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Re: Backing up DOS era CD-ROM games?

in DOS
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: Win16 emulator for Win64 (again)

in Windows
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: CONFIG.SYS in DOSBOX?

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: Question about serial port modes

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

in Milliways
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: XWA - finicky on some systems?

in Windows
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?

in Windows
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.

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