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CWSDPMI needed for some ms-dos games

You can get it from me, here :
CWSDPMI
Or read about it here :
CWSDPMI
My download is from the below link, but now the link cannot be accesed from theyr site and recently, archive.org :
clio.rice.edu

DeadCold added info

To see the controls, choose ? in the keyboard when you are not in landscape mode, Esc to close the list. x is different than X.

Q QuitGame
X SaveGame

If you want to save the game, SaveGame works if you put Default writen in deadcold.cfg
A SAVEGAME folder will be made with G.txt in it if your character was named G
G.txt will contain lines of text made of numbers and the ingame line which refers to the ship, can be found in it.

Roguelike games keys

Below you will find the usual keys used in roguelike games :

Preferred Key Controls
combined command list

Doom (game review)

  Game: Doom

  Developer: id Software

Publisher: GT Interactive Software Year: 1993 Genre: First Person Shooter Players: single - multiplayer

Doom is a fps game where you, the main protagonist battle the forces of hell, on mars. The sounds and music, atmosphere is great even if you think and compare it to more advanced graphics today. For me the first thing i was thinking when i entered the game, was what type of mountains were and how they were made in the game.

DosBox turbo config :

mount d: /storage/sdcard1/dos/
d:
cd dooms
doom

DosBox turbo advice :

DosBox turbo is using "l.ctrl" for fire with the dos game Doom. But in reality, Doom uses the default "ctrl". Switch with that. The "arrows", "escape", "enter" and "spacebar" keys are used in DosBox turbo. Quit by exiting DosBox turbo by swipe and using the virtual keyboard. Press "Y" and than exit DosBox turbo the proper way, trough his menu. Don't forget that you don't click "Manual Mode" (Disable over-write of dosbox.conf), or it will overwrite anything you do, to default. In Autoexec, put the above "DosBox turbo config". Above, dos and dooms are folders and doom is the executable file. sdcard1 is your external storage.

Dos game info :

Doom controls

DeadCold (game review)

Game: DeadCold
Developer: Joseph Hewitt
Publisher:
Year: 2002
Genre: roguelike
Players: single

The graphics are simple, asci like, but combined with controls.
The player must wander around in a ,,System Shock,, type setting to find what happened in the space station.

DosBox turbo config :

mount d: /storage/sdcard1/dos/
d:
cd deadcold
deadcold

Controls :

Use the d-pad.

Left, right, up, down to move
Use the keyboard or DosBox virtual buttons (A, B, C and D).

i - inventory
o - open door
s - search
d - drop
t - target and spacebar to fire weapon
, - get item from ground
spacebar - Default Item Action (in inventory)
/ - look at
x - shows your character level

Cycles :
auto

Advice :

Get CWSDPMI.exe file from the BIN directory in the archive.
freebasic
Or from me, here :
CWSDPMI
The above link (the first) has a link to a download site, that cannot be accesed through archive.org, past a few days ago.

To see the controls, choose ? in the keyboard when you are not in landscape mode, Esc to close the list. x is different than X.

Q QuitGame
X SaveGame

If you want to save the game, SaveGame works if you put Default writen in deadcold.cfg
A SAVEGAME folder will be made with G.txt in it if your character was named G
G.txt will contain lines of text made of numbers and the ingame line which refers to the ship, can be found in it.

The game :

About the game
DeadCold

Renaming a folder after install the game gives you a error

If you have a setup of a dos program/game and install the game in a folder, be sure not to rename the folder after that or it can give a error through commandline when you run your exe file. Doesen't help if you change the name
of your profile or change the .cfg path to match the new renamed folder.

When cd command doesen't work

If the first and last letter from a folder name is the same, cd command doesen't work when changing directories for the folder trough command line.

Examples :
nlarn
mlarm
agha

Hexen raw images

The files are 128x64, 32 bit, made with Hexen palette.
Below is a list with the images. You must insert them to a .wad file to use them in Hexen and can be used for GZDoom.

Hexen raw drawings 1

Doom raw images

The above shows how a image really is.
The files are 64x64, 32 bit, made with Doom palette.
Below is a list with the images. You must insert them to a .wad file to use them in Doom and can be used for GZDoom.

Download from here :
Doom drawings 1

Added DOS Nostalgia and zdoom links and Various game textures button

I added DOS Nostalgia and zdoom links to the right and Various game textures button up.

Updated Doom post and a link

Being the first simple review of my first game review in this blog, i did not made it like others. Now i added the images inside the post and modified the text. If you want to go to a interesting community go below :
Doom engines, tc (total conversions), mods, maps, graphics etc :
zdoom

Adobe acrobat reader (program review)

                                  

Program: Adobe acrobat reader
Developer: Adobe
Publisher: Adobe
Year: 1993
Genre: program

I tested the 1.0 version. After you install the program, you can open a .pdf file.
You have the following buttons on top (just a few presented here) :

file-open/close
edit-rebuild font list/preferences
view-zoom to/next page/go to page
tools-zoom in/find
window-hide tool bar
help-acrobat reader help

DosBox turbo config :

mount d: /storage/sdcard1/dos/
d:
cd adobedos
acrobat

Controls :
mouse pointer and up and down d-pad to move trough pages

Program advice :
You will have to arrange right or left in page upon zoom out. If you hold the mouse pointer, the page will scrool, but before releasing you will see a grey portion. If the document has tabs like buttons on the left, you can click for certain only on the document icon type before the word letters, to acces that word. HELPREAD.PDF, which is 452.11 kb and  TOURREAD.PDF which is 468.47 kb, read without problems. ,, An error occurred while processing page resources. (19),, if the are much bigger.
If you open another pdf file, it will not remember ,,zoom in,,. Go to Settings Menu, Gesture Mapping and click Double Tap Action. Now choose Double L. Click and you can double click various folders and files. From DosBox turbo, in ,,Settings Menu,, uncheck ,,Keep Aspect Ratio,, so the screen will ocupy the whole screen and not its left and right sides, which are cut with black backround.
Slide on the left screen of DosBox turbo and from ,,Tracking,, choose ,,Absolute,, so the mouse pointer will be almost under your finger. If you put DosBox turbo on the android backround if you get a call, choose again ,,Absolute,,.

Cycles :
Auto

How to double click folders in a Adobe type program

Go DosBox turbo, to Settings Menu, Gesture Mapping and click Double Tap Action. Now choose Double L. Click and you can double click various folders and files in different dos programs (ex. Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Cleaning cache with a antivirus deletes my DosBox manager .cfg files

Cleaning cache with a antivirus deletes my DosBox manager .cfg files. So, if your antivirus or other program
on your phone does this, just don't do it.
The .cfg files for you games are in Android folder - com.fishstix.dosboxlauncher folder.
And if you want, you can clear cache yourself from the phone directly.

Time command line

Program: DosBox turbo
Genre: command line

The command line time shows the phone hour. You can make of course your shortcut in DosBox manager. Add a cls command, to clear the information screen of DosBox and leave only the hour information.

DosBox turbo config :

mount d: /storage/sdcard1/dos/
d:
cls
time

Cycles :
Auto