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No DATE & TIME commands support

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First post, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2003-08-29, 16:50

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Yesterday, while I was trying to run Prehistorik 2 from Titus software, I noticed that the first screen saying: 'my game is already running at 2003, blah blah' was not appearing under DosBox. After a while, i noticed it was because DosBox doesn't support DATE and TIME ms-dos commands. Huh? I think it must not be that difficult to implement them. Maybe they aren't really necessary or they are kept at a lower priority... Who knows?

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Reply 1 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2003-08-31, 13:07

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are you sure the game will work if those commands were added ?

it's weird that the game would do an external call as the internal calls to date and time are supported .... why create such an overhead....

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Reply 2 of 7, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2003-08-31, 21:53

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The game already works. It just doesn't show an initial screen. Of course I know DATE and TIME commands are internal ones. If they are supported, how come that when i type them it comes out nothing, then? I presume you mean they're are supported internally when a program makes a DOS Call to the appropiate int/function, but not supported as 'typeable' commands. Is it not?

Reply 3 of 7, by Harekiet

Posted on 2003-09-01, 06:36

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Yep only the internal dos functions are supported and time/date is synched to host system's time at dosbox startup.

Reply 4 of 7, by mrsbrisby

Posted on 2003-09-01, 16:16

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perhaps the game can't cope with big years? Can you try it on a modern machine running DOS or FreeDOS (VMWARE?)

or you could temporarily set your clock back...

Reply 5 of 7, by bailey

Posted on 2004-04-17, 16:55

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Sorry to bring up an old thread, but I'm having a time/date issue with some old software now. It probably doesn't matter much, but older BBS software such as the one I'm testing (Renegade v04-05 I think) will not load and drops to the prompt saying "Please enter a time and date." There's a newer version of this software from 2004 that doesn't have this problem. I believe 04-05 is from 1996. Just thought I'd let you know.

Reply 6 of 7, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2004-04-18, 12:22

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BTW: (Now that this thread has been resurrected), Prehistorik 2 and Titus the fox now detect time properly. 😁

Reply 7 of 7, by Qbix

Posted on 2004-04-18, 12:38

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I fixed a small bug with date and time on files which were open.
some savegames now show proper dates and times as well

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