Re: Need help to install games within DOSBOX 0.73
Posted on 2009-10-07, 16:07
I do it like this: Copy code to clipboard 1 path z:\;c:\hx\bin
Re: Radeon cards and old games
Posted on 2009-10-07, 16:05
On modern nVidia cards, you get horrible black box artifacts in most Infinity Engine games unless you use various hacks to disable hardware DDraw acceleration: http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?showtopic=30840
Re: Can't Get Wibarm To Run - Details provided this time.
Posted on 2009-10-07, 16:03
I'm pretty sure I had already thought to delete the WIBARM.DAT folder from the user disk. I may have gotten tandy and pcjr backwards in my post; I was trying to remember off the top of my head what I did last night without being able to double check 😀
Re: CD-ROM driver issues and HDD size question
Posted on 2009-10-07, 16:00
Unfortunately you can't mount CD images in DOSBox if you boot from a hard disk image file. There seems to be no interest in removing this limitation. If you're desperate, you may be able to put a CD image file inside of your HDD image file and use a DOS utility to mount it as a virtual CD-ROM, but …
Re: Radeon cards and old games
Posted on 2009-10-07, 15:50
I've heard that newer ATI cards seem to fare better that newer nVidia cards in some older games like Baldur's Gate. I'm planning to build a new system soon with one of the new ATI HD5xxx series cards and am hoping it will save me from doing some tweaking that I have to do to get them to run decently …
Re: Any DOS coders around? (compiling Quake 1 source)
Posted on 2009-10-07, 15:46
Re: 486 system I'm building
Posted on 2009-10-07, 15:41
Amigaz wrote: Give me a modern PC that can both boot into straight DOS/Win 7, run my Lapc-I, AWE32 , Gus, Ensoniq Soundscape 😉 Someone was talking about some kind of USB-to-ISA adapter in another thread a while back. Dunno if it would actually work for old sound cards in modern OSes though.
Re: TES:Arena Help
Posted on 2009-10-07, 15:39
Definitely set core=dynamic. cycles=max is probably a good idea too.
Re: Can't Get Wibarm To Run - Details provided this time.
Posted on 2009-10-07, 15:12
Tried this game last night using ripsaw8080's instructions. The version I got gives an "insufficient memory error" with machine=tandy. It ran the title screen fine with machine=pcjr (and with the noticeably better music) but then gave some kind of "invalid graphics mode" error when I tried to go to …
Re: Ideas about speeding up the dynrec
Posted on 2009-10-06, 20:08
Would be interested to see whether this would buy any FPS increase in SkyNET while running in VESA 640x480. I'm not sure what the bottleneck is, but the framerate is consistently low while in indoors environments/levels.
Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline games & stuff
Posted on 2009-10-06, 15:00
I thought Tomb Raider could run at higher resolutions than that in software mode? Would be interesting to see a high-res software mode shot compared to a same-res Rendition shot.
Re: Can't Get Wibarm To Run - Details provided this time.
Posted on 2009-10-06, 14:53
What are the contents of wibarm.bat? I've never heard of that game.
Re: ES:Arena Help
Posted on 2009-10-06, 14:50
Yeah at 600MHz you're much better off trying to run it in DOS or even a WinXP NTVDM.
Re: Any DOS coders around? (compiling Quake 1 source)
Posted on 2009-10-06, 14:48
Re: Need help to install games within DOSBOX 0.73
Posted on 2009-10-06, 14:46
Freaking Broderbund/TLC. My mom bought Reader Rabbit 2 for my brother when we were kids, and I could never get the damn thing to run more than once out of every 50 tries even though it was a DOS game on a DOS machine. They have terrible product support, always dropping all mention of older products. …
Re: Terminator Skynet problem
Posted on 2009-10-05, 19:23
Honestly they haven't improved much in that respect. Fallout 3 for example has tons of issues that Bethesda has ignored in their frenzy to milk the lucrative console and DLC craze cash cows. Their ongoing issues with making huge games run stable on the PC platform is probably going to push them more …
Re: Terminator Skynet problem
Posted on 2009-10-05, 17:14
Tried all sorts of stuff over the weekend to optimize the DOSBox+SkyNET experience. I finally settled on output=ddraw and fullresolution=640x480 so that hardware resolution changes do not occur when the game switches between emulated 640x480 and 320x200 modes. I noticed that the game tends to run …
Re: networking
Posted on 2009-10-05, 17:04
I think so, but you could always mount the network drives on the host OS if mounting UNC paths doesn't work.
Re: Any DOS coders around? (compiling Quake 1 source)
Posted on 2009-10-05, 16:59
🤣 well I guess that's something. Highly interested to see if you can get it working. I've seen EGA versions of Wolf3D-style rendering, but Quake is true texture mapped full polygon 3D.
Re: Terminator Skynet problem
Posted on 2009-10-02, 20:23
I managed to beat Terminator: Future Shock in non-SkyNet-intergrated mode and it was pretty stable in DOSBox 0.73. The worst problem I had was that 2 times the game generated a corrupted save file that would crash the game whenever I tried to load it. I just installed SkyNet plus the 1.01 patch and …
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