Imho one difference (maybe a bit off topic) is in that in the past maybe there wasn't exactly the need or even the concept of "wasting time". I think it would not be way too off to say that games are, in many aspects, like books. Some you like and want to go back to, others you've read and maybe …

TIE Fighter originally me a couple years to learn how to play it correctly. When I was a kid I would turn on invincibility and infinite ammo like OP was mentioning and just fly around and blast things, but eventually i learned how to use the targeting and the HUD and ship energy management. It does …

The version of DOSBox that I am using (DOSXbox) let me CD into the file MSDOS.SYS. If you look at the command prompt in the screenshot you can see it is reporting the current directory as MSDOS.SYS, which is a file. DOSXbox should not have let me CD into MSDOS.SYS in the first place. Windows 1 …

Sounds like this old bug: https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/code-0/3663/ Thanks for the tip there, it turns out that file did need to be updated but that wasn't the bug. I managed to figure out what was going on, but it was specific to the version of DOSBox, and sadly discussing the nature of the …

I have found another alternative that works, for those who don't mind using Adobe software. GSView 1.4 comes with GhostScript 3.53, and an installer for both: https://bertola.eu/file/ftp/winutil/ghostscript/gsview14.zip This version either does not support converting PDFs via command line, or it was …

Thanks for your reply. I was thinking about using latest version of Ghostscript on a Windows 10 machine to do the conversion. Looking at my post, I didn't say that I was planning to use the ps2pdf included in GS, not a standalone build. The information about ghostpdf.ppd is the same I was talking …

I also wanted to mention the Sysmark benchmarks. While looking into these, I found mention of a Sysmark 92 (for MS-DOS), and a Sysmark 93 (for Windows and DOS), ctrl+f for sysmark: http://www2.icmm.ru/~masich/win/lexion/benchmark/faq.htm From the first archived bapco page, there is sysmark95 (for …

While searching around, I saw a couple posts about a freeware windows 3.x benchmarking program called Winspeed. Ah, now I did find a direct download link, before I had found it on a shareware CD, and "Windows Speed" is the correct name. https://archive.org/details/win3_wnspd It is in the archive …

What are the external paths used when mounting the drives? If they contain a colon that isn't the second character, it can cause an issue like this. So for example "mount c cd:\" or "mount c hdd:\dos" is problematic, because DOSBox expects a colon to only appear after a single drive letter. It will …

I did confirm that the current DOSXBox version is 0.72, (it was a quick note in one of the changelogs) so I'll test it out on that. I'm not sure about the platform DOSXbox is compiled on these days, but I won't post any executables related to it just in case. Edit: Can confirm the issue doesn't show …

I'm going to take a completely wild guess here, but have you tried assigning a volume label when mounting your drive C? Thanks, it sounded promising but no luck! I did notice that after the "Cannot select drive C" message the volume label disappeared from the drive in the open file dialog, probably …

I've been working on getting Windows 3.11 working in DOSXbox. This is a version for the original Xbox that is based on DOSBox 0.72. My goal is to create a slimmed down and optimized build of Windows 3.11 vanilla that can be used to run Windows 3.1 software (at least, as well as the 733Mhz Pentium …