DOS Games Discussion

I think there was a pre-release (leaked?) version of Windows98 called Windows97.

I remember playing Castles1. I liked the "visits" and problems you had to solve from time to time, though I don't think they had much impact on the game.
Never went very far in the game, t ...

If you already got the sword but, to pull it out whenever you want press 5. When you meet a guard the prince goes automatically in combat mode.

Very Off-Topic Benevolent

That's right, I am your countryman, Larry. Shit-Eating Grin

Should have put in "Europe by the Dâmboviţa", but who the hell heard of that puny river? Danube is more popula ...

.. couple o'weeks later:

A Doom clone, no doubt.

I'm certain the sound/video drivers are messed up on his system. With no hardware specs though, it's hard to suggest anything specific.

I also don't think is necessary to struggle with the tapes anymore. The are dozens of sites with abandonware spectrum games, and also some good emulators.
There are no performance issues, like with d ...

I thought we were suposed to talk about graphic cards used in dos machines, but maybe "I make error stupid" Blissful

On my main PC I have a Leadtek 7600GT (gpu@560Mhz, 256*dd3@1400Mhz, 128-bit ...

Looks like Windows was seeing the same partition twice. Never herd of something like that, though.

Ciudată fază, Larry.

The problem with new generation computers (post - 2000) is the way they allocate Address, IRQ's and DMA for the onboard or PCI soundcards - in PURE DOS. You don't get the "standard" values r ...

...or he wrote that at gunpoint. Amazed

Dosbox is for NT-based operating systems, like XP. It's useless for Win98, which has true DOS. And this is what you should do, oskok, restart in ms-dos mode and run the game from there.

Also, there are no dos-compatible settings for soundcards. The IRQs are far off-scale in XP.

Here it is:
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4 Years ago, when I got my first P4, at first I tried DOS Games on XP (with VDM Sound), but performance was very poor. Then I tried pure DOS on the machine, but the onboard sound didn't have proper do ...