Re: Font size

Posted on Yesterday, 08:25

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by ripsaw8080

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Well, "weird" is subjective, and I know some retro-minded folks who consider the CGA text appearance quite nostalgic. Anyway, as I mentioned before, DOSBox emulates old PC video standards. Although vDos is based on DOSBox, it throws out the video emulation and uses font-based text rendering like the …

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Re: Font size

Posted on Yesterday, 05:26

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by ripsaw8080

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Because DOSBox emulates old PC video standards, it is not as flexible as the NTVDM with regard to what fonts can be used. Character symbols must be 8 pixels wide. There is a mode where a 9th pixel column is copied from the 8th pixel column for certain characters, and while this creates a noticeable …

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Re: Font size

Posted on 2020-07-01, 20:12

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by ripsaw8080

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Are you using DOSBox 0.74-3? Have you tried an SVN build? Also, a picture is worth a thousand words, and a screen capture can help others better understand your issue.

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2020-06-30, 04:28

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I can only guess that it's due to different settings, e.g. you use sbtype=sb1/sb2 or sbmixer=false in those cases where Dune 2 is not affecting your mixer settings. Perhaps there is some confusion as to which .conf file is being used. You can check the current settings by typing "sbtype" and " …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2020-06-29, 21:45

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Mixer behavior depends on sbtype= and/or sbmixer= settings. More detail here.

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Re: Enable Game Blaster Sound on DosBox

Posted on 2020-06-25, 21:31

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Use a setting of sbtype=gb and run the game with a "g" command line parameter: monkey g You can get a list of other command line parameters with an unknown parameter: monkey blah With sbtype=gb and running the game with no command line parameter you will get PC speaker sound. Note that with sbtype= …

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Re: Golden Axe in Hercules mode

Posted on 2020-06-24, 11:48

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Akuma wrote on 2020-06-24, 11:39: How can I toggle between hercules green and orange ? I just have black/white F11 (machine-specific keys are mentioned on the welcome banner).

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Re: A program I've made works in VirtualBox and QEMU, but crashes under DosBox

Posted on 2020-06-23, 21:06

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Ah, well, if running in DOSBox is important to you then perhaps recoding for FCOMP is a possibility, although you may find working with the FPU flags more cumbersome than with EFLAGS.

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Re: Pentium MMX emulation patch

Posted on 2020-06-23, 20:32

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The MMX support in Daum is the "old patch" kekko referred to .

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Re: A program I've made works in VirtualBox and QEMU, but crashes under DosBox

Posted on 2020-06-23, 20:28

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If you run your program in a debug build of DOSBox, the log messages it produces give you an excellent clue about one problem. The compiled program is using FPU opcodes that DOSBox does not emulate, e.g. FCOMIP that is only found on Pentium Pro and later. I think you may need to set the target CPU …

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Re: Gods (1992) by The Bitmap Brothers *bug*

Posted on 2020-06-22, 09:53

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COPY PPLAYER.BIN PADLIB.BIN ;) Edit: Well, that's good enough for the intro (sort of, see the Roland "initializing" message in Tandy graphics), but the game itself does not seem happy with sound options other than Tandy when using Tandy graphics. Maybe Beeper works, too, didn't try that. Anyway, I …

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Re: Debugger not working after compiling: Can't find matching event for hand_debugger

Posted on 2020-06-07, 09:08

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--enable-debug=heavy is the configure switch I have always used, but maybe the script works your way too...?

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Re: Game installation fails and -freespace command doesn't help?

Posted on 2020-06-07, 01:52

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I don't what commands you used for installation, as you never mentioned them. That you were mounting the ACCLAIM directory after installation just seems entirely wrong, though. As I suggested before, read the 60 Seconds Guide and absorb that information, then start over again from the beginning. The …

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Re: Game installation fails and -freespace command doesn't help?

Posted on 2020-06-07, 01:27

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I mentioned before that it is important to keep the mountings the same for running the game as they were for installing the game: mount c c:\WWFIYH\ACCLAIM That does not seem likely to be what you mounted for the C: drive when you installed, because the ACCLAIM directory would have been created by …

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Re: Game installation fails and -freespace command doesn't help?

Posted on 2020-06-07, 01:06

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I've asked you to list ALL commands that you use, please continue doing so.

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Re: Game installation fails and -freespace command doesn't help?

Posted on 2020-06-07, 00:50

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by ripsaw8080

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Jason1082 wrote on 2020-06-07, 00:38: mount c d:\ -t cdrom mount D d:\ -t cdrom

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Re: Game installation fails and -freespace command doesn't help?

Posted on 2020-06-07, 00:22

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by ripsaw8080

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Please list ALL commands you use to run the game.

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Re: Game installation fails and -freespace command doesn't help?

Posted on 2020-06-06, 23:59

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by ripsaw8080

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It is usually necessary to mount all drives the same way when running the game as when you installed the game. If, for example, you don't mount the CD-ROM when running the game then it would not be surprising to see the kind of errors you're getting. BTW, there is a post in the guides section of the …

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Re: Game installation fails and -freespace command doesn't help?

Posted on 2020-06-06, 23:26

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by ripsaw8080

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Yes, you have to create the folder you are mounting as the C: drive, but note that the installer will create a subfolder for the game to be installed into, so mounting a folder named after the game doesn't make a lot of sense. You didn't get the error message when mounting the real D: drive as a CD- …

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Re: Game installation fails and -freespace command doesn't help?

Posted on 2020-06-06, 23:11

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mount c c:\dosgames mount d d:\ -t cdrom d: install

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