First post, by Ryune
I'm trying to run a old dos app that have 9000+ files in his folder, and DOSBox is unusable, freezing many seconds until it accepts any input.
Thanks, any help would be appreciated!
Regards.
I'm trying to run a old dos app that have 9000+ files in his folder, and DOSBox is unusable, freezing many seconds until it accepts any input.
Thanks, any help would be appreciated!
Regards.
Are you using dynamic core?
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Using default config of DOSBox v0.72, now tried to change CPU settings, no result.
Is there a parameter to disable the menus? like there is a -noconsole to disable the window.
Thanks again!
Menus?
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9000 files ?
Well might be slow. We cache the fileentries using an algorithm that inserts in a list,while keeping it sorted. might be slow on the initial caching
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Yes, the one that can be hide with CRTL-ALT-F9.
Tried now -nomenu and it works, its missing from the readme, doesn't it?
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you aren't using the stock dosbox then
as we don't have a menu
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Never heard of this -nomenu thingy. Must be some un-official version of DOSBox.
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You're right, I was using ykhwong build looking for a better support to the lpt ports.
Whats the best tutorial/build to have lpt printing from a DOS app that could be redirected to a network printer?
And the problem with the 9000+ files it's the same with the official build.
Thanks again!
well it's not really a problem in my opinion. It's just it is intended to that. You just have bad luck that you have
9000 files in one directory. Nobody has that. So in general dosbox runs faster because of the caching (and it is needed for the 8.3 translation), you are unlucky in the catagory that suffers from it. But don't expect a fix as it's simply design.
edit well maybe I might optimize it oneday, but got no priority. (or do you have a convincing argument why it needs to be done asap)
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Thanks again.
If someone could help with lpt support info, please. I know that this is not one of the targets of DOSBox, but any help would be appreciated.
well I got an idea to speed it up a lot, but not sure when i will code it.
For the lpt stuff. do you want to print to your real printer connected to your lpt1 (passthrough) or do you want to print to an emulated printer ?
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Qbix,
I believe that is just passthrough, but the output must be redirected to another printer on the (windows) network.
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