Re: Peixoto's patches for a few old games

Posted on 2017-03-27, 05:36

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by Jorpho

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Did you make all of these from scratch yourself? A little more documentation would be nice. It's a little alarming to read nothing but "double click Help.exe to start using the patches".

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Re: FX5200 Cards Hang PC

Posted on 2017-03-27, 03:54

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by Jorpho

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In theory, you can press F8 when "Starting Windows 98..." appears and from the menu select the bootlog.txt option, but that probably won't tell you much that is useful. Have you installed any motherboard or chipset drivers in this fresh 98SE install? It might be worth trying to use HIMEMX in your …

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Re: Old machine for pure dos gaming and Win 9x pre XP gaming

Posted on 2017-03-26, 15:33

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by Jorpho

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JSO wrote: 1GB RAM for 98SE or ME is overkill? It is generally impossible for 98SE to use more than 512 MB of RAM, and having more than that can even cause problems. But you probably won't find any games that you'll want to run that require even 512 MB of RAM.

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Re: HX DOS extender?

Posted on 2017-03-26, 15:30

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The second link there suggests it can do OpenGL acceleration on 3DFX cards (using 3dfxvgl.dll).

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Re: I found this

Posted on 2017-03-25, 22:40

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mikecjakec wrote: I don't think I will turn it in a grill since I already have one, and no hamsters. Any other ideas? Counterweight for trebuchet. Ammunition for trebuchet. Run things that you could probably run much more easily in DOSBox.

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Re: OG Baldur's Gate is considered "hardcore" now

Posted on 2017-03-25, 22:38

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I thought all of the old Infinity Engine games could be configured to pause after every "turn".

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Re: !! Full Throttle now on GOG !!

Posted on 2017-03-24, 18:11

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I think my favorite little touch is the knife-game easter egg. I remember Schafer writing about Psychonauts at one point – specifically, how you could use the "point of view" power on so many different characters and get a different view of Raz almost every time – and how throwing in these bits, …

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Re: Installing Windows 98 on SATA drive, full format acts like quick format, Athlon 64

Posted on 2017-03-23, 17:54

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by Jorpho

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GiSWiG wrote: Probably going to open a new thread about it. If no one has anything in particular to say on the subject, starting another thread will not help. Please do not do that.

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Re: OG Baldur's Gate is considered "hardcore" now

Posted on 2017-03-23, 16:36

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Perhaps they mean "hardcore" as in "frustratingly cumbersome interface" and not in the sense of being unusually challenging.

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Re: Dosbox run cmd syntax error

Posted on 2017-03-23, 15:03

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can list the program code, but when I try the "run" command, it just states "syntax error". You're going to have to be a lot more detailed than that, as I have no idea what you're talking about. Are you trying to run a BASIC program or something? If you're using an old .bat file, then DOSBox may …

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Re: HX DOS extender?

Posted on 2017-03-23, 13:31

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I believe the rumour is that the original dev passed away and no one else is really interested in picking up the project, below is a modification to support more soundcards: http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14645 http://sound-dos.ucoz.ru/load/new_hxdos_extender_2_17/1-1-0-8 …

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Re: Backing up DOS era CD-ROM games?

Posted on 2017-03-23, 13:23

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by Jorpho

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That's alarming. Is there a site with more information about the problem?

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Re: Civ 2 Cue -- In Game Audio Not Working

Posted on 2017-03-23, 04:21

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Also, I just checked the bin and it's only 600 MB. The CD is 801 MB. What makes you think the CD is 801 MB? That would exceed the practical maximum capacity for a CD. 600 MB is an entirely reasonable size for a BIN including application data and CD audio. Next question: where did this Windows 3.1 …

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Re: Any reason to keep old ISA or PCI modems?

Posted on 2017-03-23, 04:09

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luckybob wrote: Modems are 99.9% useless. I cannot fathom a realistic reason as to why this will change. Well, there's still faxing, right? I'm told that for fast, secure document transfers, faxing may still be preferable over E-mail.

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Re: Civ 2 Cue -- In Game Audio Not Working

Posted on 2017-03-22, 23:58

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Come to think of it, that might be the cause of the problem. You should try simply: Copy code to clipboard 1 imgmount d /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/Civilization2/Civ2.cue -t cdrom A DOS-based CD audio player suitable for testing should be easy to find. (I suspect one has probably been mentioned on …

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Re: Any reason to keep old ISA or PCI modems?

Posted on 2017-03-22, 22:19

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I always wanted to be able to record my phone calls or set up my PC as an answering machine, but I never found a hardware and software combination that was up to the task. The best I could find for Windows was something called "Classic PhoneTools"; Linux has something called "vgetty", but I couldn't …

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Re: Civ 2 Cue -- In Game Audio Not Working

Posted on 2017-03-22, 20:15

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2. BIN file was about 180-ish MB (about the same as the CD volume). It may be useful to check other downloads to see if they're the same size, but then other downloads may easily come with other problems. It seems weird, but when I insert the actual CD in my gf's mac, it shows 2 volumes or …

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Re: Civ 2 Cue -- In Game Audio Not Working

Posted on 2017-03-22, 19:18

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I don't think the audio was included in the original bin file somehow That is extremely unlikely, especially if the BIN is several hundred megabytes. The easiest way to check would be to open the BIN/CUE using Iso Buster. The original CUE/BIN did not work and said the CD-ROM was not inserted ONLY …

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Re: Civ 2 Cue -- In Game Audio Not Working

Posted on 2017-03-22, 16:45

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I downloaded the BIN/CUE file originally When you download things from random places on the Internet, you run the risk of getting something incomplete or otherwise corrupted beyond what can easily be repaired. Often attempting to provide technical support in such situations is a futile waste of …

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Re: Civ 2 Cue -- In Game Audio Not Working

Posted on 2017-03-22, 15:21

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Whoops, I edited my post while you were replying. Please see above.

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