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Re: Thoughts on Emulating BBS Door Games with Node.js?

Posted on 2014-07-14, 02:54

in Milliways
I'm pretty sure there already exists software out there that can "emulate" a door interface one way or another. The details escape me. A dedicated computer running BBS software is still needed It doesn't really have to be "dedicated" anymore, does it? It seems to me that a worthy idea would be to …

Re: How many use linux?

Posted on 2014-07-13, 19:33

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That's actually not all that surprising - it isn't so much the BD-J support that's the "gotcha" as it is that Blu-ray/HD-DVD require AACS which doesn't exist (at least legally) as a freeware component. There's greymarket applications/work-arounds that can extract the audio/video content from a disc …

Re: get no sound in MS-dos, but get it in win98SE

Posted on 2014-07-12, 21:35

in DOS
is there a program he could run to detect the irq/dma his card uses There's the SETBLAST.EXE utility discussed at http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37876 . I have attached a copy from the shareware episode of Blake Stone available at http://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Blake_Stone%3A_Aliens …

Re: How to slow down a windows 98 computer for slower games?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 15:46

in Milliways
Try a Rage 128. I currently use a Rage 128 VR 32MB PCI card on my piledriver AM3+ setup, and it throttles games that run too fast. By that do you mean that it makes demanding games run more slowly..? Do you have some basis for suggesting that it will slow down DOS games written years before the …

Re: How many use linux?

Posted on 2014-07-12, 15:43

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I remember right so does Windows 8 Pro. Nope. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403983,00.asp (I have probably a dozen copies of CyberlinkDVD from graphics cards, and I don't remember an OEM system from back then that didn't include either Cyberlink or Intervideo to handle DVD playback - some …

Re: Question about HIMEM.SYS and EMM386

Posted on 2014-07-12, 15:37

in DOS
I have an old DOS program that is not a game. It is a fantastic modeling package that I would very much like to use again. The last time it was usable was on Win NT (at least on the computers I have had). Can someone offer a simple how-to set of steps to enable me to use it on my Win 8.1 machine? …

Re: get no sound in MS-dos, but get it in win98SE

Posted on 2014-07-12, 03:03

in DOS
Davros wrote: but does that display the autoexec.bat for dos or the autoexec.bat for dos mode in windows ? Unless you install Windows 9x over MS-DOS 6.22, there is only one autoexec.bat. (There is a dosstart.bat that is run if you "restart in MS-DOS mode" from within Windows.)

Re: How to slow down a windows 98 computer for slower games?

Posted on 2014-07-11, 21:22

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Don't know what celeron your running, so it maybe already at 66mhz FSB. Most Pentium II\III era celerons are. That is anyway, until you get to the Tualatin based celerons. It could be a Northwood Celeron for all we know at this point. i can ask the person who build the computer what type of …

Re: How many use linux?

Posted on 2014-07-11, 21:15

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AlphaWing wrote: I thought most people who use windows as a media player center install the K-lite codec pack, which has most needed codecs and Media Player classic for playback. There are other alternatives like the CCCP. It also used to use ffdshow. (Looks like both have moved on to "LAV Filters" …

Re: How many use linux?

Posted on 2014-07-11, 20:27

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Oh, hardly. Just as there are abundant DVD playing solutions for Linux, Windows will happily play DVDs for free using VLC or ffdshow or suchlike. Of course, you have to know where to find them, but then you'd also have to know where to find libdvdcss2.

Re: Screeching when running DosBox

Posted on 2014-07-11, 19:04

The " talking parrot " fix springs to mind, but that's probably not quite related. I don't know how that is related indeed, all I remember of it was a creepy demo with an EGA-drawn parrot that keeps talking XD I mean, at the time I think there might have been a change committed to the DOSBox source …

Re: Screeching when running DosBox

Posted on 2014-07-11, 16:59

Have you tried a very old version of DOSBox, like 0.60 or something? Perhaps if the sound is missing from the oldest version of DOSBox you can find, you can slowly work your way up to the current version and see if it might be associated with the introduction of a particular feature. The " talking …

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