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 optical drive driver doesn't s
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 writ
Hi people,
I want to suggest this:
[FDCONFIG.SYS]
COUNTRY=036,852,C:\DOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS
[AUTOEXEC:BAT]
SET lang=HU
DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1)
MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((852) c:\DOS\CPI\EGA.CPX)
MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=852
KEYB hu,852 /ID:208
Regards, Roland
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> 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 is as follows:
> FD12CD.iso
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 driv
>
>
>> 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
> AUTO
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 that
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
> de
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 load
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 "legacy"
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