Re: CD's required to play

Posted on 2014-04-19, 18:07

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It sounds like the problem was that you didn't have the hard drive (or the directory on it) and the CD drive mounted at the same time, although copying the files over instead of installing the game might have also been a problem. Anyway, did that work?

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Re: 10th Anniversary

Posted on 2012-08-29, 14:47

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Ten years, that's a nice accomplishment. I owe this site, I think it helped me get settled on the Internet, and I know I owe more than that, I'm just not sure what. congratulations Snover et al. 😁

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Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2011-12-29, 00:03

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eL_PuSHeR wrote: You lost me. What is rot13? oh, it's-- *looks at username* *looks at post count* ah, you almost got me! 😜

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Re: Floppy images

Posted on 2010-12-04, 22:40

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Padding and adding bytes sounds like something you could maybe do with a hex editor? probably but I'm not sure if I can just slap it onto the end and figuring it out I would probably re-learn the stuff and I'm not in the mood, and anyway it just printed a line of text in green, it seems I had …

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Re: Floppy images

Posted on 2010-12-02, 20:45

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MagicISO seems like it should do what I wanted but, well, remember the thread I made a long while back asking for assembly help? I was working on a boot loader, and I seem to have forgotten most of what little I knew of assembly and deleted NASM and my helpful little files with assembly information …

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Re: Floppy images

Posted on 2010-12-01, 21:11

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Thanks guys but I can't seem to make an image from files with either VGACopy or Floppy Image, which is what I wanted to do, not image an existing floppy-- if there's some shortcut to making DOSBox boot differently without creating and specifying a floppy image I'd like to know about it.

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Re: Floppy images

Posted on 2010-10-12, 03:41

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thanks, I'll try it out and say how it goes

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Re: Floppy images

Posted on 2010-10-11, 23:44

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My German started out rusty and is worse, will I be able to use this?

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Floppy images

Posted on 2010-10-11, 21:26

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(not that kind) What's a good utility for making them from files you have, and for editing stuff like boot sectors, and how do I boot from one in DOSBox? edit: my problem was solved and then thwarted by another problem, but if you're looking for imaging software, this is a good thread

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Re: Always bet on Duke

Posted on 2010-09-05, 13:38

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sliderider wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pr3mT2TOo4&feature=related You know that's a few years old, right?

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Re: Always bet on Duke

Posted on 2010-09-03, 21:14

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Even if it is true, I just can't help thinking it's a bad move. I mean, Forever has become a joke in the industry, and releasing the game isn't going to suddenly make that go away. Even if it ends up being the best game ever made, it's still not going to live up to 13 years worth of hype... and I …

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Always bet on Duke

Posted on 2010-09-03, 18:29

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http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/09/03/con … ly-be-released/ thoughts?

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Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2010-07-12, 01:12

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I'm not sure how I forgot Narbacular Drop-- yeah, it was a college project and very short, and perhaps a bit lacking in depth, but it was good.

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Re: Global disease of old computer lovers

Posted on 2010-03-09, 18:48

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Flint, Michigan, USA, Earth, Orion Arm, Milky Way also as this is apparently my 300th post I'd just like to say this is madness

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Re: Compiling sources for DOS - What do I need?

Posted on 2010-02-05, 16:05

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Congratulations and welcome to the world of programming, or at least the section of sidewalk in front of the house where programming lives. If you're going to be compiling BASIC, I recommend FreeBASIC, it works well, has a nice front-end, and can compile DOS executables without being in DOS, as well …

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Re: What DOS game are you playing right now?

Posted on 2009-10-28, 16:14

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I've been meaning to get back to the Doom series but Castlevania III has been sucking up my time, along with some Halo.

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Re: Biittorent for DOS?

Posted on 2009-10-11, 02:51

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Any update on this? I found it again and it's pretty interesting.

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Re: Half-Life with USB controller

Posted on 2009-07-14, 03:54

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I looked at the thing I read again and that was in there, but it was relegated to one line whereas the method I tried was mentioned at least twice. thanks :happy: It also won't recognize the triggers (as an axis, as buttons, as anything) but I can use those with JoyToKey (I already tried it out, …

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Half-Life with USB controller

Posted on 2009-07-13, 22:40

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Call me crazy if you want but I want to use the Xbox 360-style USB controller I got recently to play the original Half-Life (which I got through Steam, so I'm sure it's up to date). I thought I should Google before I asked here and long story short, I seemed to find just what I was looking for, …

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Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2009-06-17, 04:07

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A few weeks ago I beat the original Doom, but I got it with the added fourth episode so I don't consider it quite beaten yet. Fourth episode down and not as hard as I had thought it might be, although I got very little of the secret stuff overall.

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