DosFreak

You might want to check out WINCDMAN. I haven't had the time to update the Guide....was going to put alot of stuff in there...especially my NT4 SP6a slipstream but alas not enough time to finish these fun projects! For anyone who wants to know: NT4 SP6 slipstream went fine when I did it 2yrs ago...unfortunately didn't get around to including the updated registry entries from SP6a so upon bootup NT4 still reported SP1! Probly get around to finalizing it around 2010.

Saw Peter Pan & Bad Santa recently. Both GREAT movies. Peter Pan was kind of corny tho... I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES! 8)

You could try USB->Serial but that wouldn't be pretty.....

Are you sure you can't access this thread? http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3459&highlight=cvs+build The mypixels forum is a totally seperate forum from VOGONS and the registration is a mess. DosBox http://vogons.zetafleet.com/files/dosbox/dosbox-debugger.exe.gz Required DosBox files http://vogons.zetafleet.com/files/dosbox/support-files.rar

Not sure what your asking? If you cannot find the thread then do a search for "weekly updated CVS builds".

That ver of Dosbox probably doesn't support it. Here's a binary of the CVS from Dec 29th: Game loaded up fine. http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3459&highlight=

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 Hmm, not sure if the official release supports Tyrian. If not I'll give ya a link for the latest binary of the CVS.

Hmmm, well the login/password, ftp site, and port information are included in the other thread. I remembered how to included the logon/pass because I've done alot of downloading over the years. Also you can probably just type in "login password FTP URL" or somesuch into google and it'll probably tell ya how to do it.

You don't really need FTP software. Here ya go: ftp://leechmenow:ntcompatible@emu-pdx.myftp.org:2077/

Working with one of the Tyrian developers we finally got Tyrian working with DosBox. Check it out! I haven't tested it fully yet but it looks pretty good.

Quote: Well, I bit the bullet... & got a new videocard! ATI 9800XT... You won't regret it. I picked up the 9700 back when it first came out in 2002. First ATI card I actually bought since the Rage days....I'd seen WAY too much trouble with ATI throughout the years at work and on friends machines to even bother. Even the Radeon's before the 9700 were kinda quirky. After the 9700 I haven't bought an Nvidia card personally...only in situations such as old computers with no AGP where I would get the PCI Nvidia because the performance beat the Radeon's would I buy an Nvidia part. Been looking at the 9800XT but the performance isn't that drastic over the 9700 (at least that's what I've been telling myself since I'm a performance wh---- )

Use ERUNT or Backup Exec to backup your registry. Also you should be able to transfer those floppies to bootable .ISO.

Right now? ATI has been kicking Nvidia's arse since the 9700 came out. The way Nvidia has been acting I highly doubt they'll be able to recover in the nextgen. The 5950 is a couple of FPS faster than the 9800XT but the 9800 is still more feature rich than the 5950.

