Re: Toxic Tomb by Locomalito (Windows)
Posted on 2024-01-16, 13:49
Looks very neat and old-school. Now, if only there were an MS-DOS version.
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2024-01-12, 01:06
ViTi95 wrote on 2024-01-11, 09:35: EDIT: Some 800x600 screenshots Wow, those look super. Native rendering at VESA resolutions will definitely make FastDoom my preferred Doom engine. Its other fantastic speed optimizations will be gravy - and milk every last bit of performance out of older systems …
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2024-01-10, 06:37
This is very exciting news. This means FastDoom will work on many modern DOS vBIOSes which have removed all sub-640x480 VGA modes! Many "modern" systems have been terribly crippled by removal of all VGA modes. This means no 320x200 games will run on them in bare metal DOS, but now FastDoom will, …
Re: A slim, fast, but does everything DOS Floppy Boot Disk?
Posted on 2023-12-28, 20:34
I see that the mods continue to be paranoid about 30-year-old software (abandoned by its parent company for 25+ years), and to continue the good fight at removing helpful, useful posts and links. A shame, but, then, thankfully, there are other places that are not so officious.
Re: Compatibility layers
Posted on 2023-12-25, 23:15
The best slow down utilities are those which work at the BIOS level, by reprogramming CPU clock mutiplier registers on the motherboard. Such as Throttle, and CpuSpd: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=74359 These are hardware slowdowns, take no memory, and do not rely on HLT instructions or …
Re: Angband Version 4.2.5 for Win/MacOS/Source
Posted on 2023-12-01, 03:47
For those of us who don't do Windows or Mac, there's a compiled DOS Binary at: https://archive.org/details/angband4.2.5 Enjoy!
Re: DOS game released called Crimbo
Posted on 2023-11-07, 00:02
Ok now that I've had time to have a proper look at SBEMU, I see it's a little out of my comfort zone as it seems to require you do some C building/linking/compiling/whatever you call it. (I have now found the releases .zip file) It also only seems to support a few sound cards, none of which I can …
Re: Games with Adlib as an option for sound effects
Posted on 2023-11-05, 21:01
As alluded to earlier, which .MOD players could play .MODs using only the OPL2/OPL3 chip? I haven't come across any. Tricking the Adlib to "sample" PCM audio via PWM through the OPL2/OPL3 would be quite a feat. Stereo .mods (with sampled audio, of course) through the Adlib? Wild!
Re: DOS game released called Crimbo
Posted on 2023-11-05, 10:06
Demakes will be great additions to DOS as well! Getting games out in DOS, especially "re-imagined" will be wonderful. I'll be watching your YT series with interest. I'm enjoying Crimbo. Great early Xmas gift this year. Not many collision bugs, but OK. BTW: I was able to "optimize" (recompress …
Re: DOS game released called Crimbo
Posted on 2023-11-02, 22:10
Congrats. Thanks for releasing this. Your work is appreciated. Also had a great time browsing your site. Wondering if you'd be able to port some of the other games you made to DOS, paticularly Xmas Mayhem? Every new game (or program) which comes out for DOS in 2023 is like a special Xmas gift to me …
Re: Lords of the Realm 2 with CD-Audio Quality Music AT LAST!
Posted on 2023-10-20, 11:50
The saddest part is that Youtube compressed these soundtracks to lossy 128-160 kbps quality. No uncompressed audio is "allowed" on Youtube. Most people don't realize this; any audio uploaded in lossless format to Youtube is trancoded silently and destructively to lossy quality, without notice or …
Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97
Posted on 2023-10-20, 00:22
I also would join in on the request for a newly-compiled version of VSBHDA with all known commits since 12th April.
Re: Mario and Luigi Ms-Dos clone by Mike Wiering and ATI RADEON
Posted on 2023-10-11, 06:01
There is no "working" version for modern systems. Freezes with a black screen upon being executed in DOS, and needs hard system reset to recover from. Even a freshly compiled from TPC 7 source code version doesn't work. I've tried it, as well as modifying the Pascal code to stick to a strict 320x200 …
Re: The dream magazine about vintage computing: Super-quick, 4-questions survey
Posted on 2023-09-21, 23:13
Wow, what a concept. A monthly, glossy DOS magazine in 2023. I would buy it. However, we all know the cost per issue would be extreme, something like $20 per issue. That would quickly put a damper on it, the way prices are absurd these days for anything deemed retro. I can only be satisfied that …
Re: What cheap and inexpensive scissor switch keyboard with a standard 104 layouts are there right now?
Posted on 2023-09-10, 08:14
Hell, I'm cherishing my old 101-key keyboards with a normal-sized space bar (without five useless keys on the bottom row, cutting the length of the space bar by half), with mechanical (NOT membrane) keys and quality travel, click feedback, and ergonomic feel. Can't find these any more, and I'm glad …
Re: Trackstar: Apple II clone on ISA card - new website up
Posted on 2023-09-09, 07:34
I'd love to try out a Trackstar, but like dr.zeissler can't afford many hundreds to thousands of dollars for one. As those Ebay prices are bound to increase to that level, especially from someone who's "outgrown" using products for "research purposes". Way to time the market for the tens-of- …
Re: Various games passed/failed and benchmarks under MS-DOS on new GeForce RTX 4090
Posted on 2023-08-09, 02:37
Hmm, Chris's 3D Benchmark only 102.5 fps.. something must be capping that benchmark. I'm super surprised the 4090 even *works* in DOS. It must have at least some legacy 16-bit vBIOS. That is encouraging, for it means a utility which "fixes" (patches) its BIOS could be made as a TSR. The same goes …
Re: Do/es this HW support VBE?
Posted on 2023-07-09, 20:51
So yeah, while some kind of VBE support in AGP/PCIe era graphics cards is technically *there*, it's nothing more than a compatibility layer. Same goes for the VGA core. It's a gimmick, a bonus, a freebie. Not something that had been really put work in. It maybe relates to things like the CGA …
Re: Apple Shady computer hacks.
Posted on 2023-06-22, 06:59
If I had to hazard a guess, could this be an availability issue? I know production is starting to ramp up again after the unspecified virus of unknown origin, but if this particular part became scarce, that could explain why Apple has moved to only including it in higher-priced tier systems. If it …
Re: Limit DOS RAM memory (XMSDSK / HimemX / JemmEx), DOS RAM size limit
Posted on 2023-06-14, 02:49
MERCURY127 wrote on 2023-06-13, 09:24: if you interested, i can attach LIMEM here. Yes, very interested, please post. More programs of this type are always welcomed, and I like that yours will limit XMS based upon a power of 2 factor. That's a good way of doing it.
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