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Post #AwPO19seLZ9R5a0TmC by [email protected] |
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I tried to use my "capture the game running on a super-slow CPU" tric… |
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Post #AwPO5WOYa16S4j0lzk by [email protected] |
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@foone question: how do you end up with a screen like this? aren't the text… |
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Post #AwPO6uFfMp5iM3Vt4q by [email protected] |
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I wonder how you write a program so that if your CPU suddenly drops to 1/100th … |
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Post #AwPORo0vknMf5eaQ2S by [email protected] |
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@foone Does it tie certain events to how much real time has passed rather than … |
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Post #AwPOSWbHyyalN9w4oq by [email protected] |
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@whitequark They are! I'm not entirely sure this is possible on real hardwa… |
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Post #AwPOVqGVKGMrELnO1Q by [email protected] |
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@foone real time timer overflow? |
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Post #AwPOpsPf3BfPgPdEjA by [email protected] |
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@foone My guess, especially from the error: it's trying to talk to some oth… |
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Post #AwPOu5F3ILGKd5fwvY by [email protected] |
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@foone @whitequark like there's no reason a video bios couldn't know ho… |
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Post #AwPP2TA4FKFZ8DLJLs by [email protected] |
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@rakslice @foone oh fair i forgot int 10h exists |
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Post #AwPPt7MK2NSqrQBBbs by [email protected] |
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@foone found an old thread from Vogons about DOS/4GW crashing SimCity 2000 in D… |
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Post #AwPQCLE2hr6hMvTPCC by [email protected] |
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@foone @whitequark I have seen some BIOSes- maybe even the original 1981 one- k… |
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Post #AwPS9AOgi1dwpD4BIe by [email protected] |
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@foone @whitequark i think i remember seeing similar crashes on real hardware |
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Post #AwPS9AV4KIkP903HFI by [email protected] |
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@Rairii @whitequark yeah. usually dos4gw crashes into a lower resolution (320x2… |
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Post #AwPYsGbF5vFGolpM8W by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] I think a lot of old programs use the CPU frequency as a c… |
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Post #AwPYsGiKfYutAl91Bg by [email protected] |
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@froge @foone (flashbacks to the bike minigame in FF7 having wildly different d… |
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Post #AwPYsWf1Ndm6d7ibFQ by [email protected] |
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@foone it falls out of sync with the system clock? |
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Post #AwPYxBcX2CVCp5mBzU by [email protected] |
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@Rairii @foone @whitequark the VGA BIOS always had the ability to write charact… |
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Post #AwPYy0lqrJGDSlWr68 by [email protected] |
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@theogrin @foone, I'm thinking more along the lines of assumptions about ho… |
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Post #AwPYzM96s8BM2w36NE by [email protected] |
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@lp0_on_fire @theogrin @foone Does the clock speed of the whole virtual system … |
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Post #AwPZ0W1pc98ozDCJ1c by [email protected] |
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@foone i could see how an extremely slow cpu could cause a "milliseconds p… |
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Post #AwPZ2PbKTy3VdBho6C by [email protected] |
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@foone @whitequark Most graphics modes supported text output as well. The actua… |
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Post #AwPmpUsOxLITaOQWXI by [email protected] |
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@foone many async systems have that problem. Sound playback is common. |
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Post #AwPnvao7uwW3fktj28 by [email protected] |
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@StompyRobot Sound is a good point! I went back and tried disabling music/sound… |
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Post #AwPpRCsOWoZ6fjX5U0 by [email protected] |
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@foone"At every vsync do xyz, if you encounter abc, drop registers 2234 on… |
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Post #AwPrCkcH09MCsaE7Jw by [email protected] |
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130 cycles/second seems to be the slowest you can set it without it crashing. i… |
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Post #AwPrICe4DZcrG1fK2i by [email protected] |
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130 is also way higher than I'd like, because you can memcopy the screen in… |
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Post #AwPrMcgLM8FjAQq0dE by [email protected] |
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so normally I use like 30 cycles per second for these slow-motion drawing GIFs.… |
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Post #AwPrPtdWm9cScU57vU by [email protected] |
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I suspect the crash is mouse related: I got it to run at 125 cycles/second for … |
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Post #AwPrbyhflMyfoEmVsG by [email protected] |
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@foone It's probably related to how consumer-grade GPS refuses to work at r… |
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Post #AwPselrU44emnvGZMm by [email protected] |
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@StarkRG good point. terrorists are always trying to use 90s city simulators fo… |
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Post #AwPtB0PbVD7tCKb1wO by [email protected] |
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I tried doing a memory dump and DOSBox says all 16 megabytes of ram I have are … |
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Post #AwPy4JzcnmXdff4pNI by [email protected] |
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@foone @StarkRG how else would they simulate the damage done when testing? |
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Post #AwQ521iOUGeC5Cs0ZM by [email protected] |
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@Rairii @foone @whitequark Yeah, I've definitely seen crashes like this in … |
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Post #AwQLMRj75K3foZxuLo by [email protected] |
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@foone Can’t you implement some speed limit for the virtual mouse? A Mouse wi… |
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Post #AwQMI35wp59KDV74Do by [email protected] |
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@foone I’d do it by audio buffer under-run, personally. |
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Post #AwQQUFFdqqFvD7ib0y by [email protected] |
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@rvalue Someone else suggested that! I tried turning off the sound & music … |
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Post #AwSbhdMgzo8NZgWUAS by [email protected] |
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@foone worth a shot |
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Post #AwSc0PILX4HnRHRRzs by [email protected] |
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@foone if you think there might be something there, maybe turn off the device e… |
