Re: Facemaker - Reboot Requested

Posted on 2012-07-11, 18:27

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by ripsaw8080

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It tries to read a sector on the A: drive and reboots the system if the read fails. Mounting a floppy image on A: seems to make the game happy, it runs; but it's possible that the sector contents are somehow important. It may be using the sector for saving and restoring game data, so if you're going …

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Re: Eye of the Storm - Screen Jumping

Posted on 2012-07-11, 08:52

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by ripsaw8080

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The main game executable (EOS1.EXE) needs the full 128 kB of upper memory linked into the DOS memory chain in order to use SVGA resolution, so you have to disable EMS (i.e. xms=true, ems=false, umb=true). The intro executable (ESD1.EXE) is a smaller program and doesn't need upper memory for the …

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Re: Eye of the Storm - Screen Jumping

Posted on 2012-07-10, 22:37

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by ripsaw8080

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Oops, I got the filenames mixed up, should be SBP2DU.EXE at the same repository instead of SB20DU.EXE; I corrected the link in my earlier post. The driver I linked to by mistake works with a setting of sbtype=sb2 😉

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Re: Eye of the Storm - Screen Jumping

Posted on 2012-07-10, 21:52

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by ripsaw8080

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The CD version is basically the same as the floppy version, and the sound works just as well for me with it. I don't know why it would work for me and not for you; possibly some oversight or misunderstanding. Another thing you can do is use a debug build of DOSBox to see if the game is opening the …

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Re: Eye of the Storm - Screen Jumping

Posted on 2012-07-10, 19:42

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by ripsaw8080

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The only thing I see that would prevent it from working is having xms=false. It works for me in 0.74 and SVN using the driver and settings mentioned. If XMS is not your problem, I suggest starting over from default settings and changing only the ones that need to be changed.

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Re: Eye of the Storm - Screen Jumping

Posted on 2012-07-10, 19:24

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by ripsaw8080

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There is sound in the intro, and if you don't hear the sound in the intro then there are sounds in gameplay you are not hearing. You have to get the driver set up correctly for sound to be fully working.

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Re: Eye of the Storm - Screen Jumping

Posted on 2012-07-10, 19:06

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It should be "set sound=c:\eyestorm", not "sound set=c:\eyestorm"; and make sure the DRV folder containing the driver is under the EYESTORM folder. The CT-VOICE.DRV sound drivers are specific to a particular model of SB and won't work with others (based on DSP version), so you have to set the sbtype …

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Re: Eye of the Storm - Screen Jumping

Posted on 2012-07-10, 18:02

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Works fine with machine=vgaonly, using 320x200x256 graphics by default. If you in fact used "vga_only" as the machine type it would be unrecognized and fall back to the default of "svga_s3", explaining why it made no difference for you. Seems to work in 640x400x256 with machine=svga_paradise; the …

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Re: A Korean CD Game problem... (include files)

Posted on 2012-07-08, 16:58

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by ripsaw8080

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That would work if the only other error is access denied, but it seems to me that other errors are (or should be) possible. Setting file attributes on cdrom uses this test: if (strncmp(Drives[drive]->GetInfo(),"CDRom ",6)==0 || strncmp(Drives[drive]->GetInfo(),"isoDrive ",9)==0) { DOS_SetError( …

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Re: A Korean CD Game problem... (include files)

Posted on 2012-07-08, 16:23

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by ripsaw8080

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There is a minor compatibility issue. The game's highly sophisticated CD check is to try and delete a file on the CD, expecting an "access denied" error. The unlink function in drive_iso.cpp sets the DOS error to "access denied", but it is changed to "file not found" in dos_files.cpp: bool DOS_ …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-07-07, 05:36

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by ripsaw8080

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With the graphics, the gameplay, and Bobby Prince's music, you really do get a sense of how Wolfenstein 3D evolved out of Catacomb 3D. BTW, the earlier 1991 release of Catacomb 3D was called "A New Dimension", not "The Descent". Also, you were Petton Everhail the wizard from the 2D Catacomb game, …

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Re: Mouse movement odd

Posted on 2012-07-04, 21:54

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by ripsaw8080

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Did you try reducing sensitivity? Increasing seems the obvious thing to try, but for a "sticky" pointer problem... Another thing you can try is the SDL_VIDEODRIVER=WINDIB environment variable setting.

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Re: CyberStrike - MPS Install Utility

Posted on 2012-07-03, 17:18

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I wonder what kind of searches you tried that failed to turn this up... http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=24859 As for CyberStrike, it's mostly useless without the long-dead GEnie service. There is a modern remake , so not much interest in emulating the server side like was done for the Sierra …

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Re: Fifa International Soccer (1994) via DOSBox, crashes while launching

Posted on 2012-07-02, 18:29

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by ripsaw8080

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I suggest choosing "Sound Blaster 16" for the "SFX Card In Use", as that's the default in DOSBox. For General MIDI music I guess "Roland SSC1" is the closest option, although "Wave Blaster" might be OK, too. In CONFIG.EXE select "Change Music Defaults." and change the values to: IO Address 0330h IRQ …

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Re: Darklight Conflict, intro crash - "setstreamspeed"

Posted on 2012-07-02, 13:51

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by ripsaw8080

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Please make sure the movie files have a reasonable file size, and that there aren't duplicate directory entries or other apparent anomalies, when you do a DIR command within DOSBox on the mounted image. Have you tried a build of plain SVN source such as from emucr?

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Re: Mechwarrior (1989) & MT-32

Posted on 2012-06-28, 11:08

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by ripsaw8080

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Even if you work around the IRQ hang issue with intelligent mode, the game then promptly commands the MPU401 to go into UART mode, so there is really no "benefit" of intelligent mode to be had in this case. Anyway, you won't get support here for a game you've admitted to obtaining illegally, so ask …

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Re: System Shock CD - how to get GUS sound?

Posted on 2012-06-28, 10:45

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by ripsaw8080

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The Metropoli FTP server has been around a long time, and it may just be a temporary problem. The server is actually responsive, but file transfers are failing, so possibly a storage issue. You can get the archive here , and it generally seems to work OK with the CD version of System Shock. Make …

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Re: Lemmings 3D - CD with CD music

Posted on 2012-06-27, 14:54

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by ripsaw8080

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and you didn't mention either specifically you had set up a special gus folder, you said you were using the default dosbox settings, those were your words Firstly, I didn't set it up specifically for this game, it was there from before; and it didn't occur to me to mention that I had installed the …

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Re: Lemmings 3D - CD with CD music

Posted on 2012-06-27, 13:32

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by ripsaw8080

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You didn't mention it specifically, so just trying the most obvious things first. ;) It seems the game's GUS driver wants the ULTRASND directory set up with the ULTRASND.INI file and instrument patches. I already have that directory set up, but I'm guessing you don't. There's a guide on installing …

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Re: Lemmings 3D - CD with CD music

Posted on 2012-06-27, 13:11

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by ripsaw8080

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Make sure you set gus=true in the DOSBox config, because the default setting of false is the most obvious thing that would keep GUS digital audio from working.

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