Compy 386 Emulator

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

Just to let you know, the emulator is not fully compatible with Service Pack 2

Homesmash Brother · **Joined:** Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:16 pm **Posts:** 28

And the notes for the Compy startup screen are:

F, A, A#.

Oh. You knew that. Never mind. Hopefully someday it will be possible to get the rhythm right.

Tompkins · **Joined:** Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:37 pm **Posts:** 1391

why don't the "print out million dollar bill.exe" commands work?

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

tompkins wrote:

why don't the "print out million dollar bill.exe" commands work?

They do, read the FAQ for info about those commands.

GhostofCompy · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:37 am **Posts:** 14

Ooh! I can help you with the Tandy emulator. I'm pretty expreienced with Quickbasic. Also, the Tandy 400 font can be found at: The Coolest Stuff Ever! It's called "Westminster".

Also the "MATT!" command shouldn't be too hard. Just make a duplicate of the "DELETED!" command and replace all the "DELETED!" text with "MATT!", and modify whatever else you need to do to make it work (not much I'm assuming). You know, simple simpleness.

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You should consider opensourcing the project as well. That way all us folks can help contribute to your coolness.

Also, great emulator!

EDIT: The Tandy 400 font.

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

GhostofCompy wrote:

Ooh! I can help you with the Tandy emulator. I'm pretty expreienced with Quickbasic. Also, the Tandy 400 font can be found at: The Coolest Stuff Ever! It's called "Westminster".

Also the "MATT!" command shouldn't be too hard. Just make a duplicate of the "DELETED!" command and replace all the "DELETED!" text with "MATT!", and modify whatever else you need to do to make it work (not much I'm assuming). You know, simple simpleness.

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You should consider opensourcing the project as well. That way all us folks can help contribute to your coolness.

Also, great emulator!

EDIT: The Tandy 400 font.

I plan on making the code open source and get a SourceForge page once I get all the basic stuff programmed in, also, right now the code is very sloppy so

, I'm not going to open source it until I clean up the code.

Hopefully the whole project will be open source by the beginning of 2005.

About the MATT!! thing too, I plan on being having that as a universal command once all the emails are programmed in.

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

Homesmash Brother wrote:

And the notes for the Compy startup screen are:

F, A, A#.

Oh. You knew that. Never mind. Hopefully someday it will be possible to get the rhythm right.

Do you know the notes to the opening of hsramerdsxr.exe from Email 81?

GhostofCompy · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:37 am **Posts:** 14

hsramerdsxr.exe Song

D, C, B, A, B, C, B, A, G

It's that simple.

Swooshoman · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 8:45 pm

Snowthrower, before someone metnioned that you were the new "Pocky". What he meant was you were the new sensation at the forum. Y'see, a few months ago a member named t0_t3h_m00n joined the forum (her DeviantART name was "WillDrawForPocky"). Her amazing anime-like H*R fanrt captivated us all, and a few people still bear her mark on their avatars and signatures, despite that she's past her prime and hardly posts anymore. I am one such (check out my avy!)

And, indeed, you ARE the new Pocky! This emulator is the best, and I can't wait until the next beta and, of course, the real thing. Keep up the great work!

(Oh yes, and don't worry about all these member's demands... Pocky got pummeled with demands too. Its a natural part of making something awesome open to the public)

Pocky's (both old and new) biggest fan,
Swoosh

T-Smash · **Posted:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:25 pm

I think that all the problems and crap that we induvidually have we should just private message them to snowtrower. We dont' need to clog this board with them. (and yes, I know, I did the exact thing, but i'm just saying)

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

BTW: The Service Pack 2 update will be posted very soon,

Rather Dashing · **Joined:** Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:32 pm **Posts:** 29

i so totally love it! it's sooo coool!
GREAT JORB!

GhostofCompy · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:37 am **Posts:** 14

FatPamPam · **Joined:** Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:15 am **Posts:** 42

Snowthrower wrote:

futuramaooy wrote:

another good idea, printmeoutamilliondolarbill.exe and all those.

