Hi Corto, I've been reading the Dosbox source for a while and I believe I understand the dynrec portions fairly well, and I am also interested in doing a PowerPC port of the backend. Perhaps we could share notes?

Wing Commander 3's audio stutters in Doxbox 0.72. I'm using it on an IBM T40 notebook with a 1.4 GHz processor on XP, and task manager indicates approximatley 45 percent CPU utilization, so it can't be a problem with the emulator's speed. It seems to be some kind of timing problem. Increasing the …

I have all my games configured to use IRQ 5 (which is compatible with my old dos hardware which I previously used to play old games) but on reading the docs, you're right. I wonder if DOSBOX listens on both interrupts no matter what you select in the .cfg file, since I've never had a problem with …

Inserted into the forum for the benefit of anyone else searching for help with the: Open failed on file: ..\..\DATA\SOUND\GFSAMPLE.IFF Message trying to play Wing Commander III. You must use the "-t cdrom" option when mounting the D: drive to play Wing Commander 3 and presumably any other game that …

If you are really hankering after seeing the original Windows 1.0, you can try using Bochs or VirtualPC. Both of these are complete virtualizations of an IBM PC. You'll need an original version of MS-DOS (DR-DOS is also a possibility) to install to go with Windows 1.0, as Windows always used …

I have played it in dosbox 7.2 with no problems. First step: make sure SLH's configuration is correct for Dosbox's emulated hardware. Run "install.exe" from the SHOBOKEN directory, and select Soundblaster or compatible for your music, and Soundblaster or compatible with IRQ 5 IO address 220h (the …

To start Ef2000, you run EF2000.bat, not _ef2000.exe. Just tried it in dosbox 0.72, runs perfectly (albeit slowly. Throw lots of CPU at this one.)

Hi swabbleflange, I took the liberty of googling your problem in google groups for you. The "Runtime 200" error was an error in the Turbo Pascal language runtime caused by the computer dividing by zero. It was usually encountered in programs with buggy timing loops that overflowed when executed on a …