Re: Is it legal to make my emulator create empty disk images with MS-DOS 5.0 boot loader code?
Posted on 2016-02-13, 21:28
Whatever you are doing, just use the code from FreeDOS, which is on GPL.
Re: Native DOS games with framerate display built in
Posted on 2016-02-11, 09:22
Iris030380 wrote: Timerefresh for Quake certainly, although it didn't give an accurate reading of the average FPS while playing, only what was being drawn on screen at that particular point in time. Well, source is available so a DOS Quake with FPS display is within reach 😀
Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?
Posted on 2016-02-11, 09:08
As an XP user I've started noticing some modern games that don't support XP, but those almost always have Win7 as the minimum requirement. Very few are satisfied with Vista. I think the same is true with non-game software. Yes. Even Microsoft's flagship products like Office and Visual Studio …
Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?
Posted on 2016-02-11, 00:40
leileilol wrote: I'm certain there's people who want that high frequency hum too And that burning sensation in one's face after long hours of radiation exposure... You won't get that from fancy shaders 😉
Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)
Posted on 2016-02-10, 15:19
Nice, but in reality most of those fonts were displayed in wide resolutions but on a 4:3 monitor, resulting in non-square pixels. I'd like to see those fonts in properly stretched versions.
Re: What's planned for DosBox 0.75?
Posted on 2016-02-10, 11:09
Every time one of these threads pops up the release gets pushed back another year. A new release is nothing to be afraid of. If there aren't any showstopper bugs at the moment, make it a beta and let people download it. Wait a few weeks for complaints, fix regressions, don't fix what never worked …
Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?
Posted on 2016-02-07, 10:54
Doesn't look authentic enough though. Looks like very *bad* CRT. A *good* CRT may be very hard to emulate, because the effect is much more subtle. And realistic 60Hz flicker may be impossible to do on LCD.
Re: Issues with ogg-winmm wrapper
Posted on 2016-02-07, 10:22
wav-winmm.c: In function 'fake_mciSendStringA': wav-winmm.c:503:9: warning: passing argument 4 of 'fake_mciSendCommandA' makes i nteger from pointer without a cast [enabled by default] fake_mciSendCommandA(MAGIC_DEVICEID, MCI_STOP, 0, NULL); ^ wav-winmm.c:154:17: note: expected 'DWORD_PTR' but …
Re: Doom reboot
Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:26
realnc wrote: I remember the Bethesda reveal for Fallout 4, where they also showed Doom. Well, at least they called it Fallout 4, not just Fallout again.
Re: prevent 4:3 burn-in on 16:9 plasma???
Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:03
Can you start any animation etc. around the gamescreen? Can the 4:3 gamescreen be moved 1px every 3rd second to the left until it reaches far left, and then go back to the far right? Well, DOSBox is an open-source project, so yes, it's certainly possible to implement such features, if you find a …
Re: Mechwarrior 2 DOS performance
Posted on 2016-02-06, 15:47
But S3 Virge *is* a 3D accelerated card, and from what I read on Wikipedia, there was a special VIRGE version of Mechwarrior 2. Surely it should work faster than software version. I have no idea if it works in DOS or requires Win95.
Re: Strange question regarding resource intensive games.
Posted on 2016-01-25, 02:15
That's what always made me feel adventurous in hacking a literal digital sound driver for Intel HD Audio under MSS\AIL. [...] would I still run into issues there? Who knows? Perhaps no one tried that yet... It's doable in principle, though I cannot guarantee that you won't run into an unsolvable …
Re: Strange question regarding resource intensive games.
Posted on 2016-01-21, 14:44
Could a TSR provide SB16 emulation? Yes, with issues. I remember Sound Blaster Live! had a TSR for emulation of older Sound Blasters. In some games it worked, in some it did not. And of course it took conventional memory, which is always precious. And before Live, Gravis Ultrasound also had such a …
Re: Ultimate DOSBox Config(Sound, Music and Graphics)
Posted on 2015-12-25, 16:55
I don't think there's one ultimate DOSBox config for all games. GUS emulation with proper patch set will give you much better MIDI playback (if supported by the game) than what is called "Sound Blaster" in games. GUS wavetable MIDI is similar in quality to Windows software wavetable MIDI emulation. …
Re: Are there any games that are incompatible with newer versions of DOS?
Posted on 2015-12-25, 16:24
DOS 7.1 from Windows 98SE is my DOS of choice. Clearly superior to 6.22 with FAT32 support (which means bigger partitions and more free space on small ones). I didn't have any memory problems, of course some config.sys tweaking is needed. With MEMMAKER you can get a bit more, and with QEMM even more …
Re: What are some DOS games I might have been playing wrong?
Posted on 2015-12-19, 10:32
Quake, for example, aged really badly IMO. What saved it were its gameplay and continued support. I prefer Doom's graphics to Quake. Interesting. I like how the original, low-res non-accelerated Quake looks like. The problem with most source ports is that they try to "improve" the game instead of …
Re: Video for CPUs - The Software Decode Reference Thread
Posted on 2015-12-14, 21:27
You could also add 640x360, as this was a typical resolution in PIII/P4 heyday. (480p was considered high quality back then)
Re: DOSBox-X notice: If microsoft pulls this stunt, I will be dropping Windows support
Posted on 2015-12-12, 12:37
I will put my foot down and I will drop Windows support from DOSBox-X entirely. And be the next person after Microsoft taking choice away from the users.
Re: What are some DOS games I might have been playing wrong?
Posted on 2015-12-12, 12:30
"One Unit Whole Blood", the latest Blood version, lacked the 3dfx capabilities of it's predecessors. Which sucked anyway: 3D voxel objects replaced with flat bitmaps, weird filtering instead of bilinear (at least on dgvoodoo, haven't tried the real thing yet), slower than software (again, dgvoodoo) …
Re: What are some DOS games I might have been playing wrong?
Posted on 2015-12-10, 15:05
In some cases, even the Amiga graphics were downgraded for DOS. And the aspect ratio was usually wrong. I don't know what was the usual Amiga resolution/aspect ratio, but many games were ported to 320x200, which is 16:10, but almost all CRT monitors back then were 4:3. The result was a distorted …
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