GAMES WITH NO PROBLEMS IN WINDOWS 2000 Alpha Centauri Baldur's Gate Baldur's Gate Tales of the Sword Coast Baldur's Gate 2 Civilization 2: Conflicts in Civilization Civilization 2: Fantastic Worlds CivNet Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Darkstone Deus Ex Diablo Diablo 2 Drakan Driver Dune 2000 Dungeon Keeper Gold Dungeon Keeper 2 Earthworm Jim Escape from Monkey Island Fallout 2 Freespace 2 Giants Ground Control Half-Life Opposing Force Heavy Metal FAKK2 Heretic 2 Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Hitman: Codename 47 Homeworld Homeworld: Cataclysm Icewind Dale Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver Lemmings for Windows 95 Lords of Magic Special Edition MDK 2 Mechwarrior 3 Messiah Metal Gear Solid Microsoft Arcade Might and Magic 6: The Mandate of Heaven No One Lives Forever Omikron: The Nomad Soul Outpost Outpost 2: Divided Destiny Pax Imperia Eminent Domain Planescape Torment Postal Quake 3 Arena Return to Krondor Riven CD Riven DVD Sacrifice Sega Rally Championship Simcity 3000 SimFarm Sonic & Knuckles Collection Starcraft Starcraft Brood War Star Trek: Borg Star Trek Deep Space Nine: The Fallen Star Wars: Racer Steel Panthers: World at War Swat 3 Team Apache The Longest Journey The Sims The Sims Livin' Large Expansion Pack Thief Thief 2 Tomb Raider 2 Total Annihilation Total Annihilation The Core Contingency Total Annihilation: Kingdoms Ultima Ascension Unreal Unreal Tournament Urban Chaos Vampire The Masquerade Warcraft 2 Battle.Net Windows Entertainment Pack Zork 1 Zork 2 Zork 3 Zork Zero Total=83 GAMES YOU HAVE TO MODIFY TO GET TO WORK. Game works fine after modification. 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night INSTALL When it say's: "Setup needs to test your system to make sure it can run 3D Ultra Pinball 2. Do you want to perform this test before installing?". Click NO. The it will ask if you wish to continue installing. Click YES. Next you will receive this error message: "The procedure entry point SUnMapLS_IP_EBP_12 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.DLL". Hit OK. You do not need to restart to play this game. Choose Restart Later. Afterlife There are 2 ways that you can play this game. 1. From the CD. 2. From the HD. 1. To play from the CD. Just run ALIFE.EXE. This will create a saved game directory on your C:\ drive called ALIFE. 2. To play from the HD simply create a directory on your hard drive called ALIFE. Now copy all of the files and folders from the CD to this directory. Now edit the ALIFE.INI file and change the "C:\ALIFE" line to wherever you placed Afterlife on your hard drive. The DOS version does not work in Windows 2000. It requires VESA. Betrayal in Antara INSTALL When it say's: "Setup needs to test your system to make sure it can run Betrayal in Antara Do you want to perform this test before installing?". Click NO. The it will ask if you wish to continue installing. Click YES. GAME Game runs in a Window if your desktop resolution is higher than 640X480. To make it run fullscreen either change your desktop resolution to 640X480 or Use QfixApp on ANTARAR.exe and click "Force640X480X16.dll" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and click on ANTARAR.reg Now all you have to do is run the game and it will always run in 640X480! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! Civilization 2 INSTALL When it comes to the "INSTALLING INDEO VIDEO INTERACTIVE" screen. Hit the EXIT button. DO NOT INSTALL THIS. If you did install it then do this: If you received this error when you run Civ 2: "CIV2 caused a Stack Fault in module IR41.dll at 0002:019D. Choose close. CIV2 will close." Then delete the IR41.dll file in the \winnt\system directory. Descent 2 Run INSTALL.EXE to install. Download D2_W2ptch. Use Descent 2 for Windows 95 Patch to play Descent 2. Descent 3 INSTALL If you receive "Setup.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created." Then: Use QfixApp on setup.exe and click "NT4SP5VersionLie.dll" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and double-click on setup.reg Now all you have to do is run the setup and install the game! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! Doom Special Edition Use Jdoom or equivalent Doom 2 Use JDoom or equivalent Grim Fandango Go to the game directory and run Grimfanfango.exe. Do not use the shortcut. Heavy Gear 2 Use QfixApp on Heavy Gear 2.exe and click "Win95VersionLie.dll" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and click on Heavy Gear 2.reg Now all you have to do is run the game like normal from the Shortcut! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! Heretic Use JHeretic or equivalent Hexen Use JHexen or equivalent Hidden & Dangerous v1.2 patch breaks game. Less than 1.2 is good but sound does not work like it should. Half-Life If you see a gray screen. "CheckDirectDrawDCUsage.dll". Run HL.REG HIND INSTALL Use QfixApp on the setup.exe on the CD and click "2gbGetDiskFreeSpace.dll" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and click on setup.reg Now all you have to do is run the install like normal from the CD! