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Text appearance problem with a game

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First post, by stefanoasr

Posted on 2009-12-31, 16:51

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Hi,

I have a "little" problem with a DOS game called "Allenatore - Italian Football Manager 2" (www.ifm2.com) :
As you can see in the screenshots (DOSBox 0.73), some text in the game is unreadable (this happens in older versions too). I also tried to edit DOSBox configuration (render and CPU), trying all the ways, but the result is the same.
Up to the old version 0.63, text looks good, but the mouse pointer is uncontrollable and the saved games index file is deleted each time the game gets started, so this is not possible to load previously saved games.

I hope there is a way to solve this problem...

Thanks to everybody in advance.

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DOSBox 0.63

DOSBox 0.73

Reply 1 of 1, by ripsaw8080

Posted on 2009-12-31, 17:22

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Alleratone Footbal Italian 2 Manager

It seems to be a regression, but the history is a bit more complicated than that. If you read the linked thread, the issue relates to how character data is rotated. In 0.63 rotation was applied to all write modes, so the game appeared to work OK, but the emulation was nonetheless incomplete. In later versions of DOSBox the rotation was applied only to mode 0 but not mode 3, resulting in garbled text in IFM2 and one other program (SourceForge bug report here). In current SVN the problem is fixed, with rotation applied to both modes, as it should be.

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