Re: Do dosbox mount and image mount allow portable relative paths?

Posted on 2018-03-24, 22:54

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It's not 'obvious' at all because windows is supposed to support '/' in several places as a path separator. And even if it didn't, it's not exactly *user friendly* to make users that might want to put their games on a pen drive and use them on different operating systems and force them to edit the …

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Re: Do dosbox mount and image mount allow portable relative paths?

Posted on 2018-03-24, 18:24

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Yeah, i don't.

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Re: Do dosbox mount and image mount allow portable relative paths?

Posted on 2018-03-22, 15:39

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Yeah yeah i'm not a idiot, i know about workarounds for mount. But those workarounds are generally terrible (cd into and out of each dir or put all games into a frankenstein 'c' and cd into each one and lose games being self-contained) and don't work if the path comes *from* a txt file like a cue or …

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Do dosbox mount and image mount allow portable relative paths?

Posted on 2018-03-22, 13:31

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You know, paths that use "dir/anotherdir" Because I know '\' doesn't work in linux but "/" does and "/" is also a path separator in windows, so it'd be 'best' if it worked on both for portable games and dosbox.conf. For .cue files tracks too, if they happen to be on a subdirectory.

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Re: VIDEO - 3dfx voodoo emulation (SDL1)

Posted on 2018-03-18, 10:30

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My ppa has this patch if you're using ubuntu. Though, this is the more demanding version of voodoo emulation for dosbox (not a wrapper) so you have to have a great computer to even run glide games. I've honestly only found it useful for Tomb Raider 1 and Redguard (didn't try it for Carmageddon). …

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Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

Posted on 2018-03-05, 16:47

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I think wine breaking programs (ie: regressions) are unusual, and since your own program bundles wine, not relevant if a entity like GoG starts selling it with games. From that perspective you're fine, i just wish that upstream had a inbuilt COW itself so i was trying to work out what would they …

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Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

Posted on 2018-03-05, 02:55

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I recommend 'creating' (not really) your own format to make the OSes know that 'this file is for boxedwine' much like they can do with java and execs and mono. This depends on 'signature bytes' used by BINFMT_MISC (and extension in lesser OSes). Besides this, real advantage comes if you can manage …

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Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

Posted on 2018-03-04, 02:58

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This is all pretty good. i wouldn't be surprised if you got a job at GoG for this sooner or later. Anyway, why the old (2 years old?) wine? And might i suggest using the intel and ARM x86 virtualization extensions when possible? It might be a even better alternative to a JIT for more recent CPUs. I …

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Re: Boxedwine (Wine on multiple platforms)

Posted on 2018-03-03, 16:36

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Does this work with the host filesystem? And does it allow WINEPREFIX and winetricks (sometimes necessary to install prerequisites)? Basically, i think a emulator like this could benefit from at least some inbuilt commands to manipulate the wine environment in a 'pre-boot' fashion, much like DOSBox …

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Re: Wrong colors in 15/16/24-bit VESA modes (OS/X)

Posted on 2018-02-06, 11:59

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Seems like it should be fixed in SDL2, does osx d0sbox have support for that?

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Re: Enhancement: Mount drive but block \WINDOWS ??

Posted on 2018-01-10, 07:56

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Well, lets be real: only a very very careless person will do this. Also, if it's done, plz plz don't detect windows in a 'simplistic' way, because people actually mount images and drives with windows, including 3.11 from the native filesystem to boot it. Make sure it's actually mounting the native …

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Interesting dosbox bug (probably)

Posted on 2017-12-29, 09:13

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Start Lost Eden, then quit it to the dosbox console (you have to click on the human at the bar at the top, then the npc human on the next screen for the menu). The soundblaster will produce a grating sound on the console.

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Legend of Kyrandia 1 cd sound volume

Posted on 2017-12-29, 03:34

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Ok, this game is weird. If it's configured as MT32/LAPC-1 for the music and Soundblaster for the effects, the voice is very muffled compared to the music. This cd game has no cd audio. No prob right, mixer to the rescue? Except that MIXER SB 500 (or another ridiculous value) has no effect. I have to …

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Re: Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (Serrated Scalpel) - Repeating Music Patch

Posted on 2017-12-26, 00:52

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It's not the only case of a adventure that made the jump to cd speech on console but not pc. Rise of the Dragon from Dynamix for the Sega CD is another case. I suggested a long term objective for a 'mix' patch on scummvm but was rebuffed too, they're not really into incorporating or supporting …

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Re: Screen affinity for fullscreen on a dual screen setup under Linux

Posted on 2017-12-23, 04:25

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The xrandr driver controls if the image gets stretched in linux fullscreen or not. The default is actually to stretch but you can set it to 'full aspect' which stretches preserving aspect ratio. https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/7kfa86/scummvm_20_has_been_released/drewr16/ I find it highly …

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Re: Dosbox Win95 - disk size 2GB limit hack?

Posted on 2017-12-22, 15:47

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Dosbox-x appears to want to create a 'Joliett emulation' layer for imgmount. This would allow isos mount to work on dosbox+windows 95+- I'm trying to convince them to expand the cue format to allow a directory in place of the binary track. This would build a 'fake' cd-rom / dvd that is actually a …

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Re: D-Fend Reloaded + Scumm VM - how to get Discworld to work?

Posted on 2017-12-22, 06:14

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1) the 'virtual drive' has a equivalent 'real directory'. That's what the mount command does, mount a directory as 'virtual drive' in dosbox. 2) you can use relative paths for your 'real directory' when mounting in the conf file. This works even on changing from windows to linux (if you use the '/' …

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Re: Could you please add the 'WAIT' command to dosbox shell on a new version?

Posted on 2017-12-20, 01:45

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Probably that. The main trouble finding one is that most of those on the net said they 'worked on dos' but it was a filthy lie, because people that started using computers post the end of the millennium think dos is the windows console.

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Re: dosbox integration device, how to use?

Posted on 2017-12-20, 01:23

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I'm surprised though. I thought this would require a 'custom' windows driver anyway, to link the dosbox representation to the windows driver trying to read it? If not, then i thought dosbox cdrom emulation was more complex than it actually is.

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Re: dosbox integration device, how to use?

Posted on 2017-12-20, 01:18

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Actually that would be a very neat upstream contribution to imgmount. I never got a response to my idea of treating cues with a BINARY paths that ends with a slash (or replace BINARY by DIRECTORY or something like that) to reuse all the structures around changing cds and mp3 support, so if you could …

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