Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2024-02-17, 21:32

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Nice review, I agree with everything that you say -- even though you mentioned that RTS games aren't exactly your forte, your analysis of the game's strengths and weaknesses is spot on. And of course the defensive formations :) I remember reading in some FAQ ages ago that Blizzard devs confessed …

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2024-02-15, 18:32

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Nice, thanks for sharing this!

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-02-15, 12:34

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Alright, I have recompiled the library afresh and made sure the MBF code is right, everything seems to work right now. I have a question though, when the setup programme is exited, the screen fades out slowly, but then there is a brief flash of what appears to be the distorted background image with …

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Re: PCEM vs 86Box vs UniPCEM vs DosBox-X

Posted on 2024-02-13, 15:34

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There's one more thing I'm noticing. When I play first-person games that use VGA mode 13h, like Heretic , in DOSBox there's some very pronounced screen tearing when turning around. However, in 86box it seems much less noticeable -- I wonder why? is it just me, or perhaps more accurate VGA card …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-02-07, 10:10

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Hmmm... I will check and revert, but just to be sure - when you mention no MBF code changes, does that mean no MBF code changes on top of this , or on top of original Gerwin's code? On top of my previously compiled build with the earlier version of your library. I might double-check everything …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-02-06, 13:01

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I've recompiled MBF with secondary instruments support with the new version of the library and it seems that it now ignores the GENMIDI lump and instead uses the internal timbres? At least, I have tried loading Freed∞m ultimate IWAD, which has a pretty lame internal GENMIDI, with and without DMXOPL. …

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Re: PCEM vs 86Box vs UniPCEM vs DosBox-X

Posted on 2024-02-03, 17:46

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On real hardware, I once had a mouse driver installed normally in VGA mode (it was in autoexec.bat), then I had switched to CGA emulation manually by using a mode utility. The result was that the mouse pointer was moving oddly and that it nolonger moved across the whole screen (application was a …

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Re: PCEM vs 86Box vs UniPCEM vs DosBox-X

Posted on 2024-02-03, 15:27

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I think I figured out what was "off" with CuteMouse using default settings. This is from the v1.9 changelog: - Small mouse movements are now also doubled in auto resolution mode. Apparently, the original intent is/was that "small movements" should be unaffected by the resolution selection: CTMOUSE …

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Re: PCEM vs 86Box vs UniPCEM vs DosBox-X

Posted on 2024-02-03, 11:33

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Yea, that was the acceleration. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=61109 The github link you posted already explains why and what the solution is (although it probably still won't be as smooth); use ps2rate, or use the MS mouse driver and increase the rate: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php …

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Re: PCEM vs 86Box vs UniPCEM vs DosBox-X

Posted on 2024-02-03, 10:28

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Hopefully I'm not hijacking this topic, because I don't feel that the question deserves a completely new thread. Recently I tried 86box for the first time and installed FreeDOS to play some DOS games. 86box is configured to emulate a 486DX2 @ 66 MHz with Sound Blaster 16 and a PS/2 mouse. Generally, …

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Re: Random free game findings

Posted on 2024-01-29, 20:06

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Here are the original downloads of liberated games by the Polish developer L.K. Avalon: http://www.lkavalon.info/lka/index.php3?dzial=dow http://lkavalon.com:80/download.html Alternate downloads (also Wayback Machine): Sfinx Soltys Skaut Kwatermaster

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Re: The Elder Scrolls: Arena in 86Box w/ FreeDOS [SOLVED]

Posted on 2024-01-29, 10:57

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There's another, lesser issue that I've not figured out yet. In the CD version, during cutscenes with speech some VOC files seem not to play at all, or a screeching sound can be heard instead. I've tried changing the emulated sound card to Sound Blaster Pro 2 with a different IRQ setting, but to no …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-01-27, 10:12

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Apologies for the convoluted way to deliver the changes, I imagine a patch/diff file done against the _MBF tree would have worked much better! Nothing new, but I have posted the changes here in what I hope is a much more agreeable format. Thanks for sharing! I have downloaded the code and …

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Re: Best VGA/SVGA shader for 86box on a 4k freesync display

Posted on 2024-01-20, 18:39

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I have been experimenting with these shaders. There are couple of decent ones, though those new Dosbox Staging shaders look like the best that exist I've been playing around with CRT imitation shaders ever since this option was available in DOSBox SVN Daum. To be perfectly honest, I've not used a …

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Re: Best VGA/SVGA shader for 86box on a 4k freesync display

Posted on 2024-01-20, 10:38

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I've just checked, DOSBox GLSL shaders indeed do not work, but shaders from the libretro pack seem to work fine: https://github.com/libretro/glsl-shaders

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Re: The Elder Scrolls: Arena in 86Box w/ FreeDOS [SOLVED]

Posted on 2024-01-14, 16:32

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There's another, lesser issue that I've not figured out yet. In the CD version, during cutscenes with speech some VOC files seem not to play at all, or a screeching sound can be heard instead. I've tried changing the emulated sound card to Sound Blaster Pro 2 with a different IRQ setting, but to no …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-01-14, 12:13

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Recently I installed FreeDOS in 86Box and tried out both MBF and Tartar on an emulated 486DX2. (Speed wise, MBF works fine but Tartar is slowish.) Previously I mentioned that OPL music sounds much louder in vanilla Doom compared to MBF when playing in DOSBox, but in 86Box the default volume in both …

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Re: The Elder Scrolls: Arena in 86Box w/ FreeDOS

Posted on 2024-01-13, 19:16

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UPD2: I was able to fix the problem. Just like Baron von Riediesel suggested , FreeDOS must be loaded with JEMMEX (not JEMM386) using the following parameters: DEVICE=C:\DIV\JEMMEX.EXE MAX=32M MIN=48 I=B000-B7FF I=TEST In fact, the floppy version 1.06 also works with this setting as well! Original …

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Re: The Elder Scrolls: Arena in 86Box w/ FreeDOS

Posted on 2024-01-09, 12:12

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Nevermind, I installed the free CD version from GOG instead and it works fine with FreeDOS' preset that loads JEMM386 with EMS support.

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Re: The Elder Scrolls: Arena in 86Box w/ FreeDOS

Posted on 2024-01-08, 19:13

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Have you looked at this Github page for JEMM? https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/Jemm There are some troubleshooting suggestions at the end of the description on the main page. I have tried what JEMM's author suggested in the discussion of this issue that I mentioned above, namely using this: …

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