Re: Little Big Adventure 2 (Steam version)

Posted on 2017-04-20, 02:19

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by Jorpho

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Good question. According to the DOSBox readme, the only valid types for "-t" are "floppy", "cdrom", and "hdd", so whoever made that .conf file definitely messed up more than once.

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Re: Printing from DOSBox

Posted on 2017-04-19, 23:50

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by Jorpho

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I don't know why you expected that to work. This feature is definitely isn't documented very well, but then it is also completely unofficial. A Google search for "dosbox print to pdf" (no quotes) turned up https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2014/03/03/printing-from-dosbox/ , but note that MB6 is very old and …

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Re: Is there any practical reason to dual boot MSDOS and Win98?

Posted on 2017-04-19, 23:32

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by Jorpho

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I never managed to run carmageddon on DOSBox without glide. And with a modded dosbox to support glide, the game ran pretty badly, way worse that on my pentium 2. That's pretty much how they sell it on GOG and Steam, though. And running windows 9x games natively under modern windows might work right …

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Re: Inaugural Post/General Banter.

Posted on 2017-04-19, 23:26

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by Jorpho

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Hello. We seem to make a lot of posts here about where people should be posting. There's a whole subforum over here for "general banter". Milliways

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Re: Check your Best Buy stores

Posted on 2017-04-19, 23:23

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by Jorpho

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I'm pretty sure you cannot generally get away with this; this guy at the counter you interacted with could probably get in trouble if he let people do that regularly. Never mind the fact that Best Buy is in the business of selling stuff and would prefer that you buy something new – What would happen …

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Re: Do games run slower on ME than 95, on the same spec system?

Posted on 2017-04-19, 17:48

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by Jorpho

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Yes, the SB Live cards would be the primary example, but I'm not sure you could call that "hardware synth/midi", considering those cards can use soundfonts stored in system RAM.

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Re: Do games run slower on ME than 95, on the same spec system?

Posted on 2017-04-19, 16:24

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by Jorpho

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Is there something in particular that leads you to ask that question? There aren't a lot of sound cards that have both WDM and VxD drivers.

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Re: Do games run slower on ME than 95, on the same spec system?

Posted on 2017-04-19, 15:13

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by Jorpho

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Windows 95 uses VxD drivers, while Windows ME can use WDM drivers. VxD drivers in theory offer better performance than WDM drivers, but at the cost of stability. If one is comparing a version of Windows 95 with IE4 to Windows ME running VxD drivers, I would not expect much of a difference, …

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Re: Little Big Adventure 2 (Steam version)

Posted on 2017-04-19, 15:08

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by Jorpho

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Yeah, i already tried to replaced c . with directory of the game, which looks like something like this @echo off mount C d:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Little Big Adventure 2 imgmount d "LBA2.DAT" -t iso c: cls lba2.EXE exit but after that game don't even show black screen anymore …

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Re: problem with serial

Posted on 2017-04-19, 13:32

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by Jorpho

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mbellucci wrote: Hi, the problem is the same. To be clear, what exactly did you do?

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Re: Is there any practical reason to dual boot MSDOS and Win98?

Posted on 2017-04-19, 13:27

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by Jorpho

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I would also be interested in knowing what these games are that require MS-DOS 6.22 and will not work in Windows 98 DOS mode. Even if you need MS-DOS for some reason, it is trivial to use a boot floppy.

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Re: Little Big Adventure 2 (Steam version)

Posted on 2017-04-19, 13:23

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by Jorpho

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What are you doing when you "inject" the new version? The line "mount C ." is probably the problem here. If all else fails, you can replace "." with the folder that contains LBA2.DOS.

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Re: Starting a project with my son, help needed.

Posted on 2017-04-19, 03:48

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by Jorpho

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JmanP wrote: the measurements for the Pi board. I would expect such specifications to be thoroughly documented in multiple places. This is hardly an obscure piece of equipment.

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Re: Who is familiar with newer video drivers on Win9x?

Posted on 2017-04-18, 23:44

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by Jorpho

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Too bad there's nobody smart/dedicated enough to just have a program to make it drivers backwards compatible automatically and bam. Maybe the people who art smart/dedicated enough also recognize that their talents are better spent elsewhere than trying to work out some awful kludge for an operating …

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Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2017-04-18, 18:51

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by Jorpho

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Sorry for my ignorance but are these the full games you can download or just add-ons to the games you already have??? In your ignorance, what exactly do you think "patches" would imply? While some message boards are considerably more permissive about such subject matter, the distribution of full …

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Re: Windows 2000 or Windows 98 SE for a 2000 build

Posted on 2017-04-18, 13:30

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by Jorpho

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Driver support is probably fine either way, and if you already have a Win98 SE machine then you might as well use that for anything that won't run in Windows 2000.

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Re: problem with serial

Posted on 2017-04-18, 13:26

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by Jorpho

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As DOSBox is primarily intended for running games, this is not a scenario anyone is likely to have tested much or is likely to be interested in fixing. You can start by ruling out hardware problems by creating a second DOSBox installation on your computer. Use serial1 in one installation and serial2 …

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Re: Printing from DOSBox

Posted on 2017-04-18, 13:22

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by Jorpho

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drdbc54 wrote: I am already using DOSBox SVN-Daum, but there is some essential step that I am missing. Any suggestions? Without knowing what steps you have taken or what results you are seeing, the best anyone here can do is randomly guess.

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Re: 32 Bit with 1280 x 1024 issue

Posted on 2017-04-18, 01:43

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by Jorpho

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I have not been able to set True Color (32 bit) AND a resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels at the same time. Whenever I try to set it to 32 bit color the resolution drops to 1024 by 768 pixels. Why? One image of 1024x768x32bit takes 3 MB of video RAM, while 1280x1024x32bit takes 5 MB. For double- …

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Re: Will an ISA sound card cripple a p3-700 in windows xp games?

Posted on 2017-04-17, 06:35

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by Jorpho

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You could go a step further and suggest that any game you'd be likely to be running on a Pentium 700 in XP probably wouldn't be using MIDI anymore anyway.

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