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[nemolomen]

CD keys aint half as bad as needed the damn CD to boot the game and then it gets scratched and your game is borked.

Floppy disks? I see your floppies and up you a HIMEM.SYS

I see your HIMEM.SYS and raise you either EDLIN.COM or EMM386.EXE (whichever is worse)

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

And I'll move keybuk into himem, and I'll raise the pot with a compact cassette.

If you want to play dirty, I have punched cards and an acoustic coupler...

 

[nemolomen]

And I'll move keybuk into himem, and I'll raise the pot with a compact cassette.

If you want to play dirty, I have punched cards and an acoustic coupler...

8" Floppy Disk

 

[Skürt Avil]

I don't miss having to keep the CD keys around, though. Or the floppy disks! What are those!?

I still have a box of games on 3.5" floppies, but I can't find the drive. I'm certain it's in another box somewhere.

 

[nemolomen]

@Codger - congrats on the stellar!!!

 

[Codger]

Oh and...

I've never troed this before. I have two ships in the shipyard at a station. How do I selected one or the other from the councourse? It says use up/down to selectt hangar but those keys do nothing. DO you just have to use the old shipyard method of switching between ships?

Either that or go to the Inter Astra vendor on the concourse and use their services.

Edit: Ninja'd

 

[Codger]

@Codger - congrats on the stellar!!!

Did I win one? I hadn't seen it yet.

Ah, I see it now in the stream, my little DBX on the ringed planet. Yay me.

Funny how it's never my personal favorites that win, but I'm happy either way.

 

[nemolomen]

Did I win one? I hadn't seen it yet.

Oh, sorry...

 

[Skürt Avil]

Did I win one? I hadn't seen it yet.

Ah, I see it now in the stream, my little DBX on the ringed planet. Yay me.

Funny how it's never my personal favorites that win, but I'm happy either way.

Nice one Codger, congrats!

 

[Tyres O'Flaherty]

\o/ @Codger

 

[Codger]

@Codger - congrats on the stellar!!!

Oh, sorry...

No, I appreciate it, I probably would have missed it if you hadn't said something

Nice one Codger, congrats!

\o/ @Codger

Thanks all. Someday I'll have to buy an Asp Explorer so I can see what the paintjob I won looks like.

 

[CMDR-NOBODY]

I see your HIMEM.SYS and raise you either EDLIN.COM or EMM386.EXE (whichever is worse)

Don't miss QEMM~!!!


IIRC, DOOM need HIMEN to run, others like Simcity need EMM386 or QEMM, didin't remember Duke3D need both HIMEM & EMM386 or not.

Then this recall my very early gaming day with a multi-boot floopy will all the option above plus DOS-V for game with Japanese/Chinese characters..

 

[CMDR-NOBODY]

I do miss the days when games came bundled with some printed media to make them feel more immersive. There were a few in the 90s did it really well; FE2 came with all the short stories, Syndicate and I think UFO Enemy Unknown both did their gameplay manuals in-character.

Not that I mind having in-game tutorials, I used the ED ones yesterday to remind myself of the controls before I took my actual ship out of the station, but paper feels nice.

THIS, I still have this Falcon 4.0 Manual. This one seems to be sort of deluxe edition released years after my purchase, mine was without the hard cover.

https://imgur.com/DAlAh

Source: https://imgur.com/DAlAh

 

[aRJay]

I don't miss having to keep the CD keys around, though. Or the floppy disks! What are those!?

The thing I really don't miss is the Lenslok for Elite on the ZX Spectrum, not that unhappy that my games aren't on cassette tapes anymore.

 

[nemolomen]

Don't miss QEMM~!!!


IIRC, DOOM need HIMEN to run, others like Simcity need EMM386 or QEMM, didin't remember Duke3D need both HIMEM & EMM386 or not.

Then this recall my very early gaming day with a multi-boot floopy will all the option above plus DOS-V for game with Japanese/Chinese characters..

I'm pretty sure you just out-geeked me...its not often I come across old PC stuff and not know something.

 

[Yingnei Gasua]

And I'll move keybuk into himem, and I'll raise the pot with a compact cassette.

If you want to play dirty, I have punched cards and an acoustic coupler...

OK you leave me no choice. I will skip the vacuum tubes and showhand with my grandfather's abacus*.

*Yes I have one at home. My grandpa used it in his shop back in the early 1930s.

 

[Speedcuffs]

OK you leave me no choice. I will skip the vacuum tubes and showhand with my grandfather's abacus*.

*Yes I have one at home. My grandpa used it in his shop back in the early 1930s.

Difference Engine.

 

[stetson harrison]

Don't miss QEMM~!!!


IIRC, DOOM need HIMEN to run, others like Simcity need EMM386 or QEMM, didin't remember Duke3D need both HIMEM & EMM386 or not.

Then this recall my very early gaming day with a multi-boot floopy will all the option above plus DOS-V for game with Japanese/Chinese characters..

Duke3D does not need EMM386 for sure. It's a DOS4GW program like DOOM, these put the CPU in protected mode to be able to address memory without the real-mode 64 kB segment limitations, making programming way easier. EMM386 itself requires HIMEM as it needs some place where to put the emulated expanded memory blocks. It's a horrible hack, but also the only way of having more than 1 megabyte of addressable memory on a 8086/8088.

Best regards,
Stetson DOS=HIGH,UMB Harrison

 

[CMDR-NOBODY]

.. DOS=HIGH,UMB...

Aarrr, Upper Memory Block!!! I remembered this line in the dos config (config.sys?)

I actually don't know the details behind the scene, I just tried to remember which config is needed for specific game then mix and match them in the mutli-boot floopy. That was fun!!!

 

[Zieman]

FE2 did need himem & EMM386, plus at least 590 kb free conventional memory AFTER loading everything config.sys & autoexec.bat included.
Yeah, it needed EMS instead of XMS, while FFE did run in XMS, utilising DOS4GW.