could you use the allegro flic player stuff? https://www.allegro.cc/manual/4/api/flic-routines/ FLI/FLC format is super old. The video file format is mp4 and its duration is over 3 minutes, it sizes around 20 MB, resolution is 640x480. When it is converted to FLC format, its size becomes over 2 GB! …

There is a good DOS viewer/player called Quickview Pro, I guess. It supports alsmost everything. But not open source, unfortunately. So not very useful info for OP. That's why I need to develop my own video player. There are also Mplayer, but its dos port isn't compiled, and entire source code is …

I am using Allegro lib to draw objects to the screen, so I don't access low-level area at the moment. But thanks though, I will check your line carefully

Thanks for your answer, could you please provide me any guide or code example?

Hello, I am not familiar with old programming, but anyway I love it, so I am going to play video in DOS. Of course, there are already several players such as Mplayer and QuickView, but I need to combine my game and the player so that the game could play movies by itself. I searched and searched …

I tried to install Windows 11 on my Rasberry pi (i7, RAM 8GB), and it works well when there is no heavy tasks. But so slow even when I am going to use Chrome 😀

In most DOS game build packages, there is MPlayer.exe file as a video player. Perhaps they will be used to play lots of game movies while the game is running. Could anyone know how they use it? I am going to play a video while my DOS game is running, too. First, I placed a execution file of Mplayer …

MTCP is a collection of applications such as ping, dhcp, htget and so on. I can't understand how you are going to use them for c coding.

Thank you for your reply. At the moment, mouse operation is supported by calling allegro library function install_mouse() simply and other supplementary codes in the game. When I just remove that function only, dosbox never quits. So is it correct to say that there is a problem in allegro library? …

Thanks for your kind attention. I attached the executable file. You can directly run it by clicking bat file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFKXvoVsyIiS … iew?usp=sharing

Then how about FreeDOS? I think latest FreeDos can be installed on local drive. I tried to install it, but it required to reset all my partitions first. I will be very happy if you kindly teach me. I tried with both PCem and QEMU, but emulator is emulator.

Can I install FreeDos or MS-DOS on my local hard drive? Now I'm using USB disk to boot Dos, but I want to boot directly like my Windows.

Thanks for your advice! I really want to test in real DOS all the time, but it is really uncomfortable to reboot my PC whenever I need to test. Could you please teach me how to boot DOS image in DOSbox?

This is only about Dosbox, I've already tested in several real machines. Now I'm going to use Dosbox Debugger, but I'm not sure if it will help me. Does it also crash when running a "real" DOS inside dosbox? I have tested it using FreeDOS in real machine. But DOSbox uses MS-DOS. Isn't this …

This is only about Dosbox, I've already tested in several real machines. Now I'm going to use Dosbox Debugger, but I'm not sure if it will help me.

It runs really well and fast in real DOS machine, but always die in Dosbox. Really strange. I can't why it is.

I'm making my own game engine and RTS game using Allegro 4 library and Djgpp cross-compiler. And I'm working and testing on Ubuntu 20.04. The game runs well on Ubuntu. But when I cross-compile the game for DOS and run it on Dosbox, a serious problem occurs. From the first screen, where the user can …