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! (Rename setup.reg to HINDsetup.reg) GAME Use QfixApp on hind95.exe and click "IgnoreException.dll" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and click on hind95.reg Now all you have to do is run the game like normal from the Shortcut! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! *Need for Speed 4: High Stakes INSTALL Use QfixApp on NFSHS.exe and click "2GbGetDiskFreeSpace.dll" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and click on NFSHS.reg Now run the game and you will not receive that error message anymore! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! GAME If you can only play the game in Software mode then copy the following lines into a text file: _____________________________________________ Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\Need For Speed High Stakes] "Version"="4.00" "InstallPath"="F:\\Games\\Need For Speed High Stakes" "3D Device Description"="" "3D Card"="" "Thrash Driver"="d3da" "Group"="D3D" "D3D Device"=dword:00000001 "Triple Buffer"=dword:00000001 "Hardware Acceleration"=dword:00000001 "Thrash Resolution"="1024X768" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Electronic Arts\Need For Speed High Stakes\1.0] "Language"=dword:00000001 "Variant"=dword:00000000 "InstLev"=dword:00000002 "SrcDrive"="G:\\" _____________________________________ Copy everything inside the ______! Now make the appropriate changes for your configuration. For instance, if your video card card not handle Triple Buffering then modify the "Triple Buffer"=dword:00000001 line to "Triple Buffer"=dword:00000000. If you want to play in a different resolution then modify 1024X768 to whatever resolution you wish. If your NFHS CD is in a different CDROM then change the "G:\\" to the letter of your CDROM Drive. Once your changes have been made then save the file as NFSHS.REG. Now double-click on the file and merge it into your registry. You can now play NFSHS in D3D and in Hi-Res! If you get "Your hard drive has less than 1MB free space." Then Use QfixApp on NFSHS.exe and click "2GbGetDiskFreeSpace.dll" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and click on NFSHS.reg Now run the game and you will not receive that error message anymore! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! Quake Requires GLQuake or equivalent to run. Silent Thunder A-10 Tank Killer 2 Use QfixApp on A10Shell.exe and click "SanitizeCreateProcessStartupInfo.DLL" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and click on A10Shell.reg Now all you have to do is run the game like normal from the Shortcut! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! Wing Commander : The Kilrathi Saga for Windows 95 Use QfixApp on WC1.exe and click "IgnoreException.dll" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and click on WC1.reg Now all you have to do is run the game like normal from the Shortcut! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! Wolfenstein 3D Use WolfGL. X-COM UFO Defense Gold Edition (Windows 95) Use QfixApp on UFO.exe and click "ForceDdrawEmulation.dll" Click the "Advanced" tab. Then click "Create attributes file". Then go to the AppPatch folder in the Windows folder and click on UFO.reg Now all you have to do is run the game like normal from the Shortcut! Reinstall this .reg if you reinstall windows! Total=21 GAMES WITH PROBLEMS IN WINDOWS 2000 (All of these have sound & vesa problems the games are still playable though. Heck most of us played these games with speaker and no vesa so it's about the same. ) DOS GAMES NO SOUND 4D Boxing Abuse Adventures of Willy Beamish Alien Trilogy Alone in the Dark Artura Beneath a Steel Gray Sky Blake Stone: Planet Strike Blue Force Companions of Xanth Conquest of Camelot: The Search for the Grail Descent Destruction Derby DuckTales Duke Nukem 1 Duke Nukem 2 Dune Dune 2 Extreme Pinball Falcon 3.0 Full Throttle Goblins Quest 3 Hornet Naval Strike Fighter Hugo's House of Horrors Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Jagged Alliance King's Quest 1: Original King's Quest 1: Remake King's Quest 2 King's Quest 3 King's Quest 5 King's Quest 6 King's Quest 7 Knights of Xentar Legend of Kyrandia Legend of Kyrandia 2 Lemmings: The Tribes Links Golf Maniac Mansion Martian Memorandum Mean Streets Might and Magic 1 Might and Magic 2 Might and Magic 3 Monkey Island 1 Monkey Island 2 Mortal Kombat Mortal Kombat 2 Nascar Racing Oh No More Lemmings Out of this World Police Quest 3 Prince of Persia Quest for Gloyy 1 Quest for Glory 1 Remake Quest for Glory 2 Quest for Glory 3 Raptor: Call of the Shadows Realms of Chaos Red Baron Revolution X Rise of the Triad Shadowcaster SimAnt SimCity Simon the Sorceror 2 Space