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Re: DosBox Wish List

Posted on 2006-01-29, 21:40

I am not sure what PDI support would buy. It seems that PDI project started to mirror similar development on the Amiga side (SPS, formerly CAPS) but still lacks both technical depth and very strict method. In case of SPS releases, one can rely on those being exact images. I already have my doubts …

Re: Betrayal at Krondor - Not enough memory

Posted on 2006-01-29, 11:22

the game is free now No, sorry. The story on that site is correct, the conclusion is wrong. Sierra made the game downloadable but they did not allow distribution. That happened to quite a few games (first three Zork games, both Gateway games by Legend, etc.) and in all cases caused this kind of …

Re: Advice on buying a Roland MT32

Posted on 2006-01-26, 19:00

in MT-32 General
The original unit did not come with cables either. Besides, if you are going to connect it through Soundblaster you would need special splitter cable (gameport to MIDI). Some Soundblasters have breakout box with regular MIDI connectors, that would require just a regular MIDI cable. MIDI cables are …

Re: DOSBox in the real world press

Posted on 2006-01-16, 07:28

BTW, Retro Gamer is back from the grave, now with different publisher. I haven't seen any of the new issues yet so I cannot tell if it still mentions DOSBox as much as it did before. It looks like they've dropped cover disk 🙁

Looking for uncommon versions of Legend Entertainment games

Posted on 2006-01-15, 06:51

in Milliways
I am trying to compile a list of Legend adventure game releases with version numbers. Something similar to Infocom Fact Sheet, just simpler -- Legend did not have even 1/10th of that number of different versions. Well, I have almost everything in my collection except there are two versions that may …

Re: Cycle Measurement

Posted on 2006-01-14, 05:49

You can try good old Norton SI. Older versions measured speed relative to XT. 1000 cycles gets me 8.2 XTs on my system. IIRC, my 486DX/33 was ~32 XTs, I need around 4000 cycles to get that. My system is AMD64 3500+ somewhat slowed down by non-optimal RAM config.

Re: XBOX 360 games

Posted on 2006-01-13, 19:08

in Milliways
PGR3 is very good, only has some issues with load times. Not nearly as buggy as you might think after reading some reviews -- keep in mind, quite a few XBox360 reviews and complains are written by people that never touched one. NFS: Most Wanted is one of the better NFS games. Kameo is good in some …

Re: Full screen resolution bug

Posted on 2006-01-12, 07:51

Is that, by any chance, Shuttle SFF PC? SiS 650 chipset is OK for desktop apps but quite buggy when it gets to DirectX. Try updating it to the newest version from SiS site -- I don't like that version 0.0, the current version is 2.21.

Re: Reading HP 110/150 diskettes on PC

Posted on 2006-01-11, 08:39

in DOS
Answering my own question. That Sydex driver works so does Anadisk, it just requires really old hardware. Ancient Zenith 486 laptop did the trick. Both disks are completely readable. I hoped to see unusual Infocom release numbers but no luck -- Deadline appears to be very common release 27, Zork I …

Re: MCGA already supported in dosbox

Posted on 2006-01-09, 23:33

In a sense, VGA emulates MCGA. The emulation is so good that I am not even sure if there is anything that can be done on MCGA that wouldn't work on VGA. The opposite is not true -- so popular ModeX won't work on MCGA. There were not that many real MCGA adapter in existence. PS/2 Model 25 came with …

Re: Load times + gaming

Posted on 2006-01-09, 23:22

in Milliways
Well, it was easier for cartridge-based games for two reasons: no seek time (gets really bad on DVD) and much smaller content. That's still not an excuse for developers. For some reason RPG developers seem to be worse in that respect. KOTOR was driving me nuts with loading times (funny, it runs …

Reading HP 110/150 diskettes on PC

Posted on 2006-01-09, 08:03

in DOS
Not sure if this belongs to DOS or PC forum but I just hope somebody might know something about this little problem. So, I've got a couple games on HP 110/150 diskettes. Namely, the games are Zork I and Deadline (both folio releases!) It is surprising that there were any games for that computer, …

Re: Easter Egg in Eric the Unready

Posted on 2006-01-07, 21:04

in Milliways
Looks like we've got a winner! 😁 Hmm, I expected something more on the weird side, this was just a twist on one of the main rules of adventure games... Kippesoep, don't forget to check your PMs.

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