Re: I miss the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s

Posted on 2022-05-21, 10:12

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I refuse to set foot in a self driving EV, especially if it's sold by snake oil salesman Elon Musk. Everything that guy is involved in is not all that innovative or an outright scam. Only the technologically ignorant think that guy is the second coming of Steve Jabs (another overrated con artist). …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-05-19, 01:32

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The above post is a ridiculous testament to people who have way, way too much money on their hands and are ruining the hobby, playing like putty into evil scalpers' free enterprise insanity. "Read it and weep" doesn't even begin to convey the absurdity of the spectacle. Many to most hobbies are no …

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Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2022-05-17, 01:47

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I feel the same. And what's even more irrational is that most of these "web apps" look worse than simple HTML pages. I find it funny, not to say confusing, that all those modern and minimalistic sites look almost like a blank HTML site, but require several megabytes (almost) worth of scripted code. …

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Re: DOS file size limit

Posted on 2022-05-16, 00:56

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Note that the Interrupt List for the seek function says for FAT32 drives, the file must have been opened with AX=6C00h with the "extended size" flag in order to expand the file beyond 2GB https://fd.lod.bz/rbil/interrup/dos_kernel/2142.html And the 6C00h function is called "EXTENDED OPEN/CREATE" …

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Re: Duke Nukem Forever 2001, the version that did seem good, might be released!!!!

Posted on 2022-05-15, 01:06

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Well, then you don't have any corporate entity touch the thing. You have a grassroots community of programmers each set up a gethub page and individuals contributing to that 'freeware' project. After some time, they compare notes and make a final compile available with their new improvements. The …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2022-05-15, 01:00

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Glad you removed the delay in fullscreen, it was the right decision. And I'm loving fullscreen mode. Makes the game so much better, even after 30 years and playing it halfway to oblivion. Thanks again.

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Re: DOS file size limit

Posted on 2022-05-15, 00:55

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I've been confused by, and trying to solve this problem for years now. It seems the DOS 7.1 Kernel does not support 4GB-1 (long. unsigned files), but it will support both FAT32 partitions (max filesize 4GB -1) and also 64-kb cluster sizes on FAT16 partitions which means those partitions can also ( …

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Re: Any notable unofficial DOS conversions of games?

Posted on 2022-05-14, 02:42

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Joselkiller - Metal Slug (DOS version not found yet) Great links, but man, I'd love to find that Metal Slug for DOS. It was called Josel Killer, and apparently was completed for DOS, as version 1.35 shows in your link above. All I could find (for *DOS*) was an old, incomplete demo version of …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2022-05-11, 10:34

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Thanks for this! I'll see what I can do to integrate this stuff in the next version. Would you like this available with the MPU-only version as well? The borderless mode is already supported in both modern and MPU-only versions because players could technically enable it in the vanilla EXE, unlike …

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Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support

Posted on 2022-05-09, 01:16

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Is there a way to completely eliminate the status display (floor, score, lives, etc) for a completely full-screen rendered display? That would be most immersive of all. This can be done in Doom of course. Not sure of the Wolf3d engine supports it, but wanted to ask the question anyway.

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Re: Sierra games and DOS vs. Windows

Posted on 2022-03-31, 22:57

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KQ7 and MOTHER GOOSE (SVGA ver) where subsequently released as WINDOWS only, taking us into early 1995. Space Quest 6 I believe was SIERRA's first SVGA DOS-compatible release (mid 1995), maybe the LSL6 SVGA re-release was before it. Some SCI2.1 DOS requirements include DOS/4G and Video capability, …

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Re: Tetris II 0.96 and update video released

Posted on 2022-03-14, 05:23

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This DOS game of Tetris 2 looks Fabulous. However, I can't even get to the point Gmlb256 mentions where he encouters "Runtime 200 Errors". For me, the only thing that loads is the initial title screen, and the program then freezes hard and I can't play the game, and must hard-reboot. So, so …

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Re: V95Bench, new benchmark for GPUs on DOS systems

Posted on 2022-03-06, 05:29

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Thanks once again for writing the program, and I just downloaded 0.0.4 and it has lots of good additional options! I'm testing it on many DOS system video cards (with and without mtrr's enabled), and so far it has been stable, bug-free and very useful as a benchmark.

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Re: V95Bench, new benchmark for GPUs on DOS systems

Posted on 2022-02-23, 07:05

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Do you have a new binary which incorporates the most recent changes (16-bit, 32-bit transfers, 640x350 mode) which I see listed on the github source? The only binary I can find is the old 0.0.1 version with the 8-bit only transfers. Thanks for making this benchmark. New DOS benchmarks are always …

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Re: Utility I recently downloaded was originally uploaded to BBS at 2400 in 1989

Posted on 2022-02-20, 05:56

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Even more outstanding was discovering the original DOS 0.90 160kb floppy disk had been preserved and digitally transfered exactly as the 5,25" floppy disk appeared way back in April, 1981. The disk can be re-written exactly byte-for-byte and can booted and run, with its "notes" file as well. This …

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Re: Just had to share. Windows 10 on flopies.

Posted on 2022-02-12, 05:22

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Yes, and with quite efficient LZ4 compression, as well. So, 1713 disks is a vast overestimate. I'd be pretty confident that with good, high-dictionary .7z compression, and 1.8 mb floppies (20-sectors, 82 tracks), you could get Win10 LTSC down to under 100 floppies!

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-02-04, 10:35

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Is that amazing progress or what! If you were to time travel back to 1992 and tell some random nerd that, by 2022, the average home internet connection would be capable of blasting bits to fixed storage faster than his $3500 MegaPC's internal cache can feed a hyper-pipelined, clock-doubled …

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Re: Calculating pi -- looking for two programs which have disappeared

Posted on 2022-02-01, 01:43

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Sure, thandor.net has a vesion called Hexus Pifast, but it seems to just be regular pifast, version 4.3 fix 1.

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-01-30, 08:18

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Chuckle if you want but I'm finding the GTX 745 4GB GDDR3 I paid US $40 for awhile back surprisingly capable. I game on a 1366x768 32" TV (I love the low resolution on the big screen with big text as my eyes are terrible) and on a 1st gen Core i7 870, 12GB DDR3, Win10 LTSB 2015 system I am …

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Re: Calculating pi -- looking for two programs which have disappeared

Posted on 2022-01-30, 04:58

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Thanks. The first link above has a working link to Bloodworth's 2.3.1 version, but for Windows. And, finally it appears PiFast version 4.4 never existed, as one of the links above contains the mirrored version at Stu's pi page which claims to be 4.4, but is in point of fact version 4.3 fix1. Even …

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