Re: Descent won't work in DOS

Posted on 2019-05-11, 06:16

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CRT is the name of the unit in Borland/Turbo Pascal. It provides functions for screen handling , keyboard etc. Something like stdio.h in C or iostream in C++. In this unit somwhere there is a loop which causes overflow error on fast CPU (well faster than 200MHz). It seems that those games are …

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Re: Does anyone else prefer ME over 98?

Posted on 2019-05-11, 05:35

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I like ME for some higher speed p3+ with good hardware that has WDM drivers. I personally never had any problems with those rules but I can see hardware/driver combos becoming a hell with ME... I never had ME at the time (though I think I remember pirating a copy while I was in high school, …

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Re: Powering and testing IDE / SATA HDDs...

Posted on 2019-05-11, 05:30

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I still have to figure out how to test optical drives. I'm sure there's a good Linux utility for doing measured reads from disc. I need something that can help me determine whether the laser(s) is/are still good. It's not really intended for that purpose, but dvdisaster 's Scan option might be …

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2019-05-08, 06:39

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I actually have a copy of that which I've been meaning to play around with. It's officially labelled "QEMM 97" and is the only program I've ever seen which uses the same install.exe to launch separate DOS and Windows installers. (I haven't yet looked into whether they swapped their DOS installer in …

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2019-05-07, 03:58

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I don't know why you want to use QEMM386 in combination with Windows 98SE. I mean the last version of QEMM is 9.0 and it is from 1997 (quite a bit newer than the QEMM from 1989), so they can not have possibly tested it against Windows 98SE. This means problems are to be expected and it is a hit or …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-12-02, 05:30

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Mister Xiado wrote: Appreciated, and saved for later. Looking back at that post, I got carried away again. It's now a blog post with even more on offer: Resources for Reverse-Engineering 16-bit Applications

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Re: [patch] Connect a Gdb client to DOSBox

Posted on 2018-12-02, 04:49

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DosFreak wrote: List the benefits of using GDB over the DOSBox debugger. Same benefit WineDbg gains by supporting the gdbserver protocol. Access to advanced frontends like gdbgui and DDD.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-11-30, 05:59

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Un-coincidentally, the site linked in my signature. Icons are on the Files page. Made a mega-pack of the first 64 icons to save hassle, and it's still a small file. Need PKUNZIP to decompress it if you're doing so on an older system, as plain old Winzip for Win3 can't handle the compression level …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-11-29, 13:29

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Skyroads. Imagine S.T.U.N Runner, but not in a tube. Also there's nothing to shoot. The one in the upper right is closer to the non-Marvel rendition of Mjolnir, for God of Thunder, and overhead action/adventure game for DOS. Currently working on more; made some for Warcraft 1 and 2, and Netscape ( …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-11-28, 01:22

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I'm surprised that FF 52 can still display the menu bar, I thought they had already done away with it to fit in with the current (reprehensible, IMO) fashion. They need to keep the menu bar supported for MacOS builds, so, on other platforms, it's a trivial amount of work to leave it supported via …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-27, 21:25

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I've been experimenting with options for writing a DOS installer builder off and on over the last little while (to complete my list of open-source installer builders for every era and use case) and, today, I got carried away. I'd started poking at Free Pascal but UPX doesn't like the FPC 3.x DPMI …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-13, 21:04

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Standard Def Steve wrote: I moved the guts of my maxed out Tualatin machine into a very period-incorrect Antec P182. It's a fairly large case, so I've got it on the floor standing next to my desk, PS/2 Model 80-like. 😜 It's funny that you'd mention the P182. That's exactly what my main machine …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-13, 20:57

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I wish they were irreversible, but after years of storage those labels that Microsoft used aren't very reliable. When I was digging through my floppy collection last year, there were a bunch of loose labels that had fallen off my Office 4.3 floppies. I tried to find them all, but unfortunately it …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-13, 08:04

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I finally found something nifty that I knew I had kicking around some old boxes somewhere: IMG_20181013_035707.jpg A set of Windows 95 floppy labels (sadly, some stained) that came with a Windows 95 laptop which was an early example of the modern practice of expecting the end user to write their own …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-09-26, 07:10

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oeuvre wrote: https://i.imgur.com/pB0PyD9m.jpg […] Show full quote HP Pavilion 8480z ATX case Every time I see one of these, I wish we'd had the presence of mind to keep my childhood HP Pavilion 8160 (233MHz P1 MMX) after the motherboard died.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-09-26, 07:05

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The "vox" bit combined with the 3.5mm (?) jacks and rheostat sounds like it was some kind of voice/audio system, but that hardware... this is almost a whole Mac / Atari ST on an ISA card - computationally more powerful than the XT-class machine it would have been inserted into. As intrigued as you …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-09-21, 00:01

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Understandable mistake though for people learning the language. Mind you, the corresponding prefix in German, "ent-", has exactly the same ambiguousness. Huh. Now that's a bit of trivia I'm definitely going to remember. Also, you got me curious: I suspected they had a common ancestry and looked at …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-09-16, 00:22

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I'm curious what brand of boards you were using and such, and if all the proper drivers and such were used. There has to be a better explanation than "most P4 systems run Win98 unstably". Also, have a nice P4 system with an Asus motherboard, 1GB of RAM, and dual-boots Win98 and XP. No problems. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-09-11, 23:00

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cyclone3d wrote: Superglue soaks into the cracks really well. Just put a bit on and it should wick right in. To make it stronger I would use some type of epoxy after superglueing it. Plastic repair epoxy should work really well. Thanks. 😀

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-09-11, 20:54

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Would this be a "wicks into cracks by capillary action method" suitable for reinforcing a crack that propagated outward from a hole for a support pin? Why did this movie scene come to my mind after your statement above? :-) https://youtu.be/t5Oqf4NfAIk?t=80 Because I'm an aspie and much of my life …

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