Re: List of Currently Free Games
Posted on 2023-06-21, 14:42
GoG - Hell Division (While looking there, I've found another free game called Bloody Hell... also free on Steam)
Re: CD Switch Not Recognised In-Game (Game is the original C&C)
Posted on 2023-06-13, 16:20
I "mixed" the folders to save some space. There are four of them: c:\juegos\c&c is the "installation" folder. It contains this files: c&c.com c&c.exe c&c.pif conquer.ini game.new gdi.bat hmidet.386 hmidrv.386 insticon.exe local.mix nod.bat notes.ico read_me.exe read_me.txt read_me.wri runc&c.exe …
Re: CD Switch Not Recognised In-Game (Game is the original C&C)
Posted on 2023-06-12, 14:59
Not an answer for your question, but... did you know that C&C can be played without discs (I mean, without using any crack)? To do so, you need to copy the files from your CD to a folder, and use the -cd swith, like this: c&c -cdc:\juegos\c&c\cd (where c:\juegos\c&c\cd is where i put my CD files). …
Re: List of Currently Free Games
Posted on 2023-06-07, 04:54
GOG- Twinsen's Little Big Adventure Classic Twinsen's Little Big Adventure 2 Classic If you get the free "DLC" packs, it seems you get access to the full offline installers: https://www.gog.com/en/game/twinsens_little_big_adventure_classic_original_edition https://www.gog.com/en/game/twinsens_ …
Re: VGA cable signal degradation at high resolutions.
Posted on 2023-06-03, 11:45
In my experience, VGA cables are a hit/miss thing when going above 1280x1024. Any cable can fail (thick or thin), so you should get the next one and try again. In any case, I think that this is pointless... most cards and monitors that can do those resolutions have other means of connection (DVI, …
Re: Most disappointing games?
Posted on 2023-05-22, 04:57
What about Megarace? Last week, I've played it for the first time and I think it is (very) overrated. - Bad FMV. Lance Boyle is very overacted, and it doesn't get better on the sequels. - Overuse of FMV. It seems that you can't do anything without seeing some kind of videos (I know that you can …
Re: How will this affect DOSBox development?
Posted on 2023-05-21, 08:42
I guess it won't affect DOSBox at all. It seems that they will drop 16 bits instructions, but DOSBox does not have 16 bits instructions in it's code. The thing is that DOSBox uses 32 or 64 bits instructions to actually emulate the behaviour of the CPU (opposed as virtual machines like Virtualbox or …
Re: Ripping mp3 from games with CD audio tracks?
Posted on 2023-05-14, 08:29
Sorry for the late answer... I've been very busy... Don't know if it's useful to you, but I know that bchunk (linux) will convert bin/cue to a data ISO + individual music tracks in .wav format. Thanks. One of my goals was preserving some DOS games, so I wanted to do a cue/bin image and a (smaller) …
Ripping mp3 from games with CD audio tracks?
Posted on 2023-05-06, 06:58
I'm going through my games collection and I wanted to rip the soundtrack of some games that had CD audio (using fre:ac). So far, I've found this problems: 1.- No cddb info for most games. I wanted my mp3 to have tags with titles... but it seems that info is not in (default) cddb database. Does …
Re: targeting PC DOS 1.0 - how do you open files?
Posted on 2023-04-25, 04:55
AFAIR: - DOS 1.0 did not support directories nor hard disks; I highly recommend targetting DOS 2.x (or better 3.x) so you can support both directories and handles. - You have to build your own FCB before trying to open the file; then the OS will inform you if the file was opened succesfully. - FCB …
Re: Running DOS games in a real hardware. What issues am I going to encounter?
Posted on 2023-04-23, 10:39
And I wonder if there is a solution for this CPU/too fast problem other than emulation, or several computers. There are some slowdown utilities than can help (i.e.: moslo). Also, Jazz Jackrabbit will fail at around 200Mhz, but there are some utilities to patch it (look for borland error 200, or …
Re: Carmageddon looks terrible
Posted on 2023-04-22, 21:10
Carmageddon had options to run at 640x480 and, more important, 3Dfx support. Maybe you're looking at the 3Dfx version.
Re: Floppy disk Image software
Posted on 2023-04-20, 17:50
Wasn't Winimage the one that replaced boot sectors?
Re: Win98SE: Recommended CD player?
Posted on 2023-04-14, 19:01
I tried some CD players, but ended using the one included in Microsoft Powertoys . It took no desktop space and worked just fine. Other players had strange interfaces, big windows or many unneeded features (if you need to access your equaliser on a daily basis, maybe your speaker are not that good). …
Re: Non-standard floppy disk in old system
Posted on 2023-04-13, 17:46
Looking at SAMdisk formats... .lif — HP Logical Interchange Format (77/2/16/256). Does it ring any bell?
Re: Non-standard floppy disk in old system
Posted on 2023-04-13, 17:42
Remember that floppies: - Don't have to be formatted at 512 bytes per sector. Maybe those floppies are formatted at 256 bytes per sector. - Don't have to start sector numbering at 0. If you've got a internal floppy disk (=not USB!), you may try samdisk to dump them. Note that "raw" disk images don't …
Re: Annoying bug in printer scheduler for HP inkjet. Have to stop and start spooler to manually deleting in spooler fol
Posted on 2023-04-03, 04:56
I'm not sure that the printer is at fault here. The print spooler is usually part of your OS, so I think that you have some kind of communication problem. Some things to try: - Change your USB cable. It may be failijng. - Uninstall/reinstall your drivers. When uninstalling, be sure that the drivers …
Re: Annoying bug in printer scheduler for HP inkjet. Have to stop and start spooler to manually deleting in spooler fol
Posted on 2023-04-02, 07:49
Is your printer connected via network, parallel or USB? If it is connected via LPR or TCP/IP, check your options (which port does it use, if it starts printing when the first page is sent, lpr bytes count and lpr status). AFAIR, Windows can "hang" printing if it is expecting some kind of lpr status …
Re: After 40+ years of home printer technology, what have we learned?
Posted on 2023-03-31, 05:04
ARE there any good inkjets? Were there any at some point? Are they all that bad? Yes, if you understand some limitations. The most important one is that injectors will fail if unused for a time, so any inkjet will fail if left unused for a few months. I recommend to print a colour page every week …
Re: Terminal Velocity Boosted Edition
Posted on 2023-03-27, 04:56
TV did have high-res textures IF and only IF you had the CD-ROM version, and the high res textures were only really used on spots that had buildings on them, the so called "satellite picture" textures I like to call them because it looks like a birds eye view from a satellite camera. F!ZONE had way …
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