Re: Problems with the game Space Marines [FULL]

Posted on 2006-01-05, 08:07

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I would give it a go but I can't find Space Marines anywhere on the net including eBay. It seems a pretty obscure game! I first thought you were talking about a Warhammer game, like Space Hulk, because Space marines is the name of the human units in it.

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Re: The Horde

Posted on 2006-01-04, 19:52

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Try changing the soundblaster emulation to sbpro1 or so - fixed it for me. But the game itself was very slow.

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Re: How to backup my old games

Posted on 2006-01-01, 08:37

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Well there's also programs like Neverlock to help you out there.

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Re: Shadow Warrior

Posted on 2006-01-01, 08:35

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You mean in DOSBOX? Because that's what I got with Shadow Warrior on the level with the water and the boat. It sometimes crashes - I found a way around this but forgot how.

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Re: A good DOS Soundcard?

Posted on 2005-12-29, 14:13

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I just bought an old Pentium 133 with screen, keyboard, mouse, etc. for 5 euros (6 dollars or £3). I already haev an old P166 IBM Aptiva with a DVD drive and 8Gb HDD inside (a LOT for a computer that age) but the problem is that the AWE64 I put inside it doesn't work with 8 bit sound :depressed: …

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Re: MIDI in DosBox -- SoundMAX?

Posted on 2005-12-26, 17:01

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Well from what I know recent soundcards have their own MIDI "soundfont" which hosts realistic instruments, which didn't exist on soundblaster cards back in the early 90s. One thing that really bugged me was how badly MIDI and adlib in general was affected by PCI soundcards. My old SB16 ISA played …

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Re: Games Database suggestion

Posted on 2005-12-26, 16:58

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Except that people WOULD use the patched CVS, and then there would be confusion as to why their (patched) CVS could run this particular game that another guy couldn't get to run with a vanilla CVS. Trust me, it would cause confusion. It's confusing enough to keep them all seperated on my hard drive …

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Re: Games Database suggestion

Posted on 2005-12-25, 19:37

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It would make things very confusing though since there's so many different patches that apply to this.

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Re: Alien Oddysey not starting

Posted on 2005-12-24, 09:01

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Okay I tried the game again today - replaced dos4gw.exe with dos32a.exe (I always do this) and patched the game file to have dos32a.exe imbedded too. No difference - with latest CVS. Game still complains about not finding game.bat

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Re: X-Com TFTD Thank-You

Posted on 2005-12-24, 08:03

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Well it's pretty logical that you'd need a hard drive and a CD drive. Where do you expect the game to install and save its settings? DOSBOX emulates a real computer, it's not a console rom emulator. If you keep this in mind, most problems just come down to tricking games to thinking it's in a real …

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Re: DOSbox killed my machine...

Posted on 2005-12-22, 07:14

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I don't remember DOSBOX ever crashing my system as such. I have known it to draw so much CPU power from Windows that I had to reboot (and couldn't close it) but never a crash, and I have used DOSBOX for hundereds of hours. Software CAN damage hardware though- even if it's usually because it makes …

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Re: How can I install Windows 98 under DosBox?

Posted on 2005-12-21, 08:08

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The Windows version too? It was for Unix systems mostly wasn't it? I read on their website that the Windows version is still in alpha, which is something I don't like using too much. (alpha= still very far away from completion with many non-working options not ot mention not the best stability …

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Re: Fall of the DOS Era

Posted on 2005-12-21, 07:51

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Ah but you name FPS and FPS are not 3D console games 😉 Even now FPS is still very much a PC genre and most console games still struggle with the gamepad controls. Golden Eye and Halo are the best known exceptions though. The new Revolution gamepad may do away with the fiddlyness of a gamepad though …

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Re: Under a Killing Moon

Posted on 2005-12-20, 17:38

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Phantasmagoria and favorite in the same sentence? 😵 *dies 7 CDs with about 1 hour of footage in total.

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Re: DOSBox Icon

Posted on 2005-12-20, 07:41

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Actually it wasn't until Doom's release that PCs were beginning to become powerful enough for a wider range of games. Doom was one of the first games to show this. It was far quicker, more fluent in movement than Wolfenstein 3D which always felt "stiff" as a lot of older games did. Adventure games …

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Re: The Horde & CTRL-ALT-DELETE

Posted on 2005-12-19, 09:44

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It does work for me, just real slowly. What you need to do is this: Replace dos4gw with dos32a Set sound to sbpro1 Should work then.

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Re: Ultima 8 No Speech

Posted on 2005-12-19, 09:38

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Yes Ultima 8 has a speech pack - the CD version has this included but the disk version needs it seperately.

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Re: Dragonsphere

Posted on 2005-12-17, 16:59

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Same here, been waiting for a fix for this for over a year - I'd love to get sound. Just a shame to have the CD version and not being able to hear voices.

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Re: Millenia: Altered Destinies - Take 2 Interactive

Posted on 2005-12-12, 17:01

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Okay, this was clearly an issue with DOSBOX. I got Millenia from eBay, and by chance the very last CVC will let it detect the CD! No other DOSBOX version with the same config will do so.

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Re: Indiana Jones FOA

Posted on 2005-12-12, 03:00

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ScumVM is cool but I want the more authentic feeling DOSBOX myself to be honest since ScumVM alters the games a bit. I can play all Lucas Arts games in DOSBOX myself so I'd rather use that then.

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