Re: am I doing this benchmarking right? (DOS)

Posted on 2014-07-23, 11:08

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Results for machine 1 seem all very logical to me. They are in accordance with my results in a similar system and Phil's results in the benchmarks database. For machine 2 Doom & Quake results seem again correct and logical for the configuration. For 3DBench & PCPBench though (based on doom & quake …

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Re: Boxer-like frontend for Windows

Posted on 2014-07-18, 18:44

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I'm not a (dosbox) developer, but anyway :) You are aware that there are numerous, way more than for apple's platform, gui frontends for dosbox, right? Have you tried some of them? I'm sure one will suit your needs, there are literally dozens of them. Or perhaps someone who has used boxed can …

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Re: Possible DS12887 drop-in replacement

Posted on 2014-07-17, 14:03

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Found a good supply for packaging for the ALT12887, which should allow me to safely send them over regular mail (~2cm thick), and modified the board design to shave another ~70mil (~1/16") in height (which I needed to fit in said packaging). 1st batch PCBs will have slightly trimmed pins to fit in …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-17, 14:02

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Gemini000 wrote: I'm mostly going by YouTube thumbs ups vs. thumbs downs. I didn't know your videos were also at Youtube. But I only see until ~80, have I looked at the wrong channel?

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Re: The Return of Mobygames?

Posted on 2014-07-16, 20:00

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Aaaaah that's exactly what I was looking for! I had visited multiples times the "first" search screen looking for the desired properties, but never thought that if I select a platform additional properties will appear in another screen, thank you so much. You see now why I didn't want to open …

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Re: The Return of Mobygames?

Posted on 2014-07-16, 18:37

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Couldn't find a more appropriate thread to ask about Mobygames, so excuse me in advance if I should have posted this elsewhere although it is about current site. Googling for example about "mt-32 dos games" or "cga dos games" I got results from Mobygames and a link of the form mobygames.com/ …

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Re: Thoughts on Emulating BBS Door Games with Node.js?

Posted on 2014-07-15, 12:42

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Yes, this is what you need. It is really simply to setup them, I just gave you the whole picture. You just need an application running (the telnet server + FOSSIL driver) which will fire the bbs software. Configuring this application is as simple as choosing to what port it listens and which file it …

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Re: How to copy content from txt to DosBox window

Posted on 2014-07-15, 11:45

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Unfortunately,the old Dos Program will crash in XP mode or other virtual machine. DosBox is my last hope. But I have to copy content from Excel to DosBox windows directly. There are too many recodrs need to copy to DosBox window manually every day. Is there any command for this case? Who can help …

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Re: Thoughts on Emulating BBS Door Games with Node.js?

Posted on 2014-07-15, 10:41

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I meant that with having something to answer telnet and redirect it to the bbs software, there is no need to even go the VPS way. Bandwidth of a simple line is more than enough for you to host it at your own place, as we used to to with bbs's. You can of course run the bbs software with door games …

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Re: Thoughts on Emulating BBS Door Games with Node.js?

Posted on 2014-07-15, 06:11

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What instructions exactly do you need about this? It's kind of application specific, but maybe we can help. The general idea that you need to setup a FOSSIL driver as an additional layer between the bbs and the internet. This driver will translate telnet requests to what the bbs software expects and …

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Re: Thoughts on Emulating BBS Door Games with Node.js?

Posted on 2014-07-14, 15:16

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Making an actual bbs which uses the original software expecting phonecalls accessible over telnet is trivial. There is a whole site dedicated in listing all such bbs's, http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ I have myself modified the bbs I used to run in the early 90's and made it available over telnet …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 18:28

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It actually is, it had to be an XT-era version

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 18:22

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Just finished transferring all XT-Hercules (or simcga) capable games I own and could think of to a Schneider Euro XT. Time to see now on a so-rare-yourself-and-your-geeky-things Saturday night what actually runs on the 512KB RAM this XT beauty has. Sorry about the phone photos, I reallly don't know …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-12, 15:48

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Dude it's July already, move on from June 😀 I couldn't agree more on the game though, I also had a first chance with it from a magazine cd offering its demo back then. Playing it recently didn't change my opinion about it.

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Re: School me on graphics card RAM upgrades

Posted on 2014-07-10, 16:47

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Unclear if this generation of cards did anything clever with extra memory Until now I thought that resolution/color setting is just a matter of memory and drivers. Are we sure that it's not a matter of available drivers and that really some cards can't output (by design restrictions) every possible …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2014-07-06, 16:15

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Put it in perspective, 5.25" become obsolete around what 1990? 88?, 25 years ago and consider that you could still buy a mainstream pc with a 1.44MB disk less than 10 years of course so of course its fair to assume a high price for that kind of drive. New pc's were sold until the mid 90's that …

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Re: Voodoo 2 graphic artifacts.

Posted on 2014-07-06, 08:17

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I remember having the same issues with artifact in Colin McRae. It's a game I like a lot and I've played it throughout the years in many different configurations and hardware, artifacts problems were definitely there in some cases. Never figured out why. Also I believe that this game doesn't even …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2014-07-06, 08:02

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I recently searched for a normal, HD 5.25" drive for a pc on EU ebay. Nothing rare like a DD drive but I got the same impression. I was expecting many results and only got a few with what I consider as crazy prices. I wish I could find one at a total of $20, the cheapest I found was double that, …

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Re: help for a first timer

Posted on 2014-06-28, 21:10

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As already mentioned by Matth79, a config -set "dos ems=off" before running the game executable is enough for me. Of course you can always set it in your config file.

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Re: Tandy 1000sx XT-CF Help me get over 32MB Limit.

Posted on 2014-06-24, 16:05

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As an initial approach and before trying weird dos versions I would go for a vanilla, official 3.3. I'm not at all familiar with what restricitions 3.2 might have, moreover the tandy version. What I can confirm (having done it recently on an XT with XT-CF, otherwise I wouldn't be so confident about …

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