Re: DosBox - file date or file time is wrong

Posted on 2022-01-26, 07:50

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by _Rob

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Try setting the date back with the 'date' command in dosbox. After that generate the files and try again. And as mentioned, you should use a dosbox fork that supports non-games, such as DOSBox-X.

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Re: Why can't DOS (from a boot disk image) find the emulated CD drive?

Posted on 2022-01-14, 22:11

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by _Rob

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As already mentioned, regular DOSBox (including SVN) has no support for IDE devices and is only meant for running DOS games. If you need this functionality you should have a look at DOSBox-X which has IDE support and just happens to also support Windows 95 and 98.

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Re: U.S Navy Fighters Issue

Posted on 2022-01-09, 12:11

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by _Rob

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If you have a box full of old dos games that you played back in the day, how come you don't seem to know anything about running said DOS games? Once you have mounted a C: drive, which based on what you wrote seems to work, you now need to mount the ISO file, then you need to change to the CD-ROM …

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Re: U.S Navy Fighters Issue

Posted on 2022-01-07, 08:47

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by _Rob

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This is nothing specific to this game, this will happen with almost any game that is not designed to run from the install media. You first need to mount a "c:" drive. For instance, you could create a directory "dosroot" and then folder mount that directory to be your C: drive. e.g., inside dosbox: …

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Re: Symantec Q&A 4.0

Posted on 2022-01-07, 08:40

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by _Rob

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Another alternative is to use DOSBox-X, it also has SHARE.EXE support.

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Re: MODE CON: RATE=32 DELAY=1 is there a way to achieve this in dosbox??

Posted on 2021-12-29, 21:33

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by _Rob

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I don't know what you did wrong, but it works just fine in dosbox-x. command_000.png And you CAN use the mode command from other DOS versions, you just need to set your reported DOS version to match. By default DOSBox pretends to be DOS 5.0, so use "ver set 6 22" to set version 6.22 Lastly, you …

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Re: QDOS/Quake—FPS Boost in DOSBox (macOS)

Posted on 2021-12-27, 18:47

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by _Rob

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Try a Quake source port https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Quake_Source_ports

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Re: Roland SC-88 MIDI synth and Dosbox-x

Posted on 2021-12-27, 17:33

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by _Rob

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Using the "mixer" command, before you start the game allows you to set the volume levels. Use "mixer /?" for the options.

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Re: MODE CON: RATE=32 DELAY=1 is there a way to achieve this in dosbox??

Posted on 2021-12-27, 17:27

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by _Rob

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Yes, get the mode command from FreeDOS. Alternatively, the DOSBox-X fork includes a mode command.

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Re: Can't print from DOSBox

Posted on 2021-12-19, 11:16

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by _Rob

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Megabuild is no longer maintained. And printing is not supported by regular DOSBox, nor is running anything other then games. You should be looking into either a DOSBox fork that does support printing, like DOSBox-X or vDOS, or you should be looking into running an emulator like VirtualBox or …

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Re: Finally Decided to get Midi Working in DosBox ECE - MT32 / FluidSynth / TiMidity and more.. so many options?!

Posted on 2021-10-31, 11:24

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by _Rob

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It has nothing to do with the path setting *inside* dosbox. Different DOSBox forks handle the location of the MT32 ROMs differently. But generally, if you put them into the same directory as the dosbox executable, or the directory with your config file, they will probably be found. But you can also …

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Re: Finally Decided to get Midi Working in DosBox ECE - MT32 / FluidSynth / TiMidity and more.. so many options?!

Posted on 2021-10-29, 11:42

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by _Rob

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MT-32 pre-dates General MIDI. The soundfont your using, is for use with a General Midi emulator like fluidsynth or timidity. The MT-32 emulator does not use a soundfont, but it does need those ROM files. To emulate MT-32 you can either use the stand-alone Munt emulator and start it before DOSBox and …

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Re: Can't communicate with PLC

Posted on 2021-10-27, 06:58

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by _Rob

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The dongle may be a copy protection device without which the software does not work properly. In that case, on the new PC you would have to either have two serial ports, one for the dongle and one for the PLC, or you would have to reverse engineer the dongle and implement it as a software dongle in …

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Re: Try to get VESA VIDEO BIOS Info using int 10h/4F00 - sometimes the oem/vendor strings are crap

Posted on 2021-10-19, 07:04

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by _Rob

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With the fixed binary posted by @Falcosoft, it now renders much better on DOSBox-X and -staging. Is it normal that the init signature is still VBE2 when emulating VBE 1.2 or 1.0? And should it still probe for VBE2 when the VbeVersion is not at least 0x0200? Here is a screenshot of DOSBox-X 0.83.18 …

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Re: Try to get VESA VIDEO BIOS Info using int 10h/4F00 - sometimes the oem/vendor strings are crap

Posted on 2021-10-18, 11:22

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by _Rob

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Indeed, the above example with vmemsize=16 is a good example that something is going wrong with printing strings in your code.

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Re: Try to get VESA VIDEO BIOS Info using int 10h/4F00 - sometimes the oem/vendor strings are crap

Posted on 2021-10-18, 10:17

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by _Rob

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DOSBox-X 0.83.18 with default machine type Filename command_000.png File size 8.16 KiB Views 957 views File comment DOSBox-X default machine type DOSBox-X 0.83.18 with vmemsize=16 Filename command_000.png File size 8.3 KiB Views 946 views File comment DOSBox-X vmemsize=16 DOSBox-X 0.83.18 with …

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Re: Mapping MT-32 to GM in DOSBox?

Posted on 2021-09-24, 06:47

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by _Rob

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What is the point, you can just use Munt to emulate a MT-32 or CM-32L.

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Re: Dosbox Linux serial port help

Posted on 2021-09-20, 06:49

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by _Rob

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You may have to logout after the usermod for the changes to take effect. But the command should work. Run "id" to check your users group memberships. Or you can run "getent group dialout" to check if your user is a member of the dialout group.

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Re: Dosbox Linux serial port help

Posted on 2021-09-19, 14:25

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by _Rob

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As I mentioned, instead of changing ownership of the serial port, you add your user to the right group, typically "dialout". Your suggestion of doing a chown is not persistent, because /dev will be re-created on reboot so any permissions you set on it will be lost. If you really don't want to add …

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Re: How to play Millennia Altered Destinies with music on DOSBox?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 12:25

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by _Rob

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He may be asking about the General MIDI music the game supports.

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