Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-19, 16:55

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by krcroft

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Qbix, I only have a mode 1/2048 BIN+CUE, and used bchunk to rip it to individual tracks. The content in those resulting tracks doesn't match with what the game expects to play. A check for this would activate when the game queries for a track number's MSF offset. It would record the track# as the ' …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-19, 16:17

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by krcroft

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Pr3tty F1y, interesting history about people wrestling with Castlevania and getting it working through cue manipulation! You knew exactly what was going on with Krondor. Yes; it's too bad buyers of GoG games aren't given the option to download archival images of the floppies or CDs. I can image a …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-19, 15:26

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by krcroft

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Good point ripsaw8080; indeed, some games like Jones in the Fast Lane and Stellar 7 use one (or more) huge audio tracks and ask for playback at known offsets within them (for a known duration) to play their short audio sequences and voice quips. To take your scenarios into account, perhaps we would …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-19, 06:04

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by krcroft

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That's great; I'm assuming you're commenting in the DEBUG 1 definition at the top of src/dos/cdrom_image.cpp (ECE) and recompiling to have it show these CDROM request details. Very nice suggestion to warn when there's a mismatch between the game's expected track number (and offset) versus the ' …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-19, 05:40

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by krcroft

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Dagar, Pr3tty F1y , I've built SVN and ECE from their latest sources on Ubuntu 19.04. I'm using the intro-screen music to test, with Preferences -> CD Music [checked] BIN+CUE CD-DA from eXo 4.0 archive, imgmount d krondor.cue -t iso, cd .., run.bat, select 4 CD-DA. Results: - SVN works fine - ECE …

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Re: Darkspyre not loading

Posted on 2019-11-19, 00:38

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by krcroft

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C:\games\darkspyre\ was probably created from a process that got elevated privileges (and therefore applied those ownership attributes to the sub-directories and files), where as your DOSBox executable process is probably being launched as your non-elevated user. Try launching DOSBox as an …

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Re: DOS 6 22 vs DOS 7.1

Posted on 2019-11-16, 21:25

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13 years ago, when Windows 98 had just gone end-of-life, some vogons'ers discussed its DOS (7.1) vs 6.22. It's a nice read! How (in)compatible MS-DOS 7 is?

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-15, 17:08

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by krcroft

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legluondunet wrote: Do you know on which distribution they compiled their builds? I'm not sure, but Yesterplay80 will have the answer.

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-15, 16:41

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by krcroft

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Nice testing legluondunet; perhaps you're one of the few ECE Ubuntu 19.10 users and this is indeed a new compatibility issues on the latest OS.

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-15, 16:01

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by krcroft

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legluondunet , happy to hear that knocking out MIDI solves this! Unfortunately I suspect there something else at play, likely specific to your environment. This is the first report that ECE requires mass-disabling of midi in order to mount CDROM images (if this issue was specific to ECE or SVN, we …

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Re: Good places to sell newer hardware?

Posted on 2019-11-15, 05:33

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by krcroft

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^^^ This!

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Re: Good places to sell newer hardware?

Posted on 2019-11-15, 04:38

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Are you from the USA or in some other country? Sounds to me like you need to sue Paypal in small claims if they did that to you. I tried that. The judg tossed out the case. Paypal has a no law sute cluse in there agreement. In theory Ebay acts as a trusted middle-man between the buyer and seller …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-14, 15:42

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by krcroft

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Regarding MSF handling for Destruction Derby, I've asked if this is something the core developers are interested in implementing in the near term: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=7745&p=791662#p791662 Still no updates on this, right? Correct. I also haven't yet made progress on re- …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-11-11, 22:53

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by krcroft

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rolloLG wrote: ... a pair of games I play (like Albion) have inverted stereo issue. Interesting; what other games are bugged like this? I wonder if patches or community-created modifications exist to fix them?

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Re: OS X Core Audio Compile Problem

Posted on 2019-11-11, 19:55

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by krcroft

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One step ahead of me Qbix - thank you! Let's mark this solved 😀

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Re: How to install and run vanilla Half-Life 2 without Steam

Posted on 2019-11-11, 18:59

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Liberation complete; beautiful and how it was meant to be. (it's too bad the real world doesn't have work-arounds like this one for Steam... otherwise the citizens of Hong Kong could install ChinaEmu and use the dummy version of puppet_gov.dll to carry on their way 😢 )

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Re: OS X Core Audio Compile Problem

Posted on 2019-11-11, 18:48

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by krcroft

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Anything else you guys think is worth checking or changing? I'm not sure who or how one renames a thread [ solved ], or if it involves permission or confirmation from the OP. Will be nice to wrap up this issue. Edit: sorry for the haste; I just remembered Qbix wanted to add a helpful warning …

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Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-11-11, 15:36

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by krcroft

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Very interesting thread of how you discovered and reverse-engineered the channel mapping functionality used by CotS. This is as fascinating as the game itself; sometimes I wonder "is there a DOS developers guide somewhere?" that lays bare all of these details and magic numbers we see sprinkled about …

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Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-11-11, 11:43

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by krcroft

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My point here is: users don't actually change volume in DOSBox - they do it either in-game or in OS. Is there a way to dynamically change volume using some shortcut or is it limited only to `MIXER` builtin before starting the game? You've nailed my usage scenario; I adjust pulse and/or speakers for …

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Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2019-11-11, 11:29

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by krcroft

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@ripsaw8080, yes - each instantiated mixer channel holds its own volume scalar, which it calculates from three volumes knobs: the user-defined master volume the user-defined channel volume ('FM', 'SB', 'CDAUDIO', ..) the channel's scalar volume, which was previous unused and left at 1.0 when …

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