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Re: Are Slot-A mobos good for DOS gaming?

Posted on 2021-04-07, 16:06

Any board with ISA can be a good DOS machine. You can disable L1 cache and get a pretty spot on 386. Hitting 486 speeds or anything slower than a 386 can be done with a combination of throttle and moslo with varying degrees of success. The biggest issue with socket A is finding the right power …

Re: "Too many files in line XXX" error

Posted on 2021-04-02, 00:24

Using this trick I was able to get bitbat, miner 2049er, and frogger jr working. Castle woflenstein will now boot but I immediately get caught as soon as the game starts so not sure what that is about. There are a handful of other games I have tried so far that I can't get to work, but they seem to …

Re: "Too many files in line XXX" error

Posted on 2021-04-01, 21:42

Interesting. Be advised that there are also limits on the number of files with long names that you can store in the root directory of a FAT32 partition. Wasn't there a recompiled version of Castle Wolfenstein, or was that just Beyond Castle Wolfenstein? http://www.oldskool.org/pc/BCW My copy of …

Re: "Too many files in line XXX" error

Posted on 2021-04-01, 19:47

I got frogerjr working! I did some more googling and I found that this issue can pop up in fortran applications when the number of files in the root directory is above a certain number. https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/101187-why-do-i-receive-too-many-files-open-error-messages-after- …

Re: "Too many files in line XXX" error

Posted on 2021-04-01, 18:54

Restarting in MS-DOS mode, and also updating autoexec to run a DOS application before windows starts. That's a highly unusual way of trying to start a program, wouldn't you say? Why not just hit F8 when "Starting Windows 95..." appears, and select "Command prompt only" from the menu? (Is it Windows …

Re: "Too many files in line XXX" error

Posted on 2021-04-01, 16:37

Reducing the number of files is counter intuitive. No it's not. Those old games certainly aren't going to need 40, 80, 120 files open concurrently - and the reason the "files=" setting exists in the first place is because the memory for it has to be static/reserved rather than allocated dynamically …

Re: "Too many files in line XXX" error

Posted on 2021-04-01, 13:41

When exactly does the error message appear? I think it's trying to tell you the "files=" setting is too high (8 was a typical value), increasing it is not the solution when it says there are too many... With Castle Wolfenstein it happens right away, with frogger jr it happens after I select the …

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