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by ruben_balea
Wed 09 Aug, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: General
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: MichaelJManley taking over as PCem maintainer
Replies: 82
Views: 51527

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: MichaelJManley taking over as PCem maintainer

I didn't even half to answer this but it felt good to answer such a retarded ass notion! lol. That is a very, very rude remark, Michael 😞 Well, that is what is known as a harsh reality check and it is what happens when you waste the time of a person who does exist and has more important things to d...
by ruben_balea
Wed 02 Aug, 2023 1:52 am
Forum: General
Topic: ANNOUNCEMENT: MichaelJManley taking over as PCem maintainer
Replies: 82
Views: 51527

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: MichaelJManley taking over as PCem maintainer

Wow, that's exactly what actually happened. By the way my name is Elvis Presley and I've been pretending to be dead all these years, don't tell anyone the truth :roll:
by ruben_balea
Fri 14 Apr, 2023 9:00 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Close PCem after Windows Shutdown
Replies: 9
Views: 5882

Re: Close PCem after Windows Shutdown

It seems a lot ot times it is the video card IRQ, try another video card, if it was due to the video card try this: https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/19341682/difficulties-when-shutting-down-windows-98-second-edition?dti=0&lc=en-ME Take a look to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Artic...
by ruben_balea
Thu 13 Apr, 2023 7:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Close PCem after Windows Shutdown
Replies: 9
Views: 5882

Re: Close PCem after Windows Shutdown

It may be Windows 98 SE itself, sometimes hangs during shutdown, there was a patch for it called "Windows 98 Second Edition Shutdown Supplement" but it's no longer available from MS, the file name is "239887UP.EXE" Download it here: https://www.computerhope.com/download/win98/239...
by ruben_balea
Tue 28 Mar, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: [Sep 2020 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)
Replies: 84
Views: 116999

Re: [Sep 2020 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)

You're welcome!
It will be portable again in the future, a lot of people requested that, but I don't know if it will be for the release of v18 or before... or later :?
by ruben_balea
Tue 28 Mar, 2023 9:55 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: [Sep 2020 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)
Replies: 84
Views: 116999

Re: [Sep 2020 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)

Now on Windows PCem stores the ROMs, NVRs, configs, etc. in a subfolder called .pcem inside your Windows user folder, such as C:\Users\yourusername\.pcem (on Linux it's ~/.pcem)

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by ruben_balea
Mon 27 Mar, 2023 5:32 pm
Forum: Development
Topic: [Sep 2020 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)
Replies: 84
Views: 116999

Re: [Sep 2020 ed.] PCem MSYS2 build guide (with wxWidgets)

It is not necessary to download the dll's from the internet, which can also be dangerous if you download a copy infected with a virus. If you have installed MSYS2 in C:\msys64 then all the needed dll's are in: C:\msys64\mingw64\bin for MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit and: C:\msys64\mingw32\bin for MSYS2 MinGW 32...
by ruben_balea
Tue 28 Feb, 2023 2:14 am
Forum: General
Topic: Windows 95 on ASUS P/I-P55TVP4 Unable to Install: Disk-Cache Utility Found?
Replies: 15
Views: 2773

Re: Windows 95 on ASUS P/I-P55TVP4 Unable to Install: Disk-Cache Utility Found?

:!: Note: The explanations that I give below may not contain 100% correct information about the operation of hardware and software, they are based on my personal experience dealing with computers as an end user :!: Yes, Windows 9x may not be able to read the files on the CD because: 1 - Windows 9x s...
by ruben_balea
Tue 07 Feb, 2023 8:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: LGPL'd Voodoo ROMs from Bochs
Replies: 2
Views: 2229

LGPL'd Voodoo ROMs from Bochs

Bochs now has its own LGPL'd VGABIOS with Voodoo Banshee specific code called VGABIOS-lgpl-latest-banshee ( https://bochs.sourceforge.io/doc/docbook/user/voodoo-notes.html ) So I copied "VGABIOS-lgpl-latest-banshee" to "2k11sd.rom", "3k12sd.rom", "pci_sg.rom" ...
by ruben_balea
Wed 11 Jan, 2023 8:07 am
Forum: General
Topic: How to send ALT-TAB inside PCEM?
Replies: 4
Views: 2345

Re: How to send ALT-TAB inside PCEM?

