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Re: Web browsing on 3.11 = NIGHTMARE

Posted on 2013-08-26, 19:44

in Windows
How about using Arache from DOS instead? It's bundled with FreeDOS, and as long as you've got a vesa compatible card and a packet driver it should be better than trying to get an ancient historical browser running on win16.

Re: Icewind Dale II

Posted on 2013-02-21, 17:09

"and no, again your lack of knowledge, these days, for true porting, you can reuse almost all of the code. Most of the times you just need some ifdef PLATFORMNAME and a compiler targeting that platform." So tell me then, how do you port a game written in x86 code to say, a PowerPC processor, and …

Re: Icewind Dale II

Posted on 2013-02-20, 20:15

The project mentioned makes the games playable on platforms other than DOS/Windows so it is a PORT, NOT a remake. Just for future reference, porting is when you move a game from the platform it was originally developed on to another platform, which is what this program does, OK? No. A port is when …

Re: Icewind Dale II

Posted on 2013-02-20, 15:35

The project mentioned makes the games playable on platforms other than DOS/Windows so it is a PORT, NOT a remake. Just for future reference, porting is when you move a game from the platform it was originally developed on to another platform, which is what this program does, OK? No. A port is when …

Re: Making a linux Dosbox folder

Posted on 2013-01-23, 21:10

Better off compiling a static version of the dosbox binary, IMO. Then your resulting dosbox executable shouldn't have any external dependencies other than the basic c libraries - you then won't have to have install them all on whichever system you plug your usb stick/card/flash drive in to.

Re: Amstrad Mega PC - anyone got one / had one?

Posted on 2013-01-09, 17:21

Fairly basic pc with very limited expansion. As mentioned, video out is a strange 15/31KHz combined signal from the single onboard VGA. There's no interaction between the megadrive and the PC - so you don't get the ability to poke around in running megadrive games, for example.

Re: Which ms-dos games need more than 1 MB video ram?

Posted on 2012-12-14, 08:42

in DOS
You've got many titles there that would certainly benefit from a faster DOS machine rather than a slow/midrange 386... On the other hand though, there's definitely games in that list that are from the 286/early-386 era that will probably be a bit too fast on a 486. The list seems to span 87/88 to …

Re: Which ms-dos games need more than 1 MB video ram?

Posted on 2012-12-13, 10:19

in DOS
AFAIK the "sweet spot" for the original Wing Commander is supposed to be somewhere between a 386SX16 and a 386DX33. Don't quote me on this though, I haven't played around too much with 386s. I do know that it runs too fast on a 486, though. Yeah, I'd go for that. I first played it on my 16MHz 286; …

Re: My retro PowerPC (Beige)

Posted on 2012-11-07, 14:32

Anyone know where to get a copy of MacOS 9.2? I've got an iMac G3-500 and a beige G3 tower, both of which I'd like to resurrect - they were rescued from work and had OS X installed (I have a top spec eMac for OS X so I'd rather put 9.2.2 back on) and I only have OS X media and the free 9.2.x updates …

Re: Games that make you choose between OPL3, GM and MT-32

Posted on 2012-11-07, 11:49

in DOS
You've also got the opportunity to use the 'Ultimate Talkie edition', which appears to give the best of both worlds as ScummVM does. http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/ Works in original Dos too, as far as I can gather. That should mean you can get speech (and effects?) *and* MT-32 music in the …

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