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Re: DOS program: where to upload?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 18:35

General overview of FOSS licenses ; someone asking about attribution . Lots of legalese, obviously, but unfortunately there's no way around that. (Unless you want to put something in the public domain, in which case you can just state that you're doing just that - but then there's not gonna be any …

Re: DOS program: where to upload?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 17:07

So you're looking for places to mirror your code? The obvious one would be Github; another one BerliOS (they take FOSS projects only though). That's for development; if you're doing actual releases then you might want to put them in other places too, like archive.org, or - wild idea - right here. …

Re: DosBox Config File Jumps Directories, WHY?

Posted on 2023-05-06, 09:59

Seems to me when you made copies of those batch files, you didn't actually copy them but might have made links instead (and I don't mean the ".lnk" kind). How you would do that accidentally is beyond me though, since Windows doesn't make it easy . (Maybe WSL lowers the bar enough so it can now …

Re: DosBOX and external DAC issue

Posted on 2023-05-05, 20:40

DOSBox calls SDL_OpenAudioDevice in a way that requests "the most reasonable default device" (as per the SDL docs). Is your OS configured correctly (i.e. did you make that DAC the default audio output)? Do other SDL based programs have the same issue? edit: Scratch that, I was looking at dosbox- …

Re: Finding old software by name or keywords

Posted on 2023-05-04, 11:21

I'll just put it out there: If your problem is that you don't even know what to look for yet... Some of the "abandonware" sites have built really great catalogues around their content. It's everybody's own decision whether to click dat download button or not, but in any case they can be great for …

Re: Missing libcaca.so.0:

Posted on 2023-04-28, 23:28

> GOG support forum Ah, there's your problem. Their forums are discussion forums, and clearly labelled as such; any support still happening there is purely coincidental. The support section's thataway . Another approach would be to ignore their bundles DOSbox version (do keep their config files …

Re: How do you run CD games on a real dos computer?

Posted on 2023-04-21, 13:43

in DOS
> besides burning them to a CD Just use the CD you made the image of in the first place? Which of course you have available - You wouldn't pirate software, now would you? > convert the image to ISO ...in the process losing any audio tracks that may be present. Whether that's applicable/an issue …

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