Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on Yesterday, 06:35

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by xcomcmdr

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I auto-launch Windows 3.11 games inside DOSBox all the time. Do not append a game to win, it doesn't work. Use this autoexec section in a dosbox conf file : [autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup. # You can put your MOUNT lines here. @echo off mount c disk_c path=z:\;c:\;c:\ …

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on Yesterday, 06:08

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by xcomcmdr

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in DOSBox General

Use. The. Startup. Folder.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 19:32

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by xcomcmdr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I played some South Park Rally, for the first time. I don't know if it's good or bad. Very mixed reviews online. I find it way too hard, but it looks so good with dgVoodoo2...

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 04:49

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by xcomcmdr

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in DOSBox General

This is madness. I quit.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 04:41

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by xcomcmdr

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SodaSuccubus wrote on 2020-05-23, 22:32: Im only seeing around 34FPS in Doom, and that's with the ram optimized as much as low as i could get it in the bios. Im no AMI Winbios expert though, my previous boards have been AWARD so maybe im missing something? Arent' the original Doom games for DOS all …

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-23, 08:07

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by xcomcmdr

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It can work, but it's by far not the most reliable method. I've automated hundreds of Windows 3.11 games startups inside DOSBox.

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Re: NTVDM on "new" PC

Posted on 2020-05-22, 20:45

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by xcomcmdr

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If I want to be sure how it runs / behave, I use Windows 3.11 inside PCem. Quite a few times games refused to install inside DOSBox, but installed fine in PCem, for example.

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-22, 18:12

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by xcomcmdr

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Use the Startup program group inside Windows 3.11, not win + something. The latter rarely works.

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Re: NTVDM on "new" PC

Posted on 2020-05-22, 18:10

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by xcomcmdr

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I'm a big fan of Windows 3.11 inside DOSBox myself, but WineVDM is great too.

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Re: NTVDM on "new" PC

Posted on 2020-05-22, 13:09

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by xcomcmdr

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The best NTVDM is WineVDM.

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 19:21

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by xcomcmdr

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I auto-launch Windows 3.11 games inside DOSBox all the time. Do not append a game to win, it doesn't work. Instead, open the Program Manager and put a new entry inside the Startup program group . This entry will have : Name : Civ II Target: C:\CIVWIN\CIV.EXE Working Directory: C:\CIVWIN Save it, and …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 16:59

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by xcomcmdr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember playing Mario64 on a Pentium computer with a Voodoo 1 card thanks to UltraHLE.

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Re: Doom Eternal Released

Posted on 2020-05-20, 20:31

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by xcomcmdr

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I find Brutal Doom terribily boring. I don't know excatly why. I wanted so much to love it. Maybe because killing demons becomes too easy with it. Or maybe because it makes too much changes to the gameplay. Also the gore and the glory kills become old real fast. The original doesn't need Brutal Doom …

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Re: Windows 3.11 vs. Windows 95

Posted on 2020-05-19, 07:04

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by xcomcmdr

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in Marvin \ Software

> File management from within open and save common dialog boxes! Linux DEs STILL don't have that. How frustating ! Every single day I had to remind myself "oh no, this is not Windows ! You can't do that !".

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Re: dgVoodoo 2.6.x and related WIP versions

Posted on 2020-05-18, 17:43

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by xcomcmdr

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Shadow of the Horned Rat works well with DOSBox + Windows 3.1, if you're willing to go that route.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-16, 14:54

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by xcomcmdr

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Modified an old D&D 3.5 VB6 + MSJET software with the MS VB 6 IDE while listening to retro music thanks to Winamp 2.95 in the background : This was done natively on a Packard Bell computer with an Intel Pentium 3 @ 700 Mhz CPU, Windows 98SE, and 64 MB of RAM. I could have used a VM but that would …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-10, 19:19

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by xcomcmdr

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice try. NT based windows are self containing and don't rely on an underlying OS to operate. And there are definite definitions to what an operating system actually is. In win3.1 Dos calls are required to perform certain tasks. That's because it was the cost-effective way to do it, both for …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-10, 06:25

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by xcomcmdr

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's more complicated than that, but whatever.

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Re: What is something you threw out that u regret

Posted on 2020-05-06, 20:56

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Good CRT monitors. 🙁 Now my only choice is scamBay...

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Re: Windows 98SE MS-DOS Mode, sound drivers?

Posted on 2020-05-06, 19:15

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by xcomcmdr

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FWIW, I have a Packard Bell Chrom@ 9750 laptop with Windows 98SE and a Yamaha YMF 754B (the driver packages do mention the "DS-XG" IIRC), and it works perfectly with native DOS.

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