Re: Promise UltraATA133 TX2 (PDC20269) IDE controller has a bug with UDMA7 CompactFlash cards
Posted on 2021-10-02, 11:40
Did you try running the adapter in 3.3v mode? Some CF cards require it for UDMA.
Re: MIDIto - relocate hardcoded port 330h to somewhere else
Posted on 2021-10-01, 14:16
I suppose the NOEMS parameter just can't be used then. EMM386 should be better documented. EMS memory does not have anything to do with port trapping but maybe port trapping functionality is just internally part of the EMS code or something. It sort of makes sense if you consider that EMM386 only …
Re: Java Emulation
Posted on 2021-09-30, 11:50
I didn't know about JavaOS, but I'll do you one better: at a certain point Sun (before they were required by Oracle) actually developed chips that could run Java JVM bytecode natively! ARM chips did the same, for example the J in "ARM926EJ-S" stands for Jazelle which was a special mode the chips …
Re: Head's up: Imgur is under new ownership/management
Posted on 2021-09-29, 10:47
Already been on a downhill slide for years with intrusive ads, promoted posts, etc.
Re: Mortal Kombat Trilogy: Colors completely messed up when playing on a Mac
Posted on 2021-09-27, 20:17
It looks like the numbers select a mode index rather than the bitdepth.
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode,VI
Posted on 2021-09-21, 12:56
Warcraft 2 (and other Miles based games) can be prone to running out of stack space while handling interrupts, particularly when a mouse is being used at the same time as music playback. Using STACKS=9,256 in config.sys sometimes helps but I would recommend switching to a private stack in any …
Re: Armored Fist 2 ctd in dosbox
Posted on 2021-09-15, 06:30
Lowering the max instructions per block would likely make things worse if you're hitting the max cache blocks limit (less instructions per block = more overall blocks).
Re: Upgrade Path for P54VL-PCI Socket 5 Board
Posted on 2021-09-09, 21:37
The photos in the first post have their labels switched, right?
Re: What better way to emulate an old computer with good performance?
Posted on 2021-09-06, 23:57
You can mount all the ISOs (different discs) with one imgmount command and then use ctrl-F4 to switch between them, no need to exit windows or use the command prompt to issue a new imgmount command.
Re: What better way to emulate an old computer with good performance?
Posted on 2021-09-06, 19:26
Rikintosh wrote on 2021-09-06, 16:35: I like dosbox but I find it annoying having to restart the emulation every time I need to change cd (iso) You're doing something wrong, there's no need to restart the emulator to change the mounted ISO or any other drive.
Re: Old TCP/IP networking
Posted on 2021-08-14, 23:08
But the key phrase there is "on the same network segment" i.e. a LAN. I'm talking about a WAN, where UDP packets will absolutely get dropped if you spam a bunch of them in quick succession. The same effect DOES happen on a LAN if you send a lot of multicast/broadcast packets, which is also something …
Re: Old TCP/IP networking
Posted on 2021-08-14, 09:03
is speed even relevant tho? we have 1, 2.5, 5gb ethernet now. your encapsulating an ipx packet system designed for dos games on 10mbit on home lans running bnc with t connectors and loads of packet collision. I dont think it matters about speed of udp over tcp anymore knowing what the target was …
Re: Old TCP/IP networking
Posted on 2021-08-14, 00:00
I think you might run into trouble using UDP. Even though IPX didn't guarantee reliable delivery (same as UDP), in practice it was fairly safe and a lot of games that used it assumed there would be no (or at least very little) packet loss. They also tended to "spam" lots of little packets very …
Re: DOSBox SVN for Apple M1 Core Dynrec - A simple hack
Posted on 2021-08-12, 07:04
There was also an experimental tweak I made that dramatically sped up several titles such as Frontier: First Encounters in commit https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/commit/a2bfe33a4c9377f76b5a31477ef22e1aaa815c26 . Do not do this. You're basically undoing a fix for a specific problem …
Re: DOSBox + Linux + CUE/BIN = FAIL
Posted on 2021-07-01, 06:03
I agree . However, this is likely not the issue in this specific case, as if the cue file and bin/img file are in the same directory and the cue file gets read, but the bin/img file does not, the directory permissions are not the issue . The permissions of the bin/img file could be a problem, but …
Re: DOSBox + Linux + CUE/BIN = FAIL
Posted on 2021-06-30, 23:16
Good to check just in case, but in this specific case, the error suggests that the cue file is being found and read, but the referenced img file isn't . In the limited tests that I have run, the mscdex error is not shown if the cue file is absent (not there or wrong path) or inaccessible ( …
Re: DOSBox + Linux + CUE/BIN = FAIL
Posted on 2021-06-29, 23:07
Make sure the directory holding the bin/cue files is both executable and readable by the current user.
Re: "Cannot select Drive C" in DOSXbox when opening files in Windows 3.1
Posted on 2021-06-22, 23:28
Sounds like this old bug: https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/code-0/3663/
Re: Can one connect an IDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM to one of those USB to IDE adapters? Has anyone tried that ?
Posted on 2021-06-22, 23:19
Looking at the adapter I'm 99% sure it's the same internally as the Vantec ones.
Re: "Cannot select Drive C" in DOSXbox when opening files in Windows 3.1
Posted on 2021-06-22, 06:31
What are the external paths used when mounting the drives? If they contain a colon that isn't the second character, it can cause an issue like this. So for example "mount c cd:\" or "mount c hdd:\dos" is problematic, because DOSBox expects a colon to only appear after a single drive letter. It will …
Page 1 of 51