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Re: DosBox and Sierra Colonels Bequest, hangs upon start

Posted on 2024-03-23, 15:35

in DOS

in DOS

These old Sierra games are not very demanding of DOSBox and will definitely work with a vanilla DOSBox installation. You could remove your dosbox.conf file to ensure that DOSBox is running with its defaults. But, given how difficult it is to mess up DOSBox to the point of not running Colonel's …

Re: 2 Free Old DOS Games

Posted on 2024-02-19, 00:25

in Milliways

in Milliways

Heh, that's a pretty cool game. Nice of you to put it out for free. I'm getting audio glitches in DOSBox... is there a recommended configuration?

Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?

Posted on 2022-04-25, 21:40

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Beat-em-ups like Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter etc. Versus AI, I find them boring and frustrating at the same time, especially when the AI cheats. Against a friend, it's a bit more fun, but I never could get beyond button mashing, so all battles are a foregone conclusion.

Re: Jason Storm: Space Chase controls issue

Posted on 2022-04-16, 00:23

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

As you know from the SQH Discord, I've been trying this out using other methods... and just for reference here: the /KEYB switch in the readme doesn't make a difference the up arrow doesn't work in real DOS either configuring the game to joystick mode does allow passing the teleporter, but only once …

Re: Sound Canvas comparison project

Posted on 2022-03-17, 23:30

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Also, every time I see your name I think of your SQ2VGA project. Wish it had gotten finished. (Yes, I know IA made one later.) Real life and having a day job got in the way of especially the art. The code I created for it still lives on today and all of the adventure games I've made over the years …

Re: Sound Canvas comparison project

Posted on 2022-03-12, 18:14

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

That's cool. I can contribute with recordings of an SC-55 (not SC-55mkII, but the original), and an SC-88 Pro.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 19:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My retro activity for the day was expanding my custom DOSBox frontend to allow configuration of DOSBox mixer levels (mostly so I could set the PC speaker volume to 10% easily, when I want to play DOS games at night without annoying the neighbours or my housemate).

Re: Programming DOS MIDI file player

Posted on 2021-01-16, 03:58

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Kudos for getting it done. But things like the variable length encoding of the time intervals, the running status bytes etc... it's no joke. I've done the same thing (albeit playing back through the OPL2 FM chip) and still consider it one of my greatest achievements from my DOS programming days. Do …

Re: Question about DOS 3 - 3.3 memory management (or lack thereof lol)

Posted on 2021-01-16, 01:46

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

DOS 3 (or even DOS 4) itself doesn't support something like that, however, there were things like Quarterdeck's QEMM and QRAM, Helix's Netroom, and Qualitas's 386Max that were capable of moving all kinds of stuff around. In many cases, they would work with DOS 3.3 or even 3.2. Official support for …

Re: Prince Of Persia and GODS sound issues with IPC IPS16

Posted on 2017-07-18, 01:45

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The crackling on Gods seems to be when there is something fading in/out. Have you played around with the graphics card settings? Specifically the palette snoop and bus mastering settings. Now I'm also wondering what the gfx card is. Oh, and it's not unheard of for interference to be audible …

Re: Automate exiting of Windows 3.1 post-EXE launch

Posted on 2013-12-02, 18:04

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

What game is it?

Re: Automate exiting of Windows 3.1 post-EXE launch

Posted on 2013-12-01, 20:47

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

WinG shouldn't have any trouble with it. Most likely, there's a problem with the current directory for certain programs. Be sure to read the instructions on my blog at http://www.shdon.com/blog/2013/05/25/update-to-runexit-tool

Re: Problem with running King's Quest 6

Posted on 2013-06-14, 16:04

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Use the "re:" button at the bottom right of a post, rather than using quick reply, if you need to attach something.

Re: enable dongle licence check under DOSbox

Posted on 2013-06-13, 14:32

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

That's a very weird batch file. At any rate, it's not the batch file that's doing the license check. That would be very easily circumventable. The check is most likely in procad.exe itself. AFAIK, DOSBox does not support access to the real parallel port. While there are some custom versions that …

Re: What did OPL2 cards use before General MIDI?

Posted on 2013-05-30, 20:56

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

The driver software didn't really get involved in MIDI playback for the first few cards. Remember that this was mostly DOS and every program was responsible for its own drivers and instrument definitions. Only when Windows 3 became the de facto standard did the manufacturers of the cards write …

Re: What did OPL2 cards use before General MIDI?

Posted on 2013-05-30, 19:34

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

General MIDI was not an entirely new beast. It defined the standard bank of instruments and percussion, as well as mandated a minimum of 24-sound polyphony (part melody, part percussion). The protocol itself that takes care of exchanging messages between different devices, however, is simply MIDI …

Re: Roland MT-32 comparison video

Posted on 2011-07-09, 15:50

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

What's up with sysex buffer?It says it is too small when I try to send those sysex messages from the exact same game (Akumajo Dracula x68000 for SHARP x68000) with MIDIOX.And the game itself has problems loading some instruments to the MT-32 emulator. The speed at which the sysex data is sent is …

Re: SDL patch (fixes memory leak in DirectDraw backend)

Posted on 2011-03-23, 08:15

in DOSBox Patches

in DOSBox Patches

This has nothing to do with the speed of mode switching. All it does is fix one memory leak when using DirectDraw. It does absolutely nothing with OpenGL. Any improvements in speed are purely coincidental except in edge cases and are much more likely due to your graphics card driver. This is not a …

Re: Quite a SCI-FI thing

Posted on 2011-03-14, 20:52

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

OMG I so want one of these. It would freak out so many people 😁

Re: Close but no cigar

Posted on 2010-12-29, 03:16

in Windows

in Windows

SKARDAVNELNATE wrote: I don't know how you managed to do this if you were replying within a thread. How about by clicking the "new" button to the left of the "re:" button under every post 😉

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