Re: A question about hot swapping harddisks

Posted on 2014-07-07, 18:31

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HDA2 is a program that will unlock drives taken from DVRs and other satellite receivers, some of those receivers have programs for windows that allows you to recover the content that is stored on those drives but Direct TV is the big exception (the programs exist but rare). Thanks for the reply. …

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Re: A question about hot swapping harddisks

Posted on 2014-07-06, 17:38

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I'm not really serious about data recovery, just curious. Any way the Satellite reciever was a Sky+ box. On the front it also says "Dolby Digital" and on the back "Thomson"

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Re: A question about hot swapping harddisks

Posted on 2014-07-06, 15:40

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As far as I know it still did work in the reciever. It hadn't been used for quite a while. Although I was careful enough not to damage the harddisk, what is left of the reciever can't be reassembled to test the drive. I think it was a Dolby Digital reciever from 2003 which was used to recieve …

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A question about hot swapping harddisks

Posted on 2014-07-06, 14:56

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When taking apart an old (from ~2003) digital satellite reciever I found a 160gb Seagate IDE harddisk inside. Being curious about any data that might still on it I decided to plug it into the hot swap bay in the front of my computer. When the computer is turned on, it shuts down immediately. When I …

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Re: Reverse engineering a game's (Cartooners) data files.

Posted on 2014-03-18, 20:27

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I finally made a major breakthrough in figuring out Cartooners' Actor file format: the Cartooners Actor Viewer can now export the actual images rather than raw colorized data. The improved program can be downloaded at http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?759753-Cartooners-Actor-Viewer-export-and- …

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Re: Reverse engineering a game's (Cartooners) data files.

Posted on 2014-02-23, 09:59

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Okay, I've managed to create an account at http://www.shikadi.net but can't figure out where or how to create a page for the information I would like to add. The site's help page for editing is empty. Clicking "edit" on a page that appears to be suitable for what I want to add apparently allows me …

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Re: Reverse engineering a game's (Cartooners) data files.

Posted on 2014-02-19, 10:42

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Thanks for replying. I've just taken a quick look at those sites and they might contain information that can be help me along. I'll will also consider uploading the information I've so far there.

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Reverse engineering a game's (Cartooners) data files.

Posted on 2014-02-16, 11:24

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EDIT: See: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?759753-Cartooners-Actor-Viewer-export-and-import-actors Hi, Thinking it would be a nice challenge, I've been trying to reverse engineer Cartooner's actor files. Searching the internet for information about the game, the Apple IIgs, disassembly and …

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Re: Cannot save any games while playing Full Throttle.

Posted on 2013-08-23, 10:33

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Okay, somehow (not sure how exactly) I finally fixed the problem. My guess is that some game files somehow got corrupted. Thanks for all the advice.

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Re: Cannot save any games while playing Full Throttle.

Posted on 2013-08-22, 07:14

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This thread is about an issue with DOSBox, I only mentioned ScummVM to indicate that saving games did work there, but that I then had the issue of having to play with no voices. Perhaps I should have mentioned that the game used to work fine under Windows XP Professional 32 bit. Until now I used to …

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Re: Cannot save any games while playing Full Throttle.

Posted on 2013-08-21, 18:39

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The save feature does work in ScummVM 1.6.0, but then the speech doesn't work. SFX and music work fine, but there is no speech. :angry: I have completed this game in ScummVM without any technical difficulties, as have thousands of other people. Did you download this game from somewhere? If you are …

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Re: Cannot save any games while playing Full Throttle.

Posted on 2013-08-21, 12:29

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No, I am not 100% sure about the access rights for my Program Files folders, but I have not had any problems with any programs using it inside DOSBox. I should have mentioned that I run Full Throttle from a folder on my D: drive. Any way, I changed the mountings so that only the D: drive was used, …

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Re: Cannot save any games while playing Full Throttle.

Posted on 2013-08-20, 18:36

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The game files are in a directory on a harddisk. I am not using a cd or image. The following mount commands in the configuration file's "autoexec" section are used: MOUNT C: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dos" MOUNT D: "D:\"

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SOLVED - Cannot save any games while playing Full Throttle.

Posted on 2013-08-20, 17:22

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1. Motherboard: MEDIONPC MS-7728 (CPU 1) 2. Processor type and speed: Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.40GHz - Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology 3. Amount and type of RAM: 8,00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz (9-9-9-24) 4. Video board w/ RAM amount and type: SyncMaster (1600x900@60Hz) 1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 7450 ( …

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Re: SOLVED - Problem with Supaplex in DOSBox 0.73

Posted on 2010-06-16, 12:21

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Appears to have been fixed in DOSBox 0.74...

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Re: Trouble running Grand Prix Circuit (1988) in DosBox

Posted on 2010-06-16, 12:03

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The problem described in the first post appears to have been fixed in DOSBox 0.74.

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Re: Trouble running Grand Prix Circuit (1988) in DosBox

Posted on 2010-01-02, 11:13

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I wasn't trying to be dismissive if you really want to know why the problem occurs; it's just that not everyone does. ;) SP=2 causes a 16-bit segment wrap of the stack pointer that DOSBox doesn't take into account. The CPU flags that were lost in the wrap with IRET were inconsequential, but the …

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Re: Trouble running Grand Prix Circuit (1988) in DosBox

Posted on 2010-01-01, 20:46

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the news stuff is a selection of what we think is interesting to write down. It is nowhere complete. DOSBox has lots of changes each version. Specificly this problem was introduced when the way to start executables was changed from an IRET to a RETF. One game needed this (this saves a byte on the …

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Re: Trouble running Grand Prix Circuit (1988) in DosBox

Posted on 2010-01-01, 20:08

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In DOSBox versions after 0.72 there is an issue with GP.EXE regarding an unusually low initial stack pointer specified in the executable header. I have reported specifics of the issue to the devs, and a fix may be made at some point. Thanks for posting about the problem. I see. According to the …

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SOLVED - Trouble running Grand Prix Circuit (1988) in DosBox

Posted on 2010-01-01, 11:51

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Hello, I'm having some minor trouble running the game Grand Prix Circuit (by Accolade - 1988) in DosBox 0.73. The game itself actually runs with no problems; however the program gp.exe which displays a menu allowing you to select a graphics mode always freezes immediately after being launched. All I …

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