Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2014-11-11, 14:47

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Today I got the PEN, so I could do the connection between E2 and E3. Neardy-pleasures wrote about a special LAP-Link-Cable without making the Connection between E2 and E3. I must decide if it is the better way to build a "special" Laplink-Cable or to modify the Mainboard. Either you misread that …

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Re: Radix on UltraSound

Posted on 2014-11-11, 05:52

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And again, as so often before, the question beckons: How the hell could these two bugs (hard-coded IRQ7 and lack of timer initialization) have escaped the programmers? Did anyone do any QA at that joint? Perhaps they outsourced their QA to a cheap outfit that simply said "It works, no major …

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Re: Never Lock Your Phone With A Fingerprint

Posted on 2014-11-06, 00:49

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You could burn off your fingerprint or cut your finger off

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Re: X-Wing/TIE Fighter re-release

Posted on 2014-10-29, 21:07

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Danfun64 wrote: I'm curious. Does the Windows version have in game music or not? It isn't unknown for digital rereleases of games that used cd audio to lack the cd audio tracks. It does, but it's wav files played back at the lowest possible bit rate. It sounds like crap.

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Re: X-Wing/TIE Fighter re-release

Posted on 2014-10-28, 14:46

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http://tempestkappa.isdchallenge.org/tf_versions.htm That site really blasts LucasArts for the sound quality of the in-game music. I checked the CD and discovered that LucasArts recorded the in-game music (presumably from the DOS Collector's CD-ROM) at 8-bit mono @ 11kHz! For a Windows 95 game, this …

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Re: CMS upgraded Sound Blaster - OPL2 = CMS Music in Prince of Persia?

Posted on 2014-10-25, 18:12

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On my Tandy TX, your program skips the introduction scenes entirely. It shows Loading and then jumps straight to level 1. It also plays the Adlib music tunes even with the gblast argument and keyboard input seems completely disabled, only joystick movement and buttons work. FYI, the program uses …

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Re: Might and Magic III Tandy

Posted on 2014-10-24, 01:55

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This program did not help me, I think the game complained about having too little DOS memory, but the error message was too quick to read before I got booted back to a DOS prompt. I think it did not help that I was running MS-DOS 6.22, which consumes 60KB of conventional memory without anything else …

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Re: CMS upgraded Sound Blaster - OPL2 = CMS Music in Prince of Persia?

Posted on 2014-10-24, 01:52

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I can reproduce the messed up CMS music in DOSBox by booting real DOS, depending on cycles. It sounds mostly OK at 1000 cycles, breaks up a bit at the default 3000 cycles, and gets progressively worse as cycles increase. A major influence on the uneven music playing appears to be polling for …

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Re: CMS upgraded Sound Blaster - OPL2 = CMS Music in Prince of Persia?

Posted on 2014-10-22, 12:27

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ibmg is definitely IBM PS/1 Audio Game Card support. Installing any card with an Adlib chip will override all other sound selections except Sound Blaster. Any way to fix this?

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-10-19, 05:31

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Gamespot and IGN have 60fps capability. However, allowing you or me to show videos in 60fps, I think that is the video we host ourselves.

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-10-19, 02:58

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I guess I may have been mistaken, its Dailymotion, not Vimeo, that purportedly supports 60fps. You have only be able to use the 720p format for it. DOSBox is the easiest way to capture footage of DOS games at 70Hz. Syncing it with audio from an MT-32 or other MIDI device is not seamless.

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-10-19, 00:52

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I suppose Blip.tv doesn't support 720p /60Hz, which would make the in-game footage less choppy. Is there any video host that supports 60 fps? That would interest me. DOS games run at 70 Hz anyway so you would get choppiness either way. Capturing at 70 Hz is also a challenge. I read that Vimeo …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-10-18, 23:46

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I suppose Blip.tv doesn't support 720p /60Hz, which would make the in-game footage less choppy.

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-10-15, 16:08

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On my monitor, the in-game does appear in widescreen similar to jwt27's photo. The menu screens do not, since they use 320x200 and should fill the screen. Also, its hard to see, but the main menu (with the swirl patterns), does use a blue border color. I will adjust my article and try to get those …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-10-13, 15:24

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I discuss aspect ratio issues in three blog entries : http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2013/10/320x200-resolution-of-choice-for-ibm-pc.html http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/09/classic-dos-pinball-games-mode-x-and.html http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/09/oddball-ega-and-vga- …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2014-10-12, 17:30

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Hey Kris, Congratulations on three full seasons, 150 episodes of Ancient DOS Games! Oh, and don't let me forget 40 filler episodes of equal merit. You really fill a demand for content that is sorely needed. From your most recent episode, I had no idea that JJ was so expensive to obtain legitimately. …

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Re: Upgrade Tandy 1000EX RAM?

Posted on 2014-10-12, 16:13

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Hi all I was wondering is it possible to upgrade the Tandy 1000EX's RAM? I know you can do the same upgrade as you can with the PCjr regarding the 8088 CPU to NECV20 but when I google RAM upgrade I'm not getting anything. You are confusing expanding RAM with upgrading the CPU. The EX requires a …

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Might and Magic III Tandy

Posted on 2014-10-06, 04:24

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ripsaw8080 and I were having a discussion about another issue and he mentioned that in DOSBox 0.74, the base amount of free RAM in the Tandy machine type (conventional memory - the amount used by the video buffer) was 608KB. In DOSBox SVN, the base amount of RAM is 624KB. This change fixed several …

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Re: Need help finding a 16:10 1920x1200 monitor for new and old games?

Posted on 2014-10-05, 04:00

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My 26" 1920x1200 16:10 Asus VW266H does well, but it does stretch anything at 320x200 which kinda sucks. Although I don't know of any large monitors that keep the correct aspect for this resolution. I've seen these go for between $180-$220 from time to time: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2014-10-05, 03:01

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The Boulderdash-FIX does not work. The fix searches of the IMG file and I have one ".com" and one "bin" file. Is there any Win1x or Win2x driver for the Tandy-Video (640x200@16colors?) I can't find any Video-Driver for Win1x/2x so I need to use CGA-Mono instead, which sucks. PC-Geos has also no …

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