Does anyone use real DOS computers to play Keen?
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Exactly! :]Keening_Product wrote:"Apart from the improvements, it's good."
But the crappy video, noisy and faulty hardware and general uncertainty whether you're gonna boot this time or not have a certain weird charm and I understand running Keen on top of that is another kind of experience, and I guess that's what this thread is about?
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Hey, EGA wasn't that badcrappy video
Well, if you use a modern hard drive (or even better, a compact flash card) it increases the reliability by about 500% and makes it much quieter too. I'm using my Socket 5 box as a main machine right now, and I'm quite happy with it. It's super reliable, does exactly what I need it to do (play old DOS games, word processing) and if I need to get on the internet I just use my iPhone. It's not perfect for everything but it works. Of course I have a modern computer that I use for everything elsenoisy and faulty hardware
Well sure, Keen was meant to be played on that type of hardware, although in reality I probably couldn't tell the difference between that and DOSBox. Not unless it was playing some serious OPL3 tunes, in which case emulation just can't cut itI understand running Keen on top of that is another kind of experience, and I guess that's what this thread is about?
Edit: Rorie, you haven't played Keen for years? Then why are you still here?
I flermmed the plootash just like you asked.
I meant noisy cards / poor picture quality compared to digital/LCDs here.keenmaster486 wrote:Hey, EGA wasn't that badcrappy video
I love me some 16 color goodness, or I wouldn't even be here! :]
I do that for most of my machines now, but I used to even boot from floppies.keenmaster486 wrote:Well, if you use a modern hard drive (or even better, a compact flash card) it increases the reliability by about 500% and makes it much quieter too.noisy and faulty hardware
However, you're still not home yet. I had a videocard failure with black smoke and all. Dunno how, but that one actually kept working even after the fact! (the cap was actually not that important probably?)
I unfortunately had a motherboard and some ISA cards that just stopped working out of the blue. Oh well, that stuff is cheap nowadays.
...which was kind of my original point. They sure did an awesome job with DOSBox!keenmaster486 wrote:...I probably couldn't tell the difference between that and DOSBox.I understand running Keen on top of that is another kind of experience, and I guess that's what this thread is about?
(a bit of OT: probably the coolest thing I've ever done with my 386)
Squarewave Orchestra!kvee wrote:(a bit of OT: probably the coolest thing I've ever done with my 386)
hallelujah! that's frublin' awesome!
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That was delicious.kvee wrote:(a bit of OT: probably the coolest thing I've ever done with my 386)
Keening_Product was defeated before the game.
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Nisaba wrote:Squarewave Orchestra!
hallelujah! that's frublin' awesome!
Thanks!Keening_Product wrote: That was delicious.
That's actually OPL3! I used some FM sounds during the show as well, but for this one I needed a squarewave. I control the chip with a program I wrote, opl_plr (you can see it running on my monitor). The soundcard is based on the Yamaha OPL3-SAx chipset.keenmaster486 wrote:Whoa! That's really cool, man! How were you playing those square waves, what sound card were you using? Was it digital or synthesized? And which one was you in the video?
This has given me ideas
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Back in school, I received my very first computer whom which they were cleaning out their outdated systems and my former teacher who I keep in close contact with and we are both good friends actually gave me an what they called a 486DX2 which it's cpu was 66mhz, I did get a larger hard disk in the years ahead and more RAM, unfortunately it died me on years ago after I had left school but I did get a lot of enjoyment out of having my own computerkvee wrote:I actually have several oldschool 386 / 486 systems, but I gotta say DOSBox is great!Rorie wrote:I would have to depend on DOS related emulators such as DosBox
Apart from the lack of hardware crapping out and some minor graphical differences (stuff's generally prettier in DOSBox), I'm actually very happy with my virtual DOS machine.
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