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Re: Socket 478 ISA motherboards - Anyone try them?

Posted on 2010-06-12, 00:14

ratfink, Huh. I somehow missed those when I looked earlier but thanks for linking to those! mr_bigmouth_502, Interesting. It's really odd that Microsoft reports that there are issues with systems running over 2.1GHz under 98SE but others like yourself seem to do okay barring memory issues. Were it …

Socket 478 ISA motherboards - Anyone try them?

Posted on 2010-05-25, 16:30

Been looking for a new retro PC gaming project and, much to my surprise, came across some Socket 478 ISA motherboards. Here is what I found: Itox G4E620 P4 845E Socket 478 ATX Motherboard http://www.itox.com/pages/products/mothers/revcontrol/g4e620-bn.php ITOX G4V620-B-G Intel 845GV Socket 478 ATX …

Re: Question - Dual-boot OS worth it or no?

Posted on 2008-01-14, 22:34

Everyone, Thank you for all of your suggestions! I went ahead and, as a lot of you suggested, went with dual-booting DOS 6.22 and Windows 98SE; making a bootable Ghost image disk for each system. Hopefully I'll FINALLY be able to get these up on Ebay within the next couple of weeks now that I have …

Question - Dual-boot OS worth it or no?

Posted on 2008-01-08, 23:25

Everyone, I'm in the process of assembling a few PC retro-gaming systems and I've come to a bit of a quandary. I've found that the boot manager utilities, both XOSL and System Commander will prevent me from making a clean recovery disk with Ghost. So I have a situation where I'm going to have to …

Re: Vista Compatibility Solutions

Posted on 2006-12-30, 08:32

in Windows
The general rule of thumb has been if the application and/or game runs under XP that it should run under Vista with the reverse being if you had issues running it under XP then you will also have issues under Vista. The big exception to this currently is the 64-bit version of Vista which will run 32 …

Re: getting a game to work using dosbox

Posted on 2006-12-27, 04:15

A few things you may wish to keep in mind: 1. Read the FAQ's at the beginning of each forum. 2. Use the search function for what it was designed for. 3. Do not post the same question, worded differently or otherwise, in other areas. Following these three simple tips will help avoid embarrassment and …

Re: Getting Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries to work on XP

Posted on 2006-12-27, 04:05

in DOS
Hamaliel, As I am sure many here will probably chime in with you really should start with the search function before asking questions like this. Here is a link on our forums here that discusses this topic: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=7141&highlight=mercenaries http://www.vogons.org/ …

Re: Original 3dfx patch for Mechwarrior 2

Posted on 2006-12-24, 20:29

in DOS
Pianoman72, There was never a patch released for the Mechwarrior 2 series that enabled 3DFX support for the non-OEM (read: retail) versions of the game. However, there were specific OEM versions created that were included with the following cards: Diamond Multimedia Monster 3D Orchid Righteous 3D …

Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-12-12, 13:37

I don't see anywhere in the 5400 review where it mentions that you can connect a pure3dII to it, or that it has the witchdoctor feature. Inspecting the pictures, the witchdoctor "reverse pass through" din connector isn't present on the 5400. Witchdoctor actually allows any voodoo to be connected to …

Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-12-12, 03:22

RE: the canopus cards and their pure3dII passthrough Are you sure the Canopus Spectra 5400 (or above) can do this? None of the reviews I've seen make mention that they can - even though most newer canopus cards have a 14 pin header on them similar to that used with the 2500. Only the Spectra 2500 …

Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-12-10, 18:01

SB16 PCI is not compatible with SB16 ISA, it's actually based on Ensoniq AudioPCI, It need a TSR, which emulate sb16 isa with midi, to work under dos. (its name is just for marketing purpose) PCI cards can't really work under dos When a dos software needs to make sound, it directly programmes the …

Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-12-10, 17:48

It can get tricky trying to get an optimal DOS and 9x box. I'd suggest not mixing PCI and ISA audio. Hold on. This is interesting. I mean, why? Correct me if I'm wrong, and frankly I haven't ever tried it myself, but I alwasy thought, in a DOS/Win9x dual-boot environment, PCI sound card and ISA …

Re: Help with building retro PC

Posted on 2006-12-10, 17:37

StickByDos, >DOS can access file on DVD but you nead good driver: >Don't use mscdex, it can't open files/directories with lowercases in their >name. Use shsucdx (it's free) or nwcdex (it come with dr-dos) >In config.sys, I use dvs.sys (I don't remember where I downloaded it) I never knew this and …

My Retro PC gaming systems

Posted on 2006-11-03, 07:12

Well, today was one filled with joy as I put the final touches on our system, the one I built for one of my best friends, and a few that I will be parting with once I finish getting them fine-tuned. I really had fun building these and, much to my surprise, learned quite a bit that I did not know …

Re: Peer-review: Retro-PC gaming system specs

Posted on 2006-10-27, 18:33

swaaye, Can you clarify on the "awesome DOS" part in regards to the Voodoo3? The reason I ask is that, at least as far as what I've been able to research, that the Voodoo3 (or even the voodoo4 and/or voodoo5) had the following issues: - Lack of 100%-compatible Glide support in DOS - Lack of 100%- …

Re: First 100 issues of CGW in PDF format

Posted on 2006-10-24, 17:53

in Milliways
*blush* Ooops. I had NO idea and I very much appreciate you pointing that out. And thank you for the link to that website as well since I remember reading Scorpia's articles way back in the day. Currently, I am trying to lay my hands on a set of the next 100 issues so that I can send them off to him …

Re: First 100 issues of CGW in PDF format

Posted on 2006-10-24, 03:06

in Milliways
Xian97, I'm trading some messages with her, thanking her of course, and trying to figure out a way to help her get the next 100 issues done. Turns out she personally took apart her own magazines, scanned each one, and turned them into .PDF files by herself. To say I was impressed would be a minor …

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