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Video • Best RIVA 128 PCI drivers for Win98 SE? (Two cards)

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi,I have two different RIVA 128 PCI cards, a Diamond Viper V330, and an Elsa Victory Erazor 4. The Diamond card worked perfectly, but when testing other graphics cards including the Elsa card, I lost the driver for the Diamond. I have tested five differe …

Windows • I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - Windows 98 - "No supported SVGA type and no VESA VBE were detected."

Vogons about 11 months ago

Looking forward to trying this classic game, but running into a bit of a hitch. Getting the above error message when trying to run the game. The setup file seems to be only for audio. The readme mentions something about running the game with the "paramete …

DOSBox Games/Apps • Chasm: The Rift - Audio tracks doesn't loop (Windows 98)

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello i installed Chasm The Rift on a vintage pc under Windows 98, and playing it with the CD and his audio tracks.It's already patched at 1.04 version and everything works fine, but the audio tracks once they reach the end, they do not restart. Also the …

General Old Hardware • Windows XP - DDR3 memory channels

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi everyone,For my XP build I have a Intel® Desktop Board DP43BF which has 4 DDR3 slots with 2 memory channels. https://ark.intel.com/conte... … ard-dp43bf.htmlIt can handle up to 1333 mhz so I presume it's best to buy the fastest speed …

General Old Hardware • Voodoo2 + VGA Switch monitor refresh rate problem

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi, so I got myself one of these VGA switches: https://aliexpress.com/item... used it to hook up my Win98 (with a GF FX 5500 + 3dfx Voodoo2) and WinXP machines to an LG Flatron 774FT CRT monitor. Although this setup works mostly fin …

Windows • Windows 98 SE, most games immediately freeze or cause reboot after starting them

Vogons about 11 months ago

Games like Dethkarz, Carmageddon 2, Starcraft; they cause the system to either freeze or instantly reboot.This is a system with a Voodoo 2 card, I'm using the Fast 4.6 driver (fastv2-win9x-v46.zip). I've tried with both software and hardware acceleration …

System Specs • SFF Ultimate Windows XP Machine (<10 liters, 4790k, 980 Ti, X-Fi Titanium)

Vogons about 11 months ago

HardwareCase: FormD T1 (sandwich v2.0) (w/ 2x Noctua 120x25mm exhaust fans)Motherboard: ASRock Z97E-ITX/acCPU: Intel 4790k (w/ Coollaboratory Liquid Pro TIM)CPU Cooler: Thermalright AXP90-X47 Full (w/ Noctua 92x14mm intake fan)GPU: GIGABYTE GTX 980 Ti G1 …

System Specs • HP Vectra VE 8i ( Quiet Desktop PC )

Vogons about 11 months ago

These HP Vectra VE computers were a welcome product to the HP family line of computers.They were powerful with Pentium-lll CPU's and integrated Matrox G200 graphics chips.Without a Case fan or CPU fan these computers ran fairly quiet.Perfect for Small Off …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • PCXT config: mount files/folders

MISTerFPGA about 11 months ago

Hi! Where to find a step-by-step guide for configuring the PCXT core? Sorry, noob question here: at the moment, I can only open bootable games from pcxt core. How can I open *.exe files from games/pcxt folder? Don't know how to access the sdcard directory …

General Old Hardware • is this solid basis for late windows 98 pc for games from 2000 and beyond

Vogons about 11 months ago

I am quite happy with my off the shelf hp socket 370 800mhz rig and a rivia tnt 2. But when playing arround with games from the year 2000 I figured out that things are not running as smooth as I have hopped for. I am also helping a buddy right now to …
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ao486 (PC 486SX) • Q87 - FPU software emulator for AO486

MISTerFPGA about 11 months ago

Hello,Starting from a Discord discussion about FX Fighter (https://discord.com/channe... ... 9090175057), after several tests I succeeded to run it with the use of and FPU (math coprocessor) software emulator called QuickWare Q87. That was the b …

System Specs • Double Reverse Retro Sleeper (ivy bridge, GTX980, WinXP+10)

Vogons about 11 months ago

Well, after the muted reception to my previous period-incorrect rig... I thought I'd try something a bit more interesting.This is a sleeper PC. But not just any sleeper! It has:a functional floppy drive!!IDE support (not used, I decided to faceplate-swa …

General Old Hardware • Is there something like the ideal cpu for a specific gaming era

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi vogons,As some of you might already know I am going to build late dos and early windows 98 pc soon.The mainboard for that build ( ASUS P2B with Pentium 2 400mhz) is already on the way to me via mail.My main gpu is either going to be a geforce 2 gts ( …

General Old Hardware • Dell Dimension 4100 Noisy PSU

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello, this is my first post here!Basically just as the title says - my Dimension 4100's PSU sounds a bit like a beehive. At the first power-on, it is sufficiently quiet - I can hear the fan running but it's not anything super loud. The PC runs Win …
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Mark Your Calendars! A New 'Day Of The Tentacle' Doc Is Dropping Later This Month

Time Extension about 11 months ago

Featuring nine interviews with the original team!Day of the Tentacle turns 30 later this month and to celebrate the classic LucasArts point-and-click adventure the YouTuber onaretrotip has put together a 2-hr documentary featuring nine interviews with memb …

General Old Hardware • Windows 98 SE on 160GB and partitions? HELP!!

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello guys!I usually never ask for help, and when I do is when i am completely disperate... now, sadly i am an extremely introvert only on the internet, and some times i lost myself when trying to explain something ?but i'll try to go as direct and fast p …

General Old Hardware • 8086 (vs 80286) Popularity in DIY/Clone Systems in the late 80s

Vogons about 11 months ago

Could someone with experience and memory of the time enlighten me with regards to the popularity of 8086 CPUs in clone and DIY systems in the late 80s, particularly around 89/90?I'm asking because we had a system at the time. The things I remember for su …

The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin "A History of Free and Open Source" (online, book length)

Retro Computing Forum about 12 months ago

Some reading for you, by Peter Salus (who has other books to his name) The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin (at Groklaw) Dr Peter Salus’s book, the Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin, was a regular Groklaw feature in 2005 and 2006. It is now …
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AEG Logistat (PLC) and TI CC-40 pocket computer 1983

Retro Computing Forum about 12 months ago

I’m currently stuck with my Festo PLC programming device. I found a later Festo software which is very interesting, but is too late to be helpful for my device. So I searched for other (early) PLCs. I recently bought a 1990s student’s book …

Win98/Apple2 disk handling again

Apple Fritter about 1 year ago

Hi!  I am working on stuffing a new Win98SE computer and want to hook it up for my work, including programming.  I still have a Zip disk with cc65 on it and want to update it to a new version.  Now, a while ago, I asked here about a command-line utility …
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299 - Predator Games Hunt

Retro Gaming Discussion Show about 2 years ago

For best listening experience use headphones in a dark room with some alcoholic beverages of your choice :D   In this super sci-fi episode Ric and Kingy are dropped deep into the Central American jungle to chat about all these weird and quirky Predator th …

Episode 37 - The Rise of DOS

Advent of Computing about 4 years ago

Is there a more iconic duo than the IBM PC and MS-DOS? Microsoft's Disk Operating System would be the final success that turned the company into what we know today. But here's a dirty little secret: DOS didn't start out at Microsoft. So how did Gates and A …

Episode 36 - The Rise of CP/M

Advent of Computing about 4 years ago

The IBM PC and MS-DOS, the iconic duo of the early 80s. The two are so interconnected that it's hard to mention one without the other. But in 1980 DOS wasn't IBM's first choice for their soon-to-be flagship hardware. IBM had wanted to license Gary Kildall' …