Re: Force TSR to load in Conventional Memory

Posted on 2021-04-04, 14:49

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If it's smart enough to detect that there's no UMB available, maybe you can temporarily load a dummy that fills up the UMB first, then load your sound card TSR which will see no free UMB and go into conventional memory, then unload the dummy.

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Re: TOP 100 applications for MS-DOS ? can you share some to the list?

Posted on 2021-03-24, 05:45

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Thanks for the recommendation 4xtx - I personally think D has the edge here. :p D is prettier, and hotdir under Dosbox is showing directories as being 256MB sized files.

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Re: TOP 100 applications for MS-DOS ? can you share some to the list?

Posted on 2021-03-23, 02:03

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It makes me shudder to see people doing dos stuff on YouTube still using regular MSDOS DIR when D.COM exists . Automatic sorted output, files highlighted by extension, two characters fewer to type ;) The very first thing I copy to DOS (or Dosbox even) is D. Glance is very nice. I've since switched …

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Re: Music / Midi Software for Win98SE

Posted on 2021-02-11, 16:40

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Cakewalk's a good MIDI editor, with more wav-style DAW stuff included as you get newer. I'm fairly certain there were many full-featured 'lite' versions of Cakewalk for Win98, they'd be given away with midi keyboards, sound cards, coverdisks etc, maybe look up 'Cakewalk Express'. (Modern Cakewalk …

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Re: I just got a "rig" to play some old Win 3.1/95 and DOS stuff. But I am having a few problems with sound and DOS. (PI

Posted on 2021-02-09, 08:17

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First off, the Thinkpads, whilst fabulous machines (no kidding, I have an old 385ED, 600X and a modern T440P) they are most definitely not gaming machines. They were sold as business machines first and foremost, to running Windows (or sometimes OS/2 LOL) and had windows-compatible sound hardware. I …

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Re: Best tools for disassembling/debugging Win 3.1 games?

Posted on 2021-02-08, 09:57

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Were you using that on Win98SE? Yes, disassembling the Win 3.1 game on 98SE with IDA Free 4.1, using the IDA interface in a console window. 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 …

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Re: Best tools for disassembling/debugging Win 3.1 games?

Posted on 2021-02-05, 22:29

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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. It helpfully linked together string constants and jumps with neat labels, so I could find all the button handlers easily, …

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Best tools for disassembling/debugging Win 3.1 games?

Posted on 2021-01-30, 16:16

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I have a few 16-bit Windows 3.1 shareware games I'd like to investigate and fiddle about with. I'm fairly certain that they're not written in Visual Basic. I tried OllyDbg and IDA Pro free 4.9 but both of these seem to be focused around 32bit executables. I'm running Win98 se on a real MMX machine. …

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Re: Notoriously difficult-to-run DOS games?

Posted on 2021-01-26, 18:10

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In my experience Tyrian (2000) 's digitised sound will take a few restarts of the game to get working fully with SB clone cards. I always have to boot into the setup to make sure.

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Re: 16Bit Color Dos Games

Posted on 2021-01-24, 14:30

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I believe Psychic Detective supports 16bit colour.

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Is there a trick to stop games dumping stuff in C:\ ?

Posted on 2020-12-04, 16:25

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My C:\ root is accumulating stuff like LM3D.CD for Lemmings 3D, KRISALIS.CD for Starfighter 3000, CARPET.CD for Magic Carpet, etc. It's annoying, but at least they keep their stuff in directories. KKND has put its KKND.CFG and KKND.MEM in the root though, which is really annoying. Is there any neat …

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No briefing voice in StarFighter 3000?

Posted on 2020-11-30, 02:11

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I've noticed an odd thing about StarFighter 3000, on DOS 6.22 or Dosbox 0.74-3. When you select a mission from the planet pyramid and get the text screen, there's supposed to be a spoken voiceover reading out the text, but it doesn't play. (You can hear the voice in the Saturn, 3DO and PS1 ports.) …

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The Machines (Merit Software) incompatible with Avance card, intermittent freezing

Posted on 2020-11-25, 04:59

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I'm trying to play the top-down Alien Breed-like shooter 'The Machines' on my real DOS computer, but it seems to be incompatible with my ALS100+chip sound card for digitised sound effects. The issue is that when sound effects play, there will be alternating periods of the gameplay freezing and …

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Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2020-11-09, 15:56

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I'm using this a lot on my DOS computer now. :) I used to use Glance but requiring the mouse to edit items and too many fiddly stages and being unable to sort/move buttons made me put Glance away for the first time in 25 years. I've noticed a bug, though: If you're on the main game list, say ABCDEF, …

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Jazz Jackrabbit SB sound card support, Holiday Hare SBPro weirdness

Posted on 2020-10-01, 09:20

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I've been writing my own MOD player and SB drivers and I was curious what sample rates and bit depths Jazz 1 supports on SB cards. I ran JJ 1.0 shareware, Xmas 94 and Xmas 95 (from dosgamesarchive, though identical to the funet jjxmas95.zip) through debug dosbox and wrote down what sample rates were …

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Re: Creative Labs Programming Guides?

Posted on 2020-09-19, 23:43

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Thanks, cyclone. That organisation diagram on page 9 of the DIP also seems to answer something I was curious about - the wavetable output is combined into the FM output and becomes the 'MIDI' input from Mixer's perspective, if I'm reading it right? I don't own anything beyond a SB16 myself, so I'm …

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Re: Creative Labs Programming Guides?

Posted on 2020-09-19, 22:30

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Much obliged. 😀

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Creative Labs Programming Guides?

Posted on 2020-09-18, 23:55

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I'm writing my own SB drivers in Turbo C and the Creative guide pdf I have covers the SB1,2,Pro and 16. Are there any guides available for the AWE32 and up? Are there any tables showing the DSP versions of these cards? I can see lots of lists of CTxxxx chip/board numbers, but not DSP versions. From …

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Re: How is Vinyl Goddess From Mars so slick?

Posted on 2020-09-13, 23:01

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Very interesting stuff K1n9_Duk3 thanks a lot!

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Re: How is Vinyl Goddess From Mars so slick?

Posted on 2020-09-11, 15:06

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Looking at this - http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/tutorials/tutorials/3scroll.htm - it appears that outside of 13h, the VGA can be told to display from arbitrary offsets in video ram like an Amiga after all. :) I didn't know that. VGFM doesn't have parallax scrolling or animated background tiles …

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