Re: Why did DOS games never use anything but the default EGA palette?

Posted on 2012-03-27, 19:48

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by Harekiet

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It's a bit of a shame that no more games added a simple vga detection and changed the palette when it ran on vga. Guess you could hack something like that into dosbox though.

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Re: Why did DOS games never use anything but the default EGA palette?

Posted on 2012-03-27, 06:01

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by Harekiet

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EGA did not support 64 colors in the 320x200 mode to be compatible with cga screens only in textmode and the 640x350 mode did you have 64 colors

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Re: S3 Trio64V+ memory?

Posted on 2012-03-23, 17:03

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by Harekiet

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haha sneaky bastards, although dunno if you'd really need more than 1mb for most dos usage.

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2012-03-22, 07:10

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by Harekiet

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Like that'll ever be finished 😀

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Re: AGP Graphics Card and Ethernet card sharing IRQ9

Posted on 2012-03-20, 18:18

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by Harekiet

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As long as the devices have properly written drivers it should work fine

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-03-18, 19:13

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by Harekiet

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I'm kinda liking the weird obscure shareware games. You can make endless amounts of episodes about them

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Re: Volume control for PC speaker emu?

Posted on 2012-03-18, 10:22

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by Harekiet

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Put your mixer commands in the autoexec section of the config file

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Re: S3 Trio64V+ memory?

Posted on 2012-03-16, 12:41

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by Harekiet

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I'd guess there'd be 4 memory chips on your avarage 2mb trio

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Re: Choppy Baldur's Gate on retro rig

Posted on 2012-03-16, 12:40

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by Harekiet

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Wait for the baldur's gate remake

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Re: UniVBE and Riva TNT2 M64 totally incompatible? Alternatives?

Posted on 2012-03-15, 15:02

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by Harekiet

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I thought there was some patched univbe's around that were just dummy drivers that forwarded to the real system's vbe.

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Re: ClassicDosGames is gone

Posted on 2012-03-12, 13:13

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by Harekiet

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All dos games are classic by now anyway, might as well change the site to just dosgames.com.... but that already exists 😀

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-03-10, 07:10

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by Harekiet

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I seem to be getting a headache just from watching the footage. All that spinning doesn't seem to go down well with me

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-03-03, 08:32

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by Harekiet

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I'd forgotten those special moves in biomenance. Don't think I ever bothered playing it beyond the first episode, still it was a fun game.

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Re: Invert Left/Right Audio Channels Stereo Sound?

Posted on 2012-02-28, 19:04

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by Harekiet

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Seems the best solution is just to remove all the remain bytes stuff and just default to left/right byte order. Optionally we could add some functionality in the mixer commands that would allow you to swap a specific channel

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Re: DOS programs won't load on upper memory

Posted on 2012-02-25, 00:04

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by Harekiet

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I'd rather use JEMM from freedos than qemm anyway. Especially nice with some of the special drivers they that can be loaded in protected mode so they don't really take up any low memory anymore. Of course any decent dos machine comes with some menuitem's in their config.sys as well.

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Re: Invert Left/Right Audio Channels Stereo Sound?

Posted on 2012-02-24, 09:46

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by Harekiet

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Made a little test app that plays 8bit stereo with and without a single byte start transfer. On my sb16 it plays the sound both times on the right side. In dosbox it switches from right to left. Someone with a real sbpro should test it. I found some documentation that when starting a stereo transfer …

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Re: Invert Left/Right Audio Channels Stereo Sound?

Posted on 2012-02-22, 17:16

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by Harekiet

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I was just waiting for you to make some test application wd 😀

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Re: Dual head VGA card with clone mode for MS-DOS?

Posted on 2012-02-19, 19:55

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by Harekiet

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd guess that if you extracted lot's of stuff from some linux videocard drivers and made some tool for dos based on it, you could probably do it for some cards.

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Re: Guillemot Dual Analog Gamepad

Posted on 2012-02-19, 01:26

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by Harekiet

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I think i have a similar thrustmaster one indeed, was very cheap and it shows, what a horrible gamepad 😀

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Re: Are Anti-Virus Softwares Absolutely Necessary for Windows based PCs? And Why Linux Users Are Not As "Paranoid&q

Posted on 2012-02-11, 07:57

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by Harekiet

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Since i switched to an SSD and have silly amounts of of memory i just keep Microsoft Security Essentials running. Before i would just use avast and disable the realtime component and only scanning stuff you downloaded. Realtime scanning always was too much of a speed impact to consider using it.

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