Re: things you don't do with a retro PC
Posted on Today, 20:16
No, it is what it says. New old stock, meaning they just sat in the warehouse ready to be sold, but weren't.
Re: Pre-installing Windows 95/98 from a different computer
Posted on Yesterday, 19:25
+1 Three Linux guys in a row, how often does that happen ?
Re: Rambo III colors are off
Posted on Yesterday, 17:09
Look at that difference its unbelievable 😁 Thanks again ripsaw8080
Re: Rambo III colors are off
Posted on Yesterday, 16:06
The colors you see are exactly what the game sets them to. Maybe the developers had glare on their monitors... The attached program will modify the game in memory to shift the colors toward black. The program is a TSR rather than a loader because it appears there is more than one way to start the …
Re: things you don't do with a retro PC
Posted on Yesterday, 10:15
things you don't do with a retro PC? this for starters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8 🤣
Re: Program has a file reading problem (DOSbox linux), while in DOSbox windows work OK.
Posted on Yesterday, 10:11
jmarsh wrote on 2020-08-12, 11:13: CR/LF stuff wouldn't matter because DOSBox opens all files in binary mode. If you're using a build of DOSBox installed by a package manager it's probably really old and out of date. Well I had some weird issues with batch files in unix format. Luckily there is …
Re: Rambo III colors are off
Posted on Yesterday, 10:07
The black in EGA seems to be fine.
Rambo III colors are off
Posted on 2020-08-12, 16:04
Why are the colors so weird in Rambo III compared to Operation Wolf or Bubble Bobble ? Its like there is a grayish mist hanging over it Is this game or DosBox related ?
Re: A modern "sleeper" PC
Posted on 2020-08-12, 08:49
.... I'm already regretting this purchase as it does everything that my normal PC does, but worse, but can't do anything my normal PC can't do (like XP era games) as it doesn't have a DVD drive and is on Windows 10. You can install Linux and use Wine for those old Windows games. Use a second/ …
Re: things you don't do with a retro PC
Posted on 2020-08-12, 08:31
Re: Need help configuring everything for the perfect Quake 1 experience.
Posted on 2020-08-11, 18:09
Clean glasses or contacts 🤣 just saying ...
Re: Program has a file reading problem (DOSbox linux), while in DOSbox windows work OK.
Posted on 2020-08-11, 18:04
jmarsh wrote on 2020-08-11, 03:58: File permissions issue? This has my vote, but I thought of another one: Linux is case sensitive.
Re: "Jim Power - The Lost Dimension" cycle settings
Posted on 2020-08-11, 17:57
What's keeping the IRQ7 occupied ?
Re: The top 10 DOS games of 1989
Posted on 2020-08-11, 17:37
New channel, subscribing I always find these top 10 things difficult, never know what they are based on. With some I agree with others I do not. Go figure 🤣 Welcome and thanks for contributing.
Re: Talisman (1995 from Software 2000) doesn't want to run
Posted on 2020-08-02, 18:52
What is the source image type you use in VCD ? because iso's and bin/cue can be mounted in dosbox natively as explained here: https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT imgmount d "C:\MyISO.iso" -t iso imgmount d "C:\cdimg.cue" -t iso -fs iso Then I would highly recommend using dos32a from http://dos32a. …
Re: Street Counter for DOS: South Korean release of Super Fighter
Posted on 2020-07-27, 19:24
Is it possible for you to upload the original (unaltered) disk images ? And do you have a photo of the box and contents (eg: floppy's, booklet, feelies etc.) I'm sure a couple of guys here are dying to examine them 😁
Re: Any way to wipe a FATX partition from a Western Digital Protege HDD?
Posted on 2020-07-26, 07:59
You can use Linux's dd: 1. Download a linux distro http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ comes to mind. 2. Boot from livecd/usb with only the hdd attached. 3. List all storage $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 xxxxxxxx sda 8 1 xxxxxxxx sda1 8 16 xxxxxxxx sdb 8 17 xxxxxxxx sdb1 4. Then …
Re: Renegade: Battle for Jacob's Star Demo not working
Posted on 2020-07-25, 19:39
Confirmed, I experience the same thing. When I open the debugger I end up here: 0180:1FE4D5 81E1FFFF0000 and ecx,0000FFFF 0180:1FE4DB 668BEB mov bp,bx 0180:1FE4DE EC in al,dx 0180:1FE4DF 8AD8 mov bl,al 0180:1FE4E1 F6D0 not eal 0180:1FE4E3 22C4 and al,ah 0180:1FE4E5 7510 jne 001FE4F7 ($+10) (no jmp) …
Re: Any way to wipe a FATX partition from a Western Digital Protege HDD?
Posted on 2020-07-25, 17:28
You can use Linux's dd: 1. Download a linux distro http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ comes to mind. 2. Boot from livecd/usb with only the hdd attached. 3. List all storage $ cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 8 0 xxxxxxxx sda 8 1 xxxxxxxx sda1 8 16 xxxxxxxx sdb 8 17 xxxxxxxx sdb1 4. Then use …
Re: trouble with a program: cup386
Posted on 2020-07-23, 07:19
It usually helps a lot if you unpack them first 😉 and its faster too.
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