Re: Rayman M

Posted on 2020-06-07, 14:03

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by xcomcmdr

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Rayman M works on Win10 x64 without any API wrappers Sadly, as written above, that's not my experience on two Windows 10 (Intel CPU, NVidia GPU) computers at all. Another person running Windows 10 cannot run it either. Without the 'widescreen fix' executable I don't have anything. The game crashs …

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Re: Rayman M

Posted on 2020-06-07, 11:57

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I took the fan-patch named 'Widescreen fix', and skipped the CD Check : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fp9sm-a8NWZFk946voVDk0NOYDPhR9Pq/view?usp=sharing Seems to work better but all the labels on the main menu are off which makes it difficult to use. Without dgVoodoo2's scaling / resolution …

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[Solved] Rayman M

Posted on 2020-06-06, 20:57

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Hello, First off, thank you so much for the greatest wrapper of all time (I mean it) which fixes thousands of games. :D Alas, I can't trick this one into working. I've tried quite a lot of times. The game crash at startup. It's a D3D 8.1 game. I'm using dgVoodoo2 V2.63.2, default settings. Same …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-06, 16:01

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Got 2x128 MB of PC133 SODIMM SDRAM sticks for my Packard Bell Chrom@ laptop. For 2,70 €, shipping included (same country) It's the maximum supported by its motherboard. Windows 98SE will stop swapping so much next time I look at some old vb6 code in the Visual Basic IDE. I wonder if I can get Visual …

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Re: Command & Conquer / Red Alert Remastered source GPL'd

Posted on 2020-06-06, 08:59

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Yes but why not release the source code of the old executables (C&C95, RA95) ? There's an issue to release the source code of the DOS versions. That would be interesting.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-05, 21:49

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Re TR: I remember that the 3DFX version looked good. But the gameplay was trash and it crashed a lot. Meh.

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Re: dgvoodoo2's bugs feat. obscure games

Posted on 2020-06-04, 13:57

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Shadow of memories : well...this is a long story: this game was originally protected by securom v4, new OSes support such disc based protections no more. An existing hacked exe removes protection AND makes the game Win7-8-10 compatible. It runs correctly without dgvoodoo2 but if you put the usual …

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Re: Command & Conquer / Red Alert Remastered source GPL'd

Posted on 2020-06-04, 07:58

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There are a lot of build errors as is. And it's only libraries, the main exe is not provided. I was hyped. Kind of bummed out. Seems to be an insufficient code drop and not much more, at least for now.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 06:06

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xjas wrote on 2020-06-01, 19:27: How did you find D2X-XL to get going? [...] I'm sorry it was a long time ago. I deleted all of it and went back to DOSBox. I'm pretty sure I gave up and used Rebirth instead, or used dgVoodoo2 on top.

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Re: NTVDM on windows 10 x64

Posted on 2020-06-01, 11:47

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I know, but it doesn't work reliably at all. Or with any kind of speed.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 06:49

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I used D2-XL to play it ( http://www.descent2.de/ ) which brings modern looks and the ability to read music from the local storage instead of the CD. D2 XL looks very nice and plays better. Even if after a while I missed the retro looks and the whole DOS experience so I went back to DOSBox. I'm …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 07:37

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I always patch them. I lived through the nineties. It taught me that most games come out with crashing bugs, save-corrupting bugs, compatiblity bugs, how-did-this-pass-QA bugs and so on. A trend that did not stop at all today. Also, there were a lot of times patches to enable 3DFX compatibility, …

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Re: NTVDM on windows 10 x64

Posted on 2020-05-30, 14:56

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robertmo wrote on 2019-03-31, 17:22: while dosbox can run win9x games even with 32-bit installers. Since when does it do that ?

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-25, 06:35

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I auto-launch Windows 3.11 games inside DOSBox all the time. Do not append a game to win, it doesn't work. Use this autoexec section in a dosbox conf file : [autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup. # You can put your MOUNT lines here. @echo off mount c disk_c path=z:\;c:\;c:\ …

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-25, 06:08

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Use. The. Startup. Folder.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 19:32

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I played some South Park Rally, for the first time. I don't know if it's good or bad. Very mixed reviews online. I find it way too hard, but it looks so good with dgVoodoo2...

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 04:49

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by xcomcmdr

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This is madness. I quit.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 04:41

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SodaSuccubus wrote on 2020-05-23, 22:32: Im only seeing around 34FPS in Doom, and that's with the ram optimized as much as low as i could get it in the bios. Im no AMI Winbios expert though, my previous boards have been AWARD so maybe im missing something? Arent' the original Doom games for DOS all …

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-23, 08:07

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by xcomcmdr

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It can work, but it's by far not the most reliable method. I've automated hundreds of Windows 3.11 games startups inside DOSBox.

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Re: NTVDM on "new" PC

Posted on 2020-05-22, 20:45

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If I want to be sure how it runs / behave, I use Windows 3.11 inside PCem. Quite a few times games refused to install inside DOSBox, but installed fine in PCem, for example.

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