Re: Wiki needs updating?
Posted on 36 minutes ago
Did you notice the "dosbox.conf" text on that page is a link to another page, which has almost exactly the same information as your suggestion? https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Dosbox.conf
Re: Amstrad PC 1512
Posted on Today, 12:18
I can't remember ever running into any games that were compatible, but wouldn't run due to only having 512KB of RAM instead of 640KB. I do remember the system-supplied boot disk would check a flag in the CMOS and create a ramdisk if it was enabled, which sometimes caused issues.
Re: DOSBox vs forks and patches
Posted on 2020-10-22, 11:38
I originally wrote that patch over 18 months ago. Afair the only part relevant to making Quake (and Q2dos) produce audio was fixing one bit in a register that represents different things depending on if it's being read vs. being written. The DMA implementation wasn't touched.
Re: CUE sheet troubles :/
Posted on 2020-10-22, 11:00
The only DOSBoxes that are capable of reading FLAC tracks all use my CDDA patch (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=62203), which uses dr_flac , not libFLAC . You know that's not true, because you participated in the original FLAC patch thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t= …
Re: An AdLib-Compatible Card (1986) Older than AdLib (1987)
Posted on 2020-10-22, 07:49
So it was sold comercially? It's hard to believe - if there were hundreds of them in use, why it got so forgotten? I was thinking maybe it was part of a course (like electrical engineering or such) and each student assembled their own and was assessed on the final product... but that would probably …
Re: Hardest adventure game you've ever played (DOS/Early WIndows)
Posted on 2020-10-22, 04:20
Not sure why people think Lucasarts games didn't have dead-ends, it was entirely possible to kill all three kids (separately, not by blowing up the mansion) in Maniac Mansion. Losing just one was enough to make it unfinishable.
Re: Planning to install SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Help, advice, suggestions, etc.?
Posted on 2020-10-22, 00:11
@jmarsh fsutils of XP doesn't show "Bytes Per Physical Sector :" ; likely because the OS always expected 512, so it wasn't mentioned. Your picture shows 2 things: 1. That's a 512e drive, not 4KB native. 2. That's either not XP or for some strange reason you're using a Vista theme. Anyway, I'm done. …
Re: CUE sheet troubles :/
Posted on 2020-10-21, 23:56
Not with FLAC. It's lossless and bit-perfect. Seeking might be a bit slower than uncompressed WAV, but still orders of magnitude faster than a CD-ROM drive. You might assume so since it's lossless, but like all codecs it still has a minimum framesize so if the total number of samples is not an …
Re: Planning to install SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Help, advice, suggestions, etc.?
Posted on 2020-10-21, 14:33
Nevertheless, support for transfer of srcror with 4096 on the software side ( PC<->HDD; protocol so to say) is highly unlikely on XP. There is literally no other way it can be handled; if you ask the drive to return data for X sectors it will return 4X KB of data. The same way requesting X sectors …
Re: Planning to install SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Help, advice, suggestions, etc.?
Posted on 2020-10-21, 11:44
@jmarsh I don't mean to argue, but.. Both USB stack and USB HDD enclosures are special, these enclosures do all the translations for the HDD and PC. Otherwise, my copy of Windows XP wouldn't be able to handle 5TB capacity of my USB 3.0 HDD also. :) They do not. USB Mass Storage basically uses scsi …
Re: CUE sheet troubles :/
Posted on 2020-10-21, 11:12
It wouldn't. Compressed audio brings other problems like slow seeking, loss of quality, incorrect tracks lengths...
Re: CUE sheet troubles :/
Posted on 2020-10-21, 09:16
It's one of several reasons why using individual files for each track is a bad idea, better off just sticking with a mixed-mode .iso.
Re: Planning to install SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Help, advice, suggestions, etc.?
Posted on 2020-10-21, 09:10
It wasn't until Windows Vista/7 that mainstream Windows became aware of 4K sectors (or AF; Advanced Format). They didn't support 4K sectors, but were aware of it. That started with Windows 8.x. Windows supported 4KB sectors since at least XP, maybe even earlier. Definitely not starting with windows …
Re: CUE sheet troubles :/
Posted on 2020-10-21, 08:33
Depends if the ripping software started dumping the track from index 0 or index 1. If it started ripping at index 0 the pregap is included in the .ogg file, so you'd want this: INDEX 00 00:00:00 INDEX 01 00:00:08 ; 75 frames in one second so 37:55:03 - 37:54:70 = 00:00:08 (length of pregap/index 0 …
Re: CUE sheet troubles :/
Posted on 2020-10-21, 07:39
Obviously to use a tool to build it properly. Because this: FILE "image.iso" BINARY 2 TRACK 01 MODE1/2048 3 INDEX 01 00:00:00 4 FILE "track02.ogg" MP3 5 TRACK 02 AUDIO 6 PREGAP 00:02:00 7 INDEX 01 00:00:00 Is definitely incorrect. You are basically saying that both tracks start at the same time (00 …
Re: Unknown network card drivers for dos.
Posted on 2020-10-21, 06:26
Baoran wrote on 2020-10-21, 02:40: Why would a network card need such big voltage converter chip as this one has? Have not seen such in other network cards. It's used for the coax port in 10BASE2 (thin) mode.
Re: Planning to install SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Help, advice, suggestions, etc.?
Posted on 2020-10-21, 05:48
From what I read, FAT32 is not good for SSDs, because it is so hard to align to 4K sectors. Well, not the partition itself -that's easy-, but the directory trees/FAT itself etc. etc. That makes no sense; the smallest supported cluster size (which is the FAT "minimum allocation unit") is 4KB, every …
Re: Resolution Issue with Dosbox using a VGA monitor
Posted on 2020-10-21, 04:36
Right. I should have done so. I tried Surface, Overlay and OpenGl; vgaonly and svga_s3; Aspect=true, Aspect=false. All possible permutations of those options, plus: I started with a baseline of Resolution=Original and then I went and tried the resolutions 640x400 and 320x400, which I determined …
Re: Resolution Issue with Dosbox using a VGA monitor
Posted on 2020-10-21, 00:17
7F20 wrote on 2020-10-20, 23:21: Is it supposed to work this way? That depends on what the output/render settings are, which you didn't mention at all.
Re: CUE sheet troubles :/
Posted on 2020-10-19, 15:15
You need the SDL_Sound dev package for linking (and make sure it is for SDL 1.x, not 2.x) as well as the runtime library. Check the output of ./configure to make sure it gets found.
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