Re: How to copy content from txt to DosBox window

Posted on 2014-07-15, 11:45

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Unfortunately,the old Dos Program will crash in XP mode or other virtual machine. DosBox is my last hope. But I have to copy content from Excel to DosBox windows directly. There are too many recodrs need to copy to DosBox window manually every day. Is there any command for this case? Who can help …

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Re: Thoughts on Emulating BBS Door Games with Node.js?

Posted on 2014-07-15, 10:41

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I meant that with having something to answer telnet and redirect it to the bbs software, there is no need to even go the VPS way. Bandwidth of a simple line is more than enough for you to host it at your own place, as we used to to with bbs's. You can of course run the bbs software with door games …

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Re: Thoughts on Emulating BBS Door Games with Node.js?

Posted on 2014-07-15, 06:11

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What instructions exactly do you need about this? It's kind of application specific, but maybe we can help. The general idea that you need to setup a FOSSIL driver as an additional layer between the bbs and the internet. This driver will translate telnet requests to what the bbs software expects and …

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Re: Thoughts on Emulating BBS Door Games with Node.js?

Posted on 2014-07-14, 15:16

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Making an actual bbs which uses the original software expecting phonecalls accessible over telnet is trivial. There is a whole site dedicated in listing all such bbs's, http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ I have myself modified the bbs I used to run in the early 90's and made it available over telnet …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 18:28

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It actually is, it had to be an XT-era version

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 18:22

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Just finished transferring all XT-Hercules (or simcga) capable games I own and could think of to a Schneider Euro XT. Time to see now on a so-rare-yourself-and-your-geeky-things Saturday night what actually runs on the 512KB RAM this XT beauty has. Sorry about the phone photos, I reallly don't know …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-07-12, 15:48

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Dude it's July already, move on from June 😀 I couldn't agree more on the game though, I also had a first chance with it from a magazine cd offering its demo back then. Playing it recently didn't change my opinion about it.

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Re: School me on graphics card RAM upgrades

Posted on 2014-07-10, 16:47

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Unclear if this generation of cards did anything clever with extra memory Until now I thought that resolution/color setting is just a matter of memory and drivers. Are we sure that it's not a matter of available drivers and that really some cards can't output (by design restrictions) every possible …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2014-07-06, 16:15

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Put it in perspective, 5.25" become obsolete around what 1990? 88?, 25 years ago and consider that you could still buy a mainstream pc with a 1.44MB disk less than 10 years of course so of course its fair to assume a high price for that kind of drive. New pc's were sold until the mid 90's that …

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Re: Voodoo 2 graphic artifacts.

Posted on 2014-07-06, 08:17

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I remember having the same issues with artifact in Colin McRae. It's a game I like a lot and I've played it throughout the years in many different configurations and hardware, artifacts problems were definitely there in some cases. Never figured out why. Also I believe that this game doesn't even …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2014-07-06, 08:02

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I recently searched for a normal, HD 5.25" drive for a pc on EU ebay. Nothing rare like a DD drive but I got the same impression. I was expecting many results and only got a few with what I consider as crazy prices. I wish I could find one at a total of $20, the cheapest I found was double that, …

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Re: help for a first timer

Posted on 2014-06-28, 21:10

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As already mentioned by Matth79, a config -set "dos ems=off" before running the game executable is enough for me. Of course you can always set it in your config file.

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Re: Tandy 1000sx XT-CF Help me get over 32MB Limit.

Posted on 2014-06-24, 16:05

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As an initial approach and before trying weird dos versions I would go for a vanilla, official 3.3. I'm not at all familiar with what restricitions 3.2 might have, moreover the tandy version. What I can confirm (having done it recently on an XT with XT-CF, otherwise I wouldn't be so confident about …

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Re: nGlide

Posted on 2014-06-24, 09:16

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Thank you all for the replies, they certainly made everything clear.

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Re: Tandy 1000sx XT-CF Help me get over 32MB Limit.

Posted on 2014-06-24, 09:12

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fact 1: dos <=3.3 will only handle 32 mb partitions fact 2: you should be able using it to define more than one of those (up to 8 if i remember correctly?) An advice that only comes out of personal experience with CF's & XT-CF on such machines: try to partition the cf from scratch ON the machine you …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-06-22, 15:22

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Hey, this filler is amazing, it brought back many images long forgotten! In my opinion, this could have been a full and lengthy episode with some additional games. Or maybe it's just me having played too many lame windows 3.1 games 😀

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Re: nGlide

Posted on 2014-06-20, 13:41

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Not 100% on topic but I didn't find any more suitable thread to ask: The compatibility list, lists all the glide games? I'm interested in finding all dos glide games, so I thought of checking the compatibility list and filter all those for dos. Does this list cover what I'm looking for or I have to …

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Re: 386SX with 8 and 386DX with 12 SIMM slots?

Posted on 2014-06-12, 08:55

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As already mentioned, 8 slots for an sx isn't that uncommon, I even own one myself. But the 12 slots are another story. Aren't those slots for two different kind of simms? If this is the case I'd bet that you should choose (via a jumper or something) which memory type to have enabled, rendering it a …

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Re: Dos Problems - Crashing

Posted on 2014-06-11, 06:06

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Try running something more primitive just to make sure that something IS working in DOS. When you say you can't run anything in DOS, you mean not even dos's editor for example?

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-06-10, 16:10

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Calvero wrote: The Apogee Legacy #20 - Joe Siegler: Your post made me discover those amazing interviews I wasn't aware of until now, thanks! 😀

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