Re: "directory doesn't exist"

Posted on 2010-12-22, 18:23

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by Jorpho

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FoxBox, eh? That's a new one. At this point people will begin badgering you for asking about running a non-game application in DOSBox and how it is principally aimed towards running games. Moving right along, the next obvious question is, how did you mount your directories? Most applications do not …

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Re: 7-Zip v9.20

Posted on 2010-12-20, 21:15

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by Jorpho

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Is that a new GUI? The default 7-Zip GUI is so frustratingly useless that it is the principle reason I do not use 7-Zip regularly. IZarc includes 7-Zip functionality anyway.

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Re: Deathtrap Dungeon

Posted on 2010-12-20, 20:35

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by Jorpho

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Here are results of testing with _inmm.dll. I have no prior experience with this tool so I don't know if I did something wrong, which is why I'm posting the whole thing here. To cut a long story short, it doesn't work because the game doesn't import from WINMM.DLL. I suspect the game is using its …

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Re: ODDBOXX: Steam December 20th Release

Posted on 2010-12-20, 20:21

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by Jorpho

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SKARDAVNELNATE wrote: I played the first 2 on PlayStation. I think the other 2 were Xbox only until now. Indeed they were. How intriguing!

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Re: Deathtrap Dungeon

Posted on 2010-12-20, 15:55

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by Jorpho

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Is this a job for _inmm.dll? _inmm.dll : another solution for problematic CD audio?

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Re: 2d video cards

Posted on 2010-12-16, 13:54

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by Jorpho

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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What exactly do you want to do with this card? Are you looking for ISA, VLB, PCI, AGP, or what?

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Re: Good AGP VGA

Posted on 2010-12-16, 13:52

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by Jorpho

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since I don't plan to put that machine to play with older games You don't expect such old hardware to play newer games, I hope. If I'm not mistaken, there are still new AGP cards being made based on vaguely current technology. Shouldn't your question be, "what sort of older $14 AGP VGAs available …

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Re: Vista vs SB Live, Again (CTHelper problems)

Posted on 2010-12-15, 06:13

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by Jorpho

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All right, that appeared to work. And I got the kX drivers installed and apparently working. (The UI is pretty terrible.) So far so good. All I've really tested is ZSNES for Windows, which had heavy distortion with the old drivers, but seems to work now. Now to see if I can run the Just Cause 2 demo …

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Re: Bugs in DOSBOX?

Posted on 2010-12-15, 06:11

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by Jorpho

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1. I can't launch the screen saver. The saver couldn't be executed after installing Dosbox.. Is there a solution for this? I have no idea what screen saver you are talking about. 2. In the old program, the reading of time is very odd. " Date: Dec 1, 2010 Time: 184:58:4" I can convert the hour (3 …

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Re: Debug in dosbox

Posted on 2010-12-15, 05:54

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by Jorpho

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DOSBox can also be compiled to have a built-in debugger, but I don't know the details on that. Rather than struggling with compulation, it is much easier to download a precompiled version: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=7323 For a more recent version, the debug-enabled DOSBox was also …

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Re: Please help me fix my Voodoo 5 pci.

Posted on 2010-12-13, 17:05

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by Jorpho

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It's the "steady hand" part that bothers me. Seems like something that requires practice. Another question: I can see in this case you would apparently need a 150Ω resistor. But, assuming there's space, do you really need to use an SMD resistor, or will an ordinary resistor with big gangly leads do …

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Re: Please help me fix my Voodoo 5 pci.

Posted on 2010-12-13, 15:43

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by Jorpho

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So how do you fix something like that, exactly? For months now I've had a broken DS Lite sitting around. The repair, which consists of replacing a blown surface-mount fuse (similar to this resistor), is well-documented, but I've never tried to solder something that tiny before, and I don't know how …

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Re: PC freezes easily after Windows reinstall

Posted on 2010-12-13, 15:39

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by Jorpho

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I have a Pentium MMX 200Mhz system, dualbooting Windows 98SE and Windows 2000. Some days ago (because I rarely played DOS games and only played early Windows games which runs smoothly in Windows 2000) I decided to remove Windows 98 and fresh-installed Windows 2000. You might as well dispense with …

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Re: Vista vs SB Live, Again (CTHelper problems)

Posted on 2010-12-12, 23:44

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by Jorpho

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Zup wrote: BTW, installing KX drivers means uninstalling any Creative drivers and programs Yes, yes, fine. But how do you do that? As I said, I didn't use the Setup program!

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Re: Vista vs SB Live, Again (CTHelper problems)

Posted on 2010-12-11, 23:48

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by Jorpho

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Gee, I thought they were discontinued. That's one possibility, I suppose - but as there's no convenient "undo" option for this driver installation I attempted, changing the driver probably won't solve this CTHelper problem.

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Vista vs SB Live, Again (CTHelper problems)

Posted on 2010-12-11, 23:10

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by Jorpho

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Having neglected the Windows Vista Home Basic (32-bit) installation on my hard drive for a few years, I decided to take another poke at it today. That's when I found out there were no official Creative drivers, period, for my Sound Blaster Live (SB0060). A great deal of searching around eventually …

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Re: Divide by Zero Error in Magic Carpet 2

Posted on 2010-12-11, 22:56

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by Jorpho

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in DOSBox Games/Apps

Loadfix? (It's in the readme.)

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Re: Patching games in F-Fend/DosBox??

Posted on 2010-12-11, 03:33

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by Jorpho

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The patches, to which I refer, however, are more in the nature of bug fixes, mods and mission add-ons that are currently available, or may become so in the future. These are not usually affecting the .exe file, so I would hope that they would not screw with the install that is now being handled by …

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Re: Patching games in F-Fend/DosBox??

Posted on 2010-12-10, 18:23

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by Jorpho

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Are you saying you have a patch that has to be applied to the exe on the original CD? Are you quite sure about that? Most of these no-CD cracks work by being applied to a copy (on a hard drive) of all the files on the CD. Other patches are generally applied to a game after install. Maybe you should …

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Re: Dosbox itself frezzes every 10 seconds

Posted on 2010-12-09, 15:39

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by Jorpho

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What is that program, anyway? Looks nifty. (I can't stand thwacking through various arguments for "ps" on the command line trying to find out what's going on.)

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