[FireCrack]

Ok, i'm gonna need a new keen6, the one i have refuses to patch (invalid version) and needs the patch to stop jittering.

EDIT: Now i'm realy an idiot, i deleted the root directory of my HDD (subdirectories are OK, but now there's no command parser) Simulotaneously i have lost my only philips screwdriver so i cant take it out nad try to work it on my new PC anymore!

Me


OK, updated situation report, i have gotten my new computers bios to recognise the old HDD, but whenever it's been regognised windows does NOT start, the computer just hangs on the loading screen, any tips here?

[wojta]

OK, updated situation report, i have gotten my new computers bios to recognise the old HDD, but whenever it's been regognised windows does NOT start, the computer just hangs on the loading screen, any tips here? [/B]

Is it possible to boot from a floopy or a CD?
Sometimes it is not possible until the old HDD is connected as slave. Boot from CD (quite good is http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/). It won't help if you have NTFS on the main drive (it's DOS based). In this case use Bart PE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/) - something like live Windows XP CD. This CD must be prepared in cooperation with Windows XP installation CD.
Just copy the files from old disk and then disconnect it.

[FireCrack]

Umm ok, i'm using knoppix (linux liveCD) right now, anyone care to tell me how to enable write support to my hard drives?

[Admiral LSD]

It depends on what filesystem they are. If they're NTFS then write support is pretty much out of the question. Linux supports it, but it's been in "experimental" status for pretty much the last seven to eight years. They claim the latest version is fairly reliable but I wouldn't trust it myself but besides that, you can only overwrite files (ie you can only write a file if it's the exact same size each way). There's another solution, called captive NTFS, but since this requires DLLs from a proper Windows installation it's unlikely to be included in something like Knoppix.

If at least one of your drives is, god forbid, formatted with FAT32 (or another FAT variant) then the situation is much brighter. However, it should mount drives that support it as rw by default but I'm not overly familiar with Knoppix so I can't say for certain.

[FireCrack]

Fixed! was as simple as "Right click drive>enable write support"

[Cobra]

what i'd like to do is put a win98 drive in my comp so i can play my dos games.

[kode]

Originally posted by Cobra
what i'd like to do is put a win98 drive in my comp so i can play my dos games.

vmware is pretty cheap when you think of how seksi it is... there are alternatives, of course, I don't really know the price of those tho.

you could look into dosbox, tho, it's made quite some progress.

[Cobra]

where can i get dosbox?

[redsniper]

dosbox

[Cobra]

sweet! now i can play mw2 or duke nukem again!

[kode]

Originally posted by redsniper
dosbox

gah! todays!

[Cobra]

lol.

well, i can play mw2, but one of its expansions is runable, and duke nukem 3d is playable... w00t...

[Admiral LSD]

Duke Nukem 3D has a native Windows port available:
http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d
The Shadow Warrior source code was also release a month or so back and JonoF has a port of that too:
http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/?p=jfsw

If you want to get decent performance out of DOSBox then set the CPU core to 'dynamic' and wind the cycles up to something ridiculous like 40000 or even higher if your machine can handle it. Some games, particularly those based on the DOS/4GW extender, don't particularly like the dynamic core. For those that get particularly narky (Warcraft 2 and Descent1/2 in my experience) you can replace the DOS extender with one DOSBox like better: http://dos32a.sourceforge.net/

[Cobra]

................huh?

[Admiral LSD]

Forgive my sleep-deprived lack of coherency but what I was trying to point out was:

1) You haven't needed to run Duke Nukem 3D in DOSBox for the last two years as 3DRealms have released the source and at least one half-decent Windows port is now available.
and
2) You can make games run faster in DOSBox by changing the core emulation in dosbox.conf to dynamic instead of normal (the default) and increasing the number of emulated cycles from 3000 (also a default setting) to something much higher (I use 40000-50000 myself but ymmv, it takes some experimentation to get right). I've managed to get games that were otherwise unplayable using the defaults to run at a somewhat decent rate (it falls somewhere between high-end 486 to bottom/midrange pentium speed).

However, not all games like the dynamic core (and running DOSBox with such insane numbers of emulated cycles with the normal core bogs everything down too much) due to an incompatibility between DOSBox and a popular DOS extender. That's easy enough to fix (replace DOS/4GW with DOS/32A) but it's a little complicated to explain at 4:30AM.