Re: [Resolved] Ossc and x68000 xvi fm-towns 2
Posted on Today, 11:27
Do you know what firmware was installed on the previous unit and what's on the new one?
Re: List of DOS games with VESA resolution support 640x480x256 and higher.
Posted on Yesterday, 10:01
Eric The Unready doesn't use 640x480 @ 256 colors. Cut-scenes are standard VGA and gameplay is 640x480 @ 16 colors (at least the disk version, I haven't played the CD version).
Re: Most powerful Mainboard with Floppy + IDE
Posted on 2024-05-18, 07:01
ASRock Fatality Professional P67: https://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/fatal1ty%20p6 … 20professional/ Would be nice to put this against my HP Z400 Xeon workstation, which has floppy but no IDE. It would also be nice if the ASRock could boot from M.2 on a PCIE card.
Re: Monkey Island 1&2: Roland MT-32 + Sound Blaster support
Posted on 2024-05-18, 06:35
The original game didn't have General Midi support. You can choose MT-32 to output to 330, but it will sound wrong on a GM device.
Re: Socket 7 build freeze at splash screen.
Posted on 2024-05-18, 06:27
This is the same board I'm using in my P233MMX Lego build: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1123068 It never froze on me on memory check. I use a single stick 64MB memory stick. For PS2, I don't have a photo of the on-board connection, but you can see that on the back it's just a PS2 header …
Re: Weird problem with VLB graphics card on Soyo SY-025M
Posted on 2024-05-17, 11:24
Yes I also learned this the hard way. Had to keep trying different slots until I managed to get both video and I/O VLB cards to be recognized correctly by the system.
Re: Ossc and x68000 xvi fm-towns 2
Posted on 2024-05-16, 07:00
Enable "Allow 2x upscale" it should fix the yellow and recurring desyncs.
Multi CD Drives - letter assignment
Posted on 2024-05-11, 08:48
Since ever I heard of a multi-CD drive (you know, the drives which can take in multiple CDs), it always puzzled me why they exposed themselves to the system as multiple individual drives (e.g, E,F,G) instead of just one drive letter that can swap its contents. What software scenarios would have …
Re: Speed sensitive games suggestions to test throttling methods?
Posted on 2024-05-07, 20:57
Might & Magic Book One text speed is not only speed-sensitive, but also doesn't respond very well to throttling via cache disables. It works correctly with a Turbo XT's deturbo mode.
Re: QUARTERDECK QEMM products ... Good? or Garbage?
Posted on 2024-05-07, 07:25
QEMM back in the days was the only way to get darn Lemmings 2 to work with Sound Blaster effects on my 386. Nowadays, QEMM is able to run Curse of Enchantia on my Pentium MMX. No other configuration was able to make it run. I don't use QEMM by default, but I do respect it 🙂
Re: Space Quest 1 VGA Sound Format
Posted on 2024-04-25, 04:54
Did it actually have any digital effects besides the timer countdown in the start of the game? The rest were all adlib sounds IIRC.
Re: Whats the best 5.25inch drive installation configuration in a XT class machine.
Posted on 2024-04-21, 04:19
Thought XTs can't handle high-density at all. I would go with 2 360K drives because that's how my XT used to be, so lots of XT software were built with that in mind. But if the machine had an HDD, typically they'd keep only one 360K drive. 3 or 4 floppy drives doesn't compute with me 😅 and I'd be …
Re: turbo segment display
Posted on 2024-04-20, 09:01
Do you really want 66 and 33? I checked my DX-2 66 and the Mobo's de-turbo brought it down to ~25MHz actually, so I configured my display as 66 and 25. Try running benchmark tools to see what they estimate for you on de-turbo.
Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?
Posted on 2024-04-20, 08:47
I think the tools of the time were perfectly capable of allowing you to discover the problem. As others mentioned, first file I/O should be always guarded with checks because that data could easily be corrupted or invalidated. Second, once you are at the crash site with CodeView, it would have …
Re: Online copies of games are not owned
Posted on 2024-04-16, 12:40
Command & Conquer 4 comes to my mind as the first example of this crap in games. I hated that game. It played crap, and it installed and ran even crappier. Back then I didn't have internet connection always available even. Since then, we've been going down non-stop as it seems.
Re: Throttle Blaster
Posted on 2024-04-09, 19:21
Running them is not the problem. They will run on a P3... but too fast 🙂
Re: Throttle Blaster
Posted on 2024-04-09, 13:52
Neither DOSBox* nor SetMul** are good solutions for XT booter games. And I'm hoping that this device is able to apply its slow effect from the moment the computer turns on. * My booter games are original and disk-protected, which isn't supported by DOSBox. ** Not possible since you don't even get to …
Re: Floppy disk problem
Posted on 2024-04-09, 13:44
If it's a 5.25" drive, wipe the connector with alcohol. It might have some dirt or residue that's preventing proper connection. If it's a 3.5" drive, ensure all connector pins are in good standing and not bent or broken.
Re: Multimeter recommendation
Posted on 2024-04-09, 03:12
That's the one I have too. Works great, enjoy!
Re: Multimeter recommendation
Posted on 2024-04-07, 09:50
Dunno man. I had one of the cheapest, and it always had a ~1 second delay in continuity mode. That is, you need to hold the probes for over 1 second to make it beep. Was very happy when I got rid of it and went for something a little bit better for about 30$ USD: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/ …
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