Re: 16-Bit VESA graphics?
Posted on 2004-03-17, 20:12
What DOS games even make use of those modes? 65k colors in DOS would almost seem disturbing.
Re: Where to get GUS patches
Posted on 2004-03-15, 20:03
*bump* Has anyone confirmed that the 411 drivers install properly? Still not sure why it quits on my machine.
Re: Where to get GUS patches
Posted on 2004-03-12, 14:28
I tried installing the GUS drivers as detailed above (from the 411 version linked) and as soon as I selected "Install" from the menu, I got kicked back out to the DOS(box) prompt. Any reason why? My DOSBox seems to be configured properly for GUS emulation.
Re: Wing Commander III by Origin is runable with 0.61
Posted on 2004-02-05, 21:45
Thanks to DOSBox, people are upgrading their machines so they can play games from 1994 😁
Re: OpenGL scaling in DOSBox
Posted on 2004-01-26, 14:47
Oh well already working on opengl support, and with that a little change in vga update code, since i'll remove the multithreaded display updates, sorry for multicpu users Curious, has anyone run current versions of DOSBox much on a multi CPU system? How much does performance improve? Can you get …
Re: Treat zip-files as directories in the dos shell?
Posted on 2004-01-22, 17:13
Sooo... all of that effort would be worth it to have fewer files on your hard drive, and slightly less disk space used? And the additional hassles imposed by having lots of conflicting versions (which is still a problem with MAME despite rigorous attempts at standardization)? All for a platform that …
Re: MT-32 Emulator and DOSBox Problems
Posted on 2004-01-22, 16:52
Ahh, the latest SDL.dll from libsdl.org fixed it. Thanks!
Re: MT-32 Emulator and DOSBox Problems
Posted on 2004-01-21, 16:05
I've checked the version and size of all relevant files, and DOSBox still crashes. The error message I get is this: "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application." Canadacow, is there any chance you could just include SDL_net.dll and any other …
Re: MT-32 Emulator and DOSBox Problems
Posted on 2004-01-20, 18:42
I'm getting the same problem everyone else in this thread is having. I have the same DLL versions canadacow has, a clean install of the latest DOSBox MT-32 emu (dated 2004.01.17), and then just to be on the safe side I uninstalled the windows driver... no effect.
Re: Starflight II
Posted on 2003-12-22, 17:31
Starflight 2 didn't have much sound to speak of, it used the internal speaker for a few various sound effects (a weird pulsing thing at the title screen). You shouldn't have to use VDMSound or any other program to get the beeper sounds working. Maybe make sure the internal speaker is connected on …
Re: Which CPU is needed to run protected mode games at full framerate?
Posted on 2003-12-16, 19:04
Doom Legacy works fine under XP as well.
Re: Any chance of a dreamcast port of DOSBOX
Posted on 2003-12-12, 21:51
Just makin' sure, all of these xbox emulator ports require a modchipped xbox to use, right? The cool thing about the Dreamcast was that the custom software prohibition could be circumvented purely via software... do tons of people out there really have modded PS2s and xboxes for this kind of stuff? …
Re: Any chance of a dreamcast port of DOSBOX
Posted on 2003-12-09, 16:16
I'm sure some people do, but I don't care so much about running DOS games on a TV... when I played 'em for the first time it was on a (by modern standards at least) crummy little 15" VGA monitor, so a larger and better quality monitor is the ideal format for maximum emulation nostalgia / improvement …
Re: Any chance of a dreamcast port of DOSBOX
Posted on 2003-12-06, 16:56
Yeah, given that the Dreamcast's CPU can't even handle SNES emulation at good framerates and has trouble with >700kbps Divx playback, I seriously doubt a Dreamcast DOSBox port could run anything but QBasic games. Maaaybe some early CGA games that ran on 4.77MHz PC XTs, but that's kind of too limited …
Re: Tandy sound in Zak McKraken?
Posted on 2003-11-24, 16:44
So, could I be correct in assuming that if Zak or MM detects Tandy sound hardware, it will automatically use it? What are some other games that use Tandy 3-voice, so I could test DOSBox 0.60's support for it? Nicht: Yeah, I ran across that too, thanks for finding it though!
Re: Tie Fighter CD
Posted on 2003-11-23, 15:17
Pretty much the same experience I had. It was still fairly unplayable even with a really high frameskip on my 1.2GHz Athlon. Must just be a monster of a game (especially in SVGA!). If you're running 2K/XP, VDMSound is still a great option for running this game though, I'd try that.
Re: Treat zip-files as directories in the dos shell?
Posted on 2003-11-19, 18:54
DiabloDiab: good explanation, that does clear some things up. I'm curious, though, how does writing new files or modifying existing ones work in such a scheme? An uncountable number of old PC games do some form of that, and as far as I know you do need to recompress a ZIP if you want to add a file …
Re: Treat zip-files as directories in the dos shell?
Posted on 2003-11-19, 15:37
If you treat an archive as a directory because you don't want to have to deal with all the files contained therein, but then you do stuff within that directory that changes / deletes those files and even creates new ones, don't you lose a lot of the conceptual benefits of archive-as-directory? There …
Re: A-Train graphics issues
Posted on 2003-11-07, 14:45
I haven't played the game, but might it actually be using the 640x480 with *configurable* (from among 65535 colors I believe) 16 color palette VGA mode? EGA used a fixed palette, there's no way to change those colors as far as I know.
Tandy sound in Zak McKraken?
Posted on 2003-10-16, 14:21
I noticed that the Tandy sound emulation in DOSBox 0.60 has been updated, and wanted to take it for a spin. Problem is, I can't seem to figure out how to get it working in Maniac Mansion and Zak McKraken. I know with later LEC games like Monkey1 you can supply command line switches for different …
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