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First post, by baska

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I am trying to make this game work (QQP's WW2 Battles of the South Pacific, 1993) and have succeeded in making it run, but:
1. the color is all wrong (see attached file) when I run it through Defend or direct by using DOSBOX with the appropriate command.
When I start the program directly from its ww2.bat file in the map c:\dosbox\ww2 it starts perfectly and in the right color palette and even with sound, but isn't manageble because it runs way to fast and I cannot seem to slow it down.

2. When I play it through DOSBOX or via Defend it has the wrong color, but plays slow enough to work just fine.

The configfile is:

[sdl]
fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullresolution=640x480
windowresolution=1024x768
output=overlay
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=normal,lower
mapperfile=
usescancodes=true

[dosbox]
language=
machine=vga
captures=
memsize=16

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=advmame3x

[cpu]
core=normal
cycles=auto
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
device=default
config=

[sblaster]
sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

[gus]
gus=true
gusrate=22050
gusbase=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=

[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
tandy=auto
tandyrate=22050
disney=true

[bios]
joysticktype=2axis
timed=false
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=false

[serial]
serial1=disabled
serial2=disabled
serial3=disabled
serial4=disabled

[dos]
xms=true
ems=true
umb=true
keyboardlayout=none

[ipx]
ipx=false

[autoexec]
mount y "c:\dosbox\"
Y:
cd/
cd ww2
WW2!.EXE

Anyone having any suggestions how to get the right colors?

Thanks,

Bas

Reply 1 of 7, by tannerstevo

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Maybe try different outputs?

Reply 2 of 7, by baska

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I tried all outputs. The strange thing is, when playing the game directly from its map in windowsXP, the colors are OK, playing through Defend or D.O.G. gives the wrong colors...........

Is there a way to set the color palette in the config file or so?

Bas

Reply 3 of 7, by Qbix

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could you try different dosbox versions ?
0.70 is much different from 0.65. Perharps it works correctly in there.

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Reply 4 of 7, by abyss

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Try the different outputs in 0.65

Reply 5 of 7, by wd

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This is a bug in dosbox, alternate function stuff of int10, should be easy to fix.

Reply 6 of 7, by baska

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WD: as you think it a bug in Dosbox, what would your suggestion to do now be? (hoping that the bug will be squashed in a new version of Dosbox).

Thanks,

Bas

Reply 7 of 7, by wd

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As it's a bug in the target emulation there's not much you can do
besides waiting (unless you can compile/modify sources).