Re: A couple of Sierra SCI questions

Posted on 2020-11-14, 05:24

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by almeath

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Wait, is that possible now? I thought the ScummVM team was virulently opposed to such blendings. Has there been an ideological shift of some sort? Actually, you are right. On closer inspection, what ScummVM is doing is displaying the 640x480 backgrounds but without the Windows title bar. It is not …

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Re: A couple of Sierra SCI questions

Posted on 2020-11-14, 05:14

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by almeath

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Regarding point 1, it's indeed possible to play the game in DOSBox with MT-32 music and digitised audio, I did so in early 2013. Here's a longplay video with such a sound setup; the arrow-firing sound effect in the title screen is a clear tell. Note that not every sound effect is made with recorded …

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Re: Are there any confirmed ways to patch Munt into a macOS build of DOSBox SVN in 2020?

Posted on 2020-11-13, 07:37

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by almeath

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If anyone wants to test this out in macOS, here is a link to the build: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f9tsgh8z7z0nleu/DOSBox%20SVN.zip?dl=0 As mentioned above, this is an SVN build from late October 2020 (I think its r4370), which incorporates both Munt and the Nuked OPL patch. It is x86_64 only. I have …

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A couple of Sierra SCI questions

Posted on 2020-11-13, 06:36

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by almeath

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I have been digging through old posts, and reading the Nerdly Pleasures blog, but I cannot find the answer to these questions which have irked me for some time: 1. Was a patch ever made (by New Rising Sun or anyone else) that allows Sound Blaster effects with MT-32 music in Conquests of the Longbow? …

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Re: Are there any confirmed ways to patch Munt into a macOS build of DOSBox SVN in 2020?

Posted on 2020-10-17, 23:01

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by almeath

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I figured out how to build the Munt static library with cmake and successfully patched it into a 64-bit DOSBox SVN build under macOS Mojave 10.14.6. I want to thank Dominus for his guidance, which helped ensure I built a proper static binary with no external dependencies. It actually works very well …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2020-10-12, 06:51

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by almeath

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This is a known issue with DOSBox-X and it's "High DPI awareness". Ahh, I see now. I have set mouse emulation to "always" and that seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. 😉

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2020-10-12, 05:52

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by almeath

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I am having trouble with the mouse tracking speed in the macOS SDL1 build of DOSBox-X. When I run in my native 'retina' resolution of 5120x2880 in fullscreen mode, the mouse tracking speed is about 50% of what it should be, compared to the same default settings in DOSBox SVN (i.e. I use "100%" mouse …

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Re: Graphic modes in old Sierra games

Posted on 2020-07-25, 05:45

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by almeath

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As for Winnie the Pooh, that may be a bridge too far given the age of the media floating around on eBay, but at least I now know the reason for it not working.

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Re: Graphic modes in old Sierra games

Posted on 2020-07-25, 05:37

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by almeath

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Ulysses and the Golden Fleece functions similar to Adventure in Serenia. You need to press ScrollLock to advance output when 3 or more lines of text are displayed in order to get to the command prompt. At the command prompt you can press F1 to toggle between text/graphic and text-only display, and …

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Re: Graphic modes in old Sierra games

Posted on 2020-07-24, 21:30

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by almeath

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I have attached screen shots to show what it looks like when I use "machine=tandy" in DOSBox, vs. using the default settings in ScummVM (which appears to be 16 color Tandy/PCjr EGA graphics).

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Graphic modes in old Sierra games

Posted on 2020-07-23, 02:38

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by almeath

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I know this topic has been raised many times in the past, and I have read up on all the old threads, but I cannot find the answers I am looking for. I have been going through my collection of Sierra games from the 80s and seeing if I can get them to all work properly in DOSBox. Most are fine, but I …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-06-06, 06:03

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by almeath

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Yes, I see what you mean. All the adjustments are very finely balanced, so any additional brightness gained does not seem to be worthwhile. Otherwise, it ends up with the same problem as lottes tweaked, being the loss of the shadow mask effect on the bright colors. Seems you cannot really have it …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-06-05, 08:26

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by almeath

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Not sure if this will be of any use for someone. I did a little modification of the lottes-fast CRT shader that suits my personal taste. It provides a rather subtle CRT sim effect, basically mimicking a 'modern' CRT with good image quality. Most importantly scanlines have been set to zero, the …

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Re: Are there any confirmed ways to patch Munt into a macOS build of DOSBox SVN in 2020?

Posted on 2020-04-27, 07:59

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by almeath

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If your looking for a DOSBox fork with Munt support, you may have a look at DOSBox-X for which pre-compiled binaries, including OSX, are available. Yes, I was aware of that branch, thank you. The only problem I have there is the fact that DOSBox-X does not yet support some features I want, such as …

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Are there any confirmed ways to patch Munt into a macOS build of DOSBox SVN in 2020?

Posted on 2020-04-18, 04:36

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by almeath

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The title should be self-explanatory. I have been researching if there are any viable options to patch DOSBox SVN to provide a built-in Munt/MT32emu for macOS. All the posts I can find are many years old and it looks like no one ever definitively confirmed that it could be done. Someone apparently …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-04-14, 18:09

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by almeath

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Dominus wrote on 2020-04-12, 21:30: replace the version with 120 then they work. I don't notice an effect with the noblend or 3d one, though. Thanks, I am noticing the same thing. However, I am quite happy with CRT-Lottes for now. My wishlist includes CRT-Royale but there is no indication if SVN …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-04-12, 20:14

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by almeath

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And if I take out the version line: Error compiling shader: ERROR: 0:211: Invalid call of undeclared identifier 'mat4x3' ERROR: 0:212: Invalid call of undeclared identifier 'mat4x3' ERROR: 0:213: Invalid call of undeclared identifier 'mat4x3' ERROR: 0:214: Use of undeclared identifier 'b' ERROR: 0: …

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Re: some more shaders for SVN r4319 and later

Posted on 2020-04-12, 20:11

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by almeath

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All the xBR shaders are giving me this error, in macOS Mojave: Error compiling shader: ERROR: 0:1: '' : version '130' is not supported SDL:OPENGL:Failed to compile shader, falling back to default Error compiling shader: ERROR: 0:1: '' : version '130' is not supported SDL:OPENGL:Failed to compile …

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Re: 0.74.3-1 for macOS not working with MUNT (MT32Emu)

Posted on 2020-04-11, 06:25

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by almeath

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All I can add is that benchmark results are essentially identical when using any combination of renderer=opengl/metal/auto with output=opengl/openglnb. I did not try texture and surface as they do not provide scaled output. Texture also black screens when used with metal (however when you type you …

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Re: 0.74.3-1 for macOS not working with MUNT (MT32Emu)

Posted on 2020-04-10, 12:18

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by almeath

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Yes, as soon as OpenGl is gone, Dosbox will NEED to upgrade to SDL2. No way will SDL 1 ever get Metal... I know this thread went off-topic, but while we are on the subject of SDL2 supporting the Metal renderer, I notice that the only way to get high-performance pixel-perfect scaling is to set …

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