Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

Hi, I randomly stumbled upon your video yesterday: https://youtu.be/zGmCVeAKR4w So here's some remarks (since I dislike comments on YouTube). BTW, before I forget, let me reiterate that I still think that DOSBox is "probably" better for gaming on modern (e.g. SB-incompatible) hardware. Even

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

Hi, On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Philip Hoefer wrote: > > Excited about the new version and have begun working on a YouTube review for > version 1.2. I focus on games, so that's what I test. > > Trying out a few games I found the following: > > - The supplied

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

Op 4-12-2016 om 21:25 schreef Eric Auer: > For those who prefer text, the message happens VERY early: MEMDISK, > kernel, handling of the A20... Probably "as soon as XMS driver is > loaded", although the XMS driver message itself is not visible in > the screenshot. That would mean that the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

Hi Phil, >> Well Jerome is right that the "legacy friendly" distro works, but I >> would still want to know which component of the default distro would >> need a NEWER than Pentium CPU. After all, Pentium is quite new, too. >> >> I would expect that even the normal distro works when you skip

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

Hi! > Good to know :-) And good to know that Fade To Black is the only game > with problems with SHSUCDX. My thought was that maybe SHSUCDX has some > debug options so you could collect information whether any feature is > called by the game for which SHSUCDX has known shortcomings... If the >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

Hi again, >> I have tried many optical drive drivers under MS-DOS and VIDECDD.SYS is >> what I found to work best with games. Other drivers have issues with >> certain games that use CD Audio, even the OAKCDROM.SYS that comes with >> Windows 98 for example. Good to know :-) And good to know

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

> > >> The supplied driver probably means "the driver which came with >> the drive". That would be a reasonable alternative in that case. >> > > Sorry, with supplied driver, I was referring to the optical drive driver > that comes with FD 1.2 RC2. I believe it is UDVD2.SYS which is loaded in >

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

Hi Phil, > - The supplied optical drive driver doesn't seem to handle CD audio tracks > well. Games such as Tomb Raider do not play any CD audio music. Replacing > the supplied optical drive driver with resolves this issue for most games. You wrote that VIDECDD worked. Did any free and open

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

> On Dec 4, 2016, at 3:31 AM, Philip Hoefer wrote: > [..] > 4. The error message was invalid opcode, but scrolled very fast and > indefinitely. I have seen this before with modern linux distributions when an > old CPU is not supported. > > The note on the website

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

1. I used VIDECDD.SYS and CD Audio started working 2. In Fade 2 Black it will jump straight into the game, skip the introduction. Replacing SHSUCDX with MSCDEX resolves this issue 3. A typical startup menu like this: [MENU] REM Define an item in the menu, first identifier and then what REM is

Re: [Freedos-devel] Working on a video review and found some issues

On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Philip Hoefer wrote: > Hello! > > Excited about the new version and have begun working on a YouTube review for > version 1.2. I focus on games, so that's what I test. > > Trying out a few games I found the following: > > - The supplied