Re: Suggestions: Detect optimal cycles automaticly + KEYB

Posted on 2004-03-02, 13:10

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Qbix wrote: not possible keeping track of that would slow dosbox down Well, maybe not dynamic then, but one time at startup, based on a quick test of the host processor speed. But I agree this could pose some problems, depending on the core implementation of the CPU... JAL

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Re: sound help for war diary

Posted on 2004-03-02, 13:03

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i have a soundmax integrated digital audio and war diary says i need sound blaster. what do i do to fix this?! It's possible the game expects the Soundblaster at a specific address/port and using a specific IRQ or DMA. See if the game's manual says anything about that. You can adjust the DOSbox …

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Re: DOSBox rules

Posted on 2004-03-02, 12:39

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Another thing you could try is increasing the frame skip (ctrl-f8 ). JAL

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Re: Compiling using Visual Studio .NET 2003

Posted on 2004-03-02, 12:17

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Qbix wrote: the developper used vs.net to build dosbox 😀 mingw is only used for the releases. Qbix, can you confirm DOSbox cannot compile on VC6? I tried, but VC6 doesn't seem to like the templates used with the render-stuff... JAL

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Re: numerical keyboard

Posted on 2004-03-02, 11:41

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I was wondering whether it would be possible to make "numlock=on,off" setting in dosbox.conf? Of course it's possible, but would you really want to? Why not just use the numlock key as it's supposed to be used? I still can't get DOSbox to compile under VC6, otherwise I'd start contributing some day …

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Re: Suggestions: Detect optimal cycles automaticly + KEYB

Posted on 2004-03-02, 11:38

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Would it be possible to add in an option into dosbox that's adjusts the cycles automaticly? I know this might be hard since best results with this might vary from game to game... Personally, i'd like to see a "Speed" parameter in the config file, so I could boot the machine at a fixed speed (in MHz …

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Re: Config file suggestion: use XML

Posted on 2004-02-24, 08:52

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XML is very usable when doing data exchange, when validation of data is needed, or when doing data transformations etc. All the advantages MiniMax lists are true in a number of circumstances, but using XML in a configuration file is heavy overkill. It would be some use when a collection of programs …

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Re: Config file suggestion: use XML

Posted on 2004-02-23, 15:50

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The DOS-box config file isn't completely proprietary, it's based on Windows INI-files (which are probably based on something else), except for the "#"-comments (instead of ";"). Personally, I'm not a big fan of XML. It's bulky, and very hard to read without a tool. It has its used, but is imho …

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Re: HGC(Hercules, Monochrome) support still not perfect

Posted on 2004-02-23, 12:49

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Hmm no not yet comitted, lot's more testing to be done :) And checked world tour golf, that seems to think it's it's running on a color system instead of monochromo, must be some bios flag somewhere i think AFAIK, the graphics mode of the Hercules card wasn't supported by the int 10h BIOS and it …

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Re: How can I make DOSox Support Hebrew language and keyboard?

Posted on 2004-02-23, 12:32

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ChaosFish wrote: Here it is! Ah, okay, thanx! Hope it's of use to anyone...

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Re: Virtual printer

Posted on 2004-02-19, 14:47

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adding printing directly to the printer will give a lot headaches. (especially if the result isn't what they expect) True, but any emulation gives headaches, see this forum :). Dosbox is for me still an emulator. With as little contact with host hardware at all. The only exception to this is midi. …

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Re: How can I make DOSox Support Hebrew language and keyboard?

Posted on 2004-02-19, 14:36

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I found a DOS CPI file for Hebrew (code page 862). It would be nice if DOSbox could use them to load a certain code page (yes, I did not check any DOSbox reference material to check whether DOSbox can or cannot do this, so I risk being flamed), so there wouldn't be a need for special fontloaders etc …

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Re: How can I make DOSox Support Hebrew language and keyboard?

Posted on 2004-02-18, 15:06

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ChaosFish wrote: Is there a site for DOS fonts? If so could someone give us a link? I'm not sure there is, although searching on "DOS fonts" in Google returns many links (don't know how useful though). We could of course extract the fonts from the DOS codepage files, they're pretty straight forward …

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Re: Floppy disk ( A: ) support?

Posted on 2004-02-18, 14:51

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Hi there again, another question: did you support the drive A: at BIOS level? Ideas? Well, I'm not familiair with the exact game but copy-protection like that often does not rely on BIOS-calls but tries to access the hardware directly. However, I don't think Captain Blood uses this trick. At least …

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Re: HGC(Hercules, Monochrome) support still not perfect

Posted on 2004-02-18, 14:38

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Interesting. 0xC000 = Video Ram area, 0xaa55 is a "magic number" bios uses to signify a device loader is at that offset. C000:0000 is the start of the EGA/VGA ROM BIOS chip. Since the CGA and Hercules do not have their own BIOS, the presence of a ROM chip at that particular location is taken as an …

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Re: How can I make DOSox Support Hebrew language and keyboard?

Posted on 2004-02-17, 16:45

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I'm trying to operte dosbox under win2k but when I open an hebrew app naturally all I get is gibrish. Any Ideas? Well, as you already expected this behaviour, why even ask this question? Coding Hebrew support yourself seems the only option (I doubt it will be supported). What I find interesting: …

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dir ..

Posted on 2004-02-11, 14:59

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This question may have arissen before, but a quick search in the forum didn't reveal it. The problem I'm experiencing is that a "dir ..", instead of showing the contents of the parent directory, shows only the "." and ".." entry of the current directory. The built in "dir" command of DOSbox isn't …

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Re: black cauldron

Posted on 2004-02-11, 14:27

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Dosbox defaults in auto mode where games can detect tandy graphics too, but for some stupid reason sierra developers fucked up and use tandy routines while they select ega output. Well at least that's my guess, so go blame sierra. Of course, it's very easy to use strong language when blaming others …

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Re: black cauldron

Posted on 2004-02-11, 14:22

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A little update: I tested the following games: BC version 2.00, AGI 2.439 KQ1 version 2.0F, AGI 2.917 KQ2 version 2.2, AGI 2.917 DDPG version 1.0C, AGI 2.272 (Donald Duck's Playground) LSL1 version 1.00, AGI 2.440 SQ1 version 2.2, AGI 2.917 Of those games, all with an AGI version lower than 2.917 …

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Re: black cauldron

Posted on 2004-02-11, 13:51

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Don't forget to try the "machine" variable in dosbox.conf. I did, and the results are rather queer. When using "auto", the results resemble those of the original poster. When using "cga", BC uses some 16 color mode, but the colors are rather weird (Taran has purple hair) and all text is partially …

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