Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

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I have noticed that the .conf files generated for and included in 'archive file package' .zips have absolute paths for [sdl] mapperfile=, [dosbox] captures= and mount commands in [autoexec]... even when D-Fend Reloaded is running in portable mode. I am pretty sure these entries can use relative …

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Re: Bashing Valve, Steam and id Software

Posted on 2007-08-09, 22:27

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Thought that but didn't say it.

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Re: Bashing Valve, Steam and id Software

Posted on 2007-08-09, 22:11

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How so? Source fans tend to hide the facts lol, this is just what I don't want to get in on, a 'battle of the engines' which none of us have had any hand in whatsoever. r Nice use of Wikipedia linkage though. How exactly am I supposed to know that you didn't make that edit yourself for the purpose …

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Re: Bashing Valve, Steam and id Software

Posted on 2007-08-09, 16:25

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red_avatar wrote: What's Quake Wars, then? Not anywhere near one of the listed engines?

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Re: 4-button Joystick/Gravis Gamepad?

Posted on 2007-08-08, 20:15

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OOooh! Now I see what was going on. I had a 2nd joystick installed; despite being not-currently-connected, it kept itself around in winmm basically. I had to go remove it from device manager. All is well now when using auto. Confused me for a while; thanks wd!

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Re: 4-button Joystick/Gravis Gamepad?

Posted on 2007-08-08, 19:24

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Mmmm, nono... it X/Y and Rx/Ry are the left and right analog sticks. The drivers report the gamepad as a whole as a single device as far as I know, but technically there are 4 axes that way. X/Y and Rx/Ry are how dual-analog gamepads and Windows handle most any dual-analog setup. I'm not sure if …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-08, 05:00

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Moleculor, the source is the same source archive for 0.71 that is on the DOSBox site. They are arguably still not in compliance with the GPL.

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Re: 4-button Joystick/Gravis Gamepad? (possible bug?)

Posted on 2007-08-08, 02:54

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Ummm... it's an XBox 360 gamepad using the "XBCD" drivers... Right now I have it set up with X/Y as the left analog stick, Rx/Ry as the right analog stick, the D-Pad as the POV Hat Switch, and everything else (including the analog triggers) set to be standard buttons. It's what seems to be a fairly …

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Re: 4-button Joystick/Gravis Gamepad?

Posted on 2007-08-07, 13:33

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4axis worked... So, Gravis Gamepads were simply four axis joysticks, and used two of the axes as buttons? If so, I never knew that... Thanks!

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 13:07

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But it comes back to the point of there being many contributors. I doubt ALL of their sentiments echo Qbix's. They contributed code to be licensed under the GPLv2, which does indeed seem to be violated in Steam's case. It doesn't really seem to be Qbix's say at this point.

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Re: 4-button Joystick/Gravis Gamepad?

Posted on 2007-08-07, 07:15

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Hmm, nope, that doesn't do it; I still only have two emulated buttons that way. Just with wrap on, I have a lot of button 1/2, and with it off I have only one 1 and one 2.

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 05:05

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Way to beat me to that Qbix, 🤣. Is it a case of overlooking the violation, or no violation at all? (And 2K Games is still around??)

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 05:04

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I'm no law expert either but seeing as the Steam DOSBox still checks for and requires Steam, that means there is still some kind of modification or wrapping. From everything I've heard, this still seems to be a GPL violation.

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 02:52

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The guide idea sounds like a worthwhile undertaking.

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 01:41

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Well really, it was id's job to make sure these things ran/run with as few issues as possible. And I'd say it is still their job. Yeah, the Steam forums are a massive ball of crap, but they function, and people should be good to get support from there. I wouldn't worry about it much.

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4-button Joystick/Gravis Gamepad?

Posted on 2007-08-07, 01:14

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How do you get it to work? I set it to 'auto' and certainly have more than a 4-button gamepad in Windows, but inside DOSBox it only uses two buttons (and wraps them around). The other options under the [joystick] header in the conf refer only to axes, and thrustmaster/flightstick which have nothing …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 00:44

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New developments: there was just now an update to the DOS games... DOSBox was updated to 0.71. Launching the DOSBox executable or the batch files still requires steam, thus it is still modified/wrapped. There was a source archive (dosbox-0.71.tar.gz) pushed out in the update as well, with the same …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-06, 07:31

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Oh again I'm not arguing in Valve or Steam's favor, just explaining what I know... I don't agree with or like it one bit =) And yeah you could zip the DOS games up and send them to someone but I don't think it's meant to be a full-on piracy stop; I really do think many steam games could be sent to …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-06, 06:18

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It really makes me wonder what they were thinking. It's standard Steam fare really; the executable to get launched is what gets DRM'd. Just as with these DOS games you can take the non-DRM'd content (even the original DOS exe's) and use them elsewhere, you can similarly take the data files from …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-06, 04:11

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Very true @ the loader thing, and I would kind of like to see that, since there's no guarantee whoever keeps track of these things will keep the Steam DOSBox(es) updated. At least the loader would let users take some bit of charge. Heck, the Steam DOSBox was out of date on release for that matter... …

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