Re: AUDIO - Nuked OPL3 Patch for DOSBox(+Windows build) (SDL1)
Posted on 2021-11-24, 08:27
Thanks, the latest Nuked 1.8 merge from the DOSBox Staging repository works. I saved that as a diff file and it applied cleanly to the 4470 source.
Re: AUDIO - Nuked OPL3 Patch for DOSBox(+Windows build) (SDL1)
Posted on 2021-11-21, 07:52
Something has changed between SVN 4466 and 4470 that has broken the Nuked patch, at least when compiling in macOS. When compiling SVN 4470, I now see the following errors in the terminal output: adlib.cpp:637:14: error: use of undeclared identifier 'oplemu' else if (oplemu == "nuked") { ^ adlib.cpp: …
Re: Tandy sound emulation quality - issues with Skate or Die
Posted on 2021-08-02, 13:02
The other thing I have realized is that in Skate or Die, the intro music needs the "sampleaccurate" feature enabled, but the in-game events use standard PC speaker music. So if you use that feature you will get distorted music in the main game. Seems you cannot have accurate music for both at the …
Re: Tandy sound emulation quality - issues with Skate or Die
Posted on 2021-08-02, 10:05
You can get Skate or Die to play its samples properly in a fork of DOSBox which has the sampleaccurate patch applied. If the patch is complied into the fork, it works well when set to "true" with samples which play back on the Tandy or Adlib sound chips. It will corrupt PC Speaker sample playback, …
Re: Tandy sound emulation quality - issues with Skate or Die
Posted on 2021-08-01, 03:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8_z_CI37JE DOSBox has it right on :-) Very interesting. The sound output on my speakers (iMac) sounds slightly “rougher” but almost identical to that recording. However, I do hear a high pitched ring in my recording that is not in the video - does anyone else hear …
Tandy sound emulation quality - issues with Skate or Die
Posted on 2021-07-31, 21:18
Generally, I find that the Tandy sound emulation in DOSBox is very good, although I have to admit that it has been many many years since I heard the output from a real Tandy PC. However, in Skate or Die, something has always sounded off, and so I got around to testing the game in PCem (v17) as a …
Re: Multi-CD games + hot swapping CD images under Win9x in DOSBox
Posted on 2021-06-09, 07:18
After all that, I only just realized that control-esc does work in Windows 95 and 98, so I can still use that to access the task bar in most instances (and hence swap the images using the Virtual Clone Drive menu bar icon). Not as quick or user-friendly as a key combination, but it gets the job …
Re: Multi-CD games + hot swapping CD images under Win9x in DOSBox
Posted on 2021-06-01, 11:50
The specific solution I found for Phantasmagoria 2 (which I mentioned above) is to set the Windows desktop resolution to 800x600, and then edit the Resource.win file to include the following line: titleBarFixed=TRUE This will cause the title bar (and the Windows taskbar) to be visible during …
Re: Multi-CD games + hot swapping CD images under Win9x in DOSBox
Posted on 2021-06-01, 05:27
DOSBox does not support Win9X. Yes, that is why I wrote a whole paragraph in my first post to try to head off such a comment. ;-) Thanks, I will try out Daemon Tools/ Magicdisc to see if that offers better functionality than Virtual Clone Drive. I realize most games are fine with reading from …
Re: Multi-CD games + hot swapping CD images under Win9x in DOSBox
Posted on 2021-06-01, 05:09
For some reason I thought there was floppy swapping ability with a hotkey for similar reasons, any way to abuse that? Or am I thinking of a different em? That features has been available in DOSBox SVN for a while, though it is not in the standard DOSBox release. Either way, I doubt it would help …
Multi-CD games + hot swapping CD images under Win9x in DOSBox
Posted on 2021-05-31, 11:23
I am seeking some help and/or suggestions to assist with playing multiple-CD games under Win9x in DOSBox. Before I begin, can I just say, I fully realize DOSBox is not intended for Win9x era games. I am not asking here because I am demanding or expecting there to be a solution. For my own curiosity …
Re: Aspect ratio in SimCity for DOS
Posted on 2021-05-28, 04:58
OK, however just for the record, my machine type is set to svga_s3. I guessed that was the case because your screenshots with aspect=true already have the "proper 4:3 ratio" you asked for, so I'm trying to explain that for the purpose of aspect correction the aspect ratio refers to the display area …
Re: Aspect ratio in SimCity for DOS
Posted on 2021-05-28, 03:50
To be more specific, there is a known issue with the aspect correction of 350-line modes when using the machine=ega setting, which includes text modes due to the 14-line font. However, I'm not aware of any compelling reason to use the EGA machine type for original SimCity. OK, however just for the …
Re: Aspect ratio in SimCity for DOS
Posted on 2021-05-26, 13:19
Yes, it is the EGA high resolution mode. That must be it then.. the non-standard resolution does not work properly with the aspect ratio correction, which is designed for the standard 640x and 320x resolutions? I expect there is no way to get around that then, apart from playing it in the lower …
Aspect ratio in SimCity for DOS
Posted on 2021-05-26, 07:23
I have a question about the correct aspect ratio setting to use for the original DOS version of SimCity running in DOSBox. I thought that using "aspect=true" provides the most authentic experience, given that it attempts to scale the screen to the 4:3 ratio of old CRT monitors. I use this for almost …
Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks
Posted on 2021-04-10, 15:53
The non-recursive page fault handling was added to the dynamic_x86 core in DOSBox-X 0.83.10 by a contributor, and according to his description this makes the dynamic x86 core more friendly with Windows 9x. But there are apparently known issues with this non-recursive page fault handling, and if he …
Re: DOSBox SVN for macOS - custom patched version
Posted on 2021-04-10, 02:28
Splitt off the other Qemu discussion to not further derail this thread. Sorry for derailing it to begin with through the benchmark posts. Wasn't intended. Please continue the Qemu discussion at https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=80552&p=953168#p953168 That's OK, I am sure people are keen to …
Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks
Posted on 2021-04-10, 02:25
All the stuff DOSBox-X added to the dynamic_x86 core to "handle page faults" is mostly nothing but a huge slowdown. Nearly all memory accesses performed by that core (dyn_read_byte/write_byte/read_word/write_word) already handle faults correctly and the remaining opcodes that can cause problems ( …
Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks
Posted on 2021-04-07, 08:32
As you mentioned earlier DOSBox-X performed slower than SVN for your games in macOS, unfortunately. There are many libraries used by DOSBox-X, but I am sure the performance issue has nothing to do with this patch. You can take as many libraries or features from DOSBox ECE or DOSBox-X into your own …
Re: DOSBox SVN for macOS - custom patched version
Posted on 2021-04-07, 08:13
Thank you very much! Can you provide a universal app with native support for Apple Silicon / the M1 SoC / arm64? I did not find any info on that in the "Compile SVN in macOS?"-thread. No problem, hope you find it useful. On the issue of Apple Silicon support, I am dependent on the upstream …
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