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First post, by GreatBarrier86

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Has anyone used the 8-22-05 beta of Dos32a? I want to use it but i'm afraid of how unstable it is. Has anyone had good luck with it?

Reply 3 of 12, by GreatBarrier86

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Eh..nothing special...nothing to write home about yet. To be honest, i would just stick with the 7.35 for now

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Reply 4 of 12, by DosFreak

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Supposedly the latest beta of DOS32A fixes Dark Forces in Dynamic mode. Haven't tried it tho.

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Reply 5 of 12, by GreatBarrier86

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I wonder where my Dark Forces CD is. I am quite impressed with how well ST: AFU runs. Before Dos32a, it took forever for anything to work correctly. Now, it runs like a dream. Does anyone know whether it is necessary to use this for ST: Judgement Rites or 25th anniversary?

Also, here is a picture from Sttng for you to look at. Take note of the Dos32a version. Beta 9.0.2

Also, even though it says that -2128 xms is available, the game still runs, anyone know why?

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Reply 6 of 12, by GreatBarrier86

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If anyone is interested, here is a screenshot of 9.0.5 that was released recently.

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Reply 7 of 12, by `Moe`

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Regarding the negative EMS value: you are probably using close to 64MB memory (probably 63MB, the maximum amount dosbox supports), and the program stores that amount in a short (2-byte) integer. Which is fine, only if you interpret an unsigned short value of 63000 as signed short, it's about -2000. I guess the output routines do that - they simply interpret the number differently.

Reply 10 of 12, by GreatBarrier86

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I wish DOS games didn't require this stuff. I have a 1.0GB of DDR RAM in my laptop but ST:JR still complains that i don't have 2mb of ems free unless i use dosbox. heehehe

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Reply 11 of 12, by eL_PuSHeR

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Then it seems you haven't played too many games in the MS-DOS era. Some of them were a real pain to configure. 😀

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Reply 12 of 12, by GreatBarrier86

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Very true. the extent of my dos gaming is the 3 st games. jr, 25th and, afu

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