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Re: Doxbox and D-Fend?

Posted on 2008-05-23, 22:22

Frontends are good and bad. They are excellent when you HAVE managed to install the game, but they generally suck when it comes to INSTALL'ing the game in the first place. And that is the first hurdle any newbie needs to tackle.

Re: CAN DOSBOX COMMAND LINE UPDATE CONFIG FILE IN REAL TIME?

Posted on 2008-05-23, 22:13

by MiniMax

in DOSBox General

You can - with some difficulty - simulate this menu system you are talking about. Assume you can have one of these files on the mounted C drive: 1) C:\MACHINE.TDY 2) C:\MACHINE.VGA You start run a BAT/shell file in Windows/Linux, and delete both files (if they exist). Now you start DOSBox, auto- …

Re: Write Dosbox.conf

Posted on 2008-05-23, 21:56

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Development

Pickle - what is the problem you are trying to solve here? When and why would you need to update the config-file from within DOSBox?

Re: I might have accidentally implemented Normal4x.

Posted on 2008-05-23, 09:29

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Development

I must be getting old - I don't see a f....cking difference except the mouse-pointer jumping back and forth when I flip between the images using Firefox 2.x on a 1920 x 1200 LCD screen. Yes, you probably are. I ran those by some DOSBoxing friends of mine and they all confirmed the improved picture …

Re: Boxer and Alone in the Dark 1

Posted on 2008-05-23, 09:21

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I don't have a Mac, I don't have Alone in the Dark, and I am not sure what Boxer is... Anyway, try my 60 seconds guide (scroll down to the Mac section), and see if that helps you.

Re: I might have accidentally implemented Normal4x.

Posted on 2008-05-23, 09:10

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Development

Elamaton wrote: http://elamaton.no-ip.com:8080/dosbox/Normal3x.png http://elamaton.no-ip.com:8080/dosbox/Normal4x.png I must be getting old - I don't see a f....cking difference except the mouse-pointer jumping back and forth when I flip between the images using Firefox 2.x on a 1920 x 1200 LCD …

Re: Turkish translation

Posted on 2008-05-23, 08:59

by MiniMax

in DOSBox General

Not sure what you mean. When I look at the download page for the different language files, I see translations into Russian and Korean. If it works for those languages, I am sure it will work for Turkish too.

Re: CD Installation Problem with Fable

Posted on 2008-05-23, 08:53

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Okay - now let us go back to a previous question: MiniMax wrote: Which number do you use, and why that number? You said you use -usecd 1. Why 1 ?

Re: CD Installation Problem with Fable

Posted on 2008-05-22, 07:32

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Let me spell it out in large letters then: That option not spelled -usedcd. It is spelled -usecd. Only 1 'd'. If you spell it wrong, it is simply ignored by the mount command and have no effect WHATSOEVER.

Re: Confused

Posted on 2008-05-21, 23:55

by MiniMax

in DOSBox General

You have to think the other way around 😀 Ask yourself: How do the downloaded game want its world to look like? Which drives, which folders does it want to access? Once you know the answer to that, you use the DOSBox mounting to re-create that view of the world.

Re: CD Installation Problem with Fable

Posted on 2008-05-21, 23:26

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I hope it is not "-usedcd name" but "-usecd some-number". Which number do you use, and why that number?

Re: Turkish translation

Posted on 2008-05-21, 20:08

by MiniMax

in DOSBox General

The CONFIG.COM program is inside DOSBox, on the Z-drive. Start DOSBox, and type CONFIG -writelang MyLanguageFile That will create the file "MyLanguageFile" somewhere on your computer. After that you can edit it with your favorite text-editor (well, almost - it might not work with all editors).

Re: Ultima Underword - Running from Hard Disk

Posted on 2008-05-21, 16:31

by MiniMax

in DOS

crash. wrote: Would that be shsucdx? Yes.

Re: CD Installation Problem with Fable

Posted on 2008-05-21, 16:07

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Do you 1) Mount a folder as the C drive? 2) Mount the CD-ROM as drive D? 3) Switch to D 4) Run the INSTALL.EXE and then get the error message?

Re: CD Installation Problem with Fable

Posted on 2008-05-21, 15:30

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Games/Apps

And how did your mountings look like when you installed the game?

Re: Ultima Underword - Running from Hard Disk

Posted on 2008-05-21, 15:21

by MiniMax

in DOS

The sound (music) is not necessarily stored as files on the CD. It could be stored as audio-tracks which the game reads & plays. And those tracks can not simply be copied to the hard disk. You could try making CUE/BIN images of the CD's and use DOSBox to make everything run from the harddisk, but …

Re: CD Installation Problem with Fable

Posted on 2008-05-21, 12:57

by MiniMax

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Read my 60 Seconds Guide to DOSBox (and don't just read it - follow it too). If that doesn't help, come back with details on how you mounted your C and D drives, how you did the install, how you configured sound, music etc.