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Re: DOSBox on Vista 64

Posted on 2007-08-11, 08:41

by red_avatar

in DOSBox General

Dosbox works fine here on Vista 64. I'll need to test more to see if it has any speed penalty though.

Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-11, 07:24

by red_avatar

in DOSBox General

They just did an update that changes output to ddraw and changes the resolution to avoid the crashes in Vista. Fun, if it didn't mean they overwrote my own conf files 🙁 EDIT: what would be very useful, is to be able to tell Dosbox to use the same resolution full screen as your desktop.

Re: E6600 or wait for Q6600

Posted on 2007-08-10, 01:27

by red_avatar

in PC Emulation

No games really push the E6600 yet - hell, how many games make use of the two cores? Let alone 4 cores. Most games run off one core and I believe one core on the E6600 or Q6600 is about as powerful? So for a game running on one core you won't even find a difference.

Re: Duke Nukem 2

Posted on 2007-08-10, 01:25

by red_avatar

in DOSBox Games/Apps

What I do, is put all the files on the disks in seperate folders and then use one "installation folder". I first copy disk 1 files in there, start installing, then when it asks for disk 2, I delete the disk 1 files in the installation folder, copy the ones of disk 2 there, and press CTRL F4. Then …

Re: Bashing Valve, Steam and id Software

Posted on 2007-08-10, 01:23

by red_avatar

in Milliways

For Quake Wars, the engine was modified again, just like they did for Return to Castle Wolfenstein: "MegaTexture is a texturing technique, developed by John Carmack at id Software, that is used in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars that promises to eliminate common texture bugs and glitches found in …

Re: Bashing Valve, Steam and id Software

Posted on 2007-08-10, 01:18

by red_avatar

in Milliways

Moleculor, the Source engine is heavily based on the old Quake engine - I thought everyone knew this. Or do you think it's coincidence that the Source engine can be used by the same editor? Even the in-game console commands remained. Valve probably altered the code enough to not having to pay id …

Re: New DOSBox Frontend - DOSBox Game Launcher

Posted on 2007-08-09, 18:41

by red_avatar

in DOSBox General

Is there a way to disable the JRE detection thingy? I installed 1.6.0 and it complains that it can't find 1.5. Unable to locate JRE meeting specification "1.5" Sorry - you don't seem to have the required version of the Java Runtime Environment [JRE] installed. DBGL requires at least JRE 1.5 to run. …

Re: Bashing Valve, Steam and id Software

Posted on 2007-08-09, 10:22

by red_avatar

in Milliways

Return to Castle Wolfenstein was not made by id but by Grey Matter. id Software "assisted" but I think it was mainly engine alterations (apparantly the Quake III engine had to be modified to be able to handle Wolfenstein's open areas). id Software engines have always been rather weak when it comes …

Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-09, 10:17

by red_avatar

in Milliways

id Software have become cockier and cockier in the last few years - a while ago they announced that they would focus on consoles mainly while it was the PC that got them as far as they did. They blame PC piracy for it, and I belive that. Not to say there's piracy on the consoles too, there is, but …

Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-08, 17:08

by red_avatar

in Milliways

id Software have become cockier and cockier in the last few years - a while ago they announced that they would focus on consoles mainly while it was the PC that got them as far as they did.

Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 10:58

by red_avatar

in DOSBox General

I'm no fan of how Steam limits you either - one time, my internet had cut out because of my ISP working on the grid so I thought, let's play Deus Ex (I had bought it f or $5 even though I already owned it on CD - just to be easy). Well that bit me in the ass - Steam refused to let me run the game - …

Re: Good LCD monitors for DOSBox/retrogaming in general

Posted on 2007-08-06, 17:31

by red_avatar

in DOSBox General

I heard that for Ati it doesn't work like it should - your screen needs to support it or something but the Nvidia way works on all screens I tried it on.

Re: Good LCD monitors for DOSBox/retrogaming in general

Posted on 2007-08-06, 17:30

by red_avatar

in DOSBox General

You clearly don't alter the resolution then. You need to use openglnb to get no blurring and then alter the full screen resolution to match your desktop resolution - the window resolution is up to your own taste. Do this and you'll have a perfect image.

Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-06, 15:21

by red_avatar

in DOSBox General

I would have more than happily helped out creating the right settings for Dosbox but my main concern went to the way they did all this without even contacting anyone and as a result, the Dosbox configuration is badly done. I spent over an hour fixing the mess they made. I would have made it run in a …

Re: Good LCD monitors for DOSBox/retrogaming in general

Posted on 2007-08-06, 15:17

by red_avatar

in DOSBox General

Don't look for screens, look for drivers. Nvidia cards have this ability in the drivers - of course Ati never bothered adding this. I use this myself because I got a widescreen with resolution 1680x1050 and a lot of old games only go up to 1280x960 which means that in a FPS, you'll move faster left …

Re: Ultima 8 doesn't like me

Posted on 2007-08-06, 10:42

by red_avatar

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Check to see if any files are write protected - Ultima may use a file to point to all savegames like a lot of old games did so the savegames may be there, but if the file is write protected, it won't want to save the name of the savegame etc.