First post, by Epitaph
Hi everyone my name is Dimitris and i'm from Greece. I'm 22 and well i love oldies and discovering buried by time adventure games.
I'm quite new to DosBox and i must admit that i'm impressed. I bought a new laptop 3 days ago with windows 7 on it, and when i tried to load games with VDMSound it just wouldn't work anymore. So i searched on the net and found DosBox. The first thing that impressed me is that for many games (like Karateka) it makes you choose what platform you want (I first played it on a Hercules 😁). I also tried to play Blood and at first i was furious with DosBox cause it didn't have any sound whereas VDMSound fixed that automatically, but i played with the Sound Settings a bit on the Setmain.EXE and made it work.
Anyway, the main reason i registered here is to solve some problems i have with some games.
Problem #1 (Huge Problem)
When i tried to play Double Dragon today on Hercules 4 colours and the VEGA (16 Colours) it was speeding like hell. On Hercules the pace was double from the start and you could barely see stuff on the screen and on 16 colours the speed was even faster.
I Know you can hit Ctrl + F11 / F12 to decrease/increase the Processor Cycles but it didn't seem to work. From 3000 Cycles it diminished to 1094 or something and then to 4000 (all this in just a few seconds) but nothing happened.
Other Games the speed is not right :
Alone In The Dark 2 - A bit Slower (when it changes screens it loads more than it should).
Lotus 3 - Faster Than It Should
Crazy Cars 3 - Slower Than It Should
Always happens
Problem #2 :
When i tried to load Titus The Fox...well when i typed Titus on DosBox it just changed line and nothing happenned. After that you weren't able to type a thing, cause it seemed like it was loading, but it just wasn't. ANy Ideas ? Always happens
Problem #3 :
I also tried to play Alone In The Dark 3, and it just showed the first Infogrames Screen and then it stuck. Always happens
Final Problem :
On some games (like Prince OF Persia 2 : The Shadow And The Flame) i want to fix the sound so it won't come from the PC Speaker, but the sound card. Always happens
That's irrelevant, i know, but i want to say that after 17 years i found and played a game that was searching till then. Hugo 3 : The Jungle Of Doom!
Thank you very much for reading.
EDIT: Yeap! I forgot to mention some information about this pc.
Processor : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @1.60GHz
RAM : 1GigaByte
Shitty Laptop that's given especially to those who make Mobile Internet Connections. No Graphics Card i guess. info about the motherboard are lacking also.
And for the record i'm using DosBox 0.74