Re: "Jim Power - The Lost Dimension" cycle settings

Posted on 2020-03-16, 10:24

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by Akuma

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Mine seems to lock up randomly at last life around 8500 cycles and it gets more consistent if I increase the cycles beyond that. Also I found out it also depends on how far I proceed in the game, so when dying in the in the beginning I can sometimes get to the retry/credit screen with 10000 cycles. …

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Re: Open with: DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-21, 13:47

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Great! But,hmm, should I move this to the patches forum? While not a direct patch, it might still fit better in there... thoughts? Yeah, in retrospect this is probably (at this point) better off in the development forum. But I leave that up to you. New version with installer attached, read the .txt …

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Re: Open with: DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-19, 15:39

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by Akuma

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Instead of a .zip file you could just use a FAT disk image, stored as a compressed file on a NTFS (or similar) volume. Sure, but its just not as convenient as zip. Most people can create a zip, working with a disk image is just an extra obstacle. Thanks for thinking along though :D mounting support …

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Re: Open with: DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-19, 10:17

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by Akuma

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Would be best to remove the links that reference usage of files that the op obviously does not own as well as references in the documentation to "archives". lol. Everyone knows what you mean, at least you didn't mention "abandonware" The reference was to the open-with-dosbox.7z archive. You'd be …

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Open with: DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-18, 19:36

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by Akuma

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I was playing with overlay support mentioned here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=66009&p=744958 and wrote a script for easy switching between different versions of DOSBox. After a conversation with a member here, he suggested I put it on the board. So here it is. Its Linux only, and …

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Re: Into the Eagles Nest: delayed response to movement

Posted on 2020-02-12, 15:49

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Yeah, I was using it wrong, continues button presser here 😉 At least I'm consistent as I was never good at it. Thanks for Turbokey, going to check it out.

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Into the Eagles Nest: delayed response to movement

Posted on 2020-01-24, 19:36

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by Akuma

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I went back to a real classic: Into the Eagles Nest by Mindscape Somehow I don't remember moving around being so trippy. Anyone else have this problem or was it always this way ? Thanks 😁 edit:

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Re: Writing a patch in ASM *SOLVED*

Posted on 2019-11-28, 21:10

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by Akuma

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I searched and read some stuff today but its still confusing. So I need to assign a base address to ds ? I want cs+10000h, so 1000h/10h=1000h mov bx,1000h mov ds,bx ? mov byte [ds:1h],'A' 😕

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Re: Spectrum Holobyte Falcon and Tandy graphics

Posted on 2019-11-28, 20:55

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http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/system.html

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Re: Writing a patch in ASM *SOLVED*

Posted on 2019-11-27, 10:47

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by Akuma

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Just out of curiosity what if the address of the patch falls outside the max offset of FFFFh ? eg: cs=0 segment=cs offset=10000h You have to point the segment value to a location where the offset can reach it. How would one make this work 😕 ?

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Re: I have no proper words for this

Posted on 2019-11-09, 14:50

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I am guessing the guy lives in some kind of abandoned (computer) warehouse, and started unpacking boxes ?

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Re: Writing a patch in ASM

Posted on 2019-11-09, 14:45

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The most obvious issue is that INT 16 is not "unhooked" before the program terminates; but that would only causes a crash after termination when the program's memory block is released, leaving the INT 16 handler code likely to be overwritten by the next program executed. So next program hangs …

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Re: Writing a patch in ASM

Posted on 2019-11-08, 12:18

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The file patcher was a good stepping stone, but I'm still stuck with the loader. Now I switched to NASM as BloodyCactus suggested, but I'm running into some conversion trouble. So I adapted the code as best I knew how according to this: http://left404.com/2011/01/04/converting-x86-assembly-from-masm …

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Re: I have no proper words for this

Posted on 2019-11-07, 08:09

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I don't think he is 😁, the place looks pretty clean if you take a look at some of his other work. Man I like those builds and vs video's, its just awesome.

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I have no proper words for this

Posted on 2019-11-06, 21:42

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Hi mates, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8gqgybDLD8&pbjreload=10 Enjoy!

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Re: Writing a patch in ASM

Posted on 2019-11-06, 15:05

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I had some time on my hands, so I started coding again: So I wrote a filepatcher :D (in 'nasm' as suggested) How can I make this better ? [bits 16] ;16 bit code generation [org 0x0100] ;com-file = start address 0x100 [section .text] ;code section start: jmp begin %macro printf 1 mov dx,%1 ;select …

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Re: Maniac Mansion (and Enhanced version) PC Speaker only?

Posted on 2019-11-02, 20:00

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by Akuma

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Try the patched version of 1988 release above, that should only work on real hardware 😁

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Timmy Joe PC Tech: RTX 2080ti vs Max Payne - 20 yrs later @ 4k 1000 FPS

Posted on 2019-11-02, 15:31

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So bumming around on the web I came across this YouTube techy treading on the retro territory. I found it to be quite interesting and enjoying to watch. Maybe you will too. 😁 RTX 2080ti vs Max Payne - 20 yrs later @ 4k 1000 FPS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pfWWXZiWNA

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Life of an executable: keep it original

Posted on 2019-11-02, 09:30

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by Akuma

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Life of an executable: keep it original There are many reason why executable files change, the most common are mentioned below. If the content changes, the size, timestamp and checksum will likely follow. This can be good or mallicious depending on the cause. This is a major reason why there are so …

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Re: Maniac Mansion (and Enhanced version) PC Speaker only?

Posted on 2019-11-02, 07:54

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by Akuma

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I think he isn’t talking about Dosbox. After all this is the regular software forum. My bad :D Try this, I translated the patch from the MANIACTE version to the 1988 one. Haven't tested it but afaict it should work. (make a backup) EDIT: It allows me to switch to tandy mode whilst in VGA (in dosbox …

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