Abandonia - a home for DOS games

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue May 02, 2006 11:09 pm

Just a link for now. Probably ever.

http://www.abandonia.com/index2.php

Oh. Stay a While / Stay Forever is still the best unused name for a video game ever. I just thought it should be said and this thread could handle double duty.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Tue May 02, 2006 11:18 pm

So has anyone eigured out how to emulate the sound drivers in XP? I suppose it's a moot point with Vista coming out next year, but still. Or can you jsut get an open soruce version of DOS somewhere or something that does all that for you?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue May 02, 2006 11:33 pm

There's a new version of DOSbox out. Haven't tried it yet -- well, I did play Flightmare on it, but that is simple PC speaker stuff -- but I think they did make an update to the sound stuff, yeah.

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Wed May 03, 2006 9:46 am

Best game ever.
http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/264/S ... amurai.htm

Unlike HOTU(whom have had their domain sniped by squatters) these Abandonia guys don't care about the ESA!(yet)

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:42 pm

Nobody cares about the ESA.

Ah, shit--let me rephrase:

Nobodies care about the ESA.

JQW · Post by **JQW** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:01 pm

There's been a program that gives you SB emulation for any sound card in XP for a few years now. VDSound? Something like that.

Ahh, here we are. VDMSound.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

Granted, it hasn't been updated in quite a while, but it apparently works good enough for Duke3D - and isn't that really all that matters? Do a google search for "duke vdmsound" or something like that, and there's a page with step-by-steps on getting Duke running native in WinXP complete with sound.

The easiest solution might be to just use VirtualPC to make a true DOS image - I think that gives you SB sound. And it would probably be faster than DOSBox. See this page for some info. Apparently it does SB16, with the most standard IRQs and interrupts - perfect.
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/ar ... 89334.aspx

Roody_Yogurt · Post by **Roody_Yogurt** » Thu May 04, 2006 4:59 pm

"Stay A While - Stay Forever" will always make me think of "Impossible Mission" so the only game I could see it being the title of is some homebrew remake where they change a game's name just to avoid being sued.

Lex · Post by **Lex** » Sat May 06, 2006 3:05 am

16-bit applications are being left behind forever when running 64-bit natively. When we all move up to Vista 64, there's going to be a huge call for DosBOX.