Re: Patch for pixel-perfect scaling [was:Full-screen mode]

Posted on 2016-09-04, 19:29

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That seems to work alright, but I do have some questions: - the pixel-perfect option only respects aspect correction *if* the resulting image fits in the desktop resolution - otherwise it falls back to an uncorrected aspect. Is that correct? - is there a good reason for making this work with overlay …

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Re: Issues after PC Upgrade from Core 2 Duo Win7 to i5 Win10

Posted on 2016-08-30, 15:55

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My bad... try a space instead of the equal sign. ('config -r -machine vesa_nolfb')

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Re: Issues after PC Upgrade from Core 2 Duo Win7 to i5 Win10

Posted on 2016-08-28, 19:35

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A lot of settings can be changed on the fly, but not the machine type. With 0.74 there's not much you can do, but more recent builds would at least let you type "config -r -machine=whatever" to restart DOSBox with that parameter.

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-08-27, 09:00

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xjas wrote: Terrafire! Gotta love those ray-traced graphics. 😀 Yep! Your go.

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-08-26, 21:05

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Since nobody's started a new round for a month, I'll pick it up with a (probably) not very difficult one: Filename ĜȕɘىⓈ.png File size 19.42 KiB Views 662 views

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Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-08-25, 20:45

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Jo22, Just remembered this page which explains the differences between CGA/MDA-style character ROM pinouts and 'normal' 27xx chips. Not sure what type of ROM your Epson card has, but perhaps the last sentence in that paragraph may be helpful in dumping it.

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Re: What will we look like in 30 years?

Posted on 2016-08-21, 19:03

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keenmaster486 wrote: I predict most kids who are being taught how to "code" will only know this crap: […] Show full quote I predict most kids who are being taught how to "code" will only know this crap: Copy code to clipboard 1 Move the little bubbly square from here to there! Then make the little …

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Re: [DOS]Changing drive and directory in one line?

Posted on 2016-08-15, 19:04

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Something so fundamental like CHDIR would have been implemented to reflect the behaviour of a contemporary, probably CP/M. Digital Research did it a particular way because it met a certain requirement, or was easier to implement in code, or some such, so naturally DOS would have followed, and the …

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Re: Anyone else collecting cassettes?

Posted on 2016-08-02, 21:48

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C30 C60 C90 Go!

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2016-08-02, 21:44

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New Discharge New-ish Salem (UK) Less-new (but still new for them) Witchfinder General Bands like this that can still pull it off in their *fourth* decade of existence are damn rare. 😀 [EDIT, wrong link corrected]

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Re: Paku Paku in Virtual PC

Posted on 2016-07-25, 19:12

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Is there a custom video driver that will allow Virtual PC to detect 160x100 16 colour graphics? Well, I'm assuming that the problem lies in Virtual PC's VGA BIOS missing some compatibility features, which may cause one of two things: 1) It doesn't respond as expected to Paku Paku's video detection …

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Re: DS9 Harbinger install problems

Posted on 2016-07-25, 17:44

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It'd help if you posted the exact command sequence you're using (including mount commands). You mention mounting the correct drive, not 'drives' - did you mount both source and destination drives?

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Re: Paku Paku in Virtual PC

Posted on 2016-07-25, 16:12

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The game actually auto-detects the video hardware (supported: CGA, PCJr, Tandy 1000, Tandy TL/SL, EGA, VGA, MCGA) and sets up the tweaked text mode accordingly. Loading a custom video BIOS - where applicable - may fix things. The 160x100 16 color 'graphics' mode is very much documented, just perhaps …

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Re: Snipes ported to C/C++ with 100% logic compatibility and replay recording

Posted on 2016-07-23, 17:16

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Maybe this will help- I'm attaching my CP437 encoding files for FontForge, which you can import with 'Encoding->Load Encoding' (try the .ps first, if that doesn't work the .txt should). Then you could Reencode from Unicode to that, which would delete all characters not in the CP437 map. If you do …

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Re: Snipes ported to C/C++ with 100% logic compatibility and replay recording

Posted on 2016-07-23, 08:37

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Can't really answer any of your questions with certainty, but this is a fascinating project - hope it does get released. About font aspect ratios for square cells... since maze sections are 8x6 characters, the only thing you'd need to do is to modify your font for a 3:4 aspect ratio. I don't know …

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Re: Vintage hipster's.... I have mentioned them before.

Posted on 2016-07-19, 09:02

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Bashing of any kind [...] should not be allowed. Well said vladstamate. There's been a lot of this petulant / negative / cynical nonsense being posted here lately and it lowers the tone of an otherwise focused and mature forum. Agreed as far as childish comments go on people's clothes and …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-07-18, 23:01

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it's also known as 'Hopper' and 'Frog', and possibly other titles. But it's one of those BASIC games that any kid back then could've "modded" their names into (see Caverns of Gink vs. Caverns of Bob!), so the "real" name could be anyone's guess. 😁

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Re: Vintage hipster's.... I have mentioned them before.

Posted on 2016-07-18, 21:55

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The problem with hipsterism isn't that it's a subculture - it's a mentality. It wouldn't be half as bad if it was a subculture, but it's actually the exact antithesis - if sub-/counter-/*-cultures were living things, then hipsterism would be a tumor that divests them of meaning until they die. 😀

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Re: Using Nvidia's Dynamic Super Resolution with DOSBox and openglnb output

Posted on 2016-07-17, 21:16

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Interesting, but when I try DSR, DOSBox immediately terminates as soon as I try to go fullscreen. No visible errors- it's as if I closed the window. Tried both x2 and x3 native res here, same result (Win7, GTX 550 TI). Actually 1600 is not ideal either because the VGA card doubles the lines of a …

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Re: Commander Keen 4 - Composite CGA Edition

Posted on 2016-07-16, 09:46

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Didn't really think I'd stop at 4, did you? ;) Here's a composite CGA edit for Keen 5: - Download (patch only; you need the original KEEN5 CGA v1.4, Apogee release). - Youtube (DOSBox footage) As before, it'll work on the same hardware as the Episode 4 mod, but for DOSBox here's my Windows SVN build …

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