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First post, by halaxa

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Hi, I'm real newbie with dosbox and I have a probelm. I need a specific program to be run in dosbox under linux kubuntu 7.04. It's a program for doctors, with database of patients called OBOLUS. When trying to insert new information about patient or when checking databases on startup, the program is extremely slow. Is maybe 50times slower. Option 'core' is set to 'dynamic'.
A Second problem is with charset. The program is Czech, so there are problems with special chars. Can someone help me with setting up the right charset? Or where this can be set?

Thanks a lot!

Reply 1 of 12, by Freddo

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If you want more speed, I guess you could try DOSEmu, although I'm not sure how much it would help.

Reply 2 of 12, by halaxa

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I've already tried DOSemu, but it was even worse. From unknown reason, the OBOLUS program didn't load at all. It couldn't load the config ini file. But I had all privileges in the folder. I had no idea, where was the problem. DOSBOX at least works. A while ago I set 'cycles' to experimantal value 'auto' and it's much faster. Maybe it will be ok. But the problem with charset stays..

Reply 3 of 12, by Qbix

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try playing with the keyboardlayout option.
and or keyb.com (of z:\ ) that one will change the charset as well on certain langauges

Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 4 of 12, by wd

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...and be sure to try/use the 0.70 release of dosbox

Reply 5 of 12, by halaxa

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Thanks a lot! I'll try it. But I may not use 0.70, because it was not released for (k)ubuntu yet. Versions here are not in *.deb and I can't compile it from sources. So I downloaded it using software sources. I'll update it just when it's released. Or can anyone participate with directions to compile?

Last edited by halaxa on 2007-06-08, 19:47. Edited 2 times in total.

Reply 6 of 12, by halaxa

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ps: sorry about my English:)

Reply 7 of 12, by wd

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Ok stick with 0.65 for the moment.

Do you know what codepage exactly is needed?
If not type "keyb CZ243" at the dosbox prompt and see if it works.

Reply 8 of 12, by halaxa

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Keyb does not work. Keyb.com is not in z:.

Reply 9 of 12, by wd

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Huh? Should be there, dunno. Is it 0.65 for sure?

Reply 10 of 12, by halaxa

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I can't see it.. I'll try to compile 0.70 again..

Reply 11 of 12, by halaxa

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Heeyaa! I've just done the compilation!! And keyb cz243 is working!! Thanks a lot. I really appreciate your help and mainly admiring your work and abilities to make something like that!
Now, if you have one more minute.. I've compiled it and it's working. But it's not installed as a package like the previous version and I don't know where is the configuration file now. I need it to make it faster again..
Thank you..

Reply 12 of 12, by halaxa

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Well, even it's night, I finally found out where to create and edit config file. So its working well:) Thank you again for advice about cz243. I really appreciate everything.

See ya!