Re: Fast Tracker II / Frequency Mixing Rate

Posted on 2004-05-30, 17:35

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by Freddo

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DOSBox doesn't emulate SB16 yet so using higher than 22050 with Soundblaster isn't possible. The Gravis ultrasound sound in 44100 is slow because of your computer. It takes a lot of the CPU to emulate it.

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Re: The objective of the next version ?

Posted on 2004-05-15, 21:24

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by Freddo

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I would love to see support for 16-bit VESA resolutions 😀 But I can wait 😎

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Re: DOSBOX Coding and the Future....

Posted on 2004-05-15, 08:10

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by Freddo

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How important is FPU speed for the emulator? Old games were mainly integer based for the poor 486. It wasn't until Quake when John Carmack discovered the fun of the dual issue Pentium FPU that floating point really came into the picture.... Dark Forces is noticably slower on a computer without a …

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Re: Aspect ratio : how to change it ? (esp. windowed mode)

Posted on 2004-05-05, 12:04

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by Freddo

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The first picture have the correct aspect ratio. 1,6 to 1 (320x200). It's the aspect ratio the vast majority of DOS games are using. Not the 1,3333 to 1 ratio (320x240) that is used today.

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Re: Changing CD's in dosbox

Posted on 2004-05-01, 07:30

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by Freddo

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ankut wrote: In my experience, some actually search all of the other available cddrives as well. I can't think of one single DOS program that does that.

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Re: What's your best DOS games ?

Posted on 2004-04-30, 16:46

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by Freddo

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ShizzyWizzy wrote: Daggerfall 2 Daggerfall 2?

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Re: What's your best DOS games ?

Posted on 2004-04-28, 10:05

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by Freddo

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Daggerfall, UFO: Enermy Unknown, LBA 1&2, Tie Fighter and System Shock.

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Re: Any chance of ever running Win3.1/95/98 on top of DOSBox??

Posted on 2004-04-26, 10:27

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by Freddo

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ncerniglia wrote: There are other win3.1 games such as the origional myst The original Myst was for macintosh 😉

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Re: Swapping left/right channels in Stereo? Epic Pinball has them reversed.

Posted on 2004-04-15, 15:33

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by Freddo

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True 😀 What I meant is that most stereo games have support for Soundblaster PRO and Soundblaster 16, so by picking Soundblaster 16 (and having a SB16 compatible card) one is sure to get the right left/right speaker sound.

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Re: Swapping left/right channels in Stereo? Epic Pinball has them reversed.

Posted on 2004-04-15, 11:34

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by Freddo

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The problem with the left/right panning is because Creative didn't really make a left/right standard for Soundblaster PRO. Quite annoying. Some Soundblaster PRO have it one way, and other PRO cards have it the other way. Another reason why Soundblaster16 is better.

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Re: Off topic: I miss the lama :-(

Posted on 2004-04-14, 19:07

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by Freddo

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mirekluza, I agree 😎 😁

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Re: Testing for 287/387/486 math unit blows away the emulation

Posted on 2004-04-02, 18:04

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by Freddo

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Don't forget the purpose of the dosbox project: to provide a way to run old dos games - nothing more. I can't remember any dos game that required a coprocessor and it wouldn't have been the best idea for any game designer to do so, since the fpu was an addon until the arrival of the 486 and …

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Re: New vid cards + VESA support

Posted on 2004-03-31, 11:26

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by Freddo

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The Geforce cards offer VESA, as do the Radeon cards. However, the reason VESA doesn't work is because of Windows 2000/XP. If you used Windows 9x/ME it would work perfectly. It's because VESA access the hardware in a way Windows 2000/XP doesn't like, or something like that.

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Re: Universal VESA driver for win2k/winxp

Posted on 2004-03-27, 12:24

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by Freddo

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Sol_HSA wrote: Oh, does anyone here know any other games that have been impossible to play under windows because of missing VESA support? Battlespire. I see if I can get it running with this 😀

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Re: screen resolution question

Posted on 2004-03-25, 21:37

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by Freddo

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Most DOS games are in 320x200. There are exceptions, tho 😜

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Re: 16-Bit VESA graphics?

Posted on 2004-03-18, 12:39

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by Freddo

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Talking about speed, have anyone tried DOSBox with a AMD64 CPU? In 64bit Linux compiling a 64bit DOSBox? That should give some nice speed 😎

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Re: 16-Bit VESA graphics?

Posted on 2004-03-17, 22:00

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by Freddo

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What DOS games even make use of those modes? 65k colors in DOS would almost seem disturbing. Battlespire, a DOS game from 1997 uses 16-bit resolutions. A card that can handle 15/16bit is required for that game, which is pretty much the only reason I want to see it in DOSBox :pppt: And while we are …

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Re: Daggerfall on Dosbox 0.61

Posted on 2004-03-16, 22:09

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by Freddo

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Never got it to work for me either. So I installed it "normally" without using DOSBox. And then only play the game in DOSBox. But I guess you can't do that, since you're on MacOS. If you have access to a PC, then I recommend you install it there, and then burn the installed path to a CD and transfer …

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Re: Unmounting the Z: driveletter?

Posted on 2004-03-15, 08:36

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by Freddo

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I played Z without any problems years ago on my computer, and I used the LASTDRIVE=G aswell so I never had a Z. So I don't think Z:\ in DOSBox is the problem, but your config.

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Re: Whats your Windows version?

Posted on 2004-03-11, 16:22

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by Freddo

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And why does 2000 & ME share the same? They are vastly different.

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