Re: text editor
Posted on 2008-09-03, 13:13
http://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MsDosEditors So many choices...
Re: x mouse speed sensitivity
Posted on 2008-08-23, 21:50
You could have turned this up with a search faster than writing a post: Difference between horisontal and vertical mouse movement in Constructor
Re: Future45.qlb and DOSBox
Posted on 2008-08-21, 22:13
I believe the official build of DOSBox emulates an S3 video card with 2MB of video memory. At that res and color depth, you'd need at least 3MB of video memory. Even 24bpp would need 2.25MB... There is an SVGA patch that adds additional video chipset and VESA support, but dunno what it offers in the …
Re: Unsupported utilities to be included DOSBox?
Posted on 2008-08-21, 14:02
Maybe use the board to reference itself a bit: a sticky thread with a list of games with known issues and links to user-provided remedies. When an issue is resolved in CVS, or by an official release, it could be noted as well. Might be hard to manage if the list is long, but it seems to me that it's …
Re: Can't Get Global Conquest to run, the horror!
Posted on 2008-08-19, 17:37
It's certainly possible to make something more generic; perhaps with a config file as I mentioned in my earlier post. However, Global Conquest also needed the file not to be find-able, because it's supposed to be hidden. It's a much larger issue getting the emulated DOS file functions to respect the …
Re: Why this happened when I writting asm program?
Posted on 2008-08-19, 07:04
This is not really related to DOSBox... The problem is most likely that you are not defining a stack location for an .EXE memory model. With no location defined, stack operation (including stuff caused by interrupts) can clobber your code and data segments in ways that are hard to predict. You …
Re: Can't Get Global Conquest to run, the horror!
Posted on 2008-08-16, 18:08
Based on Thraka's detective work, here is a small program to work around Global Conquest's issue in DOSBox. With the TSR loaded, the game is always told what it wants to hear in regards to the $$$steal.me file (cute name); resulting in a turn count of 30 instead of 15, and the initial stack overflow …
Re: Can't Get Global Conquest to run, the horror!
Posted on 2008-08-15, 18:41
Another idea would be to make a TSR that hooks INT 21 and modifies the attributes returned by function 43 for certain files. A config file with a list of files and the desired attributes would be the most general-purpose approach. This would also get around any cross-platform issues with DOSBox, I …
Re: mouse sensitivity
Posted on 2008-08-13, 20:12
It was reported to work with Constructor; might not with Harvester. Make sure you are running the main executable directly, e.g. MOUSEX 100 200 GAME.EXE You can also try MOUSE2KV mentioned in the other thread.
Re: mouse sensitivity
Posted on 2008-08-13, 08:21
Another thread about this issue (mentions Constructor in particular, but the utility available there should work for other games as well): Difference between horisontal and vertical mouse movement in Constructor
Re: Populous 1 controls don't work
Posted on 2008-08-09, 11:31
It works OK for me in DOSBox 0.72, and doesn't appear sensitive to core/cycles settings, at least as far as being able to raise/lower land. Auto settings in DOSBox give normal core and 3000 cycles, which works fine. I run the game with a batch file that specifies some hardware options on the command …
Re: Supaplex jerky
Posted on 2008-07-28, 01:22
I think it's fixed in CVS. Copy code to clipboard 1 2008-06-08 20:27 c2woody 2 3 * src/hardware/vga_draw.cpp: adjust line split position (fixes Supaplex) Try the AEP build: http://cvscompile.aep-emu.de/dosbox.htm
Re: adding free space to z:
Posted on 2008-07-20, 16:33
I don't think adding space to Z: would help even if you could, because then it might think it could actually write to it. Why it wants Z: to have free space when C: is available is the clue I would start with. Perhaps it doesn't think C: has adequate space, so using the -freesize mount option to …
Re: Star Hammer Registered
Posted on 2008-07-18, 14:02
http://www.homebrewsoftware.com/ Yeah, don't you hate it when the address is so different from the company name? 😜 They don't offer an order option for that game, just GateWorld, but there is a contact page on the site. Lights are on, but dunno if anyone's home.
Re: Breaking Without Killing DOSBox
Posted on 2008-07-14, 13:13
I have a little trick for those interested: use Ctrl-ScrollLock, it behaves like Ctrl-Break with many BASIC interpreters running within DOSBox. It works with GW-BASIC, BASICA (often bundled with compatible DOSes like Compaq's), QBasic, QuickBasic, and possibly other development "workbench" …
Re: CDROM volume issue...
Posted on 2008-07-14, 06:07
those of us who own our game legitimately do not use images. And what qualifies you to speak for everyone? Using an image of a disc and not owning a license to use what's on the disc are separate issues; it's your personal hangup that equates them. I don't think DOSBox is "broken", or has a "bug", …
Re: CDROM volume issue...
Posted on 2008-07-04, 03:23
Many people use disc images made from CDs they OWN for several reasons. Convenience, speed, safeguarding discs from damage, and better compatibility (in some cases) being at the top of my list.
Re: CDROM volume issue...
Posted on 2008-07-03, 22:44
When you use IMGMOUNT to mount a disc image, the DOSBox mixer can change its volume (e.g. "mixer cdaudio 50:50"). I don't know if games understand or can work with it directly, but it works fine from the command line. When you use MOUNT with a real CD or a virtual CD such as Daemon Tools, then you …
Re: Compiling DOSBox
Posted on 2008-06-28, 00:07
For DDraw output, I only needed to put the ddraw.h header file from the DirectX SDK in an include folder where MinGW can find it. When you run the ./configure, you should see messages like "checking for ddraw.h... yes" if it can be found.
Re: Invert Left/Right Audio Channels Stereo Sound?
Posted on 2008-06-26, 16:18
Albion uses the Miles sound drivers, so its situation is no different. The attached file is a Win32 MinGW build of DOSBox 0.72 with the swapstereo patch. It also resets remain_size to zero when initializing a new DMA transfer, as discussed above, so the stereo channels with the Miles SB16 driver …
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