Re: Definitive list of Shareware, Freeware, etc?
Posted on 2022-02-02, 19:57
Catacomb was first released through the Gamer's Edge Sampler disk. When you exit its menu it says you should copy the disk and give it to your friends.
Re: Budokan for DOS...
Posted on 2022-01-22, 20:21
Muz wrote on 2022-01-16, 16:09: I found out the game just only use PC speaker for old DOS machine No it doesn't. It supports way more audio devices.
Re: Are there careers that is related with vintage computers?
Posted on 2022-01-14, 20:21
Something with vintage computer props for movies and TV?
Re: Are there games that run playable on a XT 8088 PC can take advantage of either EMS or UMB?
Posted on 2022-01-05, 20:02
clb wrote on 2022-01-03, 14:19: (not sure what Keen uses EMS for, but at least it does detect its presence at startup: https://i.postimg.cc/x80c8kgq/keen5.png ). Commander Keen 4-6 just uses EMS to have an extra 64 KB of memory to store graphics and sound, etc. It doesn't do bank switching.
Re: Analyzing videos from origin DOS game
Posted on 2021-09-11, 12:39
The format is missing in FFmpeg https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/Origin_Flic_Codec
Re: PowerBASIC 3.5 help system (printing/screen capturing)
Posted on 2021-09-09, 12:39
You could run it in DOSBox debugger and dump the memory at 0xB800:0000. And then remove every other byte.
Re: Does anybody know any secrets/hidden content in prehistoric (dos)
Posted on 2021-08-31, 11:07
Actually, there are two secret areas in level 1. There's also some secret food at the start of level 3 iirc; just smash every empty space. The level information is stored in such an awkward way that it is practically unmoddable. Each level has its own (mostly copy-pasted) code routine with a lot of …
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2021-02-28, 19:41
And Doom II:
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2021-02-28, 19:39
Doom CGA? Let's see what CGAArt makes of it:
Re: Best tools for disassembling/debugging Win 3.1 games?
Posted on 2021-02-09, 17:47
Open the executable in IDA Free 4.1, click on File->Save database as... Now you have a .idb file that you can open with IDA Free 5.0.
Re: Best tools for disassembling/debugging Win 3.1 games?
Posted on 2021-02-07, 16:10
I had success with IDA Free 4.1 in the end. I thought it wouldn't be useful since it runs in a console, but it disassembled the Win 3.1 executables I wanted to manipulate fine. I only use IDA Free 4.1 to disassemble an executable and then I use a newer version with a graphical user interface that …
Re: Music of The Incredible Machine
Posted on 2021-01-25, 18:06
Looks like original compositions: http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?tit ... hine_(DOS)
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2020-12-31, 16:35
This is a quote from Game Engine Black Book: DOOM. Collisions could have been detected via the BSP. However it was only after Bruce Naylor visited id Software that John Carmack became aware this was possible. By then, DOOM had already shipped with its collision detection data structure called the …
Re: How did scrolling work in Keen 4-6?
Posted on 2020-12-20, 17:11
Have we gained any programming technique or intelligence over the past 30 years that could enable the CGA scrolling to be done better now? or are the hardware limitations already exhaustively explored? If by "better" you mean more than 4 colors, there's VileR's Commander Keen 4 Composite CGA Patch …
Re: Sound Driver Pack
Posted on 2020-12-08, 22:21
"2 BE OR NOT PC" is part of the Level Select cheat.
Re: Sound Driver Pack
Posted on 2020-12-08, 18:21
Akuma wrote on 2020-12-03, 13:23: 2020-12-03 Added: Oscar (1993) Flair Software Ltd. What about the very similar game Trolls?
Re: AVOID the GT Software CD release of Corridor 7: Alien Invasion
Posted on 2020-12-08, 17:51
shamino wrote on 2020-12-01, 00:24: I didn't know id was licensing out their FPS game engines to 3rd parties even that far back. Even before that, Apogee used the Commander Keen engine for Bio Menace.
Re: Newly written driver(s) for Sierra's Creative Interpreter – Starting with Plantronics ColorPlus
Posted on 2020-09-25, 19:53
There's a freeware version of IDA.
Re: AdLib's 'sound.com' vs Creative's 'sb-sound.com' driver or dosbox issue ?
Posted on 2020-09-19, 22:37
And those needing CT-VOICE.DRV Elf Land - Volume One - Carl Erikson (1992) Eye of the Storm - Rebellion (1994) Elvira the Arcade Game (1991)(Flair) Innocent Until Caught - Divide By Zero (1993) Pizza Connection - Software 2000 (1995) (German original only) Prehistorik - Titus (1991) Stick Fighter 1 …
Re: FastDoom 0.3. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2020-06-30, 20:35
Well, the DMX source code can be found on the Internet, somewhere.
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