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Wing Commander II freezes at end of a mission

Posted on 2011-08-26, 22:31

I've run it on 0.73 and 0.74 on two different Linux systems. In all environments, when I finish the first mission with the Broadsword (probably about half a dozen missions in) the game freezes or DOSBox just quits, at the point when I'm supposed to be landing on the Concordia. I've heard that …

Re: How to fix the blippings

Posted on 2011-08-26, 21:46

Well, the Knoppix live cd boldly calls itself experimental, so I went back to good ol' Suse. There might be something in what you say. I used their native 0.74 and I hardly got any blips. However, I was running a much lower resolution. Unfrotunately, to install DOSBox on that live system I have to …

Re: How to fix the blippings

Posted on 2011-08-21, 23:18

I guess I'm not. Which distro do you recommend I make a live cd of? BTW, I forgot to mention that I cranked up the priority of the DOSBox process to the max. It seemed to help a bit, but not enough.

How to fix the blippings

Posted on 2011-08-20, 18:41

I'm having trouble with these blips in the running of the emulator even before a program is running. These manifest themselves as micro interruptions in the music or sound (obviously only when a game is running) or even a brief horizontal line across the screen, as though the video card was …

Re: Problems w/joystick in Linux

Posted on 2011-08-18, 03:54

Actually, it didn't occur to me until just now to try the in-game calibration, as has any game worth playing. For posterity: I had to turn off "timed" in the "[joystick]" section of the conf file, or the calibration would fail. I'm not ready to declare this thread solved, however, because I still …

Problems w/joystick in Linux

Posted on 2011-08-17, 20:46

Ubuntu 10.04, to be exact. I installed the DOSBox that comes out of the "Universe" repository. My problems are 2-fold: I seem to have problems calibrating my joystick for the game. I can't calibrate it properly for Wing Commander II. When I test the pointer on the title screen, it seems I can move …

Re: Freeze reports anyone?

Posted on 2010-06-05, 05:59

I'm a bit skeptical that it is INSTALL1.EXE. If I run that from the prompt (as the manual recommends), I don't have the crash (but I do have the spurious no EMS warning). The manual doesn't even talk about origin.bat (which means it must be a throwback or something). I wouldn't have even bothered …

Re: Freeze reports anyone?

Posted on 2010-06-04, 16:26

Version is the latest and I got it from the links on your page. I'm running WinXPHE SP2. Specs? "Old" I bought it about 7 years ago now. Fortunately, despite the freeze, I was able to mark and copy: DOSBox version 0.74 Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. --- CONFIG:Loading …

Freeze reports anyone?

Posted on 2010-06-04, 04:00

Are you guys interested in freeze reports? I got an Ultima Underworld install to freeze not just DOSBox, but also my entire PC. I couldn't start the Task Manager, and clicking on the X of the main window didn't work either. Fortunately, clicking on the log window worked, so my system didn't crash. …

Re: OPL2 = OPL3?

Posted on 2007-08-28, 17:22

Jal: Did you notice who started http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=14228? Needless to say, I've been through it. The web site where I discovered Mr Seem To Know is http://www.yvan256.net/soundcards/. He doesn't discuss the differences between OPL2 and OPL3 on that page, but it does explain how he …

Re: OPL2 = OPL3?

Posted on 2007-08-28, 03:04

It's the Tenebrae music from Ultima 8, FWIW. Like I said, from what I'm told, it shouldn't make a difference which chipset the music was programmed for. Someone who seems to know what he's talking about says that even though OPL3 is backwards compatible, the sound isn't the same.

Re: OPL2 = OPL3?

Posted on 2007-08-27, 21:02

So are you saying that a game which was designed for only OPL2 will sound the same on OPL3? I think there's more to it than registers. From what I've been reading, the sound is different.

OPL2 = OPL3?

Posted on 2007-08-27, 20:48

I've tried running Dosbox with oplmode=opl2 and oplmode=opl3 set in the conf file, and with the track I'm benchmarking, I've found that it sounds exactly the same in opl2 as in opl3, except that opl3 is a bit louder. So what's going on? Is OPL synthesized the exact same way in Doxbox? A guy who …

Re: Authenticity of AdLib sound

Posted on 2007-01-20, 02:48

That thing called Google is good for answering 'what is XXXX' if the thing named XXXX is the most popular thing named XXXX. After reading the Wiki on MAME I find its relationship to DosBox confusing, so I probably would have guessed that I got the wrong MAME. Now there's this other thing called …

Re: Authenticity of AdLib sound

Posted on 2007-01-19, 02:26

What's Mame? Also, I found a page giving driver specifications on the AdLib: http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/sb.html. Isn't it pretty straight forward to create a 1:1 emulation with this sort of thing, if you know a very little bit about trigonometry and a good bit more about music theory than I do?

Re: Authenticity of AdLib sound

Posted on 2007-01-15, 00:56

I shouldn't have said "like". AdLib and AWE sound very different. What I meant was that AdLib and AWE sounded like they were in the same league. The FM synthesis of pre-AWE SoundBlasters had a quality that put them in a much more junior league, according to my ear. But that is when SBs would run …

Re: Authenticity of AdLib sound

Posted on 2007-01-13, 22:51

Ok, that yarn *seems* to confirm that the SB16 (and a few others) use the same chip as AdLib. But Jez correctly points out that AdLib music sounds better. In fact, this FM that AdLib outputs sounds an awful lot more like Creative's AWE. But my question about the authenticity of DosBox's music stands …

Authenticity of AdLib sound

Posted on 2007-01-13, 19:49

I'm wondering just how closely DosBox emulates the actual output of the AdLib music card. If I went out and bought an AdLib card off eBay then bought a motherboard with ISA on it, would I be able to tell the difference? I'm listening to something that I played on a real AdLib >10 years ago, and it …

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