Re: Using DOSBox on Windows 10 but need printed output..

Posted on 2017-07-28, 12:30

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by koverhbarc

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A list of LFN aware programs for DOS can be found at: http://www.cn-dos.net/msdos71/doslfns.htm. It’s incomplete, one program should certainly be added: Microsoft MSAV antivirus. Those programs don’t require LFN, but can make use of them. The $64,000 question: You would start DOSBox, then one of …

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Re: Pentium 4 with ISA

Posted on 2017-07-26, 22:46

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by koverhbarc

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Well, if you have that knowledge, might as well talk about it. The PCI/ISA bridge chip in such a solution would be on the add-on card; are you saying there would also be 3 or 4 places it would need to be soldered to the motherboard by open wires?

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Re: Do I need an old keyboard?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 13:01

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by koverhbarc

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I guess there's no one answer here, but I don't absolutely need an _old_ keyboard. As no one mentioned specific trouble in games, I'm guessing I just need to replace mine with something decent. It is true that laptop keyboards feel lousy for everything, though, the most you can say is at least they …

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Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 12:53

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Yeah, it's the speech, but since the original versions have it you probably don't want to lose it if you want authenticity. But as for a solution - well all I'm allowed to say is that Google is your friend. If you've paid for the game it's fair use to find the distribution that best suits you. I …

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Re: Using DOSBox on Windows 10 but need printed output..

Posted on 2017-07-26, 12:48

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by koverhbarc

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The word 'crippled' may be debatable, but yes, they choose not to add certain features to DOSBox that are not needed to run old DOS games. As far as I know, there is no legal reason why you can't immediately incorporate the features from the LFN build into the main branch, and doing so would cause …

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Re: Sound Blaster Emulator for Dos?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 12:27

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The demand will appear later when you start seeing what new motherboard chipsets have come out. This is similar to the phasing out of ISA slots. At least from my tests even Windows 98SE can't detect PCI sound or video cards on a clean install. In the Z170 I can state it uses the same exact built in …

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Re: Best Doom 1 & 2 config?

Posted on 2017-07-25, 23:28

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Surely one can make an ISO from files, and if you're worried about the copy protection test it with DOSBox or a CD emulator to get it right before writing an actual CD.

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Re: Sound Blaster Emulator for Dos?

Posted on 2017-07-25, 23:24

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I disagree that the PC speaker 'will never go away'. It already has: on laptops, then on desktops, it's been changed from a real speaker to a tiny beeper on the motherboard retained only for signaling errors when other sound is not yet available. Such on-board beepers are worthless for playing …

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Re: Pentium 4 with ISA

Posted on 2017-07-25, 23:01

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by koverhbarc

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I think that's kind of what I'm trying to do, so by all means if you can find me such a board available... An external ISA bridge should just plug into a PCI slot, I would think. Configuring it is probably not so difficult, but, yeah, ISA slots on the board are preferable.

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Re: Using DOSBox on Windows 10 but need printed output..

Posted on 2017-07-25, 22:55

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by koverhbarc

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If the LFN support hype is mentioned, you can bet it’s no actual user of DOS programs. Fixated at the command prompt, DIR this, DIR that, complaining about missing LFN’s (of non-DOS files). There's no such thing as a 'non-DOS file', just a file. And it's a matter of fact that modern computers are …

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Re: Using DOSBox on Windows 10 but need printed output..

Posted on 2017-07-25, 13:03

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by koverhbarc

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I read somewhere that DOsbox cannot reliably support Databases. DOSBox is not intended for running mission-critical business software. While it may appear to be capable of doing so, you do so at your own risk. (The vDosPlus developers have more enthusiasm for running non-gaming software.) In fact …

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Re: Pentium 4 with ISA

Posted on 2017-07-25, 12:55

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by koverhbarc

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It seems my initial fear was right and the people that have done this don't want to talk publicly about how they did it, effectively keeping a secret. All the boards available on eBay are Socket 478 despite those I mentioned being 775; I'm guessing the former really were more common as 478 was the …

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Re: DosBox Screen error (many screens in one window)

Posted on 2017-07-25, 12:43

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by koverhbarc

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But DOSBox is apparently setting a much higher resolution than the game actually wants, hence the repetition of the framebuffer. Incomplete mode X support alone shouldn't do that.

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Re: Sound Blaster Emulator for Dos?

Posted on 2017-07-25, 12:41

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I appreciate your enthusiasm here but this is getting way off on a tangent. If you were to create a customized PCIe sound card it would be a lot more work and eventually PCIe will become obsolete to a newer slot architecture which will repeat the ISA debacle. The best long term possibility against …

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Re: Underrated PCI 3D Accelerators

Posted on 2017-07-17, 12:42

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The framerate for 'playability' is an arbitrary and subjective one, but certainly as long as it stay above 30 you can hardly tell. But benchmarks, though, are not necessarily about playability, but simply measuring graphics performance, and for that the slower the framerate the better, as you're …

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Re: Pentium 4 with ISA

Posted on 2017-07-17, 12:34

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Be aware that Tertz is probably correct. Some chipsets will undoubtedly give you issues at full clock, so be prepared to test several ISA sound cards before finding one that works reliably. I've run into such issues with a 1.2Ghz T-Bird, and what you're planning goes quite a bit further beyond. I …

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Re: Sound Blaster Emulator for Dos?

Posted on 2017-07-17, 11:39

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As far as I know, there is no upper limit to CPU speed for properly-written DOS games, any more than there is for Windows games. Speed-sensitive games have already been a problem for a long time. But a PCIe sound card seems a bit of a stretch. PC hardware just isn't normal hobbyist territory, except …

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Re: Sound Blaster Emulator for Dos?

Posted on 2017-07-16, 03:34

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I wasn't proposing actually using NTVDM, since we have no source for it (the leaked source is for the wrong version, as I understand, anyway) and it requires Windows at a basic level. I was only using it as a comparison - as I already have - that might be familiar. Obviously we could do at least as …

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Re: Pentium 4 with ISA

Posted on 2017-07-16, 03:24

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by koverhbarc

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If you had read my posts in this thread - even the one you just quoted in its entirety - you'd know that I already know that, and posting it is distracting at best. In fact that very page was one of the first things that I found. If there were any way I'd found to order such a board (or bridge) from …

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Re: Pentium 4 with ISA

Posted on 2017-07-16, 02:10

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Blood at 1600x1200 is a very good example - I've gotten about 20fps under NTVDM, but sound is notably imperfect even with SoundFX. The Build renderer does not seem to be that inefficient at high resolutions; its performance degrades at about the same rate as other software renderers I've tested.

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