how do you run when playing Alone in the dark with Dosbox? \ VOGONS

how do you run when playing Alone in the dark with Dosbox?

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First post, by glyco0

Posted on 2006-10-06, 13:36

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I have recently been playing Alone in the Dark 1 using Dosbox and have had no luck getting my character to run. The manual says to make the character walk press the up arrow and to run briefly let up on the up arrown while walking and quickly press the up arrow to run. I have had no luck with this approach. Does anyone have any suggestions or advice?

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Reply 1 of 4, by wd

Posted on 2006-10-06, 13:47

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You press the up-arrow two times (more or less quickly).
Also try with less cycles (don't use cycles=auto in dosbox 0.65).

Reply 2 of 4, by glyco0

Posted on 2006-10-10, 01:38

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Slowing it down to 5000 cycles did the trick. Thanks! In the future, how do you know how many cycles to set the dosbox.conf file to?

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Reply 3 of 4, by wd

Posted on 2006-10-10, 07:05

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You don't.
Basically most games should be fine with cycles=auto, except for older
games (which are best with the default ~3000 cycles, like monkey1)
and very old games (cga/tandy games, ~500 cycles is a good start).

Reply 4 of 4, by wolf

Posted on 2024-08-03, 14:29

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Yep! I was setting up the Alon in the Dark games and had this issue! Had them at "MAX" cycles and could never run. Set them to 20,000 and everything is perfect! Anything after 30,000 you have to double tap way too fast and is not feasible.
Will remember this for games that require timed inputs like these.

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