All of this sounds great. I have an old game that noone's ever, ever heard of and was wondering if anytone has gotten it to work with anything higher than Windows 98 using the standard VGA driver? The game is "Ripper" I know, great game. But I haven't been able to play it for years until I was given an old Windows 98 computer with only VGA graphics onboard. I would love to pay this on my Win 7 machine.

Ripper is a DOS game and as such is probably not using DirectDraw

try dosbox being sure to mount your cd-rom as D:
If you need help start a new thread elsewhere on this forum

I have been able to run Fallout 2 with Aqrit's patch using ddraw on Win7. Now speed is back to normal, woot..

Thank you very much Aqrit.

Attachement removed by Qbix. Google didn't like it.

Here is a working link I found, in case anyone else needs this tool.

Edit by Qbix: Lets not take risks at this point in time.

Malwarebytes IDs that as a threat, too. I am perfectly willing to assume that this is a false positive, but Google will not.

collector wrote:

I am perfectly willing to assume that this is a false positive, but Google will not.

Is that a problem if it's only a download link and not hosted directly by vogons.org?

I have had Google tag my site for a link to another site that had something they did not like.

"Love" 'em and their law...
Thanks teleguy!!
 

i wonder what kind of AV that google use to decide that mudlord's patch is 'evil'?
i tried to submit it to virus-total in here the result: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/5e0ebbb264 … sis/1455257943/

Circumvents safedisc, so... yeah

my version has moved to http://www.bitpatch.com/downloads/ddraw_color_fixer.zip

aqrit wrote:

my version has moved to http://www.bitpatch.com/downloads/ddraw_color_fixer.zip

Thanks for that!

Note:
The reason I removed the patch from my website is because Google flags the executable. The reason it did this is super stupid: because I used Pelles C at the time to compile the patch, Google didn't like it and blacklisted my entire site. Recompiling with MSVC might fix it but since aqrit's patch is better, not worth the effort. Plus there is Dege's emulators to look forward to, so there's little point maintaining it.

RoyBatty wrote:

Circumvents safedisc, so... yeah

How can this circumvent SD/SR/SF?

mudlord wrote:

Note:
The reason I removed the patch from my website is because Google flags the executable. The reason it did this is super stupid: because I used Pelles C at the time to compile the patch, Google didn't like it and blacklisted my entire site. Recompiling with MSVC might fix it but since aqrit's patch is better, not worth the effort. Plus there is Dege's emulators to look forward to, so there's little point maintaining it.

I may still see what I can do regarding this false positive and Google's Safe Browsing, false positives annoy me.

Stiletto wrote:

I may still see what I can do regarding this false positive and Google's Safe Browsing, false positives annoy me.

Me too. I have had to deal with this given the large number of executables that I host on SHP. Some, like Norton will tag anything compiled with NSIS if the installers are not signed. They just ID the stub files that are in all NSIS installers because some malware writers have used NSIS to package their crap.

It is silly given that you can do nearly as much damage with Inno Setup as NSIS, but those installers do not get as many false positives.

I fixed the false positive.
I also drastically reduced the file size without doing any executable compression.

RoyBatty wrote:

Circumvents safedisc, so... yeah

By SafeDisc you mean the later versions, or just the earlier ones?