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USB devices in DOS (Users)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 27.10.2010, 23:39

> > BTW how about sound on your netbook - does it work for Duke under DOS?
> No, so far I didn't hear anything under DOS.

That's no huge surprise. I recently ran an old game from 1995 on my other "old" P4 (2003?), and it wouldn't even start (!) without "-nosound". Plus all the text/fonts graphics were illegible for some odd reason. And it was a little too fast, heh. Yes, it uses DOS/4GW (and has srcs). But it all works flawlessly in DOSBox.

> Will be great of course to try
> something... but am happy that it runs at all really. I cant still even
> manage to try it on ramdisk, which I think improve duke on my netbook more
> than getting sounds.But I work on starting to work on this :)

http://www.tenberry.com/dos4g/watcom/4gwtable.html

DOS/4GW 1.97 DOS/4GW 2.01 DOS/4GW Pro DOS/4G for Watcom Virtual Address Space 32 MB 32 MB 128 MB 4 GB Physical Address Space 32 MB 32 MB 64 MB 64 MB

So it may be that putting it in RAM (Gog.com says 27 MB download) would eat up more than it can access anyways.

Really, I don't know what minimum files are needed to run. If you could figure that amount (KGB?), then you could run "RDISK /S20 /:G" or similar and xcopy to RAM disk.

Though does this mean your SSD is making it run slower than optimal?? Because normally I wouldn't think running on a HD would be less than ideal for Duke Nukem 3D (though I only played the demo version recently and only under Puppy, fully in RAM).

> Just wanted to add, Dos tools for virtualising hdd seems to be problematic
> to run on my netbook, and this is not direct problem solver in this case,
> probably duke is just hard-coded to a small amount of mem.

Like I said, it's probably the DOS/4G variant's fault. You could try a different extender too, if you think that'll help. CWSTUB.EXE, DOS32A.EXE, WDOSX, D3X, etc.

Don't forget that D3D's engine is open source, so somebody (in theory) could hack/patch/recompile it! (No free data, but see below or Ken's Labyrinth.)

P.S. :-D
2010-09-15: Freedoom 0.7-rc1 released. (Needs Boom-compatible, e.g. Eternity)
http://www.nongnu.org/freedoom/

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