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EDIT: Let me be more exact, sorry
I download DOSBox ECE, and I want to run a game, but it seems I need to get Win 3.1 running on DOSBox to run this game. How do I do this and how is it GOG games that use DOSBox don't suffer from this?
 
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Tizoc said:
How do you use DOSBox?
I install it to run a game I stored in my D drive but I have no idea to get the damned thing to find and read that game's files.
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You mount the drive where the game is installed, then you just run it from there. At least that's how it was when I last used it like 10 years ago. (A lot of games I played over GOG have Dosbox, but there this is all already taken care of for you)

Did they really never bother to implement a rudimentary UI with a file browser for this? It's not that hard, certainly something you could get done in a decade.
 
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Really? Which game? Some games has both win/dos installers btw.
My [autoexec] in dosbox.conf looks like this
Code: 
mount c d:\ (you can also mount your dos games folder, but i don't bother)
mount d e:\ -t cdrom (e: drive is my virtual drive through daemon tools for game images)
c:
cd dn (dn - dos navigator, you can also use norton commander ;) )
dn

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And dosbox build with preinstalled win 3.11 (found on old-games.ru) for some rare game :cool:
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KainXVIII
I'll try those later thanks luv.
EDIT: Oh just to clarify I've got only DOSBox ECE installed, do I need the base DOSBox 0.74 also installed? I don't see a config file for it in its directory.
 
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EGS has been bugged out graphically on Mac for weeks now, if I actually had bought something I would have been pissed with all this "competition". Can't even access "my games".

EDIT: Not to be too negative, Timbleweed Park I'll gladly take for free!:D
 
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Heads up, Assassin's Creed Odyssey got ninja added to your Uplay account if you played it on Google's Project Stream.
 
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Echoes said:
Bundles have their days numbered, I mean there will still be bundles in webs like Fanatical or Indie Gala but they are becoming less and less relevant.
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Pretty much this. Most devs are learning that bundles are best to be avoided until late in lifecycle.
And there's still some buyers who'll buy just about everything for those +1's, no need to do great bundles anymore.
 
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Tizoc said:
KainXVIII
I'll try those later thanks luv.
EDIT: Oh just to clarify I've got only DOSBox ECE installed, do I need the base DOSBox 0.74 also installed? I don't see a config file for it in its directory.
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You don't need base dosbox, config files located somewhere in windows users folder. But you can manually create it in dosbox folder by "config -wc" command (if i remember correctly, without quotes), just type it when dosbox running
 
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Echoes said:
Bundles have their days numbered, I mean there will still be bundles in webs like Fanatical or Indie Gala but they are becoming less and less relevant.
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Would you say Humble Tuesdays and bundles in general have declined in quality since the start of Humble monthlies?
 
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QFNS said:
Grief's Tweet on an Atlus survey.
Let's all vote for Persona on PC!
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I still remember how an actual Atlus rep posted
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for someone daring to ask for PC port of a Persona game.
So yeah, this only happens if someone at Atlus loses a bet with a Sega executive, and even then I'd expect them to put up a blood feud or two over it.
 
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Yoshi said:
Would you say Humble Tuesdays and bundles in general have declined in quality since the start of Humble monthlies?
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It may have played a role in this, the incentive of getting your game in humble's monthly could pull off developers trying other sites. But even monthlies are hit or miss most of the time.
 
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FunktionJCB said:
If anyone is looking for a fun, inexpensive arcade football game, Kopanito All-Stars Soccer is currently on sale for less than 2€:

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This was one of those last minute purchases I made in the Lunar sale. I don't watch or play the sport, but I'm really enjoying my time with this game. Slide tackling is incredible, and scoring a goal feels very rewarding. I only wish there was a way to disable special abilities.
 
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Peeps with Oculus might be interested in this so just leaving it here:
 
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Includes huge new Campaign+ mode

About PC version of it
Hi,

We're looking into the logistics of bringing the + version/content back to PC but for the moment we're focused entirely on the launch of the Switch version to make sure it goes as well as it can, so I have nothing to announce.

