Re: About DOSBOX and native MSDOS resolutions...

Posted on 2007-04-20, 03:40

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by Great Hierophant

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Actually, DOSBox is kind of on the money here. The resolution of the DOS prompt is determined by the graphics card, not the operating system. DOSBox emulates Hercules Graphics, Tandy Graphics, CGA and VGA. The results of each mode are as follows: In Tandy or CGA modes, the text looks exactly as it …

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Re: The Essential Sound Cards

Posted on 2007-04-17, 23:42

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by Great Hierophant

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I don't wish to sound flippant, but I would stay away from any Sound Blaster 16 or better that is not fully-jumper configurable only. This means sticking with the first three of the line, (CT-1740, CT-1750, CT-1770) which incidentally are the only cards with a true OPL3 chip.

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Re: 8088 Corruption

Posted on 2007-04-16, 01:33

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in Milliways

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This is more interesting precisely because there does not seem to be any special tricks or hacks to the CGA involved, other than writing to the hardware directly. All it is doing is using the 40-column text mode,chaging the foreground and background colors as needed and using any of the available …

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Re: Keep DBs off SB16s!!

Posted on 2007-04-10, 23:59

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by Great Hierophant

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The Wave Blaster is actually one of the more interesting/capable daughterboards. It's equivalent to an E-MU SoundEngine (Proteus), and shares more than a few similarities with ye old MT-32. From a gaming perspective, you might look elsewhere, but otherwise, it's really rather neat. If the SCI0 …

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Re: Keep DBs off SB16s!!

Posted on 2007-04-09, 22:28

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by Great Hierophant

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I'm off daughtercards whenever possible. I have found a module replacement for my SCB-55 and am always on the lookout for the DB-50XG's replacement. I agree that the Roland MPU-401AT is the best device for quality daughtercards like the ones described above. Crap daughtercards like the Waveblaster, …

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Re: Nigerian scam PM!

Posted on 2007-04-09, 22:19

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by Great Hierophant

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I would assume that whoever sent the PM in the first place either: Created an account for that very purpose, or Has a program/trojan/virus on his system that sends these things without his knowledge, or His account/computer has been hacked

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Re: Keep DBs off SB16s!!

Posted on 2007-04-09, 13:52

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by Great Hierophant

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Any card that claims SBPro compatibility that isn't an SBPro is likely only fully compatible with an SBPro 2.0 (which includes SB 1.5 and SB 2.0 compatibility.) It won't be compatible with a game that takes full advantage of an SBPro 1.0's FM capabilities. AWE32s, PnP SB16, or SB16s without true …

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Re: A Challenge: Getting Serpent Isle to Run with Sound and a CD-ROM in DOS

Posted on 2007-04-09, 03:32

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by Great Hierophant

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I don't suppose it will let you get away with running UMBPCI, will it? I had no idea what that program did (allows access to UMA through HIMEM), but now I know and a lot of people apparently have used it and U7/SI in harmony.

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Re: A Challenge: Getting Serpent Isle to Run with Sound and a CD-ROM in DOS

Posted on 2007-04-08, 13:03

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by Great Hierophant

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in DOS

Ctmouse eliminates the mouse driver problem. Could you direct me to a smaller replacement for OAKCDROM.SYS? The benefit of using that driver is that it is generic and compatible with pretty much everything. But it is huge. Also, what about MSCDEX?

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A Challenge: Getting Serpent Isle to Run with Sound and a CD-ROM in DOS

Posted on 2007-04-08, 02:42

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by Great Hierophant

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While Ultima 7 and Serpent Isle are classics, they are extremely difficult when it comes to memory. They will not run if an Expanded Memory Manager like EMM386.EXE or QEMM.SYS is loaded, even if the "NOEMS" parameter is used. Ultima 7 requires the following amount of Conventional Memory to Run: …

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Re: 0.70 for Mac Freezing

Posted on 2007-03-29, 23:36

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by Great Hierophant

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I have encountered the problem described in the first post in all the .70-based yhkwong builds. I have not encountered the problem in the official .70 release though.

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Re: Leisure Suit Larry 1 (VGA) - 256 color problems...

Posted on 2007-03-21, 02:31

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by Great Hierophant

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I would suggest that you are using a pirate copy of LSL1 with a corrupt VGA320.DRV file or some other file. However, in the chance that you are using a geniune copy of the floppy disks (the CD compilations do not use that Install program), try the IBM PS2 Models 25 & 30 selection. Even though it …

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Re: CD-Track Loading & Windows XP

Posted on 2007-03-20, 15:37

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by Great Hierophant

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I have one idea left I would like to try. I do have an original Loom CD (and the Audio Drama CD), both are in good condition. That gap between the data and audio track really throws recording software for a loop. What I would like to do is to burn it using CDRWIN in my Win 98 machine, and transfer …

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Re: SIMMConn adapter for AWE64

Posted on 2007-03-20, 04:12

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by Great Hierophant

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RAM is RAM, it will work. Unfortunately, it sticks out like a sore thumb, possibly robbing the user of an ISA slot.

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Re: AKALABETH help. Can anyone figure this out?

Posted on 2007-03-19, 23:07

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by Great Hierophant

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Well, you aren't playing the original version of Akalabeth for starters, so it is likely a bug in your port. The original version of Akalabeth was released in 1979 for the Apple II or II+ w/48KB of RAM and Applesoft BASIC, well before the first PC was ever released.

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Re: SIMMConn adapter for AWE64

Posted on 2007-03-19, 23:01

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by Great Hierophant

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Yes, with the extra RAM, you can use bigger and better soundfonts with games that support General Midi music. However, DOS games that offer native support the AWE32 will not likely see any improvement. These games will likely load their own Soundfont. I don't believe any game assumed that the AWE32 …

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Re: Bug in the MPU-401 Emulation

Posted on 2007-03-19, 19:53

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by Great Hierophant

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I have tested both at extremely low cycles and with the compiled build, but the results are the same. I didn't think that speed would be the issue as my Win 9x box runs with a Pentium II 450MHz and it worked there without any sound flaws in the method I describe above.

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What Need for ISA Slots in a 3GHz Machine?

Posted on 2007-03-19, 04:11

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by Great Hierophant

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The Soyo SY-P4I 845PE ISA, is an industrial motherboard which contains three ISA slots and supports a Pentium socket 423 processor up to 3.06GHz. It also supports 2GB of DDR333 RAM. As this board has a limited market, it isn't cheap, but once you have it, what will you do with it? If you want an …

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Re: CD-Track Loading & Windows XP

Posted on 2007-03-19, 03:52

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by Great Hierophant

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I have some good news. If I mount a CD image of Tomb Raider with Daemon Tools, the in-game cutscenes seem to be in sync. But no matter how I mount the Loom CD, it still will only sound the first note in a thread.

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Re: CD-Track Loading & Windows XP

Posted on 2007-03-18, 22:56

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by Great Hierophant

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Of course with Loom, the best way is to rip the audio track and play through ScummVM. I'd agree entirely, except that yhkwong's DOSBox CVS has a graphic scaler that in full screen completely blows away anything else when viewed on an LCD monitor.

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