Re: Jurassic Park (Ocean)

Posted on 2024-05-29, 08:01

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by Kalle

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Do CD-Audio tracks play on your computers under DOSBox? They do when you imgmount the cue file. For example, this is the line mounting my Warcraft II image (bin/cue): imgmount D "Warcraft II.cue" -t iso -fs iso CD audio works that way.

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Re: What are the DOS games that have problems if you have more than 16MB of RAM installed?

Posted on 2024-05-25, 19:29

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by Kalle

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Pinball Fantasies crashes on startup. Strange, I've never encountered such problems. And it seems to only use conventional memory, refusing to run if too many drivers/TSRs are loaded. Why would it even care about extended memory? I took a look at it again, and actually I was wrong. Pinball …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-25, 07:16

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by Kalle

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I remember DVB-T.. I've bought a TV dongle for PC once. Picture quality was horrible, artifacts often were visible. No comparison to DVB-S or DVB-S2. Oh yes, I remember it, too. We had a standalone DVB-T receiver for my mom's TV, which was a 15" CRT. Picture quality was meh at best, though on the …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-24, 13:58

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Hm. There might be bandwidth considerations, too, because of cable and terrestrial broadcast, not sure. For sure it plays a role. For TV content, 1080p needs to be 1080p50, which requires more bandwidth than 720p or 1080i. Plus the majority of DVB receivers might not be compatible with 1080p50. …

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Re: What are the DOS games that have problems if you have more than 16MB of RAM installed?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 18:18

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by Kalle

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Dune II SETUP freezes or crashes (depending on how much RAM is installed). The game itself runs fine. Pinball Fantasies crashes on startup. SETSOUND.EXE of Pinball Fantasies crashes with a Page Fault. The game itself runs fine. In both cases limiting the RAM to 12 MB using a tool like XMSDSK helps. …

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

Posted on 2024-05-17, 17:15

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by Kalle

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Do you have more than one optical drive in your PC? The cd path has to be correct in WAR.INI (e.g. "cdpath=d:\"), not sure what the installer writes in there if you have multiple drives (e.g. only the first drive, or the drive that you installed it from). Other than that, maybe you could try …

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Re: Plextor optical drives are stuck and won't open. Fix?

Posted on 2024-05-17, 16:34

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by Kalle

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And why does it work just fine when a CD is inside? Because the upper part of the mechanism that holds the CD in place is magnetic. With a CD inside, the magnetic force on the lower part is less than when both parts make direct contact without a CD between them. Had the same problem with my DVD …

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

Posted on 2024-05-17, 10:28

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by Kalle

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I don't remember having had a problem with Warcraft II, and I'm pretty sure I used ImgBurn (version 2.5.0.0, if that matters) to create the image. It resulted in bin/cue files which I use for DOSBox. No problem with the CD audio tracks, and the image is recognized by my Warcraft II installation in …

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Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2024-05-01, 09:40

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I sometimes wonder if it just natural for is to fill nostalgic about past times...even if we "know" they weren't really that great. That depends on each individual's experience. I feel very nostalgic about the 90s and early to mid 2000s because to me they were simply better times, I had on the …

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Re: Dune 2 (floppy) : Insufficient spice storage when loading...

Posted on 2024-03-15, 19:02

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by Kalle

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As someone who has played Dune II countless times, I had to try it, as I also don't recall this bug, but I also don't recall having ever saved during the construction of the refinery either. Mine is the CD version (1.07) and I tried it with the Harkonnen. Saved during the construction of the …

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Re: CPU cooler for old Pentium

Posted on 2024-03-14, 10:02

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by Kalle

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Heatsink + Fan was common back then on Pentiums. Never saw thermal paste, though. My P133 and a friend's P90 don't have thermal paste, but heatsink + fan and run fine to this day. Not sure about the MMX, though. I had tried to run mine without a heatsink, it got extremely hot after a minute or so …

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Re: Scroll wheel support in Windows 98 SE?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 18:30

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by Kalle

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I've seen scroll wheels work on Windows 98 before, but support seems to be patchy (some applications work, some don't). Windows 98 does support the scroll wheel, but the application also must make use of it. Whenever an event occurs like the mouse is moved, a mouse button or a key is pressed or …

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Re: Playing DVDs in Windows 95

Posted on 2024-02-04, 19:59

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by Kalle

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I just tried PowerDVD V4 in Win95B and it plays DVDs okay. On my PC, it doesn't seem to make use of hardware acceleration in Win95, but I think that's a driver issue. Anyway it's not blocky red and blue. Maybe it's a driver issue in your case. Apart from that, if it worked fine in WinME, but you …

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Re: Problem with manually created DOS 6.22 floppy image

Posted on 2024-01-28, 12:59

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by Kalle

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From within DOS, you can use the command SYS A: to copy the core components to the floppy and make it bootable.

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Re: DOS 6.2/7.1 multiple configs?

Posted on 2024-01-27, 22:01

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by Kalle

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I no longer have DOS 6.2, and DOS 7.1, which ships with Windows 98SE, doesn't have help.com. Actually it does, but it's not copied to hard drive during installation. Look on the CD in \tools\oldmsdos and you will find help.com (among others). Also the MS-DOS manual explains it well. You can find a …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2024-01-25, 15:26

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by Kalle

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Recently I got a Samsung SyncMaster 750p for free as it had a problem, it would only show a white screen. The cause was a failed inductor, now with a new one it works nicely 😀

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Re: Dune II - extended memory is not available

Posted on 2023-12-31, 15:22

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by Kalle

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I have the CD version of Dune II and there is no german speech in the intro. Maybe you're mixing it up with Dune 2000, which was localized to German entirely? Though Dune 2K had a female narrator (except for the emperor's lines). Or indeed a fanmade version, though in the 90s they would have been …

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Re: Do you have a backup motherboard for your build.

Posted on 2023-12-19, 06:45

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by Kalle

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Yes, I have a spare board for my current PC, a Core2Duo build that I made of second hand parts in 2018. I thought it was a good idea to have a spare board, so far however I haven't used it.

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Re: Screen tearing issue

Posted on 2023-12-18, 15:04

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by Kalle

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Is there really a dosgame that scrolls like butter in dosbox like it is on the real machine? The 60/70Hz issue applies to a real machine as well. Sure, there were no issues with CRTs, also my old LCD monitor Philips Brilliance 150P supports 70Hz and scrolls smoothly in DOS. But both my 20" LCD …

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Re: List of games which doesn't have CD check ( Windows 9x )

Posted on 2023-10-22, 06:14

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by Kalle

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Drakan - Order of the Flame: The latest official patch (445) removed the CD check. MS Flight Simulator 95 and 98: No CD check MS Flight Simulator 2004: The DVD version does not check for a disc in the drive (only the CD version does)

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