Re: What were Tandy & Hercules?

Posted on 2006-06-01, 20:04

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They use the 640x200 EGA mode, that way they only adjust in one dimension. Whoops, I was afraid I'd get that one wrong. The version I had was the 16 colour version of SQ4 and it had a Hercules Monochrome driver. Interesting, I wasn't aware of that since I only bought the VGA version. I did end up …

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Re: PC Jr Cart Support

Posted on 2006-05-31, 21:17

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I also still own the 4-switch "Woody" Atari 2600 that was my second game console (the first being a Pong console, which disappeared long ago). I bought River Raid II but didn't acquire the first until after I had moved on to newer consoles and was acquiring Atari 2600 games just for collector …

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Re: Why DosBox owns other emulators for DOS games

Posted on 2006-05-31, 21:10

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It no longer surprises me. Most people will get whatever version is linked from whereever they hear about it from, and as long is it "just works" they won't look for a new/alternate version. It's only when there are problems that they *might* go looking for a newer version.

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Re: SoundBlaster Environment variables question

Posted on 2006-05-31, 21:07

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by HunterZ

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There's also Deep Thought.

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Re: I need some help!

Posted on 2006-05-31, 20:52

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I like the smoothing effect. I think I left the res settings close to the 0.65 defaults and use the smoothing effect of my 1920x1200 monitor as a free scaler effect.

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Re: Installing / adding 'real' DOS on a Win98 system?

Posted on 2006-05-31, 20:46

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MS-DOS 7.x (which is included with Win95, 98, 98SE and, yes, even WinME) is fully-functional as a standalone DOS version. I think it may be a bit bloated with hooks for Win9x/ME (which run on top of DOS, just like Win 3.x and older) but I never had problems except with some Creative AWE64 drivers.

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Re: What were Tandy & Hercules?

Posted on 2006-05-31, 20:43

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I had an 8MHz 286 with EGA, but the monitor blew out. For a year I used a Hercules monochrome setup. I was able to run hercules-supported games as well as CGA games (with the use of SIMCGA, which showed the colors as dithered patterns). I then replaced the hercules stuff with an SVGA card and …

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Re: Activision Carts & PC Jr = "Screen Jitters"

Posted on 2006-05-31, 00:36

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What machine= setting are you using, and what version of DOSBox is it?

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Re: What were Tandy & Hercules?

Posted on 2006-05-30, 20:57

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As far as a simple ranking, I'd say something like this (which is likely to be argued with by some) from worst to best: - Hercules. Hi-res but only 2 colors (black and white, amber, or green depending on the color of the monitor). The standard for black & white graphics on PCs. - RGB CGA. Four …

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Re: SoundBlaster Environment variables question

Posted on 2006-05-30, 20:37

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This ought to go in the guides forum so it doesn't get lost... Any opinions?

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Re: Neuromancer / Circuit's Edge

Posted on 2006-05-30, 20:33

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I'd have to agree with Qbix. Neuromancer is old, so it's probably a self-extracting archive. Try opening it in an unzip program and see if it recognizes it.

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Re: running CD-rom version of Arena entirely off the Hard Drive

Posted on 2006-05-20, 00:19

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No, MSCDEX can only mount CD-ROM drives, as it's designed to talk to a .SYS driver (VIDE-CDD.SYS in this case) that is specific for the model of CD-ROM drive you're using. The SUBST utility is what you want to use for this: C:\>subst /? Associates a path with a drive letter. SUBST [drive1: [drive2:] …

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Re: running CD-rom version of Arena entirely off the Hard Drive

Posted on 2006-05-19, 23:40

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Yes. Actually, you should also be able to install over the top of the original installation folder, and your saved games should still be there and be usable.

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Re: running CD-rom version of Arena entirely off the Hard Drive

Posted on 2006-05-19, 23:03

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Yep, that's what I'd do. If you *really* don't want to make an image, though, there's also the subst command, which is similar in function to DOSBox's mount command for this purpose.

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Re: running CD-rom version of Arena entirely off the Hard Drive

Posted on 2006-05-19, 21:49

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You could try: - making an image of the CD and mounting it via IMGMOUNT (or an external program such as Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120%), or - mount the directory you copied the files into as a drive in DOSBox: mount d c:\whatever -t cdrom Your mileage may vary.

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Re: New proposed mount command syntax

Posted on 2006-05-19, 20:49

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In my opinion, having IMGMOUNT (or any other mount command) able to mount something inside of an already-mounted filesystem is just weird and needlessly complicated. Mount/Imgmount should always point to paths/files in the real filesystem. Also, it might be more friendly to make it so that …

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Re: The Essential Sound Cards

Posted on 2006-05-19, 07:22

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Is there much of a point to the Soundfont capabilities of an AWE32 if you plan to use a daughterboard for MIDI? It also sounds like noone would miss not having an ASP chip.

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Re: 0.65 messing up my icons.

Posted on 2006-05-18, 18:18

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by HunterZ

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There are also programs out there that can save and restore your icon arrangements on mode changes. I think Powerstrip (entechtaiwan.com) may be one of them.

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Re: Can't every new release update dosbox.conf with new additions?

Posted on 2006-05-17, 15:16

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I have always used a single .conf file because I like to run DOSBox and navigate to games from the emulated DOS prompt just like I would on a real DOS machine. If I have trouble with a particular game, I'll tweak my dosbox.conf to work with that game (I typically only play 1 or 2 games during a …

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Re: 0.65 messing up my icons.

Posted on 2006-05-17, 15:12

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DOSBox doesn't explicitly do anything to the icons - it's almost definitely a side-effect of switching to a different video mode. Not sure how to fix it - maybe try running in a window instead?

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