Re: dosbox-staging (DOSBox Git repo)

Posted on 2020-02-15, 20:45

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I actually build munt libmt32 with automake for my ppa, but that's linux only... and i suspect i'm building a defective library too. I don't know the process to become a debian maintainer and i suspect wouldn't like it either so basically did a lot of the work (without following standards), and …

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2020-02-14, 21:46

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The Pi mesa driver recently had a few percents performance bump by changing hash algorithms on gpu limited workflows too. I like the little device, even if the hardware is lacking in comparison with proprietary phones (28 nm, terribly simple gpu from the ruins of broadcom ambitions), the open source …

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Re: AGD Interactive classic Sierra Adventure remakes running on DOS

Posted on 2020-02-14, 12:16

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Well, i wouldn't recommend that because AGS has come a long way on bug fixes and speed (opengl renderer) and linux portability. But on the other hand it still has a major incompatibility with the opengl renderer and some old games using a bad idea from older times (some few objects in some have …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2019-12-24, 09:51

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Just a quick question about the bigFAT_2G patch, since the geometry autodetection changed, for FAT16 disks, will i have to recreate images that were using 16 heads instead of 255 (which was the previous default, based on bochs)? Or i can keep using the FAT 16 windows images i already have if they're …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2019-12-24, 09:01

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Thanks man, i'll probably use yours instead of the current larger patch with imgmake in my ppa if you don't mind. I don't like how i had to hack it it before with no to little understanding. edit2: disregard the previous edit; i was testing the patches with not current source.

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2019-12-22, 14:41

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Right. The other patches at: Large HD images (DOSBOX) are also currently broken, because things (bios_disk.h and bios_disk.cpp) changed... goddamit.

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2019-12-22, 13:10

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I think i may be misunderstanding some things here, is the 64 bits offsets for fseek() required for dosbox to mount (> 2gb, 8gb or less) raw FAT32 images that windows95 will later 'manage'? Because this patch is broken again and i'm sick fixing it, but i *do* have some large windows 95 games on my …

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Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

Posted on 2019-08-14, 22:16

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Some wiine devs created a similar project recently using qemu (to run on ARM): https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover/commits/master virtualization unfortunately only would really help in x86 compatible cpus, not arm (among other problems). Slowness seems to be in the future of x86 on android or rpi …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2019-07-08, 09:54

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The sandbox on the last few commits (ie: fopen_wrap) broke this patch... i may or may not fix depending on how this goes. I have a much simpler and less intrusive patch at https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=34642#p674876 And, it still works for SVN. No extended INT13h, but you still get …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2019-06-27, 12:15

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The sandbox on the last few commits (ie: fopen_wrap) broke this patch... i may or may not fix depending on how this goes.

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Re: Can we switch dirs mounted as cds yet?

Posted on 2019-04-16, 09:42

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In some cases you can, with some weird side effects (riven, broken sword) but in many cases you can't, and have to duplicate files (because the game doesn't go down the hierarchy of cd 'readers' so extracting the files into the native filesystem and doing 2 mounts in dosbox is useless). For instance …

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Can we switch dirs mounted as cds yet?

Posted on 2019-04-16, 09:22

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eg: mount d dir1 dir2 -t cdrom and ctrl+f4 switching? This would be very useful for multiple cd games whose data happens to be usable for other engines (eg: versailes 1685 and broken sword right now in scummvm, others i forget).

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Re: Dune, running as new game always? Solved

Posted on 2018-09-29, 04:09

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Another part of that interface (it's either the globe or the book on the sides) allows you to see (a small amount of) pixelated clips from the movie. Party like it's 1984. Honestly i wish they had kept the original Paul Atreides design from the demo . Kyle just doesn't fit the aesthetics. Sometimes …

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Re: Large HD images (DOSBOX)

Posted on 2018-07-20, 17:13

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Bumping this since this patch starting failing to apply since r4130. I may try to fix it for myself on the ppa but i'd prefer this was fixed in the thread. And i mean 'fixed' as a diff, not a executable being shared ofc. edit:'fixed' it on the ppa by hacking around it on this commit (the voodoo …

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Would it be possible for dosbox mouse sensitiity to scale to the game current resolution?

Posted on 2018-06-20, 05:59

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Currently this doesn't happen and it's very awkward. A game like say, riddle of master lu, can use the full sensitivity, while a game like innocent until caught needs at least half of it to be bearable. What really convinced me about this is the resolution mod for system shock where you can go up to …

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Adaptive pointer acceleration

Posted on 2018-05-07, 11:57

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I've normally cut down mouse sensitivity on dosbox to about 30-35% of the 'default' for it to feel precise. I've been wondering if this is because of the hardware being different, bigger screens making default speeds faster, me using a touchpad instead of a mouse, etc. Not entirely... turns out that …

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Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

Posted on 2018-04-25, 10:56

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wouldn't it be better to use github? Seriously, i think it's a major turn off for both the visibility of a new project and ease of contribution (not that i was planning anything).

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Re: VIDEO Patch for pixel-perfect scaling (SDL1)

Posted on 2018-04-19, 21:01

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The complete change is less rigorous (for opengl output), not overlay: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~i30817/dosbox/t … k/revision/3998

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Re: Broken OpenGL support for games using above 256 colours

Posted on 2018-04-17, 00:20

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It's fixed upstream now. I'm dropping the patch and i'll see if have to quilt it later.

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Re: Broken OpenGL support for games using above 256 colours

Posted on 2018-04-13, 04:40

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Well i was irritated at the time because i had just 'accepted' that some games caused screwy resolution behavior (my usecase was one of the intro videos of Tomb Raider going slide-show-esque because of this iirc). Finding out that the patch was sitting on sourceforge for 5 years didn't endear me to …

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