Blog posts tagged "games" – Posts 31..34 of 34 posts found:

Electronic Arts are one of the oldest companies in the games business. Over the years they've grown into a corporate behemoth that, as a publisher, eats smaller companies for breakfast. Unfortunately, this does not appear to do the companies acquired any good. Once they've fallen prey to the monster's appetite, all creativity appears to be stamped out and they are relegated to churning out sequels for EA sports franchises with slightly updated graphics and player names for each subsequent year. If you thought that was bad, get a load of this.
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Because of my earlier patch for Omnicron Conspiracy that froze at the title screen, being unable to read keystrokes when run in DOSBox, it wasn't surprising to see a similar problem arrive in my mailbox. This time, the game was "Interphase" and it also got stuck in a loop at the intro screen and rolling demo, not acknowledging any input from keyboard or mouse.
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Nearly four years ago, I created a patch for a problem in Omnicron Conspiracy. In the meantime, I've been told that this patch didn't work for everybody. It turns out that there are multiple versions of the game, so it's time for an update.
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I've been trying to figure out how to get DOSBox to run "Omnicron Conspiracy". The game hangs at the title screen playing the title music saying "press ENTER key to continue". It remaps INT9 (keyboard IRQ) and has its own keyboard buffer at a different location from the standard position at 0040:001E.
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