Posted October 04, 2009
Since the acquisition of SciTech, I'm unclear where to find Display Doctor or UniVBE or SNAP or Nucleus or [s]OpenSNAP[/s] or name-of-the-week. I'm also woefully out of date on which version or versions would be best for running... well, let's say "most games" and/or "fussy games." Could someone point me at such a thing as a mirror of ftp.scitech.com, or simply a handy place to find one or more of the free and more-compatible SDD releases?
Also, DOS32a: is this still a recommended replacement for DOS/4GW? I do realise this is OT, but I'd like to get my old copy of Quarantine working, and I still recall the hell, quite freshly, that I went through to get it working at all, ever. Finding that delicate balance between no attempts to use UMBs and not having enough low RAM to fire off the DOS/4GW stub is etched forever in my mind.
I see that DOS/4G[W] 2.01 have become available since, but I can still easily recall Quarantine causing fascinating crashes, including "ROM BASIC NOT FOUND" and the like when I tried simply replacing the 1.8 stub-or-loader-or-thing with 1.97 and versions in between. Also, I do not have USD$299 to spend on experimenting with such a thing.
Also, DOS32a: is this still a recommended replacement for DOS/4GW? I do realise this is OT, but I'd like to get my old copy of Quarantine working, and I still recall the hell, quite freshly, that I went through to get it working at all, ever. Finding that delicate balance between no attempts to use UMBs and not having enough low RAM to fire off the DOS/4GW stub is etched forever in my mind.
I see that DOS/4G[W] 2.01 have become available since, but I can still easily recall Quarantine causing fascinating crashes, including "ROM BASIC NOT FOUND" and the like when I tried simply replacing the 1.8 stub-or-loader-or-thing with 1.97 and versions in between. Also, I do not have USD$299 to spend on experimenting with such a thing.