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Re: Digger and Hercules Graphic, using CGA Emulation

Posted on 2012-11-05, 21:24

in DOS
Most CGA Games are working fine, except for Digger. i tried many Emulators (my favourite is HGCIBM) but result is always the same. Screen goes blank and System freeze. Even the Remastered Version of Digger won't work. Btw. Moonbugs also dont work...may be because this game use "special" graphic …

Re: PC Games on TV

Posted on 2012-11-02, 20:59

in PC Emulation
Composite was usually the most popular type of video input for CRT TV's, but the quality is usually mediocre at best. It is better than RF though. As I mentioned earlier in here, purpose-built composite monitors like the Commodore 1084 had better dot pitch than TVs and were often specifically tuned …

Re: PC Games on TV

Posted on 2012-11-02, 20:36

in PC Emulation
Do we have to have a graphic card capable of such low resolution? For instance the lower this PC gets is 800x600 That's just because Windows Control Panel won't let you set resolutions lower than 800x600. Almost any video driver will let you use 640x480, either in the driver's setup program or by …

Re: PC Games on TV

Posted on 2012-11-02, 12:30

in PC Emulation
I used to have my old Pentium 4 box hooked up to a late-90's CRT TV about 6 years ago. It was great for emulators and stuff, and I even remember using that setup to play Descent console-style under DosBox with a USB gamepad, but quite frankly it was terrible for anything requiring higher …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-11-01, 19:11

in DOSBox Patches
I was able to locate individual DOS rips of BD I and II (each one being a different exe); so separate PC releases did exist. Unless there was somehow yet another version of SBD which separated the executables by game rather than machine type.... ugh. Ok so BD and BD II were released in Europe as …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-11-01, 16:54

in DOSBox Patches
No, I mean a real Tandy 1000 or PCjr. or the equivalent DOSBox modes, the image and rip does work in regular PCs and XTs and DOSBox's CGA machine type, but you only get CGA and PC Speaker sound. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=25422 In this thread, Servo mentions that his original disk of …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-11-01, 12:56

in DOSBox Patches
I've figured out a way to cleanly fix the speed problem with Big Top. The sector that is used to save high scores and settings also contains the delay values for levels 1-3 (don't ask me why) Most booter games were not paragons of clean, orderly, well-structured programming. Someone made a complete …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-11-01, 11:54

in DOSBox Patches
Try fixing the dump of or rip of Boulderdash, because it fails to work with either a PCjr. or Tandy 1000, DOSBox or real machines, and the more colorful graphics and enhanced sound effects are lost. By "real machine" do you mean XTs? Because I've played that on my 386 and Pentium many, many times …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-11-01, 11:44

in DOSBox Patches
Unmodified Teledisk dumps of the original floppies - those that exist, anyway - are just a safer bet for testing, especially on an actual XT. True, although it should be possible to disassemble those DOS rips and find out what's going on there. If Galaxian was modified for VGA compatibility, they …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-10-31, 20:32

in DOSBox Patches
Quite a few of them have been dumped in original / uncracked form, but due to copy protection most of those would be in Teledisk format (or similar) which is no good for DOSBox. AFAIK, all the images on Retrograde Station were ripped by Demonlord and I don't think he modified them beyond making …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX

Posted on 2012-10-30, 11:50

in DOSBox Patches
no luck; I don't have an original of these, and strangely enough the cracked copies I tried work in DOSBox but do not work on real hardware including my PCjr! Sometimes cracked games were modified to work on newer computers. I found that out myself. For example, Retrograde Station had a DOS rip of …

Re: Original hi-res mode switches [-h, -r etc..]

Posted on 2012-10-27, 10:19

in DOS
A few games were like this. For example, Marble Madness supports PCjr/Tandy, but the box doesn't mention this. Pirates! also doesn't say anything about Tandy support on the box, but when you start it up, the option is on the opening screen.

AT&T 6300 mode

Posted on 2012-10-27, 10:16

Would it be worthwhile to add support for this? I thought only applications used it, but apparently not. Mobygames lists at least two games (Mindscape - Colony and Keypunch Software - Space Wars) that can run in its 640x400x2 graphics mode (more might also exist). There's no screenshots on there …

Re: Managing Your Money

Posted on 2012-10-27, 10:11

in DOS
Most non-gaming applications depend less on the things DosBox itself covers (like video and sound support) and more on the things it doesn't cover (like accurate SHARE.EXE emulation, pause/break emulation, and other stuff like that) The Ctrl+Break thing is easy. You just boot a disk image of DOS up …

Re: We got a problem here

Posted on 2012-10-27, 08:06

in DOS
Well, there's a number of alternatives to Catweasel now I know that. Catweasel is a pretty old ISA card from the 90s. But if they are in fact 3.5" Apple disks As best we can guess. I somehow don't think they're PC disks that got demagnetized because my experience is that those are usually still …

Re: We got a problem here

Posted on 2012-10-27, 04:53

in DOS
One other thing. That link I posted implies that DSK2FDI only works for reading side 1 of 5.25" Apple (ie. 140k) disks. It makes sense because the 3.5" IIgs/Mac disks use an 800k variable speed format. AFAIK, there is no possible way for a PC to read that unless you had a Catweasel controller.

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