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PC 486SX (ao486) • SAVIOR.EXE: A general solution for backing up DOS saves

MISTerFPGA about 10 days ago

Work in ProgressThis is a design document specifying the functionality of a program that is not finished. I've implemented a lot of the functionality described below, but not all of it, and there are probably a lot of bugs. I can make an alpha version ava …

PC 486SX (ao486) • archive.org folder synchronization script [0mhz-dos]

MISTerFPGA about 12 days ago

Hey folks, I hacked this up today for my own use. It will synchronize any item folder @ archive.org (default is 0mhz-dos) with a local directory. Unlike the other download script I saw mentioned here, it doesn't need to parse XML, works for any archive.or …

Hardware Setups • MT32-Pi No Return Audio to MiSTer

MISTerFPGA about 15 days ago

Hi,Only new to the mister project and has been working great except having issues with getting MIDI working.I am trying to get MIDI sounds with Mister using Pi 4 with MT32 software.I have a vanilla DE10-nano (no addon boards) and a Pi 4 connected with jum …
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Feature: Daiva Tried To End Format Wars Once And For All, But Almost Killed Its Creator In The Process

Time Extension about 16 days ago

"When I next woke up, I was temporarily blind".Imagine if the 1993 space opera classic Master of Orion had been released not only for DOS, but six other major formats, and its selectable races were locked to specific hardware. The NES version would be the …

PC 486SX (ao486) • Help using MT-32 pi with Monkey Island

MISTerFPGA about 26 days ago

Hi - have recently set up a mister and been enjoying it immensely. Have set up multiple console and computer cores. Have an MT-32 pi as well that works great in all ao486 games that support it … except Monkey Island. The MT-32 doesn’t seem to be wo …
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30 Years Later, P47's Cancelled Mega Drive Port Is Finally Being Released

Time Extension about 1 month ago

The announcement was made at this year's Shooters Fes.During this year's Shooters Fes in Japan, City Connection revealed the news that it will be releasing the Mega Drive port of Jaleco's horizontally-scrolling shooter P47: The Phantom Fighter — almost 3 …
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SNES Port Of 2000 Freeware RPG Mysterious Song Is Finally Nearing Completion

Time Extension about 1 month ago

Based on Darkness Ethereal's DOS release from 2000.Homebrew developer Rafael Daniel has revealed that a SNES port of Darkness Ethereal's 2000 DOS freeware release Mysterious Song is nearing completion.The game has previously been ported to the NEC TurboGra …

PC 486SX (ao486) • 0MHz DOS Collection / PS3 Controller Support?

MISTerFPGA about 1 month ago

Hello,I have just installed the 0MHz collection but can not get any game to run with a PS3 controller. The controller usually works out of the box with everything else, but I can not get it to work with the collection.OSD works fine, I also get the usual …

PC 486SX (ao486) • Recommended Setting for mt32-pi

MISTerFPGA about 1 month ago

Looking for configuration recommendations for an authentic DOS gaming experience using mt-32 pi. Thanks! …

Give me old PC game recs

Neo Geo Forums about 1 month ago

System: Cyrix 486dx2 50mhz 16MB RAM Gravis Ultrasound Trident VGA Dos 6.22 + Windows 3.1 I have obvious stuff like Doom, early Duke nukem and commander keen already. The PC will not be able to handle 3D stuff unless it is extremely primitive, think no …

PC 486SX (ao486) • Config.sys Memory Issue on Startup

MISTerFPGA about 1 month ago

I wonder if anyone can help me with this. I don't want to use any of these presetup collections like Flynnsbit or 0mhz. I would much prefer to setup DOS myself and just then install the handful of games I want on it. I had been following the guide to do t …

IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000 • IBM PC-DOS Weirdness

MISTerFPGA about 1 month ago

Hey all. IBM does something unexpected when formatting a drive from DOS 2.00. There's a whole bunch of bytes written just before the second copy of the FAT at hex offset 0x1000 from the partition start. I see no recognizable strings in there, it doesn't l …

PC 486SX (ao486) • 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

Another DOS game collection? Why not! This one has a slightly different focus than Exo/Flynn, and DOSContainer projects.We originally published the “Special Sauce v0.0.1” collection a little while ago, and Limi (of AmigaVision fame) reached out to say …
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PC 486SX (ao486) • One Must Fall 2097?

MISTerFPGA about 2 months ago

I've recently obtained a MiSTer and think it's fantastic. Started with consoles but have been playing around with the A0486 core since I discovered it was a thing as I cut my teeth on DOS gaming. I managed to install the Top 300 DOS games pack and noticed …
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80-Col / 64k ROM Card Memory Corruption

Apple Fritter about 2 months ago

Morning, everyone! I've been lurking on these forums and elsewhere for a while taking in tips and tricks where I can to get my PAL Apple IIe up and running, but I've made an account as I've now run into a problem and I'd like a second opinion. ben …
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IWM reverse engineering

Apple Fritter about 2 months ago

After probing the waters in this thread: https://www.applef... finally got enough motivation to proceed with reverse engineering the IWM myself. I'm well aware that other have done that long ago, …

IBM Portable & Tandy Model 3

VCFed about 2 months ago

IBM - Excellent condition, DOS and some software $300. Model 3 - Ports added, Very good condition, no software - free to a good home NO Shipping, Pickup Only, 20 miles south of Kalamazoo, Michigan …

Soltys - A DOS Polish point and click adventure game is coming to the Amiga (AGA)

Indie Retro News about 2 months ago

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DOS applications not finding SoundBlaster Pro

VCFed about 2 months ago

I've been trying to install a SoundBlaster Pro card in my PC-AT (5170), but I have been running into some issues. All of the SoundBlaster-provided DOS test applications work, as do their Windows applications (specifically, their MIDI jukebox), but I …

Atari 1050 drive "Boot Error"

VCFed about 2 months ago

Hi all Now that I made my cable I've got the next issue: One of the floppy drives I'm restoring does everything these drives do, but only results in continuous "BOOT ERROR" when trying to boot a DOS disk. I checked and did everything …

A20 issues with my 386

VCFed about 2 months ago

Yesterday, I set up my new 386 system using [this motherboard]. I have 8 mb RAM (two 4 mb SIMM cards). I am using a 128 mb compact flash card for hard drive, installing PC DOS 7.01 (aka PC DOS 2000) to use for operating system. I ran into my first problem …

Comparison between mTCP's NetDrive and EtherDFS

VCFed about 2 months ago

I just wanted find out if any of the forum members have deployed M. Brutman's mTCP NetDrive and possibly compared it to EtherDFS. I have been using the EtherDFS for about 2 years and have had a number of problems with it's use. First of all. my old DOS sys …

Games • Loading tape games from disk

Defence Force about 2 months ago

I remember I asked this question a long long time ago, but could not find the thread with the answer, so I'm going to ask here again.Assuming a Microdisc or Jasmin drive and the access to the overlay memory, and a single load game, what I'd like to do is: …

Converting Cromemco IMD disks to a flat file question

VCFed about 2 months ago

All -- I'm attempting to use a Cromemco emulator (https://www.sydneysmith.co... as part of some work I'm doing with the 86-DOS project. The emulator seems to use only flat/binary files and I can't seem to get the ImageDisk incantation r …

Anyone knowledgeable on FreeDOS 1.3?

VCFed about 2 months ago

Ok Im getting to trying FreeDOS late in the game but could use some help. In a nutshell I have these outdated laptops that I think would make good retro DOS machines and thought FREEDOS was the best way to make this happen. I downloaded the 1.3 Bootable I …