Re: Question about DIET compressed executables->
Posted on 2025-05-11, 15:07
you can try my utility, amber https://bloodycactus.com/code.html it should decompress a lot of diet packers. (amber x another.exe unpacked.exe)
Re: Learning 6502 ASM - What is a good & fast IDE/development setup? (Preferably on windows)
Posted on 2025-04-16, 12:00
c64 studio http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/ (=> https://github.com/GeorgRottensteiner/C64Studio/ )
Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b
Posted on 2025-04-06, 23:30
maxtherabbit wrote on 2025-04-06, 21:39: Well yes and no, the ROM does in fact have the instrument data but you still have to load synthgm.sbk to map them oh weird, ive never used them. 🤣. ive just pointed the midi port and away i went.
Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b
Posted on 2025-04-06, 21:36
Ok! I've solved the ERROR12. CTCM was not declared as DEVICE in config.sys. Now all start ok but general midi is not working. Keep fighting.... To make MIDI work you need the Sound Bank files for General MIDI: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/sound-blaster-awe-32.html no you dont sound bank files. …
Re: Open Watcom C++ 16 bit: issues with allocating huge memory and catching bad_alloc exceptions
Posted on 2025-04-04, 16:08
and if it did, executable packer would reduce it to like 5 bytes anyway.
Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b
Posted on 2025-04-04, 16:06
]--Freeman--[ wrote on 2025-04-04, 13:05: I'm dissapointed with the Awe64. I expected more compatibility with early games. awe32, no problems for me, its compatible right back to the original sb1.0 and adlib... ive not ran into anything that has not stopped me playing anything.
Re: Open Watcom C++ 16 bit: issues with allocating huge memory and catching bad_alloc exceptions
Posted on 2025-04-03, 17:39
Okay... so what I'm hearing from this is that OW basically doesn't support the huge model or bad_alloc exceptions? How is the huge model useful if I can't actually allocate more than 64K memory with it? I'm not a c++ guy, but it works fine in c. wcl -mh -oneatx -2 #include #include < …
Re: In C, is there a way to access the address stored in the linking pointer for any node in a linked list?
Posted on 2025-04-01, 15:06
What platform is underdark BloodyCactus? underdark runs on - linux + sdl (clang/gcc + sdl2) - win32/win64 + sdl (mingw gcc + sdl2, its cross built on linux) - dos (watcom v2) Today I tried using pshipcov's code in my linked list program and I am not sure how to best make use of it. The thing is …
Re: In C, is there a way to access the address stored in the linking pointer for any node in a linked list?
Posted on 2025-03-31, 19:19
if you look at my code in my underdark game it has my dlist code in there https://github.com/stu/UnderDark/blob/main/dlist.h https://github.com/stu/UnderDark/blob/main/dlist.c
Re: In C, is there a way to access the address stored in the linking pointer for any node in a linked list?
Posted on 2025-03-31, 03:12
use a double linked list instead of a single linked list each node points forward and backward and the list has a head and tail. that way you can walk the list in any direction from any pointer.
Re: oscilloscopes
Posted on 2025-03-30, 20:23
the hanmatek junk is just rebadged owon that doenst pass owon's low quality bar (ive heard its like owon bstock). I'm not a big fan but its ok for basic stuff. its ui is terrible and a massive lack of buttons, means LOTS of menu diving to do basic stuff. also if your going 4 channels, you really …
Re: MSCDEX.EXE 'Packed file is corrupt'
Posted on 2025-03-30, 02:09
Apparently this is a rather common virus so I expect it’s already archived somewhere. In the closed archives of antivirus companies, yes. :) Its really pretty basic. I reversed the source code for it decades ago for a virus (vlad or ir) magazine (still have it). more commonly known as Whisper. I …
Re: Recommendation for great over-ear headphones and speakers - what do you use?
Posted on 2025-03-27, 11:55
mackie mc350 closed back mixing headphones. speakers, i route of of my dac into an amp into sony sscs5 speakers
Re: MSCDEX.EXE 'Packed file is corrupt'
Posted on 2025-03-25, 20:06
usually packed file corrupt is to do with the amount of free base ram, its a bug in the microsofts unpacker. download unp, https://bencastricum.nl/unp/unp411.zip and run it on the mscdex.exe
Re: OpenWatcom - "next generation" test build
Posted on 2025-03-21, 03:44
ill be interested to see what they do, but imo, far too little, far far too late. I wish they the best of luck, but i dont see them gaining any traction over the v2 fork.
Re: OpenWatcom - "next generation" test build
Posted on 2025-03-20, 12:56
ugh what a mess. so openwatcom dont own the github.com/open-watcom user? (I guess I never realised that and thought they did...) esh. anyway, JM's OW-V2 has done so much work i have no intention of shifting off that to whatever the ow.org team is doing. They spent so long not caring about doing any …
Re: OpenWatcom - "next generation" test build
Posted on 2025-03-20, 01:58
it is the v2 fork, you can see all the commits on their branch are his fork.
Re: OpenWatcom - "next generation" test build
Posted on 2025-03-19, 18:43
its its just the "v2/2.0" fork everyone else has been using since forever where 99.99% of the commits were by the amazing Jiří Malák! If you were using the v2 builds, the announcement is nothing new.
Re: Ways to run a polling background TSR when running games that override timer interrupt without chaining?
Posted on 2025-03-18, 17:01
trap int 0x10, saving original address when new int 0x10 comes in, calls your code, cmp ah=0, if so, you do pushf/call d[old_address], which is what the old int10 needs to return, you then do your stuff.
Re: Volkov Commander and alternatives
Posted on 2025-03-13, 20:20
on slower machines I use DOS NAVIGATOR and on faster one Necromancer's DOS NAVIGATOR I haven't tried the original DN on my Pentium 233 MMX, but Necromancer's DN works painfully slow for me… to the point of being unusable. Is it normal? it should fly on 233mmx, I am using a fairly old 2010 version - …
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