Re: Desert Strike freezes always after 1 minute

Posted on 2006-01-21, 20:08

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by zbiggy

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Desert Strike still do not works in linux dosbox. Tried to run with dosemu but get message: Requires a VGA video card. vgaon says: vgaonERROR: CAN'T DO VIDEO INIT, BIOS NOT MAPPED! and does nothing.

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Re: Desert Strike freezes always after 1 minute

Posted on 2006-01-21, 16:57

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by zbiggy

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Colonization works - changed dir and file rights.

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Re: Desert Strike freezes always after 1 minute

Posted on 2006-01-21, 16:31

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by zbiggy

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Do you know about any dosbox parameter which really turn off sound emulation?

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Re: Desert Strike freezes always after 1 minute

Posted on 2006-01-21, 15:39

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by zbiggy

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Another game which hungs in linux is Sid Meier's Colonization. But this game has install.exe. Using install.exe I set 'no sound' to audio and midi - after saving this settings colonization runs OK. Desert Strike has no external install.exe - the sound can be disabled in game - but this is too late. …

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Re: Desert Strike freezes always after 1 minute

Posted on 2006-01-21, 14:46

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by zbiggy

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I tried generic vesa driverinstead nvidia. No difference. Tried surface, overlay, opengl, disabled all sound emulators, memory support, - all hangs the same. Could someone test this game in linux? I do not know if this is system fault or dosbox. I can send it, it is only 4 MB size.

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Re: Desert Strike freezes always after 1 minute

Posted on 2006-01-21, 14:04

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I use dosbox defaults (have no dosbox.conf at all) The only command in dosbox I type is: mount c /oldskool/games c: DESERT.EXE If it was configuration fault, I think all games would fail, not only this one. my config: X.Org 6.8.2 Nvidia binary driver 8178 KDE 3.4.5 AMD Athlon64 3000+ Venice 1 GB RAM …

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Re: Desert Strike freezes always after 1 minute

Posted on 2006-01-21, 12:19

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by zbiggy

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The game only hangs in linux. I tried in root mode and game freezes. I checked official dosbox 0.63 for windows and game is OK. I checked official dosbox 0.63 for linux (built from source with and without optimizations) and game hangs. I checked yesterday cvs and built in linux and game hangs.

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Re: Desert Strike freezes always after 1 minute

Posted on 2006-01-19, 15:21

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by zbiggy

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The cvs is 0.63 version (intro screen says that). AFAIR this game didn't want to start in pure dos. In dosbox it starts. However with 6000 cycles I can play only 1 minute. Now I lowered cpu cycles to 1500 and I can play about 2 minutes (+/- 9 secs). With 500 cycles everything works (intros, options, …

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Desert Strike freezes always after 1 minute

Posted on 2006-01-19, 14:15

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by zbiggy

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The Desert Strike game freezes in dosbos cvs always after 1 minute (exactly 60 seconds with stopwatch). Does not matter where in game I'am (menu, ingamer screen, options). It looks this problem is connected with timer (these full, equal 60 seconds always of game run).

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Re: Munt with dosbox in Linux

Posted on 2006-01-13, 01:58

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by zbiggy

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Yes. Munt with dosbox work very well in linux and alsa. No patch is needed.

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Re: AWE32 emulation?

Posted on 2006-01-10, 14:05

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by zbiggy

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I forgot to tell you the text I sent before comes from AMP documentation. It doesn't matter if you play game's samples or *.mod samples. Both are treated in the same way by EMU8k. The games that use EMU8k probably will sound in the same high quality. However only few of them uses EMU8k. The example …

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Re: AWE32 emulation?

Posted on 2006-01-10, 13:56

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by zbiggy

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Why does AMP sound so smooth and clean? ─────────────────────────────────────── The major advantage of AMP is the direct use of the EMU8000 synthesizer that performs the following tasks in hardware (that means with no CPU load): 1. high quality pitch-shifting using a patented dynamic four-point …

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Re: Munt with dosbox in Linux

Posted on 2006-01-10, 13:53

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by zbiggy

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I found it: DOSBox w/ built in MUNT Emulation It looks munt ALSA is in separate tree in cvs.

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MCGA already supported in dosbox

Posted on 2006-01-09, 17:36

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by zbiggy

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It looks MCGA is compatible with VGA so dosbox also supports MCGA. However I did not find any informamtion dosbox supports MCGA. Maybe it could be good to add such informaton to supported harware list?

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Re: AWE32 emulation?

Posted on 2006-01-09, 16:56

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95 % of them do not use EMU8k. AWE32 was expensive card so only few people had it. The smaller group had any RAM on this card. Programmes are usually lazy so they aliased SB16 to AWE32 to meet demands of boss and Creative folks who pushed for AWE32 support (to make clients buy new product). However …

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Re: AWE32 emulation?

Posted on 2006-01-09, 16:22

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swaaye I also think that there is nothing better for midi playback than Roland or Yamaha. I would like to see AWE32 emulation for games using EMU8k features (sample upload which enables HW mix with sound interpolation to give smooth, clean sound) Moe, I think you try to compare SB16 DAC with AWE32 …

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Re: VGA not detected

Posted on 2006-01-09, 00:17

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by zbiggy

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I've just built dosbox from cvs source and it works! Thanks for help. cvs dosbox is much better than 0.63 one. Fire & ice works great in vga mode in dosbox.

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Munt with dosbox in Linux

Posted on 2006-01-08, 23:25

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by zbiggy

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I have latest munt and dosbox sources. How to merge them to have dosbox with munt support?. dosbox builds fine and runs OK. munt builds a library and do not know what now. How to insert munt library into dosbox, how to enable alsa output for munt?

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Re: AWE32 emulation?

Posted on 2006-01-08, 23:05

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by zbiggy

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We talk about AWE32 emulation for mixing custom game sounds effects (SFX) only - NOT midi music. Today hardware has better quality mixing hardware than old software in-game mixer where programmer was cutting down every mixing procedure to save CPU cycles. Implementing AWE32 EMU8k emulation will …

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VGA not detected

Posted on 2006-01-08, 16:35

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by zbiggy

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In 'fire & ice' game run in dosbox (linux, windows) the VGA mode is greyed out, not detected. Only EGA mode is available (and works). If I run the same game in pure DOS VGA works (geforce 6150, geforce FX5200 chips).

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