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

Posted on 2017-07-11, 06:04

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Hey guys. I didn't find a good way to edit the font sources, but I wanted to make a couple small extensions. Just the characters ẞ (LATIN CAPITAL SHARP S) and ₿ (BITCOIN SIGN). I've tried to add these symbols in the best way I could to the style of the original fonts while being recognizable. My …

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Re: DOSBox Project Name Change

Posted on 2009-05-07, 09:01

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Shed wrote: i like DOSBox name […] Show full quote i like DOSBox name but if Qbix or Dosfreak want a new name i't would call it PC - D.O.S or PC-DOS 2.0 or PC2DOS 😁 I would steer clear of this considering the company that made PC DOS to begin with is still around, it would only invite a lawsuit.

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Re: DosBox?

Posted on 2009-05-05, 09:53

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Use Windows Explorer to make a directory like C:\DOS first, then use DOSBox and type "mount C C:\DOS"

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Re: DOSBox Project Name Change

Posted on 2009-05-02, 23:33

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The only problem with the current name IMO is the closely-named DOSEMU, which has a different purpose, but the two can easily be confused (and I've seen people that interchange both names under the mistake that they're the same). Other than that, I rather like the name of DOSBox. It's short and easy …

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Re: Drive Image 2002 Symantec Deploy Center

Posted on 2009-04-16, 05:59

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Not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but go get RIP and use the included fdisk/ntfsprogs to edit various things (I'm sure there's a program there to manipulate FAT, but I haven't dealt with FAT systems in ages). Anyway, this is all out of scope for this forum...

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Re: HELP trying to play Oregon Trail 2 on Vista

Posted on 2009-04-14, 20:38

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Follow this guide: Windows 3.1x DOSBox Guide OT2 should work in that, it sounds like.

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Re: Drive Image 2002 Symantec Deploy Center

Posted on 2009-04-13, 04:45

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DOSBox is a full PC emulator intended for games. It will not give programs direct access to your hardware, you are essentially looking at the wrong solution. Checkout FreeDOS instead; it's an operating system intended to run native on your PC.

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Re: real/protected mode dos games

Posted on 2009-04-12, 19:46

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Well, Intel tried to clean up the whole mess by introducing the Itanic (ahem, Itanium) which had little compatibility with x86 (the very original one had an x86 core, although it was dropped because of difficulty in operating system support on top of the fact that software emulation was faster than …

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Re: DOSBox running slow with GF9

Posted on 2009-04-10, 07:53

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This is a pretty common complaint with various Doom ports as well; as far as I've seen, the only permanent solution has been "don't buy NVIDIA"

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Re: Run a Windows program from DOSBox

Posted on 2009-04-08, 06:36

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DOSBox is not intended to launch programs on the host system, its sole purpose is a games emulator.

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Re: Maximum amount of open files

Posted on 2009-04-07, 09:12

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It's quite unlikely that the software is still actively developed, 🤣 Also config.sys for DOSBox would be absolutely pointless. It was meant for drivers and such.

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Re: dosbox and win 95

Posted on 2009-04-07, 00:13

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It should run on Windows 95, but remember that it's a full emulator so unless it's running on a fast computer, you won't be playing all the games a 486/75MHz or Pentium 166MHz could.

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Re: The Secret of Monkey Island CD-ROM version

Posted on 2009-04-06, 23:12

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-usecd and -ioctl are for the plain "mount" command not the imgmount command, so if you put your real CD into the real CD drive, that's where they apply.

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Re: (CVS HEAD) VGA 9x16 font, why is it vgaonly?

Posted on 2009-04-06, 22:40

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It's really a case of being more accurate to how PCs really were. I guess I've just used PCs for so long that I can't stand the squished text, but whatever. I'll just have to make a patch myself then if I really want this. 😒

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Re: CD-ROM drive speed

Posted on 2009-04-06, 22:25

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add it to delphine

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Re: (CVS HEAD) VGA 9x16 font, why is it vgaonly?

Posted on 2009-04-06, 22:14

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is also why I suggested that perhaps it could be toggle-able in addition to being in all the svga modes This won't happen, if you want 9bit wide fonts use vgaonly, if you want svga then use the default. Might I ask why the SVGA modes won't include this even as an option? Quite frankly the 8-pixel- …

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Re: (CVS HEAD) VGA 9x16 font, why is it vgaonly?

Posted on 2009-04-06, 11:07

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If that's a reason then why would vgaonly already have the feature? :) (Would you disable 320x200 fullscreen too because some video card drivers don't have the mode?) I actually understand why it may not be visually desirable, which is also why I suggested that perhaps it could be toggle-able in …

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Re: (CVS HEAD) VGA 9x16 font, why is it vgaonly?

Posted on 2009-04-05, 23:43

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Heh, indeed. It was basically a simple expanded version of the typically useless "works for me" response :P Also if anyone's concerned on the aspect part (text mode graphics like post-game messages) and won't be able to use it full screen, it might simply be configurable with an option like vgatext …

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Re: (CVS HEAD) VGA 9x16 font, why is it vgaonly?

Posted on 2009-04-05, 21:22

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heh, 720x400 works for me (listed in xrandr and all; Intel 965GM graphics). How is it less troublesome btw? I realize that you need special cases for which characters to copy the 8th column and which you don't (192 < n < 223; figured this out before making a patch for Chocolate Doom, heh), but it …

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(CVS HEAD) VGA 9x16 font, why is it vgaonly?

Posted on 2009-04-05, 20:25

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I was going to submit this as a feature request on SourceForge, however this is probably a design decision I don't understand. Basically as the title says, the CVS tree of DOSBox has proper VGA text mode emulation but only when using machine=vgaonly, and I wonder why it doesn't get used for all the …

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