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Re: Terra Nova... "cannot find movies" error

Posted on 2012-07-24, 15:15

in DOS
It is rather difficult to help you if you can't even say for sure if you have a working CD rip, isn't it? If you are new to DOSBox, you should start with the 60 Seconds guide. 60 seconds guide to getting your game to run in DOSBox

Re: Dos easy installation CD

Posted on 2012-07-24, 12:45

in DOS
bestemor wrote: - prepare disk, as in partition and format, setting active partition etc It is possible to use a format operation to render a disk bootable, depending on how you did it.

Re: Dos easy installation CD

Posted on 2012-07-24, 04:59

in DOS
- Is there a special way to archive those DOS floppies ? (I mean, they had all the necessary files, autoexec etc, but no booting for me) But of course – you wouldn't image a CD by copying all the files off of it, and that's not the proper way to backup a floppy either. The critical thing is the …

Re: "Pure" DOS benefits over Windows MS-DOS Mode?

Posted on 2012-07-23, 15:13

in DOS
Actually if you load DOS drivers (MSCDEX, UDMA drivers, etc) you can force Windows to use DOS drivers for almost everything (including disk access!) If I'm not mistaken, that comes at a considerable speed penalty for normal Windows things. (Also, I vaguely recall that it ignores DOS CD-ROM drivers …

Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2012-07-23, 12:59

At the risk of saying something silly and redundant, I thought this bit about how the Linux kernel handles drive identification looked pertinent: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-10.html

Re: Direct draw wrapper for "People General "

Posted on 2012-07-22, 22:26

in Windows
Haven't we been over this before? D3D to open gl wrapper Micha wrote: The mainproblem is the units should not become smaller despite the higher resolution. If the units are bitmap sprites, then they will probably need to be indivudally, manually redrawn.

Re: Dos easy installation CD

Posted on 2012-07-22, 22:24

in DOS
download them on one PC, put them on a USB stick, then go to my win98 PC and copy them to a floppy. There are DOS drivers for USB sticks, though they don't always work for all chipsets. Failing that, a Linux boot CD ought to work; it would have access to both the USB stick and your hard drive – but …

Re: Is the old stuff still worth learning?

Posted on 2012-07-21, 06:00

in Milliways
in the real world, you'll still be dealing with systems up to 10 years old Ten years old these days is Windows XP. :P Encountering older stuff depends entirely on what field you're working in – and anything that's still in use after all this time is probably either better not messed with, or isn't …

Re: Is the old stuff still worth learning?

Posted on 2012-07-20, 19:45

in Milliways
ncmark wrote: the days are over when any one person could create a game. Now it takes a team of developers years to bring something like that to completion. Heck, no! It happens all the time. It can take years and years and years of work, though, and a lot of people just can't stick with it.

Re: "Gold Rush" (Sierra) not working

Posted on 2012-07-20, 17:56

However, at least in terms of file names (I've been advised elsewhere to check md5sum, but I don't know what it is) all "Gold Rush" downloads I have seen are the same version. File names don't mean anything. Even if you can't compare md5 sums, you should at least check if the different files have …

Re: Using ISO images in DOS

Posted on 2012-07-20, 16:11

in DOS
Perhaps your ISO image is fragmented? Mystery wrote: Does it have issues with smartdrv? I suppose you already tried disabling smartdrv to see if that made a difference?

Re: Links: the Challenge CD Install

Posted on 2012-07-18, 15:27

What drive letters have you mounted? You did mount a folder as drive C before running the install, right? You can always try booting from a mounted hard drive image and then running the install, but that might be tricky. (You'd probably have to mount the CD image using SHSUCDX.)

Re: Pentium PRO pc wont start

Posted on 2012-07-18, 15:19

in PC Emulation
Stojke wrote: I think that the PSU doesnt have enough juce. Sounds reasonable. If you have a second computer handy, then for troubleshooting purposes you can plug the second computer's power supply into the CD-ROM while leaving its IDE cable connected to the Pentium Pro. It looks a little weird, …

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