Re: Problem with WYSIWYG in Lotus 123 2.4

Posted on 2007-12-07, 11:24

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by darkgamorck

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A problem with Lotus? Say it isn't so! Listen; we use Lotus Notes for email where I work and it is total crap. Now given how many years they have had to clean up their act on the Notes side, and the fact it still sucks - it wouldn't surprise me at all to hear that Lotus 123 was even worse off.

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Re: Future Crew's "Second Reality" Demo won't run properly under DOSBox 0.7x

Posted on 2007-11-26, 11:29

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by darkgamorck

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Based on what I've seen, Second Reality likes your soundblaster to be setup with an IRQ of 5 rather than 7. When I use 7 on DOSBox on my mac, the sound is choppy and not so great, though bearable. When I change the IRQ for the soundblaster to 5, it works much better. I notice that at least one …

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Re: dosbox vista issue

Posted on 2007-11-15, 04:30

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by darkgamorck

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What exactly did you double click on? A full file and directory name would be most helpful here.

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Re: Lost Eden - no sound, no music

Posted on 2007-11-14, 04:00

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by darkgamorck

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It will never cease to amaze me how people think that using a DOS emulator does not entail learning a bit of DOS or how to deal with DOS in a more modern streamlined environment. Thank goodness there weren't web forums back in the days when DOS was installed on most machines, because then there …

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Re: Phantasmagoria 2 mouse problem HELP!!!

Posted on 2007-11-12, 23:03

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by darkgamorck

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Looks like you have a Windows version of the game. That's not going to work. Unless it's a 16 bit game and you install Windows 3.1 within DOSBox. There are probably other caveats there as well, but I have no urge to install Windows 3.1 ever again so there 😀

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Re: Dosbox with various games - slooow.

Posted on 2007-10-06, 10:36

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by darkgamorck

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My boss jokingly asked me yesterday if our new web application could be hosted on a 486. I think Gibush might've said yes had he been in my position. ::shudder::

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Re: Dark Forces crashing in all DOSBox versions newer than 0.63

Posted on 2007-09-06, 10:54

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by darkgamorck

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Autodetect isn't magic. If autodetect and manually setting it work differently for you in 0.71, it's because you are manually setting it wrong. Post your dosbox.conf and tell us how you setup the card manually in 0.72.

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Re: Using DOSBox on a new iMac

Posted on 2007-08-23, 01:30

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by darkgamorck

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0.72 will be out sooner rather than later and direct serial for OS X will be part of it. I've actually been helping to beta test beta/rc builds for the OS X version. You may just want to wait a few days.

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Re: Mounting CUE

Posted on 2007-08-15, 10:32

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by darkgamorck

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You are right... further research shows that the MP3s need to be converted to WAV files first before it'll work in Daemon Tools. The CUE sheet has to be modified appropriately. I know I've mounted these before, but the only program left that I've used is Alcohol 120%. Perhaps I'm wrong. Anyway hard …

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Re: Mounting CUE

Posted on 2007-08-14, 23:11

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by darkgamorck

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In fact if you are using Windows... download Daemon Tools and mount the CUE file that way. It will mount those types of CUE files without an issue. You can then access the virtual CD drive that Daemon Tools creates from within DOSBox.

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Re: Mounting CUE

Posted on 2007-08-14, 22:39

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by darkgamorck

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Like I said, that's not possible. There is no such thing as a CUE file that points to MP3 tracks (or at least nothing I've ever seen) ! There is such a thing. Though nowadays there are quite uncommon. CUE files can point to ISO files, WAV files, MP3 files and even OGG files. Each file is typically …

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Re: When, first version.

Posted on 2007-08-12, 13:20

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by darkgamorck

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Wow. The Archive even captured zip files of old win32 versions of DOSBox. I'll have to fire those up one day just for the nostalgia. I don't think I started using DOSBox until some version in 0.50 range. I wrote an article on my website using CVS versions of 0.60 (then 0.58) and updated the article …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 10:23

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by darkgamorck

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The other thing is: I don't buy the binary wrapper bit of theirs. Here is why: When you copy their modified EXE to a directory all by itself and run it, the first thing we've been told that it complains about missing is SDL. Once you provide SDL, then it complains about Steam missing. If the Steam …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 10:19

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by darkgamorck

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it's a binary patch/wrap to add that check. I'm no law expert either, but I have no problems with it. Afterall they have to protect their stuff as well Yeah except they aren't protecting their stuff. Heh. Anybody could steal the DOS games right out of this distribution and redistribute them and …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-07, 01:42

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by darkgamorck

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Well it seems clear that Valve is listening to the controversy. Unfortunately, until they address the modified source code issue, it's all in vain. As for the people that bought it, I think we should point them in the direction of the actual DOSBox distribution, a fine front-end and treat them as we …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-06, 23:35

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by darkgamorck

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It has also become apparent that DOSBox is beginning to take some heat over the misconfigurations. There is a thread about the collection on Ars and I've seen more than one comment regarding how DOSBox "sucks". I agree with you totally DosFreak. But I think that this issue is indicative of a larger …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-06, 02:25

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by darkgamorck

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Yes but it's a win/win for everybody. Making the source available would give us valuable insights into the piece of dogsh*t that is Steam. Valve would clearly not choose this option and opt to give everybody a refund and pull the package instead. Either way, Valve and their precious paragon of DRM …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-06, 02:18

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by darkgamorck

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It would seem so. The executables are modified and this more than likely means the source code for DOSBox was modified as well. This is going to be great. Well in the sense that those jackasses at Valve may finally taste a bit of their own medicine. /me grabs the popcorn.

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-05, 13:03

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by darkgamorck

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As far as i understand the gpl license, they are not required to publish the sources, but if they don't they have to make sure that the recipients of the software can acquire the sources easily. Therefore it'd be enough to add some visible reference to the dosbox homepage/download pages, as they …

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Re: Steam (Valve) using Dosbox for its "id Super Pack"

Posted on 2007-08-05, 13:02

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by darkgamorck

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Whoa Nelly. They modified the software? If so then they've got some real problems now. It's time to ask for the modified source if you've bought the software guys. If they've modded the thing so that you are forced to run it through Steam (though they might've just moved critical DLLs to other …

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