Re: Sauro Puccini releases MSCDEX replacement for WinNT/2k/XP

Posted on 2005-02-19, 05:39

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by DosFreak

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Approximately 19 months later..... Finally have all of my games with CD audio identified. Might begin testing 'em soon. (That means 12-24 months later....) ;) Sorting through the forums identifying stuff for Deep Though and integrating into Deep Thought forums. Also searched the web for SapuCdex and …

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List of Slowdown Utilities

Posted on 2005-02-19, 05:21

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by DosFreak

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Originally posted by Stiletto here: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=44 AT-SLOW - AT-SLOW is an alternate slowdown utility that works well on 286, 386, and 486-class machines, utilizing the Real-Time Clock chip found in 286's and above. http://www.oldskool.org/guides/oldonnew/resources/atslo410 …

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Re: NTFS compression

Posted on 2005-02-19, 04:55

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by DosFreak

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Uhh, if your using NTFS Compression shouldn't your "Size on Disk" be smaller than "Size"? What kind of cluster size you using?

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Re: Can't install The Longest Journey

Posted on 2005-02-19, 02:16

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by DosFreak

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Last time I tried it the game launcher wouldn't work. Running game.exe in the game directory worked fine.

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Re: Thin Client (like) Setup

Posted on 2005-02-19, 02:12

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by DosFreak

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Yeah, last time I ran DX/OGL stuff through VNC was like 3-4 years ago and it was terrible slow. Haven't tried it lately.

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Re: Daggerfall CD Issues

Posted on 2005-02-18, 07:48

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by DosFreak

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

Daggerfall on XP

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Re: NTFS compression

Posted on 2005-02-18, 02:07

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by DosFreak

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I us NTFS compression on all of my external drives. Does good for .txt,.pst, and CD Image files. Files that are already compressed do not get reduced in size using NTFS compression. Also NTFS compression isn't that good. So if you have files that you can compress using .rar or 7zip...then do so. …

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Re: The curse of monkey island

Posted on 2005-02-18, 02:03

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by DosFreak

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Way to go for resurrecting a 14 month old thread. Thread closed.

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Re: Breakthrough in STTNG: A Final Unity Stability & Other DOS Extender Games

Posted on 2005-02-17, 03:33

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by DosFreak

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

Bump I've been going through some of my games comparing DOS32/DOS4GW. I'll post the results hopefully pretty soon.

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Re: Athlon XP 1800+ or Sempron 2800?

Posted on 2005-02-16, 02:17

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by DosFreak

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If your getting a new processor (and intend to use DosBox) I'd definetly get one with more L2 cache. Currently only have 256k so when I upgrade to a newer processor I'll definetly be going for at least a 1mb L2.

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Re: DOSbox doesn't work for me

Posted on 2005-02-16, 02:15

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I wouldn't use DosBox for the games your trying to run....or at all really on that computer. You are using a Celeron which is basically a crippled Pentium 3. Low amount of Mhz and minimal amount of L2 cache. You'd be better off forgetting about DosBox and running these games natively.

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Re: Corrupt graphics in some DOS games, maybe a VESA problem?

Posted on 2005-02-16, 02:06

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Seemed playable to me. It depends on what is playable to you. To some Quake 3 at 30fps is fine. To another 30fps is unplayable. I don't have a fps counter for Descent 1 under DosBox but I'd guestimate 15-20fps at most. Turn down some detail levels...mabye 20-25 at 640x480. Sounds about right since I …

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Re: Dosbox doesn't reconize my Hard Drive

Posted on 2005-02-15, 04:03

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by DosFreak

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Try dragging a file or folder onto dosbox.exe. This will automatically start dosbox with a default c: drive.

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Re: Legacy , the realm of terror

Posted on 2005-02-13, 17:36

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by DosFreak

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This I can't help you with since I don't have the game. Unless it's complaining about not having enough EMS. Hmmm, if the game has a configuration program try disabling sound effects and any other options.

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Re: Legacy , the realm of terror

Posted on 2005-02-13, 06:24

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You need your mem to look something like this, ignore the memory values. They aren't really important (they depend on how much system memory you have and how you have your _default.pif configured) what you need to worry about is wether when you type in MEM you see the EMS line: Example: 4194304 …

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Re: Legacy , the realm of terror

Posted on 2005-02-13, 05:12

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by DosFreak

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No, the filesystem has nothing to do with your problem. go to a command prompt. Type in "mem" and post the info.

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Re: DOSBox vs DOSEmu

Posted on 2005-02-13, 03:58

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by DosFreak

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Odd, plays fine on my Athlon XP 2800 at 320X2000 at 53000 cycles. Fully playable. At 640x480 it's a little choppy but probably bearable if you just had to play it at a higher res.

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Re: Legacy , the realm of terror

Posted on 2005-02-13, 03:29

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by DosFreak

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Your reading the wrong information. In XP cmd.exe when you type in "mem", you'll see: 655360 bytes total conventional memory 655360 bytes available to MS-DOS 598032 largest executable program size Largest executable program size is what you want. To free up more conventional memory, edit the …

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Re: Harekiet's new avatar

Posted on 2005-02-13, 02:53

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by DosFreak

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Princess doing Mario and Luigi?

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Re: Legacy Realm of terror

Posted on 2005-02-12, 19:52

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by DosFreak

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Don't have the game so can't test it. But if you want to try running it under XP, go through your autoexec.nt file in c:\Windows\system32 and disable dosx.exe. That should give ya enough memory.

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