Re: PC floppy backup

Posted on 2009-09-08, 16:30

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skttrbrain wrote: which leads me on to the the question of weather you can swap disk images in Dosbox during an installation? Not as of 0.73, oddly enough - that only works for CD ISO images. Instead, you can use a combination of DOSBox and Virtual Floppy Drive, a Windows program.

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Re: Hello All

Posted on 2009-09-08, 16:26

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As stated I am new to these emulators so if I have to go out and buy Bards Tale Saga that's what I'll do, but I'll ask a few of my old friends if they still have their old games. Y'know, the PC version of the new Bard' Tales game that came out just a few years ago (i hear it's quite amusing) had …

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Re: Windows 95 and CDs.

Posted on 2009-09-08, 16:17

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Trying to get Winamp (or other media players) to play the audio from mixed-mode CDs isn't always easy. Really, the best way to check for audio tracks on a CD (virtual or otherwise) is to look at it with IsoBuster. Also, I'm sure there's a version of Daemon Tools that runs under Win9x. I think …

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Re: Does Dungeon Keeper Gold have CD music?

Posted on 2009-09-06, 22:05

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Perhaps you should double-check the track layout with IsoBuster rather than trusting Media Player to get it right.

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Re: Blue screen in Boomtown

Posted on 2009-09-03, 21:03

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and supposedly they only let you download freeware games now. What exactly gave you that idea? (Please don't lock this thread just yet; I'd like to know.) EDIT: The solution is trivial. If the game is installed to C:\GAMES\VISION and you mount C:\GAMES\VISION as drive C in DOSBox, you'll get the …

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Re: Venture by Star Software almost running ... need help

Posted on 2009-09-03, 16:09

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Because I'm using my laptop did not have capability to connect 5.25 floppy. Therefore, copied the info from the 5.25 diskettes, 1 thru 5, onto USB drive. Create disk images using RawWrite . Then get Virtual Floppy Drive and use that to mount the disk images on your Vista machine. See if that works.

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Re: IMGMOUNT = No CD Audio in Windows 7?

Posted on 2009-09-03, 16:06

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danielc wrote: Is there a way I can turn on "verbose logging" or something for DOSBox 0.73? There's always Process Monitor from http://www.sysinternals.com , though that would only be useful if you're using an ISO and separate MP3 tracks.

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Re: DOSBox and Word Perfect 6.0

Posted on 2009-09-02, 19:37

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Looks like that site waves people away from using DOSBox and talks about running under the NTVDM instead. This won't work for people on 64-bit OSes, which will be everyone eventually. I know the 64-bit versions can't run 16-bit Windows programs, but is the NTVDM incapable of running DOS programs at …

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Re: DOSBox and Word Perfect 6.0

Posted on 2009-09-02, 18:15

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For the image case you can specify a series of images to be mounted in a rotating fashion (rotation being accomplished via a hotkey). For the physical disk case, you can use a hotkey to flush the disk cache so that the new disk is recognized/scanned by DOSBox. Consult the readme.txt included with …

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Re: I need help in figuring out which way to go with this laptop

Posted on 2009-08-29, 02:40

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(Yes I realize I can resolve this a bit better with a frontend, but for games like DOOM where I would like an evolving, spur of the moment command line to play any mod at that spur moment is not able to be done form what I've seen so far.) If you want Doom that badly, I suggest a source port. …

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Re: Question about trainers...

Posted on 2009-08-28, 23:15

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lightmaster wrote: You can always use dosbox debug build. Assuming you know how to use debuggers. 😜 You wouldn't happen to know of a good example, would you?

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Re: Question about trainers...

Posted on 2009-08-28, 22:47

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It is definitely possible to use some trainers with DOSBox. I suppose the compatibility of any particular trainer will depend on exactly what kind of crazy method the trainer is trying to use to directly edit the memory being used by the game. I've heard that it's possible to use certain Windows …

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Re: I need help in figuring out which way to go with this laptop

Posted on 2009-08-27, 21:50

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That package contains drivers for a number of different OSs, including DOS (i.e. VIAFMTSR.COM and VIAUDIO.COM). While they are for a VIA chipset, they are nonetheless for a VIA chipset that uses the AC97 codec. Bit of a long shot, certainly.

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Re: I need help in figuring out which way to go with this laptop

Posted on 2009-08-27, 21:06

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A moment's Googling suggests http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/drivers/43/43216.htm might be of use . Why bother with the alpha of VDMSound for Win9x when you can just use DOSBox? Don't go saying you want the "pure DOS experience" if you're going to use a Pentium 4. And remember, MS-DOS 6.22 only …

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Re: Does Dungeon Keeper Gold have CD music?

Posted on 2009-08-26, 23:34

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FYI, my EA Classics version also has six audio tracks. (The disc itself only says "Dungeon Keeper" on it, but the setup program is unambiguously Dungeon Keeper Gold.) [A few years ago I was very disappointed to find that the "Pinball Madness" edition of Pro Pinball Timeshock was purposefully lacking …

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Re: Experts-Exchange Forum...What the...

Posted on 2009-08-21, 18:22

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I used to be a little bit active there a long, long time ago, back when their site layout was clean and efficient and they didn't have this absurd trial thing. (My username and password still works perfectly.) I didn't find it all that useful for my own problems - usually the process of describing …

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Re: Scubaventure

Posted on 2009-08-21, 18:19

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It isn't at all difficult to find a download for it, if that's what you're looking for. Nifty little game. The comparison the the scuba level of Keen 4 is quite fair. Not much length or substance to it, though. I saw a boxed version of it once at a flea market seven years ago (alongside a boxed copy …

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Re: Discworld 2 in XP using DosBox

Posted on 2009-08-21, 15:07

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Then you haven't followed the instructions! Nothing should be in C:\Discworld except for the DW2 folder. When Mr. Marsden says "our main folder", he means the directory that contains the CD folder.

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Re: Discworld 2 in XP using DosBox

Posted on 2009-08-20, 20:59

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Yes, but which folder? C:\Discworld\DW2\CD or C:\Discworld\DW2 ?

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Re: Discworld 2 in XP using DosBox

Posted on 2009-08-20, 18:28

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My question was whether you put dosbox.exe there. Or is this something else that's "not exactly" ?

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