For reference, here is a link to the savestate patch that I created a few years back. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=15047 My savestates could be saved on the disk, and loaded from there, even across dosbox close & open, and it had movie recording support, but movies tended to desync if …

Shrug, that's why C++ provided templates! I don't C++ templates provide any easy way to serialize/unserialize arbitrary structs. Pointers are messy, but what we did with Atari800 was make sure that pointers were saved as an offset into the referenced emulated memory How about pointers to the …

simply saving the low byte, shifting, saving again, etc. True, this is no secret knowledge. However, the labour in saving every variable and every struct member individually is several magnitudes larger than saving each struct as a blob. (And also, pointers still need to be handled specially.) Qbix …

Yes but this way you can't save a state when something is in a 2nd shell, in a keyboard input loop (int16) or a fullcore-handled pagefault. But should be irrelevant for the problems you have with descent, right. Ah.. yes. Well, the aspect of "frame" is subject to debate. (I.e. what are the events …

For pmode/paging games you should try running them using the dynamic core, as it avoids recursion for (most) pagefaults. I'm not sure, but I think recursion is not a big problem. I changed Normal_Loop() such that it only invokes GFX_Events() (and along, MovieTick()) in the outermost recursion level …

vasyl, ensure yet again that you actually have that dosbox.conf file (which was included in the zip) in the directory where you launch dosbox (i.e. the game's directory). If the dosbox titlebar says "3000" instead of "20000", it is wrong.

wd wrote: Which core was used for recording? "simple".

I have tested it on Athlon XP, Pentium M... and Athlon XP, all successfully. I thought Dosbox does not depend on host CPU? Tested versions are alpha3 and alpha5. (Five minutes prior to this posting I tested it on Pentium M.) Contents of directory where I run it (taken in Cygwin): bisqwit@Gon:~/sc2$ …

Regarding all the pointers, my idea was to issue a "declare a callback" call in each object's constructor for each callback function they use, in the same way as it does the RegisterSaveStateField calls. The "declare a callback" would assign an unique name for each callback function, and when …

What is ZMBV? Is it open source? Maybe look at the dosbox source tree ;) (hint: src/libs) Oh, but I would really suppose that H.264 maintains a better quality/size ratio than ZMBV... Re: sdl_mapper. You might be right. However, I had already created the SimKeyboard system once (before I started …

why not use ZMBV for video ? What is ZMBV? Is it open source? Does it work in mencoder? You are removing way too much in the keyboard port 60 write handler. (the mem_a20 stuff is important!) Oh, I kind of forgot about the A20 stuff. Wonder how Descent still managed to get started, though. But why I …

Just for reference, the file starcon2.exe in this release is 342819 bytes long and has file date 12/03/92. 342819 is the right length. The CRC32 should be 126d0616. Did you put both the dosbox.conf and the sc2.dof (or movie.dof, I forget which one was the desired filename in that version) file in …

Hi, for the past few weeks I have been developing tool-assisted speedrun creating support for DOSBox. Background information: Tool-assisted speedruns (TAS) are movies of games completed incredibly fast, and the end product is a movie that only contains a stream of input and is supposed to be the …