Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2019-11-11, 10:39

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by Peter Swinkels

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Nice, I remember writing my own program launcher. Do you have the source code available or do you prefer not to share it? I looked at your batch file that came with it: REM Help the user if they're not in the correct directory. IF NOT EXIST LAUNCHBX.EXE ECHO. IF NOT EXIST LAUNCHBX.EXE ECHO You have …

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Re: Most user friendly Programming Language, Tools and IDE for developing software for DOS in 2019?

Posted on 2019-11-11, 10:24

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by Peter Swinkels

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A few of my favorite BASIC versions for DOS: GWBasic 3.23 Qbasic 1.0/1.1 Quick Basic 4.5/7.1 Visual Basic for DOS 1.0 An easy (IMHO) to use assembler for DOS: Netwide Assembler. You might want to get Help PC along with these. It's pretty useful for referencing info on low level stuff.

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

Posted on 2019-11-08, 15:51

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by Peter Swinkels

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Using it on your phone or tablet is kind of like having a limited version of DOSBox. :-) What's the point of that when you can use a full port of DOSBox instead? It's not really a limited version of DOSBox. The point is that if that sort of thing interests you can use a really old DOS like OS, …

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

Posted on 2019-11-08, 14:53

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by Peter Swinkels

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Has anyone here ever heard of or used an IOS app/Windows program called iAltair by Peter Schorn? It's an emulator that either emulates a version of CP/M or MS-DOS 1.25 on a 8080/8086/Z80 CPU. Using it on your phone or tablet is kind of like having a limited version of DOSBox. :-) Some of the …

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

Posted on 2019-11-06, 19:27

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by Peter Swinkels

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bjwil1991 wrote: I'm going to try it out on my 486 desktop and Pentium 90 laptop. Will this work with a joystick as well or only the keyboard? Assuming you mean the games I just posted, no neither require or support a joystick. Don't expect anything spectacular. Feel free to modify the code as you …

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

Posted on 2019-11-06, 18:56

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by Peter Swinkels

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Improved version of a Qbasic Tetris clone I posted a few weeks ago: DEFINT A-Z DECLARE FUNCTION GetRotatedShapeMap$ (Shape, Angle) DECLARE FUNCTION GetShapeMap$ (Shape) DECLARE FUNCTION RandomShapeX () DECLARE FUNCTION ShapeCanMove (Map$, XDirection, YDirection) DECLARE SUB CheckForFullRows () …

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

Posted on 2019-11-06, 16:56

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by Peter Swinkels

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In the reply to my last post I read someone mentioned approving of Qbasic programming. So here's some more stuff I made: DEFINT A-Z DECLARE SUB ComputerMakeMove () DECLARE SUB DisplayHelp () DECLARE SUB DrawDisk (Column, Row, ColorO) DECLARE SUB DrawDisks () DECLARE SUB DropDisk (Column, ColorO) …

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

Posted on 2019-10-23, 19:17

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by Peter Swinkels

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My retro activity? I was bored and cobbled a rudimentary Tetris clone together in Qbasic/Quick Basic (should also work in Visual Basic for DOS): DEFINT A-Z DECLARE FUNCTION CanMove (Map$, XDirection, YDirection) DECLARE FUNCTION GetRotatedShapeMap$ (Shape, Angle) DECLARE FUNCTION GetShapeMap$ ( …

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

Posted on 2019-10-22, 14:37

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by Peter Swinkels

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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My retro activity? I was bored and cobbled a rudimentary Tetris clone together in Qbasic/Quick Basic (should also work in Visual Basic for DOS): DEFINT A-Z DECLARE FUNCTION CanMove (Map$, XDirection, YDirection) DECLARE FUNCTION GetRotatedShapeMap$ (Shape, Angle) DECLARE FUNCTION GetShapeMap$ (Shape …

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Re: Loading and running DOSBox source code in Visual Studio

Posted on 2019-05-28, 12:37

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by Peter Swinkels

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"Additional library directories" should be paths to the directories that hold the libs, not the libs themselves. I must be an idiot, now I get this: Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol __imp____iob_func referenced in function _ …

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Re: Loading and running DOSBox source code in Visual Studio

Posted on 2019-05-28, 11:45

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by Peter Swinkels

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If you don't want/need the features that use these extra libraries you can just disable their defines in platform/visualc/config.h rather than hunting down dependencies. Hi, thanks that seemed to have worked. Now I get this: Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error …

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Re: Loading and running DOSBox source code in Visual Studio

Posted on 2019-05-27, 12:30

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by Peter Swinkels

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getting sdl_net ? that is a different library. (see the wiki page you linked. the optional library) Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'pnglibconf.h': No such file or directory dosbox D:\Other\DosBox\lpng1634\png.h 361 Seems, I missed …

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Re: Loading and running DOSBox source code in Visual Studio

Posted on 2019-05-26, 17:29

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by Peter Swinkels

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you need SDL1.2 not SDL2 Thank you, that helped. Now I have 20 errors: Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'SDL_net.h': No such file or directory dosbox D:\dosbox-0.74-2\include\ipxserver.h 24 Error C1083 Cannot open include file: 'SDL …

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Loading and running DOSBox source code in Visual Studio

Posted on 2019-05-26, 14:17

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by Peter Swinkels

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Okay, I downloaded and extracted dosbox-0.74-2.tar.gz and SDL2-devel-2.0.9-VC.zip. After that I: 1. open D:\dosbox-0.74-2\visualc_net\dosbox.sln in Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. 2. Allow Visual Studio to upgrade the project. 3. Notice that there are references to "SDL_lib.h" when attempting to build …

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Would anyone like to help disassembling an old MS-DOS game's driver files?

Posted on 2019-05-19, 13:30

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by Peter Swinkels

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Hi, As stated in the title, I have been busy trying to figure out the inner workings of an old MS-DOS game (Cartooners) and am looking for someone to help me with a few driver files that I can't figure out myself. Several people on various sites have already been kind of enough to help out, and …

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Re: DOSBox debugger - my laptop has no pause key->

Posted on 2019-05-16, 08:59

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by Peter Swinkels

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Those are all good suggestions! Thank you, every one. ps: The laptop was borrowed. Now using my own pc again. 😀

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DOSBox debugger - my laptop has no pause key->

Posted on 2019-05-07, 07:35

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by Peter Swinkels

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Hi, As stated in the subject line, I am trying to use the DOSBox debugger on a laptop which does not have a full keyboard. This means there's no pause key to be found (and no it's not FN+some other key) and I am unable to pause DOSBox for debugging. While changing the keybindings in DOSBox does give …

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Re: EA Cartooners versions, which one works best?

Posted on 2019-05-03, 20:23

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by Peter Swinkels

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Calvero wrote: I can confirm it does run on a 286. Okay, but can anyone verify it won’t work properly on a 8086/8088/80186?

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Re: EA Cartooners versions, which one works best?

Posted on 2019-04-24, 09:50

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by Peter Swinkels

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Hi, Is anyone familiar with this old EA title? It seems to have different versions, but I'm wondering if there's one that works best, as I've seen they have memory management issues that screws up the playing cartoon. Yes, I am aware this is a two year old post. But, to the op and anyone else who …

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Printing from inside DOSBox

Posted on 2019-01-25, 16:00

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by Peter Swinkels

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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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