Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-07-09, 13:54

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You can't script as soon as you require user input. In this case, that 'press f5'. And i'm not going to require something like autokey (not that it would work in wayland, which is my desktop, since its security doesn't allow control of user input iirc). Besides, i tried the manual step as i said and …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-07-09, 10:05

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I tried that approach with the images produced by parted/mformat above. It didn't work. Also to be clear i want a approach that works completely outside dosbox/DOS/Windows and user interaction. Fire and forget and never do that stuff again, preferably without touching sudo. I've 'done it' (the …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-07-09, 01:57

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Speaking of this i've tried to make a way to transfer windows 95 and 98 to a bigger or smaller disk (like certain universities are able to image a OS into a networked machine), but i've failed. https://gist.github.com/99215a27097594d4e3f50bdc8f8fe8ad I tried this, using the mtools package and parted …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-07-08, 14:43

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He probably meant fat32 'transparency' usually wanted for windows 95 booting. And the answer is 'functionally impossible without replacing windows 95/98/whatever, because dosbox doesn't emulate windows and thus the windows drivers take precedence and passthrough is impossible'. The reason wine is …

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2020-07-06, 16:01

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I don't have a pi but i definitely built libmt32emu before for ARM64 for dosbox in my ppa; though i suppose this topic is more of a hardware addon module.

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Re: VIDEO - 3dfx voodoo emulation (SDL1)

Posted on 2020-06-30, 02:28

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Another: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/486353544/buildlog_ubuntu-groovy-amd64.dosbox_0.74-5-3+lp20200629~ubuntu20.10.1_BUILDING.txt.gz the 'expected' typedef or define seems to be (from grep): src/debug/debug_disasm.cpp:typedef Bit32s INT32; since this appears to only be defined in the debug path …

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Re: VIDEO - 3dfx voodoo emulation (SDL1)

Posted on 2020-06-28, 09:18

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@kekko, i just updated the patch to the latest version on the ppa, and it failed building. I think it's because of a path separator thing in a header include, and i'm going to edit the patch to see if it is, but i thought you should know: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/486219180/buildlog_ubuntu-eoan …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-05-28, 17:00

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Ok, time to update the build anyway, since the other part of this patch is broken since r4343 I'll probably wait until the github mirror i'm using updates and that breakage becomes 'official' if it ever does. Why can't sourceforge have github mirrors for the svn repositories it has automatically …

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Re: VIDEO - 3dfx voodoo emulation (SDL1)

Posted on 2020-05-14, 16:55

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There is a mistake found by the dosbox-core fork for retroarch on this patch : https://github.com/realnc/dosbox-core/commit/3ff648cf3bcd3a131d6eebb4249b3d646d031541 There is also this but i suspect it's irrelevant for non libretro environments: https://github.com/realnc/dosbox-core/commit/ …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-05-12, 16:05

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I added the shaders to the ppa. I renamed them slightly to clarify some names and always follow the convention crt_NAME for the user to easily know what's for a CRT shape or not. At least, i hope that's what being placed on those dirs means. Underscores is just because it's a informal convention in …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-05-01, 05:03

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I've got something almost working. I' saying 'almost' because i'd like to install (or rather to copy over) the OS into another bootable drive from linux and start it up. I tried ms-sys but it didn't really help, and i tried the native tools (without formatting) with a bootdisk and a fdisk /mbr and a …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-04-30, 07:15

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Ugh. The only easy non-root way to make a dos filesystem in linux appears to be mkdosfs, and it uses the C/255/63 addressing scheme (well, it uses blocks, but i can do the calculation easily by dividing and fdisk -lu=cylinders gives those values). I'm going to give up on C/240/63 and test things out …

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Re: Is there a way to format a hard drive image outside windows 95 and make it recognize it without fdisk?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 04:07

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Still trying to figure out what your end goal is to do all this. Are you looking for dynamically creating Win95 bootable image at variable sizes or simply documenting the procedures in readme or writing up a scripts? Frankly, DOSBox disk image support has been leaving something to desire. QEMU …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-04-30, 03:53

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I'm very suspicious of the autodetection these days. Why couldn't dosbox support one of the formats where autodetection is not needed anyway? Do these problems exist with qcow2?

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-04-29, 14:43

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I'm willing to waste a bit to only vary cylinders and have less size available to have compatibility with other 'low level emulators' for the images that use real bios. For input in human readable form i'm using the gnu numfmt. Since this is for a package and not a 'portable' utility i decided to …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-04-29, 10:17

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And, fdisk gives you precisely the partition type to set. If toggling LBA flag in parted did not work, then you just use fdisk to create the MBR partition and set type. man sfdisk gives the impression that it was completely removed with: Since version 2.26 sfdisk supports MBR (DOS), GPT, SUN and …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2020-04-29, 02:45

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Ah, another question. Wouldn't it be better for compatibility of the bigdiskCHS_8G patch to use the limit of the later ECHS of 240 heads (leading to 1024/240/63 - 7560 MB)? That would make images compatible with other emulators and bios that 'care' about being hardware accurate no? Also why limit …

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Re: Is there a way to format a hard drive image outside windows 95 and make it recognize it without fdisk?

Posted on 2020-04-28, 08:06

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This is basically for simplifying the horrible 'readme' that appears when you install the ppa and for making the workflow easier. About 4/5ths of that are me getting lost in explaining how to create a imgfile and fdisk and formatting it with the windows native tools, to the point i forgot about how …

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Re: HDD image geometry detection bug

Posted on 2020-04-28, 05:16

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Right. I was hoping there could be some safe autodetection for this so that when running dosbox in Retroarch the user can just select an image to mount in the GUI. It's not possible to specify a geometry by hand there, you just select the image file. I guess I could kludge this by having the user …

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Is there a way to format a hard drive image outside windows 95 and make it recognize it without fdisk?

Posted on 2020-04-28, 04:51

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So, i'm trying to make instructions to make it easier for 'normal users' to use dosbox to run windows 95 games in linux (yes yes heretical i know). Anyway, a major complexity of this process is creating new image files and attaching them to windows as readable. Assume dosbox is patched with the ' …

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