Re: VFX1 emulation

Posted on 2008-01-25, 21:31

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by `Moe`

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Funny thing, this hardware: http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp? … dx=331&code=032 seems to work exactly the same way as VFX, i.e. using alternating left-eye/right-eye lines. You wouldn't have to do anything but make sure lines are scaled differently.

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Re: Comment patch

Posted on 2008-01-25, 13:28

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Right, if you're doing that huge task, make sure it is in a Doxygen-compatible format. That way, people can actually browse the developer docs.

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Re: Post the Windows games you play in DosBox

Posted on 2008-01-22, 18:19

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Castle of the Winds, a liberated game (not abandonware).

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Re: Visual Direct Connection via Web?

Posted on 2008-01-19, 19:40

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Your internet connection might be the slowest part. Note that old multiplayer games often can't cope with high delays ("pings"), because back then they didn't expect them: A real LAN or modem usually has much less latency than an internet connection. Modern internet-multiplayer-software uses lots of …

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Re: What happend to command line tab auto complete?

Posted on 2008-01-19, 19:36

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FYI, I'm still here and just wait for those changes to get in to handle the current issues as well.

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Re: VFX1 emulation

Posted on 2008-01-13, 10:29

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Google, first result: SDK, patches, docs, drivers. http://www.mindflux.com.au/products/iis/vfx1.html Downloads are retrievable through web.archive.org. Anyhow, sounds fascinatig, though I guess it's simply too rare hardware to emulate (unless you implement it yourself/pay someone to do it).

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Re: TMDC collection

Posted on 2008-01-10, 09:41

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Well, he did say "all the entries of the ten Text Mode Demo Competitions from the past 12 years", so I guess he indeed only has heaps of text mode programs on that CD. A quite funny thought, actually.

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Re: Sound Delays

Posted on 2008-01-10, 09:37

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Cycles either way too low or way too high?

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Re: Video Assistance/Virtulization possible?

Posted on 2008-01-03, 21:48

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At least Linux has plenty of networked sound/video solutions that handle almost all data you can throw at it, including MIDI. There's no single software that does absolutely all, so I can't recommend any specific software, but networked media is a rather popular idea. As for windows, I have not much …

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Re: Video Assistance/Virtulization possible?

Posted on 2008-01-02, 15:50

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ih8: there are many solutions for networked sound, video, and other hardware aspects. They are easy to use and more powerful than any simple dosbox-based solution. You should really use them instead of overloading dosbox with them.

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Re: Video Assistance/Virtulization possible?

Posted on 2008-01-01, 20:51

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Funny how you describe exactly what happens if you have the correct prerequisites (no scaler, 8-bit-capable video driver, fullscreen). All that happens then is more or less a plain copy, which isn't that expensive. Okay, this is oversimplified, but it illustrates what wd already said in post #2: …

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Re: PhysFS patch

Posted on 2007-12-28, 04:16

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Well, keep in mind that I didn't use it for a long time. But if done right, the write folder should do exactly what you expected. It just doesn't work for a handful of games.

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Re: Dosbox sound error - linux

Posted on 2007-12-27, 22:09

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You will have to set the correct MIDI port, have the device files and whatnot. First get a native MIDI using program running, then try DOSBox. More importantly: Unless the game you are playing is configured for MIDI or MT32, the error you are seeing is irrelevant. Sound Blaster sound/music works …

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Re: PhysFS patch

Posted on 2007-12-26, 16:11

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Linux-native facilities. Much easier to use, because it works the same for all emulators (instead of having ot patch each one separately), and non-emulators (Wine Is Not an Emulator ;). Cromfs (very highly compressed filesystem, 7-zip based, reasonably fast, read-only), Funionfs (takes care of write …

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Re: The New Wiki

Posted on 2007-12-26, 14:04

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Helping people troubleshoot their games is getting really really old. We should just go straight to PhysFS, stop supporting people who don't use PhysFS, and then put instructions in the Wiki for converting games into PhysFS format. That would significantly reduce the issues with "games not working …

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Re: Schleichfahrt

Posted on 2007-12-26, 13:42

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If you install Schleichfahrt from CD, as described in the 60-second-guide (see the Guides forum), it works flawlessly (although slow). There are no special tricks needed. I know it, because I own it, and it is one of my favourite games. To make it run fast, use the settings described thousands of …

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Re: PhysFS patch

Posted on 2007-12-26, 13:30

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I have no idea if ykhwong still uses my codebase, as I abandoned it some time ago (found a better solution for my own needs). If his code is still (more or less) my original patch, then that might well be a bug. There is an issue or two left, which I never debugged because of me finding something …

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Re: Possible Bug: Corrupted "My Computer"-Icon with 0.72 and XP

Posted on 2007-12-18, 11:22

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FYI, I have used computers since punched cards and paper tapes was my only way of storing data and programs. When consoles resembled and sounded like a gearbox, and booting the computer required careful setting of a row of 16 switches to set the correct load address. So you used the computers I …

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Re: Problems installing/upgrading DOSbox

Posted on 2007-12-17, 15:08

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eric@eric-linux:~$apt-get update bash: aapt-get: command not found Watch that error message carefully: It is just a weird typo. You somehow typed "aapt-get" (plus some special keys) Your apt-get is probably just fine.

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Re: dosbox also midi (timidity) trouble

Posted on 2007-12-16, 23:52

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It seems your DOSBox binary was built without ALSA MIDI support. So you could go and ask the one responsible for that binary, or build one yourself. The first is easy: I guess you just installed DOSBox from your distribution's package manager, in that case go to the support forums of your …

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