I don't think there's one ultimate DOSBox config for all games. GUS emulation with proper patch set will give you much better MIDI playback (if supported by the game) than what is called "Sound Blaster" in games. GUS wavetable MIDI is similar in quality to Windows software wavetable MIDI emulation. …

DOS 7.1 from Windows 98SE is my DOS of choice. Clearly superior to 6.22 with FAT32 support (which means bigger partitions and more free space on small ones). I didn't have any memory problems, of course some config.sys tweaking is needed. With MEMMAKER you can get a bit more, and with QEMM even more …

Quake, for example, aged really badly IMO. What saved it were its gameplay and continued support. I prefer Doom's graphics to Quake. Interesting. I like how the original, low-res non-accelerated Quake looks like. The problem with most source ports is that they try to "improve" the game instead of …

You could also add 640x360, as this was a typical resolution in PIII/P4 heyday. (480p was considered high quality back then)

I will put my foot down and I will drop Windows support from DOSBox-X entirely. And be the next person after Microsoft taking choice away from the users.

"One Unit Whole Blood", the latest Blood version, lacked the 3dfx capabilities of it's predecessors. Which sucked anyway: 3D voxel objects replaced with flat bitmaps, weird filtering instead of bilinear (at least on dgvoodoo, haven't tried the real thing yet), slower than software (again, dgvoodoo) …

In some cases, even the Amiga graphics were downgraded for DOS. And the aspect ratio was usually wrong. I don't know what was the usual Amiga resolution/aspect ratio, but many games were ported to 320x200, which is 16:10, but almost all CRT monitors back then were 4:3. The result was a distorted …

Thanks, it works. There are several problems however: - the code as it is doesn't compile with C_CLIPBOARD set to 0 and without curses - when compiled with VS2008 in debug mode, it crashes on CD or DIR with stack corruption. when i disable runtime checks it works, but i guess the bug is still there …

My approach is to create a !start.bat file in each game's directory, that runs the game. The explanation mark makes the bat appear at the beginning of directory listing in programs like DOS Navigator.

It just takes care of 64MB and does not care about anything else. DOS itself may not "care", but all memory (at least up to 4 GB) is accessible. I don't think any DOS game requires more than 64MB of RAM, but some of them may still utilize it if available (Quake comes to my mind). I also had two …

In recent days I have built DOSBox in (coincidentally) both VS2008 and VS2015 without using any online tutorials. The only problem I have now is that output=ddraw doesn't work and falls back to overlay. (it does work in official build) Besides dosbox itself, you also need SDL, SDL_net for network …

It seems that GOG sells yet another version, with separate setsound.exe for sound configuration and no sound card options on F10 screen. The exe file is actually called MK1.EXE (1157222 bytes). All files are dated 2012, so the original dates are lost. This version works well under DOSBox even with …

Wengier could you make a new diff for current SVN? I was trying to apply your patch to revision 3954, but there have been some serious changes, especially in dos_files.cpp that I don't know how to deal with.

Mutually incompatible DirectSound modes initialized by both applications. Try choosing different sound renderer in MPC-HC's settings.

I got Blood running smooth in 1024x768 on P4 2.4 GHz with Windows XP, Daemon Tools for CD image mounting, SoundFX 2000 for SoundBlaster emulation, SAPUCDEX for Audio-CD support, and some other patches (NOLFB, CLI2NOP). So you either get a really fast PC for DOSBox, or an older PC with Windows XP and …

GOG is not adding any protection that would force you to use DOSBox, but they are not helping you either in getting rid of it. I've successfully undosboxed several games (Blood, Redneck Rampage, among others) but my aim was to run them on old laptop with Windows XP that is too slow to run them with …