Re: dynrec vs. secure platforms - opinions wanted

Posted on 2021-04-24, 14:34

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Carrying on the discussion, GitHub user @kklobe summarized use of MAP_JIT to get the dynamic core running natively on Apple's M1 ARM processor: https://github.com/dosbox-staging/dosbox-staging/discussions/989 The plan mentioned is to continue following this thread's proposal to discuss and find the …

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2021-04-15, 13:02

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Roger that; thanks for the correction.

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2021-04-14, 15:41

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Added, thanks Spikey!

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2021-04-12, 17:27

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Updated https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=58868&p=673031#p673031 with contributions from Great Hierophant, NewRisingSun, Staticblast, MAZter, and willow (in order of posts). Thank you! MusicallyInspired, the version of Star Wars - Dark Forces with CD-DA tracks was a rerelease edition having …

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Re: AUDIO Patch supporting FLAC, Opus, and MP3 audio tracks

Posted on 2021-04-04, 15:39

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Hi almeath, > The patch is meant to also work with standard (SDL1) DOSBox SVN? It's bit-rotten since its last update here, but the work has found a home in DOSBox ECE, DOSBox-X, DOSBox Core, and DOSBox Staging. For SVN, I'd suggest using the latest state of the patch used by ECE - it was last …

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Re: Compile SVN in macOS?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 03:40

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> It is too bad Github desktop does not provide a feature to help convert commits into diff files. When viewing a commit: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=105233 Slap a ".diff" on the end of the URL and ... https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=105234 .. it'll …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 18:20

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PD2JK wrote on 2021-02-17, 14:36: I'm still afraid of putting my head in front of an AOpen 56x speed cd-rom drive spinning at full speed. Wise choice! http://www.qedata.se/js_n-cdrom.htm

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Re: The music in the game isn't working

Posted on 2021-02-05, 19:18

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Fortunately Shadow Warrior (1997) is free on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/238070/Shadow_Warrior_Classic_1997/ AwServant, if you've first run Shadow Warrior's setup tool, then choose MIDI music on port 330 for your music driver. Then ensure MIDI is setup in your DOSBox configuration (. …

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Re: How to get game to run in DosBox Game Launcher if it only has a .img?

Posted on 2020-12-09, 16:45

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The .img file is a disk image (likely a floppy disk, but could be a HDD). Instructions and helpful examples you can try here: https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT As I mentioned on my post... I only have a .img file (with a .sub and .ccd) ... not any of the ones mentioned in the guide you provided …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2020-12-08, 22:08

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What a find, Akuma! Easter eggs like this a rare glimpse into behind the scenes; I find them very interesting 😀 Anyone know of other "communication" type messages in other DOS games? (Feels like this could deserve its own thread!)

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Re: How to get game to run in DosBox Game Launcher if it only has a .img?

Posted on 2020-12-08, 22:02

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The .img file is a disk image (likely a floppy disk, but could be a HDD). Instructions and helpful examples you can try here: https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2020-11-06, 00:33

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:thumbs up: Wengier 😀 Thank you for back-porting the fix!

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2020-11-05, 15:44

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Dagar, K.A.R.R - thanks for doing this back-tracking and reporting this issue. Around this time last year, I transitioned the CDDA work from subversion (layered on top of DOSBox's SVN sources) to git, at which point bugs and enhancements continued publicly on GitHub. This Monkey Island audio issue …

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Re: PowerPC Dynamic Recompiler (patch)

Posted on 2020-10-31, 16:25

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Or your PPC dynrec code is kicking even more butt 😀

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Re: PowerPC Dynamic Recompiler (patch)

Posted on 2020-10-31, 08:12

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samo79, The Pi3B (non-plus edition) at 1.35 GHz allows DOSBox to handle roughly 30,000 cycles, which produces a score of 17.6 FPS in PC Player Bench at 320x200) If we proportionally scale that score down to your 800 MHz system (800 / 1350), we get 10.4 FPS. But you're only getting ~4 FPS, so what …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-29, 01:40

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Here are my presets on a per-game, per-track basis. I've included before-and-after compression results for those curious what can be achieved on limited storage targets (such as generating a game set for the Raspberry Pi), when Opus is used: AD&D Dark Sun II Wake of the Ravager - speech_complex_ …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-29, 01:02

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pre-1.08 feedback: $ dbx-conv BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.08, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS Copyright (c) 2020 by Akuma under GNU General Public License 2.0 /usr/local/bin/dbx-conv: line 191: $1: unbound variable Moving your "[[ $# -ge 2 ]] || exit 100" check to line 191, ahead of #1 bchunk ... …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-28, 21:27

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Thanks Akuma. 23. Perfect! 25. Symlinks won't work on Windows; but relative is better on Linux. I wasn't suggesting users would have to edit their CUE files. When you generate the CUE, simply insert the "../../" string exactly as-is before the track01.iso filename, and DOSBox will have zero issues …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-27, 18:43

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23. Force re-encode Yes, exactly right.. (I shold have said overwrite). This is useful when you get a newer codec version or a variant with a different acoustic model (like Vorbis vanilla vs Vorbis AoTuV b5). Next suggestions using this tree as an example: jones ├── flac │ └── VBR │ ├── cdrom.bat │ …

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Re: BIN/CUE to ISO/CUE converter v1.07, supports : FLAC,MP3,OGG,OPUS (script)

Posted on 2020-10-27, 17:25

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Ugh.. I just lost a huge response post that I was periodically adding to over ~3 hours this morning. :/ I clicked 'preview' and got the spinning star wheel and frozen display; was unable to get out of it so clicked 'back' and the first first ~10 lines of my posted were retained. Suggestion 1 for me: …

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