Re: 128MB or 256MB video card for Windows98SE?
Posted on 2016-02-19, 21:44
It doesn't matter for DOS games at all, because you won't get 3D acceleration on GeForce in DOS anyways, unless using some kind of Glide wrapper for 3dfx games or such.
Re: DosBox and science old programs - Need help
Posted on 2016-02-19, 21:34
Problem is that when we try use this exe with dosbox, nothing is work. From what I understand, you did NOT try to run this exe within dosbox, you "clicked" it. One does not "click programs" to run them in DOSBox. This strongly suggests you're running lasttobmp.exe from Windows. Is this true? If it …
Re: Athlon 900 vs Duron 1200
Posted on 2016-02-19, 21:17
oerk wrote: SSE didn't really matter at the time these processors were out. But it's no longer "the time", and SSE support would give you compatibility with more (later) software. PIII is even better because it has SSE2, which has much wider use than SSE.
Re: Has anyone else had their system catch fire?
Posted on 2016-02-17, 09:07
A relatively minor incident, a USB plug with an LED light in it (why? don't ask me..) started burning and smoking. Neither the USB port nor the printer on the other end of the cable were damaged.
Re: Feature suggestion, Let 4:3 aspect ratio work in ALL modes
Posted on 2016-02-14, 17:36
As a result, these tall characters looked normal, but when seen on a screen which accurately shows the aspect ratio (such as in DOS Box, or the Windows command prompt) the characters end up looking "fat". I'd say they looked tall, and only looked normal when actual 16:10 LCD screens (like 1280x800) …
Re: Is it legal to make my emulator create empty disk images with MS-DOS 5.0 boot loader code?
Posted on 2016-02-13, 21:28
Whatever you are doing, just use the code from FreeDOS, which is on GPL.
Re: Native DOS games with framerate display built in
Posted on 2016-02-11, 09:22
Iris030380 wrote: Timerefresh for Quake certainly, although it didn't give an accurate reading of the average FPS while playing, only what was being drawn on screen at that particular point in time. Well, source is available so a DOS Quake with FPS display is within reach 😀
Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?
Posted on 2016-02-11, 09:08
As an XP user I've started noticing some modern games that don't support XP, but those almost always have Win7 as the minimum requirement. Very few are satisfied with Vista. I think the same is true with non-game software. Yes. Even Microsoft's flagship products like Office and Visual Studio …
Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?
Posted on 2016-02-11, 00:40
leileilol wrote: I'm certain there's people who want that high frequency hum too And that burning sensation in one's face after long hours of radiation exposure... You won't get that from fancy shaders 😉
Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)
Posted on 2016-02-10, 15:19
Nice, but in reality most of those fonts were displayed in wide resolutions but on a 4:3 monitor, resulting in non-square pixels. I'd like to see those fonts in properly stretched versions.
Re: What's planned for DosBox 0.75?
Posted on 2016-02-10, 11:09
Every time one of these threads pops up the release gets pushed back another year. A new release is nothing to be afraid of. If there aren't any showstopper bugs at the moment, make it a beta and let people download it. Wait a few weeks for complaints, fix regressions, don't fix what never worked …
Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?
Posted on 2016-02-07, 10:54
Doesn't look authentic enough though. Looks like very *bad* CRT. A *good* CRT may be very hard to emulate, because the effect is much more subtle. And realistic 60Hz flicker may be impossible to do on LCD.
Re: Issues with ogg-winmm wrapper
Posted on 2016-02-07, 10:22
wav-winmm.c: In function 'fake_mciSendStringA': wav-winmm.c:503:9: warning: passing argument 4 of 'fake_mciSendCommandA' makes i nteger from pointer without a cast [enabled by default] fake_mciSendCommandA(MAGIC_DEVICEID, MCI_STOP, 0, NULL); ^ wav-winmm.c:154:17: note: expected 'DWORD_PTR' but …
Re: Doom reboot
Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:26
realnc wrote: I remember the Bethesda reveal for Fallout 4, where they also showed Doom. Well, at least they called it Fallout 4, not just Fallout again.
Re: prevent 4:3 burn-in on 16:9 plasma???
Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:03
Can you start any animation etc. around the gamescreen? Can the 4:3 gamescreen be moved 1px every 3rd second to the left until it reaches far left, and then go back to the far right? Well, DOSBox is an open-source project, so yes, it's certainly possible to implement such features, if you find a …
Re: Mechwarrior 2 DOS performance
Posted on 2016-02-06, 15:47
But S3 Virge *is* a 3D accelerated card, and from what I read on Wikipedia, there was a special VIRGE version of Mechwarrior 2. Surely it should work faster than software version. I have no idea if it works in DOS or requires Win95.
Re: Strange question regarding resource intensive games.
Posted on 2016-01-25, 02:15
That's what always made me feel adventurous in hacking a literal digital sound driver for Intel HD Audio under MSS\AIL. [...] would I still run into issues there? Who knows? Perhaps no one tried that yet... It's doable in principle, though I cannot guarantee that you won't run into an unsolvable …
Re: Strange question regarding resource intensive games.
Posted on 2016-01-21, 14:44
Could a TSR provide SB16 emulation? Yes, with issues. I remember Sound Blaster Live! had a TSR for emulation of older Sound Blasters. In some games it worked, in some it did not. And of course it took conventional memory, which is always precious. And before Live, Gravis Ultrasound also had such a …
Re: Ultimate DOSBox Config(Sound, Music and Graphics)
Posted on 2015-12-25, 16:55
I don't think there's one ultimate DOSBox config for all games. GUS emulation with proper patch set will give you much better MIDI playback (if supported by the game) than what is called "Sound Blaster" in games. GUS wavetable MIDI is similar in quality to Windows software wavetable MIDI emulation. …
Re: Are there any games that are incompatible with newer versions of DOS?
Posted on 2015-12-25, 16:24
DOS 7.1 from Windows 98SE is my DOS of choice. Clearly superior to 6.22 with FAT32 support (which means bigger partitions and more free space on small ones). I didn't have any memory problems, of course some config.sys tweaking is needed. With MEMMAKER you can get a bit more, and with QEMM even more …
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