Intel GMA 950 graphics chip with dos games, vga/svga-wise + dos-compatible low-profile pci sound card?

Posted on 2024-03-24, 21:07

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Context: Last december I came back from the weed dispensary (canada!) one evening and on my way home I came across a quite smol dell optiplex gx520 desktop pc cruelly thrown away by its previous owner. I grabbed it and went home. Other than checking what innards it had (500gb hard disk, 1gb ddr2 ram …

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Re: Need help setting up a Orinoco Gold under Windows For Workgroups 3.11/msdos

Posted on 2021-02-08, 21:58

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Anyone?

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Re: Need help setting up a Orinoco Gold under Windows For Workgroups 3.11/msdos

Posted on 2021-02-08, 01:06

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So I finally figured out the problem and it was that I'd forgot to install my laptop's pc card drivers, whoop de doo. Anyway now the card powers on and the drivers are working and I've installed tcp/ip but I'm facing a new problem; When I try to connect to my router dhcp times out, and if I try to …

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Re: Need help setting up a Orinoco Gold under Windows For Workgroups 3.11/msdos

Posted on 2021-01-25, 16:59

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Also for those wondering, I set up a hidden ssid with mac filtering only allowing connections from my card's mac address and I plan to only enable it when I need to get something from an old site or whatever. Also I'm using a Thinkpad 760l with the pc card.

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Re: Need help setting up a Orinoco Gold under Windows For Workgroups 3.11/msdos

Posted on 2021-01-25, 16:57

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Here I have some files i took off my laptop's drive backup. Basically i copied C:\autoexec.bat and C:\config.sys and additional folders. I had to use additional card service software which is not included here, but I modified autoexec.bat and config.sys in such way that in theory it should work …

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Need help setting up a Orinoco Gold under Windows For Workgroups 3.11/msdos

Posted on 2021-01-25, 00:12

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I have the odi drivers and everything but I have absolutely no idea what to do after. I downloaded a copy of novel netware 3.11 but I have absolutely no idea how/what to install in the set of floppy images.

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Re: Trying to find a manual for this old EGA video card

Posted on 2021-01-11, 05:44

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by SammyFox

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Ok so I don't have the extra little board thing, but is there like a composite to cga/ega converter? because the monochrome monitor I already have is alright, but I also have an amdak composite monitor that's got a beautiful amber phosphor and I'd love to use on the computer.

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Re: Trying to find a manual for this old EGA video card

Posted on 2021-01-10, 18:44

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by SammyFox

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Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-01-10, 16:06: x86 Heath/Zenith hardware/sytem documentation is literally unobtainium unless you get the manuals with the components/systems. aww

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Trying to find a manual for this old EGA video card

Posted on 2021-01-10, 12:21

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by SammyFox

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I bought this thing on ebay and it's arrived but I can't find any documentation for it and I wanna know what the dip switches do and what the rca jacks are used for. The model is Heath 150-303. Filename s-l1600.jpg File size 222.62 KiB Views 600 views Filename s-l1600 (1).jpg File size 321.59 KiB …

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Re: GEM Desktop 1.2 or Windows 2.10?

Posted on 2020-06-05, 07:02

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Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-06-05, 06:51: GeoWorks Doesn’t that require a 386 cpu?

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GEM Desktop 1.2 or Windows 2.10?

Posted on 2020-06-05, 06:31

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I have an Epson Equity LT and I upgraded to ms-dos 6.22 and I was wondering which would be best for it (NEC V30 cpu, 640kb of ram, 20mb hard disk, cga monochrome screen), GEM Desktop 1.2 or Windows 2.10? I know 3.0 also runs on 8086 cpus (pf which the v30 is a clone of) but when I tried it earlier …

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Does anyone have Odyssey 3.1?

Posted on 2018-08-07, 06:48

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by SammyFox

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I've been looking for it but google's doing everything to complicate my life. It's for a windows 98 laptop.

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Re: Help getting Compaq Diagnostics/Setup floppy image on real floppy?

Posted on 2018-05-13, 14:10

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by SammyFox

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Thank you!

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Help getting Compaq Diagnostics/Setup floppy image on real floppy?

Posted on 2018-05-13, 12:03

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Hi there, I just spent literally the entire night trying to get the Compaq Diagnostics and Setup floppy image on a 720kb floppy for my Compaq Portable 286 (286, not II) and my problem is that I only have a laptop, no PC tower, and windows 7 64-bit so I have to rely on a usb floppy disk drive and so …

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CGA compatibility for apogee games?

Posted on 2018-04-01, 01:23

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I know that some games like Monuments of Mars ran on CGA and some games like commander keen's goodbye galaxy games had CGA versions but what about the other games like crystal caves, secret agent, duke nukem and duke nukem 2? I've heard the first commander keen trilogy won't run on cga hardware. Is …

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What hardware could run Duke Nukem 3D at 1600x1200 on dos?

Posted on 2018-03-24, 19:50

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I'm really curious, I remember back when trying out that game for the first time how there were those svga resolutions you could use for the game and I never could run higher than 640x480 without getting horrible performance, so I was wondering, WHAT kind of hardware would you have needed to play …

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Re: Video card on Compaq Portable 286?

Posted on 2018-03-05, 17:32

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I figure I'll try with other games once I am bothered to get a 3 inch floppy disk drive in there, those 5 inch floppies are REALLY old and most of them are corrupted. That and one of the floppies happened to be infected with the Stoned virus and like an idiot I got my only boot floppy infected as …

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Re: Video card on Compaq Portable 286?

Posted on 2018-03-05, 17:30

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VileRancour wrote: Wozniak originally used the same principle in the Apple II, to generate color over composite without including dedicated color circuitry at all. Man, this guy's a genius

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Video card on Compaq Portable 286?

Posted on 2018-03-05, 05:28

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I bought a Compaq Portable 286 saturday and I'm pretty happy with it. I am using an old LCD tv and I'm curious and slightly confused, from my memories CGA is like monochrome or 4 crappy colors, and I'm playing Leisure Suit Larry (one of the floppies I was given with the portable) and it's pretty …

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Re: MSDOS game manuals?

Posted on 2018-03-05, 01:03

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It seems to be for the cpc version but oddly enough it worked!

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