Re: Best toddler games for DOS
Posted on 2019-06-06, 13:45
I love me some Wacky Wheels - https://store.steampowered.com/app/358380/Wacky_Wheels/
Re: USB Transfer Cable that shows up as a Mass Storage Device on Windows 98 / ME
Posted on 2019-06-03, 21:14
Hello, I have a Windows ME computer which has software that drops files onto a thumb drive. There is no monitor/keyboard/mouse, and I do not have access to remote into the PC. There are no network/parallel/serial/any other ports available on the Windows ME computer, just the one USB port. Instead …
Re: Why do people like FPS games so much ?
Posted on 2019-05-23, 22:10
Not sure if matches the walking simulator definition, but The Witness is AWESOME. I think you'll like it.
Re: Sound Blaster AWE64 and AWEUTIL in pure DOS
Posted on 2019-05-21, 16:17
I've seen a lot of install utilities from various clone cards that will just throw their lines at the top or bottom of autoexec.bat and config.sys and call it a day. Yeah, tell me about it. The Yamaha Audician 32 is the worst I've seen in this regard, because not just the installer, but the main …
Re: Project KA7, yay or nay ?
Posted on 2019-05-15, 01:41
Cheering for you, as I'd love to see a K7 project here. My elder brother had bought an Athlon 550 back in the day, which I've borrowed, but the mobo had died as it had been in the attic, not properly stored. I have been looking for a mobo to bring it back to life but can't seem to find one here in …
Re: Looking for decent pentium 2/3 laptop for late DOS and win 98 gaming.
Posted on 2019-05-08, 02:15
A bunch of the old Sony Vaio Pentium III laptops have a Yamaha YMF744 soundcard built it. They also have the PC-PCI/SBLink port wired up so you get full DOS support. Precisely. I'm the lucky owner of one of those (Sony Vaio PCG-Z505JE SuperSlim Pro)- it's a powerhouse. Its analog output is crystal …
Re: Is it possible to add an extra 46 pixels to the screen resolution
Posted on 2019-05-08, 01:56
You already know the answer :) You should use an image editing software, such as GIMP (Windows and Linux) or Paint .NET (Windows only) to resize the image as you'd like. However, most of the printing shops should do that for you, but if you want to make sure, better to do ir yourself. I have also …
Re: Full Throttle (game) system req's P133MHz/64MB RAM??
Posted on 2019-05-03, 22:02
Cool! Yeah thats what I was thinking...bizarre that they listed those system req's like that but maybe it was a re-release version I was looking at or something... Thanks for confirming!! No worries! I found this link that says a 486 DX 33 and 8mb RAM is the minimum requirement- https://www. …
Re: Full Throttle (game) system req's P133MHz/64MB RAM??
Posted on 2019-05-03, 21:31
Back then (1995 or so) I ran it on a Am486 DX2 66 with 12mb RAM, no issues whatsoever. I finished it on this very same machine.
Re: dgVoodoo with Star Wars Dark Forces 1
Posted on 2019-05-03, 18:56
Well sure there's that and there's DOSBox passthrough, but those are both special exceptions for Glide games and well, Dark Forces isn't one. Quite precisely. however, what I understood from your reply to the OP is that dgVoodoo does not work with DOS GLIDE games, which it does, so I wanted to …
Re: dgVoodoo with Star Wars Dark Forces 1
Posted on 2019-05-03, 17:58
Star Wars: Dark Forces is a DOS game. It cannot load a Windows library (dgVoodoo). It's also a software rendered game, even if you could make it work there would be no benefit. dgVoodoo supports DOS GLIDE games so long as they can run from Windows, but you have to load the VxD server executable …
Re: Roland V-drums module instead of MT-32/SC??
Posted on 2019-04-30, 13:50
At first I thought it would be a silly idea but then I got curious and looked for info about this TD-12 module. I can't see it being listed as General Midi compatible, but OTOH it seems it contains the whole 128-tone GM Soundset. Sequencer says it's only 6-part though so I'm not sure it would …
Re: Roland V-drums module instead of MT-32/SC??
Posted on 2019-04-30, 12:35
That would be interesting.. I also own a Roland e-kit, the basic TD-1K, so I'm interested if this works. However, not to be a bummer, but I don't think there are instruments other than drums in the module, at least on mine.
Re: Getting back to retro software "reverse engineering" - tips for reading, tools, tutorials etc?
Posted on 2019-04-25, 22:16
https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=HOWTO-Reverse_Engineering also memory scanners ( CE / MHS ) and hardware breakpoints are life savers... https://old.reddit.com/r/REGames/ The modern approach would be quite handy, such as using DOSBOX's debugger, might give a try, thanks! Let's be cautious. …
Getting back to retro software "reverse engineering" - tips for reading, tools, tutorials etc?
Posted on 2019-04-24, 17:50
I have been playing around with retro stuff for a while, mainly for gaming and for trying out different hardware, until recently I decided to also try and pick up from where I left back in 97, 98- I was learning to crack software. Back then encryption was in its infancy, and so was SafeDisc, so …
Re: Pentium 100/98Mb/Voodoo and HalfLife: amazing
Posted on 2019-04-12, 17:25
Back in the day I played through it on a Pentium 166 MMX, 32MB and though it did have an ATI Rage 3D, rendering was buggy in Direct3D (maybe it was it's short video memory, I think it was 2mb), I played it using software mode, at 512x384. I have that same hardware nowadays, might give it a try.
Re: Computer beeps on Windows 98 splash screen
Posted on 2019-04-02, 19:27
Have you tried booting to the Command Prompt instead? Spalsh screen wouldn't be in the way and you'd be able to see what's causing it to beep.
Re: Weird CDROM Issues (Images & Videos corrupted)
Posted on 2019-04-02, 19:25
I think your gut feeling is spot on. Have you tried not loading any drivers in DOS prior to loading Windows?
Re: DOS games running on a Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 SE PocketPC device ?
Posted on 2019-03-16, 13:22
I still own a Dell Axim x51 to this day, and while I found running PocketDOS on it was nothing more than a novelty, MAME ran quite well, especially for games that only required 2 buttons plus directional keys. I remember beating Captain Commando on it.
Re: How to install drivers without inf file on Windows 95?
Posted on 2019-03-13, 21:02
You could try booting into pure DOS and copying the files over to overwrite them, this should do the trick.
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