the last win98 pc I had was based on a AMD k6-3 450 which was good but lacked some power, simcity 3000 crawled on it so I had a spare 1ghz pentium mb and decided to throw together something abit more powerful as yet it is unfinished but heres what i have. I'm trying to keep it roughly era correct so …

that wasnt even all of it, alot of it was in boxes in the adjacnt room, MSX stuff and a few other diffrent PC's. the generic looking cases on the floor are acually all optimized for diffrent eras, win 3.X, 95,98, one for glide games, they were all routed to that one monitor and keyboard/mouse via a …

hmm, ok I got it to work with outrun going through all your steps and changing the config file....it will not run via the front end though...wierd. thanks for the help though.

i meant the front end d-fend as opposed to just going into acual dosbox. if by chooseing herculeas you mean goining under the graphics section and choiceing the "hercules graphics card" as opposed to say "svga_s3" then yes, ive tried it under the front end and dosbox itself with the same result. …

nope, nothing I try works. I tried your work around and all i get is CGA mode when I try it through dosbox, if i acually set the card to hercules I just get the music and no display. every game ive tried will not do herc mode. must be something with my pc?

looks like I have the broken version. I'm running dosbox through the D-Fend frontend is there a chance that could be causeing the issue?

yhep, tried with all the diffrent output types and several games. at work the game crashes out of dosbox at best I get a black screen (or a blinking cursour and I can hear the music as if the game is running but there is nothing being displayed

this was the computer part of my game room when I used to have the house.

can anyone shed some light on why I cant get anything to display in monochrome Hercules graphics mode in DOSbox? i've tried all sorts of settings but the game either crashes of plays sound buy no display. Outrun for example has the bootup option to use Hercules but if I have the graphics actually …

nope tried it on my second dos pc running an awe32 and same result. also tried it nativly on my win xp pc with a sb live card and under dosbox. anything but dosbox i get a "unable to initiate music hardware". i tried all the settings under sound config. and messed with the dosbox sound settings as …

but that completely defeats my purpose. the whole reason i have a 486 is to avoid dosbox and just play games in acual dos. regardless, i may try getting it to work on a windows machine just to make sure its not an issue with the acual unit. i have an audiology on my windows pc as well so that info …

*sigh* well the mt-32 showed up and dispite my hope that this would be simple....of course it hasn't been. i know there are a few threads on this but none have been helpful can't get the thing to work. useing one of these http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-M-AUDIO-FEMA...item519119b461 to connect my sound …