Re: mudlord's Windows 7 DDraw Compatability Fix (Fixes Garbled Colors)

Posted on 2011-04-30, 17:42

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back on topic... The DirectDraw\\MostRecentApplication value almost never updates (for me) but a quick google shows that the "ID" value is just the TimeDateStamp in the PE header of the target executable So this program could be greatly simplified/improved...

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Re: mudlord's Windows 7 DDraw Compatability Fix (Fixes Garbled Colors)

Posted on 2011-04-26, 06:07

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... I used: IDAFree as a disassembler OllyDbg (v1.10 and v2.0) as a debugger Cheat Engine to log what accessed the IsFullScreen value CFF Explorer for examining/altering the PE header Dependency Walker for viewing imports MSVC Express 2008 for compiling my api hooks/code injection test stuff dx7sdk …

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Re: mudlord's Windows 7 DDraw Compatability Fix (Fixes Garbled Colors)

Posted on 2011-04-25, 06:19

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trying to use D3dWindower to run fake full screen is a pain (and not perfect) I haven't reversed far enough to know what the ultimate problem is. What side effect of D3DWindower is fixing this? (using GDI for rendering? not creating surfaces in video memory?) my solution could be dropped into one of …

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Re: mudlord's Windows 7 DDraw Compatability Fix (Fixes Garbled Colors)

Posted on 2011-04-24, 19:26

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Can I ask how you made that, exactly? Did you use a debugger? Used a debugger Here is exactly how I made it Problem Description: Cursor artifacts occur when using fully emulated directdraw and running fullscreen they don't occur when using fully emulated directdraw and running windowed so to find a …

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Re: mudlord's Windows 7 DDraw Compatability Fix (Fixes Garbled Colors)

Posted on 2011-04-23, 00:08

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off topic now I whipped up a "fix" for Torment's cursor trail problem http://www.shsforums.net/topic/48732-cursor-trail-fix/ enjoy

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Re: mudlord's Windows 7 DDraw Compatability Fix (Fixes Garbled Colors)

Posted on 2011-04-20, 06:00

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the "Microsoft\DirectDraw\MostRecentApplication" registry key is not updated consistently... this causes a silent fail? keep trying until the Name under the MostRecentApplication key matches the name of your target application (see the manual instructions in the link I've previously provided)

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Re: mudlord's Windows 7 DDraw Compatability Fix (Fixes Garbled Colors)

Posted on 2011-04-18, 17:13

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the program creates a registry entry used by Microsoft's Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) which requires Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2) or later. But is the PS:Torment spell effect problem related to the palette? Some interesting articles on the subject of windows palette corruption …

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Re: Ultima 3 Upgrade patch

Posted on 2011-04-05, 22:59

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U3 was upgraded when it was ported to the NES which IMO looks better than even this mod/patch update for the PC

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Re: "DosBox from here" from Windows explorer

Posted on 2011-03-19, 22:37

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Copy code to clipboard 1 @echo off 2 CHDIR /D D:\Programs\DosBox 3 start dosbox.exe -c "mount x: %~dsp1 " -c x: -c "%~snx1 "

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Re: COPYING TEXT FROM A DOSBox WINDOW to the Clipboard

Posted on 2011-02-28, 16:26

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a search of the forum... yields this: New Way of COPY and PASTE for DosBox(AutoIt wrapper)

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Re: Premier Manager 98

Posted on 2011-02-09, 08:16

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by aqrit

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I looked through my computer and it's files and could not find such feature. I guess by this I am looking at the wrong place for this option. I don't own the game, but from your post... I assume. Run the game then look for a configuration/setting button on or near the game's main menu. the …

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Re: DOSBOX 0.74 - does it support video output to a second monitor?

Posted on 2011-01-26, 16:36

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I do not think so, at least not fullscreen It is a limitation of the sdl version that is being used a search of the forum would provide more info

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Re: DOSShark for DOSbox 0.74

Posted on 2010-10-03, 05:37

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Hard-coded memory addresses seem more like a bug than a feature. Its nice work though 😀

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Re: Warcraft 1 Click-and-drag

Posted on 2010-09-18, 22:11

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Read the *Warcraft Manual: Page 18. under "Grouping Units"

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Re: directdraw hack

Posted on 2010-09-04, 16:00

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Could OpenGL convert all frames from 16-bit to 32-bit color right before displaying? So a game could run in windowed mode without setting the desktop to 16-bit color.

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Re: Original DOOM games

Posted on 2010-08-24, 15:56

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set the resolution to 640x480 or find the DOS version located somewhere on the CD and here is another port http://www.doomsdayhq.com :p

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Re: What is usually used for compiling dosbox?

Posted on 2010-08-03, 06:08

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http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Main_Page#Advanced_Topics

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cel files

Posted on 2010-07-07, 17:35

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Blood Bowl has *.cel files that look like this: #pragma pack(1) struct CEL_FILE_HEADER{ DWORD dwFileSize; WORD nEntries; // (number of images in this file) }; // CEL_FILE_HEADER followed by: // char [nEntries][8] name (text entry) // DWORD [nEntries] Offset to a CEL_INFO_HEADER from end of this list …

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Re: DOSBox debugger and trace

Posted on 2010-07-04, 05:49

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by aqrit

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set core=normal

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Re: Dosbox and Devcpp

Posted on 2010-05-27, 01:27

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Dev-cpp 4.9.9.2 itself has alot of issues get a better IDE http://wiki.gamedev.net/index.php/C:Development_Environments

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