Re: DosBox's PC speaker is terrible

Posted on 2013-02-01, 03:43

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by Joey_sw

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@Joey_sw: MP3PC is working for me in 0.74 with default settings, but it seems to be picky about the MP3 files it will play. I've had the most success with CBR 44.1kHz, but haven't really pinned down its limitations. edit: seems it has a problem with some ID3 tags. I'm not sure what specifically it …

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Re: DosBox's PC speaker is terrible

Posted on 2013-01-31, 09:06

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by Joey_sw

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speaking of speaker, did anyone managed to get the MP3PC.EXE from http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm to works on DosBox? Its claim it can play MP3 using PC speaker but i never able to make it works.

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Re: hard drive images in dosbox

Posted on 2013-01-28, 08:48

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yeah there 2 limitation for size: *must conform with INT 13H specificaition *must conform to limitation imposed for FAT16 for dos application. most hdd images maker/converter sometimes ignore the INT 13H spec: - can't have more than 63 sectors per cylinder - can't have more than 1024 cylinders per …

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a new way to apply the DMCA in U.S

Posted on 2013-01-25, 16:36

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quoted from source : 'Unlocking' your cellphone will be illegal starting Saturday By MSN News Users will not be able to alter their cellphones to access different networks starting Saturday. But advocacy groups are questioning the law. Starting Jan. 26, buying and unlocking a phone will no longer be …

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Re: Sphinx riddles in Heroes of Might & Magic II

Posted on 2013-01-25, 07:43

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it map author based, the riddles were totally depend on who made the maps. I remember the occasion where i was forced to use the map editor to inspect the sphinx on the map to find the correct answer. Inspect the Sphinx using the "?" icon.

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Re: Biggest wastes of CD-ROM media

Posted on 2013-01-20, 03:19

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some early Playstation game also waste of 'space'. for example 'Tactics Ogre' , only use less than 80MB total.

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Re: When is an upgrade not an upgrade?

Posted on 2013-01-18, 19:20

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and continuity of using existing programs/games/softwares, otherwise i would considered it as 'totaly new'.

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Re: Multiplayer Gaming on 20th Century Hardware

Posted on 2013-01-18, 02:29

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by Joey_sw

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is GBA count ?

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Re: Vga to Ega?

Posted on 2013-01-08, 04:10

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by Joey_sw

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I tried to port the shader into Media Player Classic, weird result. is therey any good (16 color) dithering shaders available?

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Re: A Pentium III Windows 98 build to complete the gang.

Posted on 2013-01-05, 13:03

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by Joey_sw

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lol @ "Serial ATA cable" on PSU

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Re: Floppy label removal

Posted on 2012-12-28, 01:23

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Disassemble the floppy ... and leaving the easly soiled thin magnetic film in the open (and might be slightly dusty) air?

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Re: Merry Christmas

Posted on 2012-12-25, 15:40

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0gksWFn2Uc I truly hope that wasn't you singing in that video. :lol: agreed, its the 'vocal' thats annoying. surely, with "PLAY" command on Basica/GW-basic/QBasic, you should able to 'sing' the "Merry Christmas" song yourself. Merry christmas, to those who celebrates …

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Re: computing timelime

Posted on 2012-12-25, 12:26

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O'Reilly release one for programming languages http://oreilly.com/news/languageposter_0504.html

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Re: Well optimised PC games?

Posted on 2012-12-22, 13:07

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and alley cat? that game run properly from XT to even modern x86 CPU (boot using freedos) provided that Graphics card/onboard also give somekind Mode4/5 compatibility.

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Re: computing timelime

Posted on 2012-12-13, 08:19

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i kinda doubt there will be > 8GHz/core anytime soon, probably caused by physical limitation.

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Re: is there Hercules support in DOSBox?

Posted on 2012-12-12, 18:06

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by Joey_sw

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it might be game related as Xelasarg said, I've Sharkey's 3D Pool, which works with "machine=hercules", I also have ATech's Image72 ver4.2 (not a game but a paint-like program) that also work on the same "hercules" setting. a bit question, I trying to find which 'color' were better for my taste, by …

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Re: Copper Demo

Posted on 2012-12-12, 15:24

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by Joey_sw

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isn't old VGA DAC was 6bit-per-plane? at least that what i remember from nesticle palette change (0-63 intensity choice for R/G/B).

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Re: Know of any windows 3.1 driver with small resolutions?

Posted on 2012-12-10, 02:11

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by Joey_sw

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resolution changing by deliberate crashing game works up to winXP (never tried that on win7 though), but would it actually works on win3.x ?

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Re: reporting GPL violation of DOSBox source

Posted on 2012-12-09, 07:55

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by Joey_sw

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GPL were designed to protect the 'codes' from being proprietarized, and not to protect the developer or publisher or porter's interest.

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Re: Dosbox 0.75?

Posted on 2012-12-08, 17:06

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by Joey_sw

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its the usual version 0.100 vs version 0.1 confusion but if you append another '.0' ... 0.1.0 vs 0.100.0

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