Re: Why DOS died...
Posted on Today, 16:45
fallout in 97 had a dos port as thats the version I bought. Its the last pure dos game I remember or bought I think
Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)
Posted on 2021-07-19, 01:14
zork -> dork
Re: Releasing some of my old DOS stuff
Posted on 2021-07-14, 00:06
thanks. Its amazing the things that accumulate heh.
Re: New to Sound Canvas, MIDI etc. question about my set-up
Posted on 2021-07-13, 19:34
Scandy wrote on 2021-07-13, 15:11: However, if I set the Sound Canvas to MT-32 mode and start Monkey Island (monkey r) ...I just hear some strange piano notes. just be aware, that SoundCanvas MT32 support is an instrument map only, its not real MT32 support/emulation.
Re: Industrial PC
Posted on 2021-07-13, 19:30
if the 486 SBC does not have PCI capability in the chipset, it wont see the PCI slot. What SBC are you running. I've run SBCs in backplanes, but the ones I have had that see PCI ok were full PICMG boards not just plain ISA SBC's. (My 486 SBC would only see ISA).
Re: Does DOSBox support TSRs?
Posted on 2021-07-10, 14:49
bss is uninitialised data. stuff that does not need to be stored in the program (so its not compiled into the exec) taking up space no disk. proc16 macro is just to keep call/jump alignments word aligned (its not really a thing but its nice on some processors are faster when word aligned). All the …
Releasing some of my old DOS stuff
Posted on 2021-07-10, 03:28
So I thought its time to release some of my old stuff, I wrapped it in an installer. Inside my installer; https://bloodycactus.com/files/bcactus_install.zip so the installer doesnt install the zips (I grabbed my 00index.txt off my local ftp), it installs the utils/apps etc. (This version of the …
Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !
Posted on 2021-07-06, 01:26
Mumak wrote on 2021-07-05, 07:29: That's right, MSDOS 7.x is no longer the "good old" real mode DOS as it used to be. actually it is, you can install 7.x without windows perfectly fine.
Re: I cannot figure out what SoundBlaster is this?
Posted on 2021-06-27, 12:13
strangest clone I've seen a while. chip dates all over the place. its weird to see the giant dip40 8051 next to the plcc 8051, and an giant ceramic eeprom as well.
Re: Tandy 1000EX external floppy pinout
Posted on 2021-06-24, 00:03
https://www.tindie.com/products/cyberneticsys … drive-adapters/ you can pick up an adapter off tindie that converts it to a normal floppy pinout.
Re: Does DOSBox support TSRs?
Posted on 2021-06-23, 13:19
I had to read that article a few times. There's a lot of technical stuff I never dealt with before in there. As far as I understand it only the first few paragraphs are relevant in my case. According to those I need to: 1. Call DOS function 34h (int 0x21, ah = 0x34) 2. Save the address returned in …
Re: MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (Two versions??)
Posted on 2021-06-21, 16:42
yes there is a lot of PAS16, kinda like they did with soundblaster. Some have SCSI, Some have CDROM, some have none. They all have the same chips MVD101, MVA416, MVA508 chip. Some have the "547-0002" chip others have the MVD201, they are the same and provide "thunderboard" support aka soundblaster …
Re: Does DOSBox support TSRs?
Posted on 2021-06-21, 12:02
Ive written trs + sys drivers (ansi, umb, other ram stuff) so if you have specific questions, ask. I dont know how good youtube tutorials could be, I would think a written one would be better, I dunno.
Re: Does DOSBox support TSRs?
Posted on 2021-06-21, 03:22
well your chaining a hardware triggered isr with a software isr (0xc8), when you just just call it directly without doing an int call. I'd replace the int c8/eoi/sti/iret with a jump to the old interrupt routine. also an STI before IRET is meaningless, IRET pops the flags from the interrupt frame on …
Re: Does DOSBox support TSRs?
Posted on 2021-06-20, 12:17
There is all kinds of wrong in here. I'd suggest setting DX correctly for func 31 to the end of your ISR rounded up , and put the ISR at the start of the app then all the init code after. jmp start my_isr: ... end_isr: start: ... ... mov dx,end_isr add dx,15 shr dx,4 mov ah,0x31 int 0x21
Re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders GOG version Advice
Posted on 2021-06-12, 13:37
its scummvm. There is no dos "cd" version. The GOG version is the FM-Towns version with 256 colour graphics, using scummvm.
Re: last programming project
Posted on 2021-06-11, 17:01
FAT is an inasanely easy system to work with. I wrote a pure asm program to 'quick format' a disk (before quick format was a thing lol), and all it did was mark non bad FAT entries as empty. takes all of a second. FAT is quite simple. it only gets a bit tricky when you have LFN's in the fat. I'd say …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-06-08, 15:52
PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-06-08, 07:58: scsi_hba01.jpg scsi_hba02.jpg once i get a chance to check the disks, I'll post any working images to the drivers library thread wow thats interesting. So the Tekram 395uw is supposed to use a custom asic, TRM-1040 and the INIC-940/950 is custom asic.. …
Re: Sarien 0.7.0 - no sound?
Posted on 2021-06-07, 14:02
looking over the source tree I dont see an explicit allegro sound driver (or dos driver), so I dont know if there is anything else beyond 'dummy' sound for dos.
Re: Sun Microsystems Sparc 5 to the Max
Posted on 2021-06-05, 21:39
Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-06-05, 17:39: I never got my head around why hard drives on Sun systems were split up into slices. What was the advantage of that? And were there any disadvantages? its no different from dos with its max 4 primary and then putting logical/extended partitions inside a …
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