Re: USB/PS/2 mouse not working on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-04-10, 09:20

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tried a number of USB to PS/2 converters a few years back and none of them worked in a satisfactory manner. Sometimes it would sort-of work, but eventually the mouse would stop for no apparent reason. You're far better off just getting a PS/2 mouse.

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Re: Problem with Powerslave on Windows 10

Posted on 2024-04-05, 22:51

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by Robbbert

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

More weirdness, this time with Chasm: the Rift. On Windows 10 the game gives Runtime Error 200, which is an indication that the CPU is too fast. I tried all kinds of options with the cycles with no resolution. Then I tried using MOSLO, but even at the slowest speed still not fixed. MOSLO said the …

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Re: I need a source port for doom like this

Posted on 2024-04-05, 02:03

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by Robbbert

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Just checked in gzdoom, there's an option for 640x480, and many others too. There's a whole bunch of different aspect ratios as well.

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Re: I need a source port for doom like this

Posted on 2024-04-05, 01:47

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by Robbbert

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I don't know about the aspect size, but I recently used chocolate-doom on Windows 10 x64, and had 100% success with Doom, Doom 2, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, and HACX (a doom mod). For Brutal Doom, I used the gzdoom engine - this works perfectly fine too.

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Problem with Powerslave on Windows 10

Posted on 2024-04-05, 01:30

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by Robbbert

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I've recently started porting my favourite DOS games (mostly FPS) to my fairly modern Windows 10 machine, using Dosbox where needed, with varying degrees of success. Most games run perfectly, a few have flickering on the top of the stats window, but Powerslave just won't run. I also have an older …

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Re: Why two screw types in PC cases?

Posted on 2024-04-03, 19:42

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It could also be that the original PC being designed and made in America used a non-metric screw (since the US is the non-metric country), but the later advancements came from Japan, so a metric screw was used. At least, that's my theory. Normally I see the UNC screw used for the back cutouts but I …

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Re: Installing soundcard dos drivers

Posted on 2024-03-25, 11:49

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What does CONFIG.EXE do? Will it run in DOS mode?

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Re: Installing soundcard dos drivers

Posted on 2024-03-25, 08:29

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It looks like windows-only for that install disk. You'll note the existence of VBRUN300.DLL - a visual basic runtime that only works in windows. If this card is capable of running in DOS, you'll need to find the proper driver elsewhere. Have a look inside SETUP.INF (should be a text file) - …

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Re: Successfully using 137GB+ partition/HDD under 98SE?

Posted on 2024-03-24, 13:40

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

W2K was the first version to know about FAT32 and NTFS natively (afaik... never used ME). Win9x didn't know NTFS. NT and earliest Win95 didn't know FAT32. There's a neat patch to fix the problem on NT though (it works well).

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Re: Successfully using 137GB+ partition/HDD under 98SE?

Posted on 2024-03-23, 14:11

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Afaik windows didn't support > 137GB until W2K SP4, and even then you had to do a registry patch. I had a 250GB drive in my W2K machine and only 137GB was recognised. When I did the patch suddenly the full 250GB showed up. So, based on that, I'd guess that Win98 being older is probably incapable of …

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Re: DOS Games that don't run as well under Windows 95/98 - Is there a list?

Posted on 2024-03-22, 07:13

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by Robbbert

in DOS

in DOS

In Win98SE, in normal windows mode: - Duke Nukum II crashes on the 2nd level - Duke Nukem 3D can occasionally crash, especially on the secret rocket level - Redneck Rampage will crash on the last level when you're supposed to get teleported into a flying saucer. However Curse of the Catacombs which …

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Re: King's Quest 6 locks up after speech

Posted on 2024-03-18, 04:42

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

What happens if you run Duke Nukum II, just let it run the attract mode. I found on one of my machines that it locked up when the gunshots started firing at the training facility. This was because I hadn't set up the sound card TSR's properly, DIAGNOSE and so on. Once this was done it all worked …

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Re: Win 3.11 Share Access

Posted on 2024-03-18, 04:37

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

On my systems at least, if you install NetBEUI on anything XP and older then there's no trouble mapping drives between them and having 2-way access. But WFW 3.11 won't access any of my NAS's directly, so I used WS_FTP.

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Re: Win 3.11 Share Access

Posted on 2024-03-17, 22:13

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I assume they are all on the same Workgroup? You could try using a FTP client instead - such as WS_FTP_LE which is free. Or, do a search - your issue has occurred many times before.

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Re: flat CMOS battery, not keeping HDD settings on reboot?

Posted on 2024-03-13, 08:24

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a 486 that couldn't remember the hard drive settings and forgot them after exiting the bios screen. Therefore I threw it out.

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Re: Connecting a Win ME box to a NAS

Posted on 2024-03-02, 21:14

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have 2 NAS's and neither of them have any kind of SMB/NTLM configuration options. The oldest NAS, a V-GEAR LANDESK-193A, can connect to Windows 95,98,NT and later. It only holds 80GB, and can easily get corrupted if you copy lots of small files to it. This requires a format to fix. The other is a …

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Re: What to do with a Core 2 system (...now that there's better stuff around)

Posted on 2024-02-21, 21:15

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm using Windows 10 on this machine... Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz, 2933 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s) it runs ok for non-gaming things.

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Re: [Solved] Is there a way to remove/dismiss virus alerts in windows 10's defender?

Posted on 2024-02-21, 00:31

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by Robbbert

in Milliways

in Milliways

- not needed -

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Re: Compaq Deskpro New from 1999

Posted on 2024-02-17, 14:36

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

benheaven wrote on 2024-02-15, 07:59: Compaq E500, I have one of those running Windows 2000. Has to be one of the slowest machines I've ever encountered. But, the battery still works, amazingly.

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Re: Can't remove the cardboard from a 5.25 FDD

Posted on 2024-02-16, 12:25

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by Robbbert

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can't believe someone jammed in a thick piece of cardboard like that. I expect the heads have probably been knocked off, or out of alignment. Would have been much better to get cardboard that comes with a business shirt, and cut it to fit in neatly.

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