0MHz DOS Collection

[niallquinn]

SElf edit. Forgot to change the downloader.sh to true to download MisterTeas stuff also........doh.

[gus0650]

0mhz is the best thing since sliced bread!!!

i am hoping for

Turrican Ii
Comanche
Jagged Alliance
Space Rogue

[phreeze]

anybody got Colonization with MT32 sound to work?
i tried:
MUNT with original MT32 roms
fluidsynth with the sc55.sf2 from the downloadscript and Roland SC-55 v3.7

wrong sounds and nearly 90% missing is the result. sounds horrible ^^ selected Roland mt32 in the soundsetup.

also, Colonization is not the latest version 3.0

[gus0650]

so, i am trying to create my own VHDs.
i am using the templates from archive.org.
i have made a new directory on the Vhd and copied the game files into it.
i can run the game manually from the command line.
however, the game does not auto-boot.

how does the system know where to look for rungame.bat?

[phreeze]

so, i am trying to create my own VHDs.
i am using the templates from archive.org.
i have made a new directory on the Vhd and copied the game files into it.
i can run the game manually from the command line.
however, the game does not auto-boot.

how does the system know where to look for rungame.bat?

did you create a MGL file?

[yoshi41]

Just add a line to the end of AUTOEXEC.BAT (assumes batch file is on c: drive in directory \games\gamexy)

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c:\games\gamexy\rungame.bat

And do yourself a favor and install Norton Commander first. Still the best utility to manage and edit files (even for todays standards).

PS: You can easily add a menu with different configs (apps/games) to DOS out of the box. I can share my example if you like.
PPS: Comache would be nice. First voxel game!

[briefer]

And do yourself a favor and install Norton Commander first. Still the best utility to manage and edit files (even for todays standards).

I prefer 4DOS for a more modern experience, more similar to todays command line

[phreeze]

0mhz is the best thing since sliced bread!!!

i am hoping for

Turrican Ii
Comanche
Jagged Alliance
Space Rogue

https://archive.org/details/@etalos/lis ... publicdate
Jagged Alliance and DG is included there

[johns123]

Am I doing something seriously stupid? So i've downloaded all the collection all on my SD Card/DOS Games whatever. Now when I try launch well anything all I am getting is a blank screen. Same if I launch the AO486 core on it's own

[phreeze]

did you extract it to the root of the sd card?

[johns123]

Yeah all on the root of the SD now won't even boot into the actual AO486 itself

[niallquinn]

Just a thought, if anyone wants to take up a challenge.

How about an dos emulator VHD? With Sparcade, early MAME, dos ccs64/vice etc? And other other old dos emulators? Zsnes, Raine, Netsicle, BSNES/ZSNES, the Irem one that did Rytype - can't remember the name of it, stuff like that?

[Bas]

You want to emulate a C64 from DOS inside AO486? Worth a shot.

Edit: ok, so I got VICE running in MS-DOS on my 86Box emulator. This is probably going to be unusable on the MiSTer. It's slow when I emulate a 100MHz. 486DX4.

[thera34]

VICE needs FPU. It will run (more exactly crawl) on ao486 with Q87 fpu emulator. viewtopic.php?t=6639

[niallquinn]

VICE needs FPU. It will run (more exactly crawl) on ao486 with Q87 fpu emulator. viewtopic.php?t=6639

Aye, but that thread was 2 years ago, is that stil the case?

If so, okay, fair enough.

[thera34]

VICE needs FPU. It will run (more exactly crawl) on ao486 with Q87 fpu emulator. viewtopic.php?t=6639

Aye, but that thread was 2 years ago, is that stil the case?

If so, okay, fair enough.

