Re: Settlers second Mouse or Joystick support
Posted on 2005-04-17, 19:39
If you're on windows and have a serial mouse plugged in as second mouse, try the directserial option in a recent dosbox version. It should work, I guess.
Re: Hq2x / Hardware OpenGL-HQ scaling
Posted on 2005-04-17, 19:26
Yeah, triple buffering crashers for me as well. No idea why, or what ATI expects developers to do - the OpenGL API only talks about double buffering, and that's used and works. HunterZ, just get the EXE and see for yourself. My screenshot was 350k (as png!), so I decided not to attach it. Jiri, I'll …
Re: Sketch Quake
Posted on 2005-04-17, 19:18
Did you know SDL has an aalib output mode? You already have the possiblity to render any game in ASCII. If you set some SVGA text mode with 250x120 chars, it becomes playable 😉
[DOSBox-only version] Hq2x / Hardware OpenGL-HQ scaling
Posted on 2005-04-16, 03:47
Hi guys (and ladies), I just wanted to let you know that I've uploaded the latest Hq2x/OpenGL-HQ patch today. It now compiles nicely on windows, and I've even added a win32 binary build. That build is totally, utterly, completely unsupported, will blow up your girlfriend and sleep with your house ( …
Re: DOSBox's big shortcoming
Posted on 2005-04-10, 11:39
Whatever has brought you to your conclusions, I think it's flawed. Sure, some companies don't care anymore, but many do. And honestly, where I live, DosBox is way more famous than MAME. Way more. Almost everyone who has been into DOS games once has DosBox at home these days, but only hardcore retro …
Re: Syndicate not saving games
Posted on 2005-04-10, 11:22
check that the directory for savegames exists and is writeable. Make doubly sure none of your files are marked read-only.
Re: Profiling/Benchmarking
Posted on 2005-04-10, 02:55
The easiest low-tech solution is "turn up cycles until sound starts skipping". Unfortunately, it is rather inaccurate. Unless you compare two different versions side-by-side, it's difficult to get accurate results. It's enough for estimations which may be 10% off, and that's useful since common …
Re: Profiling/Benchmarking
Posted on 2005-04-08, 19:31
Your one-stop linux profiling source: http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/news/ I've never seen a better profiling solution. Profiles optimized executables, no recompilation neccessary, low overhead, even profiles kernel code (that way I found out my sound driver chews quite some amount of CPU).
Re: DJGPP C++ programs using CWSDPMI crash in DOSBox
Posted on 2005-04-08, 02:12
Probably a cut&paste bug. You're right, the old* variable should be of the matching size. I've never been in there before, so thanks for spotting the mistake ;) (To be honest, I wonder which app really _needs_ XADD... CWSDPMI may execute it, but it obviously doesn't depend too closely on it's …
Re: Blood
Posted on 2005-04-07, 15:25
I suggest you search the forums and the dosbox wiki for information on how to tune speed. There's lots of advice around, look for it!
Re: Under a Killing Moon CDROM
Posted on 2005-04-07, 10:59
If dosbox doesn't recognize the contents of a changed CD, try pressing Ctrl-F4. Qbix says that does the same as calling "rescan".
Re: ANN: RobyDosBox 0.1 Released
Posted on 2005-04-06, 09:40
Yeah, but there's a difference. You say users should share their configs. Those configs will most probably not stick to the safe defaults but use whatever their box is capable of doing. That's asking for trouble, IMHO. It's not that difficult to read one file with partial settings and one file with …
Re: ANN: RobyDosBox 0.1 Released
Posted on 2005-04-06, 00:41
That won't work. A full dosbox.conf is not transferrable. Things like cycles, output, mixer rate, scaler and other options must be tuned differently for each machine. That's why my scripts only store key settings, i.e. those settings that make a crucial difference, like "ems=false" or similar. When …
Re: Choice command
Posted on 2005-04-05, 12:28
It's real simple: choice /c:abcx Choose one of [ABCX]: /n will give you errorlevel 4 on "x", 3 on "c", 2 on "b" and 1 on "a". The n'th letter (or number) will create errorlevel n.
Re: ANN: RobyDosBox 0.1 Released
Posted on 2005-04-05, 12:25
I'm using dosbox on linux, and I have written a bunch of scripts that do what you seem to have in mind with your dosbox-archive-format. Perhaps you like some ideas of my system, so let me explain: Games are plain archives. I use 7-zip ( http://www.7-zip.org , free open source) since it has superior …
Re: updating firmware using dosbox
Posted on 2005-04-05, 00:14
Unfortunately boot disks are still the only option for manufacturers that are too lazy to make Windows-based flashers. A lot of optical drive manufactuerers have Windows-based firmware flashers now... Which is about the worst thing one could do. Being interrupted while flashing can screw up the …
Re: ANN: RobyDosBox 0.1 Released
Posted on 2005-04-05, 00:09
I like your program very much - it's simple, and there are _not_ many options, that's the best I've ever seen. As you say, sound rate is important. There are several config settings, and to have one single slider or dropdown to choose between 16000/22050/24000/32000/44100/48000 kHz sampling rate ( …
Re: Blank Screen
Posted on 2005-04-04, 23:54
Did you upgrade dosbox and are using the same config as before? I now recall I once had the same problem, and it was caused by some option which had changed name. No idea what it was, but after creating a completely new config file, it worked again.
Re: updating firmware using dosbox
Posted on 2005-04-04, 23:49
Don't worry, you'll most likely have exactly no effect. Couldn't imagine dosbox allows that kind of direct access. Windows XP allows you to create an MS-DOS boot disk: just put an empty disk in your floppy drive, right click it, choose "format", and check the box that says "copy system files" (or …
Re: Getting inverted colors in 16-color games like KQ1 and Gobliiins
Posted on 2005-04-04, 10:15
I could explain what they are, but you use them exactly as intended: use the one that works best for you, since there is no single "best" choice for all PCs 😀
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