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Re: Game will ONLY work with CD in drive

Posted on 2021-08-22, 22:34

in Windows
This sounds much like the old game "Gazillionaire" from Lavamind. It will run equally well on anything from W95 through at least Win7, but must have the disc in the drive. I have never found a No-CD patch, nor any instructions for running the game without the CD; installing the basic game then …

Re: Help to find side scroller game name

Posted on 2021-06-23, 20:16

in Milliways
it's best to keep os on a separate partition so when you reinstall it the rest is untouched. Except for that wretched registry. I've not reinstalled windows in over twenty years; if i must also reinstall all my other software just to get a couple of lines added to the registry... I'll do i t on a …

Re: VPN

Posted on 2021-06-23, 20:11

in Milliways
Proton works. I used it a few times but it was always slow. I use Proton because it's free with the email account; found it no faster, or slower, than others I've tried. Yesterday this site "timed out waiting for response" twice, I disconnected the vpn and Vogons loaded immediately. Tried again …

Re: PC gaming magazines with full games

Posted on 2021-06-23, 20:03

in Milliways
What is included as bonus material in any magazine with international distribution can vary from country to country depending on licensing, franchising, and marketing agreements. It's the same as youtube today, where you often (too often) get "sorry, this video is not available in your country". …

Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2021-06-12, 18:27

in Milliways
Eventually maintaining old hardware will no longer be a viable option. Even if you are adept at soldering and have a good soldering station there's little you can do beyond replacing leaky or bad electrolytic caps, maybe locate a bad diode; but a burnt resistor? what overloaded it? Troubleshooting …

Re: What is your unconscious motive for retro hardware ?

Posted on 2021-05-10, 19:20

in Milliways
Partly nostalgia, remembering all the fun with a particular system. Partly simplicity, it is often easier to maintain an antique system for some old games/software than jump through the hoops to run those on new systems. Kept an IBM Aptiva for years til, like many of us, it got old and cranky ( …

Re: What game series did you stop getting and why?

Posted on 2021-05-10, 18:56

in Milliways
Virtually any I've ever played. My experience is that it is quite rare for subsequent releases to live up to the predecessors and eventually (like seasons of TV shows or sequels to movies) it is marketing/merchandising rather than creativity driving the process. A good example is Morrowind/Oblivion/ …

Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2021-05-07, 18:40

in DOSBox General
Thanks. The [Extra] section is where I found the "gibberish". But in the conf I did find: SET PATH=Z:\ keyb US 437 mount C "C:\DOSGames\D-FEND~1\VIRTUA~1\" mount D "C:\DOSGames\SWOTL\" echo. D: cd\ Z:\config.com -securemode > nul call SW.BAT I want to run a TSR with the game, its cfg file needs the …

Re: D-Fend Reloaded (DOSBox frontend)

Posted on 2021-05-06, 21:16

in DOSBox General
Where in DFend's conf/prof files will I find the mount information for a particular game? Closest I find is, for example: 0=.\VirtualHD\;Drive;C;false; 2=C:\DOSGames\SWOTL\;Drive;D;false; Environment=PATH[61]Z:\[13][10] which is gibberish to me.

Re: Crimson Skies and dgVoodoo

Posted on 2021-05-06, 20:48

Apparently I can have either a functional interface but inconsistent frame rates or I can have good frame rates with corrupt text and the need to minimize/maximize after every screen change. Neither acceptable, will soon abandon this as not worth the effort.

Re: "...not a valid win32 application"

Posted on 2021-05-06, 20:38

in DOS
Are we really asking someone why they are running a 32bit version of Windows on this forum? Really? Um, yes? Running a 32-Bit vintage system like Windows 98SE is one thing, but running a 32-Bit edition of a modern system such as Windows 7/8 is another. That's akin to running Windows 3.0 in Real- …

Re: "...not a valid win32 application"

Posted on 2021-05-06, 19:45

in DOS
Are we really asking someone why they are running a 32bit version of Windows on this forum? Really? Good point. I don't need Win7 64 on an 8 core 4gig CPU with 32gig RAM, 8 gig vid card, and 1kW pS to run a quarter century old DOS game. FWIW, I'm doing all this on an old Inspiron 1720 that, while a …

Re: "...not a valid win32 application"

Posted on 2021-05-06, 06:33

in DOS
.... why you're running the 32-bit version of Windows 7?..... Why not? And trying to get some of these older games working on a 64 bit system would be an even greater can of worms. But then, everything in Linux always seems to be tantalizingly close to working the way it should. Exactly why I've …

Re: "...not a valid win32 application"

Posted on 2021-05-05, 22:00

in DOS
Well, usually if you run them from a command prompt, you can see some sort of coherent message rather than a "brief flash". Often clicking a bat, com, or even exe in windows explorer merely causes the instant appearance of a DOS window, which disappears just as quickly. Or, as with the patch, I …

Re: "...not a valid win32 application"

Posted on 2021-05-05, 19:41

in DOS
FWIW, the patch apparently worked in DOSBox; had to mount the parent folder of AOE not the AOE folder since the patch required a path even though located in the folder with the file it patched. Still confused why windows would complain of "not a valid win32 application" for a small DOS exe being run …

Re: "...not a valid win32 application"

Posted on 2021-05-05, 19:25

in DOS
Jorpho wrote on 2021-05-05, 04:06: .... What happens when you try to run your DOS games in Windows instead of in DOSBox? Would one would expect, 🤣; either nothing, a brief flash of a DOS window, or a complaint that it cannot be run in windows.

Re: Booting up 386

Posted on 2021-05-05, 18:49

in DOS
The machine dates to 1990; make sure what you downloaded is specific to that model number, and it is quite probable the CMOS cell is dead by now. The "Set Up Disc for Vectra LS/12" is the first thing I would consider. DOS 5, or possibly 6, should be the OS files; Windows 3.1 may run on that system …

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