Speaking of PQ 4, get the CD release. Not only does it have a Windows version, but it's highly superior to the floppy release - for instance, all backgrounds and numerous objects are reshot in high resolution.

Try running the Windows version - it's much better. 😀

...and perhaps find out why, although it runs correctly, it refuses to react to *any* keypresses in Dosbox once the main menu appears? http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=2115 (Yes, I know. But I never completed this piece of garbage in 1994, although I was at the final level. Now that I've …

And perhaps in the far future: - a simplistic file manager; nothing more than a very basic version of Norton (or its current Windows stepson FAR ;)); (a thinned Volkov Commander, for instance ;), just to make the file operations faster. One can obviously run Volkov or even NC in DB, certainly, but a …

THE most important feature: "machine reset" / force-shut the running DOS program and "exit to DOS" without having to shut down and restart DB itself. Hundreds of old developers were apparently too happy-go-lucky, lazy or conceited to think that their game might need its own "exit to DOS" option; …

Well, nothing seems to work so far... actually, it seems as if DB either bypasses the system settings or needs something more than that...? That's because everything I've tried MLoopback (MIDI players, games with MIDI music, etc.) recorded its MIDI events correctly in Cakewalk, using my current …

If I wanted to record DosBox's rendering of the MIDI music to digital sound, I would have done that... as I said, I was trying to record the MIDI events to a MIDI file.

I've been trying to use DOSBox with MIDI Loopback for a while... For those who don't know it, ML is a tool that installs a few virtual MIDI devices ( http://members.magnet.at/hubwin/midi.html ), and, effectively, allows simultaneous playback and recording of the same MIDI music on one system. I used …