Quest 1 Space Quest 2 Space Quest 3 Space Quest 4 Space Quest 5 Star Trek 25th Anniversary Street Fighter 2 Turbo V6.9 Strife System Shock The Lion King The Savage Empire The 7 Cities of Gold Ultima 1 Ultima 4 Ultima: Martian Dreams Wacky Wheels Wasteland WolfPack World Cl*** Leader Board Golf Yeager Air Combat NEEDS VESA FOR HIGHER RESOLUTIONS Blood Duke Nukem 3D Redneck Rampage Rides Again Terminal Velocity Screen Shakes Virtual Pool Wing Commander 3 Total=94 GAMES YOU HAVE TO MODIFY TO GET TO WORK. Dark Forces Copy DARK folder from CD to HD. Right-click on folder and remove Read-Only from all subdirectories. Pirates! Gold for Windows Change desktop color depth to 256 colors to play this game. MEMORY MODIFICATION MODIFYING AUTOEXEC.NT Aces over Europe Edit the AUTOEXEC.NT file in the SYSTEM32 directory and REM the DOSX line. It should look like this: REM Install DPMI support REM lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx Save the file. Right-click on AOE.COM and go to the Memory tab. Max out the Memory. Click on OK to save. Use the .pif or .EXE to play the game! UnRem the line you REMed when you are done! Betrayal at Krondor Edit the AUTOEXEC.NT file in the SYSTEM32 directory and REM the DOSX line. It should look like this: REM Install DPMI support REM lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx Save the file. Right-click on Krondor.exe and go to the Memory tab. Max out the Memory. Click on OK to save. Use the .pif or .EXE to play the game! UnRem the line you REMed when you are done! SET XMS in Memory Properties to Maximum. Aladdin Run with Command.Com Rise of the Dragon Set EXPANDED in Memory Properties to Maximum. Escape from Delirium Master of Magic Mights and Magic: Darkside of Xeen Might and Magic: Swords of Xeen Populous 2 Super Star Wars Run with Command.Com Wing Commander Academy OTHER MODIFICATIONS Comanche Maximum Overkill Install the M3H update and use C1.EXE Space Hulk In the DRV_DIR rename sound.drv to sound.drk Total=14 GAMES I HAVEN'T FIXED YET All Windows games have been tried with APCOMPAT & QFixAPP 4th Generation Runtime error - Possibly DPMI Afterlife (DOS) Requires VESA Battlezone 2 INSTALL "The exception Privileged instruction. (0xc0000096) occured in the application at location 0x018d4343. Click on OK to terminate the program." "_INS5576_MP.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created." California Games Hangs in Menu Command & Conquer (Windows 95) INSTALL Detects Windows 5.0. Will not install. Up[censored] CD with newer Command & Conquer files allows installation. GAME "The procedure entry point SMapLS_IP_EBP_12 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.DLL." Command & Conquer: Red Alert Counterstrike INSTALL "Windows 5.0 is currently running. This version of Red Alert Counterstrike is a Windows 95 only product." Crusader No Remorse Installer and game crashes because of ASYLUM.DLL Cutthroats "CUTTHROATS.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created." DaggerFall Unable to install DarkSeed Game exits back to Desktop. Daytona USA Pops up with "Game, Option, Help" Screen then exits. Destruction Derby 2 Graphics are corrupted JetFighter II Advanced Tactical Bundle Illegal Instruction Magic Carpet 2: The NetherWorlds Run using Command.com Mouse cursor stuck at upper left side of screen. Mechwarrior 2 (DOS) Mouse cursor stuck at upper left side of screen. Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries (DOS) Mouse cursor stuck at upper left side of screen. Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries (Windows) Megarace 2 Needs Vesa Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.0 Disk error in FS5.ini Missionforce: Cyberstorm GFXCDSSurface:: Failed to create a Surface Need for Speed Needs Vesa Need for Speed 2 SE Need to modify an ._MP with QFixApp but I am too Stoopid to figure out how. Pirates! Gold for DOS Privateer Quarantine Messed up graphics just like Ultima 7 Quest for Glory 4 for DOS Quest for Glory 4 for Windows Star Trek: Klingon Graphics don't show. Blank Screen. QfixApp does not work. Simcity 2000 Use Packard Bell (Vesa) for video. Mouse stuck in upper left side of screen. Transport Tycoon Deluxe Doesn't work. Tries to access COM ports. Turrican 2 Memory error. Tyrian Runtime error - Possibly DPMI Ultima 7 Use U7WIN9X to play in Windows. Play's very slow. No sound. Ultima Underworld Hangs after EMS allocated. U.S. Navy Fighters Requires VESA Warcraft 2 Wizardry VI Divide Overflow Worms Armageddon The Directx2D.dll file causes the black screen when trying to start a game. Yoda Stories failed to initialize properly (0Xc0000005) Total=40 Windows Games with no problems =83 Windows Games you have to fix =21 DOS Games (NO SOUND/VESA) =94 DOS Games you have to fix =14 Game that don't work =40 212 Games work in Windows 2000. 40 Games do not work in Windows 2000. [This message has been edited by DosFreak (edited 05 January 2001).]

