Re: Installing patches that require an "A" drive

Posted on 2008-06-15, 01:01

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by Ludomeister

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Thanks, ripsaw, especially for the unmount syntax. I always wondered what that syntax was, and now I have it! 😀 Unfortunately nothing I tried seemed to make the replacement files recognize that the game was installed. 🙁 Smecty

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Re: Installing patches that require an "A" drive

Posted on 2008-06-14, 11:19

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by Ludomeister

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well i think you did allright. the installer and dosbox might just not get along. can you posts the contents of install.bat here ? (it is a text file) Certainly, and - regardless of the outcome here - thank you for your rapid response! :happyhappy: Ludo Here's the text of the install.bat (and yes, …

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Installing patches that require an "A" drive

Posted on 2008-06-14, 06:42

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by Ludomeister

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I've got a problem installing a patch for 1942 Pacific Air War that I'm certain is applicable to many other games for folks with new computers without a floppy drive. I've got all of my DOS games in a subfolder of my Dosbox Game Launcher dir called "dosroot.' The actual path is C:\DBGL\dosroot. …

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Audio won't load with dbgl055se but *will* if manually loaded in DosBox!

Posted on 2007-05-24, 01:46

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by Ludomeister

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I've got a really strange problem that I hope someone can kindly shed some light on. It's not a game-stopper, but is annoying in the extreme. Here's the problem: I've taken the resource.aud file (all 491 megs of it) and copied it from my Quest for Glory 4 CD to the install I have in dbgl055se. I …

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Re: Cavewars v.1.20 in VDMSound

Posted on 2006-06-23, 18:37

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by Ludomeister

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Thanks, XGodeksX! I followed your steps and finally got results! The final icing on the cake was adding that levels.fdg file into the DLGS directory. Now all runs beautifully on DosBox 0.63, and I'm a happy camper! 😀 Cheers, Ludo

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Re: Cavewars v.1.20 in VDMSound

Posted on 2005-07-14, 01:38

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by Ludomeister

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Thanks, dvwjr. I revised the .bat file using your parameters, and while the game fired up, it was still unusable. I have to admit I'm kinda stumped about this one. Cheers, Ludo

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Re: Cavewars v.1.20 in VDMSound

Posted on 2005-06-13, 19:34

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by Ludomeister

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I've got way more games than I could ever play in 10 lifetimes, so restricting myself to older DOS games (early 90s and older for the most part) helps narrow things down a bit :happyhappy: Hah! Me too! And I keep adding to the collection week after week thinking that - someday - I'll get to it. …

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Re: Cavewars v.1.20 in VDMSound

Posted on 2005-06-13, 02:37

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by Ludomeister

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Well, my copy of Cavewars is patched to a later (the final) patch version: 1.20. You can get this patch here: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/downloads Actually, I should have said that I got the game in this patch state to run just fine in DosBox 0.63, so I know it's not the game per se. Of …

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Cavewars v.1.20 in VDMSound

Posted on 2005-06-13, 01:58

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I've scanned the messages relating to Cavewars and VDMSound, and have not found a solution yet. Ah, but hope springs eternal ... At any rate, I got Cavewars to run by using NOLFB, but when I start up the game right after the Avalon Hill splash screen the next one, which should show a splash screen …

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Re: Air Power (Rowan) video support

Posted on 2005-03-11, 16:09

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by Ludomeister

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Ah, that's the rub. The install program recognize's DosBox's S3 (trio, IIRC), but none of the complimentary drivers it lists support S3. Aargh! 😒

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Air Power (Rowan) video support

Posted on 2005-03-11, 13:55

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by Ludomeister

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Has anybody been able to get Rowan's unique flight sim/strategy game, Air Power, to run with VESA support in DosBox? When you install part of the procedure, along with identifying your sound card, etc., is to choose the SVGA driver. Since it did not recognize my driver, it offers you the options to …

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System Shock I loopy sound in VDMSound 2.1.0

Posted on 2005-03-11, 13:43

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Hi, I'm having problems getting the sound in System Shock I to run optimally. Basically, what it does is speed up and slow down, and then speed up and slow down, ad infinitum. Rather maddening. Everything else works fine (although I take a big framerate hit when I go to 640x480 res), and the game is …

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Re: DOSBox 0.61 on ATI Radeon cards

Posted on 2004-10-02, 01:33

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by Ludomeister

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i guess your old card has windows desktop set to 16-bit while ati has 32-bit so set your desktop with ati to 16-bit too Thanks, Robertmo, that was it. All I had to do was set the desktop to 16-bit and console mode now worked okay. Cheers! Ludo

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Flying Corps with VDMSound

Posted on 2004-06-23, 03:34

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Has anybody gotten this chestnut to work with VDMSound? I can't get to first base with this one, as the window opens for a few seconds and then just disappears. Doesn't leave the console window to provide a clue as to what went wrong. I've tried all the optional settings (enabling basic VESA support …

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Re: DOSBox 0.61 on ATI Radeon cards

Posted on 2004-06-04, 01:25

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Well, I figured out how to drop the CPU usage below 100. I had to modify the .conf file so that the render method wasn't surface, but rather overlay. Once I did that Bingo! the windowed version of DOSBox (without a game running in it) went from 100% to about 88%. That was enough for me to load the …

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Re: DOSBox 0.61 on ATI Radeon cards

Posted on 2004-06-01, 14:19

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by Ludomeister

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I downloaded the latest ATI drivers (ATI calls 'em "Catalysts"), but it didn't seem to help. Didn't think about the SDL.dll library, however, so just downloaded their latest version (dated 2/21/04) and will give it a try this evening. Thanks, Qbix! 😁

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DOSBox 0.61 on ATI Radeon cards

Posted on 2004-06-01, 12:50

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by Ludomeister

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Hi all, Minor problem with my VisionTek Xtasy 9200 with 256 Megs of DDR memory (it uses the ATI Radeon 9200 chipset) when I run DOSBox: when in window mode DOSBox 0.61 pulls 100% of my CPU usage, making running games impossible. However, when I either put another window (and it can be *any* window, …

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DOSBox 0.61 and FAT32

Posted on 2004-05-28, 14:35

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by Ludomeister

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I recently reformatted my hard drive so that I could replace my WinXP Home ed. OS with WinXP Pro. In so doing I changed the format from NTFS to FAT32, thinking that it might speed things up a bit. To my surprise, when I reinstalled DOSBox 0.61 and called up Windows Task Manager, it was using up 100% …

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Indycar Racing 2 setup error in WinXP

Posted on 2004-05-02, 15:40

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Hi all, In my WinXP system I get the following error when I try to update the DOS version of Indycar Racing 2 to the Win95 version; it happens when it attempts to check for DirectX: The procedure entry point SUnMapLS_IP_EBP_12 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll Hmm, said …

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VDMSound .dll's won't register!

Posted on 2003-12-31, 03:01

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Hope somebody can help me with a problem I've never encountered before: a number of .dll files failing to register when loading the application. Of course, I'm talking about VDMSound here. And yes, I have Administrative permission. Basically, I attemtp to install VDMSound 2.0.4, and everything goes …

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