Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 18:20

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PD2JK wrote on 2021-02-17, 14:36: I'm still afraid of putting my head in front of an AOpen 56x speed cd-rom drive spinning at full speed. Wise choice! http://www.qedata.se/js_n-cdrom.htm

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Re: The music in the game isn't working

Posted on 2021-02-05, 19:18

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by krcroft

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Fortunately Shadow Warrior (1997) is free on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/238070/Shadow_Warrior_Classic_1997/ AwServant, if you've first run Shadow Warrior's setup tool, then choose MIDI music on port 330 for your music driver. Then ensure MIDI is setup in your DOSBox configuration (. …

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Re: How to get game to run in DosBox Game Launcher if it only has a .img?

Posted on 2020-12-09, 16:45

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The .img file is a disk image (likely a floppy disk, but could be a HDD). Instructions and helpful examples you can try here: https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT As I mentioned on my post... I only have a .img file (with a .sub and .ccd) ... not any of the ones mentioned in the guide you provided …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2020-12-08, 22:08

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What a find, Akuma! Easter eggs like this a rare glimpse into behind the scenes; I find them very interesting 😀 Anyone know of other "communication" type messages in other DOS games? (Feels like this could deserve its own thread!)

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Re: How to get game to run in DosBox Game Launcher if it only has a .img?

Posted on 2020-12-08, 22:02

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The .img file is a disk image (likely a floppy disk, but could be a HDD). Instructions and helpful examples you can try here: https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2020-11-06, 00:33

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:thumbs up: Wengier 😀 Thank you for back-porting the fix!

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2020-11-05, 15:44

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Dagar, K.A.R.R - thanks for doing this back-tracking and reporting this issue. Around this time last year, I transitioned the CDDA work from subversion (layered on top of DOSBox's SVN sources) to git, at which point bugs and enhancements continued publicly on GitHub. This Monkey Island audio issue …

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Re: PowerPC Dynamic Recompiler (patch)

Posted on 2020-10-31, 16:25

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Or your PPC dynrec code is kicking even more butt 😀

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Re: PowerPC Dynamic Recompiler (patch)

Posted on 2020-10-31, 08:12

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samo79, The Pi3B (non-plus edition) at 1.35 GHz allows DOSBox to handle roughly 30,000 cycles, which produces a score of 17.6 FPS in PC Player Bench at 320x200) If we proportionally scale that score down to your 800 MHz system (800 / 1350), we get 10.4 FPS. But you're only getting ~4 FPS, so what …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-29, 01:40

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Here are my presets on a per-game, per-track basis. I've included before-and-after compression results for those curious what can be achieved on limited storage targets (such as generating a game set for the Raspberry Pi), when Opus is used: AD&D Dark Sun II Wake of the Ravager - speech_complex_ …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-29, 01:02

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pre-1.08 feedback: $ dbx-conv BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.08, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS Copyright (c) 2020 by Akuma under GNU General Public License 2.0 /usr/local/bin/dbx-conv: line 191: $1: unbound variable Moving your "[[ $# -ge 2 ]] || exit 100" check to line 191, ahead of #1 bchunk ... …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-28, 21:27

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Thanks Akuma. 23. Perfect! 25. Symlinks won't work on Windows; but relative is better on Linux. I wasn't suggesting users would have to edit their CUE files. When you generate the CUE, simply insert the "../../" string exactly as-is before the track01.iso filename, and DOSBox will have zero issues …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-27, 18:43

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23. Force re-encode Yes, exactly right.. (I shold have said overwrite). This is useful when you get a newer codec version or a variant with a different acoustic model (like Vorbis vanilla vs Vorbis AoTuV b5). Next suggestions using this tree as an example: jones ├── flac │ └── VBR │ ├── cdrom.bat │ …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-27, 17:25

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Ugh.. I just lost a huge response post that I was periodically adding to over ~3 hours this morning. :/ I clicked 'preview' and got the spinning star wheel and frozen display; was unable to get out of it so clicked 'back' and the first first ~10 lines of my posted were retained. Suggestion 1 for me: …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-26, 14:09

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@pantercat -- wow, that's is quite a franken-BIN. Akuma, I agree with the approach (you're in troubleshooting land). If bchunk chokes on the file, then it should print some kind of error message so you want that to flow through to the user (or redirect stderr to a log and only show it to the user on …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-25, 21:43

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I would not expect a .bin file containing both data and audio tracks to use mode1/ 2048 . Yup; there are some releases that incorrectly rename the ISO to BIN (or vice-versa). Akuma, you can use: file and grep for the ISO string to pre-detect these broken scenarios. If the user is trying to to rip a …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.06, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-25, 21:15

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q: (closed) 1. Copyright / GPL the source a: I want users to know its GPL2, but we can add something extra :D Absolutely; it's just recommended that the source file(s) themselves contain a short GPL banner first-thing. # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later # Copyright (C) 2002-2020 Akuma (etc …

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Re: DOSBox vs forks and patches

Posted on 2020-10-25, 16:19

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by krcroft

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jmarsh, - the DOSBox-X team has integrated and tested your DMA status register fix: https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/issues/1961, and I suspect it will appear in their next release. - it's been further integrated into DOSBox Staging, https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/pull/ …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.06, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-24, 17:09

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> Just curious, can we use a single file and are there any advantages/disadvantages ? Sorry Akuma; can you rephrase? I'm not following regarding single file. Thanks for the suggest; reformatted my post as a numbered list. pantercat mentioned: Consider implementing things when you actually need them. …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.06, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-22, 20:15

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> * Doesn't handle spaces in filename or path (despite all my quoting 😒) (Just a quick response.. when you add the IFS line in strict mode, it will split variables on \n and \t, so gives you correct space-handling - without any need to escape or excessively quote).

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