Re: File extension unassociation tool for Windows 10

Posted on 2016-12-06, 23:31

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Agreed, this has been irking me for a while. They purged out the tools that once let you edit associations appropriately, so now setting up anything but the most basic open a file type with this program associations requires careful registry tweaking. I struggled for a while trying to work out how …

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Re: DOSBox SVN Builds

Posted on 2016-09-25, 02:24

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Dude, DOSBox, Nes, Snes, Sega, is all about the pixels, remember how we loved them in the 90s, and still do today. xBRZ is for children who grew up with flash cellphone games... lame. :dead: I was very happy with my Matrox G400 providing bilinear filtering of 320x200 content back then, and continue …

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Re: Lets improve DOSBox Sound Blaster emulation

Posted on 2016-09-07, 05:23

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Still hoping someone could implement the Mic/Line inputs on SB (or other) cards. I have a variety of DOS eyecandy software with features requiring such I'd like to try,

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Re: 3dfx demoscene

Posted on 2016-08-07, 17:27

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There is also this list, though it seems to primarily be commercial 3dfx demos rather than scene ones. http://www.falconfly.de/artwork.htm

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Re: Audio card is not recognized after Win10 Anniversary update.

Posted on 2016-08-07, 17:23

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I had similar issues recently. There apparently was a recent problem with the drivers for "Intel Smart Sound" (i.e. motherboard build in sound chips) that would cause trouble for other sound devices. The drivers for that are listed under "System devices" and while the problem was occurring I'd see …

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Re: GTX 970 "3.5GB Edition" $30 refund in the USA

Posted on 2016-07-30, 17:07

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Ug, getting annoyed by all the stories with no links to actually make a claim.

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Re: Matrox Roundup G200, G400, G400 MAX, G450 and G550

Posted on 2016-07-17, 14:59

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Thanks for the Matrox review Phil. Always loved my old G400 Max. Can someone confirm that I'm not misremembering the following about the card? I recall that for low resolution output (~320x200) it would run the image through a bilinear filter and display it at 640x480 or some other higher resolution …

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Re: Asking for assistance with a new project to document classic floppy disk contents

Posted on 2016-06-01, 02:31

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Still wish we could resurrect the project to generate PAR files for all the disks to enable restoring dead disks in a legal way.

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Re: HTTPS is available

Posted on 2016-05-12, 21:23

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Qbix wrote: Yeah it is caused by lightmasters signature. I think he would need to change the url to start with […] Show full quote Yeah it is caused by lightmasters signature. I think he would need to change the url to start with Copy code to clipboard 1 // so remove the Copy code to clipboard 1 …

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Re: HTTPS is available

Posted on 2016-05-10, 19:37

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So it seems Firefox is complaining the "Connection is not secure" on many pages. Seems to be caused by non-HTTPS connections being used for images in peoples footers.

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3DNES

Posted on 2016-03-10, 01:17

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New NES emulator generates 3D output from 2D NES games. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/03/how-a-n … m-2d-nes-games/

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Re: Anyone else interested in audio input?

Posted on 2016-02-13, 04:40

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I've been interested in DOSBox support of mic / line-in for a while to support audio based eyecandy software (Cthugha, Color Fusion, some others). First posted about it in 2013, so I'd guess it still won't be happening any time soon.

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VGA In Memoriam

Posted on 2016-02-01, 01:24

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The reports of the death of the VGA connector are greatly exaggerated. Rumors of the demise of the VGA connector has been going around for a decade now, but VGA has been remarkably resiliant in the face of its impending doom; this post was written on a nine-month old laptop connected to an external …

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Re: pong60 - AY-3-8500 simulator

Posted on 2016-01-22, 16:05

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It's more of a 'trademark infringement'. The "Atari" down in France sees squatting on legacy IP as better market value than what they release now I think they stopped hunting down games with pong in the name - there is battle pong http://www.ponggame.org/ Plasma Pong ... so many pong games with " …

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Re: Invert Left/Right Audio Channels Stereo Sound?

Posted on 2016-01-13, 20:03

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I would also love to see swap stereo support. To support my setup with inverted seating for games vs movies I ended up having to physically swap my speakers and then reverse the audio in my media player (i.e. Media Player Classic) the one app that allowed swapping audio channels. I don't understand …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-01-05, 20:50

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Never really understood why the game needed an SVGA mode, considering I haven't really seen much of a difference between it and the regular VGA mode. With the exception of the standard Mode 13h, which is the VGA 320x200 256-colour mode which has special memory handling in place (which is what also …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-12-16, 12:29

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Very much liked your recent "making old games look better" video. Haven't played old Windows titles for a while and was surprised to find out that 1600x1200 wasn't included in resolution lists by default anymore.

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Re: Woah! Never head of this hardware from 1983 for the apple & pc!

Posted on 2015-12-11, 05:49

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Definitely cool to find out about this, though I wonder what software was available that used it. Here's a PDF of an old article about the card and the similar "Super Sprite" card: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/documentation/magazines/misc/CreativeComputing.2-1984_A_New_Way_To_Do_Graphics_ …

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Re: Help with Destruction Derby

Posted on 2015-11-17, 23:20

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I'd guess the most likely cause is that your image did not preserve the label of the disc. There is meta-data on CDs that specifies a name, and some games check that the name matches the published one. I believe the mount command has an additional "-label" parameter that will allow specifying a …

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Re: Trying to add a "Start" command to DOSBox

Posted on 2015-11-12, 05:03

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by kolano

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And just to note it so that it's clear to newbies. DOSBox explicitly doesn't enable this OOTB as it would allow DOSBox run applications to escape the DOSBox sandbox and possibly impact the host OS.

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