Re: USB Support

Posted on 2010-01-23, 12:06

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Ah, well see that's a slightly different question. VirtualBox provides USB passthrough support, so that a device running in the virtual environment can talk directly to the USB device, bypassing the host OS. DOSBox does not support this, because DOS games pre-date USB and thus don't require it. …

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Re: USB Support

Posted on 2010-01-23, 07:00

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The problem is we're all a bit confused why you would ask such a question, unless you have encountered a specific problem. It's like someone asking whether Microsoft Word has USB support - it doesn't need it because Windows, being the operating system, looks after all hardware devices, USB or …

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Re: Request for .dro capture on big-endian arch

Posted on 2010-01-18, 21:33

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Ah excellent, many thanks for that koun! It looks fine and plays without any trouble, so that answers my question. No bug in DOSBox 😀

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Re: REM and Redirection

Posted on 2010-01-17, 00:12

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I just tried this under Win98 DOS through qemu and surprisingly enough it creates a zero byte file, so it looks like DOSBox is correctly emulating real DOS.

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Re: USB Support

Posted on 2010-01-17, 00:05

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Not to mention once a solution was offered for printing the OP then said DOSBox still couldn't be used because it doesn't offer USB support. So perhaps if the specifics could be listed, there might be a better chance of someone coming up with a solution. About the only things I can think of that …

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Re: Request for .dro capture on big-endian arch

Posted on 2010-01-16, 07:42

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I guess that's up to the DOSBox devs to decide. The code could certainly be fixed, but whether anyone is willing to do so...

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Re: Request for .dro capture on big-endian arch

Posted on 2010-01-16, 06:55

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Possibly. Often for efficiency reasons the bytes will be swapped on big vs little endian architectures (see Wikipedia for details) so whether this is a bug or not is open for discussion. Of course it only *looks* like it will happen, I'd need to see a big endian capture first to be positive.

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Re: New command.. colors

Posted on 2010-01-16, 05:39

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But if you're talking hex, colour aa is a valid value. Colour 10 for both text and background. Colour 10 is bright green, so you should have bright green text on a bright green background, or as bg-intensity is disabled by default, blinking bright green text on a dark green background. This is what …

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Re: USB Support

Posted on 2010-01-16, 03:35

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What sort of USB device are you wanting to connect? I'm curious what sort of DOS program would require a USB dongle or something to work...

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Re: New command.. colors

Posted on 2010-01-16, 03:31

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Does this still work if you do a "dir" or something that causes the screen to scroll? It looks like it just clears the screen with the selected colour rather than changing the current colour.

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Re: Request for .dro capture on big-endian arch

Posted on 2010-01-16, 03:24

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Thanks for the offer, sorry about the delay. All I need is an OPL capture - run DOSBox, start a capture (Alt+Ctrl+F7 by default) and run something with Adlib music (try this bbstro if you don't have anything handy.) Leave it running for about 15 seconds (that's all I need) then press Alt+Ctrl+F7 to …

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Request for .dro capture on big-endian arch

Posted on 2010-01-01, 05:01

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Hi all, I've just added support to AdPlug for the new .dro format, however the DOSBox code looks like it's endian specific, which means I will need to add extra code to correctly play files captured on the opposite architecture to playback. To confirm this I'd need a capture from a big-endian …

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Re: Development Idea: DOSbox App packages

Posted on 2009-09-16, 09:10

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Did anything ever eventuate from this? With the AnyDayNow(tm) release of the OpenPandora I'd like to have an easy way to take my games with me and synchronise the savegames etc. with my main PC. A package format would be ideal for that. I too was thinking of a zip with a cut down dosbox.conf for …

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Is there a DOSBox "distribution" image format?

Posted on 2009-09-16, 06:41

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Hi all, I've been thinking of ways to package up DOS games for easy archiving, distribution and access and I'm wondering whether anyone has already come up with a "DOSBox distribution format" that could be used for this? I'm thinking of something along the lines of a single file that contains all …

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Re: Reasoning behind new .dro format?

Posted on 2009-04-12, 01:41

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Did I say that? I don't think it was me, I didn't have any problem with the original .dro format, it has escapes in there to allow all registers to be used. I certainly don't mind the more efficient layout - as you say I could create some sort of utility to examine the format in more detail instead …

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Reasoning behind new .dro format?

Posted on 2009-04-10, 06:51

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Hi all, I'm just starting to look at the new .DRO Adlib capture format in the CVS version of DOSBox, but as I'm starting to figure out how it works, I'm beginning to wonder what the reason was behind its implementation. As far as I can tell, it's a more optimised version of the original .dro format. …

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Re: DRO2MIDI v1.4 released

Posted on 2009-03-29, 21:52

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@IIGS_User: Yes, the binary included is for 64-bit Linux, but glad to hear it works well on the Mac!

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DRO2MIDI v1.4 released

Posted on 2009-03-29, 11:53

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Hi all, For those of you here who use DRO2MIDI to convert your DOSBox captures into MIDI files, I have just released a new version with some new features . (I haven't yet implemented the new .dro format used in the CVS version of DOSBox, but I hope to have that in the next release.) The new features …

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Re: Patch to improve OPL captures

Posted on 2008-09-27, 02:52

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Funny I should stumble across this again - I actually fixed the CMF playback problem a week or two ago and sent a patch to the AdPlug author - it's in CVS now, so the next release will play funky.cmf and the others properly. (Or you could build the CVS version of course!) I also might be to blame …

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Re: DRO2MIDI: A program to convert .dro captures into .mid files

Posted on 2008-06-14, 06:02

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That's why I said it's the first program I've heard of that doesn't *properly* open Type-0 files ;-) As far as I can tell DRO2MIDI produces correct files, but perhaps there are some variations on Type-0 which FLStudio doesn't like. At any rate, it's very rare to find a single program that does …

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