Re: a heretic for dos would be possible with the previous weapon, next weapon keys

Posted on 2024-03-07, 20:39

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And because I though Chex would be a nice game for the Anbernic device I now own, I also did a patch for Chex. This one works like the Ultimate Doom patch above - [2] for previous, [8] for next. Ultimate Doom and Final Doom patches shared before were flawed, there's an updated ZIP file now a few …

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Re: a heretic for dos would be possible with the previous weapon, next weapon keys

Posted on 2024-02-28, 12:51

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Ehm, I am not sure I get the question, sorry. So normally, there are three separate buttons in Heretic that control flight: up, down and center ( center also puts the wings artifact countdown on pause). Now, I would not know if to beat the game one needs to use flight, but it one has to they need …

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Re: a heretic for dos would be possible with the previous weapon, next weapon keys

Posted on 2024-02-25, 22:18

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You put the patch into your game directory on a DOS machine (e.g. in DOSBox), make a backup of your game, then run the patch. PatchMaker thread is actually one of the pinned topics in a neighbor subforum. I decided to be not lazy and produced a Doom II patch that honors what weapons the player …

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Re: a heretic for dos would be possible with the previous weapon, next weapon keys

Posted on 2024-02-21, 11:33

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Sadly, the TSR solution is easier said then done. The tool would need to manage protected mode ISR-s from within the same DPMI host the game uses, and reassign its own ISR back after the game starts to run, so the above technique would not work. I experimented with the suggested direction, though, …

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Re: a heretic for dos would be possible with the previous weapon, next weapon keys

Posted on 2024-02-19, 13:15

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Apologies again, this is not a direct solution to your problem, but since NOVERT is a thing, I was curious if a key mapper TSR with simple logic could be created and loaded in DOSBox before the game starts. It would simply map, say n to one of the numerics based on an incrementing counter value. No …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-02-19, 12:40

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Thanks for noticing that - does not happen to me on my videocard (neither in Windows nor FreeDOS), but I was able to reproduce with DOSBox. Attaching the patch with some cleanup and a change that removed the effect in DOSBox for me. Will also be re-uploading a cleaned up version to github after a …

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Re: a heretic for dos would be possible with the previous weapon, next weapon keys

Posted on 2024-02-11, 08:54

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Just a side note: from what I remember MagicDOSBox on Android had a similar macro feature. I guess that's not that useful for the OP?

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Re: The retro age of Dual Cores has arrived

Posted on 2024-02-11, 08:51

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Dont know if my system in sig qualifies, but I have been running this hobby project of mine since covid days with a few machines of the generation that I tried. I ended up setting up quadripple booting into Windows 10, Windows 98SE (DOS only and proper), FreeDOS and Ubuntu (the latter as my rescue …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-02-07, 20:59

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Hey, sorry the library misbehaves for you. On my end I have rebuilt clean from shared source and linked with "my previously compiled build" of MBF, again clean. Everything worked as intended. Sharing the diff of the MBF source I run from the original code just in case.

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-02-06, 21:14

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Hmmm... I will check and revert, but just to be sure - when you mention no MBF code changes, does that mean no MBF code changes on top of this, or on top of original Gerwin's code?

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Re: Retro PC MIDI to modern PC

Posted on 2024-02-02, 22:02

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From what I read on the net, I believe Roland USB adapter is a good option. I tried a cheap modern adapter when I wanted to get MIDI ouput from a PC into a laptop running MUNT and it simply failed :( There's this interesting project, but I am yet to try and build something out of it, although I have …

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Re: Sound issues with Westwood Studios games on a G41 machine [Solved]

Posted on 2024-02-02, 21:13

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One curious thing I have come by after starting to play the games more, was that in my setup Lands of Lore 1 CD was getting my PC into PCI Partity error after 5 to 15 minutes of play. This happenned to me with FreeDOS and both SBEMU and VSBHDA. I was unable to reproduce the same neither with DSDMA …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2024-01-31, 10:27

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I had experience once with buying (cheap) a card with a huge Yamaha labled chip, which turned out to be a Crystal. :) I understand the that wthout a foto of the fake this response is not so useful, but my impression is that it's quite easy to come by a fake card, and it would look quite legitimate …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2024-01-30, 23:54

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Apologies if this has been explained even in the guide itself, but something I was recently amazed by was that for CD-AUDIO output (and by extension I assume for mixing and output of any input channels?) the only thing required in DOS is initialization of the sound chip with SETUPDS.EXE. Not even …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-01-28, 15:35

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Not as much improved as "experimented" really. I think the difference to the library binary comes from what's been changed outside of MIDI.*/ADLIB.*, i.e. : - twice the number of max MIDI tracks supported - reverted OPL timbres from those derived from closed source/commercial ones coming from id/DMX …

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Re: Sound issues with Westwood Studios games on a G41 machine [Solved]

Posted on 2024-01-19, 20:15

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So, I've renamed OP to [Solved] a few days ago, but since then I did a bit more of digging around which I am posting to report: this time with Lands of Lore 2. In my VSBHDA SB16 + PCI MPU-401 setup it was crashing the moment MIDI music started to play, so I previously have tried it in two …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2024-01-18, 22:08

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ludicrous_peridot wrote on 2023-12-11, 13:42: Apologies for the convoluted way to deliver the changes, I imagine a patch/diff file done against the _MBF tree would have worked much better! Nothing new, but I have posted the changes here in what I hope is a much more agreeable format.

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Re: Sound issues with Westwood Studios games on a G41 machine

Posted on 2024-01-10, 00:13

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VSBHDA SB16 emulation is exactly what I use for digitized sound in Kyrandia 3 and Lands of Lore at the moment and they actually work without lock-ups or cut-offs (MPU-401 and FM music in LoL are via a PCI card still) ... except that Kyrandia 3 performance in cut scenes is really not stellar and I …

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Re: Sound issues with Westwood Studios games on a G41 machine

Posted on 2024-01-09, 21:22

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Here are the drivers from HOF CD (I think :) ). HOFCD.PNG I had a look at DMKIT 150 and can see similar, say SBFM* drivers, but not SBDIG I see here, which I imagine is used for speech and digitized sound in the game. I am tempted to try your approach with Kyrandia 1, by the way, only I don't have a …

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Re: Sound issues with Westwood Studios games on a G41 machine

Posted on 2024-01-09, 16:03

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Are you sure about Hand of Fate drivers though? I don't remember exactly but they might be in DRIVER.PAK like in other WW games of the period. So using WWPACK one can replace the driver with the desired one. In fact I clearly remember I have extracted HoF sound drivers, but not the details, and …

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