Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-06-04, 18:10

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by DosFreak

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It looks like you used "Source 2007 binaries" instead of "Base Source Engine 2" If you want Half-Life 2 + EP1 you need: half-life 2 content half-life 2 game dialog base source engine 2 source materials source models source sounds episode 1 shared half-life 2 episode one Half-Life 2 + EP1 hl2.exe …

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Re: Methods for limiting free space available

Posted on 2020-06-04, 17:58

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by DosFreak

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Options: Fix the program Create a large file of the size needed Create partition just for this purpose and resize as needed Ram disk Install in DOSBox or other emulator, backup files and use on system

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 16:54

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by DosFreak

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I would do one at a time since you should be extracting each to their own folder.

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 15:55

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by DosFreak

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See my quote in https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=859057#p859057 You need to extract each .gcf to their own folder and then copy from that folder to your destination. Don't select games in the Phoenix interface. You can probably figure out how to do it within the Phoenix interface but it's not …

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 14:53

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by DosFreak

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As previously mentioned EP2, Portal, and TF2 are broken on the Orange Box DVD. You'll either need to use the latest versions by connecting to Steam and downloading them, hunting down the 2007 GCFs that were uploaded by someone who downloaded the Orange Box from Steam when it was released or find a …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-06-02, 00:09

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by DosFreak

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How viable is P2P file sharing for something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncthing

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 19:59

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by DosFreak

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Only extract what you need: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=859057#p859057 You don't need to install nor should you want to, "source 2007 binaries" gcf should have hl2.exe. As for revemu it depends on the version. The revemu with the steam.dll of 6-5-2010 can be placed in the same folder as …

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-05-31, 15:09

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by DosFreak

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Thread Cleanup 4 Games 100% Orange Juice https://store.steampowered.com/app/282800/100_Orange_Juice/ A Mortician's Tale https://laundrybear.itch.io/morticians-tale Amnesia The Dark Descent Epic Anodyne 2 Return to Dust Epic A Short Hike Epic Ashes of the Singularity Humble Bundle Assassin's Creed II …

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 12:51

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by DosFreak

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Something else to try would be to see if there are any original Orange Box releases with 2007 GCF files and then compare against the Orange Box files to verify they are from the same build and then just that. You'll usually see people recommend the detonation release but as mentioned previously it's …

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-05-31, 12:44

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Thread cleanup 3 Websites: http://www.hutsellgames.com/ http://dosgames.com/forum/about19706.html http://dosgames.com/forum/about19330.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_free_games https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page https://lgdb.org/ http://www.georg-rottensteiner.de/en/index.html http:// …

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Re: Any way to add soft shutdown to Standard PC Windows 2000 and Windows XP installations?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 03:18

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by DosFreak

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It's been a decade plus but IIRC you need to upgrade over your 2k install to switch the HAL. If you switched in device manager and the computer BSOD then you need to do an emergency repair and manually replace the files back.

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-30, 14:00

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by DosFreak

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You need to use Phoenix (Phoenix_15rc2) to extract SID files.

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Re: List of Free Games

Posted on 2020-05-30, 13:54

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Thread Cleanup 2 WEBSITES http://home.comcast.net/~SupportCD/XPGames.html http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=17035182 http://spacecombat.org/ https://www.humblebundle.com/ http://www.dosgames.cc/home.html http://www.icbm-game.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Origin%27s_ …

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Re: Prey and Metro Exodus released on GOG without Denuvo

Posted on 2020-05-29, 20:21

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by DosFreak

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Tested this yesterday. Steam version of Prey works by using the files from the GOG binary folder and MoonCrash works by using the steam_api from Goldberg for anyone that wants to use the Steam version.

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 19:06

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by DosFreak

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Probably mostly those who just want a physical product to look at, Secondary assuming the key works possibly cheaper copy of HL2 when they go to install it with Steam (Steam won't install it off the CD but just download the latest version), Third probably because they are ignorant. I can't share …

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Re: The Orange Box. DRM vs Retro Gaming? How can I install it?

Posted on 2020-05-29, 17:59

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by DosFreak

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The problem is you have a broken product twice over. One for the DRM, two because Episode 2, Portal and TF2 are broken on the DVD. You can download the detonation release but the builds are older than what is on the DVD. To extract the working products you need to use Phoenix and then use revemu to …

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Re: Building Descent 2 for DOS from the available sources

Posted on 2020-05-28, 21:05

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by DosFreak

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Here is a taste, this folder only contains the latest versions for each OS. The old versions are in a seperate folder so not in this list. The old versions you do see in the list are when I was tracking down what works.

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Re: Building Descent 2 for DOS from the available sources

Posted on 2020-05-28, 20:48

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by DosFreak

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I recently went through the doom ports to identify OS compatibility. It's still a WIP though. SDL 2 broke

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Re: Running Motocross Madness, JK2 and others on Windows XP

Posted on 2020-05-27, 21:44

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by DosFreak

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For Dark Forces 2 use DXGL Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - How to switch GPUs? Mabye we can convince Dege to add DX9 host support to dgvoodoo2 so we could run it on XP.

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - How to switch GPUs?

Posted on 2020-05-27, 21:23

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by DosFreak

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Just like any wrapper place the wrapper files in the same directory as the game executable. DXGL will automatically copy the ddraw.dll files to the game folder if you add the exe through the DXGL interface. For emulation Intel is still king. I'm waiting for the new AMD chips later this year to see …

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