Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-09-28, 22:41

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by DosFreak

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in Marvin \ Video

http://mattgadient.com/2012/05/20/intels-hd-3000-not-constrained-on-memory-bandwidth-as-you-might-think/ Seems to be processing power first,TDP and memory bandwidth. Considering the size of the Intel gpu compared to an Nvidia one it's not too bad. heh. Would be interesting if in a dual socket mobo …

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Re: Sound problem with Putt putt goes to the moon on Windows 95 on DOSbox SVN

Posted on 2014-09-27, 18:17

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by DosFreak

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Doesn't ScummVM support that game?

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-09-27, 13:10

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by DosFreak

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Steam dropped Windows 2000 support awhile back. I believe it may still work with the API wrappers but I just make sure that the games I buy from there I have cracks for. So as long as you are running XP on your 2004 machine then you should be good. SP2 even came out in Aug 2004 which is when us 2000 …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2014-09-27, 09:14

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by DosFreak

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I know the alpha had it...but I guess not the demo. http://www.murc.ws/showthread.php?37369-So-do … ood-on-the-G400 Doesn't everyone have the full game anyway? Need to see if putting the timedemo in the demo works.

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Re: TIL the 640k barrier is not set in stone (in theory)

Posted on 2014-09-26, 18:33

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by DosFreak

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IIRC QEMM has that option

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Re: XP+DOS multiboot gone

Posted on 2014-09-26, 17:55

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by DosFreak

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just use Acronis to backup and restore the MBR since I use that for imaging anyway.

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Re: Windows 98SE Unable to delete or rename MS-DOS .exe files.

Posted on 2014-09-25, 23:56

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by DosFreak

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Only time I've seen this happen is with securom infected games. When you launch those games a buggy shell handler is installer that causes this behavior. Only solution is to kill explorer.exe to delete the file (and delete the shell extension file while you are at it). If you don't crack the game …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2014-09-24, 19:07

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by DosFreak

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Windows 9x uses DOS as a loader so DOS will always load first you just won't see it. :) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/12/24/6849530.aspx You can also use the shift key but that can be confusing when using a VM and also the VM may load too fast. This would be easier: http://www. …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2014-09-24, 18:51

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by DosFreak

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I haven't tried Windows 9x in DOSBox-x but the way Windows 9x has always worked is you can load the CDROM driver in DOS and then load Windows and Windows will use that driver or you can switch Windows to use the Windows CDROM driver.

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Re: RIP 32 bit PC gaming?

Posted on 2014-09-24, 17:57

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by DosFreak

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The big issue is driver support for old hardware and software support. If HyperV in Windows 9 supports vt-d and if they package a free Windows 7/8 32bit with it like they did for VPC then that won't be a issue for businesses. I'd imagine that most home users running 7/8 are running 64bit processors …

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Re: Any way to hide RAM?

Posted on 2014-09-24, 10:38

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by DosFreak

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in DOS

Last time I did this I used HimemX http://www.japheth.de/

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Re: Trouble installing turbo C++ in Windows 7 64 bit

Posted on 2014-09-23, 13:45

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by DosFreak

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I would recommend getting familar with DOSBox and mounting directories. The error you posted is basically stating that the file could not be found. If you created C:\Turbo then in DOSBox you'd need to mount C:\ (not recommended) and then go to the turbo directory. Instead create a C:\DOSBox …

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Re: Acer Aspire One 722 - Random HDD Spin Downs

Posted on 2014-09-23, 12:55

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by DosFreak

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Who's the manufacturer of the drive? Mabye you can modify the spindown time on the firmware. Any reason why you're not using a SSD?

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Re: panzer general dosbox 0.74

Posted on 2014-09-23, 08:51

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by DosFreak

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sigh DOSBox is a emulator, as such it requires a decent processor. As for your recording issue try the latest DOSBox SVN.

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Re: Nerdly Pleasures - My Vintage Computer/Gaming Blog

Posted on 2014-09-22, 19:16

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by DosFreak

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Great Hierophant, Can you change the link color from green to a more readable color? Keep up the good work!

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Re: Keen Dreams source code released!

Posted on 2014-09-21, 21:47

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by DosFreak

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Well the first one sounds nice.

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Re: Gamergate, no more games, just poltical correctness pushing.

Posted on 2014-09-21, 11:09

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by DosFreak

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Yup that's why I was annoyed that much at the first post, fueling the fire and bringing it here. Qbix please close this thread ;) Let me guess, you're a SJW. There's no justification for censoring this thread. There doesn't have to be any justification for closing any threads. If we want it closed …

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Re: DosBox on old maching

Posted on 2014-09-20, 22:26

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by DosFreak

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in DOSBox General

On that ancient thing run the game in NTVDM.

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Re: Virtual machine options for older systems?

Posted on 2014-09-19, 16:16

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by DosFreak

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Connectix Virtual PC works on OS/2 (Not Microsoft Virtual PC) I believe there is also a OS/2 port of VirtualBox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC http://wse2010.warpevents.eu/uploads/tx_wseevents/wse2010_virtualization.pdf Bochs 2.3.7 works on 95 and NT4 Bochs 2.6.6 works on 98+ Qemu …

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Re: Odd prolbem in Quake 1 - FPS "jitters"

Posted on 2014-09-19, 15:26

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by DosFreak

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in Windows

I've never dared to run Quake 1 in a Windows command prompt. Does it run fine in DOS?

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