First post, by swapjim
I'm unable to run some of the old Doom games under FreeBSD. So far, I've tried Plutonia (version 1.9, part of Final Doom), Ultimate Doom (version 1.9), Doom II (versions 1.7 and 1.9).
When I try to run the exe of the game, I see this message in the console:
DOSBox switched to max cycles, because of the setting: cycles=auto. If the game runs too fast try a fixed cycles amount in DOSBox's options.
and nothing more.
In one of my attempts (I think it was in Doom II) I got this message:
DOSBox switched to max cycles, because of the setting: cycles=auto. If the game runs too fast try a fixed cycles amount in DOSBox's options.
Exit to error: INT:Gate Selector points to illegal descriptor with type 0
But I can't replicate that error again.
I'm running these games with the default config. The Doom setup.exe program runs fine.
This is all really strange because I can run fine all these games in DOSBox under Windows 7 64-bit.
Some information on the FreeBSD system. It runs 10.2-RELEASE-p13. 'uname -a' gives:
FreeBSD freebsd 10.2-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p9 #0: Thu Jan 14 01:32:46 UTC 2016 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
I've installed DOSBox from pkg, and with a 'pkg info dosbox' I can see the compile flags:
Options :
DEBUGGER_ENABLE: off
DEBUGGER_HEAVY : off
Shared Libs required:
libSDL_net-1.2.so.0
libSDL_sound-1.0.so.1
libpng16.so.16
libGL.so.1
libSDL-1.2.so.0
libX11.so.6
Annotations :
repo_type : binary
repository : FreeBSD