PCem captures the Windows key so Windows shouldn't show the task switcher... but I'm not sure if any Windows version takes preference over PCem for the Windows key, I have been using only Windows 10 ever since it was offered as a free upgrade. Anyway, by the time a solution is implemented it can giv...
by ruben_balea
Fri 15 Jul, 2022 6:30 pm
Forum: Patches
Topic: [Patch] Mouse speed in the emulator is too high #150
Replies: 3
Views: 2731

Re: [Patch] Mouse speed in the emulator is too high #150

Apart from moving the code to wx-sdl-mouse.c I have slightly modified it and now it seems to work better with Windows guests, inlcuding MS-DOS programs that can run in windowed mode within Windows. But I get the feeling that for MS-DOS and other OS's that use text modes or low resolution graphics, a...
by ruben_balea
Wed 13 Jul, 2022 11:04 pm
Forum: Patches
Topic: [Patch] Mouse speed in the emulator is too high #150
Replies: 3
Views: 2731

Re: [Patch] Mouse speed in the emulator is too high #150

Yeah wx-sdl-mouse is a better place, I didn't really test it in MS-DOS, not even in graphics modes, I used Windows 95 to try to match the movement of the emulated mouse and that of the physical machine.
by ruben_balea
Mon 11 Jul, 2022 12:05 pm
Forum: Patches
Topic: [Patch] Mouse speed in the emulator is too high #150
Replies: 3
Views: 2731

[Patch] Mouse speed in the emulator is too high #150

A patch for the github issue #150 "Mouse speed in the emulator is too high" :arrow: This is still a simple and incomplete solution but it may help some users. My intention is to try to set the mouse cursor speed according to the screen output scaling and maybe also for high DPI screens. Fo...
by ruben_balea
Wed 11 May, 2022 10:43 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CD-DA / Redbook audio not working in DOS
Replies: 10
Views: 2346

Re: CD-DA / Redbook audio not working in DOS

Interesting that Windows 98 caused that incompatibility or whatever :roll:
by ruben_balea
Wed 11 May, 2022 1:46 am
Forum: General
Topic: CD-DA / Redbook audio not working in DOS
Replies: 10
Views: 2346

Re: CD-DA / Redbook audio not working in DOS

Then I don't know, I've little idea of how audio is extracted from data+audio CDs, but I remember about 15 years ago I was trying to set up an old 486 to use for old games and one game was missing a few bytes of conventional memory if it had the driver loaded from the CD drive, searching through dri...
by ruben_balea
Mon 09 May, 2022 1:02 am
Forum: General
Topic: CD-DA / Redbook audio not working in DOS
Replies: 10
Views: 2346

Re: CD-DA / Redbook audio not working in DOS

I've searched through my CD games and found one with audio tracks that works on Windows and MS-DOS, on Windows 95 it had sound but on DOS it didn't, even with the DOS drivers installed. The problem was that the volume of the CD seems to be at minimum by default in the DOS drivers, I had to use the M...
by ruben_balea
Mon 09 May, 2022 12:49 am
Forum: General
Topic: Creative Sound Blaster sound card driver download links
Replies: 1
Views: 3934

Creative Sound Blaster sound card driver download links

Official download links for Creative Sound Blaster ISA sound card drivers & utilities :arrow: I put them all together to avoid having to search through the support pages for different models of sound cards. :idea: These are self-extracting zip files that are unzipped in the same folder in which...
by ruben_balea
Sun 08 May, 2022 8:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CD-DA / Redbook audio not working in DOS
Replies: 10
Views: 2346

Re: CD-DA / Redbook audio not working in DOS

Do you have the DOS drivers for your sound card installed?
by ruben_balea
Thu 24 Mar, 2022 1:13 am
Forum: General
Topic: Can't boot XT from Hard Drive.
Replies: 11
Views: 2577

Re: Can't boot XT from Hard Drive.

From experience I know that when the PS/2 model 70 "gets angry" (bad CMOS settings or the like) it only supports floppy disks with the PC-DOS boot sector, although the XT does not have a CMOS it may expect to find a boot sector or partition table in a specific format, and maybe not all ver...
by ruben_balea
Thu 24 Mar, 2022 1:03 am
Forum: General
Topic: Can't boot XT from Hard Drive.
Replies: 11
Views: 2577

Re: Can't boot XT from Hard Drive.

