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Abandonia - a home for DOS games
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:09 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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.
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:18 pm
by Lysander
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?
Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:33 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
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.
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 9:46 am
by Worm
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)
Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:42 pm
by Lysander
Nobody cares about the ESA.
Ah, shit--let me rephrase:
Nobodies care about the ESA.
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:01 pm
by JQW
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
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 4:59 pm
by Roody_Yogurt
"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.
Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 3:05 am
by Lex
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.