Re: Hard disk hassles

Posted on 2006-06-16, 01:26

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Power supply? Sounds like an interesting idea. The other thing I might double check is the position of the master/slave jumper. If you're putting the drive on its own IDE channel, the jumper position may be different.

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Re: SoundBlaster Live!+Audigy1/2 drivers

Posted on 2006-06-16, 01:21

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Oh, and can you play multiple sounds simultaneously (e.g., use an MP3 player and hear Windows system sounds) with VxD drivers? I don't recall being able to do that, but maybe it was a limitation of the particular card I was using.

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Re: SoundBlaster Live!+Audigy1/2 drivers

Posted on 2006-06-14, 21:33

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I had the impression that the WDM system as a whole was more robust than VxD. At least, I have seen references to VxDs on a lot of BSODs, but I cannot recall ever seeing a WDM error.

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Re: SoundBlaster Live!+Audigy1/2 drivers

Posted on 2006-06-14, 16:22

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Doesn't Win98SE use the WDM version rather than the VXD? At least, I think you have the option of selecting one or the other with some installs.

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Re: Getting Dark Forces to run on XP

Posted on 2006-06-12, 03:12

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Then I hope you're prepared to learn, because Macintosh emulation is fairly complex and difficult. http://www.emaculation.com/articles/intro.html Or you can just go back to eBay and buy a proper DOS version that will actually work with your computer. This will likely be far, far easier for you.

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Re: perfect game emulator = perfect dos/win31 emulator?

Posted on 2006-06-10, 15:21

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Yes, the checks are there, but they aren't actually used, are they? http://www.ddj.com/184409070

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Re: Problems of Windows 2.0 and Windows 1.0

Posted on 2006-06-10, 03:00

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It is noted at http://toastytech.com/guis/misc.html that programs intended for older versions of Windows can be persuaded to run under Win 3.x and later with relative ease.

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Re: perfect game emulator = perfect dos/win31 emulator?

Posted on 2006-06-10, 02:56

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wd wrote: Win3.x for example has some nasty checks to kick out DRDOS and others to monopolize use of msdos for windows. That's why it was hard to get the dosbox-internal dos compatible with win3.x I've heard of those checks, but they weren't actually enabled in any final retail builds of Win 3.x, …

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Re: Getting Dark Forces to run on XP

Posted on 2006-06-10, 02:52

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Actually, the Win32 port of Basilisk II has seen a fair bit of activity lately. New snapshots are available at http://www.gibix.net/dokuwiki/en:projects:basilisk2 . Basilsik II will run the 68k version of Mac OS 8.1, and Pear PC will run some versions of Mac OS X. Mac OS 8.5 - 9.0.4 can be run with …

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Learning Disassemblers?

Posted on 2006-06-06, 17:11

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How difficult is it to learn the usage of disassemblers and debuggers for the purpose of getting older games to run? Are there any recommended tutorials? I assume that the debug version of DOSBox is sufficient for most purposes, or is there a better debugger out there?

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Re: Knight Force (Disk x Not Active?)

Posted on 2006-06-06, 00:08

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...Then again, maybe not. I just tried mucking about with some single-floppy configurations in Bochs and didn't get anywhere either. I guess this probably is some sort of copy protection scheme, and the Windows 2000 command prompt just doesn't support whatever method it's trying to use to read the …

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Re: Knight Force (Disk x Not Active?)

Posted on 2006-06-05, 17:41

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I guess I forgot to mention that mounting an image as B in DOSBox doesn't change anything. If I try to run the game under Windows 98 (from the hard drive, with floppy in drive A, from MS-DOS Prompt or in MS-DOS mode), I can get err#2-0200. If I try that with a Zip disk inserted (my Zip drive is …

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Re: Knight Force (Disk x Not Active?)

Posted on 2006-06-05, 14:18

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At the Windows 2000 command prompt, running Knight.exe from my hard drive causes it to access the floppy drive. After a few moments the command prompt just comes up again, though, without any "Invalid Disk" message. Same thing happens when I run knight.exe from the floppy. In DOSBox, if I mount the …

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Re: How do you switch to CGA Composite Mode? (Fooblitzky)

Posted on 2006-06-05, 13:07

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Nothing about a switch in hte manual, it seems. Is it still common for games to switch/detect Composite CGA in a way that DOSBox doesn't support yet?

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Re: Knight Force (Disk x Not Active?)

Posted on 2006-06-05, 12:57

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I tried copying the files to a real floppy and then mounting the floppy in DOSBox (with -t floppy), but that didn't make any difference. Anyway, I just tried mounting an image of that floppy (made with Rawrite) using imgmount. This is what I get in the debug window: 1992876: FILES:file open command …

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CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2006-06-05, 06:02

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Moderator note: See the following post in this thread for info on recent composite CGA enhancements that have been committed to the DOSBox SVN: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=284452&highlight=#284452 -- HunterZ The Mobygames screenshots for Fooblitzky indicate that it can run in CGA …

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Knight Force (Disk x Not Active?)

Posted on 2006-06-03, 15:15

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Attempting to run Knight Force under DOSBox 0.65 results in the following error: INVALID DISK ! #err#1-FF01 I thought I'd use the debug version to see what might be going on; the only lines are 1334930: EXEC:Parsing command line: c: 1359066: EXEC:Parsing command line: knight 1359069: EXEC:Execute …

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Re: Error -> "game must be run on windows"

Posted on 2006-05-22, 01:00

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I suspect there is some other EXE you must use other than rungame.exe . Anyway, there seem to have been many threads about Kyrandia 3 in these forums already. See for instance Need help installing Kyrandia 3 under DOSBox .

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Re: Getting my AWE64 working in pure DOS mode

Posted on 2006-01-18, 15:13

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I think DOS 6.22 might have trouble recognizing partitions (even FAT16 partitions) located on today's gigantic hard drives. If the partition is properly formatted in fat16 and is a primary partition, dos 6.22 will install hassle free. You should know that a fat16 partition can be as large as 2Gb so …

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Track file accesses in DOSBox

Posted on 2006-01-17, 03:01

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I've always liked Filemon from http://www.sysinternals.com when it comes to diagnosing problems with troublesome Windows programs - it can show exactly what files any Windows program is trying to access. Obviously DOS is very different, but can something similar be done with DOSBox? Is this sort of …

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