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Posted March 31, 2011
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HereForTheBeer: Overkill but if you're getting it cheap as a used PC, then go for it.
Get it for 15$

I am normally able to play dos games on dosbox. I want to play Redguard and it look imposible on my normal system. This my first reason to buy this system.
Post edited March 31, 2011 by apoc17
Posted March 31, 2011
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apoc17: I am planning to put a Voodoo 3 2000 to play 3dfx games.
You may encounter issues trying to run some older GLIDE games on V3. If compability is what you seek - Voodoo1 should be better. In case you don't know where to find drivers/tools
http://www.falconfly.de/
Posted April 02, 2011
I just buy he computer yesterday. I put win xp and win 98 on it. I just got a problem. In Win xp I see my cd-rom and dvd-rom but when I go in 98 I see none of thems. They doesn't exist even in the dos invite. They are well detected by the bios.

Someone ever have a proble like this?
Posted April 03, 2011
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apoc17: I just buy he computer yesterday. I put win xp and win 98 on it. I just got a problem. In Win xp I see my cd-rom and dvd-rom but when I go in 98 I see none of thems. They doesn't exist even in the dos invite. They are well detected by the bios.

Someone ever have a proble like this?
Check you 98 device manager : does it list an unknown device or a not working CD/DVD ROM ( yellow question marks ) ?

If so, you're goind to have to find appropriate drivers for your devices

EDIT : I see 2 possible reasons

- Win 98 not having found the appropriate drivers for the device or having installed wrong drivers
- Win 98 not reading correctly the master/slave settings of the drives and confusing the optical device with an HDD

Solutions would be
- finding and adding the appropriate device driver, either for your motherboard IDE port ( on MB's CD f.i.), for the device or for both.
- checking how your drives are connected : primary IDE or secondary IDE, master, slave or CS . I would advise to have the HDDs on the primary connector and the optical drives on the secondary one. If you have one HDD, a CD ROM and a DVD drom, try the following

Primary IDE master : HDD
Secondary IDE master : DVD
Secondary IDE slave : CD

Or, if available , both DVD & CD as "CS"/ cable select
Post edited April 03, 2011 by Phc7006
Posted April 03, 2011
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apoc17: I just buy he computer yesterday. I put win xp and win 98 on it. I just got a problem. In Win xp I see my cd-rom and dvd-rom but when I go in 98 I see none of thems. They doesn't exist even in the dos invite. They are well detected by the bios.

Someone ever have a proble like this?
Device Manager is the first place to go. If no yellow question marks there and CD-ROM device non-present - you can try and add (autiomatically or manually) such device. But if you see CD-ROM in Device Manager but no CD-ROM drive under My Computer - you could check if you have drive letter assignments conflict.
Posted April 11, 2011
The Master Slave setup its ok. The cd and dvd work well in Xp.

I found a way to bypass my problem.

use iso creator in xp to make a iso of my Redguard cd. I Put the iso file in the win 98 hard drive.

I use virtual clone drive to mount the iso in the win 98. The game work perfectly.

THe drivers for the cd rom are not on the net.
Posted April 12, 2011
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mystral: I remember, for instance, that while M.A.X. worked fine with a 66 MHz processor, with a 200 MHz one the game was way too fast to be playable. I also remember having the same problem with Z.
How was a turn-based strategy game too fast to play?
Posted April 12, 2011
It depends. Playing first Pentium-era videogames (like Resident Evil) isn't feasible on your new old PC, for instance....
Posted April 12, 2011
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mystral: I remember, for instance, that while M.A.X. worked fine with a 66 MHz processor, with a 200 MHz one the game was way too fast to be playable. I also remember having the same problem with Z.
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TheEnigmaticT: How was a turn-based strategy game too fast to play?
M.A.X. has a real-time mode as well, and unfortunately that's the one that was on when I tried to play it on my second PC.
IIRC, you couldn't change the mode in the options, only during missions. Those went so fast I didn't even have time to change the gameplay mode before I lost.
It was never one of my favourite games anyway, so I'll admit I didn't try very hard to solve the problem.
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