Re: Turok 2 in XP/Vista with Wrappers not working

Posted on 2010-03-20, 18:48

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by danielc

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Dude I never even heard of this nGlide wrapper, thanks a lot for posting it. It's a billion times better than every other wrapper I've tried, works for Turok 2 and Carmageddon 2 and MOTORHEAD and, most of all Outlaws! Thanks!

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Re: Cubase 5 and Sierra Tunes

Posted on 2010-03-19, 18:52

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by danielc

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Erm... yeah agreed, if you're going to use Cubase or a modern sequencer, don't use synthesis and realistic samples if you want to have a nostalgic feeling to it. MIDI is OK I guess, but many games also used Tracker formats (especially Vic 20/Amiga and etc) If you've ever played the games Epic …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2009-11-12, 14:59

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by danielc

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Shader settings: [...] That's great to hear, I think that should be enough to solve it. It's strange and I don't know it was happening for me, I guess it's possible there was a race condition or an overflow somewhere - because it's as if it does scan for shaders but my HQ2x goes back to none. If it …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2009-11-12, 03:16

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by danielc

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Ah of course..... how silly of me. There is still the bug though of Shader Selection (CVS Feature) being randomly reset back to 'None' after editing a profile, but it's not a big deal. While we're on icons though, why do they game icons look so bad? See screenshot attached. I think it has to do with …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2009-11-12, 02:15

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by danielc

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in DOSBox General

I can confirm and have fixed most of the reported rc1 bugs. The only thing that's a bit tricky is the Win7 icon problem: When loading the big, all sizes icon as the application icon, it keeps all versions but when loading the big, all sizes icon as the main window icon, only the 16x16 pixel version …

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Re: IMGMOUNT = No CD Audio in Windows 7?

Posted on 2009-09-04, 08:08

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by danielc

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

It's working now. It would appear my ghost in the machine doesn't like Mode2/XA images and prefers Ogg tracks. Here's the working cuesheet: FILE "RR1_T01.ISO" BINARY TRACK 01 MODE1/2048 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "RR1_T02.OGG" MP3 TRACK 02 AUDIO PREGAP 00:02:00 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE "RR1_T03.OGG" MP3 …

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Re: IMGMOUNT = No CD Audio in Windows 7?

Posted on 2009-09-04, 05:40

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by danielc

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Thanks for that tip Jorpho, I assume you can use that to check if dosbox.exe is actually opening handles to the MP3 file to verify that cd audio is at least being loaded. As soon as I figure out how to make a MODE1/2048 Bin/Cue with MP3-compressed tracks i'll give that a go to make sure. Cheers.

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Re: IMGMOUNT = No CD Audio in Windows 7?

Posted on 2009-09-03, 15:34

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by danielc

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I've checked everything you mentioned and every random thing I can think of (disabling CD drives, running under administrator, etcetera). I'm 99.9% sure there's nothing simple I've missed - mounting the original CD with MOUNT -ioctl_dx works fine - as does mounting this same BIN/CUE with D-Tools …

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Re: IMGMOUNT = No CD Audio in Windows 7?

Posted on 2009-09-03, 14:24

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by danielc

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in DOSBox General

OK so.... what else can I check? Playing a physical music CD in my DVD-RW drive works fine too. Could it be a 64-bit issue? Or is it more likely I have borked codec/driver/os install (willing to admit that). Just thought there might be something i've missed or can check out.

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IMGMOUNT = No CD Audio in Windows 7?

Posted on 2009-09-03, 14:14

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by danielc

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in DOSBox General

Heya guys Well I fired up one of my old games, I can't get cd audio to work which previously worked fine. Nothing changed software wise but I did reinstall a newer build of Windows 7 - the DOSBox install and the game are the same. Something has broken CD audio in all DOSBox games I try, they just …

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Re: IDE Hdd's and 'uneven wear'.... ?

Posted on 2009-08-07, 12:38

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by danielc

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Something to do with how a magnetised harddisk looses its force though use and you get things called "dirty sectors". Hardddisks today are pretty decent, but we had a good decade of #1 chance of pc failure dirty disk and then there'd be the low level format. NTFS helps with health i think too.

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Re: Using HX Extender to emulate more games

Posted on 2009-07-31, 04:39

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by danielc

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Why are you running Quake 2 this way? If you want to run 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit Vista, there is a 32-bit Compatibility Mode where you can tell Vista 64-bit to run the app as if it was on a Windows XP SP2 system. Yeah, original Quake II and it's many impressive source ports work fine on Win7 …

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Re: Xbox/Xbox 360 controllers (XBCD) under Vista x64 SP2?

Posted on 2009-07-31, 04:34

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by danielc

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in Windows

Have you had any luck with XBCD for 360 controllers under x64? I'm prety sure there are plenty, its just a matter of using a Driver Signature bypass such as ReadyDriver Plus (the only one that's 100% safe and working for all versions of Vista and 7) I managed to find an x64 driver for my SIXAXIS, …

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Re: Using HX Extender to emulate more games

Posted on 2009-07-28, 03:45

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by danielc

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I've gotten Quake 2 to work in a Pure MS-DOS 6.22 running under VMWare thanks to HX Extender and the GUI addon. It runs like crap, but it is a good and REAL extender for wrapping Win32 to xDOS environments. Havn't tried it in DOSBox. The main appeal to me about HX is able to play really old Win9x …

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Re: Xbox/Xbox 360 controllers (XBCD) under Vista x64 SP2?

Posted on 2009-07-28, 02:28

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by danielc

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in Windows

No offence, but did anyone ask for a screenshot bragging of a completely unrelated subject? That doesn't have anything to do with Xbox drivers for 64-bit Vista. I know it's an old thread, but the XBCD Drivers have long had an x64 installer that works 100% for Vista and Win7 x64 - I use it myself. …

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Re: Lemmings2 The Tribes for Amiga keeps on giving me a SOFTWARE FAILURE error!

Posted on 2009-06-28, 13:14

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by danielc

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

I love DOS games too, classics like Tyrian and Transport Tycoon are what made me move from an A3000 to a 486. Both platforms have their amazing greats 😜

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Re: Lemmings2 The Tribes for Amiga keeps on giving me a SOFTWARE FAILURE error!

Posted on 2009-06-02, 16:49

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by danielc

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Try it yourself through emulation. Both Lemmings 2 and Lemmings 3 as well as Delphines' Flashback were all originally created on the Amiga, the Sega Megadrive/Genesis versions are also usually good because it has a similar architecture (68000 CPU), but the MS-DOS floppy version of Flashback was …

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Re: Lemmings2 The Tribes for Amiga keeps on giving me a SOFTWARE FAILURE error!

Posted on 2009-06-02, 05:27

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by danielc

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Well... I only say that because I'm an Amiga fan, and naturally have to think it's better in some way =P Well even though the original was on the Amiga, the PC-DOS port was actually not too bad. I remember seeing many games where the PC port had horrible graphics compared to Amiga (Flashback, Mega …

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Re: Run a Windows program from DOSBox

Posted on 2009-04-28, 00:39

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by danielc

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Use HX DOS Extender within DOSBox. How did you get that to work? Best wishes, Oscar Had to boot into MS-DOS 6.22 sadly, that was a while ago though and I had to hack around with 0.70. Havn't tried it in a while, but i'm working on my own "easy pack" of DOSBox GUI/distribution that will have it …

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Re: Strange ALT+TAB bug

Posted on 2009-04-18, 07:14

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by danielc

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Yeah I tried a PS/2 keyboard, still happens. I dunno. Doesn't really matter, it's a minor annoyance - just thought someone might have come across it before is all. Thanks guys 😀

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