Re: Creative CSP help

Posted on 2023-01-15, 09:15

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by _Rob

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Believe it or not I already went though different TFX exe's with a hexeditor in order to investigate what made the game tick to find out what's wrong and found that anything after patch 1.0 for the floppy version removed references to qsound so that was something to keep in mind , still thanks for …

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Re: DOSBox Game Launcher (DOSBox Frontend)

Posted on 2023-01-07, 17:29

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by _Rob

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You can use a JDK version, and it is probably the easiest solution. I use Linux, so installing Java is very easy from the package manager. I assume your on Windows, so Oracle will try to get you to pay for the 'JSE' edition, which you don't actually need to do as Java is OpenSource. But Oracle try …

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Re: DOSBox Game Launcher (DOSBox Frontend)

Posted on 2023-01-06, 17:28

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by _Rob

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jre-8u351 is java 8, hence the error message as the newer DBGL version requires Java 11 as a minimum instead. The current LTS Java version is Java 17.

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Re: Win16/DOSBox floppy compression issue

Posted on 2023-01-02, 15:46

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by _Rob

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mounting zip folders will result in read-only disks. You will not be able to modify the contents. A possible work-around would be to use the overlay feature, but I have not personally used it.

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Re: Mouse wheel / scroller in dosbox?

Posted on 2023-01-02, 08:00

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by _Rob

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DOSBox-X has default support for mapping the scroll wheel to keyboard events.

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Re: Win16/DOSBox floppy compression issue

Posted on 2023-01-02, 07:58

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by _Rob

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DOSBox-X allows changing (or swapping) disks from the menus (when running in windowed mode) while running a program, such as Win3.1. This assumes a floppy is mounted before you start the DOS program. There is also support for mounting zipped folders as drives, but as already mentioned, not zipped …

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Re: Covox Sound Master support in DOSBox is very desirable

Posted on 2022-12-30, 21:46

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by _Rob

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First of all, that was a link to the dosbox staging wiki, which is a dosbox fork. Those settings don't exist in vanilla dosbox. Second of all, I don't know much about the Covox Sound Master, other then that is it not the same as the Covox Speech Thing. The Covox Speech Thing was a parallel port …

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Re: trying to improve SimCity version 1.07 (1989) graphics and sound

Posted on 2022-12-30, 21:13

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by _Rob

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Regarding Tandy Digital, that may be a reference to the Tandy DAC. Tandy DAC support requires that you set both `machine=tandy` and `sbtype=none`.

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Re: Covox Sound Master support in DOSBox is very desirable

Posted on 2022-12-30, 20:36

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by _Rob

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The Disney sound source is in most regards an enhanced version of the earlier Covox Speech Thing. But there are some differences. The Disney sound source adds a 16-byte FIFO buffer. But unlike the Covox Speech Thing, it is limited to just 7KHz. If you want to have an implementation where you can …

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Re: Covox Sound Master support in DOSBox is very desirable

Posted on 2022-12-30, 19:54

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by _Rob

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Covox is already supported via the Disney Sound Source emulation.

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Re: Win16/DOSBox floppy compression issue

Posted on 2022-12-28, 10:50

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by _Rob

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floppy disk images are tiny in relation to modern drive sizes. Is it really that important to compress them? Regarding dosbox-x, it does not support such compressed floppy disk images either. It does supports zip compressed folders for the C: drive. But I think those will be read-only unless you …

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Re: Will there ever be microphone input?

Posted on 2022-12-22, 09:21

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by _Rob

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akallio wrote on 2022-12-21, 17:31: I've been playing with Dosbox-x for about a month now, certainly not expert in configuration, but there are options in the SOUND tab to increase or decrease recording volume. DOSBox-X also does not support recording.

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2022-12-20, 08:36

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by _Rob

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Is the main DOSBox-X web page going to have a new release soon? I didn't read anywhere that the release schedule changed. thanks. The main developer has been busy with his actual work, and one of the other developers stepped down, so that leaves a bit of a gap. But there are nightly releases you …

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Re: How to mount two folders required for Mortal Kombat 1 installation from Debian 11 Linux

Posted on 2022-11-13, 11:04

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by _Rob

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The original Mortal Combat for DOS was released on floppy disks (diskettes). I suggest you look at these wiki pages: - https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT - https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT You may also want to look at a front-end such as DBGL if you are not familiar with DOS commands.

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Re: Best Modern Build/variation of DOSBox for games?

Posted on 2022-11-13, 10:35

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by _Rob

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You can use the DBGL front-end with original DOSBox, or one of the forks.

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Re: Best Modern Build/variation of DOSBox for games?

Posted on 2022-11-07, 19:47

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by _Rob

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You can use a development build of DOSBox, named DOSBox SVN. Or you can look for a fork. e.g. https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/DOSBox#Forks

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Re: Green "Video for Windows 1.1e"

Posted on 2022-11-07, 19:31

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by _Rob

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It would be best if you raise this issue on the DOSBox-X github page. A screenshot could also be helpful.

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Re: 80's Knights of Legend game on Chromebook using DOSBox - Game Screen is not full screen

Posted on 2022-11-04, 11:43

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by _Rob

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DOSBox has no mouse cursor. What you are seeing is probably the OS mouse cursor. It is probably using seamless mouse mode. Instead try to capture the mouse. Try pressing CTRL-F10 to capture/release the mouse. For scaling up the image, there are multiple options in the [sdl] section of the dosbox …

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Re: SHARE.EXE in Windows 3.11 WFWG under DOSBox

Posted on 2022-10-31, 08:28

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by _Rob

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While DOSBox does not support SHARE (unless you boot real DOS), the DOSBox-X fork does have SHARE support integrated.

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Re: Mounting a copy-protected floppy drive or disk image in DOSBox?

Posted on 2022-10-31, 08:25

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by _Rob

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Unfortunately, DOSBox does not support copy protected media. The software needs to be 'cracked' to allow it to run from unprotected media.

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