Re: I find mounted hard drives much slower than a physical drive?
Posted on 2014-02-12, 19:13
Yes, I tried to run games on windows, like winrisk and windows 3.1 takes forever to load HELP, FAT file system runs as slow as a snail Thanks
Something funny about the Chinese Eten System with dosbox.
Posted on 2014-02-12, 06:47
Sorry, might be off-topic here. Hoping ykhwong can answer this I am runnng my Chinese old demo using Eten system Here is the code snippet printf ("%cSD11,SC3;",27); whre 27 is the escape character, that's no problem But when this mess is chucked to the screen, the 27 and the letter S will disappear. …
I find mounted hard drives much slower than a physical drive?
Posted on 2014-02-06, 06:03
I created 2 two gigs virtual hard drives for my dosbox. The games ran incredibly slower, while on a physical drive, it is lightning fast. Can it be accelerated? Thanks Jack
[Request] Rom bios image for VTech Laser Pal 286
Posted on 2014-02-01, 13:35
Looking for an picture of it, and an rom bios image of this computer. Does anyone know where I can get that? Update: Does anyone have the 286/2 one as well? I'd like to have them. Thanks Jack
Are there any good books to teach raw audio programming?
Posted on 2014-01-31, 06:12
I'd like to get some source code that drives the audio chips, something that can control the amplitude, frequency and other low level stuff. Or any good books that I can grab from the public library? Thanks Jack
Re: Video from 1984 of Mac demo
Posted on 2014-01-30, 13:15
unprecedented.
Re: Intergraph GLZ
Posted on 2014-01-30, 12:50
I worked for Intergraph in 1997. Each employee had a own-branded PC to work with. I remember it was a 200MHz CPU, the PCs looked pretty cool though.
Re: How to tell random bytes in an exe is a graphic or font patterns?
Posted on 2014-01-30, 12:40
Wow, it is exciting to discover new things everyday. Thanks Jack
Re: How to tell random bytes in an exe is a graphic or font patterns?
Posted on 2014-01-30, 11:43
Actually, I am quite interested in static analysis of ancient dos games. But it comes to those bytes, I find it very overwhelming to decipher them byte by byte, I have been thinking of grabbing a lot of bytes and throw them at the screen, and see what they are. But sometimes they are encoded, so it …
How to tell random bytes in an exe is a graphic or font patterns?
Posted on 2014-01-30, 02:18
How to tell random bytes in an exe is a graphic or font patterns or any other coded element? How to separate them out? I forgot I've asked the question here before. But does anyone know? Thanks Jack
Re: How to wipe the data of a mounted drive clean?
Posted on 2014-01-16, 07:45
Okay, thanks, just forgot there is fdisk.exe, let's close this thread...
Re: How to wipe the data of a mounted drive clean?
Posted on 2014-01-16, 05:23
I have decided to create a new 2GB hard disk from scratch. bximage then imgmount x x:\dos.img -size 512,63,16,4093 The mounting was successful,but I couldn't copy files into it, why was that? (Unable to format it) Thanks Jack
How to wipe the data of a mounted drive clean?
Posted on 2014-01-11, 04:48
Tried to format the mounted drive to no avail. Dosbox quits immediately Thanks
How to run dosshell 5.0 in dosbox hercules mode?
Posted on 2014-01-04, 07:55
In VGA mode, it is runnable, in hercules mode, it just freezes on start-up. I have done ver set 5 0 0 Any ideas? Thanks
Legacy Google Group Messages.
Posted on 2014-01-03, 09:34
It seems that the attached pictures and videos with some old threads are not accessible. I find back in the 1995. Is there a way to get those attachments back? Thanks
Re: Borland C++ 3.1 Make in dosbox
Posted on 2013-12-28, 22:24
Hi, I am able to shorten the string of linking, but I can't have a full symbolic information even specfying tlink -v Sorry a bit off-topic here I get mov [@DGROUP], ax but not call helloworld but call 0000:0000 Thanks
Re: Borland C++ 3.1 Make in dosbox
Posted on 2013-12-25, 20:43
Dominus wrote: DOSBox is for games... Just want to write games in dosbox, is it not wise to do so? Thanks Jack
Borland C++ 3.1 Make in dosbox
Posted on 2013-12-25, 19:26
Under dosbox, the line with the tlink command rejected and saying the command line is too long. How can I compile my little demo? Thanks Jack ass2 : ass2.obj dragon.obj tlink -v -LD:\Borlandc\lib ass2.obj s2.obj s3.obj s4.obj s5.obj s6.obj s7.obj s8.obj s8a.obj s9.obj s10.obj s12.obj dragon.obj …
Re: Jagged font when using a fixed window size dosbox
Posted on 2013-12-22, 21:16
The funny thing is when I start up with the original resolution. Then expand the window fully. The fonts are no longer jagged. But The thing I want is to, say start dosbox maximized in windowed mode without jagged fonts. Thanks Jack
Re: Jagged font when using a fixed window size dosbox
Posted on 2013-12-21, 04:47
I always eager to tweak and make it become a fully extended window when starting up, but I can't.... How disappointed! Thanks Jack
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