Inside PCem using the DTC5150X controller BIOS commands is useless, at most it will delete the contents of the drive but nothing else, formatting the drive at low level is useless as PCem ignores those commands, if you want to split a single drive into two logical drives you must do it with FDISK. I...
by ruben_balea
Wed 23 Mar, 2022 8:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Can't boot XT from Hard Drive.
Replies: 11
Views: 2577

Re: Can't boot XT from Hard Drive.

I suspect some of those limits were not always real, it just had to be the largest hard drive size that existed when those operating systems versions came out, I remember MS-DOS 2.something shipped with the Sinclair PC200 did a proper install on another computer with a 40MB Conner CP3044 drive.
by ruben_balea
Wed 23 Mar, 2022 5:21 am
Forum: General
Topic: Can't boot XT from Hard Drive.
Replies: 11
Views: 2577

Re: Can't boot XT from Hard Drive.

Multi-DOS Common Boot :?: Are you using a bootloader? because it may use 286 instructions. Otherwise everything seems correct, it works for me with the same settings and hard drive images of the same size, I "fdisked" and formatted the hard drive using an MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk and then boo...
by ruben_balea
Tue 15 Mar, 2022 12:50 am
Forum: General
Topic: Emulating p3 with winxp?
Replies: 10
Views: 6967

Re: Emulating p3 with winxp?

I'm using VMware Player 16 (it's free for personal use) to run Windows XP, with the emulated accelerated graphics (without PCI passthrough or the like) some Direct X based games run fine, I tried Age of Empires 1 & The Rise of Rome, Age of Empires 2 & The Conquerors, Commandos Behind the En...
by ruben_balea
Sat 12 Mar, 2022 6:04 am
Forum: General
Topic: Emulating p3 with winxp?
Replies: 10
Views: 6967

Re: Emulating p3 with winxp?

I'm using VMware Player 16 (it's free for personal use) to run Windows XP, with the emulated accelerated graphics (without PCI passthrough or the like) some Direct X based games run fine, I tried Age of Empires 1 & The Rise of Rome, Age of Empires 2 & The Conquerors, Commandos Behind the Ene...
by ruben_balea
Sun 06 Mar, 2022 12:55 am
Forum: General
Topic: CD-ROM drive only partially works - unsure if Win98 or PCem bug
Replies: 12
Views: 5019

Re: CD-ROM drive only partially works - unsure if Win98 or PCem bug

If you had that exact line in AUTOEXEC.BAT rem - By Windows Setup - LH C:\Windows\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:CDROM then the Windows setup has moved LH C:\Windows\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:CDROM to a file called C:\WINDOWS\DOSSTART.BAT which is executed when you exit to DOS from the Windows 95/98 Start menu a...
by ruben_balea
Sun 27 Feb, 2022 2:54 am
Forum: General
Topic: How to send ALT-TAB inside PCEM?
Replies: 4
Views: 2345

Re: How to send ALT-TAB inside PCEM?

If you're in a fullscreen program you can click alt+tab once to get back to the Windows 98 desktop inside PCem, on your real computer Windows will also switch from PCem to any other window but you can use the mouse to return to PCem, then inside PCem you can use the mouse again to return to the full...
by ruben_balea
Mon 14 Feb, 2022 5:40 pm
Forum: General
Topic: CD-ROM drive only partially works - unsure if Win98 or PCem bug
Replies: 12
Views: 5019

Re: CD-ROM drive only partially works - unsure if Win98 or PCem bug

Sorry, here it was very late (I'm from Spain) and since I was half asleep I understood it as "you can find THAT version of the file in Windows 98" :oops: Yes, I'm aware that Windows 10 developers have forgotten (or they are too young to even know) that CPL and SCR files were also executabl...
by ruben_balea
Mon 14 Feb, 2022 5:23 am
Forum: General
Topic: CD-ROM drive only partially works - unsure if Win98 or PCem bug
Replies: 12
Views: 5019

Re: CD-ROM drive only partially works - unsure if Win98 or PCem bug

But it was no longer available on the Second Edition CD-ROM...