Re: Using DOSBOX with Turbo Vision program causes flashing text

Posted on 2020-06-03, 19:50

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by Jorpho

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It might be possible to change the blinking text to some other color using an ANSI sequence. Perhaps you had something similar on the system where you were originally running the program. Unfortunately I am unfamiliar with how to devise such a command.

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Re: IBM PCjr emulation preferably on old PC? And other related questions

Posted on 2020-06-03, 18:29

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by Jorpho

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kikendo wrote on 2020-06-03, 16:31: Because that's not gonna tell me what the disk contains. A lot of these disks are poorly labeled or just unlabeled. If you just want to see what's on them, then why do you need an emulator? Are these "booter" disks that do not have a standard MS-DOS filesystem?

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Re: File manager that preserves times and dates in MS-DOS?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 04:18

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Okay, what about standard Dosshell, or Norton Commander/FreeCommander? Maybe XTree?

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Re: File manager that preserves times and dates in MS-DOS?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 02:37

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Keatah wrote on 2020-06-03, 01:08: I tried a good number of copy tools and no luck. Maybe you could get us started by naming a few so as to avoid redundant suggestions? I reckon if all else fails you could zip things up in one location and then unzip them in another.

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Re: Slowing down DOSBox disk transfer speed? Can it be done?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 17:39

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by Jorpho

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Why not just decrease the number of cycles?

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Re: Help installing Sound Blasters Live! CT4780 on Windows 98 please

Posted on 2020-06-01, 17:18

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A few minutes of Googling has failed to reveal what, exactly, "improved" means in a technical context here. So, sure, maybe 98 FE has exactly the same support for WDM audio drivers as 98 SE, and people have just been spreading unfounded rumors for the last twenty years. Why not. :-P But I doubt …

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Re: Help installing Sound Blasters Live! CT4780 on Windows 98 please

Posted on 2020-06-01, 03:16

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Only 98 SE can use WDM drivers, so if you're trying to use those, then it absolutely matters. According to Wikipedia, Win98FE (and even 95 OSR2) can also use WDM drivers. Technically, yes, but as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_98#Windows_98_Second_Edition , 98 SE had "improved WDM audio …

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Re: Video Pure DOS vs Win95 DOS

Posted on 2020-05-31, 03:18

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by Jorpho

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Have you tried UniVBE?

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Re: Using DOSBOX with Turbo Vision program causes flashing text

Posted on 2020-05-29, 22:25

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by Jorpho

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Are you sure it wouldn't behave that way on real hardware? I might suggest changing the "machine" parameter in dosbox.conf. Perhaps ega or vgaonly will have some effect.

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 17:49

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I buy a lot of old games at the flea market and play them no problem (well not TOO many problems) but I am struggling with this one I have a physical Copy of The Orange Box (Hafe Life 2 Ep 2) and I can't install it. I do have a Steam Account, though I don't really have a use for it, and it will not …

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - How to switch GPUs?

Posted on 2020-05-28, 15:50

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This is partially false. The installer requires a modern version of Windows, but the actual game will run on Windows 95/98 just fine. Also it doesn't use dgVoodoo (I don't think any GOG games do). If it did it wouldn't list DirectX 9.0c as the minimum requirement, but DirectX 11. Well, in that case …

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Re: Windows 7 file association help needed...

Posted on 2020-05-28, 14:35

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While testing FileTypesMan from NirSoft as a possible solution, I noticed that some of the associations are pointing to the wrong programs, but not using them. .AVI says it's associated with WMPlayer, but I have it associated with MPC-HC. .TXT says it's associated with Notpad, btu I have it …

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Re: Dosbox and Alien Trilogy

Posted on 2020-05-28, 01:37

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There are numerous threads about this already. Alien Trilogy - cd detection issue A .CUE file is a text file you can open with Notepad and will usually contain the name of a .BIN file which you should also have.

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Re: Windows 7 file association help needed...

Posted on 2020-05-27, 02:56

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Another strange thing; She was able to successfully set it to always use Word 2003 if she double-clicks a .DOC attachment in Thunderbird (email), but when double-clicking a file in Explorer, it still opens in Word 2007. As far as I know, Thunderbird has no special provisions for overriding the …

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Re: I'd like to create a cd with all the useful programs/bench tools/general tools

Posted on 2020-05-26, 16:11

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I think that if it was possible to make such a CD, someone would have done it already. It's a lot more than a little fuzzy. One thing I do think is interesting is that apparently it is easy to include a whole bunch of disk images on a bootable CD and select between them using "syslinux", as in …

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Re: Need to FREE up Conventional memory.

Posted on 2020-05-26, 15:04

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Nothing in that blog entry says anything about requiring those drivers, unless I am blind. Fine, to be more precise: CTMMSYS was at least needed on the SB16 and later cards for games that needed CT-VOICE.DRV. See for instance the AWE64 manual: https://www.manualsdir.com/manuals/70337/creative-awe64 …

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Re: Need to FREE up Conventional memory.

Posted on 2020-05-26, 04:50

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How about, y'know, reading the manual? A Google search for "falcon 3.0" "config.sys" (with quotes) turns up the game's manual on Steam which suggests an autoexec.bat with just the mouse driver and a config.sys with device=c:\windows\himem.sys device=c:\windows\emm386.exe 2048 ram dos=high,umb …

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Re: IBM PCjr emulation preferably on old PC? And other related questions

Posted on 2020-05-25, 23:19

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kikendo wrote on 2020-05-20, 13:37: But I also have to test the disks so an emulator should be necessary. Why not just use standard floppy disk surface-testing software?

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Re: Windows 7 file association help needed...

Posted on 2020-05-25, 20:22

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Something is causing her copy of Windows to be obsessed with using Word 2007 to open documents. All the results I found just say to use "Open With..." to associate documents with the version you want. She even tried going through the app in the Control panel to set associations and despite setting …

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-25, 15:55

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demiurg1981 wrote on 2020-05-25, 05:32: What else do you need?? Tech info of my computer?? I already told you everything I've done. demiurg1981 wrote on 2020-05-25, 05:16: Maybe it was not 5.50 but it sure was dos something. If you expect anyone to ever be able to help you, you need to learn how to …

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