Re: Windows 95 & DOS games

Posted on 2017-05-18, 21:43

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by Azarien

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1990+ DOS games are the ones I am targeting but I seem to recall the Win 98 had issues with a portion of the games that I played from that era hence my desire to see if Win 95 would be a better environment for those games. Unlikely. I'd say DOS compatibility is on the same level in Windows 95 and …

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Re: SB16 causes a 30% perfomance decrease in Doom.

Posted on 2017-05-18, 12:14

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SRQ wrote: hitting F8 and pressing N a whole bunch :p You can hit F5 instead.

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Re: AMD drops the mic

Posted on 2017-05-18, 11:20

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I do understand the need to use a 32-bit OS in some scenarios, but those don't require any of the new CPU's to run properly. Sometimes you need *new* machines, and still be able to run 32-bit OS on them. It's one thing if AMD or Intel announced that their new CPU wouldn't run 16 and 32-bit OS'es, …

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Re: Are Windows 2.03 / Windows 3.0 useful?

Posted on 2017-05-16, 21:04

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Jo22 wrote: Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.x also had a "286" checkbox, so it might be possible that its compilations will by default run on XTs, too. I guess so. That was the case with the DOS version of Turbo Pascal.

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Re: Windows 95 & DOS games

Posted on 2017-05-16, 20:54

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by Azarien

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Most games run straight from Windows 95 or 98. Those that don't (usually very old ones, or those that are very picky when it comes to DOS memory requirements) can be run from clean DOS 7. But I don't recommend the "restart in MS-DOS mode" mode. It still keeps parts of Windows (WIN.COM) resident, and …

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Re: Compiling DOSQuake on DOSEMU or DOSBOX?

Posted on 2017-05-16, 20:05

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Does the final DJGPP run on 16-bit DOS? I don't have any DOS machines at hand. I tried on VMware Player with DOS 6.22. The game works when run with -nosound parameter, otherwise it crashes. I guess this is vmware issue. 320x200 is too fast and stuttering, while higher resolutions are quite low on …

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Re: VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

Posted on 2017-05-16, 11:50

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Is 32-bit Windows 10 affected too?

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Re: Compiling DOSQuake on DOSEMU or DOSBOX?

Posted on 2017-05-14, 15:15

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by Azarien

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I never used DOSEMU and I don't know why it crashes. I just compiled the same code with the latest DJGPP tools (GCC 7.1.0) on 32-bit Windows 10 Creators Update. The compiled game runs in DOSBox 0.74.

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Re: Is Vista now Retro

Posted on 2017-05-12, 11:32

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System Restore. Absent in 98 and 2K, introduced in Me and then XP.

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Re: Compiling DOSQuake on DOSEMU or DOSBOX?

Posted on 2017-05-12, 10:30

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I *did* compile Quake on DOSBox, but it's very slow. It builds without problem on XP with newest DJGPP toolset (or rather it did a year ago). Here's my never-finished and semi-abandoned source port. Pay attention to the "dos" branch which contains some DOS-specific fixes. https://github.com/Azarien/ …

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Re: Ftp software for between win 7 and 9x?

Posted on 2017-05-11, 09:10

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I remember I had a problem with SMB sharing between Windows 7 and 98, but not between the same Windows 7 and 3.11. Go figure...

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Re: Non native 4:3 resolution centered on 16:9 screen

Posted on 2017-05-09, 11:06

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What do you mean by "centered"? Pillar-boxed while preserving original aspect ratio? Yes, it's often a problem. Sometimes you have the option to fix it in graphics drivers settings, sometimes you don't. It depends on your graphics drivers, type of monitor connection and the monitor itself. For …

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Re: Non native 4:3 resolution centered on 16:9 screen

Posted on 2017-05-09, 08:21

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I have a netbook with 1024x600 screen. 800x600 looks very sharp, 1:1. Sometimes when fiddling around with DVI and VGA cables, the scaling menu will magically appear. And yes, ATI / AMD does it better in this regard. On a HD5770 (and earlier HD4xxx and earlied HD3850) the scaling menu shows up in the …

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Re: Windows games that use MIDI music?

Posted on 2017-05-09, 07:54

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by Azarien

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Have you ever listened to it? It still exists even on Windows 10 machines today, and you'd probably be better off with OPL3 MIDI If you refer to software wavetable MIDI, it's useful with DOSBox. Select General MIDI in-game and it'll kick in if there's no other MIDI hardware. Better than Adlib/OPL …

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Re: Do anybody still makes new WADs for DOOM/HERETIC/HEXEN ?

Posted on 2017-05-08, 13:23

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aleksej wrote: i don't like DOOM sourceports and recent modding for DOOM engine games Chocolate DOOM is quite close to vanilla, no reason to dislike it 😉

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Re: Daemon Tools in Windows 95

Posted on 2017-05-08, 11:03

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I used to use something called CD Bremse in Windows 95 and 98. I don't know if it would work so well with modern CD drives though, and it did not create a virtual CD drive -- only a quiet CD drive that was faster to respond because it never spun down. I tried it several days ago on Windows 10. It …

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Re: Did I just fry my PS/2 keyboard port?

Posted on 2017-05-08, 11:00

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Is there any visible damage to the socket? Is it firmly attached to the mb?

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Re: Windows games that use MIDI music?

Posted on 2017-05-08, 10:48

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by Azarien

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Age of Empires

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Re: The Witcher (novel) in English

Posted on 2017-05-08, 10:00

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Just don't forget it had also been translated to many other languages before. It is best to read it in your native language cause of its rather advanced vocabulary. I heard that the English translation is unfortunately one of the worst, at least when it comes to the older books. I only read the …

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Re: Is win2000 as great, as every claims it to be?

Posted on 2017-05-08, 09:45

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Windows 98 is better suited for games because that NT kernel is not compatible with some games. With all the updates and latest DirectX (DX9?) it's similar to XP. Some older games detect 2K and XP as NT and simply refuse to run even if they would run without problems. Mechwarrior 2 is an example. …

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