We'll post news here on the forums and on the games news channel as soon as there's something to share.

There's no exclusivity deal in place or anything, it's just a case of we're a small team and this was actually years of work (not just the new content but also the tech to get it where we wanted on Switch) so we prioritize one thing at a time.
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ASSAULT ANDROID CACTUS+ on PC? :: Assault Android Cactus General Discussions


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and fine looking indie RTS just launched


 
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Gevin said:
I get some of it but I'm really unsure of why it happened, don't judge me :notlikethisblob:



Thank you, it does help to make some sense of it :D
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haha sorry

i think their explanation is gonna be a much better one than mine, i personally found
it to be sort of majima's coping mechanism with not having been able to escape the yakuza underworld with makoto. he never explicitly says he wants out or anything, but you can tell he loves her and it's pretty clear that being with her would be incompatible with being a yakuza, since you know, yakuza are bad people and all. and i think he's inspired by nishitani to adopt that super crazy persona and kind of honoring him in some way?
 
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texhnolyze said:
I have a feeling that we've done this kind of survey multiple times before. But after Catherine, everything can happen now with Atlus.
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PC Port is one the printed options at various points. I feel like that's new. We always had to put it in "Other" in the past, AFAIK. Anyhow its still a long shot but we might as well try.
 
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texhnolyze said:
So, One Piece World Seeker is only $18 in my region, more than half the regular pricing for Bamco games which is $40.

But still, I'm not sure what to make of it, it's either:

- a pricing mistake, so they'll adjust it later (like what happened in some other games before)
- they finally re-evaluate their pricing policy for some regions, including mine
- it's just a one-off occurence

I hate this, because it kinda urge me to pre-order as soon as possible, in case the first point happens.
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Anyway, the mystery is solved now (sooner than expected). It's indeed a price mistake and now they've adjusted it like their regular pricing.

Oh well...
 
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I have been training a DCGAN, using one of Google's free GPU on the cloud, to generate Steam banners. It is a model published in 2015, it was used to generate up to 128x128 pictures. I am using it to generate tiny 28x28 pictures. I am happy with the results given the constraints (computation time, available memory, available disk space). I could train one with up to 64x64 pictures, yet the samples would still look very blurry compared to the 460x215 real Steam banners
[TD='middle']

real banners​
[IMG='width:491px;']https://i.imgur.com/JhaMNIp.png[/IMG]​

[/TD]
[TD='top']

generated banners​
[IMG='width:487px;']https://i.imgur.com/aTRuNOA.png[/IMG]​

[/TD]

I wish I had access to one of these $100,000 Nvidia setup to generate higher resolution images.

System requirements
  • One or more high-end NVIDIA GPUs with at least 11GB of DRAM. We recommend NVIDIA DGX-1 with 8 Tesla V100 GPUs.
Reference: NVlabs/stylegan
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I wonder what the setup is for people who generate anime faces. I guess they are able to skip most of the training by reusing the high-resolution models for human faces. Maybe even use waifu2x to upsample the generated images.
 
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Just finished Ninja Blade. This game is best played as a curiosity because it's pretty ho hum and if you want your 3D Action ninja fix, maybe go for Onimusha as that's the closest you will get.
The game's visuals are ugly most of the time, that weird mix of sewer green that premates much of the stages just makes playing through the game a chore.
Combat is passable but best played on Easy so enemies die faster. Set QTE to Foolproof so that they happen automatically.
I think where the game really shines are in its QTE scenes as they're very dynamic and fun.

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Deques said:
A week has gone since the Direct2Drive price error for Valkyrie Chronicles 4, still D2D hasn't refunded all customers who bought the game. I will not open a claim yet, I will still give them time to refund me.

I know where I won't be buying games anymore.
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Yeah. Can't say I'm impressed with the way they have been handling this.
They ignore emails, and unless one goes to their twitter account, they wouldn't have any info about what is happening.
 
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