Re: File compression wars!

Posted on 2002-08-29, 03:42

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Is that a "Normal" compression or a "Maximum" compression? I always found CAB files give pretty crappy compression ratios. The best I think I ever found was LHA/LZH, which is (or was) used largely in Nihon [Japan]. ACE generally works better than RAR, and bzip2 generally works better than most of …

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Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-28, 00:07

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Here's me running without VDMSound or EMS.

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Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-28, 00:00

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Stiletto, as the motto goes: IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT. I've had some *extremely* bad luck when upgrading my BIOS (eg. rendering the computer unbootable with the bus speed set to 133MHz), despite there being some relevant fixes that came with the upgrade (not just upgrading for upgrading's …

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Re: Problem with joystick module...

Posted on 2002-08-27, 23:56

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"Instantiation"? That sounds like a hot new drug or something. 😜

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Re: WinXP vs Win2k....Hmmm..

Posted on 2002-08-27, 23:55

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I'd use caution with those drivers. They swap the front and rear channels (to get superior sound in the front channels) and don't implement a lot of things. Probably better than the Creative drivers in most cases, but also, if you only have 2.1 speakers, you can turn sound card acceleration to …

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Re: OPL (AdLib) emulation

Posted on 2002-08-27, 23:52

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Cuz' it ain't been implemented yet, yer majesty Q.B. ! I meant, why didn't you use OPL3 in the first place?

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Re: The Riddle of Master Lu & Win2k

Posted on 2002-08-27, 23:51

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*shrug* It was just a thought.

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Re: The Riddle of Master Lu & Win2k

Posted on 2002-08-26, 18:31

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I was talking about resolving problems with VESA.

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Re: Quick Codepage Question

Posted on 2002-08-26, 18:29

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chcp is a program, so it should be put in your AUTOEXEC.NT/AUTOEXEC.VDMS file.

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Re: LBA 1/Relentless error

Posted on 2002-08-26, 18:24

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Is one of your CD drives labelled D? If you have a second HDD partition "D", copy the files to the root there. (It may just be an annoying hardcoded thing.)

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Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-26, 18:14

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Weeeell, here's my MSD memory information. Just as a note, you can't really use the "default" LaunchPad setting or it won't come out like this -- you have to enable VESA... but leave everything else the same.

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Re: OPL (AdLib) emulation

Posted on 2002-08-26, 18:01

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Why aren't you using OPL3 emulation, Vlad? MAME.DK used to have all MAME ROMs available for download. However, due to legal pressure, they had to remove them. (Too bad, since I even donated.) EDGEEMU.COM has ROMs for older consoles and computers (C64, Sinclair, Genesis, Nintendo and Super Nintendo, …

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Re: Discworld

Posted on 2002-08-26, 17:53

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SFV = Simple File Verification. It's basically a file with CRC32 checksums. eg. For the DOS4GW files: ; Generated by WIN-SFV32 v1 [added for sfv32 compatibility] ; Using hkSFV32 on 08.22.2002 at 08:53:00 ; [url]http://www.big-o-software.com/software/[/url] ; 1_6.EXE 099EFB69 1_8.EXE 32376422 1_9.EXE …

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Re: The Riddle of Master Lu & Win2k

Posted on 2002-08-26, 17:48

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Vlad, Have you tried using COMMAND.COM instead of CMD.COM with VLP files?

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Re: Sam & Max

Posted on 2002-08-26, 17:46

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That's really odd. I've heard of problems with MIDI and birds sounding like they were honking, but never SnM playing the wrong samples. I'll give it a whirl later today and see what's going on.

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Re: LBA 1/Relentless error

Posted on 2002-08-25, 19:42

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Well, I must say, that's strange. Have you tried copying all the CD's files to the LBA directory?

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Re: Cannot enable EMS under Win2K...

Posted on 2002-08-25, 19:37

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Can't you change the address of your RAID controller in your Device Manager [Properties > Resources]?

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Re: Descent 2, VDMSound, and ... joysticks.

Posted on 2002-08-25, 19:12

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If he has a Voodoo card, friend, he doesn't NEED GliDOS. heh

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Re: OPL (AdLib) emulation

Posted on 2002-08-25, 19:09

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You could always just play the SNES version. It probably sounds better, in any case, and with ZSNES and the Super Eagle or Super 2xSAI engines, it probably looks better, too.

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Re: Discworld

Posted on 2002-08-25, 19:08

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It would be much easier for the guy, Vlad, if you just made an SFV and attached it. That's a lot of files to manually check sizes of.

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