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hermes_jr
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 Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject: old gaaamezz - i want them :) |
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Could anyone explain me how to play really old games like "goblins", "legends of kyrandia", "c&c", "lba-relentless", "flight of the amazon queen" etc etc... I mean how to get them work under cvswinex or wine or something? My friends can't even get them work under windozz xp and 98 (I just haven't got one  ). They call it nostalgy  |
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Gandalf the White
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| You may wish to give dosbox a try, it's in portage. I took a brief look at the list of supported games and at least goblins and legends of kyrandia are supported, didn't check the others though. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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hermes_jr,
I've got a Windows Apple ][ emulator that runs under WINE. It lest me play most of the old Apple ][ games.
Thats an emulator runinning in an emulator running a game.
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JoseJX
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Flight of the Amazon Queen can be played with scummvm. This program also lets you play most old lucasarts adventures! Check it out! |
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hermes_jr
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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Wow!  Thanks men! I'll try all this stuff today... |
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ruyn
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: |
Thats an emulator runinning in an emulator running a game. |
WINE is not an emulator. So its an emulator not running in an emulator. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2004 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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ruyn,
OK - I know, but you see the point.
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hermes_jr
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| Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2004 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Dosbox... Goblins... yeah... yeah baby... YEAH!!! 
Nice. Now could anyone tell me please, is it possible to make emulators and "NOT emulators" to use alsa dmixing? I mean now dosbox, wine, cvswinex can't be used simultaneously with xmms for example, but isn't it cool to play a game and listen your favorite music? I believe every problem got a solution, but never heard about this one. |
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aethyr
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| hermes_jr wrote: | | I mean now dosbox, wine, cvswinex can't be used simultaneously with xmms for example, but isn't it cool to play a game and listen your favorite music? |
Err, are you sure that's not your soundcard? My soundcard can do that stuff. |
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hermes_jr
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:20 am Post subject: |
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| aethyr wrote: |
Err, are you sure that's not your soundcard? My soundcard can do that stuff. |
No, I'm not sure... But I've got the same soundcard as thousands of users, so at least I hope I'm not alone . Aethyr, are you using KDE? I mean alsa sound mixing (dmix) isn't just a simple stuff and it causes lots of problems. And maybe arts (KDE sound daemon or mixer or something like, you know) is the reason of all your progs work ok.
Hrr... my english sux when I'm nervous, sorry. |
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aethyr
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| Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| hermes_jr wrote: | | aethyr wrote: |
Err, are you sure that's not your soundcard? My soundcard can do that stuff. |
Aethyr, are you using KDE? I mean alsa sound mixing (dmix) isn't just a simple stuff and it causes lots of problems. |
Nope, I have GNOME, but I use alsa. However, my soundcard (au8830) supports hardware mixing, as seen here with a (4) listed under "Notes":
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=All#matrix |
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sdaffis
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If you were using arts you could play music with xmms using xmms-arts as output. Then simply start dosbox with a leading artsdsp -m | Code: | | artsdsp -m dosbox duke3d.exe |
THEORETICALLY! 
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nephros
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One of my favorite last resorts for old games that _just wont run_ on anything but true DOS is to format my swap partition FAT, install MS-DOS or FreeDOS on it and play the game.
If I lose interest, its just a mkswap && swapon and I have my swap back.
(Linux runs fine without swap if you have a bit of RAM, and if you REALLY need it you can still use a swapfile in the meantime.)
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