Minor niggle with DOSBox ECHO command

Posted on 2010-06-10, 16:35

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When I put several ECHO's in a batch file, like so: @ECHO Here is @ECHO a test output @ECHO from some echo @ECHO commands in a @ECHO batch file. ... DOSBox's ECHO will insert a blank line in between each echo, so it ends each echo with *two* newlines. This is wrong, I believe, and if I run the same …

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Re: Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-27, 10:15

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It's not a 'problem' of DOSBox, just as not emulating Adlib wouldn't be a 'problem', but it is a 'desirable feature'.

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Re: Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-27, 09:02

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it would double as a decent general MIDI device too aren't you describing munt perfectly ? Not bundled with DOSBox, won't work outside the major platforms, and involves setting up separately which is a PITA. ;) And please stop posting pagelong replies, start coding. Why don't you stop monitoring …

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Re: Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-27, 08:34

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Yeah, I know. Sodding intellectual property, preventing progress, again. The MT-32 sound set damn well ought to be in the public domain by now, its being 23 years old. Anyhow, the point I was suggesting wasn't to perfectly emulate one MIDI card in particular, but to do a reasonable approximation ( …

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Re: Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-26, 13:01

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Just to add my 2 cents, Older games that supported MT-32, did so because that's what the music was developed on. The games usually contained completely separate adlib/soundblaster (OPL-2) tracks, and later games had a generic "General Midi" driver. Why did they offer Adlib *and* MIDI as an option? …

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Re: Adlib and MIDI

Posted on 2010-05-24, 19:35

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Yeah, accessing the old wiki isn't the same thing as copying its data across to the new one...

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Re: Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-24, 19:29

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Of course it is - most later DOS machines would've had sound cards in with built-in MIDI support. And you haven't tackled devices for which there simply isn't MIDI synth software written.

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Re: Adlib and MIDI

Posted on 2010-05-24, 19:27

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Oh right... any reason you didn't transfer the old wiki data to the new wiki?

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Re: Adlib and MIDI

Posted on 2010-05-24, 18:39

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h-a-l-9000 wrote: Did your Adlib article by any chance end up in there? http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Sound Unfortunately not. It has some stuff on Adlib but nothing like the full article I remember writing back then... 🙁

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Re: Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-24, 18:38

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BTW - I had to use MIDI Yoke. I guess you are using some timidity driver. So try timidity program with MIDI Yoke driver. OK, well it doesn't seem to lock up when I use MIDI Yoke. Turns out Monkey Island 2 sounds better with Adlib... Anyhow, all the screwing around I had to do to get MIDI to work …

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Re: Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-24, 08:32

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Well I have Timidity++ installed on XP now and selected as the default MIDI output, but for some reason DOSBox locks up when I try to play monkey island 2 with MIDI enabled, even though I can play MIDI files fine through Media Player Classic or Winamp. 😀 Oh well.

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Re: Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-23, 18:10

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Timidity++ and some manual work. Can't see why DOSBox needs its own MIDI rendering functionality. Maybe for mobile/handheld devices without native MIDI playback. Care to point me somewhere that tells me what that 'some manual work' is? I remember reading a while back (annoyingly I can't find it now …

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Real MIDI emulation?

Posted on 2010-05-23, 17:17

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DOSBox's current MIDI support simply passes MIDI data through to a system MIDI interface. This is fine as far as it goes, but unless you have nice MIDI sound hardware, things can sound rather terrible. For example, the default Windows XP MIDI synth is 'Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth', possibly the …

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Adlib and MIDI

Posted on 2010-05-23, 17:07

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A couple of things: 1) What happened to my Adlib page on the wiki?! It used to be at http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?page=Adlib , as linked to on this thread . Looks like it's just been deleted. Took me ages, that page. :depressed: 2) I've been adding in some extra info for the MIDI …

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Keyboard layout problem

Posted on 2009-05-30, 12:27

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DOSBox 0.73 didn't correctly detect my keyboard layout; it gave me the en-US layout instead of the UK layout. Might I suggest that in the comments for the keyboard layout bit, you link to http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/KEYB so people know what codes they can enter? Also maybe investigate why it isn't …

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DOSBox 0.71...

Posted on 2007-07-30, 18:04

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... still doesn't run MadTV2. Doh. 🙁 I'd like to see it fixed...

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Re: MadTV 2?

Posted on 2007-06-06, 15:10

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Is there any progress on getting this game to work with DOSBox?

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Re: Magic Carpet 1 - not good.

Posted on 2007-05-23, 13:00

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All I can say is, using the exact same settings it's not crashing at all in DOSBox 0.65. So, all that stuff seems to be unnecessary; something about 0.70 has become less stable. 😖

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Magic Carpet 1 - not good.

Posted on 2007-05-22, 22:20

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Alas, I have to report that I think DOSBox 0.70 is just less stable somehow than 0.65. I'm having occasional crashes in Magic Carpet 1 now, when I didn't before. It's not the infamous 'press Enter' bug, it's just occasionally crashing out on me with some annoying DOS/4GW error. Just thought I'd …

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Re: MadTV 2?

Posted on 2007-05-15, 18:34

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wd: that's kind of my point 😀

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