Rayman Pirate-Community

Fifo wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 7:33 pm I’m tempted to pack an installer into a mixed-mode CD containing the audio tracks… whad’ya all think?

An installer for this, or something else? My CD image already contains an installer, albeit a very simple DOS-native one

I've rewritten the TSR so it should now be much simpler to use. The TSR itself now runs in Real Mode instead of Protected Mode, which means you don't need a DPMI host anymore. You can just run TPLSTSR4.EXE and then run Rayman.

It works by injecting Protected-Mode code into Rayman's sound driver (in HMIDRV.386), so sound has to be configured for it to work. (Well, why would you want Rayman with correct music but no sound? )

PluMGMK wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:55 pm

Fifo wrote: Mon Oct 25, 2021 7:33 pm I’m tempted to pack an installer into a mixed-mode CD containing the audio tracks… whad’ya all think?

An installer for this, or something else? My CD image already contains an installer, albeit a very simple DOS-native one

Ah, I thought the CD image only contained the audio tracks – never mind then

So, has anyone tried the updated version?

PluMGMK wrote: Sun Jul 04, 2021 9:34 pm

PluMGMK wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 11:47 am I was playing with the idea of making a native DOS TSR to do it without Dosbox, but it would probably require two CD drives. Maybe now that I've a use-case (your retro PC) I might think about it more seriously – not promising anything though!

Well, after exactly two months, I've delivered: https://github.com/PluMGMK/rayman-tpls-tsr
So, haker120, if you're still here, and still interested, maybe you could give it a try if you like.

Dude, that's awesome! I'm still here just not as active as I intended to be, and the thing is: how to use it?

Ah, hello! Well, you download it here: https://github.com/PluMGMK/rayman-tpls- ... lstsr4.zip And then extract the BIN/CUE files and burn them to a CD. You can use that CD instead of your Rayman CD on Windows 98, and run D:\TPLSTSR4.EXE (where D is your CD Drive letter) before starting Rayman. You can add D:\TPLSTSR4.EXE to your C:\RAYMAN.BAT

I tried v1.12EU and it says please insert Rayman's CDROM. I installed SoftKey version and it started to play music but wrong tracks everywhere. Running separately: TPLSTSR4.EXE forces me to ctrl + c to close window, music works but at startup logo plays third Band Land medalion music and Mr. Sax fight in main menu.
Running at the same dos mode: TSR is resident in memory but the same behavior. Under DOS mode soundtrack is silent even tho TSR remains in memory.

Well, apparently despite the thread title, the TPLSTSR4 version, which has been current for about nine months, doesn't actually work on Windows 98! I'm working on a solution though

Update: New version released yesterday, confirmed working on Windows 98: https://github.com/PluMGMK/rayman-tpls- ... s/tag/v2.1