Why FreeDOS if i can use other MS (and others) versions of DOS? 6.22 should be the best option but, for a special purpose all rounder DOS computer i'm using (because i lack the space to use several builds) FAT16B is too limiting. With this in mind i have 2 options: strip DOS outta Windows 98SE (or just use the CDU 7.1) or FreeDOS. Both allow FAT32.
Alas, FAT-32 MS-DOS introduces issues of its own with other games. Starflight 1 and 2 have problems on these installed, and Tsunami Media games (Man Enough, Return to Ringworld, just to name a few) refuse to run completely. All these games Run flawlessly on FreeDOS. Considering i already use several FreeDOS included drivers (CTMouse, mkeyb, HIMEMX, again just to name a few) there's no reason why i and others can't aspire to use FreeDOS with better compatibility and usability than the old unmaimtened and closed source FAT32 DOS or even the older less feature packed 6.22. So you downloaded some of those games and they ran but had speed issues and exited with error code. Then you tried your Floppy versions and you report black screen with no errors (same as others and me included had reported). And you tested all this between 1.3rc4 and 1.3 live on a VM. Oh... You know what? There's no point in continuing this discussion with you. The OP made a thread about a video a retro gamer made testing FreeDOS compatibility with some games on bare metal. This is just turning mind blowingly non sequitur between DOSBox and VMs so, seriously, let's just end this. A terça, 8/03/2022, 19:20, Joao Silva <joao1...@gmail.com> escreveu: > First of all i'm not Dude if more Sir or Mr. > I don't know you and certainly i'm not your friend... > > Moving on... downloaded the games mentioned above and using my freedos > 1.3-RC4 i was able to run Test Drive 2 and Grand Prix and Cycles ran the > intro fast and exited with a error code. > Test Drive 2 played and exited with a error. > > I grabbed my floppies with the same games (except for cycles) they did not > run, got a black screen and no error output. > Runnnig on a VM Freedos 1.3-RC4 and 1.3 Live > > And the final question what do you want with Freedos if you have and quote > " > I also can use from CP/M-86 to all MS-DOS oficial releases to Windows 98 > stripped FAT32 MS-DOS. PC-DOS, DR-DOS, whatever. > > " > > They should run games better than Freedos! > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 8:43 PM Carlos Teixeira <carlos.t...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dude... I do have the right hardware from an original IBM XT to a couple >> Turbo XT clones, to a Tandy 1000 SL that i had to mod for 220V, to a 286, >> 386, 486 and Pentium MMX. >> >> I also can use from CP/M-86 to all MS-DOS oficial releases to Windows 98 >> stripped FAT32 MS-DOS. PC-DOS, DR-DOS, whatever. No point in discussing >> DOSBox. The point here is: >> >> FreeDOS and its ability to run DOS games. In the case of DSI games, >> there's something specific to the game engine that prevents those games >> from running, GP Circuit, The Cycles and Test Drive 2. I've had no chance >> yet but a good thing try might be running a debugger and checking if the >> code might be stuck in an infinite loop. >> >> Planet X3, for instance, despite being programmed for XT class machines >> that usually use MS-DOS 3.3, had a bug in which the game was stuck in an >> infinite loop while printing a string just before exiting to DOS. So i took >> a look into the code and what happened is that INT 29 might trash BX >> completely which was actually used to point to memory and fetch the >> characters for the string. BX gets completely trashed so the string never >> finished and just printed crap on the screen. An isolated problem on a >> specific version of DOS. >> >> This might be what is happening with the DSI games, or might be something >> entirely different, but the fact that every game that uses the same engine >> fails to run on FDOS makes it quite obvious that fixing just one of these >> games will probably fix the rest. This is what we should focus on. >> >> A segunda, 7/03/2022, 13:04, Joao Silva <joao1...@gmail.com> escreveu: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> Not perfectly... for that you need the right hardware for the game to >>> run, ms-dos 6.22 or pc-dos 7.0/7.1 and i'm assuming that you don't have >>> either conditions. >>> >>> So dosbox will run most games, you can check the compatibility list >>> https://www.dosbox.com/comp_list.php?letter=a and fine tune the cpu >>> speed on dosbox. >>> >>> You can also check dosbox-x with more features. >>> >>> You can also check this page for game clones and/or remakes >>> https://osgameclones.com/, some require compiling the source code. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freedos-user mailing list >>> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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