Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips

Posted on 2016-03-30, 13:56

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by BloodyCactus

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If you still have any interest in things AGI/SCI there are some interesting developments that have been occurring over the past year or so. cool. I've not touched agi or sci since I merged sarien into scummvm and did some odd scummvm commits years ago. These days I'm busy building my own pinball …

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Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips

Posted on 2016-03-30, 12:31

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by BloodyCactus

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So you are Dark Fiber? I did notice the mega-tokyo.com link in your sig. If you find your updated version let me know and I can update the Wiki, even if SCI Studio and the new SCI Companion can strip the duplicates, too. Also the change in hash does not matter to DOSBox, of course. At least with …

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Re: running out of memory in emu8086

Posted on 2016-03-29, 23:32

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by BloodyCactus

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

segments. its the whole point of using them.

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Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips

Posted on 2016-03-29, 19:35

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by BloodyCactus

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you can also pack the resource files together, removing duplicates and get it small enough it might fit with a single resource where two might spill over a disk size. Depends on the game. Something like the Sierra AGI games had duplicate VOL files, but the SCI games that could be played from the …

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Re: Which SDL features does DosBox actually use?

Posted on 2016-03-29, 19:26

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by BloodyCactus

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yeah, same as you seem confused about things you can configure SDL for ;) (png for example has nothing to do with SDL ;)) it has nothing to do with sdl and everything to do with sdl_image tho. presuming that you want png support in sdl_image... as I said, if you dont have png libs, and you build …

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Re: Recreating floppy images from directory/zips

Posted on 2016-03-29, 17:01

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by BloodyCactus

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I would not recommend that anyone play a Sierra game that uses RESOURCE.0XX files unless you can fit them on one disk (pretty much just the Hoyle card games). If you want to torture yourself with the 16-color SCI0 games like King's Quest IV and Space Quest III, put all files on the first disk …

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Re: Which SDL features does DosBox actually use?

Posted on 2016-03-29, 16:59

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by BloodyCactus

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BloddyCactus this is not what yesterplay was asking. You listed other libraries that are dependant on SDL. The OP specifically spoke about SDL with ALSA, OSS etc, those are backend libraries SDL compiles against. That SDL gets built against many back end libraries, does not mean they get used. OP …

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Re: Which SDL features does DosBox actually use?

Posted on 2016-03-29, 14:05

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by BloodyCactus

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in DOSBox Development

sdl options are set when configured + built (ie: if you dont have png libs, it wont compile png support into sdl image), and in often runtime loaded for certain things. dosbox when run with ./configure will show you what its using (sdl, sdl image, sdl net, sdl ttf, sdl mixer) when it looks for them. …

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Re: Roland SC-88 Pro voltage conversion

Posted on 2016-03-25, 22:37

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

did you find the data sheet? maybe youll be lucky and those taps will give the same output it needs from your inputs. datasheet will tell you for sure.

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Re: [EMULATOR]The Virtual Computer Collection

Posted on 2016-03-25, 15:08

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by BloodyCactus

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Yes, but are you sure that the Intersil 80C88 is the same as the Intel 80C88? Remember that different manufacturers did have differences between CPUs even for ones that were otherwise quite similar - one such example would be to compare the IBM/Cyrix 386SLC/DLC and 486SLC/DLC against the Intel …

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Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-24, 23:38

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by BloodyCactus

in Milliways

in Milliways

@konc - its packed by my packer because it came from my collection 😀 @ripsaw8080 - The patch you removed is post compile, but was not added by me. not sure what its point was, the two decrements dont make much sense at all. @leileilol - an original archive of it, nice!

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Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-24, 19:01

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as author of said packer. its called vacuum, its written in pmode asm as an exercise using dos32 extender (adam seychell version), yes it was released. i cant check at work but I think this is it; its on stuba.sk ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/vacuum.zip I never wrote an unpacker since its .com, …

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Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-24, 12:58

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no worries ;) Once I saw your drawing I knew exactly what it was, its pretty distinct. yes I too used it as a 'cls' type tool. Its copyright is "UK, 1990, Philema Perspectives", and I've only ever known it as "n.com", it came from a business type UK magazine coverdisk. beyond that, nothing else I …

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Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-23, 21:53

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this is? I've had + use this for years and years 😀 Its like 1kb; so I threw it on my site http://mega-tokyo.com/n.com

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Re: [Identify] old DOS date utility

Posted on 2016-03-23, 18:07

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i have something similiar, ill post a screenshot tonight when i get home from work! i never found anyone else useing it. mine came from a coverdisk from the uk or something.

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Re: ScummVM Surprising MIDI Emulation

Posted on 2016-03-23, 13:34

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by BloodyCactus

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it should be a switch, but as others pointed out, its the Tandy sound. much better than the sierra dos driver 😀 me = Sarien author + one time scummvm guy many years ago... Its nice to see people still enjoying AGI games!

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Re: how did old games did sounds?

Posted on 2016-03-23, 13:18

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by BloodyCactus

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I remember writing my own awe32 player. I had used int he past something like mikmod since you can play wav files with it. i think fmod had a dos version, or i remember i got one from firelight (nice to live in same town!)... there are heaps of music/wav/mod engine code around. you should browse …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-20, 23:59

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what good is an MT32 without proper cables? (no software, Its just the two cables that connect to the sb joystick port with the midi in/out connectors)

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The 'Blue Ridge' roms

Posted on 2016-03-19, 23:15

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by BloodyCactus

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in MT-32 General

So, I've read the oldcrows article on the so called 'blue ridge' roms, looked at the schematics for the battery backed ram etc. But does anyone know what they changed in the rom? The blueridge rom says 'thanks to mark tsuruta' who was roland usa ceo at one point.. rather than the 1.07 text.. Some of …

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Re: Teach me some electronics repair skills.

Posted on 2016-03-18, 16:59

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chisel + hoof tip!

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