Re: X-Men: Madness in The Murderworld

Posted on 2008-11-30, 20:30

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by ripsaw8080

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Would be better to support the legitimate owners and make the pirates adapt, rather than the other way around, but that's my opinion. :wink: If you're dealing with already-cracked copies, no external fixes are needed for Contra or X-Men when using a CVS build with cputype=386_prefetch. BTW, Pentiums …

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Re: X-Men: Madness in The Murderworld

Posted on 2008-11-30, 09:55

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by ripsaw8080

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Do you realize that that you are only supporting a pirated version of Contra? The executable is CONTRA.EXE, not what some warez group renamed it to.

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Constant FM sound effects

Posted on 2008-11-29, 22:52

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by ripsaw8080

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Some games use the FM operators to generate constant (no decay?) sound effects, where the sound continues to be produced indefinitely even though there are no further register writes. This is sometimes done for engine noise in flight simulators, such as Jetfighter 2 and Lightspeed. DOSBox is …

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Re: Xcom: Enemy Unknown - Illegal Command/Not Responding Issues

Posted on 2008-11-27, 09:01

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by ripsaw8080

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Seems the UFO batch file runs that DCOFU (odd name) one with a parameter of the C: drive, so don't know where D: was coming from. You should be able to run them from their respective directories. Try running them directly, as the frontend might be a source of confusion. For the hanging problem, …

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Re: Xcom: Enemy Unknown - Illegal Command/Not Responding Issues

Posted on 2008-11-27, 04:59

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by ripsaw8080

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That patch is for the Windows port of the game (which indeed does have some speed issues), not sure it would have any effect on DOSBox or the DOS version of the game. X-COM has a main batch file, usually XCOM.BAT, that controls switching between the geoscape and tactical portions of the game. It …

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Re: How to stop words appearing and blocking the view of your game?

Posted on 2008-11-24, 12:29

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by ripsaw8080

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This game expects a particular behavior from the EMS memory manager that DOSBox does not appear to support, causing the error message to appear sporadically, eventually scrolling the screen (which really messes it up). I made a small TSR program that works around the issue; just run it in DOSBox …

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Re: Confused: No CD in Dark Forces

Posted on 2008-11-19, 08:55

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by ripsaw8080

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Dark Forces looks for the CD.ID file in the root directory of the drive you indicate is the CD drive. If your mount command is "MOUNT C F:\dosgames" then move the ID file into F:\dosgames and tell the game that "C" is your CD drive (not true, of course, but it works if you have copied ALL of the . …

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Re: New version of DOSBox idea

Posted on 2008-11-19, 03:16

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by ripsaw8080

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Most of the features requested in this "idea" are more appropriate to console/handheld game system emulators; and although DOSBox focuses on games, it is basically a computer system emulator. A GUI (frontend) saves you from having to repeat the steps for making a game work, it does not automagically …

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Re: System Shock 1 starts erratically

Posted on 2008-11-18, 08:38

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by ripsaw8080

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There are a number of patches for the CD version of System Shock to increase compatibility with the NTVDM, such as Mok's XP patch. In addition to various hacks, it replaces the Rational Systems Extender (DOS4GW) bound into the executable with the Causeway DOS Extender. Would be understandable if the …

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Re: General Midi in Vista?

Posted on 2008-11-17, 15:18

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I don't have Vista, and can't confirm the effectiveness of this: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=16851 There is a fair amount of info online about which registry keys to alter for the default midi out device in Vista, but it's probably easier to use one of several small freeware apps that have …

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Re: Star Control 1 VERY Messed up Sound Effects...need help

Posted on 2008-11-14, 05:44

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by ripsaw8080

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Star Control detects the MPU-401 interface in DOSBox, and uses it in preference to other sound devices; however it only supports an MT-32/LAPC-1 synth, and the instrument patches often don't sound right with GM synths. You can hook up a real MT-32, or use a special build of DOSBox that includes MT- …

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Re: Ultima 8 Mouse Problem

Posted on 2008-11-09, 22:18

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by ripsaw8080

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Jumping with both mouse buttons works OK for me. I have applied the 2.12 patch, which does have a change for jump targetting, but I don't recall it not working at all in the unpatched game... I'd have to reinstall to check it. I'm on WinXP, though, so perhaps there is an OS-specific issue.

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Re: How to increase keyboard response time in Dosbox?

Posted on 2008-11-08, 11:32

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by ripsaw8080

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The issue is not "lag" of the keyboard input in this case, it's the delay between when you press a key and when it starts auto-repeating. I noticed BAK has some preference settings for small/med/large step and turn sizes, and this feature of discrete steps leads me to believe that the game looks for …

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Re: How to increase keyboard response time in Dosbox?

Posted on 2008-11-07, 23:21

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by ripsaw8080

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Yes, by writing commands to the keyboard I/O ports, or rather to DOSBox's emulation of the hardware, not the actual hardware. Still, it seems unusual for a game like Krondor to use repeating keys, but oh well. Not that anyone really wants more conf settings, but being able to define the default …

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Re: How to increase keyboard response time in Dosbox?

Posted on 2008-11-07, 22:11

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by ripsaw8080

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I found that Betrayal at Krondor (CD version) is indeed influenced by the keyboard typematic programming for moving around; it becomes painfully obvious if you increase the delay or decrease the repeat rate. Tried with 0.72 and CVS using normal and dynamic cores. DOSBox defaults to the fastest …

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Re: How to increase keyboard response time in Dosbox?

Posted on 2008-11-07, 10:41

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by ripsaw8080

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OK, wd, I will question the poster's conclusions more thoroughly in the future. :wink: I know the typematic rate influences games like Rogue and Nethack, but I can't think of any others. I'm surprised a game of Betrayal's relative complexity relys on repeating keys; because after all it's a poor …

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Re: How to increase keyboard response time in Dosbox?

Posted on 2008-11-07, 01:15

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by ripsaw8080

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What makes you think you know it works for THAT game? I don't think I even suggested it would do anything for any particular game. The OP's inquiry was about changing the typematic delay in general with no mention of a specific game, posted in the general forum; and even if they are in error that …

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Re: How to increase keyboard response time in Dosbox?

Posted on 2008-11-06, 22:04

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by ripsaw8080

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What makes you think I don't know that it works?

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Re: How to increase keyboard response time in Dosbox?

Posted on 2008-11-06, 21:56

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by ripsaw8080

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The typematic delay and repeat rate in DOSBox works the same as DOS machines. Turbokey was a popular freeware program for adjusting the settings, found in many an autoexec.bat back in the day. Parameters are (A-Z)(1-4); letter is the rate, number is the delay, lower is faster, so you would use " …

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Re: Dinotopia file not opened?

Posted on 2008-11-03, 20:36

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by ripsaw8080

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The warning you're getting when mounting the D drive occurs when you try to mount a hard disk path as a CDROM. Which drive letter in Windows is your CD drive? I suppose the warning could be in error, though... what is listed if you do a "DIR D:" command after that mounting?

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