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Line Wars 2 with S3 acceleration?

So I was trying some old games and I found Line Wars 2 (previously shareware, now freeware ). It supports a (small) variety of graphics cards, MCGA (Standard VGA), VGA (320x480, mode X), VESA (640x480), S3 (800x600) and ATI Mach 8 (800x600). My Dosbox.conf file include the line machine=svga_s3 so it …

Re: PCem v17

Thanks. PCem started as a "niche" emulator that allowed many people remember the first PCs... a golden age when you everybody tried to make their own PC and didn't use non-descriptive cases. Now, it has surpassed every expectation and fills a very important gap (the Windows 9x era games are being …

Re: PCem v17

The forums are worse. They've been deleted and the page only says: Information I'm done. This isn't fun anymore. Lately, Sarah Walker was thinking about leaving PCem and going into other projects. Someone mentioned 86box and awaken some bad memories from the past. So it seems that: - Someone hacked …

Re: Should I make my own mount utility?

Sorry, but I made a mess of a post up there... what I meant was "virtual" paths (inside Dosbox), opposed to "real" paths (on the computer HDDs). An example (trying to make my intentions clearer): I've got Dosbox installed on c:\program files\dosbox. My Dosbox data directory (a.k.a. virtual HDD) is …

Should I make my own mount utility?

I've been installing some old games in Dosbox, and I've found that "mount" is a miracle tool that easily does better job than 0cd and fakecd. But sadly, "mount" needs absolute paths and Dosbox shell can not use environment variables. Let's talk about Fast Attack (Sierra). To make it work, I've …

Re: Digital cameras

in Milliways
I like old digital cameras when back then they were improving so fast and with great models. I remember my old Canon A70 a 3,2MP compact camera that worked perfectly and it was really a good camera for its times. I still have the next one I bought after that, a Fujifilm S5500 that costed quite a …

Re: DirectX compatibility?

in Windows
A few more things that I've found... I haven't found any file from DirectX Media on any DirectX installer (i.e.: danim.dll or ir41_32.ax), so I guess that DirectX Media never was included with DirectX. Maybe it was included on Windows Media Player installers (because it was the successor to …

DirectX compatibility?

in Windows
I was doing a list of compatibility for Windows retro machines, and I've got some doubts with DirectX. This are my notes... Until DirectX 9, higher versions keep compatibility with lower ones. So a PC with DirectX 8 should run every game that requires DirectX 5 (more about that later). From Vista …

Re: What better system for me? Win95c or Win98SE?

in Windows
- Windows 95 is lighter. - Windows 98 seems to be more stable then Windows 95. - Windows 98 supports FAT32 (=bigger hard disks). - Windows 98 can run (some) DirectX 9 games, while Windows 95 only supports up to DirectX 8. - Windows 98 supports far more hardware than Windows 95. - Windows 98 has ( …

Getting Windows 10 x86 to work on an HP 11-d015ns?

in Windows
I bought this computer about 5 years ago, and it featured an Intel Atom with 2Gb RAM, 32GB eMMC disk and came with Windows 8.1 x64. After a while, it was updated to Windows 10 x64 when it could be done free of charge. It was always sluggish (even with Windows 8.1), and I was thinking about demoting …

Re: [MAME] Mounting disk images?

in PC Emulation
AFAIK, MAME only shows devices that can be actually connected. I guess your system hard disk controller only allows one HDD connected to it, so you'll need to attach another controller to your buses. What MAME system are you trying to use? (BTW, you can test configurations using Scroll Lock to …

Re: Retro flight sim playthroughs

in Milliways
I wonder how many flight simulators had a proper "high resolution" (=640*350) EGA version... also, I wonder if any VGA flight simulator chose 640*480@16 colours instead of 320*200@256 colours.

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