DOS Games Discussion

I don't know if this will help, but it seems to work fine in DOSBox 0.70. I used this configuration: # Title: Solar Winds (Shareware version 1.1) # Developer: Epic MegaGames, Inc # Year: 1993 # Publisher: Epic MegaGames, Inc # Status: Shareware...

init1 wrote: FreeDOS is good. But duel boot is in fact a linux thing. If you don't know it you can't do it.

init1, please tell that to my PC which can tripple-boot into Win95 and 2 different WinXP installs. Heck, with a little fiddling of the partition table it can even boot Win98 instead of Win95.

Magical powers that starts with 0x3B ? Naw, they start with copy /b Hmmm. 0x3B is the signature used for trailer-data in GIF's. Btw, I used cat(1) instead of copy /b. Ah, screw this! All of my output files come corrupted! And smaller in size! :huh: You might have better success with PNG-files. The ...

wardrich wrote:

Larry Laffer wrote:How'd you do that, anyway?

Magical powers.

Magical powers that starts with 0x3B ?

dosraider wrote:MiniMax found out long ago.

No, I didn't. But since I don't pirate games, my interest in finding this hidden file is very limited.

Truly amazing!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Em ... er_game%29

http://www.classicempire.com/

Abyss never fails to amaze me.

If you want to play TR, remember to visit http://www.glidos.net/

1) Don't know.
2) Probably.
3) Yes.
4) Depends.

Umm, if you don't mind I'll be doing the bets, for a very tiny fee of 1% ;) Franpa and MiniMax you just don't know where to look for, really wardrich is a nice guy sharing all the cool stuff like he is right now! Thanks man! :thumbsup: Oh, I know where to look. I look here for my games . I don't re...

No I am not, because I have long since stopped looking.

I guess Franpa has looked just as hard as I have: <tr> <td width="150" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name="77097"></a><b>wardrich</b></span><br><span class="postdetails">Moderator<br><img src="i...

That is some bad coding there. Better use a case-construct: case "$&#40;file "$i"&#41;" in *"image data"* | *"bitmap data"* &#41; mv "$i" pictures/ ;; *"Audio file"* &#41; mv "$i" music/ ;; esac Any fool can write ...

It is BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD to mount C:\ in DOSBox. Create a directory and mount that as C instead, e.g.

mount C C:\Some\Directory

Dogbreath wrote:...

Okay, next week I'm starting mandatory drug testing for all DGF members.

Hah! You are just too cheap to buy your own, so now you want to have ours.

tinman47 wrote:OK,I have a question...Why is the mascot for LOLCODE a cat?

I don't know when or where it started, but apparently posting pictures of cats with funny (LOL'ing) sayings is quite popular. The cat text was spelled in this strange/funny way that you see in LOLCODE.

Tony_Montana wrote:Well I'm a little bored, and I've decided to open myself to any questions. They don't have to be questions about me, but can be just some things you have been wondering about, or anything on your mind. Ask away![/b]

Okay... Why are there so many people with alternative intelligence in this forum?

No hostility intended, and none taken.

44 btw.

dosraider wrote:You sound more as someone who doesn't know VPC.

I don't know your age, but I would not be surprised if I started to read about virtualization techniques on the IBM 360 while you were still reading your Donald Duck cartoons.