Re: Zone 66 - What hardware does it *not* work on?
Posted on 2017-01-17, 06:47
Blades wrote: it was a pain in the butt to get working properly back then. And still holds true to this day. Well, not in DOSBox. Just sayin'.
Re: Laser mouse serial
Posted on 2017-01-16, 18:34
Does it not require a special mousepad?
Re: Similar games to Castle of the Winds
Posted on 2017-01-16, 03:16
I might suggest Taskmaker and its sequel, but that was exclusive to the Macintosh. I hear Dark Heart of Urukrul is quite nice.
Re: Backing up DOS era CD-ROM games?
Posted on 2017-01-16, 03:12
How does one know if there's an audio track or not? I think the easiest way would be to use ISO Buster. The paid version has some more advanced features, but for just checking for the existence of audio tracks, the "free" version will do. Some CD Player applications will start playing audio tracks …
Re: Similar games to Castle of the Winds
Posted on 2017-01-14, 19:31
Probably Exile: Escape from the Pit, or Blades of Exile. http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/exile/winexile_ad.html
Re: Windows 3.1 in 256 colours
Posted on 2017-01-14, 05:00
Windows 3.1x DOSBox Guide
Re: Ribbon Cables - Speed?
Posted on 2017-01-14, 03:40
If I'm not mistaken: 80-pin cables are needed to support UDMA. Period. There is no magical speed increase if your drives, IDE controller, and operating system do not already support UDMA. There is certainly no "visual improvement", whatever that means. All 80-pin cables should support all UDMA modes …
Re: Win16 emulator for Win64 (again)
Posted on 2017-01-13, 16:48
Theoretically it is possible to compile WINE under Windows x64 using MinGW. If this would succeed then WINE can run Win16 games. No. People have been talking about this for the past twenty years. If this was at all possible everyone would be doing it already. The WineOnWindows page isn't even on …
Re: CF card not recognized
Posted on 2017-01-13, 14:25
I can't get FDISK to recognize it, I formatted it to FAT w. MBR using Easeus under Windows 10. "fdisk /mbr" is a specific means of running fdisk. It might work even if fdisk does not normally recognize the disk. Upon further research the card recognizes itself as a removable device and is so far …
Re: CONFIG.SYS in DOSBOX?
Posted on 2017-01-13, 14:22
Jepael wrote: The program you are trying to run wants to open an insane amount of files for some reason It's probably yet another Clipper app. vDosPlus would be the solution in Windows, but I've never heard of an iOS port of vDosPlus. Booting DOS from a disk image is probably the only option here.
Re: CF card not recognized
Posted on 2017-01-12, 21:52
If those laptops are "vintage" (perhaps you would care to divulge the specs?), then it is quite possible that 4GB is larger than what the BIOS of those laptops will properly detect. You might have better luck with a 512 MB card.
Re: Question about serial port modes
Posted on 2017-01-12, 21:32
If I'm not mistaken, the "modem" mode emulates an actual dial-up modem, with Hayes commands and so on. DosBox Guide to Multiplayer Games videogamer555 wrote: Or does DOSBox simply not emulate these pins? http://www.dosbox.com/DOSBoxManual.html#Multiplayer suggests that DOSBox supports RTS/DTR …
Re: Daggerfall
Posted on 2017-01-12, 05:16
EDIT: Ok, so I found a thread http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=17500 where apparently it's looking for the CD tag "DAGGERFALL", which I DO NOT have on the CD-R I burned to put Arena and Daggerfall both on the older PC. Looks like I'll have to BUILD a CD-ROM just for Daggerfall to work properly …
Re: Acclaim Entertainment computers recovered from Brooklyn warehouse
Posted on 2017-01-11, 22:37
I would hazard a guess that it could be worth a pretty penny to Howard Marks who bought the name and relaunched the company, post-bankruptcy, so far the newly reformed entity has 14 titles. The IP rights were auctioned off separately; if I'm not mistaken, that was also in 2004, when these computers …
Re: XWA - finicky on some systems?
Posted on 2017-01-11, 22:35
buckeye wrote: it lists some that are missing. It's a bit pointless to speculate without knowing which ones. You mentioned in your other thread that you have Daemon Tools. For testing purposes, why not just take your optical drive out of the equation, and see if it works with a BIN/CUE image?
Re: XWA - finicky on some systems?
Posted on 2017-01-11, 20:50
buckeye wrote: when I run the game's hardware test it's trying to say my DirectX version is 4 when actually it is version 9.0c. If it's reporting the version of your DirectX DLLs, then it will always start with 4. The DLLs for DirectX 9 would be 4.09.xx.
Re: Zone 66 - What hardware does it *not* work on?
Posted on 2017-01-11, 20:42
Reportedly it is an unusually picky game due to its custom DOS extender. Unfortunately I am not sure what to tell you otherwise. You might want to experiment with disabling himem.sys, as suggested by Zone 66 Shareware works, Registered doesn't .
Re: Dvd drive failed XWA test - too slow
Posted on 2017-01-11, 15:58
The other likely culprit would be something in your Upperfilters and Lowerfilters registry keys; there is much about this on the Internet. Swapping out a drive would also result in clearing those.
Re: Dvd drive failed XWA test - too slow
Posted on 2017-01-11, 04:24
I'm pretty sure I was using that on my old ASUS P2L97.
Re: Dvd drive failed XWA test - too slow
Posted on 2017-01-10, 22:56
W98 shows the drive as a CDRW but not DVD if that means anything. What exactly happens when you put a DVD in? Sometimes when a drive "fails" a speed test for an older game, it's because the drive is much too fast; it's possible the loading is slow for another reason. In any case, I am skeptical …
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