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Reply 2080 of 2093, by Neville

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Just got an error message while trying to retrieve information of the game "The Civil War: Master Players Edition" by Empire from MobyGames. Thought it could be relevant:

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Using DBGL v1.00 beta 4.

Reply 2081 of 2093, by buckeye

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Newcomer to DBGL. The game in question is Mike Ditka Ultimate Football from 1991. In Dosbox Staging I get sounds, voices and mouse cursor but in
DBGL with Staging used for dosbox version the voices sound muted and mouse use is not there. Do you know where in the config file I can tweak some things
to get it to work? The machine emulated is a 486, 16mb, S3, SB16. In stand alone Dosbox Staging I used the "base" settings.

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Reply 2082 of 2093, by rcblanke

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Hi all, I'm feeling a bit under the weather, so I'll keep it short:

buckeye wrote on 2025-01-20, 17:31:

The game in question is Mike Ditka Ultimate Football from 1991. In Dosbox Staging I get sounds, voices and mouse cursor but in
DBGL with Staging used for dosbox version the voices sound muted and mouse use is not there. Do you know where in the config file I can tweak some things
to get it to work? The machine emulated is a 486, 16mb, S3, SB16. In stand alone Dosbox Staging I used the "base" settings.

I'm not sure, but you make it sound like you're using one of the available Templates for your Football game. If so, just start by reloading DOSBox's default settings (Edit profile, DOSBox, Reload settings) and go from there. I believe this particular game should just about run fine using the defaults.

Neville wrote on 2025-01-17, 11:26:

Just got an error message while trying to retrieve information of the game "The Civil War: Master Players Edition" by Empire from MobyGames. Thought it could be relevant:

Hey, you seem to have found the single MobyGames game entry without a cover art image (just joking of course)! Fixed in beta5. Also implemented support for 'favorites' when converting or importing eXo games.

T.B. wrote on 2025-01-13, 20:00:

since the new 0.99 version, I'm unable to start the app on macOS Sonoma 14.7.2. It doesn't matter rather I'm using the x86 or arm version.

Hi T.B. sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Unfortunately, I do not have access to a Mac machine at the moment. What seems to be the problem though, is that the files in your /Users/Thomas/.swt/ directory are not what SWT (DBGL's user interface component) expects them to be. You can try removing that folder entirely, so that DBGL will be able to re-populate it on startup. If that doesn't solve the issue, I'll have to investigate when I have access to a Mac again (probably later this week). Maybe something's changed with Sonoma, I don't know.

Regards,
Ronald

Reply 2084 of 2093, by buckeye

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buckeye wrote on 2025-01-20, 17:31:

The game in question is Mike Ditka Ultimate Football from 1991. In Dosbox Staging I get sounds, voices and mouse cursor but in
DBGL with Staging used for dosbox version the voices sound muted and mouse use is not there. Do you know where in the config file I can tweak some things
to get it to work? The machine emulated is a 486, 16mb, S3, SB16. In stand alone Dosbox Staging I used the "base" settings.

I'm not sure, but you make it sound like you're using one of the available Templates for your Football game. If so, just start by reloading DOSBox's default settings (Edit profile, DOSBox, Reload settings) and go from there. I believe this particular game should just about run fine using the defaults.

It's working now since I reinstalled everything. Another question: when you select machine type and hit ok it seems like it doesn't retain the selection. I'll go back
in edit and the template selection is blank (see attached pic). Any suggestions? Thanks for getting back with me, hope you're feeling better.

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Reply 2085 of 2093, by rcblanke

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Thank you buckeye, yes, feeling better! About the template setting - correct, this association is not retained. A template is simply a collection of DOSBox settings, which I do not consider to be of importance to be retained. A template can be considered a starting point for a profile. Please note that a DBGL template usually entails more than just DOSBox' "machine" setting - for example, soundcard settings are usually included as well. You can check the contents of a template using right-click -> View -> Configuration File. Also note that the included templates are really meant to be used with DOSBox 0.74, they may or may not work correctly with a DOSBox fork such as Staging. If you do intend to use templates with DOSBox staging, I would recommend you create your own templates based on your own DOSBox versions.

Reply 2086 of 2093, by Neville

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Speaking of profiles / templates meant for DOSBox v0.74, I recently created a DBGL setup to showcase DOSBox Staging and its new emulation of the Roland Sound Canvas. I also used some of the game packages on your website, to be exact the ones with Apogee, Epic and Id Software games, and I remember running into issues. If I moved the folder somewhere else, for instance, DOSBox Staging crashed on startup.

I didn't know whether to report this or not, because I can't tell if I was doing something wrong regarding paths and because I was using very beta options.

Reply 2087 of 2093, by Neville

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Trying to replicate the problems I mentioned yesterday, I've set up a new DBGL installation with DBGL v1.00b5, latest DOSBox Staging beta and said game packages. This time everything worked fine on my first attempt:

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So I guess we can forget about the whole thing.

One thing surprised me, though. It is that most games are already setup to use a Sound Canvas or General MIDI for music. How come? Sound Canvas emulation was not available when those game packages were created, was it?

Reply 2088 of 2093, by rcblanke

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Neville wrote on 2025-01-28, 11:05:

One thing surprised me, though. It is that most games are already setup to use a Sound Canvas or General MIDI for music. How come? Sound Canvas emulation was not available when those game packages were created, was it?

Correct; Considering most users will most likely be using Windows, I decided to use "General Midi" if a game supports it, so it will play using "Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth" (with relatively low CPU load). But if a user would rather use OPL3, for example, these games should have a setup available in DBGL.

Reply 2089 of 2093, by Neville

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An interesting move. I remember having set up some games for General MIDI music, but I think they stopped working when I installed VirtualMIDISynth. Or maybe I should have changed something in their configuration, I don't know. Anyway, VirtualMIDISynth + the Arachno Soundfont is my current favorite way of playing MIDI music.

EDIT: Here you can hear it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUjUGB50CB8

Reply 2090 of 2093, by T.B.

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rcblanke wrote on 2025-01-21, 19:42:
Hi T.B. sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Unfortunately, I do not have access to a Mac machine at the moment. What seem […]
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T.B. wrote on 2025-01-13, 20:00:

since the new 0.99 version, I'm unable to start the app on macOS Sonoma 14.7.2. It doesn't matter rather I'm using the x86 or arm version.

Hi T.B. sorry for not getting back to you earlier. Unfortunately, I do not have access to a Mac machine at the moment. What seems to be the problem though, is that the files in your /Users/Thomas/.swt/ directory are not what SWT (DBGL's user interface component) expects them to be. You can try removing that folder entirely, so that DBGL will be able to re-populate it on startup. If that doesn't solve the issue, I'll have to investigate when I have access to a Mac again (probably later this week). Maybe something's changed with Sonoma, I don't know.

Regards,
Ronald

Hi rcblanke. Sorry for the late response. Just wanted to tell you, that I fixed my starting problem by updating to Java 21.

Reply 2091 of 2093, by rcblanke

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Neville wrote on 2025-01-28, 18:12:

.. VirtualMIDISynth + the Arachno Soundfont is my current favorite way of playing MIDI music. Here you can hear it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUjUGB50CB8

That sounds great, 'though I will probably just stick with my trusty Roland devices... 😀

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Great to hear you got it working T.B.!