Re: Happy Birthday to Me
Posted on 2005-06-06, 05:57
Re: Legend of Kyrandia 3
Posted on 2005-06-05, 03:01
Have you also properly mounted your CD-ROM drive? Mount it using the cdrom type. For instance: Copy code to clipboard 1 mount f F:\ -t cdrom
Re: King's Quest 6 CD Intro
Posted on 2005-06-04, 15:34
Qbix: I'd like to try my hand at figuring out what's wrong. Any suggestions? (Might be useful to see that beta thread, too).
Re: King's Quest 6 CD Intro
Posted on 2005-06-03, 20:09
It only has VGA320x200x256 and a B&W driver (which also doesn't display the intro, replacing it with the text).
Re: King's Quest 6 CD Intro
Posted on 2005-06-03, 19:59
I tried using DOSBox 0.61's SDL.dll will the new version. No effect. (Although I doubt SDL could actually predict future frames). Disabling the sound also disables the intro (it switches to displaying text only, no movie). Tried different sound card drivers. Again, no effect.
Re: King's Quest 6 CD Intro
Posted on 2005-06-03, 18:29
So much for that theory 😢 Disabling EMS yields no improvement, nor does telling the game's installer "don't use your machine's extra memory". BTW, HunterZ, I appreciate your thinking along.
Re: King's Quest 6 CD Intro
Posted on 2005-06-03, 17:48
Yep. All identical. If I'd have to make a guess as to what's happening, it'd be the following: the video decoder decodes several frames of video ahead of playback, storing them in off-screen video memory pages (unlikely, since this would require 64k of video memory per frame and it's decoding at …
Re: King's Quest 6 CD Intro
Posted on 2005-06-03, 17:18
That patch is for the Windows version only. The intro video does play properly with 0.61 (sound is messed up, though). 0.62 and later exhibit the problem I'm experiencing. (I was testing with 0.63 and CVS before). I'd be glad to go bug-hunting myself, but I have no idea where to look for this type …
Re: King's Quest 6 CD Intro
Posted on 2005-06-03, 05:33
I have tried 3,000..25,000 cycles to no effect. The result is identical. I don't really see how it could be CD-ROM related since I copied the whole thing to hard drive. Just for good measure, I also attempted to play it from CD, but no effect. Does the same if I copy the whole thing to a 350MB RAM …
Re: Compiling using Visual Studio .NET 2003
Posted on 2005-06-02, 21:44
I've been able to compile with VC6 (with a few small changes in the sound code because VC6 doesn't support partial template specialisation). Does anybody know what code, specifically, gets miscompiled? (And whether the situation was fixed with SP6?)
King's Quest 6 CD Intro
Posted on 2005-06-02, 13:53
Although the KQ6CD game works quite well, the intro movie seems to randomly display frames that shouldn't be played yet. This results in very jerky playback. I vaguely seem to recall this hapenning under true DOS as well on certain configurations, so it might not isolated to DOSBox, but I was hoping …
Re: Tandy Graphics Mode Artifacts
Posted on 2005-06-02, 12:01
Notice my post a few posts above: the FinishSetMode function, which clears the screen, does not have a provision for M_TANDY16. It is told to clear the screen, but doesn't know how.
Re: Top 5 games with your favourite music
Posted on 2005-06-02, 04:33
Speaking of SQ3, I once used a Sound Blaster driver from QFG2 in it and heard Roger Wilco actually say "Where am I?" as a digitized sound. I'll try it again and make a recording when I can get my hands on such a driver. That sound effect was intended for the Amiga version. Check out the bottom of …
Re: Top 5 games with your favourite music
Posted on 2005-06-01, 16:14
PC speaker music: tudididi di didi diiiiiiii tudidi di dyyyyyyyydidi tuditidididi dyyyyyyyyyyyy Good grief, I actually found myself humming that along. Best piece of music in a game for me has to be the closing theme of Sierra's Silpheed (the piece that plays during the credits when you've lost yet …
Re: Tandy Graphics Mode Artifacts
Posted on 2005-06-01, 15:03
Qbix: I used the 0.63 codebase for debugging. Checked the game with 0.61, 0.63 and CVS.
Re: Tandy Graphics Mode Artifacts
Posted on 2005-06-01, 04:27
Yes, the screen not getting cleared is unrelated to the palette problem. In the function "FinishSetMode" in int10_modes.cpp, the video memory is cleared through a switch/case block. This doesn't have a case for M_TANDY16, though. I think this should be a case falling through to the M_CGA4 and M_CGA2 …
Re: 0.61 -> 0.63 Tandy & Composite Hybrid Graphics
Posted on 2005-06-01, 01:48
You may want to check out this thread: Re: Tandy Graphics Mode Artifacts The cause for this has been found.
Re: Tandy Graphics Mode Artifacts
Posted on 2005-06-01, 01:45
I found the cause for the palette bug. Thexder sets up the palette using a BIOS call: Int 0x10, AX=0x1002. DOSBox (in int10_pal.cpp, function "INT10_SetAllPaletteRegisters"), handles this by writing to its internal port VGAREG_ACTL_ADDRESS/WRITE_DATA (port 0x3C0). Since DOSBox 0.61, however, the …
Re: Tandy Graphics Mode Artifacts
Posted on 2005-05-31, 21:28
The game works fine, but the colours are off. This is visible on the logo screen already. The "Thexder" logo is a sickly green colour. The corruption mentioned by GH is visible on the screen before the title that asks whether to use the joystick. Looks like a typical case of video memory not being …
Re: Tandy Graphics Mode Artifacts
Posted on 2005-05-31, 19:54
Trebor has complained about this before: Thexder colors incorrect since version 0.62
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