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DOSBox Staging

DOSBox Staging v0.82.1 has been released 🥳

The main focus of this maintenance release is to fix a couple of regressions introduced in 0.82.0 and older releases, mostly related to game compatibility. The other big improvement is the CPU usage of the 3dfx Voodoo emulation has been reduced by about 50%, so your computer won’t go into hoover-mode anymore when playing those Voodoo games 😎

check out the release notes for the details:
dosbox-staging.org/releases/re

#DOSGaming #MS-DOS #Emulation #RetroGaming #LinuxGaming #MacGaming #FOSS #DOSBox

www.dosbox-staging.org0.82.1 - DOSBox StagingDOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.
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Aviancer

I've got rest of the Death Gate stream series up on YouTube! I deeply enjoyed the experiencing the game myself and it's been wonderful to be able to share it with others as well.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdm

There's six videos in total - we travel out from the labyrinth through elemental realms solving puzzles and mysteries. Making alliances with unexpected parties, and facing off with the forces that sundered the world!

Titled “Death Gate”. A composite movie poster style picture made of three different sceneries from the Death Gate spliced together as if a gate has opened in the middle. Left to right, a castle in front of billowing clouds, a large tree in a jungle, a lake of lava surrounded by rock. The picture shows many of the characters in the game, an adventurer stands out in the middle haloed by a yellow glow. Two white robed figures stand on either side of him, one wearing a wizards hat. On the left side a number of unfortunate individuals are shown, including a sad child - fronted by a smiling king. A man standing behind him has a knife held up in his hand as if to strike. In the middle in front of the hero sits a sophisticated man wearing blue robes and reading a book. To the right a brigand threatens a lady dressed in red and an apron with a sword. At the front an aged man reads a book, a reanimated dwarf sitting beside him. Many groupings are references to the game, others intentional misdirections.
#streamer#smallstreamer#playthrough
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Aviancer

Awesome! Got everything working correctly under Windows 3.1. Turns out the S3 driver set I got was the correct one after all and I got glorious 1024x768 with 32k colors mode working! 🎉

It actually ran way smoother than I expected especially compared to the generic SVGA driver, though I eventually had to drop back down to 640x480 @ 256 colors for Myst.

After some trial and error I was able to also get AWE64 sound working also, though I had to fool S64basic.exe installer that I already had a controller manager installed. Blasted canyon.mid with the creative soft synth before I tried installing Roland MPU-401 support - which my PCMidi card to my surprise was completely happy to be driven by, so I followed it up with the SC-55 MkII ^^

I find it exceedingly cool how the Win 3.1 midi mapper allows you to divide midi channels between different midi devices if you so desire. So you could have drums from one and the rest from another for example.

To top it all off we installed Quicktime 2.03 😂 and did our first foray into Myst, the goal of the whole exercise to explore its various mysteries 💕 Will be returning to it a little later!

Screenshot from a Twitch stream, a grackle inspired bird vtuber is at the bottom left corner of the screen. The right wing of the bird is held up in a gesture. We are in a DOS text mode “Audio Software” installer with a blue background and white text. The view is currently showing where the files will be installed, audio card path c:\sb16, windows 3.1 path c:\windows and system boot up drive c:\ At the top right there is a Tetris levels to play counter, and a text indicating one of Tiasu’s songs is playing in the background. At the bottom right a follow goal is listed, having reached 667/666 for a playthrough of Myst.
Screenshot from a Twitch stream, a grackle inspired bird vtuber is at the bottom left corner of the screen. We are in a Windows 3.1. Media player l, program manager and midi mapper are open. The midi mapper has all tracks set to play on “Roland MPU-401”. One of the port drop downs is open listing also some other options. At the top right there is a Tetris levels to play counter, and a text indicating one of Tiasu’s songs is playing in the background. At the bottom right a follow goal is listed, having reached 667/666 for a playthrough of Myst.
Screenshot from a Twitch stream, a grackle inspired bird vtuber is at the bottom left corner of the screen. The bird looks happy/amused with her beak open some and head tilted. We are in a graphical installer for QuickTime for Windows 2.03. A dialog is open, with a welcome message and allowing us to install, exit or help. The background is filled with a repeating pink and white pixel pattern. At the top right there is a Tetris levels to play counter, and a text indicating one of Tiasu’s songs is playing in the background. At the bottom right a follow goal is listed, having reached 667/666 for a playthrough of Myst.
Screenshot from a Twitch stream, a grackle inspired bird vtuber is at the bottom left corner of the screen, looking focused. We are in Myst, the game. A view of a Roman style library building is at the front with a pathway leading up to it with grass on either side. Several other buildings can also be seen in the scene partially, one has a dome roof, another is high on a mountainside. A blimp or classic finned space rocket style craft of some sort can be seen parked further way in the distance. At the top right there is a Tetris levels to play counter, and a text indicating one of Tiasu’s songs is playing in the background. At the bottom right a follow goal is listed, having reached 667/666 for a playthrough of Myst.
#RetroComputing#RetroGaming#Twitch
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Constantin

Today for the #startrek bubble: This #retromonday I show you “Star Trek 25th Anniversary” - my first Star Trek game. And what a game it was. In short episodes you experience the adventures of the #tos crew, which felt like the fourth season. On 8 floppy disks or later on CD with the real voices of the original actors. The copy protection was a star map found in the centerfold of the manual #retro #dosgaming

A computer game Big-Box “Star Threk 25th Anniversary” with the TOS-Enterprise in the upper area and Captain Kirk in the front center, Mr. Spock to his left and Dr. McCoy to his right. Behind this box is the white label version of the game in the CD-Rom version
A star map in the centerfold of the manual. Around it, there are 8 blue floppy disks.
A photo of a black all-in-one PC. The picture shows a screenshot from the game, the bridge view. In front of the CRT monitor is the CD jewel case with the cover image of the game.
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