Re: Best Doom ports for dos

Posted on 2015-05-02, 07:53

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For a 486, you'd do well to go with a patched up version of vanilla Doom with expanded limits and greater stability: Doom+ You know, I thought about this, and the thing is that any scene that could benefit from such a patch, because it exceeds the original limits, will probably be way too slow for …

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Re: SATA CD-ROM use in Win98SE with audio cable

Posted on 2015-04-30, 04:13

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Evert wrote: Well, there are advantages to using SATA drives over IDE ones, one of them being the newer SATA drive isn't likely to suffer from mechanical problems. AFAIK, you can still buy new IDE optical drives, although they are a bit more expensive than their SATA counterparts.

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Re: SBAWE32 Reboots computer when running certain games

Posted on 2015-04-30, 04:09

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I use this: DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOSW\EMM386.EXE RAM I=B400-B7FF I=CA00-CBFF AUTO The more standard I=B000-B7FF causes problems with CDMAN 2.0 and I think a few other games.

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Re: Mortal Kombat 3 Sound and Moves in Dosbox

Posted on 2015-04-29, 16:58

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Were you standing directly next to the opponent ("touching" him) when you released LP?

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Re: SBAWE32 Reboots computer when running certain games

Posted on 2015-04-29, 14:57

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I found that EMM386 is causing Jazz Jackrabbit and other games to restart the computer when launched. It may be a combination of exact HW and EMM386 switches. I know for a fact that on my old system, Jazz Jackrabbit works fine with EMM386. Try without the D=64 switch. Do you need it for something …

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Re: need help with batch file

Posted on 2015-04-29, 14:50

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This is indeed the case. You have to order the errorlevels in descending order.

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Re: Mortal Kombat 3 Sound and Moves in Dosbox

Posted on 2015-04-29, 13:20

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As I said: dr_st wrote: You need to be close to the enemy to perform this finish. Which means you have to start holding LP while away from the enemy, move closer, then press F-D-D-F, and release.

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Re: Mortal Kombat 3 Sound and Moves in Dosbox

Posted on 2015-04-29, 07:54

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My setting is cycles=max. You need to be close to the enemy to perform this finish. Which means you have to start holding LP while away from the enemy, move closer, then press F-D-D-F, and release. I input the sequence pretty fast, but not blazing fast. One thing I can think of is that if you press …

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Re: Mortal Kombat 3 Sound and Moves in Dosbox

Posted on 2015-04-29, 05:23

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Interesting, is it setting-dependent? I just tried DOSBOX 0.74 and could successfully perform Kano's fatality (Hold LP - F-D-D-F - Release LP) 3 times in a row without any issues. I wasn't pressing the keys particularly slow either. It's a standard USB keyboard, not wireless. SB16 music works as …

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Re: Any Thinkpad fans identify this model?

Posted on 2015-04-25, 18:08

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It's a T2x. T20: http://digichar.com/imgs/a/d/s/x/x/ibm_thinkpad_t20_laptop_20gb_hdd_256mb_ram_win_xp_sp3_ms_office_a_lot_software_1_lgw.jpg T23: http://philippthome.de/fotos/upload/2013/01/18/20130118234247-9f8c2fc8.jpg All T2x look basically the same, as you can see, and the picture is not sharp …

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Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!

Posted on 2015-04-23, 13:02

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alexanrs wrote: If you specify DOS=NOAUTO in Config.sys it wil not load anything automatically (HIMEM.SYS, DBLBUFF.SYS, IFSHLP.SYS and SETVER.EXE), so you can even go "conventional memory only" with DOS 7.x Awesome. I didn't even know that. 😀

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Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!

Posted on 2015-04-23, 06:17

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Windows will never be pure DOS. It's Windows, capable of doing some later type of DOS. Not pure DOS at all. For pure dos, you need eighter: MS-Dos, Novell-DOS, IBM-DOS, DR-DOS or Free-DOS. Those are the real deal, not Windows95/98/ME. Yes it can be used to launch DOS software. Still, not pure DOS. …

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Re: hey network guru's question for you

Posted on 2015-04-22, 20:19

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All is good advice, and generally it is much easier to manage a proper router-based setup than an ICS-based one. However, I still believe that a correctly configured ICS can provide the desired security, and some tips to that end were given here. I still don't recall seeing a definitive answer to …

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Re: Any ports/utilities for running Blood and Blood2 in direct3d or Opengl?

Posted on 2015-04-22, 13:33

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There is BloodCM (formerly BloodTC) for eDuke32. It fully supports the first two episodes, and partially the third and the fourth. http://m210.duke4.net/ http://www.eduke32.com/ The problem with bumping an old thread is that anyone reading it now will be exposed to a lot of outdated and irrelevant …

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Re: Best Doom ports for dos

Posted on 2015-04-22, 09:22

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For DOS - I'd say BOOM/MBF. They basically give you the original experience, with some UI improvements, bug fixes, engine limit removals, more customization options, and a few new level design elements which are nice but not very intrusive.

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Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!

Posted on 2015-04-21, 16:22

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The live! 5.1 is a good card for any windows computer, but you wont be able to go to pure DoS with it if you decide to do so. Wasn't it possible, at least on some setups, to emulate an ISA Sound Blaster behavior on the PCI Cards (Live/Audigy), using SBEINIT? On the faster PC I don't think I'm going …

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Re: Setting up multiple sound cards in DOS: any heads up?

Posted on 2015-04-21, 07:13

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My first sound card (on a P100 system) was actually an ESS (I think the 688). Back then I knew nothing about different synthesis, and how different the MIDI can sound between various cards. I remember that the ESS sounded fine mostly, but some games would not detect it properly part of the time. …

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Re: Most forgettable games

Posted on 2015-04-21, 07:03

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Blake Stone. I last played it through 20 years ago and I don't remember any particularly striking layout or fun moments in there. Gets high praise these days Honestly, I think most Wolf3D clones (with the possible exception of RoTT) are like this. Boring, monotonous. Corridor 7, Operation Body …

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Re: Games completely outshined by their sequels

Posted on 2015-04-20, 20:40

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I think that singling out PoP is a bit unfair, given that it started on the Apple II, so the PC port had to be reasonably faithful to it. So perhaps one criterion should be that both the original and its sequel(s) were produced for the same platform? That's an interesting point, considering that …

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Re: Games completely outshined by their sequels

Posted on 2015-04-20, 19:20

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Heroes of Might & Magic 2 and then 3. This is a great example. I was almost sure it was going to be brought up, and almost mentioned it myself. I think HoMM3 is the real jump. HoMM2 is amazing, adding quite a few elements (two new castle types, creature upgrades, secondary skills, more interesting …

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