saur2004 wrote:

Just curious. Its been 3 months.

I think nobody, not even the developers, known when a new release is forthcoming 😀. It would be nice to have a releasecalendar though, so that - say - every 2 month the then-current CVS is made stable and released.

JAL

Its just that Im specifically waiting on the patch that fixes the INT11 joystick support. My harddrive space is fairly limited and I dont have the space to install the cygwin developement package, so I cant compile patches myself.

saur2004 wrote:

Its just that Im specifically waiting on the patch that fixes the INT11 joystick support. My harddrive space is fairly limited and I dont have the space to install the cygwin developement package, so I cant compile patches myself.

There is a CVS build made available every day or week or so. Search the forum to find it...

JAL

Thank you very much for pointing that out. I didnt know that and I had though I had read the forums pretty thoroughly. Unfortunately I just tried the latest CVS build and INT11 joystick support looks to still be broken.

I have an old old DOS game that I happen to know uses the BIOS interrupt call to parse the joystick. This game runs fine when run under DOS 6.22 and there is an analog joystick plugged into the soundcard midi/joystick port. When I run the game under DOSbox with a USB joystick, the game goes into its joystick calibration like it usually does but when I pull the trigger at the given joystick positions, nothing happens. The trigger looks like it is not being recognized.

OOOPS: Its INT15 support 😦

I dont believe this. I finally found the assembly code bits from the game that deal with this. (Warning its in that old DEC PASCAL)

This is NOT working under DOSbox but works fine in DOS 6.22 with an old analog joystick.

---JSBTNS.I86---(gets the joystick buttons)

1          NAME     JOYSTICK_BUTTONS
2          ASSUME CS:CODE,DS:DATA
3
4DATA      SEGMENT PUBLIC
5DATA      ENDS
6
7CODE      SEGMENT PUBLIC
8
9          PUBLIC JSBTNS
10
11RETAD     DW  ?
12
13;gets joystick vals
14
15JSBTNS    PROC NEAR
16          POP BX
17          MOV RETAD,BX
18          MOV AH,84H
19          MOV DX,0000H
20          INT 15H
21          POP DI
22          POP ES
23          XOR AH,AH
24          MOV ES:WORD PTR [DI],AX
25          MOV BX,RETAD
26          JMP BX
27JSBTNS    ENDP
28
29CODE      ENDS
30
31          END

---JSTICK.I86---(gets the joystick positions)

1          NAME     JOYSTICK
2          ASSUME CS:CODE,DS:DATA
3
4DATA      SEGMENT PUBLIC
5DATA      ENDS
6
7CODE      SEGMENT PUBLIC
8
9          PUBLIC JSTICK
10
11RETAD     DW  ?
12
13;gets joystick vals
14
15JSTICK    PROC NEAR
16          POP BX
17          MOV RETAD,BX
18          MOV AH,84H
19          MOV DX,0001H
20          INT 15H
21          POP DI
22          POP ES
23          MOV ES:WORD PTR [DI],BX
24          POP DI
25          POP ES
26          MOV ES:WORD PTR [DI],AX
27          MOV BX,RETAD
28          JMP BX
29JSTICK    ENDP
30
31CODE      ENDS
32
33          END

Well, a little patch from me is forthcoming that toggles xms & ems on/off from the command line; hows that?:) Maybe put out what I've done so far since the xms toggle works for zone66(still working on getting privateer to accept the ems toggle, though priv doesn't seem to run with the more recent dosbox releases).

uhm ih8 you can stop that 😀
I allready coded all options from the command line.(xms/ems/sblaster/gus/cpu/pcspeaker/tandy/disney/modem/midi/mpu401)
just didn't commit it yet.

Or do continue and i can see if you used some tricks that i forgot about.
Contact me (pm) if you want to have a sample of it

saur2004 wrote:

I dont believe this. I finally found the assembly code bits from the game that deal with this.

The code uses the standard int 15h / ah = 84h, dx = 0001/0002, maybe QBix can comment on its support in DOSbox with USB joysticks. Should be working, afaik.

JAL

Here's a patch for the XMS and EMS toggles and a little xmsems dector /w pascal source I ran across. patch -p0 < xmsems.diff. Check your PM:)