I'm working out a way so it will literally print out a "Millions Dollar Bill"

Try the LPRINT command:

LPRINT "Million Dollar Bill"

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 3:21 am

Sorry if I missed the post, but is there any chance whatsoever that this can be ported on to the Mac?

Franz Ferdinand · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 4:40 am

thefreakyblueman wrote:

Sorry if I missed the post, but is there any chance whatsoever that this can be ported on to the Mac?

I have to agree with thefreakyblueman. Can it please be ported on the Mac?

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

I dont think command prompt programs can be exported to Mac. Maybe when I open source it, maybe someone in the development team will be able to port it to Mac, but I do not know how to.

Try searching for a Command Prompt emulator for Mac.

BTW: The project will go open source sometime this week!

GhostofCompy · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:37 am **Posts:** 14

WOOOOOOOO!!!!

ramrod · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:12 pm

GhostofCompy wrote:

WOOOOOOOO!!!!

Hey, you think that you can not try to spam please?
Any-hoo, this is a great thing you've made Snow, I can't wait till the finished product is out.

~Kupo~ · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:52 pm

Well, it works on my desktop. Thanks.

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:47 pm

Snowthrower wrote:

I dont think command prompt programs can be exported to Mac. Maybe when I open source it, maybe someone in the development team will be able to port it to Mac, but I do not know how to.

Try searching for a Command Prompt emulator for Mac.

BTW: The project will go open source sometime this week!

I'm not really sure what you mean by command prompt programs--do you mean a program like "telnet" is? Almost every operating system has a command line (Terminal, namely) built (usually) on a Unix system (like Mac is).

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

thefreakyblueman wrote:

Snowthrower wrote:

I dont think command prompt programs can be exported to Mac. Maybe when I open source it, maybe someone in the development team will be able to port it to Mac, but I do not know how to.

Try searching for a Command Prompt emulator for Mac.

BTW: The project will go open source sometime this week!

I'm not really sure what you mean by command prompt programs--do you mean a program like "telnet" is? Almost every operating system has a command line (Terminal, namely) built (usually) on a Unix system (like Mac is).

Command prompt meaning based off Unix.

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:09 am

Snowthrower wrote:

Command prompt meaning based off Unix.

Well, if it's in Unix, why is it in an executable format? (or, is that just the way that the program you uses exports?)

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

thefreakyblueman wrote:

Snowthrower wrote:

Command prompt meaning based off Unix.

Well, if it's in Unix, why is it in an executable format? (or, is that just the way that the program you uses exports?)

Qbasic automatically exports it to EXE

~Kupo~ · **Posted:** Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:34 pm

Heh, I found why it didn't work on my lappy. The resolution is WAY too low for that screen. Any way you can make a non-fullscreen version? Thanks.

No Loafing · **Joined:** Fri May 21, 2004 12:54 am **Posts:** 718

Franz Ferdinand wrote:

thefreakyblueman wrote:

Sorry if I missed the post, but is there any chance whatsoever that this can be ported on to the Mac?

I have to agree with thefreakyblueman. Can it please be ported on the Mac?

I have two words to help you:

Virtual PC

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

~Kupo~ wrote:

Heh, I found why it didn't work on my lappy. The resolution is WAY too low for that screen. Any way you can make a non-fullscreen version? Thanks.

Type in "cmd_switch_size" in "a>" when you start the program up.

futuramaooy · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:51 am

when will the next beta version be up?

thefreakyblueman · **Posted:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:06 am

No_loafing wrote:

Virtual PC

I have one.. err.. number for you.

$300

I'd like to just wait for a free version of this than shove out a crapload of money for an emulator of a system I hate. I used to have '95 on V.PC, but it has since broke down (the OS... yeah, sad), and I've given up on it.

Snowthrower · **Joined:** Sun Nov 28, 2004 3:36 am **Posts:** 130

The next beta will be Beta 0.10 and will not be released until the code is cleaned up. Then the project will be open source. Also, so we dont fill this board up with comments. I just made a message board devoted to the project. Look in my signature for the link under the banner.

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