Mouse and pallet issues in Win 3.11 (CVS build 2008-01-20) \ VOGONS

Mouse and pallet issues in Win 3.11 (CVS build 2008-01-20)

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First post, by arablizzard2413

Posted on 2008-01-21, 03:18

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Here are two problems I've noticed so far:

1) When autolock=false, mouse movement is slow on the y axis, 2 times as fast on x axis. When autolock=true cursor movement is perfectly fine, same goes for fullscreen.

2) Using the S3 864 1.41B5 drivers, I'm getting weird pallet update problems with video for windows (see attachment). Just noticed it when I tried to play the King's Quest VI intro

(unrelated)
S3 Trio765 1.70.04 drivers throw a bunch of errors to the console when trying to play videos, all windows cursors turn black afterwards. Same pallet bug, but otherwise work fine.

Reply 1 of 16, by DosFreak

Posted on 2008-01-21, 03:22

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You running in 256 colors?

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Reply 2 of 16, by arablizzard2413

Posted on 2008-01-21, 03:32

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Yep, it's 640x480 256 colors, and they're the drivers from the running win 3.x on dosbox guide.

Reply 3 of 16, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-01-21, 18:20

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3) is the non-present S3 streams processor...

Did this video work in 0.72?

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Reply 4 of 16, by arablizzard2413

Posted on 2008-01-21, 20:21

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Yes, it did. I've used this same Windows folder on past versions of dosbox and it's worked fine.

Reply 5 of 16, by wd

Posted on 2008-01-21, 20:23

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Are you compiling dosbox yourself? Handy with cvs checkouts?

Reply 6 of 16, by arablizzard2413

Posted on 2008-01-21, 21:42

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It's one of the pre-compiled CVS builds from here: http://www.aep-emu.de/cvscompile/dosbox.htm

Reply 7 of 16, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-01-22, 13:23

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Do you happen to have some small video file that shows this bug?

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Reply 8 of 16, by arablizzard2413

Posted on 2008-01-22, 16:59

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do you mean a video of the bug happening in dosbox, or a sample from the clip?

Reply 9 of 16, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-01-22, 17:05

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The latter

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Reply 10 of 16, by arablizzard2413

Posted on 2008-01-22, 17:31

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Hmm, I tried spitting it up but I guess video editors don't expect 256 color avi files anymore. It didn't copy the other pallets, so would it be alright if I just posted the original video? I don't have another video on hand, I'm in the college cafeteria right now.

http://www.mediafire.com/?62jytmlccee - 12.5 MB

Reply 11 of 16, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-01-22, 18:04

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Ok nice. I thought the file was 140 MB or something 😉

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Reply 12 of 16, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-01-23, 12:49

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Hmm nothing obvious... it "simply" forgets to update the palette.

As a workaround you can watch it in fullscreen or in 32/64k desktop color mode

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Reply 13 of 16, by arablizzard2413

Posted on 2008-01-23, 16:29

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Well it's the intro for a game that requires 256 colors, so it's not really possible to do that when it plays. But if that's all that can be done, I guess I'll just have to live with it 😉

Reply 14 of 16, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-01-24, 15:00

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For me it's also broken in 0.72...

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Reply 15 of 16, by wd

Posted on 2008-01-24, 15:13

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Hmm nothing obvious... it "simply" forgets to update the palette.

So it'd behave the same on a real s3 card, right?

Reply 16 of 16, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-01-24, 15:28

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Could depend on values that are read from the card...

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