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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on Today, 11:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Win9x starts having issues when more than 512MB of RAM are installed, getting worse the more you have. It also doesn't support HDDs >137GB. Both can be worked around, but for troubleshooting it's easiest to simply use smaller components so the suggestion does make sense. But feel free to ignore it, …

Re: Is it possible to copy the Warcraft 2 CD?

Posted on 2024-05-16, 18:01

in DOS

in DOS

Should be fine since it's a backup of an original disc for personal use. No copy protection afaik (and even if there was, the programs you're using would certainly be capable of dealing with one that old). Does the original disc still work? Maybe it's started to rot (both of my copies certainly have …

Re: DiskClick! Emulate Old Hard Drive Sounds using your own Real life C drive.

Posted on 2024-05-16, 14:45

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Those "theming" previews are giving me Hot Dog Stand vibes.

Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2024-05-15, 17:36

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

I'm no Win3 driver guru but fwiw I'd probably look at a couple Matrox cards first. They used to be pretty good. As for the language, I'm not sure how the system's GUI's encoding would influence the internals of a driver. I'd expect it to be mostly limited to mojibake in control panels etc, but you …

Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2024-05-15, 16:58

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Jo22 wrote on 2024-05-15, 16:42: big parts of GDI on Windows 3.x platform are in the graphics drivers. Maybe it just needs a more feature complete graphics driver Time to retire that VM and start trying physical graphics cards and their drivers?

Re: Warcraft 2 DOS Version: Disc Access Error at installation

Posted on 2024-05-15, 16:23

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

True. But I still say that regardless where they came from, device names and file names shouldn't interfere. Imagine if you couldn't name a file "C.txt" because C's a drive letter? They solved that by making the drive "C:", why not do that, or sth similar, for devices too?

Re: Warcraft 2 DOS Version: Disc Access Error at installation

Posted on 2024-05-15, 16:02

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Ah goddammit, not this one again. Microsoft and its r*tarded "magic names"... Reminds me of that one Windows boot floppy using "banana" for the CD drive device name, which then broke Windows 9x Plus' Setup trying to unpack its "banana.ani"... And then there's many other quasi-hardcoded ones, like …

Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-15, 15:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

bZbZbZ wrote on 2024-05-15, 14:19: I don't have access to a 3D printer You don't need to, there's services that print stuff on demand - pretty much the same as ordering a readymade part, other than that you'll have to upload a design file first.

Re: Warcraft 2 DOS Version: Disc Access Error at installation

Posted on 2024-05-14, 19:23

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I second the suggestion of REMOVED . At the very least use REMOVED instead of REMOVED to give the drive a better chance of reading it. What other titles have you tried? Did any of those give you similar issues? (Probably most efficient to look for ones that read as much as possible as early as …

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

Posted on 2024-05-13, 09:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How do you do it? Is this a command-line option, when you run setup.exe? When it asks you which directory install to, change from the default "C:\WINDOWS" to "Other directory" then enter "D:\WINDOWS"... Yes it has the drive letter in there not just the folder name, maybe you just missed that. And …

Re: Software defined hardware graphics card?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 09:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How's MAME's performance these days? Iirc they do everything , save for scaling the final image through OpenGL, in software, and I think they have a couple 3DFX-based boards too. I see that a Hydro Thunder ROM exists, but didn't find a single videos of this version running on YT so I don't think …

Re: Intel wants to drop 16/32bit. A possible opportunity...?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 02:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Jo22 wrote on 2024-05-13, 00:13: Edit: Or how about "Genesis"? The fresh, new Intel Genesis processor architecture! Intel does what AMDon't?

Re: Pentium ii desktop will not read from or boot from cd drive

Posted on 2024-05-13, 02:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dirty, weak or already dead laser? Clean the lens (carefully) for good measure, and test whether it still reads pressed discs (which is easier than CD-Rs).

Re: Software defined hardware graphics card?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 00:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you include FPGA based solutions then this is the current state of the art. Using a custom interface that's as fast as the author knew how to make instead of emulating an existing one, giving you Quake 1 at 30 fps. Still a long way to go to reach GF2 territory.

Re: Old Compaq SYSTEM_SAV partition, how to use?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 18:16

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

25 * 48MB = 1.2GB sounds about right for an XP system image plus preinstalled bloatware... I'd make an effort to hunt down the correct restore disc, it'll know what to do. Or maybe that's even a bootable partition? You don't have "show file extensions" enabled, so it's probably the same for showing …

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

Posted on 2024-05-12, 14:25

in DOS

in DOS

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?

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

Posted on 2024-05-12, 14:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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 …

Re: Multi CD Drives - letter assignment

Posted on 2024-05-11, 11:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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. …

Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-10, 16:06

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

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.

Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-10, 12:21

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

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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