Re: Friendlyware on 3.5 floppy?

Posted on 2017-03-09, 05:19

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by Jorpho

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The first thing to try would probably be Flopper, which is basically like the DOSBox "boot" command. http://www.oldskool.org/pc/flopper Otherwise, have you tried writing the image to whatever floppy disk you have handy?

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Re: Is DOSBox Daum dead?

Posted on 2017-03-08, 20:32

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by Jorpho

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The save-state patch would probably be handy; I don't think anyone has posted a new binary that includes that yet. The menu patch is neat, but I for one have never thought of it as particularly useful – that is one whose origins I am not familiar with. Do all of the options really work?

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Re: Battle For Naboo- No Sound in XP?

Posted on 2017-03-08, 19:40

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Have you ever been able to get the game to run correctly, i.e. by disabling sound entirely? I might suggest trying to get a cheap USB sound device. (There's not necessarily anything wrong with those.)

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Re: Good emulators in DOS

Posted on 2017-03-08, 16:31

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by Jorpho

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NES - NESticle X.XX is my main choice here. The reason being, NESticle was a THE go-to, must have, can-do-it-all NES emulator, and the in-numbered X.XX version is the most compatible, Dragon Warrior IV runs on it, which is my litmus test as Dragon Warrior/Dragon Quest IV is the biggest, trickiest …

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Re: My power button is acting crazy

Posted on 2017-03-08, 15:06

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by Jorpho

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Are you sure about those pin assignments? They can easily vary depending on the motherboard. Have you checked the manual?

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Re: Patching old DOS game to make it work on faster computers

Posted on 2017-03-08, 12:57

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I'm no expert i in assembly language, so how difficult would it be to add some kind of delay to the game loop of the game? About as difficult as becoming an expert in assembly language. :lol: The DOS version of the game is about 40 kbytes in size, so it should not be so difficult to make it work …

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Re: Shadow warrior 3DFX -don't work

Posted on 2017-03-08, 12:52

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It depends how you mounted the game's directory in DOSBox. Did you type "mount c c:\", "mount c c:\games", or "mount c c:\games\sw" ?

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Re: Good emulators in DOS

Posted on 2017-03-08, 03:23

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There is very little reason to use emulators on such an old system. There are the oldies like Callus, Genecyst, Nesticle, CCS64, RAINE, and maybe ZSNES or possibly NeoRage X, but even if they will run, they will probably not be nearly as accurate as anything you can run on Windows on a modern …

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Re: Is DOSBox Daum dead?

Posted on 2017-03-08, 03:21

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by Jorpho

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awgamer wrote: gdjacobs wrote: If you like, you can start with SVN and begin pulling in patches. Where's the go to place for the list of patches? daum has a lot I've never heard or seen, no idea where they were sourced. Which ones? Many of them should be in the Patches forum here.

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Re: Ok UMB and PFS problem

Posted on 2017-03-08, 03:19

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I am concerned we are having a failure to communicate here. If you are using the Windows XP command prompt on the other computer, then that is definitely not the same (not even "technically" the same) as using DOSBox, even though it may look the same.

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Re: Battle For Naboo- No Sound in XP?

Posted on 2017-03-07, 20:34

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by Jorpho

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What if you completely disable NVidia HD Audio in your Device Manager?

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Re: Rogue Squadron CPU compatibility

Posted on 2017-03-07, 20:28

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Considering the game is still for sale on GOG and Steam, I would expect it to have no speed issues, or at least no unpatchable ones. (On that note, you should presumably be able to get it to run on any modern PC, if you wanted to.)

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Re: HDD Detection Issues On Super Socket 7

Posted on 2017-03-07, 16:37

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by Jorpho

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If there's no jumper setting, then there's nothing you can do in that regard. I would agree that looking for a BIOS update would be a good idea. You may want to consider getting a CF-to-IDE (or SD-to-IDE) adapter.

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Re: HDD Detection Issues On Super Socket 7

Posted on 2017-03-07, 16:13

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by Jorpho

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According to http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/har … ze_barriers.htm , it is rare for a motherboard to have a 32 GB (or rather 31.5 GB) barrier. This would likely be the 8 GB barrier.

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Re: Turning a Free PC Into a Windows 98 Gaming Rig

Posted on 2017-03-07, 16:09

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by Jorpho

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Taylor7108 wrote: Seems that the primary card would be more than sufficient, but I am not sure. I would be inclined to agree, but of course it depends on what you end up getting. I would also be inclined to go for a GeForce 4 Ti, assuming it's not much more expensive.

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Re: Ok UMB and PFS problem

Posted on 2017-03-06, 22:26

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by Jorpho

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Yes the exact same thing just one is xp and one is windows 7 ( I loaded dosbox and followed the tutorial and I'm in ) So did you load DOSBox on the XP machine like you did in Windows 7? Can you post a screenshot of the program running on your XP machine? If you are using DOSBox on your XP machine, …

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Re: Win 3.1 Insufficient Memory Using Win or WinExit.exe

Posted on 2017-03-06, 17:13

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by Jorpho

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I don't know what guide you followed when you made this installation in the first place, but I can't recall anyone mentioning problems like this after following the "Win3.11 in DOSBox" guide on these forums. Maybe starting over from scratch would be the best idea. (If that sounds like too much …

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Re: windows 95 components

Posted on 2017-03-06, 14:33

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by Jorpho

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"Best" is subjective. There is no point in using a fancy heavy-duty card if you are never going to be using any of its features. Jorpho wrote: It depends what you want to do. If all else fails, just about anything can use the default Windows VGA driver. Are you going to be playing games?

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Re: Win 3.1 Insufficient Memory Using Win or WinExit.exe

Posted on 2017-03-06, 05:06

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by Jorpho

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Well, standard troubleshooting at this point would be to take lines out of that batch file one by one and see if you can isolate whatever is magically allowing Civ2 to run. I would start by seeing if the environment variables alone (i.e. everything that starts with "SET") are enough. But as Mr. …

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Re: Win 3.1 Insufficient Memory Using Win or WinExit.exe

Posted on 2017-03-06, 00:29

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So, in regards to my other question: hooperre wrote: When I boot up Windows 3.11 by calling windows.bat I can manually run Civ2.exe with no issues. What is windows.bat ? This would seem to be rather crucial in solving the problem.

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