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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on Yesterday, 20:28

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xcomcmdr wrote on Yesterday, 08:25: Settings is confusing, takes way more clicks than the Control Panel, displays way less information for the same window size, and has to go. When your average 80x25 text mode DOS program is better at using screen real-estate than a modern UI, that modern UI is due …

Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-16, 20:04

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Seeing exactly zero changes/additions that would make a meaningful difference when using the OS on an actual PC. Not very surprising, since that hasn't been anywhere near their list of priorities for over a decade. Why, it looks like they barely even bothered to make it substantially *worse* on PCs …

Re: Dominus: A New Font for DOS

Posted on 2021-06-06, 14:41

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Nice work! Let me know if I could add it to the collection at https://github.com/viler-int10h/vga-text-mode-fonts 😉 (Also, if you often edit fonts under DOS, feel free to check out my font editor for some neat features).

Re: My DosBox tools

Posted on 2021-05-13, 19:35

Hi Dave, Good to see the new site. Appreciate the update - lots of these tiny utils will be very useful, not only in DOSBox (or DOS-on-Win64) but for my memory-limited XT as well. And lest I forget, thanks for writing ImageDisk. That just might be your most popular program as of late, but it's a …

Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-04-30, 18:51

CGA doesn't have a genuine monochrome mode, Mode 5 still outputs colors when connected to a RGBI monitor (which it's what I'm currently developing for). Mode 6 is genuinely monochrome on RGBI, you'll just have to use pattern dithering. If you pretend that it's mode 4 or 5 (i.e. you write the exact …

Re: [8-Bit Guy] What Happened to America's Electronics Stores?

Posted on 2021-04-03, 15:56

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On top of that, they circumvent the product placement algorithms by farming with teams of people generating fake reviews and returns to push their products to the top and get competitors banned. Check out this short documentary: https://youtu.be/vOj-tRTbFfY Judging by the ridiculous amounts of …

Re: Technological critique

Posted on 2021-03-28, 21:59

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If nobody complains, nothing is likely to ever change . Mandating a distinguishing mark on cables based on functionality would put to rest 95% of my gripes (and likely also most of those expressed by other people) . This. I don't really get the type of comment that goes "you may not like it, but …

Re: 8" diskette drives on IBM PC

Posted on 2021-03-28, 21:25

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Weren't there plenty of third-party 8" external drives for the IBM PC back when it was new? Data exchange, and all that. Funnily enough, SCP's original 86-DOS supported 8" disks before Microsoft ported it for IBM, so I'd be surprised if it's DOS itself which makes the job difficult.

Re: Emulation of x86 PCs of former East Germany?

Posted on 2021-03-19, 00:19

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https://a7100-emulation.gitlab.io/html/news.html wow, that's cool ! and from the screenshots - gfx power :) ... it's itching in the fingers to do some demo coding :) I'll be sure to keep an eye open for the upcoming 7100KMH, then :) That video board sure has nice mono graphics at 640x400 in 4 …

Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2021-03-15, 23:11

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Forgot to mention (also in the "just played these with friends" department): - Supaplex. Or more precisely the later "SPFIX" thereof. Made a handful of levels for that. - and... Bubble Bobble(!). If anyone remembers, there used to be a really, really old but very nice level editor for one of the …

Re: Did you create maps for games?

Posted on 2021-03-15, 13:11

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DOOM! (II). And a little bit of Unreal Tournament later on. But most of those maps were either experiments, or ways to troll my friends when we'd deathmatch. ;) My only 'serious' attempt at DOOM mapping remains unfinished: it was sort of a 'time travel' concept that'd take you between four different …

Re: Retro Development

Posted on 2021-03-15, 13:01

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The BASIC-hating types don't tend to be hobbyists/tinkerers/engineers, but the highbrow theoretical computer science types who turn up their noses at "unstructured programming". It's the same crowd that used to poo-poo assembly language, even back in the '70s-'80s, because it has even less ' …

Re: Retro Development

Posted on 2021-03-14, 21:57

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^Personally, I really like vcfed.org, too, but I also always feel unconfortable posting there on a casual basis, so I only do if I carefully prepared myself. Always makes me feel disturbing the super users and gurus over there.. The x86 asm magic they practice is just way over my head. Couldn't …

Re: CGA Composite Mode under DOSBOX (Commited r3804)

Posted on 2021-03-13, 23:28

This is what I expected based on my memory that official DOSBox decided not to implement any level of composite CGA support for 320x200 modes for some bizarre reason, despite the fact that I've personally come across probably half a dozen games that would take advantage of it. Yes, AFAIK DosBox 0. …

Re: the signs that a forum is dying

Posted on 2021-03-13, 16:44

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I think that might be why I like discord as a communication platform today, but forums are always going to be the primary source of information for me. I'd like discord more if it wasn't such a managed, ban-happy privacy nightmare that monitors and moderates private servers. This day and age, the …

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