Re: Emperor Battle for Dune question

Posted on 2013-09-18, 19:29

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You don't actually create gholas. IIRC, at some point you'll just receive reinforcements of a limited number of other Houses' units (depending on whom you're going to impersonate) which you then need to use to destroy your targets. That's it. There is no way to build gholas as regular units in …

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Re: People who call their entire computer a "CPU"...

Posted on 2013-09-18, 19:27

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However I recently saw in an old music magazine from the 80's a picture of Chick Corea's synth setup at the time, and the computer tower was labeled the "CPU". I also caught someone use the term in this way in an episode of The Computer Chronicles. (Trying to find the episode where I heard this.) …

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Re: Looking for Pie 3D GCS games

Posted on 2013-09-15, 18:06

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Sorry for bumping this, but I thought I'd mention two more GSC games that seem pretty obscure. Some time ago I was randomly browsing cd.textfiles.com and on a PSL Monthly Collection CD I found a game called SARGENT BLOOD ALIEN CHALLENGE (that's how the developers spell the title anyway). I didn't …

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Re: Dosbox Heretic inventory problems

Posted on 2013-08-26, 12:23

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robertmo wrote: and also check how you assigned keys in the game Yep, it would probably be reasonable to delete the game config file altogether as well and reconfigure everything from scratch just in case.

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Re: Looking for shareware compilation discs. (CD or Floppy)

Posted on 2013-08-26, 12:20

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E.g. Classic Fond. Oh Russia, never change. :P Yeah, but it's the administration of archive.org that didn't bother to remove the "Classic Fond" images. I wrote to Jason Scott asking him to remove them, and also had this request transmitted via another person who's in contact with the archive.org …

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Re: can DOSbox run smartdrv or any other caching program?

Posted on 2013-07-25, 12:46

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ripsaw8080, thanks a lot for the detailed answer!

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Re: can DOSbox run smartdrv or any other caching program?

Posted on 2013-07-24, 22:45

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How about Qbix' answer just above your post? It doesn't explain if the games that were originally supposed to perform better with a disk caching utility will do so when DOSBox uses host OS caching, and I don't have enough knowledge of the matter to figure it out on my own. The game that has the use …

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Re: can DOSbox run smartdrv or any other caching program?

Posted on 2013-07-23, 13:30

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Sorry for bumping this, but it seems more appropriate that to start a new thread. Not long ago I was running a game through DOSBox that had it absolutely necessary to access SmartDrive to work, because apparently the developers had thought that this would optimize performance on existing hardware …

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Re: Daggerfall CVS Build by Ykhwong

Posted on 2013-07-19, 22:16

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Out of curiosity, I did some testing with the old builds and settings as suggested in DaGrooved1's guide, but it seems that the vanilla DOSBox build v0.74 has better performance anyway. enclose your dosbox.conf I usually go by something like this (only modified parameters): [sdl] fullscreen=true …

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Re: Daggerfall CVS Build by Ykhwong

Posted on 2013-07-15, 13:12

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Sorry for bumping this but I since I've been using some of Daum Cafe DOSBox CVN builds, and never heard of one specifically designed to run Daggerfall , this thread had caught my attention. From what information I could find, the build in question is actually one of Gulikoza's builds, available here …

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Re: Prince of Persia 2 remake

Posted on 2013-07-08, 14:39

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The visuals look nice but I'm not overly excited. TBH, I like the first PoP more than the sequel, and I wish the did something like the much enhanced SNES port that kept the feel of the original game while adding tons of new content. On a vaguely related note, I wonder why no one has yet made a free …

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Re: Blackthorne versions

Posted on 2013-07-07, 01:18

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IIRC the game was released under the title BlackHawk in some regions.

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Re: Options you change in games

Posted on 2013-07-05, 16:36

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In FPS games like Duke Nukem 3D , Descent or Radix , I might change the controls to the WASD scheme if I feel like it (more probably for Descent , "on foot" FPS games usually play well with the default arrow keys controls). Sometimes I'd also invert the mouse Y axis, but after having some experience …

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Re: How to determine max CPU cycles DOSBox can emulate from real CPU clock rate

Posted on 2013-06-16, 00:51

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Thanks for the explanation! What about the timesynched feature? Was it dropped because it didn't work as intended? (Sorry if this is covered elsewhere, I dind't find anything on this topic as of yet.)

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Re: How to determine max CPU cycles DOSBox can emulate from real CPU clock rate

Posted on 2013-06-14, 12:41

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I hope I'm not anooying you guys, but how does the max cycles function work then? Does it do some math to determine maximum cycles? Does it increase cycles until some feedback from the actual machine tells it to stop? Oh, an by the way (hope this isn't considered off-topic): some earlier SVN builds …

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Re: How to determine max CPU cycles DOSBox can emulate from real CPU clock rate

Posted on 2013-06-10, 17:19

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Hmm, I haven't though that some games might be more demanding than others in this respect as well. Thanks guys! But sound stuttering is a symptom of CPU overclocking, right? I mean, if the sound begins to stutter this always means that cycles are too high, or not?

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Re: How to determine max CPU cycles DOSBox can emulate from real CPU clock rate

Posted on 2013-06-10, 16:39

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Well, what people do then to determine the maximum available amount of cycles? One of the reasons I've started to wonder about this is the following: this Ancien DOS Games review states that to get a performance increase in Thor's Hammer , one needs to up the cycles to 50,000 or so. The author …

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Re: How to determine max CPU cycles DOSBox can emulate from real CPU clock rate

Posted on 2013-06-10, 16:17

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It depends on the game as well. (more precisely on the complexity of the instructions used by the game) Hmm, do you mean that the amount of emulated cycles varies according to what programme is loaded into memory inside DOSBox (on the cycles=max setting that is), or that the performance of the …

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Re: How to determine max CPU cycles DOSBox can emulate from real CPU clock rate

Posted on 2013-06-10, 15:06

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Thanks for the swift reply. I'd be grateful though if you elaborated a bit. If the cycles=max function does work, then it does return some estimate (or exact value maybe?) from the actual hardware to DOSBox to emulate a certain amount of cycles accordingly, right? Or maybe there are rough estimates …

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How to determine max CPU cycles DOSBox can emulate from real CPU clock rate

Posted on 2013-06-10, 14:53

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I've been wondering, is there any reliable way of inferring the maximum amount of CPU cycles DOSBox can emulate on a particular machine from its CPU clock rate? I'm using cycles=max since this feature had been first introduced, but I've never given any thought to how many cycles this actually is on …

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