Re: Video bios usage in DOSBox
Posted on 2013-08-22, 15:19
Really? I thought the command-prompt window used soft fonts supplied by Windows, or at least can be adjusted to do so. I don't suppose FIX8x14 helps?
Re: Most recent PC with PCI + PCIe + AGP??
Posted on 2013-08-22, 15:12
I wasn't aware such boards existed at all. What exactly would be the point? Any game requiring AGP for compatibility reasons probably wouldn't gain much from the features of a board new enough for PCIe, I would think. I also had to waste a PCI slot on a RAID card since the motherboard didn't support …
Re: Running a 16 bit game on Win 7 (64 bit)
Posted on 2013-08-22, 13:13
It would be easier to try one of the solutions at http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10988 first.
Re: OS-es with weak OpenGL
Posted on 2013-08-21, 23:06
I do not understand the question. What exactly are you aiming at? If you don't bother installing hardware drivers, every OS will have "weak" OpenGL. And if there are no drivers available, that's more of a problem with the hardware (and the people supporting it) than the OS. Are you looking for …
Re: Cannot save any games while playing Full Throttle.
Posted on 2013-08-21, 20:13
It was not uncommon back then for a game to disallow saving if it failed a copy protection check. Thus, both the lack of voices in ScummVM and the inability to save in DOSBox would be consistent with an incomplete or otherwise corrupted copy of the game. Thus, I suggest you try using an original CD …
Re: Dos games with no EXE
Posted on 2013-08-21, 17:32
Nah, you'd just get people coming in saying "It's not illegal, it's old so it's free now". Also, no one reads agreements.
Re: Cannot save any games while playing Full Throttle.
Posted on 2013-08-21, 15:37
The save feature does work in ScummVM 1.6.0, but then the speech doesn't work. SFX and music work fine, but there is no speech. :angry: I have completed this game in ScummVM without any technical difficulties, as have thousands of other people. Did you download this game from somewhere? If you are …
Re: Dos games with no EXE
Posted on 2013-08-21, 15:33
Both Blake Stone and Police Quest are available for purchase at http://www.gog.com for low prices in fully-supported versions that are likely to work without any problems.
Re: Running a 16 bit game on Win 7 (64 bit)
Posted on 2013-08-20, 16:01
I tried running windows 95 emulator, but it wouldn't run software- side note: what's the point of having windows 95 if you can't run software with it? Are people just that crazy for the snake game? Side note two: was it Windows 95 that snake game was even on? What exactly are you referring to? It …
Re: dBase and Encrypted Files
Posted on 2013-08-19, 20:39
The Login file was the only file of the group that is associated with PROTECCT that had a read-only attribute. This language is ambiguous. Look at ALL the files, not just the ones you think are associated with PROTECT. I believe I'll try to use one of the VM's you suggested. Do you think one of …
Re: dBase and Encrypted Files
Posted on 2013-08-15, 19:50
You don't really need all of DOS; any ordinary boot floppy (or image of a boot floppy), even from Windows 95 or 98, will do fine. Such floppy images are easily found throughout the Internet. FreeDOS will also probably do the trick. I've begun to look into the VM's suggested, but at first glance, …
Re: Parallell port hardware lock, seeing it trought DosBox?
Posted on 2013-08-15, 15:41
There have been many other threads posted on this subject in the past. You will probably need the SVN Daum build, and you will probably need PortTalk. And you will probably need a real parallel port on your computer (or one on a PCI card) rather than a USB-to-parallel adapter. There is one thread …
Re: dBase and Encrypted Files
Posted on 2013-08-15, 15:30
I find that the login file DOES contain a Read Only attribute. So I guess that must be the reason I can't enter a password. I doubt it. But if it does come down to attributes, you can still use DOSBox provided you use disk images and boot a real version of DOS, as in http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic …
Re: Extract game music files.
Posted on 2013-08-14, 23:21
http://sfprod.shikadi.net/ talks about extraction utilities for a bunch of old games.
Re: Video Game Console Emulators on DOS?
Posted on 2013-08-14, 23:14
Most of these have been covered in Emulation inside emulation: DOS-based emulators under DOSBox. . Looks like there was a DOS version of AdriPSX after all.
Re: dBase and Encrypted Files
Posted on 2013-08-14, 03:23
Okay, and when you were running it in Vista, did you have folders exactly named C:\dBase and C:\database, or were they something else?
Re: SDRMAP 6.5
Posted on 2013-08-14, 02:57
At first I thought your files were corrupted, but it turned out I was wrong. SDRMAP came with a Windows Installer namely InstallShield 3.0 so I had to use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 to install it. FYI, there are much, much easier ways to get around InstallShield problems. http://www.reactos.org/ …
Re: SDRMAP 6.5
Posted on 2013-08-13, 21:08
omidi wrote: i mount a dirctory in my D: drive as C: in dosbox. Can you be more precise? What are the exact commands you are typing?
Re: dBase and Encrypted Files
Posted on 2013-08-13, 21:05
"Similar?" The computer doesn't care about "similar". When you run DOSBox, what folders are you mounting? Are you mounting c:\dosprgs as drive C, or what? Considering DOSBox cannot recognize folders with spaces (like "dBase IV"), it is amazing it works at all.
Re: dBase and Encrypted Files
Posted on 2013-08-13, 19:49
that somehow DOSBox is preventing dBase from reading the encrypted file that contains the password. While it's not impossible, it is very unlikely that there is something about the encryption that would interfere with DOSBox. A file is a file, encrypted or not. The dBase program worked correctly …
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