Re: Looking for two specific Sound Fonts: Timbres Of Heaven GM_GS_XG_SFX V 3.1 Final !X.sf2 and ProteusGM

Posted on 2024-02-25, 22:27

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by TomVDJ

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I want to revive this thread, as I'm still looking for those soundfonts. Maybe after all these years, I have more luck?

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Re: 5.25" floppy drive doesn't read most of my old floppies.

Posted on 2023-05-12, 09:16

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by TomVDJ

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OK, little update: I cleaned the reading heads with cleaning solution and I have some progress: - Where I could not completely read any disk before (only the index, but always got errors when making an image), I can now read 360 kB disks without a lot of problems (a few are damaged, apparently, but …

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Re: 5.25" floppy drive doesn't read most of my old floppies.

Posted on 2023-05-09, 09:28

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by TomVDJ

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Thanks for the tips. Don't know if the reading heads are easily accessible. I'll take a look and if they are, I'll try cleaning them. Will also try formatting a floppy and see how write and read action is on that one.

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5.25" floppy drive doesn't read most of my old floppies.

Posted on 2023-05-09, 08:20

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by TomVDJ

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I have quite some old 5.25" floppies, some of them "originals". I recently placed an old 5.25" floppy drive into an old Windows XP PC, with the single purpose of reading out my old floppies. I enabled the drive as a 5.25" 1.2 MB drive (which it is) in the Bios of the machine, and the light lights up …

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Re: X-Wing floppy version <> X-Wing Collector's CD: cutscene improvements?

Posted on 2022-06-18, 09:20

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by TomVDJ

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In the meanwhile I noticed that the music / sound is quite a bit different. Visually I didn't see any change to be honest. Also noticed that all the briefings are spoken in the CD-rom version. This was not the case in the floppy version.

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X-Wing floppy version <> X-Wing Collector's CD: cutscene improvements?

Posted on 2022-06-12, 16:43

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by TomVDJ

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I have both floppy version of X-Wing (+ floppies for Imperial Pursuit and B-Wing) and recently got my hands on the X-Wing Collector's CD. This CD has X-Wing + both expansions and 6 new missions. I read that it also has "improved cutscenes", but I did not see a lot of difference with the cutscenes of …

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Re: Star Wars: X-Wing (B-Wing Tour of Duty)

Posted on 2022-06-10, 09:00

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by TomVDJ

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Oh man, I know this is a super old thread, but I recently installed X-Wing and both expansions (got them all in mind big boxes from eBay), and noticed the same issue with the B-Wing expansion. Thanks a million of this info! Worked like a charm. Strange that these files were not overwritten by DosBox …

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Re: Rescue Rover and Rescue Rover 2 do not detect soundblaster in DosBox

Posted on 2021-06-18, 09:57

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by TomVDJ

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Perfect. Thanks for the clarification!

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Re: Rescue Rover and Rescue Rover 2 do not detect soundblaster in DosBox

Posted on 2021-06-18, 09:38

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by TomVDJ

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So the info here is also not correct, then? https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/rescue-rover-2/techinfo

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Re: Rescue Rover and Rescue Rover 2 do not detect soundblaster in DosBox

Posted on 2021-06-18, 09:01

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by TomVDJ

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You are right about Rover 1 (didn't actually looked at that one). But for Rover 2, the readme states: "If you have an AdLib, Sound Blaster, or Sound Source, you can choose to have the sound effects play on them." Also the in-game menu has an option to use AdLib or Sound Blaster (both greyed out, …

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Rescue Rover and Rescue Rover 2 do not detect soundblaster in DosBox

Posted on 2021-06-18, 06:43

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by TomVDJ

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I "rediscovered" these puzzle games on the Id Anthology CD collection, but they don't seem to be detecting the SoundBlaster when running them in dosbox. Somebody has an idea how I can get this to work? I have tons of other games working in the same dosbox configuration that use the soundblaster.

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Re: How to get black borders around a fixed (non-scaled) resolution in full screen.

Posted on 2021-03-29, 19:50

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by TomVDJ

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If you really want no scaling set output=surface and fullresolution to whatever your desktop resolution is. The output will be a tiny little window surrounded by borders... Perfect! That's what I was looking for. Thanks! Indeed with 640x480 it's tiny, but I'll probably use it most of the time with …

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Re: How to get black borders around a fixed (non-scaled) resolution in full screen.

Posted on 2021-03-29, 18:57

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by TomVDJ

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Using an NVidea card. It can do this, but I thought DosBox was able to do this too? Would be much easier if I could do this in the config file, than having to manually change the resolution of the host PC every time (and switching it back afterwards). With these parameters you can nicely double the …

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How to get black borders around a fixed (non-scaled) resolution in full screen.

Posted on 2021-03-29, 18:04

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by TomVDJ

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I'd like to have black borders around a fixed (non-scaled) resolution (640 x 480, 800 x 600 or 1280 x 1024) when in full-screen mode. I don't seem to find how to do this. DosBox tries to stretch my screen and I don't want that. I want the exact resolution, with the rest of the screen filled with …

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Re: Looking for a shader that mimics the Pixel Perfect Patch behaviour

Posted on 2021-01-21, 09:51

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by TomVDJ

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Just to be clear: No shaders are "built in" into ECE whatsoever. Strange, because in the config file they state: # glshader: Path to GLSL shader source to use with OpenGL output ("none" to disable). # Can be either an absolute path, a file in the "glshaders" subdirectory # of the DOSBox …

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Full screen screenshot in Dosbox with a shader enabled?

Posted on 2021-01-20, 10:24

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by TomVDJ

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I tried to take a screenshot of a game running full-screen, using a glshader. I want to capture how the game is represented full-screen, so I tried PrintScreen, Alt+PrintScreen, but don't get the desired result. The output I get is in attachment. Is it possible to take such a screenshot of how my …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2021-01-17, 19:19

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by TomVDJ

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No, the developer of the patch stopped with development. The latest version is not compatible with the machine=vgaonly setting, unfortunately... I guess a shader (these seem all to be compatible with vgaonly) that does the exact same thing would be my best option...

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Looking for a shader that mimics the Pixel Perfect Patch behaviour

Posted on 2021-01-17, 09:17

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by TomVDJ

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As the subject says: I'm looking for a shader that will do the same as the Pixel Perfect Patch that was available in older versions of ECE. What is basically did was: - Take into consideration the max resolution of the monitor. - Integer scale width and height independantly so an as big as possible …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2021-01-17, 09:00

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by TomVDJ

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the target resolution must be 4:3, and it must have some integer path to get there. Yep, looks to me that's the big difference with the PPP: the PPP does not require the aspect ratio to be exactly 4:3. It will try to get as close as possible to that aspect ratio, but also takes into account the max …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2021-01-16, 20:14

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by TomVDJ

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My monitors full resolution is 1920 x 1080. The sharp shader works fine So just to be clear: the sharp shader is supposed to handle a 320x200 that has to be on a 1920 x 1080 monitor like this: - multiply width by 4 - multiply height by 5 - resulting in sharp 4x5 pixels - resulting in a 1280 x 1000 …

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