Since we still lack FPGA implementation of a FPU on ao486, yes.
You can use some of VICE utilities like c1541 to create C64 floppy images, move files around etc under DOS (like https://discord.com/channels/6479093974 ... 9482550393) , but again, limited use to much of novelty.
Same as running VICE under QNX 4.2.5 (which has its own FPU emulator) : https://discord.com/channels/6479093974 ... 1719790735

[gus0650]

can anyone help me get Turrican II to run?

it complains about memory manager, and crashes. my knowledge of Dos memory management is insufficient

[Bas]

I'll cook a VHD for you, seems more useful than trying VICE on a 486SX

[Bas]

https://www.area536.com/dosk8s/disks/turrican2.zip

This works for me on 86Box on a 486SX. Haven't been able to test on MiSTer yet. Just pop it in as the only VHD on your core, the thing autoboots Turrican. I haven't worked with the 0Mhz collection yet so I wouldn't know how to integrate this into the collection.

Funny thing though: this uses completely bog-standard system settings as MS-DOS 6.22 installs out of the box, no fiddling needed whatsoever. All I did was drop Turrican 2's files in C:\T2 and update autoexec.bat to boot the game. It is a cracked version I scrounged from some abandonware site though.

[kathleen]

https://www.area536.com/dosk8s/disks/turrican2.zip

This works for me on 86Box on a 486SX. Haven't been able to test on MiSTer yet.

Just tested on my Mister and I do confirm that this VHD works perfectly.

[gus0650]

Thank you. I tested it but for me, the music does not work. I tried different settings but even in regular SoundBlaster mode, the music goes off after a few seconds.

Any suggestions?

[limi]

Any suggestions?

Play the Amiga original using AmigaVision?

(if you prefer the different PC graphics, there is a modern port using those called Turrican 2 AGA on the AmigaVision setup)

[Bas]

The game comes with alternative sound drivers. I don't know anything about those yet, but there's a readme in there on th vhd. Another option is to disable caches on the core. That sometimes helps with timing sensitive things. I also noticed that this game has a very peculiar display setup tool that seems to be extremely sensitive to vertical refresh rate. That could also have a connection to sound playback timings.

So plenty of unfounded ideas.. I'll be at my MiSTer tomorrow to test them all out and I'll get back to you with whatever I find.

Until then, the Amiga version is quite awesome indeed!

[kathleen]

Thank you. I tested it but for me, the music does not work. I tried different settings but even in regular SoundBlaster mode, the music goes off after a few seconds.

Any suggestions?

I double checked and the music does not go off, neither the sound FX. On the other hands, I've to admit that the quality of the music is not very good which is not normal I agree. Anyway, I usualy play this kind on games on Amiga and not on PC

Here is the setup I used :
I lower the Freq to see but same issue, very bad sound.

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[Bas]

The music on my original VHD was completely wrong: slow, missing voices so something was broken. I got it working properly and updated the VHD to fit. What I did:

1. Activate the so-called new sound drivers (run OMD.BAT inside C:\T2 once)
2. Choose regular SoundBlaster as the output device (220,5,1)
3. Set the core vsync output to 60Hz fixed.

You can either do that yourself, or redownload the VHD from the link I gave above. I replaced the file there, so if you download it again you'll get a new file. Should be completely good to go, it is on my MiSTer.

[kathleen]

Thank you @Bas,
Tested on my side and now everything works as it should. Great job.

[gus0650]

So I went and updated the VHD with a different EXE which I pulled from the original CDROM release, not a crack.

I cleaned it up and tested it, and uploaded it to archive.org.

This is my first upload to archive.org so I hope all goes well.

https://archive.org/details/turrican2

[gus0650]

Did the same with Space Rogue

https://archive.org/details/space-rogue

[gus0650]

And I also applied the music patch to Ultima V:

https://archive.org/details/ultima-5-music-patched

(The regular version has no music at all which is a big loss)

[limi]

And I also applied the music patch to Ultima V:

https://archive.org/details/ultima-5-music-patched

(The regular version has no music at all which is a big loss)

Thanks! Filed an issue: https://github.com/0mhz-net/0mhz-collection/issues/85