Re: A warning about ScanDisk and Win98... (long)

Posted on 2012-06-10, 04:48

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Dominus wrote: Faulty memory can wreak havoc, too. Yea I once had a machine which was fine for gaming but when burning Audio CDs you could hear these clicks. Later I found out that a memory module was faulty.

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Re: My perfect 486, just got perfecter!

Posted on 2012-06-10, 02:20

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Wow that PSU has reactor like dimensions 😀

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Re: The Two Guys from Andromeda's latest SpaceVenture to be Kickstarted soon!

Posted on 2012-06-10, 02:18

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Do they have maybe a single screenshot of what they are working on?

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Re: Games with dual OPL2 support for stereo FM?

Posted on 2012-06-09, 14:31

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Awesome website you have created there Fabian!

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-06-09, 08:54

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Awesome! The perfect weekend: Junkfood and an episode of ADG :) You must have played that first level heaps of times because you seem to know exactly where every enemy is hiding. One tiny tiny suggestion is showing that game stats box for much less time as the gaming footage is so aweseome and the …

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Re: How fast is too fast for DOS?

Posted on 2012-06-09, 04:22

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Not on these early chips! You can also reduce the FSB / Bus speed if your mainboard has that option... You should be able to set it to 133, 166 and 200 MHz.

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Re: The Two Guys from Andromeda's latest SpaceVenture to be Kickstarted soon!

Posted on 2012-06-09, 03:25

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I read the page but the impression I am getting is that it's just not serious enough IMO. If it's true that they haven't seen each other for 20 years, how much of a "dream" can it really be? Maybe I have always misunderstood the space quest games. For me it was all about the Sci-Fi and the puzzles …

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Re: How fast is too fast for DOS?

Posted on 2012-06-09, 01:51

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Disable the L1 and L2 cache in the BIOS and it will perform like a fast 386DX-40 or slow 486DX25. There are many games that won't run properly unless you disable the caches.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-06-08, 21:29

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I could get a 20" 1600 x 1200 screen but they are harder to find and cost quite a bit. With such a screen 320 x 200 games display perfect pixels with no scaling issues. In theory, yes. In reality, not so much. Both my 1600x1200 TFTs still show uneven pixels in 320x200, and it's impossible to get …

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Re: Games with dual OPL2 support for stereo FM?

Posted on 2012-06-08, 13:26

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Yes the PAS16 comes with an OPL3. Unfortunately it isn't PAS compatible :/ One day we might get PAS compatibility in DOSBox... PAS cards are very very very rare. Personally I have never seen one on eBay. Still. Any game that doesn't support MT-32 BUT does support PAS/PAS16 Stereo FM? There can't be …

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Re: Games with dual OPL2 support for stereo FM?

Posted on 2012-06-08, 11:37

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Sound Blaster wasn't the only standard around at that time. Check out the Mediavision Pro Audio Spectrum. It was a dual OPL2 card and there are quite some games that have Stereo FM music with this card but only Mono FM with a Sound Blaster. Police Quest 3 and Space Quest 4 for example. Likely there …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-06-08, 02:35

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Nice bargain 😀 If it runs Gateway = it runs everything 😀

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Re: How to set up midi support in dosbox?

Posted on 2012-06-07, 13:56

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I can think of 3 ways games can be configured through midi: - SETUP.EXE or SOUNDSET or some IMUSE or some other tool - config file that can be edited - command line parameter like for Monkey Island or Wing Commander You also need to be aware that not all games support MIDI. Many have just PC speaker …

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Re: OPL3 implementations (ESFM, Crystal FM, dual OPL3 etc)

Posted on 2012-06-07, 09:00

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In short the Adlib version has sounds in places that are silent with the MT-32. Some sounds are sampled for Sound Blaster. Monkey Island 2 only supports one sound option not two (MT-32 AND Sound Blaster). ScummVM however does exactly this. MT-32 AND Sound Blaster whenever MT-32 sounds are not …

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Re: Power Supplies And Age?

Posted on 2012-06-06, 22:45

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I swear these old PSUs are built heaps better compared to the cheap OEM PSUs you find in budget cases. The original PSU in my 486 still works but the OEM one in a 1-2 year old case stopped working. I now put in a decent 450W XFX PSU with a 5Y warranty.

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Re: Resolution problem

Posted on 2012-06-06, 22:41

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I also tend prefer the blurry image of opengl vs. openglnb (although I would go with opengl or ddraw if I had a 1200p screen). I have no letterboxing issues with 2x and 3x scalers. The machine has an Nvidia card. Try using output=openglnb and keeping scaler=none to avoid blurring. This will still …

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Re: Resolution problem

Posted on 2012-06-06, 20:46

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No need. Here's the abandonia link: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/25139/Ping+%2526+Kooky%27s+Cuckoo+Zoo.html This is what it looks like on my PC: http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/2459/img1288jb.jpg http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8021/img1285iw.jpg Here my complete config file (I use D- …

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Re: Resolution problem

Posted on 2012-06-06, 14:13

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Thing is that 90% of screenshots on the internet have the wrong aspect ratio because most aren't aware. DOSBox's built-in screen-capture feature stores the images at 320 x 200 which is stretched unless you scale it to a 4:3 ratio resolution like 640 x 480. Most people don't scale them. YouTube is …

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Re: OPL3 implementations (ESFM, Crystal FM, dual OPL3 etc)

Posted on 2012-06-06, 08:22

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In Monkey Island 2 for example the MT-32 version has several sounds missing. For example in the bar or at the swamp. The game feels less "alive" compared to playing it with Sound Blaster. Through ScummVM however you can used a function "something called mixed Adlib or something like that" that will …

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Re: Building a 486 system

Posted on 2012-06-05, 09:49

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Disabling cache will work just fine. Here a demo with an AMD K6-2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PtaXJp2iBY I have a Super Socket 7 with a Pentium 133 and it can run at full speed, as a 486DX2 and as a 386DX. But past that you have no choice but to build another machine (like a Pentium 3 box with …

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