Re: help finding the name of a game.

Posted on 2016-09-23, 05:44

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leileilol wrote: Dick Smallwood? Dink Smallwood, rather. I didn't think of that one. (It was officially released as freeware quite some time ago.) Also "shareware". As in "share" and "sharing".

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Re: Best MX440 (or best GeForce card? maybe even Radeon?) for my Dell Dimension 4100?

Posted on 2016-09-23, 03:18

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Everywhere I've read I've been told the FX 5200 is inferior to the MX440 I had heard they were pretty much the same, except that the 5200 supported a couple of newer features. In any case both of them are really resoundingly crappy cards and there is no need to stick with them when something like …

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Re: What is the biggest storage HDD Windows 98SE can use?

Posted on 2016-09-23, 01:30

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NJRoadfan wrote: Windows 98SE supports up to 128GiB, the 28bit LBA addressing limit. Isn't that just a BIOS limitation? I often link to http://toastytech.com/guis/miscb2.html, which shows Windows 95 running on a 500GB disk.

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Re: Dosbox Win95 - disk size 2GB limit hack?

Posted on 2016-09-23, 01:27

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The original release of Windows 95 is strictly limited to 2GB FAT16 partitions, regardless of whether or not you are using DOSBox. Windows 95B ("OSR2") and Windows 98 can use FAT32 partitions, but I'm not sure how well that works with DOSBox. As Dominus suggests, it's probably a bad idea anyway.

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Re: help finding the name of a game.

Posted on 2016-09-22, 17:09

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Perhaps you can give an example of a similar game that you consider to be "isometric". Do you mean like Twinsen's Odyssey / Little Big Adventure? Or Ecstatica?

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Re: help finding the name of a game.

Posted on 2016-09-22, 16:51

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Do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb_3-D or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heretic_(video_game) ? Also, "skeletons".

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Re: DOSBox And Physical Floppy Drive Question

Posted on 2016-09-22, 16:50

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If I run EPSDISK.EXE via dosbox-x, do you think the program will find the files I need to write to the diskette from any other drive/directory? If yes, what do I need to do in advance? I am not clear on why you would think otherwise. I could try to guess, but why don't you tell us more about …

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Re: CD Audio emulation

Posted on 2016-09-22, 15:54

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Well, it only needs the CD emulation driver to forward audio playing commands through some media (network, nullmodem) to another device (PC, raspberry pi) that can receive the commands and play corresponding mp3/ogg files. An interesting idea – but of course you'd need to connect the other device …

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Re: Is there a thread or page someone can link me to that details exactly all aspects of setting up games in Dosbox?

Posted on 2016-09-22, 15:49

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There is no such "thread or page" because there is very little need to tailor the various settings of DOSBox to specific games. The overwhelmingly vast majority of games will play perfectly adequately with the default settings. I've heard some stuff about a soundblaster driver for the early space …

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Re: CD Audio emulation

Posted on 2016-09-22, 13:52

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Very interesting. Maybe i can use IMGMOUNT.COM outside of dosbox? Or perhaps modify it to work in regular MSDOS 6 or 7. I will look into it! Not going to happen. There is in fact a tool for mounting .ISO images in MS-DOS, namely SHSUCDHD, but it does not work with CD audio. Consider that CD audio …

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Re: Firefox drops support for Non-SSE2 Processors

Posted on 2016-09-21, 22:12

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I don't think you'd want to run the current versions of Firefox on a Pentium III anyway. You'd be better off with something like K-Meleon. Carlos S. M. wrote: unlike Chrome (Google Chrome is propietary with many open source parts though) That's what "Chromium" is for.

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Re: Install Video Device Driver

Posted on 2016-09-21, 20:08

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If I had another option I would use it. As Mr. Keenmaster suggested, there's PCem. Other alternatives include the PC emulator included in MAME, as well as Bochs and virtual machines such as VMware. devicehigh is used to put drivers into high memory. "Devicehigh" is used in config.sys when DOS is …

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Re: The SB AWE64 advantages???

Posted on 2016-09-21, 18:42

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The AWE64 Gold is considerably more expensive than the other models for very little tangible benefit and is probably not at all worth considering. Otherwise, if your current system is adequate??? for your needs, then be happy with what you have. Have you encountered anything that you actually want …

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Re: Install Video Device Driver

Posted on 2016-09-21, 18:16

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I'm trying to run an industrial programming application called "APT" in DosBOX. No one will tell you that running an industrial programming application in DOSBox is aood idea. I followed the instructions to mount the folder to a "D" drive. Which instructions did you follow? You will almost …

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Re: Worst cpus and worst computer builds

Posted on 2016-09-21, 17:25

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I find it completely baffling that one can expend considerable efforts and funds to build a PC that is twenty years out of date, and then complain that it isn't as fast as it could be. It's much easier to take pot shots at some of Apple's catastrophic architectural decisions. http://lowendmac.com/ …

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Re: PBA Bowling 2 - cannot get this thing to run! Please help

Posted on 2016-09-21, 13:27

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It makes me think of some of the texture-drawing problems in Lemmings Revolution. https://jul.rustedlogic.net/thread.php?id=15018 While processing textures with alpha masks, the game will use BitBlt() to copy color data, then call IDirectDrawSurface::Lock() and write only the alpha bytes into video …

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Re: vDosPlus: a general-purpose DOS emulator based on vDos and DOSBox

Posted on 2016-09-21, 02:58

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Good on you for making something up-to-date and robustly supported (or so it seems). Does this run Clipper apps? There are still occasionally people passing through here looking to run Clipper apps. Also, I suppose there's still no graphics support (e.g. WordPerfect 6 in graphics mode) ?

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Re: Game Patching under DOS box erros

Posted on 2016-09-20, 02:11

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1. yes you do. Although it is just as feasible as running any other DOS program in DOSBox, I can't recall anyone particularly discussing the patching of games under DOSBox. Whatever. Nevermind. I think I may have an earlier version of the game than what the patcher is trying to patch me up to. It …

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Re: Game Patching under DOS box erros

Posted on 2016-09-19, 21:37

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As you know many games can be patched under dosbox to the latest version. Actually, no, I have no idea what you are referring to. When I try to patch a game lets just call it game.exe It says inflating then patching then it says patching done then i get an error that states something like error …

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Re: PBA Bowling 2 - cannot get this thing to run! Please help

Posted on 2016-09-19, 16:18

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"It doesn't run" and "it did not work" is rarely a helpful way to get started. What exactly happens? Do you get a blank screen? An error message? Details are required. If the game actually says on the box that it should run under Windows 2000, then it suggests it ought to be feasible to run it under …

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