Re: dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-28, 17:25

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I've now tested dosdash on DOS 4! Seems to work great, though the lack of a full screen text editor makes editing DATABASE.TXT and DOSDASH.INI and DASH.BAT pretty difficult 😉 Anybody running DOS 4 on real hardware tried dosdash?

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Re: 7th Guest Digital Sound Volume

Posted on 2024-04-14, 21:37

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shtewps' image has the following settings in T7G's INSTALL menu: Music: Microsoft Windows Sound System Speech: Sound Blaster or Compatibles My original retail disc doesn't have those exact options (I expect WSS was a later patch), but I use General Midi and Sound Blaster, which increased the digital …

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Re: dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-14, 12:32

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The gamepad thing being the cause of the slowdown seems to be pretty definite now. I've uploaded a new version of dosdash which defaults to my reading routine. If someone with a gamepad or a flightstick could test dosdash on a real DOS machine, and compare performance using gamepad_enabled=0 (then …

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Re: dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-10, 15:18

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I've gotten to the bottom of the 15fps issue, and it's something that I'd actually already accommodated for! :D If you're trying dosdash on real hardware and the menu cursor moves too slow, change gamepad_enabled to 0 (no gamepad reading at all) or 2 (custom gamepad reading). By default dosdash uses …

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Re: dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-09, 21:20

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You're right VileR, the font isn't perfect. I was working on a different Mode X platformer engine with text captions and reused the font rendering and the rasteriser from there. I'm hoping that as I improve dosdash, putting a new hand drawn .chr in there will work seamlessly rather than blowing …

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Re: dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-09, 16:56

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I know nVidia Geforce cards are slow with palette changes so I hope you're not doing that for every frame. I thought I was, but I'm not. I'm only changing the palette during the fades into and out of the interface. If the palette doesn't change, it isn't written. I swapped out the FX5200 for a Trio …

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Re: dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-09, 00:42

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What sort of frame rate are you getting, and on what system? I've tried it for myself for the first time on a real Win 98 system with a Geforce FX5200 AGP 128MB and an Athlon XP 2500+ and it's running -terribly- heh. It's supposed to be 60fps, not 15fps... Haven't got a clue why it's doing that. But …

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Re: Looking for 4print and 4book DOS utilities

Posted on 2024-04-06, 03:11

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You need to use quotes when searching for unusual terms like "4book" and "4print" https://www.sac.sk/download/utiltext/4pr415.zip This seems to be a link to the shareware edition of 4PRINT and 4BOOK by Korenthal Associates, Inc. version 4.15 (according to the filename and the DIZ, though the readme …

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Re: dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-04, 17:58

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Thank you elszgensa. I should possibly make the default created .INI default to no sounds, just like it defaults to no gamepad, because yes it can be annoying and I don't have a frame of reference for the volume (I'm manually poking Ad Lib registers - I was surprised I got it right at all! I don't …

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Re: dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-04, 16:03

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Here's a different screenshot showing some possible icons: https://i.imgur.com/3KwB2A5.png And here are the corresponding GRAPHICs if you'd like to try them out. Get Lost ---GRAPHIC--- CAAAAZIIAAAAAAAAAAAAGSCAAAAAAAAAAAAO2AABAAAAAAAAAADtgAAQAAAAAAAAAB2wySAAADtg …

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dosdash - Graphical menu dashboard for MS-DOS

Posted on 2024-04-04, 15:57

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Hello! I've been working on a nice 2010s-style graphical dashboard interface for MS-DOS, as I'm surprised nobody has made one yet. It's simply a grid of selectable pictures in the vein of LaunchBox, the Xbox dashboard, the XMB, tablet devices and so on. It's designed to be very kid friendly (you …

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Re: Searching for Micron Home Office

Posted on 2024-01-17, 00:53

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Alright! You're very welcome :) enjoy yourself

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Re: Searching for Micron Home Office

Posted on 2024-01-16, 22:48

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Are you certain it isn't called Phoenix Home Office Environment? https://archive.org/details/pheonix-home-office-environment The screenshot on Internet Archive to seems to match the one in your clipping. (The computer might be different, on closer look hmm) According to this article in PC Magazine ( …

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Re: Best place for shareware/freeware? (re: trustworthy downloads)

Posted on 2023-10-05, 23:10

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I chuckled when I tried one of the ftp sites listed in the One Must Fall readme and it's still active today as an archive of the stuff that was hosted in the 90s: ftp.funet.fi

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

Posted on 2023-08-30, 00:59

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Offhand, would anybody happen to know how LaunchBox for DOS keeps track of the last selected item when it passes control to and from RUN.BAT and resumes? I thought maybe an environment variable but no. (Edit - I'm a goof, I totally overlooked LAUNCHBX.CFG.)

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Re: ISA Yamaha Audician no sound with Defender Of The Crown and CD-Man

Posted on 2023-08-22, 13:34

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I've found Audicians to be very unreliable - as if they don't reset properly. Try going into the text-mode setup screen and pressing the keyboard buttons to test the digital and OPL sound a few times until you get an audible response. Then exist the setup program and try your game. That's the only …

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Re: DOS programming tools

Posted on 2023-07-08, 15:48

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There's DJGPP versions running on Windows and Linux that target protected mode DOS as output. I'd use OpenWatcom if I wanted to make real-mode output though.

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INTERPOSE - the comic of the MS-DOS game!

Posted on 2022-12-10, 17:14

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The shareware side-scroller INTERPOSE is being made into a comic book! https://twitter.com/BenSlabak/status/1579669010702290945 I'm not involved with this but thought you'd like to know.

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List of Windows 3.x games that use gameport joysticks?

Posted on 2022-08-28, 13:39

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Is there a list of games for Windows 3.x that use gameport joysticks? I've installed IBMJOY and have been playing Zombie Wars with a gamepad, but I'm curious what other Windows games support one (or two) joysticks.

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Re: No video when running MS-DOS games in full screen

Posted on 2022-05-12, 20:48

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What monitor do you have, and what games are you trying to run? I suspect your monitor is too new to support the old resolutions that DOS games use. I don't think it's a problem with your PC itself. Your video card is almost certainly fine with running real MS-DOS games in 320x200 and 320x240 and …

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