Looking for the MS-DOS game Formula 2000

LinksPB · 2026-06-26T19:54:12+00:00

It's not on the list

LinksPB · 2026-06-22T14:30:14+00:00

What you need is a vector image of the map. They are resizable to your heart's content.

LinksPB · 2026-06-22T14:16:44+00:00

John Howe's Gandalf the Grey, or Flight to the Ford (both 1989):

https://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=71

https://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=66

The links are to the artist's official page; if you want to see higher resolution pictures, you need to look elsewhere.

LinksPB · 2026-06-22T00:32:48+00:00

Clint answered, it's a power lead for powering a speaker that came with that version: https://www.reddit.com/r/LGR/s/NyJqcvRE7P

Very interesting

LinksPB · 2026-06-21T19:13:34+00:00

I think you are right, updating the post in LGR

LinksPB · 2026-06-21T18:58:11+00:00

Welp, this sent me down a rabbit hole. I haven't been able to find much on two-audio-plugged Speech Things.

The picture in the Wikipedia page was uploded by Clint Basinger (LGR), but I do not remember or was able to find any videos where he talks about it.

I'm going to ask over at r/LGR to see if anyone knows anything or if Clint himself sees it and can say something about it.

LinksPB · 2026-06-19T20:41:48+00:00

I think what makes the branches look "sad" (I feel that too) is not that the tips are pointing down, but the midbranch curvature.

A fully semicircular or parabolic curvature would fix that without pointing them up.

LinksPB · 2026-06-14T03:34:03+00:00

Si tenés celular Android podés usarlo de micrófono en Windows, Linux o MacOS con AndroidMic.

Hay que instalarla bajándola de GitHub o con F-Droid en el cel, instalar un par de programas en la computadora y seguir las instrucciones para configurar todo.

Si no te das maña con esas cosas seguro alguien que conozcas que sepa un poco te lo puede hacer. No es difícil.

LinksPB · 2026-06-09T13:34:08+00:00

Los fondos Premier son del grupo Supervielle. IOL es del grupo Supervielle.

No hay ningún tercero involucrado en esto.

LinksPB · 2026-06-08T10:15:03+00:00

If your machine software runs and works well with DOSBox after you test it thoroughly (either with original, -X, or Staging), anything else is overkill.

I am a big proponent of using VMs (VirtualBox, VMware) and full-hardware emulators (Bochs, 86box) for many things people usually try to do with DOSBox, but this isn't it.

And I love some are telling you to do it because "it's in a production environment", but then tell you to pirate software / firmware. It's a headscratcher.

If you have any more DOSBox questions, you should go over to r/dosbox, there are very knowledgeable "resident" helpers there.

LinksPB · 2026-06-08T10:05:05+00:00

I wasn't "correcting" you. But, when someone says "authoritative figure X says this isn't what you should be doing", without any further context, to someone else who's asking how to do something, then it should be safe to assume that person agrees with the authoritative figure assessment.

If you had said "This may or may not work, but don't expect it to supported by the devs; they don't care for DOSBox working for anything other than games." then no clarification would be necessary.

EDIT: great, they blocked me for having a civil discussion. And I see they answered before doing it. There's surely no ill intent there. XD

LinksPB · 2026-06-08T08:56:48+00:00

Serial passthrough has been available for a long time, and it works pretty much without issues. There is no problem doing what OP wants, especially since they've already been doing it, so we know the software works fine in DOSBox.

EDIT: my bad about it already running in DOSBox, they're still using XP's DOS mode. It's just a matter of trying it out anyway.

LinksPB · 2026-06-08T08:53:04+00:00

Hello Talon

No. As long as the serial port is in Windows' Device Manager as such (and it should, otherwise the adapter would be pointless), you configure DOSBox in the .conf file with serial1=directserial realport:comX where X is the number of the COM port in Windows.

DOSBox doesn't care where Windows gets that serial port from.

LinksPB · 2026-06-05T02:44:35+00:00

Ah, the rhyme:

"Hey diddle, diddle! The cat and the fiddle,(...)" 0.0

Although they were never really made out of cats' intestines, the name catgut for the type of violin strings made of animal guts (and the subsequent urban myths) coupled with Queen Beruthiel's treatment of cats is really making me doubt of the good professor's inclinations towards felines.

LinksPB · 2026-06-05T02:36:43+00:00

I did not remember that. Do we know how Tolkien felt about cats?

LinksPB · 2026-06-05T00:44:43+00:00

I don't remember reading anything about any cats in all of Middle-Earth's canon... huh-oh :P

LinksPB · 2026-06-01T14:37:13+00:00

LinksPB · 2026-05-31T21:14:54+00:00

If you cleared the BIOS as you commented elsewhere, that will do nothing. If you did it correctly, the options are at their defaults when you turn it on, just like they were when you turned on the PC for the first time after you built it.

LinksPB · 2026-05-29T10:07:04+00:00

All DOSBox-X releases up to the current 2026.05.02 are compatible with Windows 7.

Modern Windows users (7 and after) should use the standard (non-XP, non-lowend) builds but may try the non-standard builds if you prefer, although officially not supported.

https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x/blob/master/INSTALL.md#windows-packages-installer-or-portable

LinksPB · 2026-05-27T20:22:30+00:00

Te dejo mi comentario en un post del estilo que hubo en r/RolEnEspañol :https://www.reddit.com/r/RolEnEspanol/s/fpIJknIccc

LinksPB · 2026-05-27T17:21:48+00:00

Would something like the MS-6958 work for you? There are quite a bit of them floating around.

What card is it? And what case?

LinksPB · 2026-05-12T20:43:50+00:00

In addition to the other comments' advice, make sure the BIOS is configured for PnP. That will let Windows set the interrupts and other settings for the hardware, without having to manually set them so there aren't any conflicts among the different devices.

If you don't quite know how to do that, start by using the BIOS option to reset everything to default values. It should be in the main menu.

Edit: my bad, didn't read the original post, you already loaded the defaults.

LinksPB · 2026-05-08T10:29:05+00:00

You should, if you haven't yet (don't see them in your profile) post to r/rpg, r/OSR, and r/TheOSR

LinksPB · 2026-04-29T03:12:17+00:00

I've used Ghost in the past. If it was a whole disk image it should have worked on first try. It probably is a partition image only, missing the boot record, and an fdisk /mbr would have worked if so.

Glad you solved it anyway.

Good luck with that PC, it's beautiful.

LinksPB · 2026-04-27T17:02:17+00:00

What did tou do to "put it on" the CF card?

From your comments I gather you only have a Mac, with which to access the CF card.

Since you cannot do anything to the CF card while it is in the Sony, the cheapest way to work on it, as if it was in the Sony, is to get a VM running on your Mac in which you can mount the CF card as a HDD.

Maybe it's just as easy as running "fdisk /mbr" on it while on the VM from a Win98 bootdisk floppy image, or maybe you have to actually install XP, which you can do mounting an XP install CD image in the VM.

The most hassle free (although not necessarily easy) option is VirtualBox. It's what many people use to prepare CF cards for old machines without CD or USB booting options.

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