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  3. Posted

    Making posts are quite slow at the moment. I just created a new thread under Off-Topic and it took 35-50 secs to get thur after i clicked SUBMIT, but then again it takes even longer just to edit em.

     

    :|

     

    But it very easy to make a double-post that way with the posters that are unsure about this.

  4. Posted

    it was the .58 installer file.

    I'll probably just put together a "real" dos box just for games. (and mame ;) )

    I have so many 200Mb hdd's and 486 motherboards laying around it's not funny.

    But I only have 1 working monitior...

     

    You could play them on a real 486 if u wanted too, although your 486 would

    be too fast for the 286 games.

     

    Plus you would have an annoying PC Speaker for your sounds. But in DOS-BOX your PC Speakers sounds come on off your soundcard speakers instead.

     

    Amazing I need a faster PC too have full enjoyment of DOS-BOX. A Pentium 2 400+mhz would be the miminum to play Games that were programmed for the 286 machine.

     

    :roll:

     

    AMAZING!

  5. Posted

    Nope it doesn't even start :(

    MIDI:Opened device:win32

Exit to error: an unsupported feature

Press enter to continue.



C:Program FilesDOSBox>

    I don't even press enter and it goes straight to the prompt.

    Or if I open it from windows it just flashes a blank window for about 1 second

     

    Thats strange... Its seems to refuse to run at all. :ponder:

     

    Did you know the right DOS-BOX .58 ??

    Maybe you downloaded a corrupt copy.

  6. Posted

    Dos box won't work for me. :(

    Are there any other emu's out there ?

     

    It Should, are u sure you know how to use it correctly.

     

    lets say u want to play Last Ninja ?

    and its in your c:gameslastninja directory

     

    DOS-BOX begins on Z: Prompt

     

    so type..

     

    MOUNT C C:GAMESLASTNINJA

     

    then type..

     

    C:

     

    then DIR

     

    and run the game.. probably be LASTNINJA.COM

     

     

    1 Game I cant get working but its says it works in the list is.

     

    ULTIMA UNDERWORLD

     

    Doesnt seem to work under DOS-BOX althought the list says it does. :|

  8. Posted

    I'm running ME as well but when I tried to run The Incredible Machine it was running too slow and very choppy. Wondering what I am doing wrong? :sad: Sniffle :sad:

     

    Its a little of the slow side for me too and ive a 266mhz PC.

     

    You can try to decrease Frame-Rate (CTRL F7).

     

    Or, I dont know, anyone known the best way to get this running at full-speed.

     

    Anyway best of all (Not just Games), I can now get my old DOS Demos/Programs to work again.

     

    Also anyone know the best link for DOS Demos.?? :)

    Im sure most of those ones would work.

     

    privateers.. Thanks more DOS Games links!! Ill get too them.

     

    :D

  10. Posted

    WOOT!!!  

     

    looks like I'll be downing DOS-box today once I get home from work. Now to keep ME or upgrade??? HMMMMM

     

    Yes running old DOS Games and risking a possible system lock-up it now a thing of the past!

     

    You and now run em either in a window/Full Screen and at the correct speed, Faster or slower, Screenshot capture, record to WAV File, etc. etc.

     

    And ill got Windows ME and I cant believe im now playing these old DOS Games again! :music:

  11. Posted

    DOS-Box Emulator is great raindog.. Thanks

     

    and I never knew this an DOS Emulator could be possible.

     

    Im now able to play all my favourite old DOS Games of the early 90s now.

    This is brillant!

     

    If I trried to load those without it they will simply lock-up my system and do all sorts of werid stuff!

  13. Posted

    Someone has written something called "DosBox" which is meant for playing old DOS games under Linux or MacOS, but they actually have a Windows version too!  Won't run stuff like DN3D yet, but I guess it works fairly well.

     

    http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1 (download)

    http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/comp_list.ph...y=name&letter=a (list of some supported/unsupported games)

     

    I just now downloaded DOSBox it looks promising

     

    I just look for a link where i can download the games. As the Abandonware link what privateers69 gave me http://aw.localhost.ee/aw/ is now dead. :x

  14. Posted

    I have just tried out SKELETON for the first time and im impressed.

     

    Wow first 3D game ive ever seen on the Atari 2600.

     

    Very Clever.

     

    I just the Bards Tale type of 3D in this game.

     

    But yet to work out what to actually do..

     

    :)

  17. Posted

    I guess theres no choice now but to get the latest MAME version, latest ROM-SETS.

     

    Then obviously they will began to get corrupted if I just install a later MAME version(s) (MAME .81-even though it not out yet) in the future and thats it. And run them with the same Romsets (Games) then some would get corrupted.

    Cause I didnt bothered to read the Whats New in MAME .xx and replaced those as well.

     

    Whoa! Bit of work now, and thought just installing the later versions of MAME was long enough. Oh well, :ponder: Thats MAME! :grin:

     

    So Anyway now I know y my romsets were mstery getting corrupted now.

     

    :D

  18. Posted

    :lolblue:

     

    Anyway the game I was talking about with "No tilt" was POWER DRIFT.

    In Finalburn it says : Glitchies, No Tilt.

     

    :?

     

    Power Drift couldnt be played on a flat-table (or cocktail).

     

    At Least I now know what Screen-Flipping means. :D

  19. Posted

    I C, I dont think so far there would be do much difference between MAME .66 (Which i have) and MAME .69.

     

    I was thinking of making all my Zipped ROM-SET set to read-only, so they dont get corrupted. But it probably be a waste of time.

     

    And i have 3 MAME .66 versions (MAME-DOS), MAME-WIN32, and MAME-WIN32 (WIth the front-end).

     

    Sometimes i decide which one i feel like using before i play my game, and after a while some do corrupt after a while.

     

    But as you said some of those (Corrupt ROMS) may work with MAME .53 (My last version before i upgraded!).

     

    So to get them to work with MAME .66, I better get the updated Rom-Sets. :|

  20. Posted

    A cocktail cabinet is like a small table...with the screen below the glass surface and the players usually seated on opposite sides (so the game image needs to flip when alternating players' take their turns).  Since this screen flipping is really only needed for games that actually DID appear in this style of cabinet, I would guess the only games in Mame that support it are the ones that were.

     

    Oh i see the flat-table Arcade Machine so player 2 wont have to play it upside down, the screen will flip.

     

    Not much point of that on an emulator then since playing my games on and upright monitor. :D

  22. Posted

    I wonder? :?

     

    Is MAME actually saving stuff or modifying the Zips files the games ROMs are in ?

     

    Because some of my Rom-sets get corrupted after a while it seems and I have to go and downloaded a new fresh version of some of the games.

     

    Bit of an annoying thing.. :x

  24. Posted

    I finally got ScummVM working and im running DAY OF THE TENTACLE beautifully. :)

     

    Until I noticed DOTT runs quite well anyway on Windows Me with it. :yawn:

     

    But at least I know ScummVM and a great emulator for the Scumm games. :wink:

     

     

    @raindog - I have to try the "DOSBox" emulator u mentioned. Its sounds promising, and im not too interested in the 3D games like DUKE NUKEM 3D anyway that wont run under it because they run anyway well in Windows Me.

    Just the good old 2D Type games i wanna play again. :)

     

     

    @Hydian - Ill give your DRDOS a go to and compare the best difference from DRDOS or DOSBox.

     

    :|

  25. Posted

    I noticed all of the games slowed down after installing a higher version (it was Win32MAME .66.

     

    But now ive got MAME .66 DOS to work and have enabled scanlines and its quite fast again now.

     

    So yes it requires a bit of fiddling around. :|

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