Re: Running Mindscape's The Colony on DOSBOX
Posted on 2011-10-26, 01:02
ripsaw8080: The TSR program worked like a charm! Thank you very much!
Re: Running Mindscape's The Colony on DOSBOX
Posted on 2011-10-25, 19:08
Thank you - that explains why the display changed; at the time I was randomly moving my mouse trying to catch a glimpse of its "flicker" while pressing the left mouse desperately. I must have pressed that button on the console.
Re: Running Mindscape's The Colony on DOSBOX
Posted on 2011-10-25, 12:04
Forgot to mention - I'm running DOSBOX 0.74.
Running Mindscape's The Colony on DOSBOX
Posted on 2011-10-25, 12:03
Has anyone had any luck getting Mindscape's The Colony to run on DOSBOX? I've got two issues which may or may not be related: Issue #1: The mouse cursor. To interact with objects in the game, you bump into them which brings up a bitmap image of the object over which you should be move your mouse and …
Re: Programming hat switch within Dosbox
Posted on 2010-06-27, 15:50
Thanks, wd. I can't believe I didn't think of that; for some reason, I was just caught up in the way I'm used to keymappers working and didn't realize I could do it the other way around. Unfortunately, while the keymapper was just fine with assigning the various hat directions to F1 and so forth, it …
Re: Programming hat switch within Dosbox
Posted on 2010-06-27, 06:22
I've been trying to use the Dosbox mapper to try to map the F1 to F6 keys (which control views in Red Baron) to the hat switch directions but I can't seem to figure out how to make the mapper work. As I understand it, BIND refers to the real world device and EVENT refers to what Dosbox interprets …
Programming hat switch within Dosbox
Posted on 2010-06-15, 06:08
Hi, all. I was wondering if there was a way to program the hat switch of my joystick within Dosbox. Specifically, I'm playing Red Baron I. Joystick, rudder and throttle work fine but this game was designed before hat switches so views are controlled by F1, F2, F3, etc. Is there any way to program …
Getting Dosbox to work with Saitek AV8R-01 joystick?
Posted on 2010-02-02, 07:11
Hi, all. I recently got a new joystick, a Saitek AV8R-01, and I'm having problems getting Dosbox to recognize it. I use Dosbox to play the original Dynamix Red Baron and Aces of the Pacific so I need Dosbox to recognize not only the x-y axis of a joystick but also the rudder, twisty joystick inputs …
Re: The case of the crazy mouse!
Posted on 2009-11-24, 05:43
I figured out what was going on - it isn't the MOUSE going crazy...it's the JOYSTICK going crazy. Sometimes, the joystick's "centering" just goes completely off and the way I can prevent the cursor from going all over the place (and use the mouse normally) is to push the joystick all the way over to …
Re: The case of the crazy mouse!
Posted on 2009-11-21, 16:30
Hi - here's my config file: # This is the configurationfile for DOSBox 0.72. # Lines starting with a # are commentlines. # They are used to (briefly) document the effect of each option. [sdl] # fullscreen -- Start dosbox directly in fullscreen. # fulldouble -- Use double buffering in fullscreen. # …
The case of the crazy mouse!
Posted on 2009-11-21, 12:31
I've tried searching to see if anyone has had this specific problem but I couldn't find mention of it so here goes: The mouse works fine...most of the time. However, sometimes, it just goes "crazy". Instead of being controlled by the mouse, the cursor sometimes goes through every option on the …
Re: What DOS game are you playing right now?
Posted on 2009-11-21, 12:26
Red Baron. Just the quick missions right now but it's a lot of fun. Next step...Aces of the Pacific, Aces of the Deep and Akalabeth!
Re: Black band on bottom of screen in full screen mode!
Posted on 2009-11-21, 05:21
Thank you everyone for your help. I figured it out. Basically, I was running my game (Red Baron) by clicking on an icon which was on my desk-top; checking the properties of that icon, it turned out that not only was it calling up dosbox, it was calling up a specific dosbox.conf file which was …
Re: help, black GAP on Dosbox fullscreen mode...(with scrshot)
Posted on 2009-11-20, 18:47
I've got the same problem except I only get a gap at the bottom of the screen. It's most annoying.
Re: Black band on bottom of screen in full screen mode!
Posted on 2009-11-20, 06:45
Unfortunately, neither of those worked. Thank you for the help, though. I'll try fiddling around with this on my own.
Re: Black band on bottom of screen in full screen mode!
Posted on 2009-11-20, 03:28
Hi, everyone. Thank you for all your help. I managed to finally edit the dosbox.config file using the parameters given earlier in this thread and...I still have the black bar at the bottom of the screen! 🙁
Re: Black band on bottom of screen in full screen mode!
Posted on 2009-11-19, 04:44
Scratch that - it appears there IS a folder called AppData in my username folder. However, I can't seem to see it. Is there a setting in properties that I need to tweak to make it visible?
Re: Black band on bottom of screen in full screen mode!
Posted on 2009-11-19, 04:39
Well, I don't appear to have a local settings folder in my Users/username/ folder. What is the config file actually called? I can try to find it using search.
Re: Black band on bottom of screen in full screen mode!
Posted on 2009-11-19, 02:21
Hmmm...Dosbox actually got installed on my computer because it came "bundled" with Red Baron so it isn't present in my start menu. Is there any other way to get to the configuration file?
Re: Black band on bottom of screen in full screen mode!
Posted on 2009-11-18, 04:05
I hate to sound really dim but how do you edit the config file? I can't even find the darn thing. It's not in the folder where dosbox is located. I'm using Vista if it's of any help.
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