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Re: Faking response to "ver" in XP?

Posted on 2005-10-14, 15:46

in DOS
Just for reference, you can edit posts by clicking the little circle button on the upper-right corner of the post. No problem double-posting though as long as it's not spam. I think those buttons should be turned into larger buttons with text that are placed along the bottom of the post next to the …

Re: Direct3D patch

Posted on 2005-10-14, 14:19

- Run dxdiag to see if your DirectX files are okay. - You're not using the WINDIB hack for DOSBox/SDL are you? If you don't know what that is then you're not :) - Post a screenshot - Try disabling FSAA and anisotropic filtering in your nVidia driver settings. Try fiddling with other options too. - …

Re: SB16 pnp good for early Direct X games?

Posted on 2005-10-14, 14:16

486+ era games will run fine on an ISA card. Most DirectX games won't. I remember that I couldn't run many DirectX games on my 120MHz 486 that had a VLB video card (VLB was to ISA what AGP is to PCI, except it was used for more than just video cards) because the system was just too slow. I'd …

Re: Do ISA expansions boards work?

Posted on 2005-10-14, 02:49

It might be tough getting some games to use the card you want them to use, as some are hard-coded to use certain port numbers. As far as the hardware itself goes, it sounds like the only limiting factor is how much power they draw.

Re: Where are you from?

Posted on 2005-10-14, 02:44

in Milliways
Ah. Well if that's the case then I apologize for not thinking to add Central America as another category. I guess I was thinking more of geographical regions than cultural ones; hopefully nobody will be offended or feel left out.

Re: magic carpet toooooooo slow!

Posted on 2005-10-13, 17:52

It's -ioctl, not -otcl. Save states has been discussed at length and it has been determined that this is a very non-trivial task due to the complexity of the PC (it's not like a console, especially for games that use the disk to temporarily store data).

Re: Odd Issue with ST AFU

Posted on 2005-10-13, 17:50

You can't. Diffs are source patches and require recompiling the source code to make a new dosbox.exe. A couple of the popular CVS builds already have the SVGA patches included, however. See the development form for more info.

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