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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2010-04-21, 21:33

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yeah. I have a TRS-80 Color Computer 3 with 3 joysticks (just like the one you have next to your Tandy :D), a disk drive, and a tape drive. The disk drive barely works correctly anymore and I've never gotten the tape drive to work (I acquired it from somebody else, the disk drive I've always owned …

Re: Using novert in dosbox DOOM

Posted on 2010-04-21, 21:26

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I don't get why adding "-novert" to something should do anything. What it looks like you need to do is add a line to the .BAT file to run the .COM file before running the game.

Re: RG100 Does Socket 7

Posted on 2010-04-21, 19:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

However, another reason PS2 is preferred over USB is CPU utilization. While that hardly matters on a modern machine, USB can drag older machines down considerably. PS2 is much lighter on the system. This is true for all USB devices, including joysticks, and back in the day gameport joysticks were …

Re: The Terminator: Future Shock/SkyNET - Ultrasound doesn't work for music

Posted on 2010-04-21, 18:31

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I'm tempted to sticky this thread 😜

Re: Creative AWE32 PnP CT3980 = silent

Posted on 2010-04-21, 15:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do the AWE cards have actual OPL chips?

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2010-04-19, 23:43

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I really need to take a pic of my new "man-cave" with my wife's camera :p

Re: Mouse: visible when it shouldn't be, also jumps to lower right corner

Posted on 2010-04-19, 23:40

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Probably a side-effect of desktop resolution being higher than the game resolution. Probably DOSBox should scale the host OS coordinates to the emulated screen coordinates when determining that initial position. I've never noticed this issue myself.

Re: HTPC Mobo: Zotac 9300 775 for sale: $75 shipped in US.

Posted on 2010-04-19, 23:37

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

wd is our resident grouch, I wouldn't expect him to be anything else 😜 i haven't noticed a huge shift in general atmosphere, although snover not being active any more probably has been a big change.

Re: Solar Winds hangs with sound turned on

Posted on 2010-04-19, 23:29

in DOS

in DOS

It might be that it only supports Sound Blaster because it also uses the SB DAC for digital sound effects. Why are you using a SET BLASTER= line with D1 if the card is on DMA 3? 😕

Re: Random Thoughts - Modern 3D Graphics in DOS?

Posted on 2010-04-19, 22:41

in Milliways

in Milliways

Even without Windows the same thing would have happened eventually. VESA was becoming more cohesive and more widely supported at the hardware/BIOS level, for example, and Glide had a DOS port.

Re: Return to Castle Wolfenstein doesn't work any more

Posted on 2010-04-15, 23:46

in Windows

in Windows

Try asking here: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=292

Re: Random Thoughts - Modern 3D Graphics in DOS?

Posted on 2010-04-15, 23:38

in Milliways

in Milliways

The problem is that all graphics hardware is now proprietary, and noone cares to reverse-engineer it because it can be accessed in a standard way via DirectX/OpenGL. You could install Linux and launch Windows games in WINE from a terminal prompt :p

Re: SB 2.0

Posted on 2010-04-15, 23:19

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

You can't have a CD image mount stick when booting from a floppy/HDD image though because DOSBox does CD mounting via MSCDEX emulation, which goes away when booting a "real" OS.

Re: Possible to run Win32 programs for Dosbox UNDER Dosbox?

Posted on 2010-04-15, 20:53

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Wait, you are trying to play old DOS games on a system with no keyboard? Masochist!

Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2010-04-15, 19:48

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Maybe nVidia's dithering sucked in 16-bit mode, but 32-bit looked much clearer in Half-Life 1.

Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2010-04-15, 19:10

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

<3 UTGLR. I used various version of Chris' drivers with Deus Ex, makes the game look really nice. I would argue that the TNT (which I realize you didn't mention) is better for Half-Life 1 than a Voodoo 1/2: - 3dfx cards were only supported by way of the "OpenGL ICD/miniport driver" or whatever it …

Re: SB 2.0

Posted on 2010-04-15, 18:54

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

I wonder if any of the programs that load .SYS drivers from the DOS prompt would work for this in DOSBox's internal DOS?

Re: RG100 Does Socket 7

Posted on 2010-04-15, 18:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My only experience is K6-2 with an AGP Voodoo Banshee, but the difference with and without VIA AGP drivers installed was night and day. You could really tell that the chipset was holding back the video hardware.

Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2010-04-15, 18:37

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I wouldn't give Unreal that much credit. It was built from the ground up to be a Glide engine. Everything about it was Glide-centric. Epic subcontracted out the work to make Unreal engine drivers for the other 3D APIs, and then that ended up biting them in the ass so they scrambled to develop a …

Re: Any way of emulating Soundblaster Live! in DOSBox?

Posted on 2010-04-15, 18:31

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

It could be using some cool hardware DSP effects, but I doubt it.

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