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Software • Was there ever really an MS-DOS 6.23, 6.24 or 6.25 or is it an urban myth?

Vogons about 10 months ago

Was fooling around with the new Bing and asked it this question, but was there any real evidence? When I worked in the military, as soon as NT 3.51 was certified we started using that, MS-DOS 6.22 was only really used to prepare a disk or used on legacy …
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DEC Rainbow 100 Triple Boot (Video)

Retro Computing Forum about 10 months ago

A nice video by YouTuber Usagi Electric, booting his newly acquired Rainbow 100 in CPM/80 mode, 8088 powered MS DOS (with smooth scrolling!), and in VT-100 mode. (The Rainbow 100 has yet another trick up its sleeve, namely CPM/86, and a few th …

General Old Hardware • diskgenius: advanced partition and basic ntfs file management for dos

Vogons about 10 months ago

i don't know how well publicized this is, but there is a dos port included with disk genius (https://www.diskgenius.com) that allows for basic (copy, move, delete) ntfs file management under dos.i know it works with msdos 7.0/1 and i presume it will work …

Does any version of Windows 1.x work with MS-DOS 6.22?

VCFed about 11 months ago

I have an IBM 5160 XT with MS-DOS 6.22, and Windows 1.1 didn't work on it (see video below, not mine by the way but I have the same errors). So, is there some sort of remedy to make 1.1 work? If not, do later versions of Windows 1 work with DOS 6.22, such …

Booting MS-DOS, CP/M and RSTS/E* on a DEC Rainbow!

Usagi Electric about 11 months ago

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DOS • Do/es this HW support VBE?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hoping I posted it on the right section and isn't a dumb question. I AM dumb when it comes to hardware.I don't know how to check VBE support other than actually installing MS-DOS and giving X program a try. My time is quite limited though and I don't thi …

General Old Hardware • Need help recognizing hardware

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi,First of all, English is not my home language, so if i type anything wrong, i´m sorry for that.I bought a computer. It is an 286PC with a 12MHz processor. When i got home with it, i created a boot floppy for MSDOS 6.22. It boots from the Floppy, and i …

PC Emulation • Trying to put XGA/A in an IBM PS/2 Model 80 in 86box

Vogons about 11 months ago

I have a IBM PS/2 model 80 set up in 86box with a 486DX-33 and 8 MB of ram, I have it all setup with it's reference disk and I have installed MS-DOS and a couple of applications on it, it seems to be working fine. The problem comes when I try to install a …
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General Old Hardware • Asus P/I-P55T2P4 does not work and throws memory errors

Vogons about 11 months ago

Greetings to all,I recently acquired an Asus P/I-P55T2P4 v3.10 motherboard equiped with a Cyrix 6x86L-P200+GP CPU but no RAM.I bought 5 pairs of EDO stick (16 Mb and 32 Mb). I put a PCI VGA card (ATI Rage XL) and fired the mobo up.Of course, the CMOS batt …

General Old Hardware • Win98SE: disabling DriveSpace in DOS mode sometimes?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi! I have a new Win98SE minitower at my mother's house. Its hard drive is huge, but I still have a lot of floppies and Zip100 disks from an old Win98SE computer that had a very small hard drive and want to keep them. I currently have DOS mode DriveSpa …

General Old Hardware • questions about ASUS p5a-b

Vogons about 11 months ago

I plan to build a super socket 7 PC with an ASUS P5A-B Motherboard. Now I saw that there are different versions 1.03,1.04 and 1.05 . What are the differences between those versions? I have a pentium 1 233mhz that I can put on it. I see that this motherboa …

Well-known ports under CP/M - And binaries that access ports directly.

VCFed about 11 months ago

Just wondering if there are any well known I/O ports for CP/M as there is with MS-DOS - I know there are none in CP/M itself, but were there any common hardware ports that software (eg, Wordstar, Modem Software ) used that transcended a single machine arc …

other vintage hardware, software and languages • My Continuing Quest To Archive Colour Genie Programs

Stardot about 11 months ago

Hi all,When I realised I'd probably collected up 99.9% of all the Acorn Electron games ever, and likely would only ever see the missing ones once in a blue moon on eBay, I switched to another machine - the Colour Genie. The Colour Genie was never very pop …

Toshiba T1200XE parts

VCFed about 11 months ago

Spare for parts from Toshiba T1200XE. Motherboard may or may not be working but power supply definitely is not and repairs to it have been attempted so it's not in original condition, I would say it is junk. PC speaker did make sound, led board light up a …

Creating an extremely small bootable (PC) disk image

VCFed about 11 months ago

So I now have the ability to boot off of a ROM-disk, but precious little ROM space. I found one pre-prepared 63k disc image, but it's not the content I want. It also uses a FreeDOS kernel, which consumes 38k of the space for KERNEL.SYS before we even loo …

Software • Is it possible to stop an msdos program without this warning?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Is there any way to simply hit the X button, and have it exit without asking it? (on Win 9x)FilenameSem título.pngFile size126.75 KiBViews155 viewsStatistics: Posted by Rikintosh — Yesterday, 18:09 — Replies 3 — Views 155 …
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Historic Monkey Island Fangame Gets Translated Into English For The First Time

Time Extension about 11 months ago

'The Secret of Donkey Island' was released back in 1994.A group of MS-DOS fans have got together to translate the Czech Monkey Island fangame, The Secret of Donkey Island, into English for the very first time, on account of its 29th anniversary.The transla …

introduce yourself • Hi from Scotland

Stardot about 11 months ago

Hi, I recently bought an old beat up BBC master off ebay for a bit of retro fun.I had a BBC B growing up, in 1983 for several years, then moved to the atari ST, PC, and consoles for gaming.For a day job I design electronic hardware, and often use PIC proc …

Sound • Error loading SB16 Emu (MSDOS mode in W98SE)

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello,i get some trouble trying to load SB16 emulation booting in MS-MODE from Windows 98SE (please read at bottom for technical details), basically, during boot, i get:"error: Could not allocate code/patch RAM below 4 Mbyte boundary. Try loading SBEINIT. …

Software • If MS-DOS had a dingle/theme song, what would it be?

Vogons about 11 months ago

I was wondering, Each version of windows (retro) has a music, or a sound, characteristic, usually the startup sound, but if MS-DOS had one, what would it be like?I think an msdos jingle would be something in OPL. I imagine something like apogee intro and …

CHATGBT

VCFed about 11 months ago

I've been asking the CHATGBT AI thingy with questions about my old Zenith Z-110 computer and it was well informed about it. I did need to let it know I was talking about a early 1980 computer as it 1st said it had no info. After that it spit out way more …

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 …

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 …
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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 …

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 …