Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2021-09-05, 11:54
robertmo wrote on 2021-09-03, 14:59: From now on, Norway is registering only plug-in vehicles Leading the way for the rest of us 😍
Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)
Posted on 2021-09-05, 11:47
If you read my quote again, you'll see that I mentioned compatibility with Microsoft's port trapping API, not QPI (QEMM). From what I found on-line, 386MAX is compatible with the Microsoft API, including the port trapping stuff, and can even be considered a superset of it. To be fair, though: I …
Re: Is DSL Linux dead?
Posted on 2021-09-05, 10:57
....aaand another 486-specific patch made it upstream to the mainline Linux kernel. Good to see these trusty old beasts still being officially supported. ☺️ https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_i … ux-5.15-x86-IRQ
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode
Posted on 2021-09-02, 22:27
The archive in the first message was updated. Only BEFORE_A.COM file within the archive was updated but the fix is functionally significant. @digger, no DOS extender is designed to work only in PL0. How do you think they work in a Windows DOS box for example? You're absolutely right. Thanks for the …
Re: An Ivy Bridge Motherboard for Linux and WinXP
Posted on 2021-09-02, 20:46
Have you recently encountered many games that work in Windows XP but don't work in Wine these days? The compatibility of Wine has gotten quite good over the years. For older games, I dare say it typically works even better than Windows now. So why even dual-boot? Unless of course you're doing it …
Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)
Posted on 2021-09-02, 20:34
Question: has anybody tried using SoftMPU with the 386MAX memory manager? And if so, did it work? 386MAX is supposed to be compatible with the I/O port trapping API of Microsoft EMM386. I'm asking this, since 386MAX might eventually be made open source, and bundled with FreeDOS. See https:// …
Re: DOS32AWE - DOS4GW compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI emulation support for Protected mode
Posted on 2021-09-02, 20:29
Cool! A while back, I opened another thread in which I inquired about the possibility of handling sound card emulation in the DOS extender , for protected mode games for which real mode emulators wouldn't work. But after doing some further research, I thought this wouldn't be possible with DOS/32A, …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-09-02, 20:06
So, uhm, has anybody reached out to the current copyright owners of SIMCGA and Magic Key to ask them if they would be prepared to release these tools as freeware, and perhaps even release the source code? Since there is no commercial value anymore, they might not object if you ask them nicely. Heck, …
Re: Another PS/2 Mouse ISA (ISA8) card adapter
Posted on 2021-09-02, 19:58
In reality, the interface of a Bus Mouse card is much simpler than RS232. It has a serious drawback - almost no documentation. However, I was able to collect information that is likely to be sufficient. So far, I gave up on this idea due to time constraints and because I was having difficulty …
Re: DSOAL EAX support on QEMU Windows VM
Posted on 2021-08-30, 23:15
Being able to play and experience these games as originally intended on modern and future systems is not just fun, but also historically important. Thanks for your continued efforts on this, kjliew!
Re: Fasttracker 2.10 & 2.11 for MS-DOS
Posted on 2021-08-29, 16:52
With all due respect to the original developers of FT2, I really don't get what their objection is to open-sourcing it at this point. Especially since they do seem willing to give individuals access to it upon request. Is there still the worry that someone else would take the credit for it? Will …
Re: Is DSL Linux dead?
Posted on 2021-08-28, 09:44
Just bear in mind that 386 support was removed from the Linux kernel in version 3.8, so for these very old beasts, you'll need an older kernel. 486 machines are still supported to this day, though. :slightly_smiling_face: See https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0OTg Also, here's a …
Re: Is DSL Linux dead?
Posted on 2021-08-27, 23:00
You're welcome. :slight_smile: By the way, the Linux kernel developers are looking for a maintainer for the CD-ROM code. Any takers here, by any chance? It's probably mostly legacy and vintage computer users who are still using this functionality. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px= …
Re: Is DSL Linux dead?
Posted on 2021-08-27, 22:30
Have any of you considered Alpine Linux, by any chance? It's a very lightweight Linux distro mostly used in embedded applications and as the base image for Docker containers. It's very light on resource consumption. It even uses a lightweight C library other than GLIBC by default. It also forms the …
Re: Short day-night cycles and changing weather in games are immersion breaking
Posted on 2021-08-23, 21:44
I liked how the passage of time and weather were handled in Gothic II. A day felt long enough that you could get some decent exploration done before it got dark. And rainstorms lasted longer than 5 minutes for sure. Also, the game gave you the option to rest until evening, midnight, morning or noon …
Re: english, the planetary language
Posted on 2021-08-21, 07:56
Well, that makes sense, given how Afrikaans is an offshoot of Dutch. Native Dutch speakers can understand Afrikaans and vice versa, provided that one is speaking clearly and not too quickly. To the Dutch, Afrikaans sounds like some kind of weird slang. Especially the use of double negatives. It …
Re: english, the planetary language
Posted on 2021-08-20, 20:52
I find that Russians always have very American sounding English, in fact it seems to be a thing that the further back along the Baltic you go the more American their English sounds, so you've got Norway, Denmark and Germany sounding quite English, then Sweden, Poland, Lithuania sounding kinda mid …
Re: FreeCom 0.85a with tab completion beep removed
Posted on 2021-08-17, 13:28
Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-08-16, 21:18: Sounds cool. No, it doesn't sound at all. That's the whole point. 😁
Re: What are Tough American Strong components ?
Posted on 2021-08-15, 22:29
cyclone3d wrote on 2021-08-15, 18:59: Haha. See, the rest of the world tried to get the USA to convert to the metric system. So we now use the metric system for ammunition. Take that! True. And also for weighing cocaine. Progress, I guess. 👍
Re: What are Tough American Strong components ?
Posted on 2021-08-15, 17:45
I'm European, 6ft high and called the midget among my friends (all 6,5-7,5ft heigh). See, OP? Many of us Europeans are even so courteous as to convert any measurements to your confusing and archaic units, for your convenience. You're welcome! :grin: Okay, okay, back on topic again, I keep getting …
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