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Hi,
I found a old game called war inc and tried to get it working via dosbox (actually someone else seems to have gotten it working and made the dosbox configuration files and such available online).
While trying to run the game though, i noticed some rather odd behaviour that was not present in the original game (when running normally instead of via dosbox).
First of all, many of the game options do not work....changing scroll speed does nothing, nor does lowering music volume. However game speed/sound volume do work and can be adjusted ingame. The music is particularly annoying as the volume cannot be adjusted ingame, there is a slider bar but even at 0% the music plays at the same volume (this did not happen when i played the game many years ago on an old computer). Stopping the music ingame does not help as the music automatically restarts when i go to another menu ingame (again, does not happen without dosbox).
Im thinking that theres something in the dosbox configuration (or dosbox itself) that is forcing the music to be on, at the same volume, everytime. Is there any way to check for what it is?
And is there any way to change the mouse speed in dosbox? The mosue moves REALLY slowly in it (not the game though). I also tried increasing game speed by changing the cpu cycles, but even at 100k cycles the game seems to run at a max speed which is "normal" for the game but which i feel is rather slow (in terms of things like unit build times). Is there any way to force dosbox to run the game at a faster than normal speed?
Dosbox configuration file :
[sdl]fullscreen=truefulldouble=falsefullresolution=desktopwindowresolution=originaloutput=ddrawautolock=truesensitivity=300waitonerror=truepriority=higher,normalmapperfile=mapper-0.74.mapusescancodes=true[dosbox]language=machine=svga_s3captures=capturememsize=64[render]frameskip=0aspect=falsescaler=hq3x[cpu]core=autocputype=autocycles= maxcycleup=10cycledown=20[mixer]nosound=falserate=44100blocksize=1024prebuffer=20[midi]mpu401=intelligentmididevice=defaultmidiconfig=[sblaster]sbtype=sb16sbbase=220irq=7dma=1hdma=5sbmixer=trueoplmode=autooplemu=defaultoplrate=44100[gus]gus=falsegusrate=44100gusbase=240gusirq=5gusdma=3ultradir=f:\ULTRASND[speaker]pcspeaker=truepcrate=44100tandy=autotandyrate=44100disney=true[joystick]
joysticktype=autotimed=trueautofire=falseswap34=falsebuttonwrap=false[serial]serial1=dummyserial2=dummyserial3=disabledserial4=disabled[dos]xms=trueems=trueumb=truekeyboardlayout=auto[ipx]ipx=false[autoexec]cd ..@cd ..@mount c .\games\WarIncimgmount d .\games\WarInc\cd\WarInc.cue -t cdrom@c:cls@cd warinc@warincexit
