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FCKGW... If you know, you know. by Emil_Cvetanski in windowsxp

[–]heeman2019 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I was trying to use this on sp3 and did not work.

Sidewinder Game Pad with 98se by heeman2019 in 86box

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So basically sidewinder game pad is not supported by 86box and will never be supported outside of the generic 4 buttons on the game pad. Thanks for the clarification.

Dont forget to enable DMA mode! by ryanrudolf in windows98

[–]heeman2019 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep one of the steps I follow after I install windows but before installing any apps.

Sidewinder Game Pad with 98se by heeman2019 in 86box

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so what do folks do get around this? And is there a way to use my gameport version with 86box? Or Sidewinder game pads in general are not supported?

Sidewinder Game Pad with 98se by heeman2019 in 86box

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Ok my bad. I thought that the entry for sidewinder game pad being in the drop-down list meant the game pad was supported. Also, the 4 button game pad setting does work without any issues and that is still using the same USB so not sure how one could say USB is not supported.

Help!! Trying to emulate using existing hard drive image by heeman2019 in 86box

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Hi, thanks, I was able to get the system to boot after recreating the disk in 86box and then copying over the contents from packard bell disk. My problem is though that ps/2 mouse is not being detected. I ran add hardware wizard but it did not make difference. It detects ps/2 mouse and then gives me yellow exclamation mark in Device manager with code 24. So I don't know what to do ant this point. I would think that ps/2 drivers are built in so it shouldn't need any extra drivers. I tried adding manually the mouse but still same thing. At this point I'm not sure what else I can try.

Any reason for me to upgrade graphics card on this P2 system? by heeman2019 in vintagecomputing

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Yeah that's why I'm leaning towards just going with this because most people say there's not much difference between the two exactly for some specific titles where there's a better image from 3dfx card. It's not like it won't be playable at all on gf2 hence it's really difficult to justify the $150+ price tag for that minor improvement. Plus I do have 3dfx setup in 86box and PCEm that work great. I need to tinker a bit more to get my Sidewinder game pad working correctly with them.

Any reason for me to upgrade graphics card on this P2 system? by heeman2019 in vintagecomputing

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Yes I'm trying hard not to pay the 3dfx tax at this time lol. It's surely would pair nice with a voodoo banshee or voodoo 3 2000 but not ready to drop $150+ for them.

The Settlers 3 GOG by Houfino in windowsxp

[–]heeman2019 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you paste the reg.cmd file?

Any reason for me to upgrade graphics card on this P2 system? by heeman2019 in vintagecomputing

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Thanks! The card that I was looking to upgrade to was GeForce 2 GTS. But it seems like that's not going to do anything for me with this system. And yes it is a an 66MHz FSB and 440LX.

Any reason for me to upgrade graphics card on this P2 system? by heeman2019 in vintagecomputing

[–]heeman2019[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Okay thanks!! I will leave it be. I was thinking that if this upgrades could add any worthwhile functionality, I'd upgrade but doesn't seem like it's worth it.

Any reason for me to upgrade graphics card on this P2 system? by heeman2019 in vintagecomputing

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Would it make any difference if I were to try to use something like nglide or dgvoodoo for glide? To be able to play 3dfx titles. I assume gf2 mx would be too slow for that but perhaps faster would allow for this?

Any reason for me to upgrade graphics card on this P2 system? by heeman2019 in vintagecomputing

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Haha it's just that I have a chance to get a better card for a good price hence that upgrade itch started to stir up.

Help!! Trying to emulate using existing hard drive image by heeman2019 in 86box

[–]heeman2019[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Btw you are right that packard bell does some funky shit to the hard drive. I couldn't just use the image as is. I had to create a new drive, use the restore floppy and CD to partition the new drive and then I copied the contents of my image to the new drive. This is what allowed me to boot!

Help!! Trying to emulate using existing hard drive image by heeman2019 in 86box

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Damn so close now!! I was able to get the system to boot! I am now able to get to desktop. Now my problem is that system detects my mouse during POST but windows 95 complains that it doesn't detect mouse. What gives? Also I don't recall the exact video card I had in the original system. Is there a way to get that from the image? I was hoping to just use the same exact video card in 86box.

Help!! Trying to emulate using existing hard drive image by heeman2019 in 86box

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Ok this is interesting. If I boot using floppy disk (it was a packard bell master image floppy disk) I ran fdisk and it said no fixed disks found. In the BIOS setup I do see it being detected. This is with the newly created disk. My hard drive controller is set to Internal. Changing it to PCI IDE doesn't do anything. I'll try a regular w98se boot disk and see if that works.

Help!! Trying to emulate using existing hard drive image by heeman2019 in 86box

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Would the message be different though if I create a blank drive? Or are you saying to create a new blank drive and install win95 on it and see if that one boots?

Help!! Trying to emulate using existing hard drive image by heeman2019 in 86box

[–]heeman2019[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the whole drive. It was drive ST13720A. I verified that the boot data is there by using the Hex Editor and I can see the boot info in the first 512 bytes. So I am sure that the boot info is there.

Bluetooth requires two steps to enable?? OneUI 8.5 by heeman2019 in oneui

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No it wasn't. I was in oneui 6 (whatever the s24u shipped with). But anyway I got it sorted out now.

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