First post, by endre1952
I managed to get a CT-1320B with the CMS chips for a cheap price. It's working fine, but has anybody come up with a fix for those games that require a genuine Game Blaster?
I managed to get a CT-1320B with the CMS chips for a cheap price. It's working fine, but has anybody come up with a fix for those games that require a genuine Game Blaster?
I was not aware such games existed. What games are they?
I have ATI stereo FX with the CMS chips but only tried with Monkey Island so far.
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Most games by Taito. Bubble Bobble and Rambo 3 certainly don't work. I haven't gotten CMS support in Accolade's Altered Destiny either.
Taito games use certain ports for detection that are only active on a standalone GameBlaster. Support for that was added to DOSBox; the technical details of which can be learned from reading the source code.
I guess that hacking past the GameBlaster-specific port test is the only way to make the games in question use CMS-on-SB hardware.
I made a list here : http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2012/04/u … me-support.html
I have tested most of the games that advertise Game Blaster support, and have only thirty or so more to go, so if I find any more, I will add them to the list.
The difficulty with the Taito games is that the port test may be included in the main executable, which is supposed to be encrypted due to the disk based copy protection.
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