor looking thing. The print on the OPL chip looks the same if you squint too. I believe the other 2940 with CQM is integrated into the main chip. Also should …

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Re: Image Quality of various old video cards (Quake 3 comparison)

Posted on 2017-05-03, 02:54

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r_ext_multitexture 0 and r_picmip 1 seems to help increase blurring and smooth the sky texture out more. I tried disabling multitexture just because of the way Unreal used to handle sky blending. If there is a difference; I can't be positive; but even at picmip 0 it seems ever so slightly less …

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Re: VM for my grandmother

Posted on 2017-03-15, 04:09

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Win9x on newer versions of VMWare Player/Workstation works for the most part; but I've never used it daily and tried passing through USB devices and such. Also I'm not sure you can create a new VM with the right compatibility settings without editing the config file by hand. Virtualbox is a complete …

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Re: Microsoft replacing past downloads with Windows 10 links.

Posted on 2016-03-20, 03:00

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Can confirm this is now happening. If you follow links in their own search results or hotlists, you get redirected to exactly what the OP described. Here's the link you follow for dxwebsetup: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35 I was able to get to it with a direct link to the …

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Re: Odd Windows 95, CPU-Z on floppy

Posted on 2016-03-10, 04:02

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Your symptoms read like classic drive head misalignment. Floppies work in one machine, not another. I don't have a very good source on correcting this; because it's been much cheaper to replace a bad floppy drive than repair it for about 2 decades now. And like the other posts have stated, a bad …

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Re: Old Nvidia Drivers

Posted on 2016-02-13, 19:23

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Sorry to bring up an old post, but I stumbled across this today and thought it might be helpful. The old NVIDIA FTP site got replaced by an HTTP equivalent, you can now go here: http://http.download.nvidia.com/Windows/ Yes, that's two http's. A lot of websites seem to be obsoleting FTP. Looks like …

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Re: Audio Lag in Half-Life (Audigy LS SB0310)

Posted on 2016-02-08, 00:18

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Don't worry about the acceleration; your sound quality shouldn't suffer (unless you need 3d positional sound). Basic means software buffered DirectSound only, Standard is pretty much the same, but I think it allows DirectSound 3D in software, and Full is hardware accelerated 3D and hardware mixing …

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Re: DirectX6 and lower issues in Windows XP SP3

Posted on 2015-03-02, 02:09

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Probably something between 186.xx and 260.xx, but that depends on when the 105m first showed up in the driver inf. Maybe see if you have an old OEM driver disc for reference. Edit: I do see it listed in 186.42 release notes. That was a really good series for my 9800 gtx+.

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Re: Flight Simulator 2002 + Gainward Geforce 2 Ti = No Aircraft Textures

Posted on 2015-02-23, 05:07

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by duralisis

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ftp://download.nvidia.com/Windows/45.23/45.23_win9x_english.exe In testing my GF2MX and Geforce 2 Ultra, I found the pre-DX9 drivers the best. When dealing with anything prior to the Geforce FX, you'll want to stick with this driver version or below. The 81.98 on their site actually has worse …

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Re: Dual Pro system thoughts

Posted on 2015-02-21, 05:13

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For a router setup, you'll want 2 network cards. One for your WAN (modem), the other going to a switch (LAN). The software will help you set that up. A distro like Monowall or PFsense is just a software version of a consumer router (gateway, routing, NAT, firewall). It can be higher performance than …

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Re: Dual Pro system thoughts

Posted on 2015-02-20, 03:16

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I'd vote for running a Quake 1/2 and or multiple game servers. Definitely would be period accurate and appropriate. To make things more interesting, maybe try NT 4 as the OS; that was an excellent file server for small and medium sized offices on fairly modest dual cpu systems back in its time. …

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

Posted on 2015-01-27, 03:55

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by duralisis

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This retrobright stuff has always intrigued me, but seems pretty time intensive with the required UV exposure. Has anyone with a similarly dingy case tried just repainting it with white vinyl dye? I've always used vinyl dye for painting CD/DVD bezels to match them with my cases. It goes on very well …

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Re: Best video card for Pentium III 450Mhz

Posted on 2015-01-27, 03:47

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by duralisis

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Any Radeon 9600-9800 would work pretty good with the P2-450. I've used a 9600XT and 9700 Pro with a P2-400 and now a P3-650, it really complements the CPU well. In most games the CPU doesn't seem to be holding the card back at all. Very handy for flight sims. I do rarely see V3's on ebay every once …

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Re: Pentium 100/98Mb/Voodoo and HalfLife: amazing

Posted on 2015-01-26, 01:12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I doubt even with a V1 that the 486 would do very well in a Quake 1 based engine. Q1 & HL do so much better with a strong FPU and Pentium architecture. Running Q1 software render on a 586 @ 160mhz (Evergreen 486 converter) was painful compared to a true Pentium 90. For HL, I'd suppose a low end …

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Re: Socket 462 PC long-term stability

Posted on 2015-01-19, 03:03

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On both Nforce 2 boards I've had (Leadtek K7NCR18D and Asus A7N8X-E), memory has always been the biggest factor in system stability. Despite being rated for DDR 400, you couldn't count on the memory controller being stable running, for example, 4 sticks. It also depends heavily on memory type. G. …

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