Re: Rare and lost demo/shareware releases wanted list

Posted on 2021-02-03, 12:44

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Great Air Battles: 1941-1942 Type: Demo/Shareware Version: 1.5a File name: gab-d15a.arj File size: 749 488 bytes (?) Status: file and contents not found Original location: http://www.flight-sim.iup.edu/files/UPLOADS/G/ Reference: http://www.mcnett.org:80/fst/ferret/sims/gab-d15a.arj (file downloads …

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Re: Random free game findings

Posted on 2021-02-01, 16:09

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Various flight sims made by Ron Walker with Domark's Flight Sim Toolkit (accessible via the Wayback Machine): http://www.mcnett.org/fst/rwalker/sims.htm Two arcade games by Geckosoft, initially shareware: http://www.coolbubble.com/features/geckosoft/

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Re: Ruined memory of an old game by playing it!

Posted on 2021-02-01, 12:05

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Also, modding old 3D games to run in full HD or higher makes the environment look horribly blocky. Lara's triangular bust in TR1 was passable in 320x200 and questionable in 640x480, but in full HD it's just ridiculous. Well, you weren't supposed to catch a glimpse of frontal or side view of her for …

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Re: Antagony!

Posted on 2021-02-01, 11:54

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Thanks a lot! I guess I should update SVN builds more often, lots of updates coming in, eh?

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Re: Antagony!

Posted on 2021-01-31, 18:57

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I learned about Antagony from this thread, and found the demo on this CD (zipped and uploaded it separately here ). However I have the same kind of trouble as the topic starter. I've tried the antgafix utility provided by peterferrie above, but it has no effect in either DOSBox 0.74-3 or the SVN …

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Re: mode 13h speedup.

Posted on 2021-01-25, 19:32

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So I decided to take a more serious, systematic approach to testing. I've used Duke Nukem 3D shareware v1.3D and DOSBox v0.74-3. Set the cycles to max and core to normal, configured the game to use no sound or music, and run at 320x200 mode. Then I edited DUKE3D.CFG for the following configurations: …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II demo hangs with CPU:Illegal Unhandled Interrupt Called 0

Posted on 2021-01-24, 20:58

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Thanks for testing this! Meanwhile I tried the second variable, detail level, with the same 9600 cycles, and also tried switching to sbtype=sb2 and sbpro2. It looks like when on medium detail the game does not freeze with or without sound (haven't tried the default sb16 with this yet), and does not …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II demo hangs with CPU:Illegal Unhandled Interrupt Called 0

Posted on 2021-01-24, 20:17

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Thanks! Today I tested one more time at 9600 cycles and it hanged during the first round of the first match. I'll try to do some more extensive testing without sound to determine if the issues happens with no sound device enabled. UPD: I played for a while without sound at 9600 cycles and had no …

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Re: Mortal Kombat II demo hangs with CPU:Illegal Unhandled Interrupt Called 0

Posted on 2021-01-23, 23:02

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Thanks! I turned off switch to 386 and set the game to fixed 13900 cycles, and got another freeze during the first match: Can you please tell if this is the same error? I'll try getting cycles even lower. UPD: 9600 cycles with dynamic core seems fine.

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Mortal Kombat II demo hangs with CPU:Illegal Unhandled Interrupt Called 0

Posted on 2021-01-23, 21:22

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I've been playtesting the Mortal Kombat II demo for a few days now and I keep running into intermittent lockups, and with debugger on these show an endless string of "CPU:Illegal Unhandled Interrupt Called 0" messages. The demo runs without sound by default, but by pressing F10 during the intro …

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Re: Video game clones that closely replicate the original "look & feel"/art style

Posted on 2021-01-16, 19:42

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Out of all Korean StarCraft clones that I know of, Atrox seems to follow the source material most closely, p to and including menu and interface design.

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 12:28

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Recently someone was asking something about a versus fighting fangame they could not remember, and I wanted to suggest looking for a MUGEN project, but could not immediately remember that MUGEN was called MUGEN (duh). So I searched for "Mortal Kombat remake" and found a couple of videos of what …

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Re: Are there any more aspect ratio ultratolerant people?

Posted on 2021-01-12, 19:49

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Look at my awesome new wallpaper

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Re: Bref has a weird mouse glitch when using Sound Blaster

Posted on 2021-01-12, 12:11

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I test with surface, but I just switched to OpenGL both in 0.74-3 and SVN r4393 I got from the ECE site, and it did not affect the glitch in any way. I tried this both via config command and by editing the actual conf file. No difference. I'm on Win8.1 64-bit. DOSBox Sound Blaster settings are all …

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Re: Bref has a weird mouse glitch when using Sound Blaster

Posted on 2021-01-11, 15:00

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Thanks for the feedback folks! I have experimented with cycles, they don't seem to affect anything. The odd thing is that the glitch is gone when Gravis Ultrasound is used, as I mentioned above. Or rather, the glitch goes away when Sound Blaster is not used (i.e. the -S command line options turns …

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Bref has a weird mouse glitch when using Sound Blaster

Posted on 2021-01-11, 10:51

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Recently I discovered a nice Columns like game called Bref , which was initially sold as shareware but the latest version 2.0 was a freeware release. The game supports both Sound Blaster and Gravis UltraSound, but I used Sound Blaster at first as this is the default DOSBox setting. Eventually I …

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

Posted on 2021-01-07, 16:22

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by MrFlibble

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Apologies for a noobish question, but what other advantages does the version with HDPMI32 have apart from solving certain hardware compatibility issues (if I understood that part correctly)? Also, which build (I've noticed binaries optimised for specific processors in previous posts here) would be …

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Re: DOSBox Pure ?

Posted on 2021-01-07, 12:48

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"Pure" seems to be a strange choice of terminology. My thoughts exactly. Configuration is the most difficult part of DOSBox, lowering that bar certainly will allow more people to enjoy it. Maybe it's because I've been using DOSBox for so long already, but I got the impression that it is actually …

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Re: Random free game findings

Posted on 2021-01-06, 16:08

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A selection of games published by Polish company Mirage and later made available for free (only a few are for DOS though): http://www.mirage.com.pl/index.php?id=retroattack Cyberbox and Cyberbox II are also freeware: http://palmettobay.com/

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Re: Video game clones that closely replicate the original "look & feel"/art style

Posted on 2021-01-06, 12:46

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That one's cool, thanks for sharing! From older projects, Boulderoid was essentially a PC conversion of the original Boulder Dash , but updated with 256 colour graphics. Some elements were reimagined, like the main character is now a naked bearded guy for some reason. Since the game included all …

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