Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-05-27, 17:32

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Star Wars Tie Fighter (1995) Tweak Guide This is a Tweak Guide video for Star Wars: Tie Fighter Collector's CD from 1995 from GOG.com. I will be covering the following: - Fullscreen resolution - Window resolution - Output modes - Scaler - Aspect ratio for correct 4:3 image - CPU cycles to avoid …

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Any DOSBox installers for Origin games?

Posted on 2015-05-27, 17:23

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Are there any DOSBox installers for Origin games? (the way there are installers for Sierra games) So far my experience installing floppy versions of Origin games has been terrible. The only way I could install from Wing Commander 1 floppies was to create a floppy drive B:, mount both A: and B: (B: …

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Re: The secret of Monkey Island - CD - No sound

Posted on 2015-05-24, 18:37

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SET SOUND=C:\SB16 SET BLASTER=A220 I10 D1 H5 P300 T6 SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E SET CTCM=C:\CTCM C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S C:\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q C:\CTCM\CTCU /S Why the "I10" in the SET BLASTER line? SET BLASTER=A220 I10 D1 H5 P300 T6 I've only seen I5 or I7 (IRQ 5 or 7) with an SB16. Even with an SBLive in …

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Re: Dosbox.conf on Ubuntu KDE

Posted on 2015-04-07, 22:04

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Just today I got Dosbox on Ubuntu KDE. I used writeconf to create a configuration file ( it was not there)... 3. I had the directory ready, so I decided to look for dosbox.conf, but it was not there, so I created a new file with config -writeconf dosbox.conf. It's not called dosbox.conf on Linux. …

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Re: How to get a game working on Dosbox mac WITHOUT a CD?

Posted on 2015-04-04, 23:26

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mount c>Users>games>Darkforces ?? I don't recognize that syntax with the ">'s" The line I used to mount my "C" in DOSBox was: mount c /Users/username/Documents/DOSgames/C -freesize 999 Or to use the "~" instead of the full path it would be mount c ~/Documents/DOSGames/C -freesize 999 I created a …

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Re: How to get a game working on Dosbox mac WITHOUT a CD?

Posted on 2015-04-02, 22:38

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Have you tried this? http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/GAMES:Star_Wars:_Dark_Forces It looks like all you need to do is copy the CD.ID file to the game folder, then edit the DRIVE.CD file as they describe. I'm not using a Mac anymore so I can't be more specific.

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Re: Tomb Raider 1 with Geforce 2MX

Posted on 2015-03-21, 23:09

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Are you using a joystick? When I had Tomb Raider freeze at the menu, it was because the game had a conflict with my joystick.

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Re: DirectX6 and lower issues in Windows XP SP3

Posted on 2015-03-08, 18:27

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Since you have a laptop, try drivers from laptopvideo2go.com Maybe one of the 185 version drivers from --> here.

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Re: Trouble running old DOS collection CD

Posted on 2015-03-06, 16:57

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If these are DOS game or demos why fool around with a VM with Windows 9x installed in it? And a real 9x box assumes hardware that he probably does not have and may not want to fool with. Vanrick said he wants to "make the whole thing function like in the old days." I'm pretty sure you'd need an …

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Re: Trouble running old DOS collection CD

Posted on 2015-03-06, 03:16

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Here's a random guess at what might work... 1. Download all the files and folders at http://cd.textfiles.com/mmcd/ and reconstitute the folder structure of the original CD, then burn the files and folders to CDR. 2. On a computer with Windows 95 (or using a Virtual Machine program like Virtual PC or …

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Re: Issue with sound on Quake in DOS Mode.

Posted on 2015-03-04, 16:44

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But on Quake when I start it up in DOS I get the error "The Blaster environment variable is not set, sound effects are disabled. What does the sound setup for Quake look like? Does it allow you to choose IRQ, DMA, etc., or is detection supposed to be "automatic"? Could the game be having trouble …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-03-03, 00:42

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And thanks for the Sam & Max and Fate of Atlantis tweak guides.

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Re: Milestone games

Posted on 2015-03-03, 00:41

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1984 King's Quest I (first of Sierra's Quest adventure game series) 1988 King's Quest IV (oldest game I've played with MT-32 capability) 1993 7th Guest (one of the first games to be released only on CD) 1993 Myst 1995 Mechwarrior 2 1996 Tomb Raider (never played a game with Lara's acrobatic puzzle …

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Re: Cannot Get DOS Games To Work

Posted on 2015-02-28, 13:36

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Vote for it over at GOG. http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/death_knights_of_krynn They can make an easy-to-install version.

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Re: XP-era games that have trouble running on Win7/8

Posted on 2015-02-19, 20:53

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I had similar problems with StarForce. It destroyed a nearly new CD drive that had cost me $50. I'd never heard of a game destroying a CD drive before. I also had to reinstall Windows because the names of the files in the lists of StarForce files I found weren't all the same as the ones on my …

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Re: Who's still using XP?

Posted on 2015-01-31, 01:08

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It seems strange to me that the game would only run under NT or 2000 compatibility mode and not Windows 9x or XP compatibility mode – the game certainly wasn't written for NT or 2000, was it? I reckon the only apps that specifically required NT or 2000 would be obscure productivity applications. …

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Re: Who's still using XP?

Posted on 2015-01-28, 16:32

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I never really understood why people seemed to like Windows 7 while they hated Vista. Sure if you compare Vista to what came immediately before (XP) and Windows 7 to what came immediately before (Vista), Vista is worse than XP while Windows 7 isn't worse than Vista. But except for taking longer to …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-01-21, 23:42

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philscomputerlab wrote: It's a review and tutorial of the GOTEK USB Floppy Emulator! Glad to see that one. Thanks Phil.

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-01-05, 20:56

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Thanks for uploading those videos about getting the GOG versions of games working on vintage computers. I've had problems getting CD audio files to work in DOSBox, even when I'm using an original game CD, and I wonder if that isn't one reason why GOG uses mp3 or ogg files instead.

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Re: Stuff in CRT case

Posted on 2014-12-10, 17:18

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Wax is an insulator, right? Even if melted, I wouldn't expect it to cause a short. Wikipedia says paraffin wax starts to melt at 37C (99F) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraffin_wax I'm pretty sure my CRT's got hotter than that inside. If the CRT had a problem with some component overheating, the wax …

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