Re: Cinematic Platformers (Prince of Persia, Another World style games) list
Posted on 2023-04-17, 06:14
Challenge of The Ancient Empires (or is that not cinematic enough?) Night Hunter
Re: Socket 7 MMX cpu temperature in MS-DOS?
Posted on 2023-04-17, 05:58
Standard DOS CPU usage is constant full usage AFAIK. Meaning it's not gonna vary with application/game load as they don't typically issue idling instructions (there is a TSR that can modify that though). In this case I assume you just want to make sure the CPU is doing fine with your cooling …
Re: Anyone notice the eBay shipping costs have doubled!?
Posted on 2023-04-17, 05:47
I'm in Canada too. From what I've seen, shipping prices tripled on everything. I rarely buy systems off of eBay, but I buy a lot of games. What used to ship for 15$ is now 45$ and 55$! Very stupid. And yes, many sellers aren't aware of it. I take screenshots of the shipping cost and send it to the …
Re: Non-standard floppy disk in old system
Posted on 2023-04-13, 11:40
If it's a booter, then programs can be more liberal with disk sectoring. Also you might not be able to read them under MS DOS eventhough they're valid. You can capture disk contents in Kryoflux/Greaseweazle and look at it in HXC tools. I never used a Gotek before, but if Gotek is limited only to …
Re: The most misleading game intros
Posted on 2023-04-12, 00:58
Thexder! Intro is the moonlight sonata over a background of a red sand mountain? Then you're a mech that transforms into a space craft fighting inside some weird alien constructions!
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-04-10, 05:11
Testing some games with the latest exe from this post (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1154318#p1154318). SB16 mode. I used SBPro mixer to change volumes. * Doom: OK * Skyroads: Whenever SFX plays, volume of FM increases then decreases when SFX is done playing * Prince 1: Hangs, used to work …
Re: AOpen Cobra YMF744 error. PC crashes whenever soundcard is accessed after running DSDMA. "CODEC MIGHT NOT BE CONNECT
Posted on 2023-03-29, 04:33
I will share tomorrow my CONFIG/AUTOEXEC for initializing the YMF744 here. The steps order is sensitive, but I'm able to fully init the card and even have it work on IRQ7, which some games prefer. It works with almost all games except a very few. I use DOS6.22 with standard HIMEM, but I also use …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-29, 04:22
which version are you testing with skyroads? I think 1.0 beta2b will improve on the latency problem. never tested Crusader No Remorse, I'll check it later. Just tested with beta2c, it's now snappy and immediate, no delays sensed. However, the explosion sound is clipping hard in Skyroads. Generally …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-27, 18:43
Intel X58 chipset with Integrated Intel/Realtek HD ALC262 Audio (HP Z400 workstation) now works great on Doom/Doom2. On Skyroads all is good but there is a noticeable delay between action and sound. On Crusader No Remorse immediate hang when installation program wants to test the sound card (tried …
Re: Help my floppies have Virus.Boot.NYB
Posted on 2023-03-27, 08:49
Disks don't have MBR, just the boot sector (sector 0 of track 0). Any proper format from a non-infected OS should eliminate the virus. For an HDD, yes you also need to clean the MBR. Either FDISK -MBR from a clean OS, followed by regular fdisk and format. Or just use a good anti-virus to avoid all …
Can't make a boot disk with DOS 6.22+Win95
Posted on 2023-03-26, 16:48
Hi guys, I'm trying to make a boot disk from my DOS 6.22 installation, but I'm failing and I want to know what's wrong. My DOS 6.22 install is from REMOVED images IIRC. Everything works fine and the system is stable. I also have Windows 95 installed after DOS 6.22. But for the sake of making the …
Re: Want to build a DOS/Win98 Gaming PC
Posted on 2023-03-22, 19:29
A single machine that runs 100% of DOS games natively is a myth.. even if you take that to the literal meaning of "games running on MSDOS" meaning you exclude booters and Windows games.. Here.. Take, for example, Terminator 2029 is a DOS game that won't run on anything past a 486, and there are …
Re: Earliest Direct3D Immediate mode and retained mode games
Posted on 2023-03-22, 19:18
Retained mode was the 3D engine MS got when they bought Reality Labs. It is a scene-graph based engine.. not very good for any large scale games. So no surprise not many devs used it. It was last available in D3D5 I think? before D3D immediate mode became the only option.
Re: Dos command to allocate memory
Posted on 2023-03-17, 18:32
Why do you need Himem anyways? Most TSRs should work without Himem, and will load low and eat from conv mem. You can try a few and see if your tool likes them or not.
Re: Dos command to allocate memory
Posted on 2023-03-17, 15:39
Load SMARTDRV, MSCDEX, GMOUSE, DOSKEY.. should get you pretty low 🙂
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-15, 03:21
Intel X58 chipset with Integrated Intel/Realtek HD ALC262 Audio (HP Z400 workstation). Only FM music works. SBEmu says IRQ conflict. I switch to IRQ 5 and the conflict is gone and SBEmu loads successfully, but any game hangs when it wants to output digital sound. MPXPlay works fine.
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-03-11, 05:40
Can we use EMM386.EXE instead of QEMM or JEMMEX? Or is that a big no-no?
Re: Creative cr-563b in external enclosure?
Posted on 2023-03-11, 05:22
That drive is 2x and connects to a SB Pro 2 CT1600 and requires the MKE driver. I have one similar to it but missing its plastic faceplate 😑
Re: Please, can you help with this Turbo display puzzle???
Posted on 2023-03-02, 08:08
A word of advice. This is a single-resistor board. Do NOT test it without having many of its LEDs lit! You will burn them if you start configuring them in isolation. If you have to try them in isolation, then throw in a resistor on the line to reduce the voltage while you have a few LEDs lighting up …
Re: How can I remove all the contents under a certain directory in an easy way in MS-DOS 5.0?
Posted on 2023-02-23, 16:06
I used PCs since the XT days and I don't think I ever had to do this "empty the directories from their files" use case. DELTREE on the other hand was always needed when cleaning up the HDD from older games, but then I could do that in DOS6, Windows 3, Norton Commander ... etc. So no shortage of …
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