Re: what were the first games to use 16bit color?

Posted on 2014-02-14, 12:54

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why did so many graphical showpiece games like FPSes only use 256 colors if higher modes were available? I believe all the high profile rts games like starcraft, aoe, and total annihilation ran in 256 colors as well. Probably because.....double the memory usage, slower performance across various …

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Re: 8gig hd into my dosbox win95 Problem

Posted on 2014-02-07, 00:17

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by DosFreak

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I see a email address posted on his webpage. Mabye you should try that. These forums are for the official version of DOSBox.

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Re: batch file support

Posted on 2014-02-06, 19:34

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by DosFreak

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DOSBox emulates DOS not the Command Prompt. You can try loading 4DOS 8.0 in DOSBox http://www.4dos.info/sources.htm

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Re: I find mounted hard drives much slower than a physical drive?

Posted on 2014-02-06, 11:15

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by DosFreak

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Games don't really need much speed as far as the hard drive is concerned. Are you sure your speed issue is drive speed?

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Re: video card for original Half-Life

Posted on 2014-02-05, 11:40

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by DosFreak

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I remember trying Half Life on my parents K62 with a Rage card back in '99. I have nightmares to this day.

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Re: Any alternative to vdmsound?

Posted on 2014-02-05, 11:36

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by DosFreak

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Very Old Games on New Systems but I did suggest geting a sound card that works for your current system.

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Re: Any alternative to vdmsound?

Posted on 2014-02-05, 00:30

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by DosFreak

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Either get a better sound card or use dosbox on a modern pc.

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Re: Crash

Posted on 2014-02-02, 04:50

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by DosFreak

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Vmware supports OpenGL just fine. Install the Vmware additions. If by terminal you mean RDP then D3D/OpenGL will not be functional on Windows XP while using RDP. Why are you using DOSBox in Vmware? You are running a emulator inside of another emulator and as such this isnt a supported configuration.

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Dark Mod v2.01 released

Posted on 2014-02-01, 11:15

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by DosFreak

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http://www.thedarkmod.com/posts/update-2-01-now-available/ THE DARK MOD 2.0 is a free, first-person stealth game inspired by the Thief series by Looking Glass Studios. It recreates the essence of the original Thief games on a more modern engine. Both a game and a mission-creation platform, The Dark …

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Re: qbasic

Posted on 2014-01-31, 22:36

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by DosFreak

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QBASIC https://web.archive.org/web/20070316205657/ht … n-us/olddos.exe GORILLA/NIBBLES https://web.archive.org/web/20070206175842/ht … n-us/sup622.exe

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Re: Your favorite shareware/freeware?

Posted on 2014-01-31, 01:19

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by DosFreak

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The Quake shareware CD 😉

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Re: Show off your servers!

Posted on 2014-01-29, 03:48

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by DosFreak

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Built this back in 2007. No changes except for hard drives (9 4TB), 16GB of memory and swapped out the desktop graphics card for a fanless ati card. Motherboard is Gigabyte Processor is Core 2 Quad (sorry not a P4!) Don't think plex will transcode blue-ray mkv with a P4. heh. OS is FreeNAS loaded on …

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Re: Video from 1984 of Mac demo

Posted on 2014-01-29, 02:36

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Now compare it to this: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/01/two-step … e-2013-mac-pro/

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Re: Best OS for a 286?

Posted on 2014-01-29, 01:47

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http://www.freedos.org/download/ There's a floppy image at the bottom of the page. For the other utilities you'll have to figure out a way to copy them over if you need them. IDE/SCSI HD connected to a newer computer and then install freedos on the drive, then attach it to the older computer? Not …

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Re: Best OS for a 286?

Posted on 2014-01-28, 01:01

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I have this blog in my rss feed: http://theguiblog.com/author/brandon/ He reviews DOS GUIs Fun500 (Site says 386 but docs say 16bit...) http://fun500.brandoncornell.com/ http://theguiblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013 … 02/f562_000.png Also http://qbasicgui.datacomponents.net/

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Re: Best OS for a 286?

Posted on 2014-01-28, 00:25

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by DosFreak

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Nah Standard mode is all 16bit. (dosx.exe and krnl286.exe) so should be no issues with it working on a 286. Supposedly 3.11 for Workgroups can be run on a 286 but only via dosx.exe. Haven't verified it though. (Networking wouldn't work so not much of a point to it). Also as per the first link below …

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Re: PC Game Compatibility List

Posted on 2014-01-27, 23:25

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by DosFreak

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Laptop was bricked due to a bad bios flash (frickin HP!) back in November. Ordered and received a Dell Inspiron 7537 and received it a week before the HP came back! So last week I installed 2012R2 on the HP and I've resumed testing again. Should have an updated list uploaded this weekend. I tried …

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Re: Best OS for a 286?

Posted on 2014-01-27, 23:01

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Windows 3.1 will work on a 286 but only in standard mode. Windows 3.11 (not workgroups) should work as well but I've never tried it on a 286. Although with only 1MB you won't be doing much but hey skifree and minesweeper will work. :) Suprised Microsoft still has this up http://support.microsoft.com …

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Re: Win98SE & Compact Flash = SLOW?

Posted on 2014-01-27, 15:00

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by DosFreak

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Do any of those tools have command line options? If not I suppose a macro could be made.

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Re: Best browser for Win95?

Posted on 2014-01-26, 17:10

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by DosFreak

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List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

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