Re: Need help with complex keymappings
Posted on 2012-10-11, 15:45
Thanks for printing the solution, mate, as now I know where to look for a similar problem.
Re: DOSBox on Raspberry Pi (armel vs armhf, directfb vs ??)
Posted on 2012-10-11, 00:43
It's the same with the XBox (the original XBox, not the XBox 360) - the XBox has a P3-733 Mhz CPU, and there are a lot of great emulators ported for it, such as SNES/Megadrive/MAME/Atari ST/ZX Spectrum/C64/NES/etc. They all run fast enough to play their games, unlike DOSBox, which on the XBox runs …
Re: What's the attraction of legacy hardware?
Posted on 2012-09-15, 23:43
>The DACs What's that? A quick Google threw up several possibilities, but I couldn't decide which it was, as like most people who are PC-savy, my expertise doesn't extend to much more than either building/upgrading PCs or the daily problems I get in IT support. Anything remotely technical is out of …
Re: What's the attraction of legacy hardware?
Posted on 2012-09-15, 23:33
>I think i can total agree with Maxwar.. Because: > 1. Its nice to have those old computers in your home, specially if you know that there a lot of those stuff are throwing away.. So its more like i still have those computers, and many other people havent. That also increase the value of those …
Re: What's the attraction of legacy hardware?
Posted on 2012-09-15, 23:19
>For me it has been two motivations- > 1) Exploration of various hardware that I've read about and have wanted to try Oh, I certainly understand that! I used to love messing about with PC hardware, and I really enjoyed solving (and learning from) PC based problems. Then I got a job maintaining/ …
Re: What's the attraction of legacy hardware?
Posted on 2012-09-15, 23:04
>People here develop or beta test DOSBox. To do so we need to compare with real hardware. Yes, that makes sense. I can see how you'd need real machines to test against emulated machines. >DOSBox is an emulator and as such is nowhere near exactly the same as the original hardware (This is good and …
What's the attraction of legacy hardware?
Posted on 2012-09-15, 21:33
Why do so many people here like using old PCs to play their games? I'm not criticising of course (even if I thought it was a bad idea, which I don't, it's up to you what you do) as if you enjoy playing games on old PCs then great, but I don't see why someone would, for example, want to go to the …
Re: Good DOS first person shooter recommendations
Posted on 2012-09-14, 22:56
RoyBatty, thanks for all the suggestions. Yes, please list the Windows 95/98 games too please, especially the ones that are well worth hunting down and playing). BTW, you've no doubt played System Shock (since it's apparently so well known amongst DOS gamers), but on the extremely remote chance that …
Re: Good DOS first person shooter recommendations
Posted on 2012-09-13, 21:15
****ing browser just crashes, losing the post I'd nearly completed :sad: Anyway, thanks for so many great answers. There were some great FPSs in those Youtube videos (I love No One Lives Forever 2, Timesplitters: Future Perfect (my favourite cross-platform game of the last console generation) and …
What game is this, please?
Posted on 2012-09-13, 18:45
I'm trying to remember the name of a PC game I played years ago (and I mean years ago, probably about 1998, give or take a year, and it might have been two or three years old then). I don't remember much about it, but it ran on a Windows 95 PC, so it could have been either DOS or Windows, and it was …
Good DOS first person shooter recommendations
Posted on 2012-09-12, 23:14
First of all, sorry if this is in the wrong forum, or if this is a common question with a thread already devoted to it (I've looked, but couldn't find it), but I'm curious to know of any good DOS first person shooters that I haven't played. See, for weeks I've been waiting for Carmageddon to be re- …
Re: Please explain about virtual machines
Posted on 2012-08-12, 11:14
Thanks for all of the answers. So a virtual machine is more or less useless for running old games, that explains why there's so little information on the subject available on Vogons. One other thing I was wondering about; I think DOSBox currently doesn't make use of multiple CPU cores (of the real, …
Please explain about virtual machines
Posted on 2012-08-11, 23:59
I'm fairly well experienced with DOSBox (which is a brilliant program, and I find it indespensible for running older games on my laptop), but of course DOSBox by it's nature, requires a lot of resources since it's purely emulation based. I have heard that using a 'virtual machine' you can run older …
Re: How do you fix the timing glitch on Unreal Tournament '99?
Posted on 2012-05-29, 21:39
Forgot to say, download and install the latest patch, v4.36, and also the four bonus packs; UTBonusPack 1 to 4, from http://unrealtournament.99.free.fr/utfiles/in … hp?dir=Patches/
Re: How do you fix the timing glitch on Unreal Tournament '99?
Posted on 2012-05-29, 21:32
The same problem also occurs in Deus Ex, and other games that use the Unreal 1 engine, but it's easily fixed. It's caused by one or more problems (depending on the individual PC), such as a two or more core CPU, the power-saving settings on your PC (especially if it's a laptop), your PC being too …
Help - game won't run (Detective Chess) - maybe 64-bit problem?
Posted on 2011-04-19, 21:40
I am trying to install Detective Chess (downloaded from http://bindweed.com/det/det.htm ) on my Windows 7 PC, but when I run the setup.exe file I get the error message: "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to …
Re: wolf 3d and Blood
Posted on 2009-02-16, 15:48
>Blood works just dandy, but there's an addon called 'rage against the machine' but the installer won't work under DosBox. You have to have windows ONLY, and that's the only way she'll play. I have a Mac, and am using Boxer, so any help appreciated, as is any DosBox news Sorry, but all I can suggest …
Vesa problem, I think? I can't run Carmageddon in high res. mode
Posted on 2007-09-29, 12:08
So far I've got every PC game I like working on my laptop (Windows XP, Serice Pack 2, 512MB, 2GHz, 32MB ATI Radeon 7500) via normal installation, VDMSound or DOSBox, except one; Carmageddon (the original, not C2 or C3). Actually, I can run it fine, using only VDMSound, but then it's software 320x200 …
Re: old lappy
Posted on 2007-07-20, 15:41
It depends on what type of games you like, of course, but the following should all work fine: Duke Nukem 3D (awesome game), Shadow Warrior, Carmageddon, Doom 1 and 2, and all of those games have very good freeware mods and add-ons available from fan sites (use Google.com to find them). Also there's …
Re: Please help - DOSBox questions
Posted on 2007-07-04, 12:28
Qbix wrote: for logging check the development forum for the debugger version of dosbox. for the syntax of loadfix check the readme of dosbox Will do, thanks.
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