Re: Wing Commander 3 sound under XP

Posted on 2003-05-25, 21:22

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by Dominus

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ok, first of all, vdms doesn't need and never does actually patch your exe, so it doesn't matter if it is on the CD. However for Wing Commander 3 you need to do: 1. disable the CD-Rom "driver" in %windir%/system32/autoexec.nt (put a rem in front of the line). 2. get sapucdex (look in the vdms- …

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Re: Ultima 8 Pagan

Posted on 2003-04-20, 18:06

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by Dominus

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huh? Why try harder? (if you meant me) So far it is Ultima 8 + patch + any way to emulate sound on NT based systems = bad sfx and speech. Music plays fine actually. Yeah, and turning off sfx and speech is the only way to go.

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Re: About Crusader No Regret/Remorse

Posted on 2003-04-20, 17:15

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Please tell us with which Windows OS you've been trying this and with which of the two games. Also AFAIK the Crusaders don't have the RAM problem. Anyway in real dos you can circumvent this with 1. enabling "Memory hole at 64 MB" (or similar) or 2. Creating RAM-Disks to "kill" your excessive RAM …

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Re: WinDVD... Macrovision... GeForce 3... urgh.

Posted on 2003-04-14, 11:22

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by Dominus

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can you try connecting a TV and then try to switch stuff around? The problem is similar to the one I had with my laptop with an ati chip. Unfortunately ATI and NVIDIA don't use the same control software 😀

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Re: WinDVD... Macrovision... GeForce 3... urgh.

Posted on 2003-04-13, 18:41

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by Dominus

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I *think* a solution is to fiddle with the "advanced display" (don't really know how they are called in non-German Windows) settings. Try switching the primary output around (if that makes sense).

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Re: About Crusader No Regret/Remorse

Posted on 2003-04-03, 18:41

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Exactly. Right now we have a mapviewer, an animation viewer, a glob viewer and a shapes viewer in the "old" CVC repository. In the actual CVS we have the actual Pentagram program working somewhat, meaning it runs some opcodes and then crashes. As to how to actually use those viewers with Crusader, I …

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Re: About Crusader No Regret/Remorse

Posted on 2003-04-03, 12:35

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by Dominus

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what is your problem with it?

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Re: Sauro Puccini releases MSCDEX replacement for WinNT/2k/XP

Posted on 2003-03-25, 23:03

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by Dominus

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The worst about writing docs/faqs is the ignorance of some people. you can write a thousand times that people should read those first before posting but they will do so anyway 🙁

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Re: Ideal PC for maximum old game compatibility?

Posted on 2003-03-25, 13:32

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Pentium 233 might already be too fast and will require patches for that Borland or Turbo-Pascal (not sure which) speed problem. monitor size doesn't matter, I'd say use as big as you can get. OS: take care which direct X you install. Some games are said to have problems with newer DX versions. I'm …

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Re: Sauro Puccini releases MSCDEX replacement for WinNT/2k/XP

Posted on 2003-03-25, 13:25

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NEVER, I repeat, NEVER mention something like "this should go into a FAQ" when there is no FAQ. You'll only get nomianted to write one. (that's how I became the Documents/FAQ writer of Exult)

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Re: Thoughts on DosBox 0.58 RC1

Posted on 2003-03-24, 15:32

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by Dominus

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I'll try as soon as SF's cvs allows me to update the source again... Edit: I take everything back now. Dosbox compiles now fine without hitch (though some warnings but that's "normal", I guess). Works also (wow unstripped Dosbox is 15 MB big)

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Re: NNTP access of SourceForge forums

Posted on 2003-03-24, 15:25

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by Dominus

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I guess I could subscribe to the beta-mailing list for the nntp and ask there if/when this will be in...

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Re: NNTP access of SourceForge forums

Posted on 2003-03-24, 13:57

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by Dominus

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I'd say for new ones as well.

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Re: Thoughts on DosBox 0.58 RC1

Posted on 2003-03-24, 13:57

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by Dominus

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Qbix: I'll try to get a hold of someone on IRC to get help with it.

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Re: NNTP access of SourceForge forums

Posted on 2003-03-24, 00:18

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not sure if we are meaning different things, but my comment about forked threads not bein shown wasn't about xnews but about the sourceforge nntp server. Xnews is quite capable of showing forks but SF seems to not have that information on its server...

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Re: Thoughts on DosBox 0.58 RC1

Posted on 2003-03-24, 00:15

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by Dominus

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he he, daily snapshots of exult ( http://exult.sf.net ) and scummVM are compiled with mingw. At least Exult has been succesfully compiled by myself :-) Edit: As soon as compilation requires automake, configure, autoconf I haven't been able to compile anything as it would crap out more sooner than …

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NNTP access of SourceForge forums

Posted on 2003-03-24, 00:12

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This has been there for quite some time but I guess it is nice for people to know about anyway. Since october 2000 SF allows access to the discussion/help forums of projects via usenet. See http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=221349 You need an Newsreader that supports SSL and you need …

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Re: Thoughts on DosBox 0.58 RC1

Posted on 2003-03-24, 00:01

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by Dominus

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Well, quite an easter hunt! After unsuccesfully trying to get dosbox to compile last night I was amazed to see a post about an rc1. Thanks a lot for the quicksearch option here, but even with that it was not that easy :-) Btw., I really wish it would be easier to compile dosbox with mingw. Asking …

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Re: VOGONS: The Next Frontier

Posted on 2003-03-23, 19:10

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I like the fifth one, because 1. I like the ones with background and 2. it looks the brightest to me Another note: I like the new design - it looks a lot like a cheap 70's porn logo :-) I don't like the "very old games..." style. Very hard to read on all versions [edit: Actually I meant the sixth …

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Re: BSoD in some DOS games

Posted on 2003-01-13, 11:30

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by Dominus

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Your memory passes which test? If it is not http://www.memtest86.com/ you tested with, don't be too sure, Also I had many bluescreens because of bad Soundblaster drivers and/or bad memory. As I read you have an Audigy and those drivers were my problem. So try to get the latest it may improve your …

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