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First post, by razblow

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Hi all,

I tried playing the 1985 PC version of Space Wars found here:

[url]http://abandonware.the-frenchkiss.biz/index.p … age=fiche&id=60[/url]

on DosBox, but the graphics are all over the place, everytime I play it. The pixels don't seem to be connecting, so it's like playing join the dots or something.

I have an AMD Sempron 2200+ 1.49GHz, 480 MB RAM.

I tried fiddling aorund with DosBox settings but, see, I'm incredibly stupid when it comes to these things. Help?

Reply 1 of 6, by MiniMax

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razblow, try the Wiki link in my signature. Once there, search for "front-end". That should help you with the fiddling.

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Reply 2 of 6, by rcblanke

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Hi guys,

Sorry MiniMax, but I believe razblow is right in that Dosbox incorrectly displays the game, no matter what setting. I believe it has to do with the 2-colour cga mode that the game uses (wasn't that "SCREEN 2" in gwbasic?). It isn't implemented yet (in dosbox 0.63) but there seems to be a patch available here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func … 551&atid=467234

Kindest regards,

Ronald

Reply 3 of 6, by Qbix

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that patch wasn't entirely correct.

i commited another one which seems to work better.

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Reply 5 of 6, by Qbix

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this was the old one for reference.

So if you had any game that looked like this....

I tested it with:
romance of the middle kingdom 1 (startup question)
Life and Death (title screen)
Spacewar.

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