Re: Quake DOS page fault and other jankeroo

Posted on Yesterday, 13:40

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Heyyyo Before I begin I want to say that I only need help getting the DOS version of Quake to function. I do not need any source port reccomendations. Quake runs on my Windows 98SE pc, but way too fast. Throttle doesn't slow anything down properly for me. I tried to run Quake in pure dos and it …

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Re: TIL that bromine isn't just for plastics, it's a food preservative too

Posted on Yesterday, 07:44

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And it's not a very healthy one. https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/brominated-vegetable-oil-bvo Bromine is not a food preservative. Your link is about a brominated compound. Bromine is an element. A brominated compound is not the same as Bromine. It just contains Bromine, and other …

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Re: Corruption issue when using rloew's TRIM.EXE (TRIM utility for DOS) with FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1/1.3.1 partitioned DISK

Posted on 2024-05-18, 20:04

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by darry

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@mockingbird TY for the info about Naraeon SSD Tools . @crusher TY for testing and sharing the results . Vogons really does feel like an online home to me and I suspect it also does for many of us here. Cheers!

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TIL that bromine isn't just for plastics, it's a food preservative too

Posted on 2024-05-18, 18:25

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And it's not a very healthy one. https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petit … getable-oil-bvo

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Re: Yamaha XG emulation at last

Posted on 2024-05-18, 16:46

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by darry

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actually tested this. it's definitely not there yet, but effects do seem to work. here's a good reference recording of a real mu-50 and an xg midi that uses a decent amount of effects and dynamics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YZ6_sn8Uh8 this is the famous children (xg) midi file that's …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-18, 16:41

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I just saw a local chain advertising a 25" MSI 1920x1080 IPS 100Hz monitor for 109 Canadian dollars. That's abou the price of a reasonably fancy full course meal + wine for 2 people here. For comparison, the cheapest 15" reasonable dot pitch CRT monitor I could get in early 1996 was a 500 CAN$ …

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Re: Corruption issue when using rloew's TRIM.EXE (TRIM utility for DOS) with FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1/1.3.1 partitioned DISK

Posted on 2024-05-17, 18:16

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The next retro machine I have to get Trim working is my Windows XP one. Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 Chipset + SATA controller: Intel H61 SSD: Samsung Evo 870 500GB (directly connected to SATA-port) SATA is set to AHCI mode and the SSD is formatted with NTFS (Windows XP default). R.Löw's TRIM. …

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

Posted on 2024-05-17, 18:05

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In addition to some Plextors, I have also seen this with an LG DVD-ROM. I t was less than 5 years old at the time.

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-17, 03:22

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High-end realtime scaling/analogue noise reduction/MPEG2 mosquito noise reduction/MPEG2 macroblock reduction/etc products from the likes of Faroudja, DVDO, etc used to be a thing. There was also somewhat similar functionality in some products meant for the TV broadcast and cable/satellite industry. …

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Re: Cirrus Logic GD5434 PCI -Expanding VRAM to enable 64bit memory bus

Posted on 2024-05-17, 03:00

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by darry

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-Could it be that the 64bit memory bus is only enabled under Windows with drivers loaded for GUI acceleration? That was my suspicion. Though it migh also help in VESA 2.0 modes using an LFB. Do try to enable writing combining (with fastvid, for example). If running Windows 3.x or even 9x , maybe …

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Re: Cirrus Logic GD5434 PCI -Expanding VRAM to enable 64bit memory bus

Posted on 2024-05-14, 08:14

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-Could it be that the 64bit memory bus is only enabled under Windows with drivers loaded for GUI acceleration? That was my suspicion. Though it migh also help in VESA 2.0 modes using an LFB. Do try to enable writing combining (with fastvid, for example). If running Windows 3.x or even 9x , maybe …

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Re: Absolute best, Most reliable fans

Posted on 2024-05-14, 08:05

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will experience the arizona heat and very hot equipment (as much as 100c) these need to be able to run 12 hours a day every day for decades without failure or any maintenance While this is not my field of expertise, I believe there are some potentially important variables to consider here a) Is the …

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Re: What happened to the Spez FTP archive?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 06:00

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by darry

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Something is definitely not OK with this ftp, browsing is OK but downloading happens at dial-up speed with constant failures after aprox. 1'. @AngelaTheSephira if you only want a specific file, try some client that will automatically reconnect and resume. It's not fast, but it is working for me . …

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Re: Windows 3.11 no longer starts after trying to start Microsoft Dogs

Posted on 2024-05-14, 05:46

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by darry

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Hmm, maybe something is wrong at the storage level. What are you using as a c:\ drive ? Did you try running Scandisk or Chkdsk (depending on the DOS version used) to verify for any anomalies ?

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Re: What happened to the Spez FTP archive?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 05:42

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by darry

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2024-05-14, 05:35: Modern browsers block FTP access by default. Try using a dedicated FTP client like FileZilla. Good point, but If the client application being used works with other FTP sites, it's likely not that. +1 to FileZilla either way.

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Re: What happened to the Spez FTP archive?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 05:40

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by darry

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Yeah, for me it times out after 15 to 45 seconds: I would guess that it's either an issue with the peering link your ISP is trying to use or maybe the ftp server's host is blocking an IP range that happens to include your current IP address (i.e. someone with an address in that range did something …

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 05:21

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I'm just weird on this. If it's a a vintage computer, and it's something i can have control of, I usually go for the highest readable resolution I can manage, so long as the performance isn't totally destroyed. If it's vintage media, I usually go for the highest quality I can manage if it's …

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Re: What happened to the Spez FTP archive?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 05:17

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AngelaTheSephira wrote on 2024-05-14, 04:49: As the title says. It doesn't seem to be online anymore. Does anyone know of a mirror of it? ftp.spez.com.ua works for me .

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Re: Modern GPU with VGA for CRT

Posted on 2024-05-14, 05:08

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Hi guys, i have a Crt Sony GDM F520 monitor. So here is the problem - it works great with radeon 9700 - the image quality is just superb, text and images are very sharp. Voodoo 3\5 - also great. Geforce 6600 - a little bit inferior in terms of sharpness but still good. But i want to push it further …

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Re: Modern GPU with VGA for CRT

Posted on 2024-05-14, 04:32

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The later cards with VGA use a DP or HDMI to VGA conversion chip and are subject to ~165MHz limit, so no high resolutions and/or refresh rates from those VGA ports. Pascal and Polaris VGA ports are all Limited at ~165MHz ? I think that Tiido meant that the implementations with an on-board HDMI or …

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