Re: a small Redneck Rampage annoyance

Posted on 2013-05-27, 12:15

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by ripsaw8080

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Redneck Rampage tries to open and play a couple of non-existent animation files (IN_03.ANM and IN_04.ANM) at exit. The animations will be played if they exist, but whether they exist or not the game will pause for a keypress after each. If the two pauses for a keypress don't happen on real systems …

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Re: DosBox: Error "not enough memory for internal tables" and how to fight it?   

Posted on 2013-05-27, 02:32

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by ripsaw8080

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If applications set their file handle count to something greater than 20 then DOSBox uses some of its table memory to hold the handle table. Table memory is never released, and if an application is run repeatedly in the same session of DOSBox then the table memory can be depleted at a rate that …

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Re: Best solution for running this Win9x game?

Posted on 2013-05-23, 04:23

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by ripsaw8080

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HDPMI has a -m switch to disable the DPMI 1.0 extensions. You might also try augmenting the hi-color VESA support with S3VBE20 or SDD 5.3a (UniVBE).

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Re: Best solution for running this Win9x game?

Posted on 2013-05-23, 01:57

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by ripsaw8080

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When you get page faults with DPMI clients that you suspect were designed to run under Win9x, the problem is often fixed by disabling the DPMI 1.0 extensions because Win9x didn't have them. Run CWSDPMI.EXE (r5 or later) with a -x parameter to make it resident with the extensions disabled.

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Re: IMUL bug

Posted on 2013-05-21, 03:45

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by ripsaw8080

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The issue was previously reported and should be fixed in SVN.

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Re: IPF support

Posted on 2013-05-16, 04:16

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by ripsaw8080

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DOSBox has loose out-of-bounds checking on INT 13h function 2 (read) and 4 (verify), so a game that uses a success result from those functions to test for the existence of unusual sectors might be satisfied. However, not all games are so simplistic with their disk checks.

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Re: Network Q RAC Rally Championship installer issue

Posted on 2013-05-15, 10:06

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by ripsaw8080

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The problem in these cases may be similar to the one described here . You can verify by looking for the string "CauseWay DOS Extender" in the SETSOUND.EXE file. When the CauseWay extender is used by a child process then loading JEMM (or EMM386) as mentioned in the linked thread could be a solution. …

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Re: Exile 2: Crystal Souls Mouse Problems

Posted on 2013-05-12, 13:46

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by ripsaw8080

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I've noticed that the game tends to use custom pointers, so could be a video driver issue. Does the pointer also disappear when you're moving it only within the game's title bar and pull-down menu area, where a normal pointer is used? I use the S3 Trio64/32 1.70.04 drivers, which you can find with a …

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Re: Exile 2: Crystal Souls Mouse Problems

Posted on 2013-05-12, 10:18

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by ripsaw8080

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I'm not seeing the problem you describe. The mouse pointer is a bit jumpy when SB audio plays, so maybe you're seeing an exaggerated version of that. Perhaps fixed or limited cycles will help in your case. Which version of DOSBox are you using, and on what kind of system are you running it? The …

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Re: Remap joystick buttons to keyboard presses broken?

Posted on 2013-05-11, 12:56

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by ripsaw8080

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I think you may have the process backwards. The "event" is what happens, the "bind" is the key or button you press that triggers the event.

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Re: Soundblaster on DOS 6.22 needs EMS ... ?

Posted on 2013-05-11, 08:30

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by ripsaw8080

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Does the game's SB sound work in DOSBox without booting DOS? If so, then your setup in real DOS is suspect. Does MEM.EXE report available EMS memory? Are you setting the BLASTER environment variable? If you post the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT you're using, it might be easier to spot if something is …

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Re: SVN on OS X - core=dynamic causes segfault

Posted on 2013-05-11, 00:52

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gulikoza wrote: If anybody has a better idea than of xor, don't be shy A different approach, not sure if better: Copy code to clipboard 1 - if (!dword) cache_addb(0x66); 2 - cache_addb(0x8b); // mov reg,[data] 3 + if (!dword) cache_addw(0xb70f); // movzx reg,[data] 4 + else cache_addb(0x8b); // mov …

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Re: Win 3.1 game, can't get VfW or redbook audio working

Posted on 2013-05-10, 00:55

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by ripsaw8080

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In SYSTEM.INI in the [drivers] section you should see the line "VIDC.IV31=IR32.dll", and the IR32.DLL driver file should be in the \WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder. If either of those things isn't there, then VFW wasn't correctly installed. You might try installing VFW 1.1 separately, anyway. For the CD audio …

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Re: LOADFIX Explaination

Posted on 2013-05-09, 15:29

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by ripsaw8080

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Loadfix allocates a memory block of the specified size (in kB, default is 64 kB) in lower memory, making that memory unavailable to programs, and also making subsequently executed programs load at a higher memory segment. It's sometimes necessary for programs that are buggy with regard to how they …

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Re: critical path game in windows 3.1

Posted on 2013-05-09, 12:03

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by ripsaw8080

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http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/SVN_Builds I suggest trying a vanilla SVN build, as the custom builds based on SVN can introduce other issues.

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Re: critical path game in windows 3.1

Posted on 2013-05-09, 11:34

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Something I forgot to mention in my previous comment: you may need to use an SVN build of DOSBox for this game. This is because the disc I'm working with has Macintosh resource fork data for the movie files, and SVN has a fix so those associated files are ignored, as they should be. The likely …

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Re: critical path game in windows 3.1

Posted on 2013-05-09, 10:37

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Older versions of Quicktime are often problematic in DOSBox. The usual solution is to replace the old version of Quicktime with version 2.1.2 which is known to work well in DOSBox. However, you have to wrestle with certain games, and such is the case with Critical Path. Here are the steps I went …

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Re: critical path game in windows 3.1

Posted on 2013-05-08, 17:21

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by ripsaw8080

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Seems to be saying "Error loading media device driver". You can try installing the CD audio driver, if you haven't already, but I don't know for a fact that the game needs it. To install the driver: Control Panel, Drivers, Add..., [MCI] CD Audio.

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Re: 9: The Last Resort

Posted on 2013-05-07, 18:59

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by ripsaw8080

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Well, I can only tell you with certainty that the English (UK) version works fine in DOSBox under Windows 3.11 with the game's 16-bit install and QT 2.1.2. You can probably get many games intended for Windows 95 to limp along to varying degrees with Win32s, but they'll never truly work there.

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Re: 9: The Last Resort

Posted on 2013-05-06, 17:16

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by ripsaw8080

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Try installing with SETUP16.EXE, thus avoiding 32-bit stuff; I think you'll find that less problematic. After the game is installed it will try to install QT, but cancel that and separately install QT 2.1.2.

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