Subj : Re: Cracking DOS software
To   : Nigel Reed
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Mar 17 2025 15:22:54

  Re: Re: Cracking DOS software
  By: Nigel Reed to All on Mon Mar 17 2025 03:49 pm

 >  AK>> Since then, he (graffd03 on reddit - son of the developer of
 >  AK>> Buccaneer) has called my BBS (another.tel) a few times and played
 >  AK>> Buccaneer.  There's an active game going with at least a couple of us

 >> That's cool.  :)  I've added it to my BBS too.

 NR> I tried running Buccaneer under DosEMU2 but it's slow drawing the screen,
 NR> like 1200 baud. I asked Digitam Man about it and I guess he thinks it's
 NR> just slow, but I wonder if there's something else going on. I don't see
 NR> any way of configuring the baud rate so I'm thinking it's stuck at 1200
 NR> internally, somehow.

I wonder if it's also that slow on a 32-bit Windows PC (which has NTVDM), or a real DOS machine.  I guess it's possible it's just made to output everything at that speed.

Nightfox
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