Anonymous wrote:

Hi,
Unfortunately, I have a bad case screwing up computers big time, and so, I'm, uh, afraid of downloading DOSbox. 😦

DOSBOX will not screw up anything. It does not install anything deeper into system. All files are in just one directory. No drivers, no shared DLLs, no registry entries (apart those made for uninstaller).
In fact you can copy the files from an installed DOSBOX to another computer and they will work as they are...

Mirek

Thank you very much for replying. That makes me feel better. 😀

Just wondering, is SDL still a requirement, and if it is, should I download the Source Code, or the Runtime Library, or the Development Library versions?

Thanks in advance,

Max

SDL is used, but you do not need to download anything else than DOSBOX installer. It contains everything (including SDL.DLL).
If you use a CVS build, then copy it over your normal DOSBOX installation (that way you will have all needed files). Just create a new DOSBOX.CONF (see README).

Mirek

Thanks a lot, agian!

I'm going to try out MegaRace, now.

Max

Hope it will work. I had hard time with setting up Megarace2 for my father, but i could not success with it. Possibly just because of those crappy integrated hardwares 🙁 Anyways it is a great game 😀

Weird. Megarace 2 runs fine for me with the latest CVS on my XP 2800+. Megrace should run even better.

Max here,

Say, does anyone have an ISO for MegaRace? My CD-Rom drive can't read the CD. 😠 Thanks in advance! 😀

Are you serious? Trading or linking to abandonware is against the rules here.

Sorry! 🙁 I forgot about that. I guess I'll have to get a new cd drive.

I think you not need a new drive, rather a cleaning disc (It is a disc having a small brush on it what can clean up the dust covering the lens. In Hungary i could buy one long ago for at about $5). At the side of the CD try to clean it with some soft cloth, wisely doing it might even erase harder scratches (I could already fix CDs this way 😀 ).

You can safely use a cotton swab with alcohol to clean optical drive lenses. For removing scratches from the bottom of CDs, I'd recommend using polishing compound and a cloth to rub the scratches out.

"You can safely use a cotton swab with alcohol to clean optical drive lenses" - if you not afraid of that you would not be able to build together your CD drive's parts once you pulled it in pieces 🤣 - on the other hand this would be the best (and the cheapest) method as maybe not only dust is in that poor CD drive (Some coffee, a piece of ham, ect... Imagine anything :p I could find nice things in floppy drives so far...)

I guess that's true. I haven't opened many PC CD/DVD drives to clean them, but I haven't had trouble re-assembling the few that I have opened.

On the other hand, I enjoy taking home electronics devices apart, looking inside, and then putting them back together 😀 I've opened (and often repaired and/or cleaned) stereos, VCRs, DVD players, TVs, computers, CD/DVD drives, speakers, VHS tapes, joysticks/gamepads, monitors, keyboards, mice, telephones, NES/Gameboy/Atari 2600 cartridges, NES/Gameboy/XBox/PSX/PS2 consoles, MP3 players, and lots of other stuff... I've also seen the inside of microwave ovens and hard drives that my dad opened.

It gets easier after you've been doing it for a while and learn the ways that things are held together (screws and lots of different kinds of clips and tabs usually, and occasionally glue).

I just finished fixing an IBM ThinkPad 350C laptop from 1993 😀 (Here is a pic of that machine, sadly i had not got camera...)
http://www.mo5.com/obsolete/136-musee-histoir … nkpad-350c.html

It's case was broken, among that it broke a few other parts, i had to strengthen it with some metal, the keyboard circuity was faulty - fixed too, as well as the floppy drive which had to be pulled in tiny pieces to pick a part of the broken case out of it. The only thing what i could not fix was the pointing device, but when i gave it back to the owner (it is not mine) he told me that it not even worked when he bought it from second - hand. A part was missing. Except from that the thing was nicely fixed, and the color (!) LCD still not seem to have any dead pixel!

But anyways, it is still not a good idea to just rumble without thinking in a poor drive's case 🤣

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