Re: Oksori Norebang, Okpiri. I want hardware emulation for those programs.

Posted on 2013-03-02, 13:57

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by ripsaw8080

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Given that Norebang 4.5 works with regular MIDI, I thought Okpiri 2.0 might also if you can get past its hardware check for the Oksori WS32. That does appear to be the case, and I've been able to use the program in both GS and MT modes with my external GM/GS synth and external MT-32. If you try to …

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Re: Greedy

Posted on 2013-03-02, 03:23

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Eclipse's Viper, made with the same "EOS" used in Greedy, appears to need segment limits. I guess it's kind of a party game if it really does require six people on one keyboard to play it properly.

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Re: Greedy

Posted on 2013-03-01, 15:36

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Greedy uses segment limits, which DOSBox doesn't support for performance reasons. There is a fix made by peterferrie available from his website, but AFAICT it works with the 1.05 version of Greedy linked on pouet.net, not the 1.10 version of Greedy that you linked to.

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Re: Pitfall II pcjr cart

Posted on 2013-02-28, 18:23

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The game works here in 0.74 and SVN, so I suspect your cart image doesn't have the right format. It should have a 512 byte jRipCart header that starts with the word "PCjr" or it won't work.

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Re: Johnny Bazookatone - MSCDEX errors

Posted on 2013-02-28, 12:08

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The game wants to see a busy status reported for the cdrom drive, and it's prepared to wait forever for that to happen. While it's waiting, it periodically issues an init command, but I don't know if that should cause the busy status. Something that may or may not be relevant is that the game is …

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Re: Yo! Joe!

Posted on 2013-02-27, 17:48

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More than missing "something", FDC emulation is just plain missing. The same is true for the hard disk controller. The reason is that most games and apps use the DOS or BIOS interface (which DOSBox does emulate) to read and write on drives. Usually it's the BIOS that directly interacts with …

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Re: Yo! Joe!

Posted on 2013-02-26, 22:25

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The game's keydisk copy protection must be cracked to run it in DOSBox, but the existing TDT crack does not eliminate dependence on the floppy disk controller (because it didn't have to). The attached patch program will remove the FDC dependency, and it can be applied to original files or on top of …

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Re: Lomax Boulders 1 - crashes dosbox if sound enabled

Posted on 2013-02-26, 16:25

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There is an error exit in 0.74 resulting from DMA wrapping; but the game seems to work fine in 0.73 and SVN with default settings. It wasn't necessary to run the SOUNDSET program, the game detects and uses the SB16. The sound pops caused by DMA wrapping are eliminated with the ems=emm386 setting in …

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Re: Yo! Joe!

Posted on 2013-02-26, 01:10

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If the problem is a disk check then mounting any floppy image as A: may suffice.

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Re: Jetstrike

Posted on 2013-02-25, 17:23

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Works better with sbtype=sbpro2, or sbtype=none gus=true.

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Re: Gunmetal - DOS/4GW fatal error

Posted on 2013-02-25, 14:36

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The installer is also b0rked in real DOS and the NTVDM. You can get it to come up if you run it like "DOS4GW INSTALL", but then you're up against its buggy disk space calculation that doesn't seem to realize it's using 32-bit registers to do math with 16-bit disk parameters from INT 21/36. If you …

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Re: Fatman: The Caped Consumer

Posted on 2013-02-25, 03:30

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The DOSBox build was intended for Fatman only, in case that wasn't clear, because no other game messes with the keyboard as it does. The SB "fix" is a bonus; but again, only for Fatman. The game specifically masks the SB interrupt on the PIC, which wouldn't be a problem if it later unmasked at some …

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Re: FMV problems with Revell Backroad Racers CD

Posted on 2013-02-25, 01:04

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Before you go the route of booting DOS, consider that DOSBox does not support mounted cdrom drives or images after booting. You can use SHSUCDHD to create a virtual cdrom drive inside the booted DOS environment, but it only works with ISOs. If the game in question has audio tracks then that might be …

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Re: Bricks Game - Unusual flicker in the screen

Posted on 2013-02-25, 01:01

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FYI, changing the machine type at the DOSBox prompt does not activate it. Maybe options like that should be disabled, or at least provide some sort of warning to the user that changes must be made to DOSBox.conf to be effective? Just a thought. I've made a patch that displays a warning message for …

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Re: Bricks Game - Unusual flicker in the screen

Posted on 2013-02-24, 18:17

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by ripsaw8080

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Failing to use the CGA machine type causes the game to have the screen appearance you describe. Your attempts to change the machine type were evidently not effective. FYI, changing the machine type at the DOSBox prompt does not activate it. Set machine=cga in the conf file and then start DOSBox.

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Re: NIRA: Intense Import Drag Racing by Bethesda Software

Posted on 2013-02-23, 11:20

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Sounds like it's a DOS version, because otherwise you'd have seen a message about running the executable in Windows. Considering the error message, and that it's a 1999 game, I suggest you try increasing memsize (max is memsize=63) in the conf.

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Re: Hugo (1995) - can't install due to "invalid destination disk"

Posted on 2013-02-22, 13:28

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I'm not sure if it will work for the first game in the series, but try the workaround here: Problem Installing Hugo 3 - Hugo 5

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Re: Stop Nick Macki (beta) crashes

Posted on 2013-02-20, 15:16

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That error occurs if the system date is after 15 July 1993. I guess the cutoff was put in because it's beta. The DATE command in SVN will be useful here; the 4DOS shell has the command if you're not using an SVN build. Other than the date issue it seems to work OK with default settings in DOSBox; …

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Re: Kick Off 3

Posted on 2013-02-18, 02:35

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The joystick seems to work in the game with this hack to joystick.cpp: stick[0].ytick = currentTick + 1000.0*( JOY_S_CONSTANT + S_PER_OHM * - (double)(((stick[0].ypos+1.0)* OHMS)) ); + (double)(((stick[0].ypos+1.0)* OHMS/3)) ); Moving down hesitates a bit when dividing by 2, but with 3 the movement …

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Re: Kick Off 3

Posted on 2013-02-17, 22:59

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I found that the joysticktype=4axis_2 setting gives a slight bit of control that allows you to start a game. It's not playable, but just to see how it runs. The procedure is a bit tricky: you press a button to select the English language, and then on the main menu pressing right causes the pointer …

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