Re: Most recent MS-DOS version for old Nec Vx0 CPUs

Posted on 2011-10-12, 13:26

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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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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2011-10-12, 13:08

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two new copy-pastors from the church of St. Spam want to establish SEOcracy: benton672, ddarion153 Post 245506 Post 245499

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-10-09, 01:31

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Overkill was one of the better scrolling shooters on the PC - very clever use of the EGA/Tandy's 16 colors, really solid game mechanics and balance, and it can hold its own very nicely against the big-name console titles that were dominating the genre back then. what's funny is that Epic's other …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2011-10-07, 05:02

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plain ol' spammer Marishvcard wages total war on the English language in his profile and custom title. Topic 30050 where do ship auto? ¯\(°_o)/¯

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2011-10-07, 04:32

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-Set input gain in the recording interface/sound card to as high as you can without ever peaking, you want the max amplitude to be a little bit below peaking. that always seems to be the problematic part - combined with setting the source volume it's hard to predict whether or not something is …

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Re: Want to use PC Speaker and not Sound Blaster in StarControl 1

Posted on 2011-10-05, 05:03

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Star Control *and* Perestroika fixed? Happy days and jubilation! (ok, that's from the wrong SC installment... get my drift though) Will try some testing later - thanks to the "rip*" username contingent for continued and demonstrated awesomeness ;)

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2011-10-04, 14:06

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mikehasi81 wants to know if we "looking global jobs" Post 244834

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2011-10-03, 03:36

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Spamdexing bot sierrashirley78 proudly spewing copypasta on behalf of its black-hat SEO overlords: Post 244688

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Re: how do I delete my dosbox account?

Posted on 2011-10-01, 04:22

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They were all designed to run on dosbox and I was so optimistic about the whole thing. Says who? The multitude of developers who explicitly design games to be run on an emulator, I suppose ;) @yellow2011: feel free to just abandon your account; I wouldn't worry about any reprecussions - this site …

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Re: CGA Compatibility Tester vs. VGA cards

Posted on 2011-09-30, 03:02

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@vlask: cool, thanks for testing :) Obviously, these results differ from Trixter's info... but they actually do so in a very particular way, which might hint at what's going on: - text modes on your monitor appear to be 400-line, consistent with stock VGA behavior - *most* of the tests that fail …

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Re: SVGA Extended Text Modes?

Posted on 2011-09-29, 01:54

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edit: is there really even a difference between graphics mode and text mode for these special SVGA modes? SVGA text modes work the same way as any other text mode (memory based on character cells/attributes, individual pixels not addressable, ASCII font, 16 colors, hardware cursor/scrolling). you …

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Re: Wallpapers - windows default 16 color

Posted on 2011-09-28, 16:08

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man, there's one aspect of "the old days" I sure don't miss... having to stick to reserved / system / "web safe" palettes. (Even the CGA/EGA palette had complementary colors and a secret mojo balance factor... 4bit in Windows just SUCKED) That said - some really nice work with the wallpapers in this …

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Re: GoG - 6 million downloads celebration event

Posted on 2011-09-28, 02:19

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heh. It's gonna be just like a last-second eBay auction sniping, beefed up to the power of ten. in fact, much like eBay sniping, someone with enough know-how could probably be writing a script right now to, uh, "gain an advantage" 😀

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Re: GoG - 6 million downloads celebration event

Posted on 2011-09-28, 00:33

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I mean, the guy who created QDOS (Quick and Dirty OS) probably commited suicide when he knew of the billions of dollars that Bill Gates made thanks to his product. the guy who created QDOS / 86-DOS was hired by Bill Gates to finish the first MS-DOS version, then spent many years as a MS employee... …

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Re: Support for alternate PCjr cartridge header format (PCJRCart)

Posted on 2011-09-26, 23:45

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Updated version - caught some bad code in the previous one (could introduce a problem when *two* cartridges are loaded).    

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Re: What the hell! My motherboard just talked to me ?!!

Posted on 2011-09-25, 14:49

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Heh, my old PC at work used to have an extremely chatty mainboard, it talked its way through every boot. Something like "all systems initialized" in a female voice very similar to the ST:TNG Enterprise computer.

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Re: CGA Compatibility Tester vs. VGA cards

Posted on 2011-09-25, 14:36

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I'm guessing there were no commandline utilities for those cards? I think the jumpers were just a standard EGA feature, meant simply to output the right signal for CGA monitors (with no effect on the card's register behavior, etc.), so I wouldn't expect them to help with the compatibility tests. and …

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Support for alternate PCjr cartridge header format (PCJRCart)

Posted on 2011-09-25, 04:17

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answers an old issue encountered here - this patch simply adds support for PCjr cartridge images dumped with Mike Brutman's PCJRCart (in addition to the already-supported JRipCart header format). Seemingly doesn't break anything, and works fine on my end, but I'm not too well-versed in the original …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2011-09-24, 03:22

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Sig-spammer MJsusan is on the rampage - showing rudimentary reading skills, too! How cute: Dosbox 0.74 and Simcity 2000 I can not properly handle a game with DOSBOX. Help me!!!! Syndicate & DOSBox - runs fine except for research? Post 243792

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Re: The video signal wars: analog vs. digital (VGA/DVI/HDMI)

Posted on 2011-09-24, 02:06

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Nah, don't think that's true. Hebrew (among other languages) goes right-to-left, too, which could be yet another interesting discussion on the subject of perception. :P For instance: the Latin alphabet is written left-to-right, and so is Japanese... now, most video games originate from countries …

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