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[win98]

Duke3d will run sweet on that thing.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Just tried running Crescent Hawks Inception again, to see if the failure really did sit in the GPU.

Nope.

"Incorrect opcode"

Seems like a CPU architecture issue, with the difference betweer Pentium and ealier x86 machines being what it is.

Or Dos 7/Dos 6 issue, since that cannot be ruled out either.

My DOS 6.2 bootdisk is somwhere around, but I can't get to it at the moment - there is a lot of junk blocking the room - so I'd like to ask if anyone of you knows of a place where I could download an image of this bootdisk.

[kajjj]

try www.bootdisk.com

[Master MC]

My brother makes PCs. It is his job, can you reckon!
All the PCs in our house are costumized by him.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Duke ran, played for about 1,5 hours then got a bit bored - for some reason, very few FPP's can occupy my attention for long.
But, well... still, Atomic Edition running in 800x600 and 44 kHz sound? Was fun for a while anyway.

[Rogue]

For some reason I've missed this topic.

I have many P1 computers, most of them working but because I don't have a room to place it they all are in my garage. (together with extra 15" monitor)

When I'm done with the school I'm planning to create ultimate retro-gaming computer.

I wonder why you guys are not using DOS-mode in Win98? IMHO it is better then MS DOS 6.22 and other DOS flavors. And if you use it, you can play all cool windows based games + all DOS games.

It takes a bit to set it up properly (probably less time then it takes to set up real DOS 6.22) and if you are in DOS mode (it is not dos mode when you select shutdown >> rebote to dos mode, but DOS-mode created by DOS shortcut) and reboot computer, it will still load DOS untill you type EXIT.

In this topic I explained how I created shortcut and how to use it. I tested it with many DOS games and all of them worked.

[The Fifth Horseman]

It's a matter of preference. And in my case, also pathologic dislike (bordering on hatred) for Windows in all guises.

[Rogue]

I understan that. In my case it is just a matter of functionality. Use win to move games trough network, and then just go to DOS mode. I still have that computer I was working on last year, and it is most of the times in DOS, and only once in a while back in windows.

I have to decide which computer to work on for my DOS machine. Here are my option:

P90
P100
P133
P166
P200
P233

I also have P350 and P450, but I don't plan to run DOS games on those computers.

SB16 for sound and Trident V64/32 for video card. Not sure about RAM and HD. I can go up to 128, but most likely will stay on or bellow 64MB. I got quite few hard disks, but most likely will use 4.9 for C drive and and bigger (up to 20GB?) for D drive, so that I don't run out of space for the games.

Will post more on this when I finaly get enough time to work on it.

[The Fifth Horseman]

As I said elsewhere, I suggest staying with a 486 CPU (fastest one you can get, but still nothing above a 486) and 24 MB RAM (compatibility purposes).
Windows 95 OSR2 should do the trick just nicely when it comes to networking with other machines.

Considering downgrading the 98SE on my PC to 95OSR2 for efficiency reasons - 95 will run at least twice as fast as 98SE does.

[gorkur]

I'm planning on installing FreeDOS on my 500 MHz Celeron with 256MB RAM. Good thing is, the Vid/Aud devices are DOS compatible (I've got the drivers and all ). Bad thing is, I fear it might be a tad too fast, so maybe a slowdown utility will have to be used.