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Re: Why did sierra use 0.63

Posted on 2007-02-17, 08:37

I've never gotten a response from Sierra for anything whatsoever. Even when I've sent them timed & delivery confirmed notices that I plan to get ahold of a copy of one of their games, I get no response. Most companies are usually very fast about responding to those :( Every game I want from them, …

Re: GPL Violations Detected

Posted on 2007-02-09, 08:18

Actually, someone gave a mostly complete reason for wanting to run an emulator inside another emulator, but it got moved with the topic split. UAE (and WinUAE,) are designed so that if you do it right, you can built a PC that boots straight into the emulation without direct access to the underlying …

Re: Ultima I - IV Series CD-ROM

Posted on 2007-02-09, 04:18

Actually, I've played it on Vice without much trouble. Other than that, everyone is right. There was just the one version of U5 that had a lot of extra features when played on a C128 through auto-load booting. Also, I never had a 1571 back in the day, it worked just fine with a 1541 drive. From …

Re: Ultima I - IV Series CD-ROM

Posted on 2007-02-08, 08:21

As for purism, that would really require running the games on an Apple II, wouldn't it? Thats the system they were written on, after all. And no self-respecting gentleman should run U1 in the remake version anyway. ;-) Well, for U0 (Akalabeth,) through U5 that is certainly true. U6+ were all …

Re: GPL Violations Detected

Posted on 2007-02-07, 12:30

Actually the PPC line of processors are based on the 68k line. It is the processor line that MAC computers moved too when they moved away from the 68k line themselves. I'm not a tech, but I understand that the processor commands are very simular. Sort of like a grandchild to the 68000 chip. Not …

Amiga hardware - old and new

Posted on 2007-02-06, 19:37

Moderator note: Split off from an GPL license discussion . ------------------ It's also the slowest platform where the fastest CPU is a 50mhz 68060. Porting DOSBox to such platform doesn't really make much sense. Unless you enjoy a lot of stuttering, of course. With a PPC excelerator card, Amiga's …

Re: Ultima I - IV Series CD-ROM

Posted on 2007-02-05, 04:40

Is there not a shiny VGA stand-alone version of Ultima IV that is freely available? The closest is XU4 - an engine remake that uses the original files. Also, several years ago Origin Systems officially released Ultima 4 to the public domain for the Ultima Dragons. So, I guess, it's perfectly all …

Re: Ultima I - IV Series CD-ROM

Posted on 2007-02-04, 08:54

With the U1-6 CD and DOSBox, it is rather simple. Just copy the Ultima1 (or 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or all of them) folder directly to where you want them installed. You may (ok probably will,) need to then remove the Read Only attribute from the folder & all the included files. Then just run them in DOSBox …

Legally getting older games.

Posted on 2006-12-22, 09:42

I've seen many posts mentioning Abandonware software. I, personally, consider it the same as piracy. I may not agree with, but I do understand, the arguments against this point of view, and I try not to judge. For informational purposes, I have put together a list of solutions to the legal issues …

Re: Warcraft 2 in DOS on 486 (or is it just any SVGA game?)

Posted on 2006-04-01, 21:26

in DOS
Yes, that is a VLB card. VLB (or Vesa Local Bus,) was an attempt to speed up video transfers before PCI. The extension (the brown slot behind the standard ISA slot,) gave faster (more direct,) access to video memory for the CPU. It became obsolete very quickly when PCI came out, as PCI was faster. …

Re: Ultima VI sound problem

Posted on 2006-03-14, 20:44

If you hear the music during the intro then the music should be configured correctly. If you aren't hearing any music in the game, and you are also not hearing the buzzes & beeps of the PC speaker sounds, then there is really only one thing left to try, that I can think of. Once you are in the game, …

Re: Ultima VI sound problem

Posted on 2006-03-14, 03:21

Does adlib and PC speaker sounds work in other games? For example Ultima IV is a free download and you can get a music upgrade patch for it. If you installed both of those and set the music patch to adlib, does the music play, and does it make the annoying beeps & buzzes that Ultima 1-5 are famous …

Re: DOSBox Plugin Wishlist

Posted on 2006-03-14, 03:16

uh oh somebody might feel insulted now ;) You don't even need multitasking for the plugins. I certainly didn't mean to insult anybody.... That being said, if it's set up so that the plug-in is actually a totally seperate program that runs at the same time as DOSBox and just communicates with DOSBox …

Re: DOSBox Plugin Wishlist

Posted on 2006-03-14, 03:04

It seems to me, and as only an amateur programmer I’m more than willing to admit that I could be wrong, the best solution would be to program a highly standardized interface for the plug-in. Since DOSBox is designed around running in a modern OS, then I believe all of them (with the possible …

Re: Ultima VI sound problem

Posted on 2006-03-13, 19:45

I've attached the config file that I use. It assumes that you installed Ultima VI with adlib, which is the music the game was designed around. The game supports several music cards including MT-32, Creative Music System, and Covox Sound Master. However, all of the others convert the adlib data on …

Re: Ultima VI sound problem

Posted on 2006-03-12, 15:00

The sound effects were all done via the PC speaker. So you have to make sure you have pcspeaker=true set in your config file. Also, the sound will be extremely fast. For most accurate playback of the PC speaker sounds with Ultima VI (as well as Martian Dreams & Savage Empire which all use the same …

Re: Problem installing to HDD image file.

Posted on 2006-03-09, 07:30

int 14 is NOT irq 14. It was just a thought that they could be related. I will happily admit that the thought is wrong. I just do not know enough about how DOS functions to make a solid conclusion. re-reading my own post, I probably should have said "and came to the conlusion that INT 14 was …

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