Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-31, 04:07

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by Gene Wirchenko

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Lost: a very useful feature: last signon. I used this to determine how far to go back. Now, I will have to make a note of this somewhere. Last login date is in the profile menu at the top right of every page. So it is. Thank you. (It used to be displayed without any need to hunt for it.) Another …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-31, 03:56

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by Gene Wirchenko

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Lost: a very useful feature: last signon. I used this to determine how far to go back. Now, I will have to make a note of this somewhere.

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Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated

Posted on 2019-12-10, 01:21

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by Gene Wirchenko

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Good luck with the upgrade. I hope most of us consider it to be an upgrade, but I suppose we will not know until we see it. Is there any chance you can run the change in parallel?

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Re: can not exit without typing exit

Posted on 2019-05-19, 05:23

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by Gene Wirchenko

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Quite interesting for what you use DOSBox Gene. May i ask that is like i would start an emulated miggy to run Micro EMacs to edit in a complicated way a text. Pardon me, maybe you need not to be observed. I like a WordStar-style editor. For me, it work a lot better than a GUI editor. Also what i …

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Re: Help in configuration DOSBOX

Posted on 2019-05-06, 23:41

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by Gene Wirchenko

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collector wrote: Note that Megabuild is *very* old and completely unsupported. It should never be recommended. I have been happily using it for years to get printer output from MS-DOS programs. What should I be using, and why is it better?

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Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.

Posted on 2019-05-06, 23:31

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by Gene Wirchenko

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Early microcomputers had very primitive POST that did not take much time. Superboard II and PET 2001, the first microcomputers I played with more than 40 years ago, had practically insta-POST. The original Apple II even dropped you in the monitor ROM, with no POST or initialization at all. Even the …

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Re: can not exit without typing exit

Posted on 2019-04-26, 00:18

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by Gene Wirchenko

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I usually use DOSBox to run a text editor, but I also use it to prepare some .zip files to send to my boss. (Insert standard warning about DOSBox being for games.) My code gives a series of commands to DOSBox then exits. The command I run from the DBMS is (lightly edited): "C:\Program Files (x86)\ …

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Re: How does Dosbox manage to get so much performance in it's interpreting CPU emulation?

Posted on 2019-04-09, 18:59

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by Gene Wirchenko

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So the up-shot is cheating^Wclever optimisation. Well done.

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Re: DOSBox Editor

Posted on 2019-04-05, 17:51

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by Gene Wirchenko

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I use VDE (a WordStar derivative) under DOSBox. It works fine.. I downloaded it from: https://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home/vde-files

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Re: Dirtiest PCs showcase [Viewers discretion advised]

Posted on 2019-02-21, 04:29

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by Gene Wirchenko

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry, no photos, but I had a system where the venting must have been poorly designed. The system sucked air through my tape drive, and the dust ended up killing the drive.

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Re: programming environment for dos

Posted on 2019-02-21, 04:05

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by Gene Wirchenko

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vvbee wrote: For showing how tough life was, there sure is a lot of nit-picking. How else are you going to build character?

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Re: need info on m$ quickbasic

Posted on 2019-02-21, 03:48

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by Gene Wirchenko

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cyclone3d wrote: So did some more searching and from what I can find, multiple places say that MS just renamed the Basic compiler to Quick Basic. http://www.pldos.pl/basic/basic.htm http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msbasv.htm That is my impression, too.

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Re: What was the first DOS game that required a hard drive?

Posted on 2019-02-06, 18:21

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by Gene Wirchenko

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bristlehog wrote: Some games work with file cache and thus won't run without a hard drive. For example, Magic Carpet II: Netherworlds creates C:\NETHERW folder with some temporary files, and its location is not changeable AFAIK. Thus I think it won't run without a HDD. There is the SUBST command.

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Re: What was the first DOS game that required a hard drive?

Posted on 2019-02-06, 18:18

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by Gene Wirchenko

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I, too, don't remember any games that allowed for installing only a little bit and reading the rest off of the floppies, but it seems like a natural hybrid that some developer might've at least tried at some point. I remember that the worst part of disk swapping was the frequent need for Disk 1/A. …

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Re: Printing from inside DOSBox

Posted on 2019-01-29, 05:54

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by Gene Wirchenko

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Hi, I have searched the internet and the forum and am fairly sure this question has been asked and answered before but I can't seem to find it. Is it possible to print (just text, no graphics) from inside DOSBox to the printer connected to my Windows 7 pc? I am playing with an old Quick Basic …

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Re: Why can't I send private messages?

Posted on 2019-01-29, 05:41

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by Gene Wirchenko

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GordonFreeman wrote: This is no longer an issue. If a mod could delete this topic, that would be good. Actually, I have been here for quite some time and did not know that I could send private messages. Maybe, there are more of us. Thank you for bringing up the topic. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: speed up the cpu

Posted on 2019-01-23, 20:45

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by Gene Wirchenko

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In DOSBox: Ctrl+F1 => opens DOSBox keymapper Ctrl+F11 => decreases CPU cycles Ctrl+F12 => increases CPU cycles You can modify all of those keyboard mappings in the keymapper. You can also use the cycles command to set the cycles to a particular value. This can be done at the DOS prompt or in the …

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Re: Strange TIME

Posted on 2019-01-02, 04:10

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by Gene Wirchenko

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Hi, I'm using a program written in Quick Basic. The instruction TIME$ has these strange behaviors: 1. after midnight the time looks like this 24:10:15 (or 33:20:12 the next day) 2. the Time showed doesn't match with the time of Windows for example DOSBox time is 19:02:00 while Windows time is 19:07 …

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Re: Famous computer slogans and quotes ?

Posted on 2018-12-24, 07:19

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by Gene Wirchenko

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"dBASE vs. the bilge pumps": The ad body opens with a statement that we all know that bilge pumps suck and so does a lot of software. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: Cant istal multiple IMA images

Posted on 2018-12-12, 21:34

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by Gene Wirchenko

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SergeyW wrote: i dont know how to use that shitty command line dosbox Well, maybe you ought to learn it. There are actually very few commands that you need to know. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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