So long as you explicitly 'exit' at the end of a bat file, control will return to the parent batch file.

You could also dual boot to a tiny modern Linux distro to apply trim. But the lack of trim doesn't wear out your drive faster than having it. The lack of trim simply means that the garbage collection phase happens on write events, as opposed to periodically. So writes might take a fraction more …

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Castle Adventure! The first rogue-like game I played as a kid on an Amstrad 8086. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OkPr_Xz6Ftk

For me it was about 5 years. I went from a Pentium 90 MHz in 94' (cost $3,000 from Dell), which I gamed with through to early 99' when I bought a Celeron 300a, which I overclocked to 450 MHz. During this same period hard drive sizes were climbing rapidly as were cdrom speeds. Early CD burners were …

Had a lot of flight sims back in the early 90s, and always went back to CYAC: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. The game is very nicely polished and performs flawlessly on a range of hardware.

Dad bought us an Amstrad 512 (8086, 8MHz, dual-floppy) when I was 10.. first games were alleycat and sopwith in CGA color. The GEM graphical environment was terrible, and even as a kid I felt it was poor software. First game on Atari 2600 was star wars. I still remember the rythmic thumping as the …

Unther, Does your build solve the issue mentioned here? http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=49160&start=320#p592089 My build was based on r2025 and the current pixel perfect patch at the time, and I haven't checked to see if performance has improved since then (I'm running profile-feedback …

Yes, that's the one. You'll need the 2009 Special Edition version of the game for that. You can get some of the features with any old version of the game, though, since you can have MIDI + Adlib with NewRisingSun's patch. Osprey - that worked perfectly, thank you! (and thanks to NRS for the …

Can you pull SMART values from it, when booting from a linux live CD?

Lukeman3000, If you have a debian/ubuntu/rasbian system with access to the bin cue, here's a script that will rip the audio tracks (to ogg) and lift out the data iso. You can crank up the quality value to 5 or more) https://gitlab.com/krcroft/rompy/blob/master/pc/cd_to_ogg.sh

Osprey, when you mention creating an ultimate talkie version, are you referring to this utility? http://gratissaugen.de/ultimatetalkies/monkey1.html. I'm also interested in generating the best of the best version (mt-32 music in sync with intro sequence, music fades with scene transitions, plus …

Yeah, true owner-lifetime warranties can be sustainable with prices many fold the normal rate given a well tuned return+failure rate model. An example is high end North Face gear, which you really can return 30 years later due to workmanship / design flaws as opposed to wear and tear (I did this …

Ant, Profile data is below, and the full output describing kernel, gcc version, and make log is pasted here: https://zerobin.net/?10fcc30a9c241373#cnsGNVdmW3FeG5Fnx56FNIQucLkJXcelcXaEGN9UKe8= When building with 'production' optimizations (such as Ofast or O3) ps_scale dominates to 100% and no other …

I can provide you with a minimal test program with no third-party dependencies, which will compile nigh anywhere. If you will determine the bottlenecks on your Raspberry Pi, I will see how they can be amended. I would be happy to try to help by getting profiling data for you. I'm a big fan and user …

Ant, When using any of the three pixel perfect outputs on a raspberry pi 3, screen-intensive transitions starve dosbox's audio emulator (such as any of the SB opl emus: nuked, default, fast, and compat), resulting in heavy stuttering of audio during the transition. This happens even with ample …

Good catch, it looks like you still need emm386, but you load it after umbpci. Search for 'If you DO need EMS' on this page. http://www.mdgx.com/umb.htm He provides the relevant chunk of config.sys. As for logging all of autoexec.bat, probably not - however you could redirect relevant commands one …

Check out umbpci under this guide: http://www.mdgx.com/umb.htm Freedos's udvd driver and uide cache manager: http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/udvd.htm And a nice canned config.sys and autoexec: http://www.mdgx.com/mem6.htm