VOGONS


First post, by Paulovic

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Hello,

I downloaded the new DOSBox version 0.70 and tried Privateer 1.
To my surprise the game runs very fluently and the auto-core and auto-cycle
feature works great.

Nevertheless I have found one problem.

The music slows down because of missing joystick. I enabled joysticktype=2axis
and made a fake file joya.dat to pass the calibration.

(I use mouse for playing the game instead of joystick, as I don't have one and
don't need (Freelancer player ).)

The music speed is OK now, but the cursor keeps on moving to the right
all the time.

I ask those who play with joystick to send me a proper calibrated joya.dat
file in order to solve this cursor problem.

According to Origin Tech help for Privateer 1 this cursor moving is caused
due to the missing joystick and this causes a "keyboard buffer overflow"

How do you solve this problem when you don't have a joystick?
The same problem appears in the older versions of DOSBox.

I ask you for the correct file joya.dat which is calibrated by a joystick.

Reply 1 of 1, by Paulovic

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I have received a solution from the wing commander forum.

Everyone who has these problems please download the attachment
and place in into the privateer folder and make sure to have these
settings in the joystick part of dosbox.conf:

joysticktype=2axis
timed=false (In this case important to set to false, otherwise cursor moves)
autofire=false
swap34=false
buttonwrap=true

Now Privateer works as it is supposed to do.