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Network Programming

Posted on 2021-02-16, 10:38

in Milliways
Hello all, I am trying to develop a dos game with networking support. i have a bit of experience with game engine design and graphics programming in dos, but i have no idea how to even attempt a network engine. There seem to be several options, packet driver and the windows networking client first …

Re: clear Keyboard Buffer

Posted on 2020-04-08, 20:30

Thats basically what im doing: //============= global Variables for the Interrupt Service Routine ======== bool keys[256]; //========================================================================= //============ global Function that is to be installed as ISR ============= void …

clear Keyboard Buffer

Posted on 2020-04-08, 15:06

I use DJGPP and ive installed a Keyboard ISR. everything works fine. The only Problem is, that when i quit the Program, all the Keypresses that i did (during program execution) show up on the Dos promt. Is there a way to clear the Buffer at the End of the Game or not have it record keypresses in the …

norton commander short filenames

Posted on 2019-11-04, 21:30

Hello, I've been playing around with nc and while setting the file associations i noticed a problem. NC uses the long filename it seems when sending the path-string to the application associated with the filetype. most apps it seems cant handle long filenames. Is there a way to set NC to use short …

Re: CF-CARD IDE

Posted on 2019-11-03, 11:43

I couldn't get ez-drive to work, so i decided to try the bios route again. i set the sectors and clusters to something that gave 16gb and repartitioned it again with win98 fdisk. It detected the proper size and everything has been working fine since. Thanks for the help everybody.

Re: CF-CARD IDE

Posted on 2019-11-02, 10:14

thanks for the help so far. It seems i have another problem. If y hold ctrl and selct A: drive, it doesnt even attempt to load from floppy. it goes straight to the HDD (with almost nothing on it) if i boot from floppy directly (without) ez drive it works fine. (of course i cant see any partitions …

Re: CF-CARD IDE

Posted on 2019-11-01, 22:16

hmm, thats interesting. its what the auto detect configured... i can change certain settings by hand. i can double the cylinders for example, that automaticall increases the size (sector size?) to 8228. cant change that though. i have tried to double the cyls, it doesnt seem to change the behaviour …

Re: CF-CARD IDE

Posted on 2019-11-01, 21:42

Ok. lets see... Mainboard: MB-M537 pcchips (BIOS: ROM PCI/ISA BIOS (2A5LDH09) RAM: 32mb edo RAM CPU Pentiom 166mmx HDD: Delock IDE to Compact Flash Card Reader for CFI/CFII/MD + SanDisk SDCFHS-016G-G46 Ultra CompactFlash UDMA7 - 16 GB BIOS Setting for HDD = LBA (Size 2114; cyls 1024; head 64; …

Re: CF-CARD IDE

Posted on 2019-11-01, 20:06

its a bit of a frankenstein machine... Pentium 166 mmx 32mb ram Phoenix S3 Trio64 (PCI) that CF adapter as Harddisk Dont know which chipset of the top of mz head. There is nice graphical Award BIOS though It provides some settings for the IDE controller. Like LARGE, LBA, NORMAL and AUTO etc. I have …

CF-CARD IDE

Posted on 2019-11-01, 16:53

Hi, i have some strange Problem with my CF Card Adapter. Its a Delock adapter and a Sandisk 16gb card. Im running dos 7.1 on the on one and Windows 7 on the orther Computer. Most of the time i try to copy something to the cf card, the new files arent readable. DOS gives me a sector not found error. …

Re: strange bug in my movement routine

Posted on 2019-05-07, 07:35

Ah, nevermind. I finally found it. the pos vector is used by the graphics engine to calculate the start address for drawing a sprite. it cant deal with floats (or decimal points in general) that error is multiplied in the y axix, because it is multiplied by screenwidth to find the starting scanline. …

strange bug in my movement routine

Posted on 2019-05-06, 15:59

After you all helped me recently (https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=66066) I've started to work on a little game. wrote a graphics engine, and some management code for game objects and everything went fine until i encountered an incredibly wired bug. I've been trying to figure it out for a …

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