Re: Dr.Pool 3d (help me running this)

Posted on 2024-05-12, 14:25

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by elszgensa

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I would've expected less than 18MB for just a bare pool game, and more for a reasonable amount of cutscenes. Maybe they got a FMV intro (which would be hardly worth pointing out in the manual) and that's it?

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Re: Windows 98 SE install - How do I target installation on D: ?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 14:06

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by elszgensa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I installed 98se on a 256MB HDD just now and it went fine. It'll get a bit tight once you start installing extra stuff but at this point the size isn't necessarily a show stopper (depending on how large that FreeDOS partition is). Do note though that copying the setup files over to the same disk is …

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Re: Multi CD Drives - letter assignment

Posted on 2024-05-11, 11:57

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by elszgensa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Might've been for the perceived convenience? Changing discs within the same drive letter would've meant having either a control software (which on the developer side would need to be implemented for every supported OS, and on the user side would mean extra steps), or fumbling for physical buttons. …

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Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-10, 16:06

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by elszgensa

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Ribbicipp wrote on 2024-05-10, 15:47: Any recommended program i can use to make these images CloneZilla, Ghost, Drive Image, dd, ... Which one to use is mostly a matter of preference.

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Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-10, 12:21

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by elszgensa

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It works well, has so for decades. Definitely a solved problem. If you like to swap components or are trying different driver versions then I'd recommend imaging a basic installation with as few extra drivers as possible instead. It's a bit of work after restoring but lets you start with a clean …

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Re: Looking for Radeon R5 240 XP Drivers

Posted on 2024-05-09, 02:06

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by elszgensa

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I've spent way too much time trying to get a GCN2-based iGPU (a Radeon HD 8280E) to work. Dug up three different driver packages that claimed to support it, advertised as anything from "for evaluation, not officially supported" to "trust me bro this one works". All of them would install fine... but …

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Re: Nforce2 build, no beeps, no POST?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 01:15

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by elszgensa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’ve got nothing connected but the CPU/PSU and motherboard What, no RAM at all? Add some. all the fans come to life and sounds fine, apart from not starting. "Fans", plural? Does your PSU have multiple, or did you lie earlier? What fans, exactly, are connected where and turning on? Which of your …

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Re: Looking for Radeon R5 240 XP Drivers

Posted on 2024-05-08, 23:40

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by elszgensa

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in Marvin \ Video

GCN 2nd gen? Afaik no XP drivers exist for those. You're one gen too late. Try GCN1 (and from my experience even those are hit and miss) or older.

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Re: Sam & Max Hit the Road: Best Slowdown Utility/Settings?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 20:33

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by elszgensa

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Well, since you're already entertaining the idea of using a port instead - ScummVM has a Win95 build, and lets you configure filtering and whatnot.

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Re: No output from DVI ports on any ELSA Erazor III 32MB TNT2 Pro

Posted on 2024-05-05, 20:36

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by elszgensa

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This card seems to me to just digitize whatever would go out on the VGA port. Maybe neither of those monitors accepts digital in at 75Hz? Boot/BIOS screens, DOS "text mode", Win9x splash would be 75 and might now show up because of that. Can you connect through VGA, boot Windows, then check whether …

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Re: Help disassembling Win 3.x executable (NE)?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 17:20

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by elszgensa

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Well I don't know what to tell you. Going by your screenshots we seem to have identical versions of those programs, it's working just fine for me. :shrug: edit: actually - you're running "sr c:\temp\ esssetup.wdf" while winp's output is in the current directory? edit2: yeah, that's it. You actually …

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Re: Help disassembling Win 3.x executable (NE)?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 17:05

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by elszgensa

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Sounds like you did "winp foo.exe; sr foo.exe" instead of "sr foo.wdf" that winp generated for you?

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Re: Help disassembling Win 3.x executable (NE)?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 16:53

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by elszgensa

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kingcake wrote on 2024-05-05, 16:28: WINP and Windows Source are two different things I believe you're mistaken - unless there's a different program using not only the same title but also all the same file names.

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Re: Question about XP amd64 vs 32-bit

Posted on 2024-05-05, 15:22

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by elszgensa

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Just wanted to add - don't get hung up on the RAM, 32 bit XP can use >4GB as well, through using PAE. Used to be officially supported at first, until SP2 (iirc) disabled it, but you can still reenable it with a patch.

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Re: Help disassembling Win 3.x executable (NE)?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 10:34

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by elszgensa

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in Marvin \ Software

kingcake wrote on 2024-05-05, 03:12: Sourcer 8.01 for DOS says it's not packed and recognizes is as NE. I bet it also tells you to use Windows Sourcer - that would be the included WINP.EXE, which is used to preprocesses NE executables. Tried that yet?

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Re: Patches and updates for games

Posted on 2024-05-05, 10:21

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by elszgensa

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When those fail, try searching through the magazine cover CDs on archive dot org. May take some effort though - "small fry" like patches often isn't listed in the upload description but if there's a cover scan there's a good change it's shown there. Or in some cases you can guess the file name (e.g. …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 22:22

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by elszgensa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Speaking of... I've encountered 486es in business use as recently as ~7 years ago, albeit in extremely niche use cases. Switched employers since then but I'm pretty sure they're still there to this day. So... would anyone like to argue that makes them not retro?

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 21:12

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by elszgensa

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think people avoid them because they ran hotter than their AMD counterparts. But you're probably not running a retro rig 24/7/365, so who cares about the power consumption - just slap a decent cooler on there and enjoy. edit: Oh right, and they fall into the "capacitor plague" timeframe, which may …

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Re: Best PC build for Whistler 2428?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 16:40

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by elszgensa

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in Marvin \ Software

That's a... quite specific question. You might have better luck over at BetaArchive.

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Re: The Most Beautiful Laptop Ever.

Posted on 2024-05-03, 13:57

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by elszgensa

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I had a white polycarb Intel MacBook that looked like this. Great looking machine but oh boy did its innards not age well, it ran red hot with even moderate usage. (Wasn't there a model at some point that would literally melt its keys?) Afaik Thinkpads have this whole ecosystem of third party …

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