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Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-12-11, 15:43

BTW, the silicon embedded circuitry is already available in a machine my brother just got, a laptop - the one I heard about on the radio not too long ago. He says it's 50% faster than his old laptop benchmarks for CPU, and it does use far less power. So I guess it's not vaporware. The thing is, …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-21, 17:59

Ah ha, but the last piece of technology news I heard on the radio is that coming soon to production is new circuitry and processors - and entirely embedded within silicon sheets, if I'm not mistaken. Slight computation gain (somehow) but with 90% less power needed and heat produced, for what already …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-21, 14:39

Here's whats supposed to be another good one, and for a good starting price (whenever it's released, could even be now...) http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/07/samsung-q2-umpc-revealed/ with interactivity more like a PSP. Touchscreen, shows it running Vista, "full" keyboard, wireless internet - and …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-20, 21:33

You may be right... or at least it'll take a long time to do. I've been considering a switch of portable machines to be able to handle games etc. I like the pocket pc, but the gap between size and computing power is closing rapidly, as well as price... I'm just trying to get the most out of my …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-20, 15:08

After playing around inside ALL the settings possible in PocketDOS, I couldn't get Dark Forces to play any faster at ALL. So, I think I'm going to have to stop trying with that one... I know it may seem I gave up kinda quickly but I did try every setting and the entire readme. Even if I could …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-20, 14:44

Yeah, there's something about being a retrogamer - I don't have any game system newer than a PS2. And I mostly run PS1 games on it. My PDA is currently set up with all my old faves - from Pocket Commodore 64 with hundreds of games, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, pocket Game Boy Advance, the pocket PC port …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-19, 20:20

I'm back. Dark Forces IS WORKING, albeit slowly so far. But first things first. MiniMax, your suggestion to try the demo of PocketDOS was the key. The "base" model doesn't work with it, it comes up with the error as you thought it would from the FAQ from the site; protected mode, 386 or 486 required …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-15, 18:43

PS again I can't find any system requirements other than 386 minimum/486 recommended... not sure how this relates to 80286 but if it's a 286 then I guess I'm possibly screwed anyway, by 100. I'm still going to try, dammit. MadM@

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-15, 18:35

OK, a few things then; First, wd, n0p's own site says the current version for pocket pc's only goes up to 0.63 - to get 0.72 on the PDA, how do I "port" this? Of course, back to a total NOOB question... Second, stay tuned and I'll be trying the eval. version from www.pocketdos.com and get back with …

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-15, 18:24

PS post to Minimax's last reply - come to think of it, the error message and d:> prompt were at the size that the GRAPHICS should be displayed at, not the emu's command prompts. So you're probably right. Will start a new search for answers with that in mind. Hadn't occured to me. Thank you!

Re: Dark Forces on DosBox

Posted on 2007-11-15, 18:20

By normal core do you mean "verysimple"? That's what the default setting is in dosbox.config... with recommendations to not change it whenever possible... and with other listed types available as "simple", "normal", "full", and "dynamic". Do you recommend just trying each one of these and trying the …

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