Seems your the best programmer in the world :D could you edit the source code (Processor Speed) so it can run Blood fast enough, and also cut the current Adlib code and replace it with yours, Cause Adlib in dosbox is quite slow.
If you could do this in your spear time you would be like the best person in the world :D
Awesoken at
You are severely hallucinating if you think this is an effective use of my time. If you want it to run faster, I would suggest studying the documentation for hints or buying yourself a new computer.
Edit: Oops, I forgot to vote. Perhaps you can infer which way I voted : P
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3dEngineProgrammer at
Dewi,
requests like this,are plain stupid.It is like requests in forums to artists to build an
awesome model that the guy requesting it is fantasizing.Noone in the world is mother tereza...Also keep in mind the best way to get your job done,is to do it yourself.:wink:
Ken answers a lot of technical questions in this forum,that isn't common for a programmer
with a " name".Most other programmesr his class,don't reply to direct questions as he is.
Look the John Romero forum,he reply only to gossip questions or about his favourite
heavy metal band or something other as stupid,like he is member from a boys band.He never
replys even the most easy technical question.
masterlee at
Awesoken said
... or buying yourself a new computer.
Better buy an old Computer where Blood runs native without emulation. You can still get some old Pentiums on eBay.
Skeksis at
masterlee said
Awesoken said
... or buying yourself a new computer.
Better buy an old Computer where Blood runs native without emulation. You can still get some old Pentiums on eBay.
... or just set up the current one to dual boot with Windows 98 or 95. Or even DOS itself, did anyone think of that? You know, being a DOS game and all...
KillerQ13 at
Skeksis said
... or just set up the current one to dual boot with Windows 98 or 95. Or even DOS itself, did anyone think of that? You know, being a DOS game and all...
Well then there's issues with sound. Right now my sound is on IRQ 21. There was no IRQ 21 on the ISA bus. You have to hope your sound driver disk includes a DOS emulation driver and those are getting rarer and rarer. The last setup I had that did that was my old Sound Blaster Live!.
If you want to play more old games in that environment (because devoting a whole partition/computer just for playing Blood is silly), then there's issues the OPL2 (or OPL3) sound chip. The chip is considered legacy and hasn't been included in quite some time. Some old games use this chip extensively (ie Ken's Labyrinth, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 2) and it rather destroys the experience without it. You could emulate it, but then you have emulation on emulation. What a mess!
If you can get your hands on an old Super Socket 7 motherboard (Yes, I was and still am into AMD) with ISA and PCI (AGP optional), a Sound Blaster AWE32 and a 3dfx Voodoo 3 on it, you can run almost any old game you could think of with zero emulation. Wanna play the original Grand Theft Auto in 3D accelerated mode with Glide and full sound? No problem!
Forgive me if I'm too extreme with the old schoolness. :-)
j7n at
KillerQ13 said
Well then there's issues with sound. Right now my sound is on IRQ 21.
In Windows 98 you disable unneeded ports & controllers, so your soundcard can have its own low IRQ, different from that what you have on WinXP.
You have to hope your sound driver disk includes a DOS emulation driver and those are getting rarer and rarer. If you want to play more old games in that environment (because devoting a whole partition/computer just for playing Blood is silly), then there's issues the OPL2 (or OPL3) sound chip. The chip is considered legacy and hasn't been included in quite some time.
You can install Win98 on the same partition where WinXP resides. If all your drives are FAT32, both OSes can be fully functional. Win98 will just be a little unstable if run for longer than 1 or 2 days. Get a real soundcard (like YMF724) that can work in DOS mode either as Wavetable MIDI, or as OPL3. You don't have to use it on XP because there's is no good driver for it.
0xC0DE at
well.. there's an really simple way. When you run dosbox the cycles are set very low. (so very old games wouldn't run too fast) Afcourse, the newer games (like build games, or doom games). Need more cycles to run fast.
to do this : just press ctrl + F12 to increase or F11 to decrease the cycles. enjoy.
TX at
0xC0DE said
well.. there's an really simple way. When you run dosbox the cycles are set very low. (so very old games wouldn't run too fast) Afcourse, the newer games (like build games, or doom games). Need more cycles to run fast.
to do this : just press ctrl + F12 to increase or F11 to decrease the cycles. enjoy.
One should also make sure to use the dynamic core wherever possible. In newer CVS builds, one can simply type "core dynamic" followed by "cycles 30000" to result in the dynamic core being used (with 30,000 cycles, of course).
memsys at
no need for dosbox
yo DEWI if you want to play blood on winxp go to this site http://buildxp.deathmask.net/