Re: How fast is too fast for DOS?

Posted on 2012-06-09, 10:05

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by Zup

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The main problems with faster processors are: - Games that do not adjust their speed or have fixed settings. Those games were designed to run in a 8086 at 4.77 o 8 MHz, or allows you to select from some fixed speeds of that time (like 80286 at 12 or 16 MHz). A 386 or better processor will be too …

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Re: Colonization and TombRaider 1,2,3 Released on GOG!

Posted on 2012-06-01, 17:58

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by Zup

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At last, someone answered the question: it seems that GOG couldn't get the rights for the expansions, so Unfinished Business, The Golden Mask and The Lost Artifact are not included (at this moment). I wonder what will happen if they get the rights... will they include in the main pack or as another …

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Re: Colonization and TombRaider 1,2,3 Released on GOG!

Posted on 2012-05-31, 18:24

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I asked if the expansions (Unfinished business, for example) were included, but GOG still have not answered that question. Also, it seems that people that buyed are obsessed with Lara's anatomy... no user answered the question, either.

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Re: Are there developers willing to be PAID to add parallel port passthrough?

Posted on 2012-05-29, 18:19

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by Zup

in DOSBox Development

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I gladly accept any kind of reward for directing you to Hal's megabuild. Seriously, games support is not the top priority for developers, its the only priority. There are too much threads discussing about parallel port integration, and this thread is calling for a early closure.

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Re: Surround Sound In DOSBox

Posted on 2012-05-28, 06:28

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by Zup

in DOSBox General

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There was no surround API in DOS; demos and games simulated surround or downsampled it to 2 channels.

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Re: Soundcard advice for Win 7 Dosbox

Posted on 2012-05-28, 06:26

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by Zup

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If it works in Windows, it will work in DOSBox. I wouldn't recommend any sound card for DOSBox: DOS sound usually was not high fidelity, so any sound quality would be wasted. Maybe, you are looking for a sound card with low CPU use, but... In any case, I've got an Asus Xonar DS. It works in Windows …

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Re: SATA question

Posted on 2012-05-18, 06:30

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by Zup

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also, keep in mind that your mainboard will be probably a SATA 1 (1.5Gb) board, and most modern devices are at least SATA 2 (3.0Gb). There are few devices that autodetect SATA speed, but most SATA 2hard disks have some jumper settings to allow lower speeds (in WD hard disks is labelled OPT1). If …

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Re: DOSBox on Raspberry Pi (armel vs armhf, directfb vs ??)

Posted on 2012-05-17, 06:57

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by Zup

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Some time ago, I posted about the performance of DOSBOX on Wii. I'm insterested about the performance on the Raspberry (I've purchased one of those). Could you set cycles=max, run Navràtil and post the results? Thanks.

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Re: can himem and emm386 manage 256MB of ram?

Posted on 2012-04-28, 07:20

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by Zup

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in DOS

Try HIMEMX and JEMM from FreeDOS, they support more than 256Mb, but remember that Windows 3.x may not run in other OSs than MS-DOS. If you install 256Mb of RAM in a DOS machine, it will boot but it won't use more than 64Mb. Also, Windows 9x, NT4 and later will get happily that amount of memory, so …

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Re: Which Soundblaster/mouse driver does DOSBox use?

Posted on 2012-04-06, 11:41

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by Zup

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I installed DOS on a VM because DOSBox was way too slow on my i7. Being unfamiliar with DOS, I was barely able to install a Soundblaster driver which worked for one game but kept crackling up on another, and the mouse driver I have is very unsmooth so I am unable to select some checkboxes in some …

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Re: sign Ó (spanish keyboard)

Posted on 2012-04-04, 15:55

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by Zup

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It does the same thing when using CP 850. ----------------------- Yo juraría que la página de códigos de España era la 850... pero da lo mismo, tampoco funciona.

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Re: Vendor/promotional Maps

Posted on 2012-04-02, 07:06

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As far as I remember S3 also had some Unreal maps, showing benefits of S3TC. Also, Via levels used to be in their viatech site, but I'm unable to find them.

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Re: What is comparable to / what are the limits?

Posted on 2012-03-28, 13:49

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OK, so these are the results. I've used PCPBench, SysChk and Navràtil Software System Information (the later two from Hiren's Boot CD 15.1). PCPBench: - PC DOSBox: 108.2 fps - DOSBox @3000: 0.7 fps - Wii DOSBox: 0.2 fps - Wii "Fast" DOSBox: 0.4 fps PCPBench /vgamode: - PC DOSBox: 180.8 fps - DOSBox …

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Re: What is comparable to / what are the limits?

Posted on 2012-03-28, 10:40

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by Zup

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I don't know if pcpbench would find it out, but I would like to know what is it like compared to a "real world" PC. For example: "it is about a 386/40, don't try 486 games or it will stutter", or something like that. I've got some old DOS benchmarks, but they're too much imprecise when exceeding 386 …

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Re: What kind of card is this?

Posted on 2012-03-28, 10:32

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by Zup

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I think it's from a special kind of mouse (look at this article). Without that kind of mouse, the card is useless.

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What is comparable to / what are the limits?

Posted on 2012-03-28, 06:34

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by Zup

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Sorry, it's not a question about official DOSBox, but I don't know where can I ask. It's about DOSBox for Wii. I know that a Wii is not the most powerful console in the world, and running a non-x86 processor doesn't help to improve performance, so I think that DOSBox won't be able to emulate a " …

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Re: Unique controllers! (SpaceOrb, P5 Glove, what else?)

Posted on 2012-03-10, 22:24

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by Zup

in PC Emulation

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Gravis Phoenix - an early multibutton joystick, with throttle and such, usable for flight sims, apparently for games like Wing Commander and similar. Analog and gameport support, with I believe a keyboard plug in for the extra buttons. However I don't know if it added any new abilities (I mean you …

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Re: games with FM/OPL sound effects?

Posted on 2012-03-03, 09:09

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Does count "meows" in Knights of Xentar? The game had sound blaster sound effects, but when music played in "cat village", it included some "meows" produced by OPL.

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Re: Best VLB video card?

Posted on 2012-03-01, 21:18

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by Zup

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also it would be useful to know if those cards will work stable at 50MHz. I guess that a VLB card paired with a 50 Mhz CPU (486DX@50MHz) would be faster than the same card paired with a 33 Mhz CPU (I means, a 486DX2@66 MHz)... if it runs (maybe some cheap cards will work only at 25 or 33MHz).

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Re: 286 - video without BIOS possible?

Posted on 2012-02-26, 18:12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As you can see, the BIOS chip is missing - now, there was this "urban legend" about newer (AGP/PCI) mainboards, that if you have an ISA slot and an ISA video card available you can always recover from a bad BIOS flash by trying again, because FDD booting and ISA video output don't require a good …

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