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Re: Color in D/Generation not working properly

Posted on 2013-10-31, 23:33

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

It's a sort of Easter Egg, or rather a Halloween Trick. The game intentionally performs grayscale summing on its palette when the system date is October 31. I guess it's supposed to make the game more spooky. Dungeon Keeper also does special stuff on Halloween, IIRC. You can just wait a day and the …

Re: Install Gravis Ultrasound Properly, All files, No Errors (With Pictures!)

Posted on 2013-10-30, 23:44

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Dunno if JEMM will work, but I guess it can't hurt to try. 😀 For EMM386 you should try the one from DOS 5.0 and/or 6.22. I have a program named DEVICE.COM that loads device drivers from the command line. It works with EMM386 in DOSBox, but I've forgotten where I found it.

Re: Install Gravis Ultrasound Properly, All files, No Errors (With Pictures!)

Posted on 2013-10-30, 23:01

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I'm not aware of any other solution for what you're trying to do. You need MegaEm, and MegaEm needs EMM386. It is possible to load EMM386 within DOSBox's internal DOS by using a command-line device driver loading utility, but booting real DOS gives the best compatibility. If you do try to get MegaEm …

Re: Install Gravis Ultrasound Properly, All files, No Errors (With Pictures!)

Posted on 2013-10-30, 21:49

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

If you're changing the MIDI_INTERFACE in GSPLAY.CFG to "GUS", you're telling GSPLAY to use the MIDI OUT on the GUS's gameport, and that's obviously not going to work in DOSBox. Because you're loading UltraMID, I'm guessing you want GSPLAY to use the GUS digital music synthesis, and for that you'll …

Re: Pinball Fantasies with 0.74 SOLVED

Posted on 2013-10-29, 19:50

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Your settings like fullresolution= and scaler= are more subjective than objective "perfection"'; so specifically pointing out the machine=vgaonly setting, and explaining why it's helpful for the game in question, would be a more useful post than just dumping your full conf with no explanation.

Re: Pinball Fantasies with 0.74 SOLVED

Posted on 2013-10-29, 11:30

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Well, it's true that machine=vgaonly is recommended for Pinball Fantasies, so that the table selection screens have the correct colors. However, it's not at all clear what issue or problem is being solved here... That game manipulates the CD Audio volume. I believe GOG.com uses a special patched …

Re: Need help getting madden 97 working

Posted on 2013-10-27, 21:30

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

If you're MOUNTing a physical disc, make sure you specify the "-t cdrom" switch at the end of the MOUNT command. Note that Madden '96 needs XCOPY in the path when installing, and the install process will silently (no error messages appear) mess up the installation if XCOPY is not in the path. I'm …

Re: File Problem with Road and Track Presents The Need for Speed SE

Posted on 2013-10-27, 20:59

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I've seen a similar problem occur for people making an image of the Dungeon Keeper disc, which has filenames with hyphen/dash (-) characters. The ISO 9660 rules state that filenames should only consist of alphanumeric and underscore characters. So, - or # is technically not allowed, although …

Re: File Problem with Road and Track Presents The Need for Speed SE

Posted on 2013-10-27, 01:10

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Are you using an image of the disc? If so, switch to the movie directory and do a DIR command at the prompt in DOSBox: D: CD \FRONTEND\MOVIE DIR WIN*.TGV Does the movie file show up in the listing? As WIN#6.TGV? What is its file size? I'm thinking that maybe when the image was created a weird …

Re: Death Gate - Black Screen with GUS

Posted on 2013-10-26, 08:33

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

It's crashing while loading GUS instrument patches, but curiously it varies which patch it crashes on from one run to the next... None of the usual suspects in DOSBox settings or loadfix makes a difference. Using a different extender than the version of DOS/4GW bound to DGATE.EXE seems to prevent …

Re: Dosbox and 8 char limit on folders.

Posted on 2013-10-25, 01:27

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

leileilol wrote: It's really due to carelessness through Windows9x LFN convenience. DOS7 ain't real DOS! OK, it sort of is, but DOSBox targets DOS 5/6 in any case. 😜

Re: Dosbox and 8 char limit on folders.

Posted on 2013-10-25, 00:03

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Town With No Name and Psycho Killer both work fine in SVN using IMGMOUNT. The issue is not long filename support, it's *clipping* the long names on the cdroms to 8.3, as real DOS/MSCDEX does, instead of converting them to short names (e.g. LONGNA~1). So far the clipping is only implemented for …

Re: Innovation SSI emulation

Posted on 2013-10-22, 21:34

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Ykhwong's build has incorporated an Innovation SSI patch (by Vasyl, I think, link) for a long time now; dunno how it compares to the patch on SF.

Re: Jazz Jackrabbit music crackling

Posted on 2013-10-15, 21:35

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

There is some grittiness and instrument dropout at low volume. I think of a different kind of noise for crackle. The game sets the SB mixer to max volume on both channels at startup, and the mixer is not subsequently adjusted when the game's volume controls are moved. So, the samples are scaled in …

Re: Jazz Jackrabbit music crackling

Posted on 2013-10-15, 18:56

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

No music crackling here with any volume level set in the game options. I tried 0.74 and SVN with default settings running the commercial floppy version of Jazz. Used SETUP.EXE to configure SB16 and "ultra high" quality sound.

Re: Dosbox with Interpreter and transcripts? I dunno :(

Posted on 2013-10-10, 05:54

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

There actually is a version of Frotz for DOS that you can run in DOSBox. Dunno if Trizbort can work with that version, though. I do understand the convenience of auto-mapping, but the idea of having it in an Infocom game seems to me like putting a GPS navigation system in a Model-T Ford. ;)

Re: Dosbox with Interpreter and transcripts? I dunno :(

Posted on 2013-10-10, 05:00

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

DOSBox is a PC emulator focused on DOS games. An interpreter, in this use of the term, is a program that interprets game data. You can run interpreter programs made for DOS in DOSBox. In the case of original Infocom games, the interpreter program file would be something like BALLYHOO .COM and the …

Re: Some Exe's wont run correctly

Posted on 2013-10-10, 04:02

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

DOSBox is intended to run DOS games, not applications. That said, you may have better luck if you boot real DOS in DOSBox. But if you're going so far as to boot DOS on a disk image then the only compelling reason to use DOSBox over some other VM is if you're running a game that benefits from …

Re: Dosbox with Interpreter and transcripts? I dunno :(

Posted on 2013-10-10, 03:51

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

I guess this Trizbort program is trying to capture printer output (that's where SCRIPT text goes), but it may not be functioning correctly due to lack of printing support in official DOSBox. You can try the MB6 or SVN Daum builds of DOSBox that have printing support. They at least have a better …

Re: Lords of the Realm 2 Graphics Speed

Posted on 2013-10-09, 19:29

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I suggested trying fixed amounts of cycles, not percentage of max cycles, they are not the same thing.

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