Re: FIC PA-2013 2.1 (PCB v2.0) Hard Drive Capacity Limit?
Posted on 2016-10-01, 02:39
So you can't even get it to boot to a floppy so you could try a compatibility layer?
Re: Dosbox help
Posted on 2016-10-01, 00:33
If all you wanted to do was play Wolfenstein again and you don't give a soggy towel about anything else, then this isn't the forum for you. Command-line prompts are FAR from out of date. That's a foolish error if you think that. Just try to develop software or use Linux without using the command …
Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2016-09-30, 23:59
I love that he's from "Southampton". Yeah, right.
Re: Windows 3.11
Posted on 2016-09-30, 01:02
Not to mention Ubuntu, which version numbers by what month and year it is 🙄
Re: Dosbox help
Posted on 2016-09-29, 17:25
Why do you assume you did something wrong? You need to brush up on the basics of how a command line works.
Re: I found my old blog :P
Posted on 2016-09-29, 17:22
Okay, now I started a new blog 🤣 Here it is: https://audaxeundum.wordpress.com It's kind of silly. We'll see where it goes 😀
Re: I found my old blog :P
Posted on 2016-09-29, 16:58
@Jo22: Yeah, SRB2! My sister and I still play this over the internet from time to time. She always beats me :-P But we used to make levels together in the SRB2 Doom Builder. @Dominus: Apparently, no. All the links I had put up there are to shareware/freeware stuff. But anyway, this has got me …
I found my old blog :P
Posted on 2016-09-29, 05:28
I was sitting here, and suddenly I remembered that when I was 11 years old I had cajoled my dad into letting me start a blog on Wordpress. Magically, I managed to remember the URL: https://ultimatedos.wordpress.com There's almost nothing there; it seems I made one post and then forgot about it :lol: …
Re: Keen 4-6 on EGA and VGAONLY machine types
Posted on 2016-09-28, 23:39
Start a new thread and quote this one, instead of necroposting.
Re: I need some sound advice
Posted on 2016-09-28, 04:30
Oh, I thought you meant "sound advice" as in "good advice" 🤣 I can vouch for the 2770; it's a very nice sounding card and works quite well in DOS. Just don't use Creative's mixer driver; use SBMIX which doesn't install itself in memory.
Re: Musings on audio encoding and FM transmission
Posted on 2016-09-27, 23:55
It's definitely CBR. I can watch the bitrate on the streaming server; it drops to 95 or 94 every once in a while, but only for about a second. I don't know why it does that, but it's not ABR. Yes, I should try AAC or something - my streaming software can use AAC (in addition to FLAC and Vorbis, btw) …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-27, 19:23
I agree with Scali. Collision and physics routines are critical as far as speed is concerned. I think they should be coded from scratch and optimized for non-FPU systems - and we can still have pretty realistic physics anyway, just take advantage of natural laws and equations that we know and mimic …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-27, 04:53
Guys, I'm sorry - in retrospect I think my post was uncalled for. I think I offended people and I'd like to be the first to say that I was an idiot. I actually don't think we're "up against" them; it was stupid of me to say that. I guess what I thought was, "Here's the closest thing to '90's …
Re: Guess what's going inside lol
Posted on 2016-09-26, 21:43
Ooh, this has got me excited 😀
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-26, 19:50
This is what we're up against. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1093001909/rad-rodgers-the-return-of-the-90s-era-apogee-platf [rant] This sort of thing annoys me greatly. Everything about this game - the kid's "too cool for school" name, the insipid smirk pasted on his face, the foul-mouthed and …
Re: Planning a mini exhibition of retro computers in Idrija, Slovenia
Posted on 2016-09-26, 19:03
I would add in there a 486/Pentium machine for late DOS stuff, running some cool demos from that era, to round it off. Otherwise it looks great! Sure hope it goes well. When is the expo?
Re: Joystick and Gamepad options for DOS Gaming
Posted on 2016-09-26, 16:15
For analog gameport flightsticks the Gravis Analog Pro has always been my mainstay. I really like it; the buttons are nice, it's easy to set the resistance exactly how you want it, the calibration never wanders, etc. You can find them for ~$15 USD on eBay usually.
Musings on audio encoding and FM transmission
Posted on 2016-09-26, 03:35
I was listening to the stream of a radio station here: http://myradiostream.com/station/flashplayer.php?s=s11&p=12398 This station belongs to my dad; I did all of the setup of the audio equipment, and managed to get the highest audio quality possible given our extremely low budget. The transmitter …
Re: I've an idea: Let's get some game development going
Posted on 2016-09-25, 01:05
But historically not many games targeted OPL3. OPL2 sounds good enough, and is supported on a wider range of hardware, so I don't see why not. For starters I'd go for OPL2 music. Simply because it is anyway required. Also dual OPL2 and OPL3 cards are fully compatible with OPL2. Well, I guess we …
Re: Sound Blaster 16 Bugs and Deficiencies Summary
Posted on 2016-09-25, 00:50
Well, maybe you're right - I was thinking it would be easy to determine how many bugs a card has simply by reading the colors down each column.
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