Best network cards for MSDOS / Win98

Posted on 2021-06-18, 07:45

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by Roger Wilco

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello Vogons, after years, I have my setup of old computers ready and want to make my first LAN party ("first" after quite some time ;-) ). The computers are from around 1998 - 2000, running MSDOS or optionally Win98. I am using Soundblasters, Voodoo graphics, ... you name it. Now I am missing the …

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Memory management / cwsdpmi kills sound driver (MS-DOS 7.1)

Posted on 2020-10-19, 08:13

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by Roger Wilco

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Cheers Vogons, I am currently configuring an arcade cabinet, running Ms-Dos, with several frontends and emulators, and a jukebox program. All these different options can be accessed with an old school text menu. The problem: everything runs fine and stable after a fresh reboot, but when I run …

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Re: Freedos vs Dos 6.22

Posted on 2019-11-08, 18:48

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by Roger Wilco

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I am using this in an Arcade Machine that runs dmame. It's been a while I did some things with that apart from playing, but iirc, you can also install from USB sticks. But you have to mount the stick during boot, its not hot plugable while the machine is on. edit: it just came to my mind, that I am …

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Re: DOSBox in fullscreen disables second monitor

Posted on 2019-09-05, 22:27

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by Roger Wilco

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I had similar issues when connecting a CRT to my laptop, for the good old brain melt. It took a while to figure out, how to get the fullscreen dosbox working on the CRT. No problems with window mode. I tried a LOT of settings, in both Linux and Dosbox, but the fullscreen always appeared on the main …

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Re: Impulse Tracker 2.14 and SB16 (DOSBox 0.74-2)

Posted on 2019-06-04, 09:56

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by Roger Wilco

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

btw. - you might be interested in this: http://schismtracker.org/

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Re: Impulse Tracker 2.14 and SB16 (DOSBox 0.74-2)

Posted on 2019-06-04, 01:42

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by Roger Wilco

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Yes, it is working. Tried with normal Dosbox v0.74 and IT 2.14. Running latest stable Debian.

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 15:11

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by Roger Wilco

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

OP allready knew about choice having more than 10 possiblities. It's a quite lengthy discussion in the reddit link posted. It's all a little confusing, tbh. So I suggested using Freedos, as set / p offers more freedom and OP allready seemed to know at least something about it. For whatever that …

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 00:37

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by Roger Wilco

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Mount Freedos folder, RUN COMMAND there, run your bat file.

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 00:33

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by Roger Wilco

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Its simple. Download Freedos. Mount the folder containing Freedos, so that you can see it in Dosbox. Start the command.com of Freedos in Dosbox by typing command in the Freedos folder. You will see "FreeCom version 0.84.." and so on written there. That's your new freedos shell. All is the same as …

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 00:20

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by Roger Wilco

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in DOSBox General

You run the Freedos shell inside Dosbox, then you can start your bat file with set /p working in Dosbox.

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-20, 00:13

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by Roger Wilco

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I wrote a lot of batch files as well and set/p works with Freedos, I just checked. Download it and start a shell in Dosbox by typing command in the Freedos folder. @echo off echo Please choose an option echo. echo 1. echo 2. echo 3. echo. set /p choice=Your choice? if '%choice%'=='1' goto 1 if '% …

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Re: Creating a batch file with more than 10 options

Posted on 2019-03-19, 23:42

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by Roger Wilco

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Have you tried with Freedos shell? http://www.freedos.org/ set /p should work to some extend, iirc.

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-03-19, 03:45

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by Roger Wilco

in DOSBox Development

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Success :blush: Just in case, another Debian noob reads this: I had to: apt install libsdl1.2-dev Then I ran across the ....mt32... error discussed a few pages back during make. Installing Scummvm didn't fix it. I had to install these two debs libmt32emu-2.3.0.deb libmt32emu-dev-2.3.0.deb from here: …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-03-18, 16:27

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by Roger Wilco

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Thank you very much, _Rob. This contributes a lot to my understanding of how compiling works. Sounds doable :-) It's not so easy to understand, if you are missing some basics. Or maybe all of the basics. Almost all of the literature and help files I found were expecting a much higher level of …

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Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2019-03-18, 15:19

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by Roger Wilco

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I will write the status, the machine is booted into, into a file during startup - status.txt. It will contain a simple string. NORMAL, XMS, EMS, NOEMS, and so on. In the launcher menu, for certain games that need special boot options, i will start a bash script, that checks the status and if it's …

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Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2019-03-18, 15:09

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by Roger Wilco

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in Release Announcements

I set up a Dos machine for my friends, in a private arcade room, with a couple of arcades and pinballs; the goal was to make it as easy as possible. So I went with a menu program as well. Because of all the different boot options, some games need, I used Dosbox - for the beginning. It's working very …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-03-18, 14:35

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by Roger Wilco

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Thanks to all for the answers! :blush: My programming skills are limited to writing simple bash scripts, so compiling is not something, I completely understand in all its glamour - but I understood, what you were saying, with the dependencies :-) If I understood everything right: The binaries (that …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-03-18, 01:51

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by Roger Wilco

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Helloes, I tried both versions, the ECE version and the normal SVN on Linux Debian 9 right now, downloaded from the Yesterplay80 blog. I am getting an error... ./dosbox: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_sound-1.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. ... …

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Re: Detect best cycles/match recommended specs?

Posted on 2019-03-17, 22:26

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by Roger Wilco

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in DOSBox General

Attached: The Oldskool PC Benchmark Version 0.38a, 20140328

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Re: Detect best cycles/match recommended specs?

Posted on 2019-03-15, 15:36

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by Roger Wilco

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in DOSBox General

There is a benchmark program that allows you to see the emulated CPU speed in realtime. http://www.oldskool.org/pc/benchmark But I can't tell about the accuracy, maybe other benchmark programs are suited better for Dosbox.

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