Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-17, 14:30

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by Kippesoep

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It could actually be a feature of my monitor. The game itself runs in 320x200. Anything outside that shows the border colour (of course, only if I run it under Windows' NTVDM, not in DOSBox).

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-17, 14:14

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by Kippesoep

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My GeForce4 shows the border, but I have to deliberately misalign my LCD monitor to get it to appear.

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-17, 00:13

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by Kippesoep

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It does the "you've collected the last crystal" box only once.

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Re: how do I save a game on dos dox?

Posted on 2005-08-16, 17:55

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by Kippesoep

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DOSBox does not determine how the game should be saved. It depends on the game itself. What "options menu" are you referring to? If you are looking for a way to save the emulated state itself, DOSBox does not support that.

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Re: Crystal Caves Hud Shaking

Posted on 2005-08-16, 15:49

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by Kippesoep

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To elaborate on it: the "shaking" happens only on horizontal motion. Probably something to do with the EGA pages being interleaved. The status area will move with the background (which it shouldn't) until a certain threshold (8 pixels) is reached. Then, it jumps to the other end, repeating this. It …

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Re: Problems with freeware game

Posted on 2005-08-15, 16:29

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by Kippesoep

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You need a DPMI provider. This was programmed into older versions of DOSBox, IIRC and is also present again in current CVS version. If you don't want to use either of those, you will need the file CWSDPMI.EXE (which is a DPMI provider). Search Goooooogle for it.

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Re: Lost in Time, CD music, Linux

Posted on 2005-08-14, 23:15

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by Kippesoep

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This is fixed in the current CVS: Lost in time

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Re: directory refuse to mount

Posted on 2005-08-12, 05:31

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by Kippesoep

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Do you actually get the text "mount c c:\tyrian" on the DOSBox prompt? If you don't, then that's likely the problem and you may need to remap your keyboard. A quick test is to add the command to the [autoexec] section in dosbox.conf

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Re: Sounds old school...

Posted on 2005-08-10, 00:02

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by Kippesoep

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This hasn't changed in DOSBox, but you've changed the game's settings. Run the game's setup and tell it to use General MIDI/Roland sound. With the DOSBox default settings, this will be passed on to whatever MIDI device you have set up.

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Re: Looks like wd has made it to the official team

Posted on 2005-08-09, 16:03

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by Kippesoep

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Erm... he had CVS access before and has submitted things, at least as early as a month ago. See changelog: 2005-07-04 22:20 c2woody * include/cpu.h, src/cpu/core_normal/prefix_0f.h, src/cpu/cpu.cpp, src/dos/dos_execute.cpp: better compatibility while in v86-mode (Strike Commander etc.)

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Re: How do you mount a disk in dosbox?

Posted on 2005-08-08, 22:10

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by Kippesoep

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You've got one colon too many. Should be "mount c c:\pcgold"

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Re: "failed to create a rendering output"

Posted on 2005-08-08, 21:30

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by Kippesoep

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A P2 300 is likely too slow to run at a decent speed. It should still work, though not very fast. A simple search of the forums yields some good threads: Topic 9517 and Topic 9284, for example.

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Re: DOSBox Graphics Efficiency

Posted on 2005-08-05, 23:45

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by Kippesoep

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Every PC has a "graphics card" (either separate or built onto the motherboard), otherwise you wouldn't have any display at all. If the delay is caused by complicated graphics, you can try increasing the frameskip (Ctrl-F8) to see if that helps. Sometimes performance can be improved by actually …

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Re: mt32-to-gm Ready Sysex to use with midi-ox

Posted on 2005-08-05, 15:07

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by Kippesoep

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Erm, you can make the MT-32 respond to channels 1..8 (instead of 2..9) by pressing "5" while holding down "master volume" and then pressing "1".

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Re: Where are you from?

Posted on 2005-08-05, 15:05

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by Kippesoep

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As my nickname (meaning "Chicken Soup", hence my avatar) indicates, I'm Dutch, like our esteemed project fathers Qbix and Harekiet.

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Re: Monster Bash...blue?

Posted on 2005-08-05, 15:04

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by Kippesoep

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This only seems to happen on the Apogee logo screen (which should be red on black). All the other screens in the game seem to be fine.

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Re: Windows 3.11

Posted on 2005-08-04, 19:08

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by Kippesoep

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If you have managed to install Win3, then the "simple little file in the 3.11 directory" is "win.com".

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Re: mt32-to-gm Ready Sysex to use with midi-ox

Posted on 2005-08-04, 16:58

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by Kippesoep

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It's a simple 30sec long MIDI file that remaps the MT-32 sounds. Works well and sounds good. Be sure to play it through WMP or another MIDI player that handles embedded SysEx data. WinAMP doesn't, unfortunately. Also, no amount of patching seems to make it possible to get the MT-32 to produce a …

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Re: wing commander armada

Posted on 2005-08-04, 05:29

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by Kippesoep

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i see. well i am using dosbox 0.63. also i type in loadfix but then if i type armada.exe it does not work. "it does not work" is a little vague. If you mean the game doesn't even attempt to start, then you've probably not mounted the directory in which it is installed. I'm not gonna tell you how to …

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Re: wing commander armada

Posted on 2005-08-03, 22:05

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by Kippesoep

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EMS needs to be switched off for WCA to work, so leave that off. Also, in my experience, WCA has some problems with having too much free memory. So, before you start the game, type "loadfix" at the DOSBox prompt. As a bonus, I'll tell you that I've found that WCA works best at 3263 cycles. (normal …

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