Re: NOT enough memory to play DOS games ?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 06:42

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-05-24, 04:23: What lines do I need to add to the autoexec.bat and config.sys to fix this ? Don't you think it would be useful to know what you have in there already?

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-24, 02:59

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During one of my sessions system offered to update DOS 5.50. At first I pressed ok but then it asked to insert windows disk 7, I cancelled the process since I didn't had windows diskettes. I give up. There is no such thing as DOS 5.50 and I have no idea why one of your sessions would offer to …

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Re: Things other then Voodoo ? (or I found some other old PCI video cards)

Posted on 2020-05-23, 21:27

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Xs1nX wrote on 2020-05-23, 16:17: The relative 3d performance and features, or lack thereof. Do you want to play any games that support the PowerVR?

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-23, 21:21

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xcomcmdr How can I use Startup program group?? He already said how to do that in his post on the previous page of this thread. I'm using Launchbox. And before that I uesd D-Fend Reloaded. Where can I get runexit?? Runexit is available from the thread linked on the previous page of this thread. But …

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-22, 14:42

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demiurg1981 wrote on 2020-05-22, 14:34: I'm saying that when I launch windows manually and the manually launch civ it launches with sound. Otherwise there is no sound. Need more details. What if you auto-launch Windows without auto-launching Civ? What if you auto-launch Windows with something else …

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Re: GW-BASIC source code released

Posted on 2020-05-22, 14:39

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Your first link is kaput. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/mi … urces-gw-basic/

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-22, 06:14

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xcomcmdr's solution is probably worth a try. Otherwise, more details are necessary. Game launched but without sound. If you just launch win 3.11 and launch the game within it everything is fine, it has sound. Are you saying that if you autolaunch civ.exe as you describe, and then close civ.exe and …

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 21:30

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demiurg1981 wrote on 2020-05-21, 21:01: When I insert path to cd image instead of f:\ it doesn't appear in windows. I assume you're taking the word "rem" out first. If you want to mount a CD image (like a .cue paired with a .bin) then you have to use "imgmount" instead of "mount".

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 19:44

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demiurg1981 wrote on 2020-05-21, 19:02: But I couldn't autolaunch it, because I'm not sure how to mount a cd image in autolaunch cause game won't start without cd. What do you think "rem mount d f:\ -t cdrom" is supposed to do?

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - How to switch GPUs?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 17:29

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I doubt it would work any better even if I could run it. My problem is exactly the same as in the thread you linked to. Nvidia cards just suck at backwards compatibility. Have you looked into the oldest driver supported by your card? There's always PCem if you have the hardware for it. I've looked …

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SimRefinery has been found, apparently!

Posted on 2020-05-21, 16:07

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This is probably not going to be nearly as interesting as it sounds. https://twitter.com/itstheshadsy/status/1263311028793860097 https://obscuritory.com/sim/when-simcity-got-serious/

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 15:10

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can a retract this? A remake of ske free would be cool. Can't see how they would fudge that up. Ski Free would be the easiest game to fudge up royally. Much of its charm lies in its simplicity. I can readily imagine someone trying to throw in unsightly pre-rendered graphics. Just look at what …

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Re: Auto Launch Windows 3.1 Games?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 15:01

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demiurg1981 wrote on 2020-05-21, 04:43: I did what you suggested, but it loaded the game without sound. Why are you bumping a five-year-old thread? What exactly are you doing? What game are you running? People will not be able to help you without a lot more detail.

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - How to switch GPUs?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 14:53

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This was being discussed in another thread recently. It appears that something broke in nVidia's drivers somewhere along the way. Perhaps you saw that thread already? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=73700 The GOG version requires at least Windows 7 and is presumably using dgVoodoo. …

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Re: MFC250.dll error

Posted on 2020-05-21, 05:01

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Cool. It's satisfying to solve a problem like that. I wonder why ANESPIN.VBX wasn't properly copied from the floppies by the installation program? Did you get Filemon from that link I posted before? The official Sysinternals website stopped offering legacy Filemon years ago, so that was the first …

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Re: MFC250.dll error

Posted on 2020-05-21, 04:05

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Filemon, but I couldn't get THAT to work on real or virtual 95 Well, what happened when you tried it? Did you download the right version? Are the locales the same? I ran into a program once that crashed mysteriously because it expected Windows to provide the date and time in a particular format …

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Re: MFC250.dll error

Posted on 2020-05-20, 23:19

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I might also suggest using Filemon from https://sysinternals.d4rk4.ru/Utilities/Filemon.html on your Win95 machine. With luck, you can track exactly which files the program is trying to access, and then put the files in the appropriate locations in your PCem machine. (Filemon is a little tricky to …

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2020-05-20, 19:50

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Come to think of it, The Simpsons Hit & Run still has a lot of fans. Apparently it was also cut back late in development when the developers discovered their dev unit was much faster than an actual PS2, so there's some real potential there. (To be clear, there's already a PC port.) Captain Claw …

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2020-05-20, 00:39

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Bruninho wrote on 2020-05-20, 00:30: Plot Twist: I actually do spend hours playing SimTower on my iPad Pro, running a virtualized Windows 3.11 For Workgroups. Oh damn. You're aware that the most recent version is The Tower SP for the Game Boy Advance, right? Wikipedia also suggests Project Highrise …

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Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2020-05-19, 23:52

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There must be some weird legal thing preventing EA from re-releasing all the classic Sim games. There's too much money to be made for them not to have done it already. While we're at it, I never played SimFarm? It's pretty neat – ironically, it's kind of hectic. It might not be as good as the …

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