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by flynnsbit
Sat Mar 23, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
Replies: 123
Views: 9728

Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released

I think the Top 300 collection has identified all the relevant sound config files so that would make this a lot easier for me when I embark on this mission. Assuming I can ever find an MT-32 module to play with. -Emubastard Here you go for future reference to make it easier. 79 files with references: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aflynnsbit%2F...
by flynnsbit
Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:59 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
Replies: 123
Views: 9728

Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released

Lemmings- Doesn't load for me... "Invalid directory" "Bad command or file name" "D:\>11" How many times have you tried this? I can't reproduce it. :( Top 300 VHD saved in the second IDE 0-1 slot maybe? If so, that would break D: for your MGLs. We talked about it on the discord this morning, but Top 300 now needs a MGL...
by flynnsbit
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:50 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released
Replies: 123
Views: 9728

Re: 0MHz DOS Collection 2024.03.20 Released

The following PR I have just created may be of interest Yes, it's a useful solution, which seems easier to use than the core configuration bits. This might replace having to use SYSCTL.EXE from the Ms-Dos, to do things like setting the clock speed, and will make it easier to tweak compared to having to mount the .VHD and edit the autoexec.bat. The...
by flynnsbit
Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: ao486 with Top 300 DOS Games Pack - TOO easy to set up?
Replies: 13
Views: 2252

Re: ao486 with Top 300 DOS Games Pack - TOO easy to set up?

Thanks, okay so simply place the .bin in the same directory. However, where do you actually swap the boot rom in the AO486? There's no such option in the core menu settings (e.g. in the C64 core where you can select the ROM within the core menu)? Appreciate your help in making these things clear as I couldn't find any guide on this part. Does it r...
by flynnsbit
Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:44 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: ao486 with Top 300 DOS Games Pack - TOO easy to set up?
Replies: 13
Views: 2252

Re: ao486 with Top 300 DOS Games Pack - TOO easy to set up?

ADDOS is for the optional After Dark Screensaver option in MyMenu. You need to put that directory... I think on C:\ADDOS and then set the screensaver through mymenu. It might go on E:\ADDOS. I can't remember. the trident vga bios is there for only a few games, you swap bios1.bin in your ao486 folder with that one for those games. I tried to call th...
by flynnsbit
Wed Jan 03, 2024 12:55 am
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: Individually Bootable VHDs for Each Game
Replies: 191
Views: 125323

Re: Individually Bootable VHDs for Each Game

I tested all 3 Lemmings VHDs and they are not working correctly. Lemmings 1 has major graphical glitches and is not playable. Beside that it it missing adlib effects and music. More Lemmings and X-Mas is also missing adlib (or sound blaster?) effects and music. I think i remember that lemmings needed a lot of free mem for music. See https://www.yo...
by flynnsbit
Mon Dec 25, 2023 2:26 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: Individually Bootable VHDs for Each Game
Replies: 191
Views: 125323

Re: Individually Bootable VHDs for Each Game

The Incredible Machine Needs the other VGA bios for it to work on mister. https://github.com/sethgregory/ao486_boot_switcher

by flynnsbit
Thu Nov 30, 2023 5:11 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: Individually Bootable VHDs for Each Game
Replies: 191
Views: 125323

Re: Individually Bootable VHDs for Each Game

I tried basing off eXoDOS but that became more of a hassle than it seemed worth because of subtle differences in many places so I abandoned that. Now I'm pulling every game off archive.org in the most authentic versions I can find, run the installer, write a boot menu for popular hardware choices and pack them up.. so the hard way. By far the most...
by flynnsbit
Thu Nov 30, 2023 4:45 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: Individually Bootable VHDs for Each Game
Replies: 191
Views: 125323

Re: Individually Bootable VHDs for Each Game

Lemmings and Oh no! More Lemmings are now added (hope to add Xmas Lemmings later today). Had to write a postprocessor feature into the build framework to permit fudging the disk check copy protection in the original Lemmings. It's big missing conceptual features like this that still keep me from open sourcing the build framework right now. The fra...
by flynnsbit
Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:56 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support
Replies: 744
Views: 293641

