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posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 17.10.2010, 23:19

> So Duke is not guilty!

I don't know. (But he does get the electric chair, nyuk nyuk.)

> By the way, I am using both dos/4gw (original) and dos/32a (patched)
> versions of duke3d executable for a long time. Patched version is a litle
> bit (~5%) smaller than original, but still I can't see any difference in
> the game really.

DOS/4G (in any form) is like 250 kb while DOS/32A is approx. 18 kb (only if UPX'd? I forget). I know Mpxplay is picky in only working with DOS/32A or DOS/4G and not all the others (for various weird reasons). I also know that Eric Auer typically just renamed DOS32A.EXE to DOS4GW.EXE for OpenWatcom. (Not sure if he's still sticking exclusively to 1.3 or not. BTW, anybody know if Mpxplay ever upgraded and fixed the struct alignment issue??)

> > (Can't help much more than that, don't
> > really use the mouse, even for FPS games.)
>
> So, Rugxulo, you are 'Traktorist' ( = 'tractor driver' in Russian) :-)
> This is how mouse-gamers here called guys who played FPS with keyboard only
> :-)

Ever since you brought it up (a month ago?), I've been playing Duke Nukem 3D a fair bit (shareware, episode 1) on my (original) P4. It's starting to whine that "NOW" I must upgrade, heh, played it too much. I completed the whole demo without using the mouse (and under DOSBox too!). I still play the first level or two occasionally, just for fun. No, I never recompiled the main DUKE3D.EXE, shame on me, but I didn't feel the need. Oh, but I did read on DOSBox's forum that somebody got a good speedup (of DOSBox itself) with MS VS 2010 (but that hates Win2k and XP pre-SP2 unless you patch it). You should nag the #dosbox (freenode.net) guys to provide you a build for your netbook.

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