How is Vinyl Goddess From Mars so slick?

Posted on 2020-09-10, 21:31

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I tried VGFM for the first time today, and was surprised at how slick it moved, despite me not changing Dosbox from running at the default 3000 cycles. (I expected it to enter protected mode and have Dosbox change to 100% but that didn't happen) It feels like a whole other level compared to Hocus …

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Re: Tricky Quiky Games, no sound just crackles

Posted on 2020-07-28, 04:25

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Thanks jmarsh - Do you have a link to the thread where I can read more about that?

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Re: Allegro dat.exe - error writing .dat file

Posted on 2020-07-27, 21:25

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I don't think you're doing anything wrong. I've compiled my own Allegro 4.2.3 from the sources at allegro.cc and my dat.exe is giving the same errors when I try to do the same thing. I think perhaps at some point very late in the 4.x series the dat file code in DATEDIT.C stopped working, without it …

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Re: Tricky Quiky Games, no sound just crackles

Posted on 2020-07-26, 16:47

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I enabled the play-in-browser function for Tricky Quiky Games with music and sound working: Very cool. :) Incidentally, TQG is also on playclassic.games, which has music and sound working. I spent a while trying to figure out what svn Dosbox they were using while trying to get sound working myself, …

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Re: Tailchaser full game crashes to prompt on start

Posted on 2020-07-25, 21:07

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Using dosbox 0.74-2: Regardless of 'core=' setting, it seems like the hard drive installation for Tailchaser is just broken. Komplett auf Festplatte (full hd install) is broken since it reads a list of files from komplett.lst to install, which requests SEQS\LOGVGA_.PC twice when the real files are …

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Re: Tricky Quiky Games, no sound just crackles

Posted on 2020-07-25, 20:27

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Aha! That's marvelous. That fixes it. Thanks for the help. What exactly is the 'RTM memory manager'?

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Tailchaser full game crashes to prompt on start

Posted on 2020-07-25, 14:53

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I'm trying to play the German DOS platform game Tailchaser in Dosbox. https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/tailchaser/ After installing the game, the prerendered publisher logo and intros play, but when I select Start from the menu, the game fades to black and the game crashes to the DOS prompt …

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Tricky Quiky Games, no sound just crackles

Posted on 2020-07-25, 14:47

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I'm trying to play the Nesquik game 'Tricky Quiky Games' in Dosbox, but I cannot get sound to work. When the main menu appears, there should be background music, but all I hear is loud crackling. I've set it to SoundBlaster sound, irq 7, dma 1, port 220. I've tried Dosbox 0.74 and an svn staging …

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Re: Getting 'Get Lost' by Tom Bombadil working on real MS-DOS

Posted on 2019-03-20, 18:05

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Fixed it! :) The problem was possibly a bad write/copy/extract somewhere along the way copying the files from my Dosbox instance to my real DOS computer. To fix it: - downloaded PKZIP 2.5 (dated 1999) to replace the 2.0x version (dated 1992) - redownloaded a clean gl132r from the Sleep Furiously …

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Recommend a Windows 95 compatible keyboard tester?

Posted on 2019-03-19, 13:11

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I'm looking for a Windows 95 compatible keyboard testing program. Something simple that'll show a layout and light up the keys as I press them, or has a mode where it'll prompt me specific keys in order and then gradually build up a list of all keys that are working, which are not present, etc. I'm …

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Re: Getting 'Get Lost' by Tom Bombadil working on real MS-DOS

Posted on 2019-03-18, 21:24

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On a Pentium 4 MS6534 mobo in Win98 MSDOS mode, the game runs great. Weird. I suspect it's some kind of caching behaviour on the board/bios that doesn't gel well with the way the game uses its memory. The only other computers I have to hand are both Pentium MMX machines. It's possible that it just …

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Getting 'Get Lost' by Tom Bombadil working on real MS-DOS

Posted on 2019-03-17, 15:48

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Hi, I am trying to run the game Get Lost by Tom Bombadil's Software Emporium & House of Curiosities Full version available here: http://www.sleepfuriously.com/getlost/getlost.html The game runs perfectly in DOSBOX but I can't get it to run on my real MSDOS hardware. I can configure the sound fine …

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Re: Aztech AT-3300 Audio/Gameport/Modem card question

Posted on 2013-12-01, 22:06

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Thank you very much! Though, I'm not sure which archive from there I should be looking at. Should I use P1633D-1 ZIP and P1633D-2 ZIP? Or is the AZTPNP.ZIP a version of aztpnp that's more likely to work?

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Aztech AT-3300 Audio/Gameport/Modem card question

Posted on 2013-12-01, 18:53

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I have (what I believe is) an ISA Aztech AT-3300 audio/gameport/dialup modem card, taken from a Packard Bell multimedia PC from around 1997. The AZTECH chip in the lower-centre is AZT2320, with OPL. Does anybody know if this card had any DOS sound drivers released, and where I could find them? I've …

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Re: What Dos Menu programmes exist?

Posted on 2013-05-05, 09:02

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I always used to use Joost Sohipperheijn's GLANCE. screenshot

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Re: Help with Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card, please

Posted on 2013-05-01, 12:27

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Exact same card: "Yamaha Audician 32 Plus" ISA card with a Yamaha OPL YMF718-S chip, in the exact same box from the exact same person. 😀

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Re: Help with Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card, please

Posted on 2013-04-30, 15:45

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I've received a replacement card of the same type which works perfectly! The SB, FM and WSS test sounds all play in setupsa, and the settings save fine when the program exits. After you've set everything up, it politely asks if you want the setup to just print a message reporting the current IRQ and …

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Re: Help with Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card, please

Posted on 2013-04-27, 11:02

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As far as I can tell, there are two applications in the YAMAHA program group. There's a 'hifi' program that can play MIDIs, WAVs, CD Tracks and has a mixer display showing the volume levels of the various inputs. No other options as far as I can tell. There's also a 'ymersion' program that has a …

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Re: Help with Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card, please

Posted on 2013-04-27, 08:19

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I've installed the Windows 3.1 drivers now. All it seems to do is install the same DOS setupsa as before and put it into autoexec just as before. Same errors. No sound.

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Re: Help with Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card, please

Posted on 2013-04-26, 08:15

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I put the card into a VX pro motherboard (all I can see is the bios is 2A5LDH09) in another machine, and I got the same board write error messages in setupsa. What an annoying card. jwt27: Hmm, I don't have any 8-bit slots. Do you think the card will still work if I snip off the extra 16-bit pins …

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