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Windows 98 / serial / Laplink??

VCFed about 8 months ago

Hi, I have a Pentium 4 box loaded with Windows 98, to act as a tweener. The W98 box is on my home network, and I want to use it to transfer files from the outside world to my old machines. I've come across a strange issue and looking for feedback. The is …

The Return of Traxtor - A great 8bit game by Juan J. Martinez gets an MS-DOS conversion!

Indie Retro News about 8 months ago

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FS: Matrox Marvel G400-TV video card

VCFed about 8 months ago

This is an AGP card that includes a connector box that has A/V in and out (S-Video, composite & stereo) plus coax input for analog TV. Original owner and it was used successfully on an ASUS P2B-B motherboard under Windows 98. Manuals, connector box, …

triple boot windows 98 windows 2k and freedos

VCFed about 8 months ago

What at first seems like something easy to archive turns to be quite hard to do. Have this configuration drive number 2 - partition 1 windows 98se partition 2 windows 2000 drive number 1 - Freedos 7 now on drive 2 have the …

Windows XP gaming! Retro laptop with CD player - Fujitsu FMV Biblo NB16C - with ATI graphics

Arcade Projects about 8 months ago

Hello All, I want to sell SOLD off my Fujitsu FMV Biblo NB16C, please see the pictures attached. IU think it is a great collectible for the early 2000s gaming era.. Windows XP games / DOS games etc.. It has a matte display, DVD ROM, FDD, SD card, USB etc …
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Help & Support • opencbm d64copy does not copy anything?

Lemon64 about 8 months ago

Hi,I just installed Opencbm Ver 0.4.99.104 on a Windows XP computer, which connects to a 1541 drive via parallel port and xa1541 adapter.both commands work:Cbmctrl reset Cbmctrl status 8cbmformat works ok ,example Cbmformat 8 -p -v -s peter,42)d64cop …

Packet Driver for Xircom RE-100

VCFed about 8 months ago

Has anyone had any luck with a packet driver for the Xircom RE-100 PCMCIA card? I've been trying to get it to work under DOS with MTCP. But each time, DHCP times out and says to check the cabling and packet driver settings. I have Card Services running (C …

General MIDI with Toshiba Libretto

VCFed about 9 months ago

My end goal is to control my laptop's OPL3 soundchip to make general MIDI sounds in Cakewalk (or other comparable tool) via midi input from a keyboard/DAW. I am running Windows 98 on a Toshiba Libretto 110CT with 64MB RAM. I can successfully map MIDI inp …

Any good resources for "near vintage" computing?

VCFed about 9 months ago

I recently picked up a Sony VAIO PVC-W20. It's a Windows XP era P4 all-in-one. This era of computer is currently not considered vintage-enough to merit a post on sites like this, but is also old enough that finding original software for them is getting d …
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Games • The Amiga Version of Covert Action - Keyboard Input

LemonAmiga about 9 months ago

I have been a fan of the game Covert Action for about twenty years now, playing it in binges on and off over the years. I was initially familiar with the MS-DOS version, but in the last couple of years I have had the opportunity to try out the Amiga versi …

Does Turbo Assembler or MASM come with an IDE?

VCFed about 9 months ago

Hi, What type of integrated development environment do you guys use when coding assembler in DOS for a PC-XT? it seems like neither TASM nor MASM comes with an IDE. Are there any good IDEs I could use or am I stuck using MS-DOS edit? Thanks! …
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Mario’s Early Years: Preschool Fun contains unique designs for Goombas in its two versions.

Supper Mario Broth about 9 months ago

Mario’s Early Years: Preschool Fun contains unique designs for Goombas in its two versions.Left: the MS-DOS version uses the design from Super Mario World (known as Goombas at the time, changed to Galoombas in 2013), but gives it a much more friendly …

MS-DOS 16-bit: can malloc() and _fmalloc() be mixed?

VCFed about 9 months ago

I'm not experienced with 16-bit realmode programming, so I'm sorry if this is an obvious problem. I'm not sure if I've hit some bug, or this is normal. Anyway, the main question is: is it possible to mix malloc()+free() and _fmalloc()+_ffree() calls in on …

Monorail 133 ram?

VCFed about 9 months ago

I bought a couple 72pin 32mb EDO RAM sticks for my Monorail 133. With one stick plugged in, Windows 98 still reports just 16mb of RAM available. With both plugged in I can't easily boot into Windows and get a Windows protection error when I do. Does anyone …
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Emulators • D64Editor/Win98SE: associating files?

Lemon64 about 9 months ago

Hi! I have a Win98SE tower at my mother's house, and on it is a copy of D64Editor. However, it has no way of associating C64 image files to it. I can edit the system registry myself but am looking for a better way. If there is none, I need a good icon …

Boot from MFM disk drive - How to install DOS?

VCFed about 9 months ago

Hello all I wanted to get my MFM disk drive bootable in order to get rid of the floppy but I always end up with the following message, when it attempts to boot from: Error loading operating system from fixed disk. Insert COMPAQ DOS diskette in drive A. …
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Need help identifying this laptop

Retro Computing Forum about 9 months ago

I bought this a couple of years ago at an estate sale. Paid about $40 for it (I think). I had to set the date before I could get to MS-DOS. Apparently, it has Windows installed, but it won’t start. When I search Ultra laptop, I get a billion …
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new projects in development: games • [RISC OS] PowerMonger

Stardot about 9 months ago

I've been working on a little prototype of the game PowerMonger (Bullfrog/EA) that came out on ST/Amiga/PC and several other formats. Even if you didn't play the game, you could watch little people just going about, fishing, farming, etc. and it was just …

Need help finding an extracted driver

VCFed about 9 months ago

Hi folks, I am attempting to install a Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo II into a win98 PC. Windows detects the card, but the drivers come as a .exe file that HAS to be installed. Windows does not automagically detect the installed driver, and I cannot wo …

AT 286 save bios in two support EVEN/ODD on ms-dos

VCFed about 9 months ago

Hi, On my 286 motherboard i have two bios, one EVEN and other ODD. (27c256) when i save bios with nssi i have one file with size 65536 I would have two files with size 32768 how do i do ? I have to split the file which has the size of 65536 for have two f …

Gold Mine Run! - A charming Arcade platformer released for MS-DOS!

Indie Retro News about 9 months ago

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Epson QX-16 DOS 2.11 source code found

VCFed about 10 months ago

I ended up getting my hands on a couple of QX-16 harddrives recently and was able to image them using my MFM emulator to dump the drives. One wasn't really that interesting, but the other one appears to have come from a system that was used by Epson of Ame …
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All Spider-Man Games In Order (1982 – 2023)

Retro Dodo about 10 months ago

Want to get your Spidey facts in order? Need to know how many games you’ve missed and try out some new web-crawling adventures? If that’s you, then you need our list of all Spider-Man games in order from 1982 until today! From the early beg …

Making trs-80 boot and software disks with GREASEWEAZIL controller.

VCFed about 10 months ago

Making trs-80 boot and software disks with GREASEWEAZIL controller. I have been trying to hobble together a basic MSDOS PC twith 5.25" and 3.5" floppies o create boot disks for TRS-80 and other machines. Can this be done and are there compatible …

Is there anyway to make a floppy disk bootable manually?

VCFed about 10 months ago

Here's the situation: I have DOS 3.30 on my XT on the C: drive. I also have X-TIDE (CF card), but that is the D: drive. I am able to put things on the CF card, and have 5.0 and 6.22 on the drive. I can put those files on a blank 5 1/4" floppy, but it …