Hard DOS Games to Get Running Natively

Posted on 2005-03-22, 02:47

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by Great Hierophant

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I would like opinions of people who have had a truly hard time getting particular games to run. I mean they should have had a hard time running them under DOS, not Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT, 2000 or XP. These games should be difficult to get to the main menu, nevermind getting the game to run smoothly …

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Re: Collecting the Right Hardware for your Compatible PC

Posted on 2005-03-19, 16:03

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by Great Hierophant

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Perhaps they were never released overseas, but while we are on the subject, how did the CGA cards in European IBM PCs work with PAL Composite Monitors and TVs, if at all?

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Re: DOS games with native SB Live! support

Posted on 2005-03-19, 06:42

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by Great Hierophant

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As I recall, Creative's first Live! drivers did offer support for real-mode DOS but required an Expanded Memory Manager to be loaded, which made it useless for Ultima 7 and Serpent Isle.

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Collecting the Right Hardware for your Compatible PC

Posted on 2005-03-19, 06:39

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by Great Hierophant

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The two main areas of concern here are Graphics and Sound Cards. Supply is not really a problem with other components, like input devices (keyboard, mice), output devices (monitors, speakers and printers) storage (hard disks, CD-ROMs and floppies). SIMM-style RAM doesn't seem to be much of a problem …

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The Essential Old PCs for DOS Game Compatibility

Posted on 2005-03-18, 04:39

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by Great Hierophant

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If I had the cash, I would go on a buying spree to get a few old PCs to play the old games as they were meant to be played. I would buy three or four PCs with the idea of achieving maximum compatibility. I would buy my PCs with the idea of capturing a "snapshot" of PC performance at a certain time. …

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Re: CGA Bugs

Posted on 2005-01-19, 07:15

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by Great Hierophant

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While I'm on the subject of text bugs, I might mention two other games that suffer from them. Microsoft Adventure, released with the IBM PC Model 5150 back in 1981 uses the 40-column text mode. With all DosBox graphics options, the first three text columns are blacked out, making it difficult to …

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CGA Bugs

Posted on 2005-01-10, 23:03

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by Great Hierophant

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I must commend the maintainers of DosBox for their support of older games. However, I must report two don'display properly with the cga machine setting. These two are Icon and The Seven Spirits of Ra. Both games hacked the 40 column text mode to shorten the character cell size from 8 lines to 2 …

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Re: Feature Request: Mode 8 160x200 16 color

Posted on 2005-01-08, 19:44

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by Great Hierophant

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Now, can you get it to play the Tandy 3-voice sound? Using the Tandy graphics mode will not show the 16-color graphics and only use the PC Speaker for sound.

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Re: SourceForge.net project ("Munt")

Posted on 2005-01-07, 05:53

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by Great Hierophant

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How exactly did you follow Alkarion's instructions? When I first read them, I ended up merging the two files together end-to-end instead of bytewise interleaving them (so of course it wouldn't work). Both of those ways of doing it would probably result in the same checksum, as would interleaving …

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Re: SourceForge.net project ("Munt")

Posted on 2005-01-06, 15:14

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by Great Hierophant

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Did you manually point the hardware installation to the location of your MT32_CONTROL.ROM? I had to do it when I installed Munt myself, even if the correct file was placed in the same directory as the .inf file. Indeed I did, Windows installer will recognize that a file called MT32_CONTROL.ROM is …

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Re: SourceForge.net project ("Munt")

Posted on 2005-01-05, 23:18

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by Great Hierophant

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Mine is also that size and seems to work just fine in scummvm. Scummvm's readme seems to expect a 32K file. Here is the md5 checksum: 9513FEC4F09A7D327748340CE3A2A59B

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Re: SourceForge.net project ("Munt")

Posted on 2005-01-05, 17:39

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by Great Hierophant

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When I go to install it, it says the MT32_CONTROL.ROM cannot be found. It is there in the directory. I built mine using Alkarion's method. Am I using the correct file? Perhaps the size is wrong?

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Re: SourceForge.net project ("Munt")

Posted on 2005-01-05, 02:17

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by Great Hierophant

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One question. Will Munt work in Win98, Win98SE or WinME? I know canadacow's MT-32 driver would not and I haven't gotten Munt to work either.

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Re: Feature Request: Mode 8 160x200 16 color

Posted on 2004-12-30, 17:36

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by Great Hierophant

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Unfortunately there is no way to do a RGB 160x200 mode on a standard CGA card, despite the fact that the CRT controller had no problem with it and the 16KB of memory on the card could contain it. Otherwise someone would have found it by now.

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Re: Floopy drive for Dosbox

Posted on 2004-07-17, 07:17

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by Great Hierophant

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Will the next version support booters (which must be inserted on computer start-up) as well as DOS formatted disk images?

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Original Resolution in Windows

Posted on 2004-06-29, 02:31

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by Great Hierophant

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I remember that DosBox v.58 had the keepsmall command in the config file. This kept games running in a window to their actual resolutions, and in the case of the typical 320x200 resolution, that was a very small window indeed. I like the command, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get the …

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Re: MT-32 Emulator and DOSBox Problems

Posted on 2004-01-27, 04:27

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Where can I find the latest downloadable versions of curses.dll 2.4.0.0 msvcp70.dll 7.0.9466.0 msvcr70.dll 7.0.9466.0 so I can enjoy DosBox to its fullest? My dlls are a version behind these. http://www.dll-files.com/ has old versions of msvcp70.dll and msvcr70.dll (7.0.9064.0)

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Re: Force AGI Sierra Games to Tandy Sound

Posted on 2003-10-17, 07:09

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by Great Hierophant

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There is a way to get Tandy sound in Sierra's AGI games without having to emulate a Tandy video mode. Run "sierra.com" with a "-t" after it in the game's directory. Here is an example: C:\KQ1>sierra.com -t

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Re: CGA emulation and new dimension of old CGA games

Posted on 2003-10-16, 05:08

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by Great Hierophant

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I have a question about the CGA emulation of the DosBox with Tandy support, and now I know who to ask. I noticed that when I use the old CGA color composite mode with games that support that mode, Sierra's AGI games and The Bard's Tale I, the colors seem to be slightly different from the Tandy and …

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Re: CGA emulation and new dimension of old CGA games

Posted on 2003-09-29, 07:05

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by Great Hierophant

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What do people hate the most about the CGA? The limited 16 color palette, which I gave an example above? The 3-color palette limitation? The inability to set the colors? Originally it was very slow, but now that is not an issue. Accuracy is most important with the CGA emulation. DosBox .58 is not …

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