Re: What is the recommended spec for CPU and RAM for DOS game?
Posted on 2021-09-18, 12:23
Win98 and WinME support up to 512MB, and this is a supported config by DOSBox-X.
Re: Dosbox Linux serial port help
Posted on 2021-09-18, 10:02
Why don't you try if you can "talk" to it over serial from Linux first with something like "GTKTerm". Also, by default a normal user does not have rights to the serial port. Instead of running dosbox with sudo, you probably should just add your user to the right group. Just run the following to …
Re: Windows 95 and/or serial modem issues
Posted on 2021-09-17, 07:22
By default DOSBox (and DOSBox-X by extension) claims to be DOS 5.0, which has no support for FAT32 or LFN (Long FileNames). To maintain compatibility with some dos utilities that make assumptions based on the DOS version, it was decided to only make LFN available if the reported DOS version is 7.0 …
Re: Windows 95 and/or serial modem issues
Posted on 2021-09-17, 06:06
There are two possible problems you may have run into. 1. it was possibly created as FAT32, and so you need to set your reported DOS version to 7.1 to be able to access it. (ver set 7.1) 2. a bug that was introduced in 0.83.17 that only effects the Windows Visual Studio (VS) build. Either use the …
Re: Windows 95 and/or serial modem issues
Posted on 2021-09-16, 15:56
Stock DOSBox 0.74 should really not be used with Win95. You should fare a little better with a SVN release. Daum has been discontinued for years already. DOSBox-X is the only actively maintained DOSBox fork that actually supports Win9x, and it incorporated most (all?) of Daum's features. You say you …
Re: Windows 95 and/or serial modem issues
Posted on 2021-09-15, 17:52
"listenport" is for incoming requests. So if you want to "dial into" win98 running in DOSBox. If you only want to establish an outgoing connection, it is not needed. With just "serial2=modem" you should be able to start something like HyperTerminal in Win95 and dial an IP address. I just tried it on …
Re: Windows 95 and/or serial modem issues
Posted on 2021-09-13, 20:17
I'm a little confused. Do you have a real modem attached to your real COM2 port on your windows host pc? Or are you wanting to emulate a modem? And what are you trying to connect to? The "modem" and "nullmodem" options are for emulating a modem or nullmodem respectively. If you have a real serial …
Re: PowerBASIC 3.5 help system (printing/screen capturing)
Posted on 2021-09-11, 15:45
DOSBox-X supports copy and paste of text. You can copy a text screen to your clipboard for instance. It also supports TTF fonts in text mode, and higher text modes like 132 columns and 60 lines. Filename Screenshot from 2021-09-11 17-44-21.png File size 118.2 KiB Views 1407 views
Re: DOSBox-X branch
Posted on 2021-09-11, 14:46
@MKSheppard, if you used a Windows VS build, try a MinGW build of DOSBox-X instead. Visual Studio (VS) has issues with the 80bit precision of the old FPUs. I just tried Wilderness in DOSBox-X on Linux, which has no issues with the FPU precision, and it renders just fine. Here is a level 10 rendering …
Re: networking for dosbox-x over wine on linux
Posted on 2021-09-07, 15:51
Why don't you just run DOSBox-X native on Linux instead of via Wine? There are downloads for Fedora, Arch, Flatpak and Snap. Or you can compile it yourself with the instructions on the website. Also, there is a DOSBox-X wiki page on setting up networking that may help with some common issues.
Re: Error loading keyboard layout (personal config dvorak)
Posted on 2021-09-05, 18:55
This may be an issue with the SDL1 keyboard support being very limited. Basically it only properly supports a standard US keyboard layout. Try to set usescancode=true in your config file. Alternatively, try one of the DOSBox forks that supports SDL2 like DOSBox-X or -staging.
Re: How to develop network program in DOS
Posted on 2021-09-01, 19:24
Standard dosbox does not have network adapter emulation, so you may be interested in a fork that does. Here is a wiki on how to set things up with DOSBox-X, including mtcp. https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3ASetting-up- … OSBox%E2%80%90X
Re: Direct disk read via interrupt
Posted on 2021-08-01, 07:22
dosbox-x should have more complete int13 support, if you want to give it a try.
Re: Windows 95 Install Hangs
Posted on 2021-07-22, 06:52
If you want to run Win9x, you should try using DOSBox-X instead, it supports it. Have a look at the wiki for installation instructions: https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3AMicrosoft-W … talling_windows
Re: DOSBox-x
Posted on 2021-07-13, 12:11
Most likely your issue is that with modern DOSBox-X versions there are now directories on the Z: drive, so if you [autoexec] assumed a binary to be in the root of the Z: drive, it no longer is. Instead look in a directory such as Z:\DOS for the mode utility to set screen columns and lines.
Re: DOSBox + Linux + CUE/BIN = FAIL
Posted on 2021-06-30, 09:05
Could you provide the output of the following command: ls -l /mnt/DOSBOX/GAMES/XEEN/INSTALL/
Re: DOSBox + Linux + CUE/BIN = FAIL
Posted on 2021-06-27, 12:46
Can you show the content of XEEN1.CUE? I can assure you that CUE files work just fine with DOSBox on Linux, so I'm afraid it looks like something must be wrong with your setup. Possible reasons I can think of (other then file naming and permissions) - spaces or other special characters in filenames …
Re: Workspace Environment
Posted on 2021-06-23, 18:42
dosbox-x supports applications. It has support for applications that need share support and it has support for TrueType Fonts and support for various text modes like 132x60.
Re: Line Wars 2 with S3 acceleration?
Posted on 2021-06-23, 16:39
FYI, DOSBox-X now has support for some older model S3 cards, which could help with this issue.
Re: slow internet in DOSBox but not on host machine
Posted on 2021-06-17, 17:36
If your wanting to use Ethernet, you may want to try DOSBox-X. The latest versions on Linux support two backends, pcap or slirp. https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/Guide%3ASetting-up- … OSBox%E2%80%90X
Page 7 of 22