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Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-24, 07:47

I switched to all-directx drivers for sb16, s3, voodoo with no new problems. My sound corruption issue with dxdiag remains though. dxdiag also still crashes dosbox when I close it. BTW1, if you are occasionally getting a "while initializing ios device: windows protection fault" when rebooting …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-24, 07:26

Using the S3 driver included in directx works the best. 32bit works, as does dos prompt 90%. Initially, text in the dos box is black-on-black, but typing dir a few times gets it working. CLS doesn't function right (resets cursor position but doesn't blank the screen). I think this might be caused by …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-24, 07:18

Switched to default win95c driver. Works fine up to 1024*768*32, 1280*1024*16 (as in it switches without corruption) with a 4mb card, but I'm not sure if it's actually displaying in 32bit. I'll need a test pattern. DOS box results in screen corruption or freezing though.

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-24, 06:39

Good, I guess 😜 I can successfully shutdown with an iso mounted and automount enabled, but on the next reboot it'll freeze if I do anything before unmounting the iso. In any case, this bug is easily worked around (with a startup item) so I'm not going to look into it for now.

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-24, 06:21

@ih8registrations Extracting cabs is only needed for dtools so far, and is pretty simple. The most technical bit is dealing with drivers, and we've not quite got that stable yet. Once the setup has stabilized, a wiki with links and nice pictures would be the easiest thing to follow I think.

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-24, 06:12

If you have automount disabled and shutting down with a disc mounted doesn't freeze windows, then the bug is unique to my setup. It might be timing out looking for some IE4/MSI file. Unfortunately windows freezes before filemon/regmon update... I suppose I could throw the giant IE4/MSI temp …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-24, 04:37

Success! Extract the ie4 setup exe to a temp dir. Extract all the cabs from that into the same dir Extract all the cabs from THAT into the same dir Extract the msi2 install exe to that dir Copy riched32.dll and winspool.drv to that dir Copy Daemon tools' installer to that dir Run daemon347.exe …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-24, 04:11

Using an old version of filemon, it tries to access a bunch of files like setupapi.dll, cabinet.dll, winspool.drv, cfgmgr32.dll, riched32.dll, but I just threw them in the same directory as the daemon347.exe file and it succeeds accessing them. I'm still trying to work around the IE4 requirement, so …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-24, 01:38

Had success in installing a minimal 95b with D-tools and required updates. Modified Jarvik7's excellent setup files so that 95b works with D-tools and its required updates (for example, the spooler is required by DX6.1; also, IE4 was missing required components for installation). Just took a quick …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-20, 13:10

osr2.inf just updated the registry with a list of the patches included with osr2, along with the qfecheck tool that reads those entries. Pretty worthless unless you're planning on patching the image to be fully up to date... Seeing as it times out during the start menu setup, and the only item in …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-20, 11:28

Looking at the dosbox console when mounting, it says right there FAT32 not yet supported. I'm going to switch back to FAT16 until I see an immediate need. It's otherwise too difficult to move data between host and guest. The setup still needs a lot of work. For example the /inf/ folder remains …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-20, 11:11

If it's just a case of updated dlls (instead of additional files), dropping them (once you know what they are) in /win95/ should take care of things for a fresh install. No hacking needed. Having users install then uninstall is messy. It will leave crap on the hdd and in the registry.

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-20, 11:03

Easiest thing to try is to install IE4, install dtools, uninstall IE, see what breaks any how it complains. There are some free tools out there to see what file accesses happen (filemon is one iirc) too. Might be useful when launching dtools. There is no reason why dtools MUST have IE4, so I'm …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-20, 08:27

23.6mb without hand deletion. system.ini and msdos.sys edits built in. That MFC30.dll section isn't needed, it gets installed by something else somewhere. I'm done for the day (and weekend), so I'm upping my files. Let me know if you have any issues or further optimizations. There are still more …

Re: Minimal install for DOSBox/95 gaming

Posted on 2013-12-20, 07:58

I'm down to 25.1mb without hand deleting now. I dug into setupc.inf and managed to remove a bunch of stuff from it. Removing the boot logos saves over 500k! Help is also gone (who needs it?) as are a bunch of readmes and some bits of the printer support. Also, I automated editing the msdos.sys …

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