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Re: When to use DDRAW or Opengl options

Posted on 2013-02-17, 16:39

I think you may be confused. DOSBox has NO support for programs that use DirectDraw or OpenGL. The "output" setting in dosbox.conf relates exclusively to how DOSBox draws the DOSBox window and has no effect on whatever program you are trying to run within DOSBox. DOSBox itself might run faster or …

Re: What is interesting Windows 3.x software?

Posted on 2013-02-17, 16:32

in Windows
Calmira II is free software that adds a Windows 95-style Start menu. http://toastytech.com/guis/cal.html For something less radical, I liked to use PMIcons to set the icons of individual program groups. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=29730 You can see screenshots of Norton Desktop here: …

Re: Dosbox + Teledisk

Posted on 2013-02-16, 12:54

I know Teledisk images don't work with imgmount, but I understood that the OP is trying to run the Teledisk disk-writing application in DOSBox. An imgmount-mounted image can offer more complete floppy emulation than mount with "-t floppy".

Re: Dosbox + Teledisk

Posted on 2013-02-15, 19:05

I think DOSBox's floppy drive emulation is too limited to allow Teledisk to do whatever complex operations it is trying to do. You might have better luck using imgmount and/or booting MS-DOS within DOSBox first.

Re: Thalion Airbus A320

Posted on 2013-02-15, 18:59

Did you follow the 60 Seconds Guide ? If you are using a version you downloaded from somewhere and not something you installed from original disks, it is possible you have a corrupted or incomplete version of the game.

Re: Windows XP CD-Rom problem

Posted on 2013-02-15, 05:41

in Windows
As for the music+data CDs, I thought the first track was data and the rest were music usually? I've never actually worked with one of those directly.... Oh, well, that's what I thought you meant by "multi-format CDs". If you want some mixture of UDF and other filesystems, then ImgBurn can totally …

Re: Windows XP CD-Rom problem

Posted on 2013-02-14, 23:10

in Windows
Yup, that's a tall order. (Not sure what the advantage a multi-format CD would have these days.) You could probably use TotalMounter , a virtual CD burner, in conjunction with an ordinary burning program, since apparently a hybrid disc is just a multisession CD with audio tracks on its first session …

Re: Any interesting updates for MS Office 97?

Posted on 2013-02-14, 18:20

in Milliways
There's an update to let Office 2000 open the newer format. I don't know about 97. That's one thing that would definitely be pretty sweet. I remember the panic about macro viruses. What heady times those were! I wonder if virus checkers still bother scanning every single .doc or .xls file for …

Re: Windows XP CD-Rom problem

Posted on 2013-02-14, 18:09

in Windows
It's nice to keep things public, and this is your thread, so I don't think anyone else will care if it goes off topic. :) DVD Flick is free and does all the things you indicate as far as DVD video goes, I think. The free version of Ashampoo does the rest. The advantage to calculating checksums is …

Re: Windows XP CD-Rom problem

Posted on 2013-02-13, 21:54

in Windows
The problem is that it does not allow burn verification. That is the one feature of Nero that I have yet to find on the other burning programs I've tried out. Without Nero I'm left using the DOS fc command on each and every individual file, and that is a real pain in the rear. Are you sure Nero …

Re: Any interesting updates for MS Office 97?

Posted on 2013-02-13, 16:45

in Milliways
I do sometimes get frustrated with bugginess in Excel 2000 - large spreadsheets crash sometimes, especially if array formulas are used. Yup, I made a few spreadsheets back in the day that could reliably crash Excel 97. I thought they fixed that in 2000. I also don't like the way that each version …

Re: Extract from Tsunami games (Also Blue Force savegame request)

Posted on 2013-02-13, 16:35

in DOS
I don't know if someone has written an extraction utility specifically targeted towards Blue Force, but since the game is supported by ScummVM, it is almost certainly possible to extract everything from the game's resource files. If you can code, you can probably find the relevant functions in the …

Re: Windows XP CD-Rom problem

Posted on 2013-02-13, 14:12

in Windows
The Blu-Ray issue was because of lack of file system. I have that now and my Blu-Ray disks read just fine. I don't understand. What did you get? The original problem, thanks to other forums, is now solved as well. It seems that the culprit was the InCD software that Nero installed even though I …

Re: Early games w/higher resolution than normal for era

Posted on 2013-02-12, 23:00

in Milliways
and then there's all those Moraff games that over-promoted their ability to scale up to exotic vendor-specific high resolutions... Indeed, the first thing I thought of was Moraff's World (and probably its sequels). Darned if I know why, as it's a rather ugly game, but tons of fancy resolution …

Re: Audio loop problem in Lose your Marbles (Win95 in DOSBOX)

Posted on 2013-02-12, 22:58

in Windows
Also creating a Virtual PC in VMWare and install Windows 98 or XP just to play a game, I think it is too much... Any other ideas? Virtual PC would be the last resort, but I'm not that desperate to go to all that trouble for a game... And you think what you've gone through so far is less trouble!? …

Re: Non dead BBS boards?

Posted on 2013-02-12, 14:44

in PC Emulation
There should be no shortage of them running on Telnet servers. And no, there's really not much a BBS can do that an equivalent Internet service cannot do significantly better. I guess they might serve as a useful way to keep something private.

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