Dealing with energy consumption of old hardware

Posted on 2022-08-05, 07:50

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by Akuma

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The consumption of old hardware has become less desirable, now that energy costs are increasing. I'm just curious how people are dealing with this or have any good solutions. I think we can all benefit from some good advice.

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2022-08-05, 07:36

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by Akuma

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anyone know how to actually "load" a CT-VOICE.DRV before starting a game? The attendance to my own threads everywhere is flaky at best lately ;) I assume you want to switch between versions, for testing purposes: Change the path eg: SET SOUND=C:\DOS\CT-VOICE\2.12, but some games do not use or …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2022-06-26, 09:07

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I've found one more game that requires SOUND.COM - it is "Turn It", at least the German version of it: https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/turn-it Added and credited I've managed to produce a slightly more up-to-date table of CT-VOICE.DRV compatibility in DOSBox with various sbtype settings. My test …

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Re: Rick Dangerous (1989) +8 TRAINER

Posted on 2022-06-02, 11:32

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Hmm...I think I tested it on the MiSTeR, but I can't remember tbh I have little time as of late, so it's in the queue along with a small surprise feature that would complete this project. But its going to be a while before I have some spare time to implement it. If you find a chance to test it on …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2022-05-05, 15:24

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Added and credited

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2022-05-05, 12:38

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Sound Driver Pack updated to version 1.03, see top post for changes and downloads.

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2022-05-04, 15:27

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is the latest version of such a driver always the best for dosbox or are there games that need specific versions? im thinking about reversing some of the drivers and looking for the right versions when used with dosbox IF it works, yes, but there lays the problem, I always start with SB1.0 and work …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2022-05-04, 13:43

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is the latest version of such a driver always the best for dosbox or are there games that need specific versions? im thinking about reversing some of the drivers and looking for the right versions when used with dosbox IF it works, yes, but there lays the problem, I always start with SB1.0 and work …

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Re: Into the Eagles Nest: delayed response to movement

Posted on 2022-04-20, 12:03

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I thought I had some time on my hands to give this a go, unfortunately that was not the case. So this has to wait a bit. Thanks for the pointers.

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Re: Into the Eagles Nest: delayed response to movement

Posted on 2022-04-13, 08:00

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I got back to this game, and man it still felt trippy to me :lol: So I did some investigation (from the wiki ): The game was originally programmed by Andrew Challis for the Commodore 64 , and by Kevin Parker for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and ZX Spectrum platforms, with graphics provided by …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2022-04-12, 10:46

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Hi, add to the list "Fiendish Freddy's Big Top O' Fun". Needs sound.com driver to run game using -ADLIB parameter with .exe Greetings. Yay!, added and credited under SOUND.COM your README.MD in the 7z file is not up to date :( Thanks, I will update those lists when I have something substantial to …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2022-04-08, 14:04

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Updated CT-VOICE section with approximately 100 games these are many games...! so what's next , a CT-VOICE.DRV for generic cards? :D Nope, AdLib games :D, added 18 games to the AdLib SOUND.COM list. Found a hacked AdLib SOUND.COM 1.31, but its too messed up to add :( *bummer* Edit: added 84 games …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2022-04-08, 08:13

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Updated CT-VOICE section with approximately 100 games

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Re: Rick Dangerous (1989) +8 TRAINER

Posted on 2022-03-31, 15:49

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by Akuma

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Thanks for the kind words guys 😁 Enjoy the game once more.

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Re: Rick Dangerous - unfair deaths & traps

Posted on 2022-03-30, 14:32

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by Akuma

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33 years of frustration have come to an end: Rick Dangerous (1989) +8 TRAINER

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Rick Dangerous (1989) +8 TRAINER

Posted on 2022-03-30, 13:32

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by Akuma

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Rick Dangerous (1989) +8 Trainer RICKTRN.PNG highscore saving control/key configuration load and save game level skip Now let's see some speed runs :) RICKTRN.ZIP RICK DANGEROUS +8 TRAINER Do you have have serious issues with the unfair deaths in this game? How about some training wheels :) F1 …

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Re: How to cure Rick Dangerous "Packed file is corrupt" error?

Posted on 2022-03-26, 14:56

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by Akuma

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Rick Dangerous (1989) file decrypter This program is written to deal with the exepack problems of this game. Usage: rickdec filename It will then spit out the executable OUT.EXE To remove the exepack, you need to use UNP by Ben Castricum. eg: UNP OUT.EXE RICKCGA.EXE The game can now be run without …

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Re: Rick Dangerous (1989) High score load/save fix

Posted on 2022-03-25, 19:42

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Very nice patch, indeed. If you don't mind, this actually reminds me of a question I've been asking myself for a little while now. Technically, how hard would it be to modify a game that originally had PC speaker music to instead play CD audio tracks at certain points? I had the idea to somehow mod …

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Re: How to cure Rick Dangerous "Packed file is corrupt" error?

Posted on 2022-03-25, 19:31

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by Akuma

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My rick.com is indeed 3535 bytes... loadfix does work for me but I need to have ~585kb of free conventional for it to work. Else I get the pack error... maybe the error comes from the rick.ega/rick.cga files that eL_PuSHeR mentions? if they are EXEs maybe they are the real culprits Rick.com by …

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Re: Rick Dangerous (1989) High score load/save fix

Posted on 2022-03-23, 16:31

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keropi wrote on 2022-03-23, 16:30: patience, things need to be archived on storage pc 🤣 🤣

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