Re: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support

I got same problems with some games as other folks on this thread. For example, System Shock used to work before, but after recent update it just says file doesn't exists and exits. I guess something isn't properly changed in my layout, should I redownload the pack? I found that there's a weird quirk in DOSLFN for mounted CD images, and it breaks ...
by flynnsbit
Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:52 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support
Replies: 744
Views: 293641

Re: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support

I'm wondering how to add my own dos games and have them show up on the menu. I've found messages in this thread, and seen on some youtube videos, that there is supposed to be a menu option "use the top item in the menu that says --Manually Added Games.". When I boot into A0486 and load the necessary images however, I only see this: qeme8...
by flynnsbit
Wed Oct 11, 2023 3:04 am
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support
Replies: 744
Views: 293641

Re: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support

Hi ! Thanks for the amazing work. I installed and upadted successfully the 300 games. I have noticed that Phantasmagoria is not included in MyMenu, is it on purpose ? So I switch back to tdl to launch Phantasmagoria, and I played the first chapter (so many memories ^^). I have a problem when I tru to access the second chapter, the game asks for th...
by flynnsbit
Tue Oct 10, 2023 7:11 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support
Replies: 744
Views: 293641

Re: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support

So that does now indeed show up the images - ive updated to the latest version with update all, however i cant get the image to load. Ive redownloaded the boot vhd but it wont boot up when i load the core. Your bios files are probably old in your ao486 folder. download the ones from the mister repo manually https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_Mi...
by flynnsbit
Mon Aug 28, 2023 4:35 am
Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
Topic: XT/Tandy Archives, HDD Images, Compilations, Top 300, Play It By Year, etc.
Replies: 62
Views: 20198

Re: XT/Tandy Archives, HDD Images, Compilations, Top 300, Play It By Year, etc.

Very understandable. It may work, but it's at least another 12K of conventional memory occupied for a machine without UMB, and the long names can get mangled by utilities that don't check for the LFN API. Could there be an optional NAME.TXT file in each folder that could be loaded for a name substitution just like the README.ANS files are loaded? ...
by flynnsbit
Mon Aug 28, 2023 2:17 am
Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
Topic: XT/Tandy Archives, HDD Images, Compilations, Top 300, Play It By Year, etc.
Replies: 62
Views: 20198

Re: XT/Tandy Archives, HDD Images, Compilations, Top 300, Play It By Year, etc.

Thanks for the tips. Can I have an index file (or a metadata file in each folder) that maps folders to long titles, so the long title can be displayed? No, that's why we added support for LFN -- that is the database. You can use LFN on an older machine, it does work. LFNDOS or DOSLFN depending on the processor. I did test it on DOS 3.3, 4, 5, and ...
by flynnsbit
Mon Aug 28, 2023 1:12 am
Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
Topic: XT/Tandy Archives, HDD Images, Compilations, Top 300, Play It By Year, etc.
Replies: 62
Views: 20198

Re: XT/Tandy Archives, HDD Images, Compilations, Top 300, Play It By Year, etc.

MyMenu will work without LFN, just set LFN=F in the mymenu.ini. You can also setup the game name/folder name using the 10 digit hack, basically 8.3 and you can use _ for spaces in the name/folder. Like SPACE_ACE, WOLFENST.EIN. MyMenu will do the first character search, not full name like TDL did but it is good enough. The two slowest real machines ...
by flynnsbit
Fri May 05, 2023 12:01 am
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support
Replies: 744
Views: 293641

Re: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support

Indy just needs C/MS enabled in the core to get sound (It's a creative music system game). I'm not sure about the others and I wont have any time to fix them for a while.

by flynnsbit
Tue Feb 28, 2023 4:16 am
Forum: Input Devices
Topic: Taito Egret II Mini Rollerball/Spinner Controller
Replies: 140
Views: 50725

Re: Taito Egret II Mini Rollerball/Spinner Controller

Just tried it out with Arkanoid Arcade and... IT WORKS! Had to include the code in the MiSTER Ini as mentioned in the thread and then define the buttons using the MiSTER main menu OSD before the core was able to recognise the buttons on the Egret 2 Spinner/Rollerball controller. Afterwards? Yup! It works exactly as you'd expect! A huge THANK YOU t...
by flynnsbit
Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:10 am
Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
Topic: Extend PCXT Development to Improve MiSTer Core (DeMiSTify Ports)
Replies: 125
Views: 28956

