Re: ultima 8 pagan on dosbox

Posted on 2006-02-13, 20:41

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You might try installing it from the Windows command prompt, and then use dosbox only after the installation is complete. (suggestion stolen from the next thread, but it's a good one for many games).

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Re: Dongles?? PCAD, PSAVE

Posted on 2006-02-13, 20:28

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by TeaRex

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I didn't find anything about HOW to load/run/start a regular DOS within DosBox. Maybe I missed a link somewhere? There are basically two steps: Mount a disk image, then boot from it. I hope you know about disk images, they're basically dumps of whole floppies or hard disks to a file, partition …

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Re: New CyclesAuto feature

Posted on 2006-02-13, 20:05

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From reading the code (but note that I haven't talked to any of the developers about this so I might be wrong), the idea seems to be that you can just say cycles=auto in the conf file and dosbox will then aim at eating about 80-90% of your CPU's power, so that it runs almost as fast as it can, but …

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New CyclesAuto feature

Posted on 2006-02-13, 10:47

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Thanks to the developers for including this! One less patch to apply as soon as it'll work out right. For the moment there are a few problems with this that weren't in the timesynch patch: 1.) Music (FM) and sound (PC speaker seems to be affected most) are sounding like caterwauls or like a broken …

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Re: Building a statically linked dosbox on VC++ dotnet

Posted on 2006-02-10, 20:30

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Well good to know. I may have put too much weight on Andy's statement simply because I like his software.

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Re: Building a statically linked dosbox on VC++ dotnet

Posted on 2006-02-10, 19:12

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HunterZ wrote: I'd like to hear some of the not-so-good-things. See this discussion I had a short time ago concerning an Apple II emulator: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators … fc1cf3fa78b1819

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Re: Building a statically linked dosbox on VC++ dotnet

Posted on 2006-02-10, 14:13

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Qbix, if you mean I shouldn't listen to hearsay you're right of course. But things did work out just fine with VC++, so I don't really see a need to switch compilers for the moment. I'm certainly not against open source as such and I wouldn't be using VC++ if it wasnt downloadable for free. And I …

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Re: Building a statically linked dosbox on VC++ dotnet

Posted on 2006-02-10, 13:39

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I've managed to do the sort-of-static build by now. Just chose "lib" instead of "dll" in the SDL compilation configuration. Then add the previous external dependencies of SDL (winmm.lib and dxguid.lib) to those of DOSbox so the linking stage finds the necessary stuff. The result depends on nothing …

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Re: Graphics performance boost

Posted on 2006-02-09, 10:14

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CVS means "concurrent versioning system" and is basically a way of storing source code in a way so that multiple persons can work on it. You can find dosbox's cvs page here: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=52551 Either you have to check out the source yourself (pointers to software that does …

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Re: Graphics performance boost

Posted on 2006-02-09, 09:51

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Hello Mamoru.kun. Answer number one: If you get a current CVS source of dosbox, functionality like that offered by Kronuz's patch is already included. No need to mess with the patch then. I don't know how to do a CVS checkout in Windows though, but I guess you need a CVS client or a CVS plugin for …

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Re: "emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-09, 09:38

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robertmo wrote: ems: try adding this parameter FRAME=E000 in the emm386.exe line I wonder, why is that so? Given that D000 is by far the most common location for the page frame, shouldn't dosbox keep that area free for this purpose if you say ems=false and umb=false?

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Re: "emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-09, 09:30

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From the EMM386.EXE help entry in DOS 6.22: D=nnn Specifies how many kilobytes of memory should be reserved for buffered direct memory access (DMA). Discounting floppy-disk DMA, this value should reflect the largest DMA transfer that will occur while EMM386 is active. Valid values for nnn are in the …

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Re: "emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-08, 23:04

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Yeah, I finally set ems and xms to false, and then HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE were loaded fine, and the game ran quite flawlessly (although some parts were way to slow unless I raised the CPU Cycles to ~20,000, and I have a P4 2.8GHz!) The CPU cycles are an absolute value, not relative to your …

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Building a statically linked dosbox on VC++ dotnet

Posted on 2006-02-08, 22:24

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Hello, if this was Linux I wouldn't have to ask for this but unfortunately I'm rather new to Win32 development stuff. What I'm trying to get to in the end is a one-file "thing" that runs one of a couple of older DOS programs of mine, out of the box without any installation, and without any outside …

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Re: DosBox window size

Posted on 2006-02-07, 22:12

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Read the file, it contains lots of explanations. Find the line that says "scaler=" (without the quotes) and try some of the values suggested in the explanation given above.

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Re: "emm386 d=64" in DOSBox (Big Red Adventure)

Posted on 2006-02-07, 22:07

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By the way - it seems that even though no device drivers are loaded when I boot this HD, I still get SoundBlaster support! How can it be? There's no mouse support (unless I load a driver), after all. Real, physical SoundBlaster cards work without a driver in almost all DOS programs, only the …

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Some Modelines for dosbox on X (Linux etc.)

Posted on 2006-02-07, 21:27

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Hello, here are a few modelines for dosbox on XFree86 or X.org servers. They provide display timings that are -- as far as I could find out -- identical to those of original VGA/SVGA hardware. This has the nice effect that almost any monitor will recognize the timing as "known" and will do something …

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Re: DosBox window size

Posted on 2006-02-05, 00:46

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sotargy wrote: Are the scalers changed by means of converting Dosbox.conf file, or how? No idea what you mean by "converting". The are indeed changed by editing the dosbox.conf file, yes.

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Re: Making DOSBox batch file

Posted on 2006-02-03, 09:48

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or: c:\path\to\dosbox\dosbox.exe -conf game-specific.conf and put the command to run the game into the autoexec section of that conf file. That way you can use the conf options that work best with this particular game.

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Re: Mount problem...

Posted on 2006-02-03, 09:46

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after mount you have to change to the drive first. i.e.: mount c [stuff] c: cd [your directory] You can always say DIR to find out where you're at. And often, it is simpler to mount your game directory directly to the C: root directory and skip the CD command entirely, for example: mount c /dos/ …

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