Re: Works fine but how to close the dosbox window?

Posted on 2004-05-05, 21:19

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You can create as much config-files as you like, use one of them like: dosbox -conf configfile. But you can also start dosbox like: dosbox -exit -c ... And some advise: in your dosbox directory there's a file named readme.txt.

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Re: Aspect ratio : how to change it ? (esp. windowed mode)

Posted on 2004-05-05, 21:15

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I can't see the point, 8:7 and 5:4 will turn perfect circles into egg-like schemes. But if you desperately need it, download the source and do it.

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Re: Aspect ratio : how to change it ? (esp. windowed mode)

Posted on 2004-05-05, 19:39

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Computer monitors aren't "rather square", they almost have a screen proportion of 4:3. VGA mode 13h (320x200) therefore uses pixelsizes that aren't square, they are vertically longer; when running in windowed mode, pixels are square, so the image has to be stretched to give a similar visual …

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Re: Aspect ratio : how to change it ? (esp. windowed mode)

Posted on 2004-05-05, 12:07

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You have to edit dosbox.conf. In section [render] you can find "aspect=false", replace it with "aspect=true". To change window size, look in section [sdl]. "output" must be set to one of overlay,opengl,openglnb, then try to change the value of "hwscale" until it fits your needs.

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Re: Can't del or mod DOS exes

Posted on 2004-04-20, 18:40

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Thank you, just two months ago, that I wrote this and couldn't really remember... I hate getting older;-)

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Re: Can't del or mod DOS exes

Posted on 2004-04-19, 19:30

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Delete your file from a command prompt with every explorer window closed. It's a context-menu handler, that's installed with many copy-protected games, but I don't remember, what's it's name.

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Re: Massive keyboard state problems

Posted on 2004-04-16, 15:37

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It's not too strange, there were at least three ways, a dos app could get keystrokes, there are two different Interrupts: 9h and 16h providing keyboard access, but I can't remember, if keyb.com catched both or only int 16h. But a program can also read port 60 to get raw scan-codes.

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Re: Mim-One more thing...

Posted on 2004-04-16, 11:25

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Yes, it's hard to understand, what ugouser is trying to say, but don't play jokes on somebody, who isn't a native english speaker, it must be hard enough for him to overcome. I think the answer to his question (as far as I figured out) is: now.

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Re: for loop

Posted on 2004-04-16, 11:14

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1. So what's inside the loop? 2. Use copy without /y, dosbox won't ask you anyway, if it should overwrite a file.

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Re: Drive Z in dosbox (LINUX)

Posted on 2004-04-16, 11:07

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From DOS 3.2 (don't know about earlier versions) to DOS 7.1 you only had drive letters from A: to E: (unless explicitly setting LASTDRIVE in config.sys.) So I really doubt, you're using a legal app.

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Re: dosbox problem

Posted on 2004-04-14, 14:29

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I don't know, what's the game your talking about (don't expect everyone to know your acronyms), but try to set the environment variable TEMP inside dosbox to a folder, that exists, is reachable from dosbox and is writeable (e.g. set TEMP=C:\Temp)

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Re: No sound

Posted on 2004-04-13, 21:44

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Batchfiles are simple textfiles with commands in it, one per line, you can use any texteditor (notepad is ok) to edit them. With sound: did you try other games or only one? Configure your game to use a simple dude soundblaster card.

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Re: How to free the mouse cursor ?

Posted on 2004-04-13, 21:37

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Maybe this should become a default answer Yes, it's tragic, the readme.txt has everything in it, I never felt, there's something missing and I never felt like having to ask, how to get it working. Now if people only (w)could read...

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Re: How to free the mouse cursor ?

Posted on 2004-04-13, 13:09

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Readme.txt: ============= Special Keys: ============= ALT-ENTER Go full screen and back. CTRL-F5 Save a screenshot. CTRL-F6 Start/Stop recording sound output to a wave file. CTRL-F7 Decrease frameskip. CTRL-F8 Increase frameskip. CTRL-F9 Kill dosbox. CTRL-F10 Capture/Release the mouse . CTRL-F11 …

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Re: CVS build with MSVC6

Posted on 2004-04-12, 10:46

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It should not matter how DLL is compiled, only DLL interface should be important for program Compilation does matter, the dll has to be compiled to use the right runtime library (it should be Multithreaded-DLL for sdl.) Dosbox should be compiled using the same rtl.

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Re: hi at all and Not input supported

Posted on 2004-04-11, 17:27

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Try to explicitly set fullwidth and fullheight with fullfixed=true. E.g. fullwidth=640, fullheight=480 or 800,600 respectively. Many dos games run with 320x200, which isn't supported with some graphics cards anymore. With lcd display it's best to set it to your display's native resolution with …

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Re: Massive keyboard state problems

Posted on 2004-04-11, 17:22

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You have Visual Studio .net installed and don't know what to do with a C++ source file? You have to grab the whole sources, replace the original bios_keyboard.cpp with the one you downloaded and compile the whole thingie. Or you can wait until 0.62 arrives...

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Re: Font size

Posted on 2004-04-10, 14:32

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Did you try to increase frameskip? (Crtl+F8) Since it's textbased app, you won't need every frame, will you?

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Re: CVS build with MSVC6

Posted on 2004-04-09, 09:22

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I wasn't getting an empty page, maybe you should try again. If you can't compile the libs, get some compiled ones. The Sources for Telejano include libpng.lib and libz.lib, you can download it from http://telejano.berlios.de

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Re: redirecting stdout with >

Posted on 2004-04-07, 07:12

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You should've searched the forum: Redirection inside DOSBox

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