Re: Hyperspeed

Posted on 2003-03-04, 02:46

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Don't have Hyperspeed to test so maybe someone else can try it with DosBox 0.573 Nope, there was a noticeable improvement, but the adlib music and graphics were still too slow and stuttery to make the game playable. Increasing the frameskip, lowering cpu cycles, and going fullscreen still have NO …

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Re: Hyperspeed

Posted on 2003-03-03, 19:17

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I got Hyperspeed from Abandonkeep, but I had to use a Neverlock loader to get past the doc check because my manual is packed away in a box somewhere. I'll try that version of DOSbox when I get home today if I remember to.

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Re: Hyperspeed

Posted on 2003-03-03, 07:55

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Well. *sigh* I went to the trouble of compiling the DosBox CVS. First I had to get a CVS tool because I wasted a bunch of time trying to uncompress the tarball using WinAce and tar/gzip, only to get a big mess of files ending in ,v due to something weird with SourceForge. Then, I had to get a bunch …

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Re: Extended memory

Posted on 2003-03-02, 01:09

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Eh? XMS is eXtended Memory System, so it should work. Problem is, it will be insanely fast. Actually there is a difference. Extended memory is what you have if it isn't being managed by HIMEM.SYS. XMS is a standardized interface to it that is provided by HIMEM.SYS, which has the side-effect of …

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Re: Extended memory

Posted on 2003-02-27, 21:12

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I don't have that game, but my bet is that it's looking for extra memory beyond the 640K that is NOT being managed by HIMEM.SYS (XMS) or EMM386 (EMS). I'm not sure if that's possible to emulate in Win2K/XP and/or VDMS.

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Re: Tim Sweeney: "We're going to ship the 64-bit version of UT2003"

Posted on 2003-02-27, 21:08

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Amen brutha! I can see how they'd want to build something new from the ground up though. I guess we'll all be using Pentium 4 emulators in a few years 😒

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Re: 2 Challenging VDMSound Problems (1 VDMS = no cd-rom drivers)

Posted on 2003-02-27, 18:10

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Oh sure, Nicht gets 3 posts in a row but Snover compains when *I* do it 😉 Good luck getting it to work - sounds like one of those problem child games.

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Speaking of post counts that suck

Posted on 2003-02-27, 05:48

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Wow I'm almost on the top 10! [EDIT]Wow, you're ahead of vlad by quite a bit. P.S. I'd have made this a second post to boost my count but Snover would probably close the thread in retaliation (j/k) 😉

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Re: Tim Sweeney: "We're going to ship the 64-bit version of UT2003"

Posted on 2003-02-27, 05:47

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Heh that reminds me of the Atari 2600 Doom hoax. I thought the 64 in C64 stood for the number of bits of RAM it has 😉

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Re: Bio Menace doesn't like VDMSound

Posted on 2003-02-27, 03:11

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Qbix wrote: Well finster made a patch that will run the game. I don't know if the patch works with 0.57. But I think it would. If somebody tests it. There is no objection of putting the patch here as well. Is that a Bio Menace patch or a DosBox patch?

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Re: Impulse Tracker

Posted on 2003-02-26, 05:39

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That's another funny thing: when I start in full-screen, it doesnt go into a window when I hit alt+enter - it minimizes instead. I don't understand why the sound is choppy when starting full-screen - it's almost like it uses a different idle sensitivity setting. I also tried increasing the priority …

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Re: OT: DOS compatibility sound chips

Posted on 2003-02-26, 05:27

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I wouldn't put much stock in the DOS support for Creative PCI cards, as Creative didn't actually develop it. It was actually developed by Ensoniq, whom Creative bought-out as a way into the PCI sound card market. I'm pretty sure the SB16 PCI is close to the PnP ISA SB16 though - you probably just …

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Re: 2 Challenging VDMSound Problems (1 VDMS = no cd-rom drivers)

Posted on 2003-02-25, 20:08

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It's a temporary PIF file created by LaunchPad. It looks like you're trying to use LaunchPad to run a game that has spaces in its pathname (a known but not well-documented bug). Move the game to a path without any spaces in it (e.g. D:\GAME). Note that the path is stored in the LaunchPad shortcut, …

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Re: Bio Menace doesn't like VDMSound

Posted on 2003-02-25, 17:15

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Not according to the documentation 🙁 I think it would be fine if I could figure out what the heck LaunchPad is doing differently from straight VDMS+update1.

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Re: 2 Challenging VDMSound Problems (1 VDMS = no cd-rom drivers)

Posted on 2003-02-25, 17:13

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by HunterZ

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Isn't XP more like NT 5.1?

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Re: Impulse Tracker

Posted on 2003-02-24, 21:12

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Because he can't get LaunchPad working for some reason :confused: As I mentioned in his thread, I managed to conquer the lag pretty well by using the Wave Mapper instead of DirectSound (and setting the buffering to around 20ms and lowering the DMA polling to about 2-10ms). There are some problems …

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Re: Impulse Tracker

Posted on 2003-02-24, 21:06

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Maybe if you could try to explain in detail to us what happens when you try to get LauchPad to work... It REALLY helps to have LaunchPad installed because it makes it easy to tweak EMS and also sound buffering/polling options. I tweaked it some more yesterday and managed to get smooth, low-latency …

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Re: Bio Menace doesn't like VDMSound

Posted on 2003-02-24, 21:01

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Strange - the version I have checks hardware every time I run it. When it does run (under WinXP+VDMS), it runs just fine (I did have to add /LATCHPEL as a command-line argument to get smooth scrolling). I was able to complete the first level and a half (took me a good half hour because I goofed …

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Re: Hyperspeed

Posted on 2003-02-24, 20:57

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by HunterZ

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Strangely enough, increasing the frameskip also had no effect on the choppiness of the sound emulation. I think the current official release of DOSbox just REALLY doesn't get along well with my PII-450. I'll have to try the CVS - I hope it's easy to compile with MSVC++ because I don't know jack …

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Re: Problems with System shock 2

Posted on 2003-02-24, 01:10

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astalavista is atrocious for game cracks. Try gamecopyworld instead.

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