[Leaplist] major bug found in Linux to give root access tountrusted users...

[Kevin Korb]

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I remember hearing about AMD issues with Win9x but the only Win9x games I
have left that I care about are Red Alert 2 and System Shock 2 and both of
those run fine with it.

MS DOS OTOH had issues with CPUs > 500MHz.  Especially if you run anything
that was compiled by Turbo Pascal.  They had some kind of idle loop timer
thingie that blows its mind if the computer is too fast.

I did try some of the aspect ratio fixes with Seawolf in dosbox but none
of them helped at all.  I am surprised it doesn't work as it works fine in
a window and it is using 640x480 which is pretty standard though a little
uncommon for DOS games.

On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:34:48 -0800 (PST)
"Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> I avoided anything Athlon with DOS7 (Win9x) because of the
> AGPgart/2-4M paging issue.Hence why I have a P3-933
> with 256-512MiB and a Voodoo3 16MiB AGP (although a
> PCI would do as well, just like the separate bus).  I use an
> old 3ware 6200 card with dual 40GB hard drives in RAID-1.
> Oh, an Ensoniq ES1370 ensures maximum compatibility with
> any OS -- DOS Real Mode, Windows or Linux.
> 
> I boot DR-DOS, Windows 98SE and Red Hat Linux 7 on it.
> Using geometry 255/63 heads/sectors, like yourself, I keep
> a dd image of a 256MiB "C: drive" with DR-DOS on it.  I
> can plop it down, and expand it to 2GiB if desired.  Windows
> 98SE then has its D: FAT32 filesystem.  Linux's Ext2 is its own.
> 
> It runs everything I throw at it without issue.  Yes, I like RHL7
> because of a few, old Loki games -- especially those designed
> for 3Dfx Glide only, just like Windows too.  I still play a number
> of Glide games.
> 
> -- Bryan
> 
> P.S.  DOSBox is fairly good at windowing full screen games and
> solving any aspect ratio issues as well.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net>
> 
> I have a dedicated machine for playing old Windows98 games as well though
> mine is an Athlon XP 2800+ which is also my backup server.
> 
> I also have an even older K6-2-500MHz system that I use for DOS games
> instead of dosbox.  It has an old 4.5GB Quantum Viking 2 SCSI drive
> (yeah, I have had it for at least a decade) but it also has an Intel
> e100 NIC and an old Gravis Ultrasound PnP with 8MB of RAM on it. For
> games that don't need saving I just network boot them and leave the hard
> drive spun down to preserve it (also, it is loud).
> 
> I made a generic 128MB DOS bootable hard drive image a while back.  Now
> when I want to make an old DOS game net bootable I just make a copy of
> that file, loopback mount it, add the game, gzip it, and add it to my
> pxelinux menu.  The Intel card will DHCP an IP, TFTP download the image
> file, un-gzip it, and then mount it as a RAM disk for C:.  I have used it
> the most with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_2000  Besides, what
> would DOS do with 512MB of RAM ;)
> 
> I do have dosbox installed too.  I have used it on my Eee where I don't
> have the luxury of extra old computers.  I have mostly used it to play
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSN-21_Seawolf but it doesn't do the best
> job.  The game runs slow to the point that it lags on some keys and
> occasionally duplicates keys, zooming takes forever, and the aspect ratio
> isn't right.
> 


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