Re: Space Quest 1 VGA Sound Format
Posted on Yesterday, 09:38
Great! I checked my copy of Space Quest 1 VGA and could not find any audio files. I am curious as to what you will find! 😀
Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?
Posted on 2024-05-03, 19:39
@Jo22: Sounds like that stuff would run slow as heck on such systems. 😀
Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?
Posted on 2024-05-03, 18:39
I don't really have much to add other than the fact it surprises me there's anyhting at all that uses SVGA and still works on a 286. Why are you looking specifically for stuff for a 286? btw: While not a game, Deluxe Paint should work on a 286 and support SVGA.
Re: Space Quest 1 VGA Sound Format
Posted on 2024-05-03, 09:34
https://sciprogramming.com/scitools.php?id=2 There should be a tool for extracting resources (including sq1 audio) from SCI games.
Re: Windows 3.1 Must Have Software -
Posted on 2024-05-01, 09:28
My must have Windows 3.1x software? Visual Basic 3.0, Microsoft Office 4.0, Paint Shop Pro 4.0 and some stuff I can't remember atm probably.
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-26, 09:30
@mkarcher: yeah I get it, once I know what is C library code I will need to start to figure out what application function does what. C functions are pretty standardized but the code specific to the application is not. However even though the version of Cartooners I am reverse engineneering is a MS- …
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-24, 09:45
Thank you llm. That looks useful. 😀
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-23, 07:04
Yes, I don't want to waste too much time on the C functions, because like you said they're already documented and I suspect some of them aren't even called by Cartooners. And you're absolutely right, if I want to modify Cartooners my focus should be on the application code. However, have a limited …
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-22, 18:45
I think I understand now. My copy of stat.h refers to "System V" so dtoxmode basically converts between MS-DOS file attributes and Unix/Linux (POSIX?) file attributes and has to refer to the .bat, .com and .exe extensions because MS-DOS doesn't have an "executable" attribute like Linux/Unix (POSIX?) …
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-22, 12:35
Yes, I am aware of what compiler was used and those extensions being mentioned in the data section. Are you saying dtoxmode refers to that particular data? I will look at the source code you linked to later. No, I am not looking for file interaction per se, I just wanted to know what dtoxmode does. …
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-21, 13:04
I found a reference in the IDAPro assembly code to a function called "dtoxmode" but I can't find any information about it online. Has anyone ever heard of it? The assembly code in question is attached a post by llm in this thread.
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-20, 17:13
Those boring dead results are quite useful. Perhaps I will some day try IDAPro again. For now I am hoping to learn enough about Cartooners to be able to make useful changes to the executable, which is going to be a lot of work.
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-19, 18:02
@llm: I have gotten around to looking at the disassembled code you generated with IDAPro, it's a great help! I have made a lot of progress figuring out all that assembly code. Thank you! 😀
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-17, 17:51
@llm: goes to show how things have progressed. 😀
Re: Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-16, 18:46
@VileR: Yes that is worth considering. @llm: I used the Netwide Disassembler after unpacking Cartoons.exe with my own custom unpacker. And yes, it works because Cartoons.exe runs fine after unpacking. I will look at the stuff you provided once I have some time. btw: Here is my unpacker which is …
Looking for help with analyzing disassembled code->
Posted on 2024-04-16, 17:38
Okay, so I have disassembled an MS-DOS old game (Cartooners) which was compiled using the Microsoft C 5.10 compiler. With some effort I managed to identify a few parts as a C functions for example: 000241C0 55 PUSH BP 000241C1 8BEC MOV BP, SP 000241C3 8CC0 MOV AX, ES 000241C5 C45E06 LES [BP +0x06], …
Re: DOSBox-X branch
Posted on 2024-03-02, 20:38
Hopefully, this is the right place to ask this, this time. Anyway: Curious as how to use the OPEN COM statement found in many older BASIC dialects I wrote this quick piece of code based on an example: OPEN "COM1:9600,N,8,1,BIN" FOR OUTPUT AS #1 PRINT #1, "Hi!" CLOSE #1 In my DOSBox-X config file I …
OPEN COM and DOSBox-X question.
Posted on 2024-03-02, 13:46
Curious as how to use the OPEN COM statement found in many older BASIC dialects I wrote this quick piece of code based on an example: OPEN "COM1:9600,N,8,1,BIN" FOR OUTPUT AS #1 PRINT #1, "Hi!" CLOSE #1 In my DOSBox-X config file I have this line: serial1 = file file:output1.txt timeout:1000 …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-02-26, 19:14
Anyone remember ISAM from VBDOS/QBX 7.1? OPTION EXPLICIT DEFINT A-Z TYPE NumberStr Number AS STRING * 10 END TYPE DECLARE SUB CreateDataBase (Numbers() AS NumberStr) DECLARE SUB DeleteNumberTable () DECLARE SUB DisplayDatabase () DECLARE SUB ReadNumberList (Numbers() AS NumberStr) DIM Numbers() AS …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-02-25, 19:26
And here is the final version of DOSPad. See my earlier posts in this thread for more info. 😀
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