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On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 11:04 PM Carlos Teixeira <carlos.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > all DSI games that use that same engine, Grand Prix Circuit, The Cycles, > Test Drive 2 have that issue. You launch the games and you just get a black > screen. I commented on the video comment section days before it premiered > that he should test Grand Prix Circuit and Test Drive 2 as i was sure those > would fail. Somehow my comment is not there anymore, but i'm glad that he > did test them. > > There's also the floppy versions of Alone in the Dark 1 and Alone in the > Dark 2: > > https://github.com/dosemu2/fdpp/issues/107 > > It's something about corrupted PSP's that somehow do not crash on MS-DOS > but crash on FreeDOS. So these Alone in the Dark games might need to be > patched to work on FreeDOS. > > > > A sexta, 4/03/2022, 20:56, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> escreveu: > >> >> Let me summarize this ;-) >> >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNeq-F84Lx4 >> >> - Lots of games had CD driver issues in FreeDOS 1.2 and are fine now >> >> - Grand Prix Circuit and Test Drive 2 still do not run >> >> - most games work best in boot option TWO, which is a sane JEMMEX >> config. I guess the default is option ONE, insane JEMMEX tuning? ;-) >> >> - Wing Commander needs JEMM386 instead, I have no idea why? >> >> - some games do not like any EMM386, of course >> >> - the video mentions zero games not liking HIMEM, I think? >> >> - it sounds like a very bad idea to create a zillion FAT16 partitions >> and format only one of them, while using FreeDOS FDISK etc. by hand >> made it easy for the reviewer to just create ONE FAT32 drive :-p >> >> - one of the installers took 20 minutes, but the legacy one was fast? >> >> - lots of youtube viewers ask whether Windows WfW 3.11 is supported >> and I bet they mean 386enh mode (in WfW 3.11, non-386enh is just >> left as a sort of safe mode, while in Windows 3.x, standard mode >> was still relatively useful for those not supporting 386enh mode) >> >> Maybe somebody can tell me what is going on with GP Circuit and with >> TD2 in FreeDOS? Do we know which compatibility problems they trigger? >> >> Have any recent kernel updates made WfW 3.11 work in a less convoluted >> way in FreeDOS and if yes, which specific tricks are needed to run it? >> >> I remember you had to disable windows disk drivers to let it use DOS >> and/or BIOS instead if your disk is non-tiny? And you had to limit >> the size of visible RAM if you had too much of it? HIMEM etc. have >> special options for that and you can also tune various things in Win3 >> configuration files, such as the swap address space ratio etc. There >> also was a FreeDOS tech note long ago, I believe. >> >> Regards, Eric >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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