Re: Keen 4-5-6 choppy scrolling on EGA card

Posted on 2017-06-06, 19:25

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keropi wrote: Secret Agent and Crystal Caves run OK , these are using the Keen1-3 engine right? Wrong. Secret Agent and Crystal Caves use the same graphics library as Dark Ages, Duke Nukem and FBI Fred.

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-05-30, 19:13

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The revised Ancient DOS Games Episode 211 - Pickle Wars is online! The revision is 95% the same as the original. The only changes is that the ragey part which so many people didn't like was removed and I added a short on-camera section at the start of the video to explain what happened and present …

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Re: ColorGraphicsAdapter (CGA) Thread (Games/Demos/Intros/Slides)

Posted on 2017-05-14, 19:13

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by Calvero

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dr.zeissler wrote: - what cga-games allow to change the cga-palette in game ? I think the DOS versions of Taito games let you change the CGA palette ingame.

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2017-04-02, 14:55

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I'm just going to put this out there; I love FM synthesis, and I think it's a more accurate representation of the DOS gaming experience than General MIDI. By the time computers started to have decent support for General MIDI, most people had moved on from DOS gaming. Yes, there are plenty of DOS …

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Re: [UPDATE 1] The journey of Tulip Vision Line DC 486sx TC35

Posted on 2017-03-25, 23:47

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That explains it. Thanks.

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Re: The journey of Tulip Vision Line DC 486sx TC35

Posted on 2017-03-16, 20:58

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I've got the same computer. Could you tell me if the floppy drive is anything special? I think when I got this computer I removed the floppy drive and its cable. Then some time later, I wanted to use this machine so I grabbed a random floppy drive and a random cable, but it didn't work. I ended up …

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Re: Which of these VGA graphics card registers does it support?

Posted on 2017-01-07, 22:49

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by Calvero

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There are 2 versions of the 256x256x256 mode in tweak16b.zip somewhere on the internet.

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-10-06, 20:45

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The hints for E1L4 do say "shoot to push" and "bounce rocks off rock monsters".

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Re: Digital DOS games (GOG, Steam...) Retro PC Compatibility Sheet: We need your input!

Posted on 2016-06-14, 21:53

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Trying to get Prehistoric 1 and 2 to run. Weird way of packing the game. It mounts a folder as CD in DOSBox. In TITUS.BAT it launches the game this way: CD PREH2 ..\CDRUN PRE2.SQZ I think they got the games from TITUS / TELSTAR 10 GAMES CD ROM which launches all the games from the CD. CDRUN seems …

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Re: Commander Keen 4 - Composite CGA Edition

Posted on 2016-05-28, 16:49

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Anyway, I'm half-seriously considering doing Keen 5 and 6 now, as well (astute observers will have noticed that I did convert those "preview" shots in the Order Info help screen). :D Won't be as interesting/instructive as working on 4 was, but it somehow feels 'incomplete' without them... There's …

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Re: Commander Keen 4 - Composite CGA Edition

Posted on 2016-05-26, 13:40

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This is awesome. There are a bunch of games I would like to see get the same treatment. Games that only use 4 colors on the PC, but more colors on other platforms: Contra, Crazy Cars, Karateka, Mach 3, Manhattan Dealers, Montezuma's Revenge, Soko-Ban and the Epyx "Games" series

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Re: Classic games in Text mode. Anyone like it like I do?

Posted on 2016-05-26, 10:30

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by Calvero

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Kroz

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-02-22, 21:32

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There's a difference between a constant and a literal. In QBasic you have the keyword CONST to declare a constant. For example, CONST PI = 3.14. What you called a constant is actually a literal. There are some other statements that can be harmful if used incorrectly: OUT , DEF SEG , POKE , WAIT . …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-02-07, 21:02

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HunterZ wrote: Alien Carnage: Somehow I never played this despite being big into the shareware games scene throughout the 1990s. Maybe it required a 386 when I only had a 286, or a Pentium when I only had a 486? I've played Alien Carnage on my 286.

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-01-03, 21:59

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Joe Siegler on Stargunner Music: http://joe.siegler.net/2015/09/stargunner-music/

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Re: games for a 12MHz 286?

Posted on 2016-01-03, 21:19

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I've actually found that of all the games, Vinyl Goddess From Mars actually runs extremely well on a 16MHz 286. Some of the levels are slow in parts, but the full-screen VGA animation is incredibly smooth. I'm not sure how they did it but it's considerably better than most other platform scrollers, …

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Re: Easter Eggs at Christmas!

Posted on 2015-12-20, 22:12

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The Incredible Machine gives you a Christmas tree. You also get a special item when you play this game on Valentine's Day and on Halloween.

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Re: Versions of Mortal Kombat (1) (DOS port)

Posted on 2015-11-28, 21:20

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The following cheats don't work in all versions: Cheat Menu Open the setup menu by pressing F10 Hold down shift while typing DIP. This pops up a DIP-switch menu which you can alter at will. Switch 0: Fatalities On/Off Switch 1: Blood On/Off (must restart game) Switch 2: Sound & music during attract …

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Re: Looking for Trainers

Posted on 2015-09-05, 21:11

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You don't need a trainer for Operation Wolf, it has cheats build into the game.

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Re: How to tweak CGA / EGA game palettes easily :)

Posted on 2015-07-03, 20:50

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by Calvero

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

why would you ever want a 4-colour mode when you can have 16 or 256? John Romero released Pyramids of Egypt in 1990. Most people had a CGA card back then, so he put CGA graphics in his game. When you ran the game on a EGA card, it would still have only 4 colors, but one of the colors was changed to …

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