Re: Does DOSBox support TSRs?

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There is all kinds of wrong in here. I'd suggest setting DX correctly for func 31 to the end of your ISR rounded up , and put the ISR at the start of the app then all the init code after. jmp start my_isr: ... end_isr: start: ... ... mov dx,end_isr add dx,15 shr dx,4 mov ah,0x31 int 0x21

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Re: Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders GOG version Advice

Posted on 2021-06-12, 13:37

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its scummvm. There is no dos "cd" version. The GOG version is the FM-Towns version with 256 colour graphics, using scummvm.

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Re: last programming project

Posted on 2021-06-11, 17:01

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FAT is an inasanely easy system to work with. I wrote a pure asm program to 'quick format' a disk (before quick format was a thing lol), and all it did was mark non bad FAT entries as empty. takes all of a second. FAT is quite simple. it only gets a bit tricky when you have LFN's in the fat. I'd say …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-08, 15:52

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-06-08, 07:58: scsi_hba01.jpg scsi_hba02.jpg once i get a chance to check the disks, I'll post any working images to the drivers library thread wow thats interesting. So the Tekram 395uw is supposed to use a custom asic, TRM-1040 and the INIC-940/950 is custom asic.. …

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Re: Sarien 0.7.0 - no sound?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 14:02

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

looking over the source tree I dont see an explicit allegro sound driver (or dos driver), so I dont know if there is anything else beyond 'dummy' sound for dos.

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Re: Sun Microsystems Sparc 5 to the Max

Posted on 2021-06-05, 21:39

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-06-05, 17:39: I never got my head around why hard drives on Sun systems were split up into slices. What was the advantage of that? And were there any disadvantages? its no different from dos with its max 4 primary and then putting logical/extended partitions inside a …

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Re: Sarien 0.7.0 - no sound?

Posted on 2021-06-05, 21:37

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

I put the last dos version I have on my site; https://bloodycactus.com/files.html its 0.5.2 DJGPP DOS version

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Re: Tyrian like DOS game around 1995-1997?

Posted on 2021-06-05, 03:07

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by BloodyCactus

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in DOS

zone66?

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Re: Sun Microsystems Sparc 5 to the Max

Posted on 2021-06-05, 03:05

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Nice I have a full set of Solaris 2.6; 5/898 for my pizzabox and sunsoft solaris 1.1.2 (sunos 4.1.4)

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 not detected - IO address

Posted on 2021-06-05, 02:55

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in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

doh! I didnt realise ISO0+ISO1 were the io address. I thought it was pnp 🙁 my bad.

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 not detected - IO address

Posted on 2021-06-04, 16:28

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in Marvin \ Sound

Jinxter wrote on 2021-06-04, 14:38: CTCU does not detect any pnp or legacy cards. that to me is a huge red flag then

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 not detected - IO address

Posted on 2021-06-04, 14:26

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by BloodyCactus

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in Marvin \ Sound

did you use CTCM to configure the card? its the most "trustworthy" official way.

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Re: Sun Microsystems Sparc 5 to the Max

Posted on 2021-06-04, 12:17

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in Marvin \ System Specs

very cool. I had a pizzabox sparcstation5-110 i spent years looking for a 170mhz cpu for that, never found one. It sat next to my HP C240 with its PA-Risc cpu that was really neat. Liked Solaris much more than HPUX ha! 😀

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Re: Sarien 0.7.0 - no sound?

Posted on 2021-06-04, 12:08

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

you know.. I am the Sarien author, I started Sarien and wrote most of the code ... I developed it on Linux so I dont know what libraries the DOS port uses. and I know it wasnt Claudio who did the dos port so shrug.

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Re: My upcoming builds...help appreciated!

Posted on 2021-05-26, 12:46

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in Marvin \ System Specs

1. 80's DOS. I will leave this as last. I think I will go with the NuXT 2.0 unless I can find a Tandy 1000 or something similar. So i would also need a case, monitor, and maybe an Adlib card and a network card. suggestions? nuxt is stupid expensive. You go Tandy for the Tandy graphics + sound …

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Re: Should I use .MOD sound files for sound effects?

Posted on 2021-05-23, 13:45

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its fine. you should be able to have it just play any sample when you need. Check the player routines api. it might even have just a play wav file api support.

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Re: DOSBox vs DOS 6.22 in DOSBox

Posted on 2021-05-06, 22:05

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in DOSBox General

dosbox dos is limited. best thing to do is just run 4dos as a command interpreter in dosbox. if you do run dos6.22 hd image in dosbox you loose all the extra functionality (like mount, etc)

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-24, 23:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As stated somewere else, then a bus like MCA was almost completely proprietary. Unless of course you paid up some license fee. Zorro on the other hand was Amiga technology, and companies like Commodore and Apple was not exactly those kind of companies that wanted others to make clones of their …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-24, 20:02

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Amiga 2000 was introduced in march 1987 with Zorro-II slot and EISA announced in september 1988..... Yeah.... Pretty much sounds more like EISA was an answer to Zorro-II and not Zorro-II was an answer to EISA. Same speed, EISA did not configure it self automatically.... I dont know why you think …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-24, 00:54

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In which way are Zorro II and Zorro III superior ? On the physical side, I mean. This... (from the inventor of Zorro-II and Zorro-III him self) I tend to believe what is written in the mail. That the only superiour bus to Zorro-II and Zorro-III at that time was PCI. EISA is the answer to Zorro-II …

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