Re: Extend PCXT Development to Improve MiSTer Core (DeMiSTify Ports)

Just don't run the dir command with all that space without FREESP running ;)

https://github.com/ChartreuseK/FREESP

by flynnsbit
Wed Feb 22, 2023 8:28 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support
Replies: 744
Views: 293641

Re: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support

Examples attached. Long story short, I should have cleaned it up more before releasing, and I should have left a couple more gigs for growth. I just created a 30GB VHD and copy the games to that new VHD to have some space for future activity. Now I saw that on your original image, there is a 10 MB Stub partition. Is that important? or can I just g...
by flynnsbit
Tue Feb 21, 2023 11:41 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support
Replies: 744
Views: 293641

Re: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support

Examples attached. Long story short, I should have cleaned it up more before releasing, and I should have left a couple more gigs for growth. I just created a 30GB VHD and copy the games to that new VHD to have some space for future activity. Now I saw that on your original image, there is a 10 MB Stub partition. Is that important? or can I just g...
by flynnsbit
Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:40 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support
Replies: 744
Views: 293641

Re: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support

I recently updated to the new mymenu v.2.0.2. Thanks for this and want to play around with the music player for mod,midi,mp3 But the dircetorys not created for this part in my setup. Can you give me some hints how to get access to some files to test the music features? How can I get access to the shared Mister folder eg. for exchange or get access...
by flynnsbit
Wed Feb 15, 2023 6:42 pm
Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
Topic: UX for the Poor 8088
Replies: 43
Views: 11960

Re: UX for the Poor 8088

Maybe Access would suit your needs? It's simple and fast, and if you need more than 400 game profiles, you should be able to nest the menu structure. It will require you to pick the game's executable, manually, though. Thanks mate, I had a look at it after your initial release post, but indeed the manual sorting is a big obstacle. @bbond007 / flyn...
by flynnsbit
Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:42 pm
Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
Topic: UX for the Poor 8088
Replies: 43
Views: 11960

Re: UX for the Poor 8088

by flynnsbit
Thu Feb 09, 2023 4:19 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support
Replies: 744
Views: 293641

Re: eXo/Flynn Top 300 DOS Pack Updates (Updated to 2.0.2 MyMenu) and Support

Because if it self-corrupts, it's always going to do that, so a backup doesn't do me any good. Sounds like I should just delete the main pack and the update script option if it isn't working for anyone. No one else has chimed in saying it was working so maybe I should start over? I don't want something out there that is corrupting immediately like...
by flynnsbit
Thu Jan 26, 2023 6:07 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: ao486 core problem after update
Replies: 11
Views: 1871

Re: ao486 core problem after update

totally guessing based on the information, you need the newer ao486 bios files. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer/tree/master/releases boot0 and boot1 from here into your ao486 folder. Also make sure you don't have an extra ao486 folder not on your hdd like on the sdcard (meaning delete any other a0486 folders leaving only the one you wa...
by flynnsbit
Thu Jan 26, 2023 5:24 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: ao486 core problem after update
Replies: 11
Views: 1871

Re: ao486 core problem after update

How long ago did you last run update all? What was the duration between updates?

by flynnsbit
Sun Jan 22, 2023 8:59 pm
Forum: IBM PC, PCXT, Tandy 1000
Topic: MDA Upgrade to Hercules
Replies: 82
Views: 23878

Re: MDA Upgrade to Hercules

there may be software that uses both cards simultaneously, and in the absence of two monitors This reminded me of the GB2P and GBA2P cores: https://www.retrorgb.com/2-player-gb-gbc-gba-custom-cores-for-mister.html These cores have a feature where the HDMI and VGA video output of the MiSTer can show different screens. Mabye some code can be reused ...
by flynnsbit
Sun Jan 22, 2023 3:08 pm
Forum: PC 486SX (ao486)
Topic: Latest ao486 Core Release Messed Up Disk Access
Replies: 16
Views: 2733

Re: Latest ao486 Core Release Messed Up Disk Access

It did update the boot VHD though which I also use for my large eXoDOS VHD. Still, I dont think that is the issue because if I boot Windows 98, that now struggles to browse the disk now (it used to work fine before). It's a real mystery. Oh that should be fine to update the boot one yeah. adding SmartDrv cache is the only thing left I can think of...