Re: Has anyone else had their system catch fire?

Posted on 2016-02-17, 09:07

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by Azarien

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A relatively minor incident, a USB plug with an LED light in it (why? don't ask me..) started burning and smoking. Neither the USB port nor the printer on the other end of the cable were damaged.

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Re: Feature suggestion, Let 4:3 aspect ratio work in ALL modes

Posted on 2016-02-14, 17:36

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by Azarien

in DOSBox General

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As a result, these tall characters looked normal, but when seen on a screen which accurately shows the aspect ratio (such as in DOS Box, or the Windows command prompt) the characters end up looking "fat". I'd say they looked tall, and only looked normal when actual 16:10 LCD screens (like 1280x800) …

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Re: Is it legal to make my emulator create empty disk images with MS-DOS 5.0 boot loader code?

Posted on 2016-02-13, 21:28

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by Azarien

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Whatever you are doing, just use the code from FreeDOS, which is on GPL.

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Re: Native DOS games with framerate display built in

Posted on 2016-02-11, 09:22

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by Azarien

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in DOS

Iris030380 wrote: Timerefresh for Quake certainly, although it didn't give an accurate reading of the average FPS while playing, only what was being drawn on screen at that particular point in time. Well, source is available so a DOS Quake with FPS display is within reach 😀

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Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?

Posted on 2016-02-11, 09:08

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by Azarien

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As an XP user I've started noticing some modern games that don't support XP, but those almost always have Win7 as the minimum requirement. Very few are satisfied with Vista. I think the same is true with non-game software. Yes. Even Microsoft's flagship products like Office and Visual Studio …

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2016-02-11, 00:40

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by Azarien

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in PC Emulation

leileilol wrote: I'm certain there's people who want that high frequency hum too And that burning sensation in one's face after long hours of radiation exposure... You won't get that from fancy shaders 😉

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Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-02-10, 15:19

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by Azarien

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in Release Announcements

Nice, but in reality most of those fonts were displayed in wide resolutions but on a 4:3 monitor, resulting in non-square pixels. I'd like to see those fonts in properly stretched versions.

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Re: What's planned for DosBox 0.75?

Posted on 2016-02-10, 11:09

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by Azarien

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Every time one of these threads pops up the release gets pushed back another year. A new release is nothing to be afraid of. If there aren't any showstopper bugs at the moment, make it a beta and let people download it. Wait a few weeks for complaints, fix regressions, don't fix what never worked …

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Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2016-02-07, 10:54

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by Azarien

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Doesn't look authentic enough though. Looks like very *bad* CRT. A *good* CRT may be very hard to emulate, because the effect is much more subtle. And realistic 60Hz flicker may be impossible to do on LCD.

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Re: Issues with ogg-winmm wrapper

Posted on 2016-02-07, 10:22

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by Azarien

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wav-winmm.c: In function 'fake_mciSendStringA': wav-winmm.c:503:9: warning: passing argument 4 of 'fake_mciSendCommandA' makes i nteger from pointer without a cast [enabled by default] fake_mciSendCommandA(MAGIC_DEVICEID, MCI_STOP, 0, NULL); ^ wav-winmm.c:154:17: note: expected 'DWORD_PTR' but …

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Re: Doom reboot

Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:26

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by Azarien

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in Milliways

realnc wrote: I remember the Bethesda reveal for Fallout 4, where they also showed Doom. Well, at least they called it Fallout 4, not just Fallout again.

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Re: prevent 4:3 burn-in on 16:9 plasma???

Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:03

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by Azarien

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Can you start any animation etc. around the gamescreen? Can the 4:3 gamescreen be moved 1px every 3rd second to the left until it reaches far left, and then go back to the far right? Well, DOSBox is an open-source project, so yes, it's certainly possible to implement such features, if you find a …

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Re: Mechwarrior 2 DOS performance

Posted on 2016-02-06, 15:47

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by Azarien

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in DOS

But S3 Virge *is* a 3D accelerated card, and from what I read on Wikipedia, there was a special VIRGE version of Mechwarrior 2. Surely it should work faster than software version. I have no idea if it works in DOS or requires Win95.

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Re: Strange question regarding resource intensive games.

Posted on 2016-01-25, 02:15

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by Azarien

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in DOS

That's what always made me feel adventurous in hacking a literal digital sound driver for Intel HD Audio under MSS\AIL. [...] would I still run into issues there? Who knows? Perhaps no one tried that yet... It's doable in principle, though I cannot guarantee that you won't run into an unsolvable …

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Re: Strange question regarding resource intensive games.

Posted on 2016-01-21, 14:44

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by Azarien

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Could a TSR provide SB16 emulation? Yes, with issues. I remember Sound Blaster Live! had a TSR for emulation of older Sound Blasters. In some games it worked, in some it did not. And of course it took conventional memory, which is always precious. And before Live, Gravis Ultrasound also had such a …

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Re: Ultimate DOSBox Config(Sound, Music and Graphics)

Posted on 2015-12-25, 16:55

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by Azarien

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I don't think there's one ultimate DOSBox config for all games. GUS emulation with proper patch set will give you much better MIDI playback (if supported by the game) than what is called "Sound Blaster" in games. GUS wavetable MIDI is similar in quality to Windows software wavetable MIDI emulation. …

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Re: Are there any games that are incompatible with newer versions of DOS?

Posted on 2015-12-25, 16:24

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by Azarien

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DOS 7.1 from Windows 98SE is my DOS of choice. Clearly superior to 6.22 with FAT32 support (which means bigger partitions and more free space on small ones). I didn't have any memory problems, of course some config.sys tweaking is needed. With MEMMAKER you can get a bit more, and with QEMM even more …

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Re: What are some DOS games I might have been playing wrong?

Posted on 2015-12-19, 10:32

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by Azarien

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Quake, for example, aged really badly IMO. What saved it were its gameplay and continued support. I prefer Doom's graphics to Quake. Interesting. I like how the original, low-res non-accelerated Quake looks like. The problem with most source ports is that they try to "improve" the game instead of …

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Re: Video for CPUs - The Software Decode Reference Thread

Posted on 2015-12-14, 21:27

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by Azarien

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You could also add 640x360, as this was a typical resolution in PIII/P4 heyday. (480p was considered high quality back then)

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Re: DOSBox-X notice: If microsoft pulls this stunt, I will be dropping Windows support

Posted on 2015-12-12, 12:37

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by Azarien

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

I will put my foot down and I will drop Windows support from DOSBox-X entirely. And be the next person after Microsoft taking choice away from the users.

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