Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2011-10-18, 04:40
plus, the listing says "brand new" (?!?) and has a screenshot which is plainly not the PC version (looks more like C64 to me)
Re: dos batch string manipulation
Posted on 2011-10-18, 03:07
well, that reference site calls itself DOS Tips yet says it's "for Windows 7, VISTA ,XP, NT, Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008". [cue Family Guy style showtune parody - "the Windows command prompt isn't DOS, isn't DOS, isn't DOS" ] Do you need the extension-less pathname as a variable? or just …
Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2011-10-17, 14:55
Re: DosBox App market
Posted on 2011-10-16, 20:49
And if you want to "be able to select a game by simply clicking on an icon", just use one of the front-ends.
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2011-10-16, 06:43
yeah, I guess that determining the license status of the original CW games would be a headache all unto itself. however, there *is* a DOS port of Beyond Castle Wolfenstein out there - with some enhancements such as SB support. Can't really say how playable or complete it is; but it's been out there …
Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2011-10-16, 04:01
seriously, handbagsca wasn't banned yet? my puns in this thread are lame enough already, and I don't wanna have to conclude that "things are going to hell in a handbagsca" Post 245888
Re: Spam, spam, spam
Posted on 2011-10-16, 03:47
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2011-10-16, 00:16
Also, my first computer was a DOS-based system and in fact, I have never owned or had home-access to anything but DOS-based systems. Never had a C64, Apple ][, Amiga, Atari ST, Mac, or any of those. I'm the same, and I've never owned a NES/any other console either. :P Unless you count one of those …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2011-10-16, 00:02
they're apple ][ at their core heritage so was Dangerous Dave (and the same goes for some other past episodes - Supaplex came from the Amiga, etc.) on the other hand - I'm pretty sure that the only official PC releases of Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond CW came on booter floppies... so I can't really …
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2011-10-15, 21:51
why not feature one or both of the original Castle Wolfenstein titles in a future ADG episode? Since they were already mentioned in this one...
Re: Organizing DOS games on your hard drive
Posted on 2011-10-14, 20:29
didn't "id Tech 1" refer to the Doom engine? or did they just have trouble retrofitting the silly naming scheme to older games when they made it up later on? 🤣
Re: Installing Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan from CD-ROM to Hard Drive
Posted on 2011-10-14, 18:44
Catherine - the thing is that Flying Buffalo aren't even the original developers or publishers - they were handed distribution rights a decade or more down the line, but in most cases like that you shouldn't expect much in the way of technical know-how. obviously, this varies on a case-by-case basis …
Re: Windows 2000 Task manager messed up...
Posted on 2011-10-14, 16:30
Organizing DOS games on your hard drive
Posted on 2011-10-14, 02:12
this is for those of you who hoard games and have a ton of them installed - whether on a true DOS machine, or for use with DOSBox. Not talking about frontends though (since they offer organization methods that have nothing to do with your filesystem). since forever, I've simply been keeping a "GAMES …
Re: Numeric Keyboard doen´t works throught Terminal Server in Windows Server 2008R2
Posted on 2011-10-13, 04:02
luciano@microstop.com.br wrote: If I use directly in the Serve all works fine. Only throught terminal server from a remote computer is what "numeric keyboard" not works. guess the problem is with the remote control software, then. Their own tech support / forum should be able to help
Re: Most recent MS-DOS version for old Nec Vx0 CPUs
Posted on 2011-10-13, 03:42
back when the "family computer" was an XT clone with a 20MB HD, my dad installed STACKER for disk compression (that was before DoubleSpace / DriveSpace)... and I actually don't think it had any significant performance impact. The CPUs in those machines were slow, but so were the hard drives - disk …
Re: DOSBOX or VB Bug?
Posted on 2011-10-12, 17:29
ok then, those three extra characters are "EF BB BF" in 8bit ascii, and that's indeed the Byte Order Mark for UTF-8 (if you check the wikipedia link in my previous post). your screenshot also indicates that those .RPD files might be suffering from the same symptom as the .BAT file, since the initial …
Re: DOSBOX or VB Bug?
Posted on 2011-10-12, 17:04
If those weird extra characters only appear at the beginning of the file, they're probably a Byte Order Mark (an optional header for Unicode text files - signifying the encoding type and the byte-order/endianness). VB might be auto-inserting this BOM whenever text files are written. http:// …
Re: DOSBOX or VB Bug?
Posted on 2011-10-12, 16:46
Yeah, please post an example of what happens when you "TYPE" the VB-created batchfile within DOSBox vs. the notepad-created one. weird encoding could cause something like that, too (UTF-16 for example?) also, I'm wondering what "DOS64" might be 😁
Re: Most recent MS-DOS version for old Nec Vx0 CPUs
Posted on 2011-10-12, 13:26
later MS-DOS (5.0, 6.22, whatever) will run just fine on 8088/8086/V20/V30 CPUs, The thing to check is if the current DOS 3.2 on the Epson is really identical to "generic" MS-DOS 3.2... some of the machines from that generation (especially laptops) had some OEM-specific variations in DOS to support …
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