Re: Game slows down.... and gets faster again....

Posted on 2012-02-25, 07:36

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by vladr

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

probably your 2.93ghz cpu stepping up and down... make sure you're plugged in and pick "maximum performance" in the windows power options; you might also try disabling turbo boost.

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Re: dosbox crashes on startup

Posted on 2011-11-07, 14:50

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by vladr

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

That should work too.

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Re: Error after windows update

Posted on 2011-11-07, 04:48

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by vladr

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Use a DirectX-less SDL

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Re: dosbox crashes on startup

Posted on 2011-11-07, 04:44

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by vladr

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Had the same problem with an XP SP3 Dell laptop. Updating DirectX didn't help either, and dxdiag also failed to enumerate DirectInput. So I rebuilt SDL without DirectX support and everything works. Extract the attached SDL.DLL over the one in the DosBox directory, and make sure you set the video …

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Re: VDM Sound in Windows 9x Help

Posted on 2010-09-28, 14:27

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

Yes, you open a command prompt (cmd) and then type the following 4 commands: cd C:\VDMSOUND DOSDRV.BAT cd C:\game\directory game.exe

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Re: Request for help with Munt (not just coders)

Posted on 2008-03-29, 05:51

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by vladr

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

Attached is the HDL design for a buffered digital acquisition setup I designed for the MT32 (but did not actually have time to physically implement, PCB and all.) -----------------------+ +-------------+ | | MT32 | | Ext. RAM | | COMPUTER | +-----+ | |(capt.buffer)| +--------------+ digital | DAC | …

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Re: A weird problem

Posted on 2008-02-28, 03:11

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

so it won't work - limitation in windows' pif IIRC one possible workaround is to set the TEMP user environment variable to a directory where you have access but whose path is made out of ASCII characters (e.g. c:\windows\temp if you are admin) V.

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Re: A weird problem

Posted on 2008-02-25, 16:41

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

Lord_VEK wrote: I wonder, how can non-ASCII characters influence the matter? Do you or don't you have non-ASCII characters in there?

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Re: Can't download Beta version of VDMsound 2.10

Posted on 2007-08-28, 11:44

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

I see snover fixed the link, but i made a sourceforge release anyway.

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Re: A weird problem

Posted on 2007-08-28, 11:04

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

Does you username contain funny characters (non-ASCII?) I refer to C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\... If so, it might be the explanation.

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Re: VDMS from other apps

Posted on 2007-02-11, 16:13

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by vladr

in VDMSound Development

in VDMSound Development

from a bat file or command line, try: start whatever.vlp start can also take options (priority, etc.) V.

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Re: MIDI music is low quality

Posted on 2007-01-02, 20:18

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

Nope, VDMSound MIDI uses Windows' MIDI. What prolly happens is that in the game you chose MT-32 MIDI while in LaunchPad (or vdms.ini if not using Launchpad) you have "General MIDI", or vice-versa (General MIDI in the game but MT32 in VDMS.) If these two settings don't match then "the MIDI instrument …

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Re: How to run vdms without installing it?

Posted on 2007-01-02, 20:13

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

you extract all the .exe/.dll files in a dir (let's cal it XXX), you add an env. variable "VDMSPath" = the directory XXX, and run "dosdrv.exe" you must also have the MSVCRT*.dll etc. files in either SYSTEM32 or XXX or else VDDxxxx.dll may fail to load. V.

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Re: Is the latest version of VDMSound 2.1.0?

Posted on 2007-01-02, 20:11

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

Yepp, VDMSound is end-of-life. No additional improvements to be made (besides writing a help file and repackaging the installer 😀 ), hit the Windows emulation limit. V.

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Re: Problems with temporary files location

Posted on 2007-01-02, 20:10

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

Yepp, it's a Windows problem alright. LaunchPad generates a temporary .pif (that's Windows) file that refers to a temporary CONFIG.NT and AUTOEXEC.NT files, but Widnows gives the error you see when the paths to AUTOEXEC.NT/CONFIG.NT contain funny stuff. NOW, the latest VDMSound from Vogons puts the …

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Re: VLP Shortcut without Administrator rights - not accepted.....

Posted on 2007-01-02, 20:03

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

You can either 1) install VDMSound as Admin and then use it as any (non-priviledged) user, or 2) install it as a simple user ignoring the warnings then: 2.a) open the VDMSound shell extension DLL (or get the .rgs file from CSV) and look for a block of text containing lots of HKCR (standing in for …

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Re: run DOSDRV in command prompt with low level networking

Posted on 2007-01-02, 19:49

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158214

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Re: How to setup MSVC++ to compile VDMSound from CVS ?

Posted on 2005-05-08, 13:50

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by vladr

in VDMSound Development

in VDMSound Development

The Borland stuff is only for DOSDRV.EXE. Just make dummy dosdrv.obj and dosdrv.exe and touch them to be newer than the source and MSVC will skip that part of the build. You will need pieces of the NT4/2k DDK (vintage by now) and set up some env vars in MSVC to point to them (see the include and lib …

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Re: CD-ROM support before Launch Pad existed

Posted on 2004-12-06, 20:27

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

autoexec.vdms

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Re: VDMSound DOS path-> variable drive path?

Posted on 2004-12-06, 20:25

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by vladr

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

Yes, just manually replace "D:\...." with "." or remove the entire path if the shortcut is in the same dir as the .exe in the dialog you took in a snapshot. That should work and avoid any subst. Also, once on CD, you can tell VDMSound to create shortcuts onto your desktop should you need to change …

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