Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@adambegood You might get it cheaper on GOG. Their enhanced edition comes packaged with the original game too.
It's the Infinity engine game that benefitted the least from the Enhanced Edition treatment but it's still staggeringly beautiful in HD. -
@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Very impressive! Are you also aware that the pi is capable of running BBC Micro games through beebem? Although from what I hear and know performance is less than ideal.
Yes I know. Never tried it though. Have to do that some time.
I must say video and sound are really good with bbc micro in lr-mess.Box86 compiles easily on my pi 4 but the instructions I found don't cover how to actually use the damn thing. Silly.
Someone seems to be busy running wine over box86.
Up till now there is nothing shared
Probably we have to wait.Last year I tried box86. Only thing I could install steam installer.
Seems that you can install a wine (windows binary version) on it. So it could be easy.
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@folly Yeah I've tried compiling Wine too, but I can't find any instructions on how to actually use them.
Anyway I'm falling behind as it is, so this will have to wait a little! But it seems promising. -
@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Yeah I've tried compiling Wine too, but I can't find any instructions on how to actually use them.
How did you compile ?
You should make or have a windows compatible wine.
Anyway I'm falling behind as it is, so this will have to wait a little! But it seems promising.
How was it on your new job ?
Perhaps this weekend you can try again. ;-)
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@folly I haven't actually started yet, I don't start for at least a week but there's an inane amount of paperwork and e-training ^^
I compiled Box86 following instructions on the github for Box86, and Wine using sudo apt install.
I'm sure if you give it a try you'll crack it in five minutes ^^
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly I haven't actually started yet, I don't start for at least a week but there's an inane amount of paperwork and e-training ^^
I compiled Box86 following instructions on the github for Box86, and Wine using sudo apt install.
I'm sure if you give it a try you'll crack it in five minutes ^^
Perhaps I will try too.
Sudo apt will install on your linux (that doesn't work for Box86).
If you did it on a pi, it works only for ARM cpu, so you can't run x86 cpu software.No binary found yet.
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@folly Ah that probably explains that.
I'm at a loss and I can't find information that's tailored to someone who has limited knowledge like me.
If you tried could you share the commands you used to get it running?Edit : 1000+ posts, incredible. I never thought this thread would get so huge.
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Ah that probably explains that.
I'm at a loss and I can't find information that's tailored to someone who has limited knowledge like me.
If you tried could you share the commands you used to get it running?Edit : 1000+ posts, incredible. I never thought this thread would get so huge.
Yeah , We have to celebrate ^^ Let' s do a beer sometime !
React OS is an opensource windows. I think you can install wine in this Operating system. So if we can find this binary we could try this.
Have to go now,
Bye. -
@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Ah that probably explains that.
I'm at a loss and I can't find information that's tailored to someone who has limited knowledge like me.
If you tried could you share the commands you used to get it running?Edit : 1000+ posts, incredible. I never thought this thread would get so huge.
Yeah , We have to celebrate ^^ Let' s do a beer sometime !
React OS is an opensource windows. I think you can install wine in this Operating system. So if we can find this binary we could try this.
Have to go now,
Bye.I'd be up for a Zoom beer at some point, would be strange but interesting!
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I have added a test version 1.3a on github.
It matches mess names to RetroPie ones.
So if you are interested you can have a try.
The first tests are already done.
And some issues are already fixed. -
@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Ah that probably explains that.
I'm at a loss and I can't find information that's tailored to someone who has limited knowledge like me.
If you tried could you share the commands you used to get it running?Edit : 1000+ posts, incredible. I never thought this thread would get so huge.
Yeah , We have to celebrate ^^ Let' s do a beer sometime !
React OS is an opensource windows. I think you can install wine in this Operating system. So if we can find this binary we could try this.
Have to go now,
Bye.I'd be up for a Zoom beer at some point, would be strange but interesting!
Sounds like a good idea! I'd be up for that.
@Folly Making a note of that and I'll test and catch up ASAP.
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
I compiled Box86 following instructions on the github for Box86, and Wine using sudo apt install.
I did some research on box86.
Seems my idea with a "windows wine binary" isn't the right one.
If you like to read, @George is busy with this.
You can read his first post, to find out more:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28528/box86-and-wine-on-rpi4Seems he uses a developper version of a linux x86 wine and extracts the files from a deb directly.
It's best to wait a bit longer.
I am hopefull George will nail it. -
@folly Ah well, considering the amount of DOS games I've just added to my Pi, I think I can wait a little bit to play Arcanum and Unreal ^^
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I bought a gaming laptop this week as we have a working from home allowance at work, and they don't really check what we spend it on. So I'm playing some pimped N64, PSP and GameCube games without worrying about them not running quickly enough.
I bought CyberPunk 2077 as well. I'll be back on proper retrogaming soon, it is where my heart is.
I just thought I'd explain my absence! Also, work have blocked this site on their servers which makes it less convenient for me to have a look as I work.
Edit: Have you played Sturmwind on Dreamcast? Seems up your street, @Zering and it looks pretty cool for a Dreamcast game.
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@adambegood I've got it, haven't played it. What is it?
Cyberpunk looks utterly unappealing to me, I already hated The Witcher 3. I hope you enjoy it though, it certainly seems to be making a big splash.
I'm a bit jealous about the GameCube though, I love that console. Has one as a kid ; the remake of the original Resident Evil was my favourite game on there, and for the time it looks absolutely incredible. -
Got apple2gs working with lr-mess.
Thexder works pretty good.
Got the missing bios files from the apple mirror ftp.
Used "progettoemma (source files)" partly for checking sums.
apple2gs uses flop3 for .2mg files
Updated my scripts for flop (all floppy numbers can now be created)
Manually enabled mouse in core options.
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@folly I've had that system working on mess fir a while with Valerino's scripts. Well done though!
Did you happen to try Wolfenstein 3D? I never got it to work. -
I don't have that game yet.
Most games do not work though, you can only run them from "prodos" or something like that.I can only run zipped files. It looks like it still uses softlist names.
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@folly I don't doubt that GSPlus would be a better alternative. I've had that installed for a while but I can't figure out what .gsp files are meant to be, or how to use them.
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly I don't doubt that GSPlus would be a better alternative. I've had that installed for a while but I can't figure out what .gsp files are meant to be, or how to use them.
.gsp is a sort of .cmd file but with much more information.
I now have a wolf3d, I will try now.
Boots in "ProDOS" and said disk got damaged
So perhaps wrong file.
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