Guys, Ignore this thread. It's ANCIENT. I've just never closed it because I don't like closing threads.

Don't mess with Ghost (except for v8....but unless you want to buy 10 licenses or "aquire" it then don't bother). Versions of Ghost before v8 are nothing compared to Acronis True Image v7. I've played around with True Image since it came out and bought v6 a couple of months ago. V7 just came out and it's great. BUY IT. It's great software that will save you a ton of time and effort and you won't have to bother with bootdisks and worrying about wether the software supports this or that like....GHOST. P.S. It's based on Linux unlike Ghost v8 which is a GOOD thing.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/index.html Quote: LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Los Angeles officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms "master" and "slave" on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. I find the terms "primary" and "secondary" offensive.....actually I regard all spoken language as offensive and shall file a discrimination complaint forthwith. ;(

Game works fine on XP with DX 9.0B. What driver's/video card are you using? I was pretty ticked off when the console ver came out but no PC ver.....but then I was happy again when it came out for PC and it turns out to be an excellent game. The console roots show through alot but they don't hurt the game that much.

Ouch. That really is way too much to pay. I wonder what kind of sells they are getting on Enterprise? I've noticed that many IT shops don't pay THAT much attention to fragmentation...usually only if they experience a problem (slowness, program recommending a defrag) do they even bother to degrag. Hopefully someone with the money to dump that much cash on defragmentation software would have a need for that money somewhere else....but likely not since I've seen Servers in disrepair while managers get 21" LCD's.......

Hmmm, well games don't really use the HD that much. Might be interesting to try to find a game that accesses the HD the most and benchmark it with different filesystems/cluster/DMA settings to see. I doubt very much that there would be much difference tho. I'd say the most major difference would be say permissions or NTFS compression which would affect gaming/performance more so than filesystems/cluster/DMA settings.

Quote: Thanx for the tip DosFreak. I was trying to avoid going off topic there. I was using the C&C example simply as a concrete example to this theoretical kernel business. That's all Too late. Thread's lost now!!!

Quote: Quote: Somewhat true? I've tested a total of 332 Dos Games on NT4/2000/XP since 1997 and not one of them has failed due to filesystem type...... Man, DosFreak... with a repetoire like that in addition to the skills you have? I think you should snag a job w/ "Maximum PC" writing for them. (Kid you not, it'd be good side bucks. Think about it & applying there for a fun side-job. You never know, & it's not like you don't have the skills & experience in the PC Arena as a whole in addition to gaming as well.) * Yea, the filesystem naming is an easy one to overlook... it's not the filesystem itself as a whole really, just a feature that throws those DOS 16-bit 8.3 file/folder-directory naming conventions. APK I certainly need to do something. Getting out of the military soon (1yr left!!!) and need to find something to do. Currently not happy with the military since there really isn't a computer career there and I'm not really interested in a military career. Most of the NCC's are contracted out to civilians while Active Duty are left to do minimal chores such as helpdesk or deployed NCC's....which while still very important to the process are something that I'm not really interested in. I'm much more interested in creating SOMETHING....ANYTHING....instead of just MAINTAINING!!! While I have plans to get more involved online someday (Fleshing out VOGONS, Doing something with my NT Games list.) I still need a real job.....and something like what you suggested would be interesting. I'm really impressed with what we've done with VOGONS so far. It's amazing what you can get acomplished when you have a group of people dedicated to something. Unfortunately I've been extremely busy these last 6 months (Moving from the UK, going to different training classes) so it really sucks when you know that you could do something really great but you can't, because you don't have the time!!! Somebody break my legs please I need time to work online!

Yay! Another thread gone OT!

Quote: Games may not care too much about the file system, but some of them care about the kernel. For Instance, Command And Conquer Windows 95 Edition. If you install it on Windows 2000/XP it will not run because it complains about not finding an entry point into the kernel. Trying Application compatibility modes will NOT solve this problem because the game was written to take advantage of win9x/Me kernels sigh IIRC, I believe it's the IPX...somethingsomething.dll in the C&C folder. Download an updated ver from Westwood. Unfortunately this will disable networking. This was the situation last time I checked. Only other alternative is to install C&C under Vmware/VPC and play it from there which runs really well.

Quote: That's somewhat true but with the amount of years dealing with DOS/Windows I know quite a lot now. Somewhat true? I've tested a total of 332 Dos Games on NT4/2000/XP since 1997 and not one of them has failed due to filesystem type......